THIS EVENT HAS ENDED
The Backyard Beautification Live Event is back again for 9 days on the 7th August, complete in the 9 day time limit to unlock furniture, decor and planters for your sims gardens! If you completed this event last time it was available you will not get it again, if you started it last time but didn’t complete it you will start from where you got to last time, for example if you only had one prize pack left to buy you will only have to collect enough resources to buy that prize pack to complete the event.
Check out my Guide to Completing Live Events (including tips!) HERE!
NOTE: if you did another Live Event then you will find your arts and crafts stations in your inventory (or in the house you left them at) you will only be able to use the candle ones until you unlock the other stations in this event
Can’t find your arts and crafts stations? Click on the craft station in your event tab to get the option to find your station, it will take you to the house where your stations can be found!
Want to skip the tasks list? Click here to head straight to the prizes!
Place a crafting station (find the candle station in the events tab of buy mode (or your inventory)- you can only buy 4)
Make some arts and crafts items (click on the candle station to make)- 23 seconds
This takes you to the prize progress tab (you can get to it by clicking on the planter event button in the corner of the screen)
Here you will see you have collected enough items to unlock the Plantable Rose Starter Kit! When you unlock each pack, before the items are available in your home store you need to purchase them with the arts and crafts items you make- this goal is coming up!
Restock a crafting station (when the stock runs out you will have to restock before you can make anymore arts and crafts items)- You can restock instantly for 18 uses for 10SP or restock for 2 uses which will take 10 seconds this time
Buy the Plantable Rose Starter Kit pack (click on the planter event button, scroll down and click purchase- this will cost you 50 candles)
Use a coin flower patch (buy the coin flower patch from the event tab and select the spin plant option)
Check the daily goals (click on the drinks event button and find the daily goals tab- claim the ones you can!)
Remember to claim your rewards each day! 
Collect bonuses (while collecting after a certain amount of time you will see the arts and crafts item appear above that sims head, click to collect the bonus item!)
Continue collecting arts and crafts items- this is the last step but the event is not over, keep collecting the arts and crafts to unlock everything!
If you want to speed up a collecting arts and crafts action it will cost you SP, you will get the bonus arts and craft items as well if you speed it up!
Stuck on these tasks? Watch my video here:
Arts and Crafts Stations
Candle Station costs:
1st- Free
2nd- S2,000
3rd- S4,000
4th- S10,000
(maximum of 4)
- Collect 250 Candles- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 360 Candles- 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 455 Candles- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 510 Candles- 8 hours 30 minutes
Pottery Station costs:
1st- S5,000
2nd- S7,500
3rd- S10,000
4th- S15,000
(maximum of 4)
- Collect 375 Pottery- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 540 Pottery- 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 680 Pottery- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 765 Pottery- 8 hours 30 minutes
Jewelry Station costs:
1st- S7,500
2nd- S15,000
3rd- S20,000
(maximum of 3)
- Collect 565 Jewelry- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 810 Jewelry- 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 1025 Jewelry- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 1150 Jewelry- 8 hours 30 minutes
Glassware Station costs:
1st- S7,500
2nd- S25,000
(maximum of 2)
- Collect 620 Glass- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 890 Glass- 4 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 1125 Glass- 6 hours 30 minutes
- Collect 1260 Glass- 8 hours 30 minutes
Restocking
Each station (apart from the first candle one) comes with a stock of 7 which means you can use the station 7 times before it needs to be restocked (if you got your stations out of your inventory they will all need restocking first (apart from the first candle one) When you need to restock you will have two options:
- Restock 18 uses which happens instantly but will cost you 10SP
or - Restock 9 uses which will take you 2 hours 30 minutes but will be free
NOTE:
- if you store the station you will lose all the stock so when you place it again you will need to restock
- if you cancel making something using a station you will lose that stock so if you had one stock left and then you cancelled that action you would need to restock before you can create anymore arts and crafts items
Your Progress:
Click the planter event button in the top corner of your game to see your progress
Daily Goals
Check on the first tab every day because if you complete all the daily goals you will get additional constructor coins
NOTE: remember to click CLAIM once you have completed a daily goal to collect the reward and remember to claim your free constructor coins and free items each day!
Prize Progress
The prize progress is how far you have got on this event, the more arts and crafts items you make the more prizes you will unlock
NOTE: the bar at the top of the personal progress tab shows you how close you are to unlocking an item, the more arts and crafts items you collect the more the bar will fill up. Once you have unlocked an item on the bar at the top you will be able to use the arts and crafts items you have collected and constructor coins to purchase that pack which you will then be able to find in the home store.
