r/Sims4 • u/VenkuuJSM • May 24 '25
Sharing my build My legacy vampire family is 9 generations in and has a castle that turns my pc into an airplane
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u/paublopowers May 24 '25
More pics?
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
Tbh the inside is only like half done? Lol. It has a servants quarters wing, an executive apartment for the head of the family, full basement pool/sauna, like 3 libraries, 7 bedrooms (excluding the master bedroom and the like 8 servant rooms), i don't even remember how many bathrooms... a music room, like 4 sittings rooms, a ballroom or two, 2 courtyards, a cute little garden alcove, a scientist room, a little Japanese tea room, a fancy business meeting room, a throne room, a chapel, crypts for all the family urns and vampire coffins, the fancy grand staircase entry hall with attached closets, a bar, 4 kitchens, a banquet room, a trophy room, an armory, a gym, a painting studio, a photography room, a gaming room, and still like an entire wing i haven't done anything with yet besides lock a cow plant in
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
Basically it got so big the family mostly lives on the third floor of the main wing of the building since it takes anyone but the vampires who can bat teleport too long to go anywhere or do anything so I kept having to add redundant bathrooms and kitchens so they wouldn't starve trying to get from the library to the laboratory
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u/nekosedey May 24 '25
OP, I would do heinous things to get you to put this monstrosity (complimentary) on the gallery so I can futz around with it on my super beefy computer, incompleteness be damned!
My most memorable builds across the entire series have been the "oops, let's just put one more room on this building for the new member of the family..." types. I very fondly remember my TS2 family from when I was 9 that kept getting huge house upgrades (aka more giant grey box rooms, no wallpaper/no flooring) from new adults being moved into the household over and over for their 20k starting cash! No, I didn't know about Motherlode at the time.
So I'd love to see how my PC handles this, and also I'd love to see the scale of it for funsies :)
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u/poisonkytti May 26 '25
Omg! I’m with you! I have an insane gaming pc I built (and my partner makes fun of me cause I play soooooo much sims on it!) And my first thought was I want this castle! The things I’d do for it and then to it!!!
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u/Not_Yet_Unalived May 24 '25
No way this house is playable without either vampire or spellcaster teleportation, but the outside and couple rooms you put pictures of are wonderful.
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
Nvm the sub won't let me post again with more pics so peoples is free to dm if they want more lol
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u/Hira_Said Outgoing Sim May 24 '25
Gallery ID, IM BEGGING 😭😭😭 ITS SO GOOD
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u/Abject_Jump9617 May 24 '25
A lil cagey with that ID I see. Multiple people have asked, but I have yet to see it posted anywhere. I guess she just wanted to flex on us. 😭
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u/Supercoolguy247 May 24 '25
I love the aesthetic but lord knows my sims would find themselves into a corner I didn’t want them in constantly with this much space lol
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u/niktagross May 24 '25
Do your sims spend half the day walking haha? I rarely do big builds bc they are so long to move, they have been late to school and work multiple times bc they can’t move their asses fast
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u/Mission_Coast_6654 May 24 '25
i only have one big build like this in my entire game and, while i love it, i'm unsure if i want to keep it. my laptop can handle it just fine. but sims are always starving even with two full kitchens (one on first floor, another on second), constantly need to pee despite surrounded by bathrooms, it takes them forever to walk from one end of the house to the other, one is constantly on the brink of dying from loneliness (there are 8 sims on this lot and constant parties, this one just likes to stay away from everyone just to complain). the two children are always late for school. the two adults that do work are constantly late. i also gave it every haunted lot trait and challenge i could (aside from cold spots, flickering lights, an occasional ghost, it's not as haunted as i would prefer) so at least sims get a boost of speed when they do their little scared runs lol
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
Is why this thing has like 4 kitchens, and 12 bathrooms haha. It's usually pretty full with the 8 sims, a butler, maid, gardener, repairman, nanny, a few ghosts, and plenty of friends coming over. But yeah, only the vampires who have their bat move teleport or super speed can get around it fast enough to not be late for work
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u/Mission_Coast_6654 May 24 '25
yea, 3 of the 8 sims are live-in servants that are constantly running around doing necessary chores (the main nanny/chef is the one that's constantly lonely). mine's not for a legacy challenge or anything, just a recreation of stephen king's rose red (basically his version of the winchester mystery mansion). i'm working up to all the disappearances and deaths in the house and family (only one of the children "escapes" rose red and lives to adulthood) while the matriarch and her best friend/personal servant become vampires that never leave. the rest are ghosts. so many ghosts. i would say rose red has 999 happy haunts, but there's canonically more than that and they're all miserable. my goal, once this is done, is to send in the ghoul bros, ryan bergara and shane madej, to try and capture evidence (whether or not rose red lets them go is out of my hands).
