ZOMBIEDOLLY'S ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE CHALLENGE

A Sims 4 rebuild challenge. Version 1.9 · Created by ZombieDolly · Built July 2026 · Doc regenerated 1 August 2026

How this document was made. Everything below §6 is generated directly from the Relay Board's own 93 records, dumped from the running app after every rule has been applied. The doc and the app cannot drift apart, because the doc is printed from the app.

v1.9 changelog.

• Off the Grid now bans the green workaround. Solar panels, wind turbines, power generators, dew collectors and water generators are barred until Manual Laborer clears. The game flags all of them Functional Off-the-Grid, which meant an Eco Lifestyle owner could defeat the hardest stretch of the challenge on day one with two roof panels. Verified in the game's own documentation, not assumed.
• The Racket, split across both Criminal branches. Boss lifts Curfew and takes Heist Havoc off your lots: you out-fought them. Oracle ends the Sunday cut to §1,000: you out-schemed them. Two payoffs, and neither branch is a dead end.
• The weekly money zeroing moved off Business – Investor. It was protection money in everything but name and now sits with the people collecting it. Investor keeps pay-on-arrival billing and the full-moon tithe. A stronger replacement restriction for Investor is still open.
• No Response. Emergency services are gone: no fire, no police, no response of any kind. It lives on Detective if you own Get to Work and on Diamond Agent if you don't. Burglar alarms may not be upgraded to auto-call the police or to zap.
• Strict runs gate the sirens behind Criminal – Oracle. Clearing the owning career alone is not enough on a strict run. Casual runs get services the moment that career tops out.
• Mixologist owns the bottle. Infants may not be bottle-fed and toddlers may not use a sippy cup until Mixologist clears. On a strict run Mixologist must clear before Babysitter, because a Nanny who cannot feed an infant is worth nothing. Full Culinary also gates travel to bars and restaurants on strict, even after Closed Roads lifts.
• Lot challenges stack. Patch 115 split challenges out of traits. Traits cap at three, challenges do not, so there is no slot budget to manage and the old overflow worry was never real.

v1.8, still current. Off the Grid on Manual Laborer, Journalist owns One Town, splitting gated by The Coming of Age, indoors/outdoors said out loud on every card, and The Run in §5.

Earlier versions. v1.5 and before are superseded. If you have a copy that puts Off the Grid on Scientist or says Journalist lifts One Voice, it is out of date.

1. THE STORY

Before

Nobody wanted to feel bad anymore.

Vitalyte started as a wellness startup in Newcrest, back when Newcrest was still four square miles of graded dirt and construction signage. Their whole product was one drink. Focus in a can. It didn't just perk you up, it set you. Confident before an interview. Inspired before a canvas. Flirty on a Friday. Bottled emotion, forty simoleons a six-pack, sold by every influencer in San Myshuno.

The active ingredient was a pale fungus growing on the walls of the Forgotten Grotto, the flooded mine under Oasis Springs. Wild-harvested. Rare. Expensive.

When demand outran the mine, Vitalyte stopped harvesting and started culturing.

The cultured strain was not the same organism. The wild fungus regulated a Sim's emotional state. The cultured one replaced it. And unlike the wild strain, it kept a body walking after the Sim inside it had stopped.

The Flatline

It went region-wide during a heat wave.

Everyone was drinking. The Newcrest water treatment plant, sitting on the same aquifer, went into overdraw and pulled straight from the grotto table. Within thirty-six hours, Willow Creek, Oasis Springs and every crew site in Newcrest were drinking the culture out of the tap.

Sims didn't die. That's the part people still can't get their heads around.

They flatlined. Every moodlet gone at once. No happy, no sad, no tense, no bored. Nothing on the face, nothing behind it, and a body that kept standing up and walking toward whatever was still warm and still feeling something.

Survivors call them the Flat. You can tell one from fifty feet by the way it doesn't react to anything, until it reacts to you.

The Signal

ZombieDolly was streaming when the grid dropped.