Prizes:
(please let me know if the amount of resources needed has changed)
1.Plantable Rose Starter Kit– requires 50 candles to buy
Can be found in the planters section
Unsure how to use planters? Check out this video
2.Constructor Coins
3.Constructor Coins
4.Serene Seating- Relaxing Benches with Designer Fences and Entertainment Benches with Designer Fences
Relaxing Benches with Designer Fences- requires 1,050 candles and 5 constructor coins to buy
Benches can be found in the outdoor furniture section and wall can be found in the outdoor decorations section
Entertainment Benches with Designer Fences– requires 3,100 candles and 20 constructor coins to buy
Benches can be found in the outdoor furniture section and wall can be found in the outdoor decorations section
5.Pottery Station
6.Constructor Coins
7.Constructor Coins
8.Outdoor Counters- Outdoor Counter Set and Outdoor Fridge and Storage
Outdoor Counter Set– requires 9,400 candles, 7,200 pottery and 65 constructor coins to buy
Can be found in the outdoor furniture section
Outdoor Fridge and Storage– requires 12,500 candles, 9,600 pottery and 85 constructor coins to buy
Can be found in the outdoor furniture section
9.Jewelry Station
10.Constructor Coins
11.Social Points
12.Constructor Coins
13. Fenced Off- Vertical Fences and Horizontal Fences
Vertical Fences- requires 13,565 pottery, 14,350 jewelry and 125 constructor coins to buy
Can be found in the outdoor decorations section
Horizontal Fences– requires 14,250 pottery, 15,000 jewelry and 130 constructor coins to buy
Can be found in the outdoor decorations section
How to attach fences to walls:
14.Glassware Station
15.Constructor Coins
16.Social Points
17.Constructor Coins
18.Planter Perfectionist- Tall Planters and Plantables and Short Planters and Plantables
Tall Planters and Plantables– requires 15,000 pottery, 16,000 jewelry, 16,000 glassware and 135 constructor coins to buy
Can be found in the planters sections
Short Planters and Plantables– requires 17,000 pottery, 17,500 jewelry, 17,500 glassware and 150 constructor coins to buy
Can be found in the planters sections
19.Constructor Coins
20.Social Points
21.Constructor Coins
22. Designer Backyard
You will only unlock the designer backyard if you manage to buy all the other prizes in the time limit, the first one built is free after that they will cost simoleons.
What is the difference between the standard and premium residence? The house is exactly the same, the only difference is the garden:
Personally I don’t like this house template, if you want to unlock items from some previous events then you can find loads of them in this house but I think I will just be building my own! This house is also the same as the Brilliant Backyard house template so if you completed that live event you already have this house, the only thing that is different is the garden.
You also unlock Pizza Oven, Concrete Bar, BBQ, Fountain, more designer walls and paving for your patios, balconies and swimming pools:
Unsure how to use your new planters? Click here to watch my video!
Check out my Garden Tour here!
Constructor Coins
You earn constructor coins by:
Personal Progress prizes
Completing Daily Goals
Coin Plant Patches
Earning Constructor Coins? Previously on these events I used social points on the Mega Spin Plant to win constructor points. I earn social points by completing the cooking hobby and earning LP, I can then turn the LP into SP using the social point plant on a normal garden patch- this was when it cost 5LP- the social point plant now costs 20LP so you may want to try the option below first instead:
Or you can use 450 candles for the Spin Plant (a good way to use up any spare candles) which will also earn you constructor coins but the amounts are less than they are from the Mega Spin Plant
What is the minimum and maximum amount of coins you can earn on the mega spin plant? The minimum is 10 and the maximum is 500
Now on the coin flower patch you can see the chances of getting the different combinations on each spin plant, click on the green i button to see:
Laura Craft? You may have noticed at the front of one of your houses there is a board with a bubble of a person holding arts and crafts items above it, this is Laura Craft, you can buy her for real money to help you complete the event. When you buy her, you select the item you want her to make from the options: 200 candles, 300 pottery, 450 jewelry or 500 glassware (the amounts seem to differ for most of you and I have no idea why that is!) (you will unlock all the options once you have unlocked all the stations) and you will be able to collect them after 2 hours.
Do I think she is worth it? They have improved Laura Craft a lot since the first event (although it would be great if she made constructor coins) she used to be able to collect every 8 hours, they have now changed this to 2 hours so she is more useful now so if you are struggling then you may want to splash out and give her a try but remember you will only get her for this event, you will have to buy her again to use her for a live event in the future. I personally don’t ever buy her, if I don’t manage to earn enough items or coins in the time limit I just wait until the next time the event is available!
If I brought Laura Craft in the last event do I get her for free or do I have to buy her again? You have to buy her again for this event.
Check out my Guide to Completing Live Events (including tips!) HERE!
If I don’t complete this event this time will I have to start from the beginning when it returns? No, you will start from where you got to this time!
FIND THIS POST HELPFUL?
The Girl Who Games 
I’m new(ish) to the game. Never had this event before and it never appeared to me. Any ideas why?
It may be that you weren’t on a high enough level or that this event was no longer available by the time you wanted to do it as live events are only available for a certain amount of time.