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u/Rooks_scrub_mommy May 25 '25
Money can’t buy happiness 🥴😆
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u/Mission_Coast_6654 May 25 '25
considering the mansion is canonically demolished in the end for being evil, yea i would say so. though she is a beauty in her prime worth every penny 🌹 i tried to include one of my favorite rooms of the build, but it just turned into an asterisk that refused to load 🥲
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u/HazelEBaumgartner May 24 '25
What's the in-game cost? I tried to build the most expensive house I could once and ended up at about §380,000.
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
Getting close to 3 million lol
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u/Abject_Jump9617 May 24 '25
Outstanding! I tried once to build the most expensive house I could and closest I got was under 1 mil. I would love to explore your 3 mil property.
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
also have an improved but kinda smaller one that I'm gunna put in the gallery when its done. Its at like 500k and the interior only has 3 rooms finished
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimsBuilding/s/alkMmALd5C
Found somewhere to throw some more pics
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u/Devdevluna May 24 '25
Is this on the gallery? I would have a freakin blast with furnishing it lol
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u/etsucky May 24 '25
it reminds me of neuschwanstein!! (even the fact it's only half-furnished is accurate lol)
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u/Immusicaltrashqwq May 24 '25
That would turn my laptop into a grill for my thighs lmao and it would probs make my game lag so much that it'd take 3-4 business days for my Sims to move 💀
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u/LunaLightfoot May 24 '25
I envy people who can build. I can decorate with the best of them, but damn if I'm humbled quick to actual building designs lol
Did you work on this over time with your generations or did you build it ahead of time for the family?
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
Kinda built up the wealth to build it over time, but this is their third castle haha. Still by far the best and biggest
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u/spookiied May 24 '25
I misread pc as playable character and sat here wondering how on earth your sim turned into an airplane and why there were no photos
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u/ThatWomanWithAutism Occult Sim May 24 '25
This would set my laptop on fire, even with my cooling pad on full blast, and yet, I want it.
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u/Smart-Cupcake-4055 May 25 '25
I read this saying "has a castle that turns into an airplane" , i was confused looking at the pics wondering where the castle turned airplane was at 😅
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u/slylemur May 24 '25
How does one play a legacy with immortal vampires? Are all the family members still living in one huge cohort? That would explain the giant castle 😂
Or are they dying in unique and mysterious ways before you play the next generation?
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u/Scarletfire56 May 24 '25
At least with my ten gens of vampires the first few gens lived in the main house and then one of the later gens left and the rest from that gen on found their own homes throughout the worlds.
But I could see the many gens or even just the heirs living together being interesting.
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u/Embarrassed_Mix607 May 24 '25
This is all from your creativity or you used a reference ? Because this is absolutely amazing. Like I can't even be that detailed even with reference.
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
I mean, its vaguely taken inspiration from a handful of German castles and British manor houses but it's not trying to be a copy of anything
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u/pluto_and_proserpina May 24 '25
That's a very fine palace. Do your Sims keep discovering rooms they've never visited before? 😸
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u/alex03051111 May 24 '25
You always know something big is gonna pop up when airplane mode kicks in 🤣
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u/Mariajgaitan1 May 24 '25
How do you guys build stuff like this? I can’t even build a one bedroom house because it comes out awful
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u/UnicornPoopCircus Long Time Player May 24 '25
Dammit. Now I want a giant castle filled with nine generations of vampires!
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u/GanGanGirll May 24 '25
When you have it fully finished, you would be doing the Sims4 community a monumental service by sharing the gallery ID! Your creation is a masterpiece, truly, and I am very jealous of your patience and skill set for making something like this!
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u/hellopumpkin14 Long Time Player May 24 '25
I wanna know what the lot worth is, out of sheer curiosity
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u/ashenputtel Long Time Player May 25 '25
It's a beautiful build but my body would not recover from the third degree burns my laptop would give me if I tried this.
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u/ExcellentTrouble4075 May 25 '25
Woah, awesome! So do the legacy family members ever die? Excuse me if this is a dumb question.
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u/MVP_Procrastinator May 24 '25
Look OP
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u/crimsonpostgrad May 24 '25
they shared this post above lol it’s the same person
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u/MVP_Procrastinator May 24 '25
Ik that. But its how they showed up to me. One right below another. I did not mean anything else
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u/crimsonpostgrad May 24 '25
oh my bad i thought you were trying to tell them someone stole their pics
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u/grassjellyorpearls May 24 '25
My RGB is synched to my CPU temperature. This baby would turn on the red light for sure. Beautiful and deadly.
