Home Street- Tasks List

January 11, 2018April 24, 2020 weightlessmagic4 Comments

In this post I will be listing all the main stories and tasks to complete in Home Street, this post will be updated as I progress through the game.

How do I find the stories and tasks I need to complete?

Click on the notepad with the question mark on it and it will take you to the tasks:

Each story has tasks that you have to complete to be able to earn the reward, they may appear in a slightly different order for you than what I have listed below:

NOTE: seasonal events (that are only available for a limited time) are not in this post

The links on each story take you to the video I have created for it on youtube, if there isn’t a link then this video is coming soon!

Go With The Flow

Find and Collect 3 Tool Kits (complete 3 jobs to find them)
Find and Collect 5 Pipes (collect 5 products from any workstation to find them)

Reward: 100 coins and 2 gems

Mop Til You Drop

Find and Collect 5 Cleaning Products (complete jobs until you find them)
Find and Collect 10 Brooms (collect 10 Thoughts to find them)

Reward: 200 coins

Coming Up Roses

Own a Garden Bed (click on the shopping cart and buy one from the case symbol tab- shown in green on the image below, this tab is where you find all the workstations) Cost: 150 coins

Collect 5 Products from your Garden Bed (grow vegetables, flowers etc.)

Reward: 100 coins

You Scratch My Back

Spend 250 coins on house decorations (buy decorations from the shopping cart)

Reward: 250 coins

Wheel of Fortune

Spin the Daily Wheel 5 times (you get one free spin a day, find the wheel in the park)

Reward: 5 gems

Drafted

Own a Drafting Table (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 180 coins
Collect 5 products from your Drafting Table (create sketches)

Reward: 100 coins

If I Had A Hammer

Own a Woodworking Table (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 200 coins
Collect 5 products from your Woodworking Table (craft bird houses, rocking horses etc.)

Reward: 100 coins

Market Player

Earn 50 coins by selling items in the Market (click on the market or the refresh symbol to get to the market, click create a sale to sell your items)

Spend 75 coins buying Products or Thoughts in the Market (click on friends or world at the bottom of the same page to buy items from players) I find it really annoying you have to wait 10 minutes to refresh the sales or use gems to refresh early, the items get sold in seconds!

Reward: 2 gems

Don’t Be A Stranger

Collect 3 Friend Thoughts (by inviting other players over, to do this go to the friends tab and click on the image above a players head, the item is what you will get when they have finished visiting you, underneath that is how much it will cost for them to visit, this varies depending on what you will earn, click invite and they will appear at your house) I usually go for the one that will earn me either friendship or helping hand because this costs 50 coins rather than spending notebooks or energy to invite someone over

Bookmark 5 other players (in the same tab as above, scroll along to players who aren’t bookmarked and click on their picture twice to visit them, once there in the corner it says bookmark in blue, click this and a pop up will appear saying you can develop a relationship with this player if you bookmark them, click add to bookmark them, they will now appear in the first section of the friends tab so you can find them easily)

Reward: 250 coins

Dressed for Success

Spend 500 coins on clothing (click on the wardrobe to buy clothes)

Make and hand in 5 Sketches (make 5 sketches then click hand in on this task)
Make and hand in 5 Creativity (make 5 creativity then click hand in on this task)

Reward: 2 gems and 10 XP

Game for Anything!

Complete 10 Game Show Challenge Tasks (click on the TV symbol to view your Game Show Challenge Tasks, complete 10 of these tasks to complete this)

Reward: 15 XP and 1 Bronze Token

Dream Weaver

Own a Loom (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 250 coins
Collect 5 products from your Loom (knit wooly hats, socks etc.)