Nineteen hours into a marathon, in a Newcrest apartment with a battery wall, a solar array her landlord never approved, and a satellite uplink she'd bought to fix her ping. When the towers died, hers didn't. When the broadcast stations went dark, she was still transmitting.

So she stopped playing and started reading.

Coordinates. Water sources. Which bridges held. Which blocks were Flat. And then, once she'd raided what was left of the regional archive server, something better: procedures. How a chef keeps food cold without a chain. How a civil engineer restarts a filtration plant. How a doctor sterilizes without hot water.

The archive was mostly corrupt. What survived, survived in fragments, and every fragment was tied to a job. She could read you the theory. She could not do the work.

That's what the survivors are for.

DollCast broadcasts on 91.7 and it never stops. One voice, the same voice, every night: "You are not the last ones. Here's what we know tonight."

When somebody out there masters a trade, really masters it, top of the ladder, the whole body of knowledge recovered, they radio it in, and Dolly puts it on the air. And every household in range of the tower gets it at the same time.

That is why one Sim's career unlocks something for everyone. The knowledge isn't hoarded. It's broadcast. One chef in Oasis Springs figures out refrigeration and by morning every settlement on the Relay has cold food.

The one they invested in

There's a particular kind of person who survived this well, and it isn't the one you'd guess.

Before the Flatline there was a fashion among people with money and anxiety: pick one child and pour everything into them. Every lesson, every tutor, every advantage, every hour of both parents' attention, funnelled into a single kid while the siblings grew up around the edges of it. Enrichment as an arms race. Wonder Children, the magazines called them, and there was a waiting list.

It was, by any reasonable measure, a stupid way to raise a person.

Then every institution those skills were meant for stopped existing, and it turned out the region had accidentally built exactly what it was about to need: a handful of people in their twenties who could cook, build, garden, negotiate, fix an engine and set a bone, because somebody spent eighteen years making sure they could do everything.

Most of them died anyway. The Flatline didn't care what you knew.

The ones who didn't are the reason there's anything left to rebuild.

Your founder is one of them. Somebody's whole life savings walking around in a body, with nobody left to be proud of it.

What you're doing

You start with one Sim on a dead lot. No neighbors, no power, no water you'd want to drink, and a radio voice telling you that you count.

You are going to rebuild the trade base of an entire region, one career at a time, and then you are going to spread it: a second household, a third, a settlement in Newcrest, then out past the ridgeline to towns you've only heard on the air.

Nobody wins this by hiding. You win it by getting the lights back on for people you've never met.

2. WHAT MAKES THIS ONE DIFFERENT

This is built on Pinstar's Apocalypse Challenge lineage (see Credits), and deliberately fixes the five things that make that challenge stall out.

3. THE BLACKOUT RULE

If you don't own the pack, that part of the world never went dark.

This is the load-bearing rule of the whole challenge. Read it twice.

• If a restriction comes from a pack you don't own, that restriction does not apply to you. It is considered lifted at the start.
• The career that would have lifted it is not required for your completion.
• Your run is scored only against the packs you actually own (§13).
• Base game alone is a complete, winnable challenge. 31 unlocks, 5 tiers, full story. You are not playing a lesser version.
• Buying a pack mid-run: the new restrictions switch on at your next in-game Sunday. Sell off anything now banned. This never fails you.

Fallback owners. A few restrictions are too central to delete. Where one is base game content, it lives on a base game career even if a pack career would suit it thematically. That is why Off the Grid sits on Manual Laborer and not on Scientist. The restriction always applies. Only the career that lifts it is chosen for reach.

No apologising, no house-ruling, no asterisks in your screenshots. Base game runs and all-packs runs are both legitimate finishes. They're just different lengths.