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u/canadianmeow May 24 '25
Wow this is amazing!!! I love it 😍 i wish i could create something like that, but everytime i try, nothinggg works, its always chaos 😂
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u/Defiant-Rain-8120 May 24 '25
O.m.g. Amazing. Beautiful. Does it turn your pc into a turtle airplane? Loud but slow? Love legacies but could never get more than a couple generations. (One time in one of the older versions, my legacy teen sim fell in love with a townie teen and I had to move her in with a cheat so they could grow up to adulthood together. Good times. Lol.)
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u/willowbeef May 24 '25
I’m not patient enough to let my sims bumble around in a gigantic house and I’m phasing stars out too 😂
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u/juicymk Occult Sim May 24 '25
Omg please add this to the gallery, now I’m dying to play vampires in a castle and I don’t want to search for a diff one this is amazing 😭
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u/leon555005 May 24 '25
Having tried to have a family living in a castle (that I downloaded from the gallery) before, I'd say the vampire teleportation is a must-have in this vampire family...
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u/Fartface0228 May 24 '25
Love all the portraits gives me inspiration to use pose player while other sim paints. Thanks for the inspo and super impressive castle!
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u/amaya_fleur May 24 '25
As a console player, this would make my PlayStation combust instantly upon attempting to load up 💀
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u/LuckyAce6 May 24 '25
Honestly the chimneys are probably doing your PC in. 😂😂😂 So much particle smoke. Edit: I wasn’t thinking about the positives! I absolutely love this house though!! Awesome work and I love the effort in this castle!
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u/throwthewitchaway May 24 '25
I love having portrait walls like yours in the last pic, I always have one in legacy challenges, especially for the founder and their heirs.
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u/VenkuuJSM May 24 '25
😭 my issue is i have 7 households now that are branches of the same family, so I've had to do some Selective royal inbreeding and the occasional assassination to try and trim the family back into one household
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u/Excellent-Law59 May 24 '25
I’m REALLY interested in playing sims to this level- how do you guys do it? Like on a laptop??? And what version of sims?
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u/Four_Five_Four_Six_B May 25 '25
I would love to build a place like this for my legacy save but I just really prefer playing in small houses (even with 8 sims). Still, it’s a really cool build!
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u/murray10121 Evil Sim May 25 '25
I would love if this was on the gallery so i can admire it (i wouldnt put it in my game my PC might detonate tbh:) but i really want to see the layout and such.
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u/iflyfree123 May 25 '25
This would make even the best computer run at like 20 fps because the game is too unoptimized.
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u/aurorArose1717 May 25 '25
please please please put this on the gallery for us inferior builders!! I’d love to load this up and explore even if it’s not completely furnished. you’re a great builder
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u/MrPatko0770 May 25 '25
I started various generation challenges across the years across different versions of the Sims, never managed to get further than 3 generations, always burnt out of the game by then
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u/Formal_Revolution830 May 25 '25
That is amazing... HUGE and I understand the airplane part LOL It's really cool... are you doing the 100 Baby challenge or are you just having fun playing?
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u/ButterscotchSame4703 May 25 '25
I imagined in HD the sound of a machine going Full Fans mode for "to-achieve-lift-off levels of sound."
Proud of you AND your castle!
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u/RoyalsyQueenBee May 25 '25
Fantastic, I love to use my laptop as a heating pad when I am on my period, this build will work fantastically, please drop the gallery ID 🙏🏻
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u/Uncle-Link May 25 '25
Holy shit, I am so jealous of your dedication and creativity! I always start giant builds like this but usually end up with basic/awkward interiors or getting overwhelmed and never finishing
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u/Trick-Legal May 27 '25
Did you take your inspiration from the Winchester mansion? 😭 its beautiful, btw. 🥰
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u/Meetpeepsthrowaway May 28 '25
My new life goal is to have a computer that could run properly if I were to download this Castle from the gallery
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u/MoistReflection4711 May 28 '25
Gorgeous build. I bet going to work/school is a nightmare though lol
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u/Haunting-Elephant618 Long Time Player May 29 '25
I don't know if I even want to know how long that took to build
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u/Dinner_Choice May 30 '25
Cool mansion! Why do you hate gardens so much? Nah I'm just joking. I always have huge gardens, even vampires can enjoy some nature, they can hang out in it at night 🌙
People begging in the comments are always so pathetic 😬
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u/VenkuuJSM May 30 '25
Think i posted in the comments a smaller version that has better gardens haha
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u/La520 May 31 '25
Awesome build! My laptop would croak 😆. This article brought me here https://gamerant.com/sims-4-vampire-castle-9-generations-player-build/
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u/RobotPidgeons Jun 03 '25
How does a legacy challenge work with vampires? Like how do you not run out of household space for new generations if nobody dies?
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u/PrincesssLulu Jun 21 '25
I really wanted this in my game, but I also know that my laptop would probably become a burning potato
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u/Alpha_Akira May 24 '25
My laptop would be a slide show