Reward: 100 coins

House Proud

Buy and place a new room (click on the trowel symbol in the shopping cart and click on build room in the bottom right hand corner, click on the green button in the middle of the room so drag to the position you want it and click on the green dots on the walls to resize the room)

Reward: 500 coins

Let There Be Light

Spend 50 coins on Doors (click on the trowel symbol in the shopping cart and click on the doors tab)
Spend 200 coins on Windows (click on the trowel symbol in the shopping cart and click on the windows tab)

Reward: 100 coins

A Matter of Taste

Spend 100 coins on Wallpaper (click on the trowel symbol in the shopping cart and click on the wallpaper tab)
Spend 100 coins on Tiles (flooring) (click on the trowel symbol in the shopping cart and click on the floors tab)

Reward: 200 coins

A Homely House

Spend 300 coins on Living Room decorations
Spend 300 coins on Wall Items (click on the house symbol in the shopping cart and click on the photo frame symbol to find wall items)

Reward: 300 coins

Supplies Party

Own a Supply Shed (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 300 coins
Collect 5 products from your Supply Shed (order dye or tool boxes etc)

Reward: 150 coins

The Great Outdoors

Spend 500 coins on Outdoor Plants (click on the sun symbol in the shopping cart and click on the trees tab)
Spend 200 coins on Outdoor Decor (click on the sun symbol in the shopping cart and click on the fence tab)

Reward: 500 coins

Rib Tickler

Own a BBQ Smoker (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 400 coins
Collect 5 products from your BBQ Smoker (make corn on the cob, sausages etc.)

Reward: 150 coins

Just Chillin’

Own a Fridge (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 500 coins
Collect 5 products from your Fridge (prepare meats etc.)

Reward: 200 coins

Social Butterfly

Collect 5 Friend Thoughts (invite players over, when they leave they will leave behind the friend thoughts)

Reach the relationship status ‘Acquaintances’ with 5 other players (when you collect the friend thought you will level up your relationship with that player, keep inviting the same 5 players over until you reach acquaintances with all of them)

Reward: 300 coins

Fine Tuning

Own a Musical Instrument (piano, buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 600 coins
Collect 4 Products from your Musical Instrument (compose melody or lyrics etc.)

Reward: 300 coins

Chip Off The Old Block

Own a Sculpture Station (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 800 coins
Collect 4 Products from your Sculpture Station (create stone bust etc.)

Reward: 300 coins

Stake Your Claim

Purchase an Expansion (click on an area of land around your house and click purchase expansion)

Reward: 1000 coins & 20XP

Eyes On The Prize

Reach Game Show Challenge Milestones 3 times
Buy a Functional Item (from the functional items section of the shopping cart, pets count!)

Reward: 2 Gems & 20XP

Start It Up

Collect 2 rewards from Functional Items (click on the functional item and boost it, then when the green tick appears click that to collect the reward)

Reward: 1 Bronze Token

Bigger, Brighter, Better

Collect 3 rewards from Functional Items (click on the functional item and boost it, then when the green tick appears click that to collect the reward)
Upgrade a Functional Item

Reward: 5 Gems & 1 Gold Token

Turn Up The Heat

Own a Stone Oven (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 1,000 coins
Collect 4 Products from your Stone Oven (make bread etc.)

Reward: 15XP & 1 Bronze Token

Getting to Know You

Collect 15 Friend Thoughts (invite players over, when they leave they will leave behind the friend thoughts)

Reach relationship status ‘Friends’ with 1 other player (when you collect the friend thought you will level up your relationship with that player, keep inviting the same player over until you reach friends with them)

Reward: 3 Gems & 10XP

A Friend In Need

Help 5 other players’ Functional Items (in the friends tab if a player has a functional item that needs boosting you will see the red house symbol, go to their house, click on the functional item and boost it)

Collect 5 Friend Thoughts (invite players over, when they leave they will leave behind the friend thoughts)

Reward: 20XP & 1 Golden Token

Pins and Needles

Own a Sewing Station (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 2,000 coins
Collect 3 Products from your Sewing Station (make tote bag, sock monkey etc.)