4. SETUP

The founder, the Wonder Child Clause

• One Sim. Young Adult or Adult. Any gender, traits, aspiration.
• You may download your founder from the Gallery. This is the one permitted import in the entire challenge (see the Oracle exception below). Build them in CAS instead if you prefer.
• Recommended: a Wonder Child. Somebody else's Wonder Child Challenge graduate, a Sim raised with every advantage, maxed skills, the works. They are the best possible founder both mechanically and narratively, and the fiction is built around them.
• Whatever skills they arrive with, they keep. That's the point of the clause. A founder who can already cook and garden survives Night One instead of starving through it.
• They must quit any existing job. A pre-maxed career does not retroactively unlock anything. Aspirations and reward traits they arrived with are kept.
• Occults allowed, but see Passing in §5.
• Not ZombieDolly. Dolly is on the air, not on your lot. She is never playable.

Finding one: search the in-game Gallery for the hashtags #wonderchild, #wonderchildchallenge or #pinstar, filter to Households, and sort by Most Downloaded. Look for a Young Adult with several maxed skills and a completed aspiration. Nothing about the Sim's origin is verified by the challenge. If a Sim reads as a Wonder Child to you, they are one.

The Starter Planter

• One planter box is permitted from setup, and it may be used to grow food. This is a standing carve-out from Barren Ground, and it is the only one.
• It must be indoors, under four walls and a roof, until Astronaut – Space Ranger clears.
• One box while Barren Ground is live. Once Manual Laborer clears you may plant as much as you like, but it all stays indoors until Space Ranger lifts Under Cover. Agriculture and open air are two separate keys.
• Everything else in Barren Ground still binds until Manual Laborer clears: no second planter, no ground plots, no orchards, no hiring a gardener, no digging.

The lot

• Any empty residential lot, 30x20 or larger, in Oasis Springs (recommended, nearest the grotto) or any base game world.
• Bulldoze an existing house to claim it if you want.
• Paint the ground dirt, sand or concrete. No trees, no shrubs, no flowers, no landscaping.
• The house must sit on a foundation, stilts, or a platform. Never directly on the ground. The culture is in the soil.
• One floor. Until Villain clears, the 8x8 is a volume, not a footprint. Ground floor only, no upper storeys.
• No digging until Manual Laborer clears. No basements, no below-grade rooms, no terrain excavation. A basement is a hole cut into the thing that ended the world. Even after Villain lifts the 8x8 and frees you to build upward, the ground stays shut until Barren Ground lifts and the soil is declared safe.
• You may not move lots for the rest of the challenge. The Anchor stays the Anchor.

Money

• No funds cheat at setup. Play the default §20,000.
• The restrictions make money almost meaningless by week two. Don't overthink this.

Game settings

• Aging on, normal lifespan, for all households.
• Autonomy on or off, your choice, set once at start and never changed.
• Neighborhood Stories: on, all options. The world keeps moving without you.
• Fill Empty Homes: off. The region is empty. That's the point.

5. UNIVERSAL RULES

These apply from the first minute and are never lifted.

1. No cheats except the ones a restriction explicitly requires (the Sunday cut under Criminal – Oracle, the full-moon tithe under Investor). testingcheats is allowed for the required cheats only. MoveObjects is banned until Criminal–Oracle clears.
2. No mods that grant an advantage. MCCC for story progression and UI is fine. Cheat menus, money mods, and career-speed mods are not.
3. Custom content is allowed for looks only, never for function. A CC dresser is fine. A CC fridge that ignores the Cold Chain is not.
4. One career per Sim, per lifetime. Only the first career a Sim tops counts as an unlock. They may work more afterward for money, but it unlocks nothing. This is what forces generations. - Exception, Trades: a Sim may bank one career unlock plus one trade unlock in a lifetime. - Exception, teen jobs: a teen part-time job spends the Sim's career slot. Choose deliberately.
5. Unlocks are regional. The moment any Sim in any of your households tops a career, that restriction lifts for every household you control, present and future. It's on the radio.
6. Who can unlock: anyone living in one of your households who was born into it, married into it, or moved in legitimately after Tier 0 cleared. Servos, adopted Sims, and NPCs you never moved in cannot unlock anything.
7. No aging up early. Cakes for celebration only. The age bar has to be bubbling.
8. Passing: occult Sims (vampires, spellcasters, werewolves, mermaids) must stay incognito until the pack career or trade that governs them clears. No public transformation, no visible feeding, no casting in front of anyone outside the household.
9. Honest mistakes don't fail you. A Sim autonomously does something banned, you cancel it, you move on. Fix it immediately and it never happened.
10. Rules changes never fail you. If this document updates and something you own is now banned, sell it and keep playing.
11. Play every household you control on rotation. You may not park a settlement and forget it.

The Run

No Sim may leave the home lot until they reach Fitness 5. You cannot outpace the Flat at a walk, and nobody is coming to carry you.

• Exempt: travel to work and to school, and going out to jog, which is how you get there in the first place. A Sim under Fitness 5 may leave to run and for nothing else.
• Applies to every Sim, in every household, in every generation.
• This never lifts. It is not an unlock and it is not on the board.

The exemption is load-bearing, not politeness. Ration Body bans every piece of workout equipment until Tier 4, working out to a TV dies under Dead Grid, and working out to a stereo dies under No Song. Jogging is the only route to Fitness in this challenge. Without the carve-out this rule locks itself, permanently, on day one.

It is also why Fitness 10 is the hardest number in the base game. Three careers need it: Space Ranger (Tier 1), Bodybuilder (Tier 2) and Professional Athlete (Tier 4). Only the Athlete gets the Practitioner's Exemption for their own restriction. The other two have to run for it.

Indoors and outdoors

The board has two separate outdoor axes and they are easy to confuse.

Under Cover binds objects, not Sims. Walking around outdoors was never banned. Putting a chair out there was.

So every unlock that hands you an object is indoors only until Space Ranger clears, and the matrices below now say so on each card. Clearing Chef gets you a fridge; it does not get you an outdoor kitchen. Clearing Manual Laborer gets you agriculture; it does not get you a garden in the yard. That takes two keys, and it always did.

Lot challenges

Required lot challenges stack on every lot you own. There is no budget to manage.

Two are required, and both come off when their career clears.

Heist Havoc is residential-only in the base game, so community lots you own are waived. It arrived free in the February 2025 burglar patch, so every player has it regardless of packs.

The Racket

The crime lords are not a flavour note. They are two separate restrictions and you break them in two separate ways.

• The Sunday cut runs from day zero to the last card on the board, because Oracle is a Tier 4 card and the recommended order saves it for last. Budget for that. Anything you want to keep has to be spent, built, or turned into a lot before Sunday.
• Boss is the fight. Oracle is the scheme. Clearing one does nothing for the other.
• Zeroing funds is a required cheat under §5.1.

No Response

Nobody is coming. No firefighters, no police, no emergency response of any kind. A fire burns until a Sim puts it out or it runs out of things to burn.

• Who lifts it: Detective if you own Get to Work. Diamond Agent if you don't. One rule, two doors, and pack ownership never locks you out of it.
• Burglar alarms may not be upgraded to auto-call the police, and the zap upgrade is banned. Both exist in the base game and both would route around this rule. A plain, un-upgraded alarm is fine, and under Heist Havoc you will want one.
• Strict runs: the sirens stay silent until Criminal – Oracle has also cleared. The service exists. The crime lords were the reason it never came.
• Casual runs: services return the moment the owning career tops out. No ordering.

This is separate from No Village on Babysitter, which governs hired help: nannies, maids, gardeners, repair. Babysitter alone lifts hired help. It does not bring back the fire brigade.

The Practitioner's Exemption

A Sim actively employed in a career, or actively working toward a trade, is exempt from the restriction that career lifts, but only for actions required to do that job or to build its required skills.

• The exemption is personal and narrow. Nobody else in the household may use the object or take the action.
• The practitioner gets no other benefit. The Chef may cook on a stove for skill and for work; the household still eats one grilled meal a day, and the Chef may not use that stove for anything else.
• It covers only their own career's restriction. It does not free them from anyone else's. A Barista still can't build Mixology on a bar until Boil Order lifts. That's an ordering problem, not an exemption.
• A Sim who quits, is fired, or is between jobs loses it immediately.
• When they top the career, the exemption becomes the unlock and the whole region gets it.

Without this rule roughly 25 of the unlocks are literally impossible, because the restriction bans the exact action the career needs. Pinstar's original did the same thing object by object. This just states it once instead of 25 times.

It is also the fiction. Dolly's archive fragments give one person the procedure. The practitioner is the one who's been read the manual.

Note the circularity on Astronaut: the rocket ship is an outdoor object, and Under Cover is the Astronaut's own restriction, so only the Practitioner's Exemption makes the career that opens the outdoors completable at all. That is intended.

Rulings

6. THE FIVE TIERS

Tier 0, Silence

Restriction: you are one Sim. You cannot move in, marry in, or invite any Sim to live in your household. You may not found a second household. Pregnancy and birth are allowed and are how you're expected to survive this.

Lifts when: your founder tops any career at all, their first one.

When it lifts: Dolly reads your coordinates on air. Two nights later, someone knocks. You may now move in and marry in Sims normally, and your founder's career restriction lifts too. That's two unlocks for one career. Take the win.

7. BASE GAME UNLOCK MATRIX

31 unlocks. A complete challenge on base game alone.

Format: Career -> the restriction it imposes -> what topping it gives the region back.

Tier 1 - Survival

Tier 2 - Settlement

Tier 3 - Region

Tier 4 - Society

8. PACK UNLOCK MATRIX

Only applies to packs you own. See the Blackout Rule.

9. HOW TO COMPLETE EACH ONE

Exact requirements, straight from the Relay Board. Skill gates in brackets.

10. WORLDS AND WHAT OPENS THEM

11. SETTLEMENTS AND THE OUTLANDS

This is what makes it a region challenge instead of a family challenge.

The Anchor

Your founder's lot. It never moves. It's the first dot on Dolly's map.

Splitting a household: The Coming of Age

A household may split once it has raised a child who earned all four childhood aspiration reward traits before aging to Young Adult. One qualifying child, one split.

This is the gate, and it is the only gate. Journalist does not gate splitting. That changed in v1.8.

• The child who qualifies does not have to be one of the Sims who leaves.
• Splits are banked. Raise two qualifying children and you may split twice.
• The board counts earned against used and tells you where you stand. It does not stop you. The Relay Board is a record of your save, not a warden.

How a Sim may move out

• The Founding Pass. Founding includes one Build-mode pass, exempt from Market Day, on the day you found. The settlement stands immediately. From the next day Market Day binds normally. Your Anchor gets the same pass at setup, which is why the rules still tell you to start on a Sunday if you want a second bite that week.
• The Grant is a straight transfer at the moment of founding, and it is exempt from Ash Economy. You may hold it long enough to build with it.
• Moving a Sim between two households you already control is not founding. No split spent, no Grant. Gated only by No Muster, if you own StrangerVille.
• Every household sits in your starting world until One Town lifts. That is Journalist's job now.
• Play them all on rotation. No parking a family and forgetting them.

The settlement budget

You may found one new household per tier you have fully cleared. Cleared all of Tier 1? One settlement. Tier 2 as well? Two. Four settlements maximum from tiers, plus the Anchor. This is separate from, and stacks with, The Coming of Age: you need both a banked split and budget room.

Foraging and other people's plants

• Wild harvesting is always legal. Barren Ground bans tending, not gathering. No career lock, no Grant, nothing to clear first. It does need Fitness 5, because you have to leave the lot to do it.
• You may not tend a plant anywhere. Barren Ground binds the Sim, not the lot. No planting, watering, weeding, fertilizing, grafting or evolving on a community lot, a neighbour's lot, or anywhere else. The Starter Planter is the only exemption.
• You may harvest from plants on other lots, public planters included, once you can reach them.
• Getting there is the real limit. Closed Roads blocks travel to community lots and other households' lots until Diamond Agent clears. Open-world wandering in your own neighbourhood needs no loading screen and is fine. That's where your foraging happens.
• If you own Eco Lifestyle: No Foraging means foraged items may not be used, eaten or crafted with until Green Technician clears. You may still pick them up.

Newcrest, The Board

Newcrest is empty in base game and that is canon here. It's where the aquifer breached and the first bodies stood back up. Nobody has been back.

• Newcrest lots may not be built on until Tier 2 is fully cleared.
• Every settlement you place in Newcrest is worth double on your Region Score.
• Optional finish condition: fill Newcrest. All 15 lots occupied by households you founded. That's the maximalist ending.

12. RECOMMENDED UNLOCK ORDER

Most people who quit this challenge quit because they picked a bad first career. Don't.

Founder's first career: Culinary – Chef. It's the fastest career in the game to max, it clears Tier 0 and the Cold Chain in one move, and it makes everything after it easier. Cooking skill is trivially grindable on a grill.

Then, roughly in this order:

1. Culinary – Chef — Tier 0 plus food. Do this first.
2. Manual Laborer — the single highest-value clear on the board. Three levels of a teen part-time job and Gardening 2 buys agriculture, digging, power and running water. Nothing electrical works until it lands, so every screen-based career is dead in the water behind it. If you do Chef first you will clear the Cold Chain and then watch your new fridge not turn on. Consider doing this one before Chef.
3. Handyperson (For Rent) — if you own it. Everything Broken limits repairs to Sundays, which compounds badly with Market Day and with every object you acquire.
4. Writer – Author — do this early. Skill books are the universal fallback for every skill up to level 9, and Burned Libraries deletes that fallback for your whole run. Author has the lightest skill load in the base game (Writing 10, Logic 5), so it's cheap. Clearing it late taxes every career that comes before it.
5. Military – Officer (StrangerVille) — if you own it. Unlocks moving Sims between households.
6. Writer – Journalist — One Town. The rest of the map. This is the moment the challenge becomes a region.
7. Secret Agent – Villain — 8x8 is fine for one Sim and miserable for six. Budget extra time: this is the only 11-level career in the game.
8. Retail Employee — Market Day is a scheduling tax on everything else.
9. Business – Investor — pay-on-arrival billing ends. The Sunday cut is a different rule and it does not end here: that is Oracle, at the very end.
10. Astronaut – Space Ranger — the outdoors, and the key to every "indoors only" clause. Budget for it: Fitness 10 with no equipment, by jogging, because Ration Body doesn't lift until Tier 4.
11. Doctor (Get to Work) — plumbing and choice about babies.
12. Culinary – Mixologist — move this up if you plan on infants. Bottles are banned until it clears, and on a strict run it must land before Babysitter. Also before Barista, which needs Mixology 2 off a bar that Boil Order bans.
13. Scouts (Seasons) — the first moment you have a child. Llamacorn Scout grants Scouting Aptitude: +25% to all skill gains, for life. In a challenge whose entire bottleneck is skill grinding, that's the strongest reward on the board.
14. Everything else, by whatever hurts most in your save.
15. Criminal – Oracle — last. The Gallery and MoveObjects unlock is the finale, and it ends the Sunday cut. Dolly's last broadcast.
    • Cost of saving it for last: you pay protection every Sunday for the entire run. That is the deal. If it turns out to be too much in play, move Oracle earlier rather than softening the rule.

Forced orderings. These are not preferences. The earlier one gates the later one.

13. SCORING

Two numbers. Report both.

Days Score, lower is better

Total Sim days elapsed from the founder's first day on the Anchor lot to the moment your final restriction lifts.

Region Score, higher is better

Reporting your run

ZombieDolly Challenge · Base Game + Get to Work + Seasons · 38 unlocks · 412 days · Region Score 85

A 31-unlock base game finish and a 93-unlock all-packs finish are both complete runs. Compare days-per-unlock if you want to compare at all.

14. FAILURE

You fail if:

1. You knowingly break a restriction that hasn't lifted, and don't fix it.
2. Every household you control is empty. Bloodline extinction across the whole region.
3. You move the Anchor lot.
4. You abandon a settlement. Stop playing a household you founded for more than one full rotation.

You do not fail if:

• A Sim autonomously breaks a rule and you cancel it.
• You make an honest mistake and fix it immediately.
• These rules change and something you own is now banned. Sell it.
• A single household dies out. That's a settlement lost, not a run lost. Note it in your Region Score and keep going.

15. OPTIONAL DIFFICULTY MODIFIERS

Declare these before you start. Adjust your Days Score by the listed amount.

On the sign. Days Score is lower-is-better, so a handicap subtracts and help adds. Claiming a handicap should improve your score, not punish you. Earlier versions had these backwards.

Harder, subtracts from your Days Score:

Easier, adds to your Days Score:

On the zombie mod

SACRIFICIAL's Zombie Apocalypse mod is the only thing in the ecosystem that actually puts zombies on screen, and, verified, no published Apocalypse Challenge ruleset integrates it. That's an open gap and it's yours if you want it.

Suggested integration, untested:

• Infection stages map to the Flatline. Turned Sims are the Flat.
• A Sim who reaches Zombified is dead for challenge purposes. They cannot lift anything and their career slot is spent.
• The cure serum is locked behind Doctor (Get to Work). Before that, infection is a death sentence.
• Firearms are locked behind Military – Officer. Before that, you run.
• The Run stops being flavour and becomes the whole game.

16. CREDITS AND SOURCES

This challenge stands on Pinstar's work. The Apocalypse Challenge lineage:

• Pinstar — created the original Sims 2 Apocalypse Challenge (c. 2004), the Legacy Challenge, the Wonder Child Challenge (which the Wonder Child Clause in §4 borrows its founder from), and the design idea this whole family of challenges runs on: restrictions as consequences of collapse, careers as acts of rebuilding.
• ImaginingMystic — co-author of the official Sims 4 rules.
• Ashleigh825 (2009) and Mikitta — Sims 3 adaptation, which invented the advantages/handicaps/bonus-points scoring architecture.
• Poopsie Sims (Mariana Colin) — the "Two Birds" and "It Takes a Village" variations, and the suppression-vs-lifting distinction.
• Raerei — "Modified Unlocks" and the StrangerVille Prequel. Her diagnosis, Pinstar's TS4 rules cover 25 careers and the game has 57, is the reason this challenge exists.
• Florrie64, Granny Lawlor, stormydayzgamez, MiCat Game — ongoing pack-complete maintenance.
• SACRIFICIAL — the Zombie Apocalypse mod.

Rules sources

• The Wonder Child Challenge Rules — Pinstar
• Sims 2 Apocalypse Challenge Rules — Pinstar
• The Sims 4 Apocalypse Challenge Rules — Pinstar & ImaginingMystic
• Sims 3 Apocalypse Challenge
• Poopsie Sims — TS4 Apocalypse Rules
• Raerei — Modified Unlocks
• Granny Lawlor — Apocalypse Challenge Ruleset
• Florrie64 — Sims 4 Apocalypse Challenge
• MiCat Game — TS4 Apocalypse Rules
• SACRIFICIAL — Zombie Apocalypse Mod

Career and pack sources

• The Sims Wiki — Career tracks
• Carl's Sims 4 Guide — Careers
• EA Help — The Sims 4 careers

Confidence note. Career names, branch names and skill gates above are printed from the Relay Board's own data, which was researched against the sources listed. The 2025–2026 packs (Businesses & Hobbies, Enchanted by Nature, Adventure Awaits, Royalty & Legacy) are sourced but not personally verified in game. If a branch name is wrong in your game, use the real one and correct the board.

You are not the last ones. Here's what we know tonight. — DollCast 91.7