Reward: 20XP & 1 Bronze Token

Ship Shape

Find and Collect 5 Tool Kits (drops when you complete jobs so complete 5 jobs)
Find and Collect 20 Cleaning Products (drops when you collect products from your workstations so collect 20 products)

Reward: 1 Silver Token

When Your Ship Comes In

Complete 5 cruise ship jobs
Send off a fully completed cruise ship (complete all the jobs on the cruise ship)

Reward: 30XP & 1 Gold Token

Making Waves

Send off 4 fully completed cruise ships
Upgrade your cruise ship to the next level

Reward: 2 Gems & 1 Rainbow Token

Home Sweet Home Street

Spend 1,000 coins on house decorations

Reward: 500 coins & 2 Gems

Eureka

Own an Inventors Workshop (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 4,000 coins
Collect 3 products from your Inventors Workshop (RC car, cleaning robot etc.)

Reward: 20XP & 1 Bronze Token

Bloomin’ Marvellous

Buy and place a Florist Bench (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 8,000 coins
Collect 3 products from your Florist Bench (floral basket, festive wreath etc.)

Reward: 20XP & 1 Silver Token

Trouble Brewing

Buy and place a Micro Brewery (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 12,000 coins
Collect 3 products from your Micro Brewery (cider, craft beer etc.)

Reward: 20XP & 1 Silver Token

Easy PC

Buy and place a Computer Desk (buy one from the workstations tab in the shopping cart) Cost: 18,000 coins
Collect 3 products from your Computer Desk (recipe, research etc.)

Reward: 20XP & 1 Silver Token

This post will be updated as I complete more tasks!

Click here to watch My Home Street Playlist on YouTube!

Thanks for reading!

What is the difference between The Sims Freeplay and The Sims Mobile?

December 11, 2017January 16, 2019 weightlessmagic13 Comments

I have been asked a lot about how different The Sims Mobile will be from The Sims Freeplay, I think some people are worried that Mobile is replacing Freeplay and that isn’t the case! The two games are very different as explained below:

The Sims Freeplay is created by EA and Firemonkeys whereas The Sims Mobile is created by EA and Maxis
In the Sims Freeplay you can create loads of houses and families, building up your town but on the Sims Mobile you have one house and up to 4 playable sims:

Although the main currency simoleons is the same the premium currency is different, in the Sims Freeplay you have lifestyle points and social points and on the Sims Mobile you have simcash:

On the Sims Mobile your sims have to retire to create legacies for future sims but they do not die, on the Sims Freeplay your sims will pass on once you complete the Life Dreams and Legacies Quest, but even then you can stop them from dying.
Both games are real time but a lot of tasks in the Sims Freeplay take a lot longer as most actions in the Sims Mobile take 5 seconds making it a fast paced game:

Both games are free to play but have in app purchases so you can buy more money or new items with real money.
In the Sims Mobile the only need your sims have is energy, each action uses at least one energy, once you run out of energy you need to either wait for their bar to refill, have your sim sleep or use another item in the house or use a cupcake (if you have any) before you can do anything else. In the Sims Freeplay your sims have lots of needs that you fulfil using a related item, for example when your sims are hungry you can use the fridge to increase this need, if you don’t fulfil their needs they become unhappy but you can still complete actions using them:

The create a sim on the Sims Freeplay isn’t as in-depth as the Sims Mobile, on the Sims Mobile you can move the sliders to make every feature completely unique. The sims on the Sims Mobile look more like the Sims 4 which you would expect, I really love how they look on both games but I personally think they look more realistic on the Sims Freeplay:

On the Sims Mobile they focus on legacies, so what your sim achieves in their life and the perks they unlock affects their relatives in the future when they have retired whereas the Sims Freeplay doesn’t really have legacies, apart from earning orbs and you can play without doing that but it is a major part of the Sims Mobile.
When you send your sims to work on the Sims Freeplay they will go on their own and you cannot see them during the day at most workplaces (unless it is a profession career) but on the Sims Mobile you complete career events so complete shifts with your sims to level up and unlock new career items to decorate your workplace and make it unique to your game!

I think its great that both games are so different, if they were very similar it would be boring, if you like one you might not like the other or you could be like me and just love everything The Sims!

The Sims Freeplay & The Sims Mobile

Thanks for reading!

Find The Sims Mobile confusing? Check out my FAQs here

The Sims Freeplay- Christmas 2017 Gifts

December 5, 2017December 27, 2017 weightlessmagic18 Comments

The Christmas update is out now! Once you update your game you will receive a daily Christmas gift from the 5th-10th December this post shows you the prizes you unlock, it will be updated each day:

Day 1: Free Xmas Door

Day 2: Free Xmas Oval Window

Day 3: Free Xmas Couch

Day 4: Free Wide Xmas Window

Day 5: Free Xmas Wallpaper

Day 6: Free Xmas Double Window

The Sims Freeplay team are looking for Christmas themed houses to be submitted for the chance to be featured in the architect homes tab so get creating! Need ideas? Take a tour of my Christmas themed house:

Thanks for reading!

Home Street- How to Increase Your Storage

November 19, 2017January 16, 2019 weightlessmagic4 Comments

The question I have been asked most about Home Street so far is ‘how do I increase my storage?’ and ‘where is my storage?’

Where is the storage/storeroom?

Your storage is this shelving unit:

If you click on it you can see all the items you have made and collected, you also have a capacity, once you reach the capacity you have to increase your storage so you can store more items. Click on increase storage:

You will need items to increase your storage, these will change each time you increase the storage. If you don’t know how to find an item click on the question mark and it will say something like ‘measuring tape occasionally drops when completing jobs’ this means when you complete jobs you have a chance of finding measuring tapes but you aren’t guaranteed to find them so it can take some time!

Check out my Home Street: The Basics post if you are unsure about jobs

Where can I get notebooks and other items?

Notepads occasionally drop when completing jobs:

Below I have listed some items and how you can find them, this is just the ones I know about so far!

Encyclopedia- occasionally drops when completing jobs
Portrait- make on the easel
Landscape- make on the easel
Still Life Painting- make on the easel
Measuring tape- occasionally drops when completing jobs
Bird house- make on the woodworking table
Rocking horse- make on the woodworking table
Power tool- occasionally drops when completing jobs
Planks- occasionally drops when completing jobs
Sketch- make on the drafting table
Energy drink- occasionally drops when completing jobs
Cupcakes- make on the baking oven
Carrot cake- make on the baking oven
Red velvet cake- make on the baking oven
Notepad- occasionally drops when completing jobs
Vegetables- make on the garden bed
Flowers- make on the garden bed
Woolly hat- make on the loom
Stripy socks- make on the loom

Is there anything you need help with in Home Street? Let me know!

The Sims 4- How to Adopt a Cat or Dog

November 12, 2017July 14, 2020 weightlessmagic4 Comments

Thank you EA for providing me with the code for The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs Expansion Pack!

Once you have the expansion pack installed you are going to want to get a cat or dog straight away, if you aren’t sure how to adopt one this post shows you all the steps to adopting a cat or dog!

1.Click on the phone next to your sims picture and click on hire a service:

2.A pop up will appear, scroll down until you find the ‘adopt cat’ and ‘adopt dog’ options, select the one you want to adopt:

3.Another pop up will appear, this will show you a list of all the dogs or cats available to adopt right now, they will have a name and if you hover over them it will show you the breed they are, their age (whether they are a puppy/kitten or adult) gender, whether they can have babies and their traits:

4.Select the one you would like to adopt by clicking on them and clicking on the tick:

5.A man will then arrive with the pet in a crate, you can have your sim interact with the pet for a bit, once you are sure you want them to adopt that pet click on adopt, this will cost you S200: