What happens if a child lives alone in The Sims 3?

Rags to riches challenges are always hard in The Sims 3, but what if you take it one step further?
I made a child live alone with no money while they did anything that they could in order to build themselves a home (if you can call it that).
Part of the Playing The Sims 3 in 2024 series.
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[@puccipower]

You should have built him a treehouse! No kid needs parents when they have a TREE HOUSE.

[@ryanplaysthesims]

It crossed my mind but I didn’t even know where to start 💀 great idea though! Might be one for the future ☺️

[@altalia07]

Yeah!!!

[@THEKJREALM]

you were upset malcolm only gave you 2 simoleons but he just covered your bills!

[@Gleamiarts]

The scavenger hunt opportunity is so op fr like you can just continue collecting different gems before you hand it in

[@ryanplaysthesims]

I wish I knew the power I held before I turned the op in 😔

[@100karai]

I usually collect all gems and metals and choose the cheapest ones to give to the lab in op. Good money strategy

[@unchartedtombraider944]

I wish you could do this in sims FreePlay ❤

[@ple8379]

Unless you know exactly what are the spawns for all of those things XD. Thanks to my obsession as a kid, I don't need the map to show me anymore :"D.

[@remenistic]

Make it series please! Wanna see Oscar McOrphanface to become rich and live in a castle-like home and even get old 😂

[@baygoesmoo]

yes reminds me of stanley from lilsimsie but hes a kid with no mom LOL

[@Gingerm0nster]

This is what I ended up doing in my game! After watching Ryan’s video I created my own solo child sim (Sunoofah Lousiemum). His primary source of income was fishing. Eventually he earned so many Angler skill points that he got a partial scholarship for Uni to study Science and Medicine. After building his logic skill at Uni and getting his degree, he advanced quickly through the Medical career and now makes bank as a World Renowned Surgeon. He married the daughter of Jared Frio and Claire Ursine (SP named her Candace in my save file) and now they have 3 kids of their own living at 180 Wright Way (the Cormorant). Eventually Sunoofah’s eldest child will take up the mantle and continue to earn money to build a castle

[@kkk-gf6sj]

no parents*​@@baygoesmoo

[@tiia-liisakansakangas9569]

This!

[@tiia-liisakansakangas9569]

@@Gingerm0nsterI’m inspired to do the same!

[@summerwatson3794]

A child living alone in a field contending with homework and school is just any British teenagers weekend with their mates and the voddy tbh 😂😂😂

[@gyppygirl2021]

Fun fact: the outdoor shower (which is from Sunlit Tides iirc), is BROKEN. It gives the nice shower moodlet, doesn't require privacy, and is cheaper than the regular shower. There's no reason not to use it LOL

[@luansh4237]

Broken? I thought it is supposed to let your Sims shower in swimming attire since it‘s meant for public pools? 😮

[@gyppygirl2021]

@@luansh4237 That's what it's meant for, but you can use it as a regular shower with zero downsides. It's better than the other showers in every way. It also doesn't break!

[@luansh4237]

@@gyppygirl2021 Interesting! Thanks, didn't know that

[@gyppygirl2021]

@@luansh4237 Yep! It's very, very silly. XD

[@sarahhunter5757]

The most expensive wildflower is the Cosmos - it’s a red flower and you can earn 600 Simoleons if you sell it. I always make my Sims go flower picking when low on money.

[@mcdonnas377]

flower picking is so op

[@gyppygirl2021]

Indian Blanket and Sweet William are also worth quite a bit (they're orange/red and pink respectively). How do I know this? Flowers are a prime source of income in my households. XD

[@Gingerm0nster]

I decided to try this in my game. Here’s how it went: 1) kids can fill their sleep need much faster with the sleeping bag. Plus it’s cheaper. But when the kid ages to a teen, you’ll need to pony up and get the more expensive bed 2) The only cheat I allowed was buydebug so I could purchase a tent (World Adventures) when I had enough simoleons and this helped on those rainy nights. 3) As many others have pointed out, don’t complete the gem/metal opportunity until you’ve scoured the map for lots of extra gems/metals to earn more money. 4) Fishing is not only a reliable way to make money, but it will increase your skill over time and eventually when your sim is old enough to take the Sims University aptitude test, their high fishing skill will earn them a decent scholarship for the Science & Medicine major. This works for painting skill too if you want your sim to pursue a Fine Arts degree 5) Pocket food is a must. Stock up on tomatoes and apples at the grocery store and keep them in your inventory for a quick snack when the hunger need dips

[@justaperson4656]

How did you get rid of the parent?

[@Juzokinnie]

​@@justaperson4656Using cheats, shift click and select delete object.

[@winterstronghold2197]

Give him kleptomaniac trait so he can steal, and especially during school.

[@tanyak6336]

I played Sims3 when I was a child. And I know this town better than my own. So weird see all these places, it's like back home after years being away. And yes, my favorite part always was reckless challenges of surviving for my sim, so now God plays this game with my own life😆

[@stfu_grimmi]

Seeing Sims actually capable of taking care of themselves is making me cry with joy. I've been stuck in an abusive relationship with The Sims 4 for far too long now, I forgot how much better the older Sims games were 😫

[@livia2301]

This is insane, the spotted sixam is extremely rare!!

[@floopyboo]

Rookie mistake. What you need to do is walk around harvesting wildflowers. By the end of the day, you'll have enough to build a house. By the end of the week, you'll have enough to fit it out properly (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, lounge). By the time you're an adult, you'll have a comfortable home on a tiny lot.

[@theblackcatgirl7013]

I'll be honest, as good of a suggestion it is it does feel like cheating and/or exploitative. I usually avoid the flowers in my runs.

[@grumpysphinx4911]

There's also a mod on ModTheSims that lowers the flower prices, so you can make them realistically really cheap to sell

[@gyppygirl2021]

Yeah... by default, cosmos sell for 600 simoleons a pop. Flowers are a LITTLE broken. Can be seen as an exploit. XD

[@angelreilly8312]

Where's the fun in that though

[@hoennfanboy]

the random horse walking by in the background at 11:13 made me lol

[@RobertWWD]

It’s easier in Sims 3 and 4 for a Kid to live alone because they have more options to eat. In the older Sims games it’s a lot more challenging because the Kid can only get themselves a snack which barely gets their hunger bar up. So I ordered Pizza all the time.

[@CalmKitten184]

I tried putting all of my sims’ furniture in the family inventory when being notified that the repo man was coming. Having no furniture to repossess, my sims were charged simoleons to cover for what the repo man would have taken.

[@gyppygirl2021]

That... is actually really good to know! Bit of an exploit, so it may not be great for challenge runs, but for regular playthroughs, it's great!

[@Anggita29]

Ryan: oh books over here Me: books? where? (Ryan zoom in) Me: oh bugs...

[@ryanplaysthesims]

hahahah damn my accent

[@einna5095]

Lmao I also heard books

[@aliveslice]

Also "bookcage"

[@JFairy189]

It never occured to me how strange field trips to the graveyard were until this playthrough. Never change Sims 3.

[@StarchildMagic]

I've done a challenge like this but starting with a teen. It's barely a challenge: the gym has toilets, showers, and free food, and writing books on the library computers earned me loads of money from royalties. Curfew wasn't an issue as long as I was inside *somewhere* (often a sofa at the library). Starting with a child sounds like a lot more fun.

[@lillafarkas2254]

Your content is so refreshing! I've been binge-watching all of your videos and I really love the way you play the sims

[@Dangernoodles93]

Half an hour of Ryan, we are spoiled 😍

[@MsVelma97]

I’ve learned the best way to make friends as a kid sim is to play tag! I have them play tag for a few sim hours and then the next day they are bffs And you can add other people to join tag and they also gain the friendship quickly It also works for adults if they are childish

[@anapaulabellot4778]

I laughed a lot when he adopted the bird! 😅 I miss playing The Sims 3. I love every detail. Being able to walk around the neighborhood is really cool. Love your videos!! ❤😊

[@sydneystevens3323]

On of the fastest was to make money is to pick flowers at the spring/summer festival. Some of them are worth a surprising amount.

[@Jen-nq4se]

😂 the mother part where it said your no longer friends lol

[@treefrog101]

I call this The Lonely Child challenge. I make a YA and cheat them in CAS down to a Child so they can live alone on a lot.

[@TheElusiveReality]

you say it wasnt good but i think that house is adorable, if impractical

[@Minsajang]

The strat that I used to use with seasons was winning eating contests and collecting tickets to win items. I think roller rink is 1k ish

[@scoobydont]

Yes! And the tanning booth is like 2k, I always go for that one

[@Iyasenu]

Hey, ya made a Mooch! I'd been playing as a pure Mooch, but definitely not as a CHILD. It's desperate enough without having the limitations of being a kid and the super-annoyance of curfew!

[@curtisdrago]

This is the first video I’ve seen from you. I really like your humor and I love how your Sims 3 game runs! The Sims 3 is one of my favorite games. It’s so nice to see playthroughs of it.

[@BestSoph123]

stop this is such a fun idea???

[@jessmjfan989]

It would be AMAZING if someone created a Home Alone/ Kevin McAllister MOD!!!! with traps and everything to see if a child sim can do all of it!

[@liurabaum8746]

I love Sims, but I found gameplays so boring. BUT I watched this entire video and when I realised how invested I was it was over 😂 Subscribed!

[@yaranassar4190]

I miss sims 3 so much

[@lndsyrwn]

Where did YOU come from? Pinky little dog 🐶 Me any time I see a dog on the street

[@lisamagnussonbiel5695]

Can't wait to see more content!! Excuted to see what you do with the sims 4!

[@threnody789]

Excellent as always but Ryan getting distracted by the bird was the most on brand LOL 😂😂😂

[@lucapeyrefitte6899]

So how’d you get a child to be by himself?

[@shortycb2349]

Probably force killed the parent with master controller

[@GamingWithKare]

Right lol I was thinking the same thing

[@FerDeLance06]

TestingCheatsEnabled true. Shift click on the parent, 'delete object'. You might need to use DeleteObjects on as well, I can't remember.

[@troll4life662]

Use testing cheats enabled true and shift click on the parent sim and disable them (Only works if you're playing as another sim like the child sim), if you do it like that the child worker surprisingly doesn't spawn.

[@lucapeyrefitte6899]

@@troll4life662 oh wow that’s super interesting, thanks

[@Annnna87]

Love your ts3 content

[@elizabethhogan3976]

This was a great video, loved it, subscribed

[@user-gj1ks4ke2x]

Your channels perfect, I'm so glad i found you 😭😭 so entertaining

[@ryanplaysthesims]

This is so nice! Thank you, I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel ☺️

[@TheOscar0]

This is my origin story :(

[@freqenc]

This was an awesome challenge. Need to see more.

[@katiedidd7825]

Is there a mod that allows children to live alone? I thought TS3 deleted orphans. How did you separate mom from the kid?

[@historyiswacky4894]

Via cheats. Then you can either move in a kid and parent and immediately delete the latter (as was done in this video) or move in a single adult and then age them down to kid.

[@Tevi_L7151]

As the person above said, through cheats, but children who are taken by social workers do not disappear into the void like in Sims 4, they are moved to NPC pool

[@misspinkpunkykat]

How do you keep the social worker from getting him? Every time I try this, the social worker comes and takes them away.

[@claire.chiste]

i want to know this too

[@hocomiren]

delete the adult with testingcheatsenabled true

[@mineantoine-on-rblx]

thought the title said "what happens if a child dies alone in the sims 3" and i just went "that's usually what happens"

[@Iyasenu]

Watching this again, that little bird you found reminded me of the Sims Medieval. The Pirates and Nobles stuff let you get a piratey parrot, or a hunting hawk. I wonder if you'd ever be interested in messing about in that spin-off. It's kinda to Sims 3 what Castaway Stories was to Sims 2.

[@gyppygirl2021]

I really want to play The Sims Medieval someday. Problem is, I don't want to get the EA app...

[@user-10021]

I’m doing this as a regular playthrough (not a 0$ challenge tho) with mods to do things like disabling curfew and skipping school! But I wonder how did you make a household with just a kid? The game forced me to add an adult when making the game

[@meltedprincess]

That was fun!

[@Joanavs2003]

I got invested on Oscar ahahha would have loved if this became a series

[@ktostam35]

I'm about to try this out soon but I'm adding a toddler or two to take care of! I'm wondering if I should make the kid a vampire for faster skill building, a witch for the spell that changes stuff into more expansive stuff or a werewolf for hunting but I feel like that'd be too easy... Edit: btw you can erase the school with cheats

[@teawitched]

Oscar McOrphanFace, a truly British name

[@milenka12315]

damn i got invested in this

[@LJK148]

i rlly want a part 2

[@Luminous2023]

Unrealistic how the fuck you gonna have a fishing rod and have no money ? XD

[@ple8379]

Most of my playthroughs as a kid were usually a collationer and adventurous sim, usually with a garden as well. I'd try to collect every kind of collectables there are and grow every single plant there is to the best quality. I'd usually have one crop of each so it wouldn't take ages to tend the garden. Because of my obsession, now, being 23 and last time I played like this was when I was maybe 10 or 11, I still remember all of my favorite spots to find seeds, rocks, bugs and crops. But it's really only around Sunset Valley because I mostly played on that map through all of the years. That combined with World Adventures and collecting everything from there would take way too long and would probably take at least a few generations, so I'd usually play with aging turned off :V. I never really finished the a full collectable book either from base game or the one for adventures. My sims would only earn by selling things they collected and my favourite way to farm money was 1. a miner from Ambitions or 2. Block breaking form World Adventures. Both can drop you space rocks, metals and gems. I'd first send metals to refine it and gems to grind them and then sell them off. I'd always keep a collection of one of each gem with every single variant of cuts and every ingot. Didn't really care too much about space rocks, but the bigger ones sell for a lot so it's a shame not to take it. They aren't really special, there's only 3 sizes and they're just black chunks of a rock so no point to display it. I'd always end up having a HUGE basement filled only with ingots and gems. Children in my playthrough for some reason always ended up collecting things. Always. I didn't really like family gameplay, but I liked the idea, so I'd have kids and then didn't know what to do with them, so they were collecting more stuff to sell. I basically used them to bring rocks that I needed to finish my collection. They weren't much of a use otherwise :/.

[@miracle9445]

I have to suggest the children can do more mod if you continue this as a series. It allows kids to do things they can't such as gardening and doing laundry

[@leeyli]

i used to do this challenge when i was a kid lol

[@twilliamspro]

Imagine if you lived in that luxury house next door and A kid moves in to the grass pstch next door

[@Kekeliz]

Now I wish I got more expansion packs back when I was playing the sims 3 cuz these r all cool stuff I didn’t have in the game I only had the world adventure expansion

[@user-10021]

Neither did I as a kid, later I just pirated an all packs crack

[@sabrinacalado7654]

I want to see her doing this in the Sims 4 🤣🤣 it will be interesting and fun cause it's a little bit different but easier in certain way and more difficult in another. The kids oven for example doesn't exist in ts4 but you can eat free meals from the refrigerator, the bad part is that after a few, you will get a uncomfortable mood

[@audreyasfendis1783]

U should try this same challenge in sims4!! I saw Iilsimse did it and it was rad

[@Kekeliz]

I didn’t know a kids could live alone at all

[@stellalebay767]

The Sims 4 kid living alone to get money is much much easier. Apparently you can make a club and force a bunch of adults to be your painting slaves. You will get money once you sell them paintings

[@Tnicole697]

I subbed at “Oscar McOrphanface 😂

[@vingedheart]

Omg - this video made me miss Sims 3 SOO MUCH! Why is Sims 4 so boring? Why don't they have those kind of outings in school? Damn....

[@Certified_Fairy]

this was teww funny

[@elliot_rat]

and somehow, in a sims orphan challenge, you became harry potter

[@sheahazza2223]

Great video, but how did you get the child to be able to live on their own?.

[@ambibambi6479]

Would you consider doing a series on sims 2 ds?

[@naxaxaxa]

I laughed so fucking hard at 18:28 that i almost choked on my noodles lmao f you malcolm

[@rockstar2PL]

Istg sims 3 rags to riches seems so easy. I tried it even with a mod where I had to have ingredients to cook and get quick meals and it was soo easy with the flowers, I got everything I needed in like 3-4 days and a garden (bc of the mod) and got bored and quit. Edit bc I've also got the mod that charges you for the taxi.

[@gyppygirl2021]

There's a mod that reduces the price of wildflowers, so you can't just make a living off of cosmos. Try that out!

[@fatemaa.6760]

i miss open world

[@Nika-ig9zi]

I actually did something similar once, only that my kid wasn't an orphan. She just had a pretty useless father who hated kids, was never home, and spent all the money she earned in bars... Also, I'm not quite sure, but I think I had a mod that disabled the forced curfew for kids. You were still in trouble if you got caught by the police, but you weren't forced to go home.

[@danielles7766]

Should have created a ginger girl character for the challenge instead and naming it the Annie challenge

[@nuxlavictoria6306]

i cannot stop laughing over his videos i swear my throat is sore 💀💀 its literally 4:55 am

How do you play with out the lag and glitch?! Lucky!!

[@DonaldYeager-r3g]

So you have the penny pixels lot trait on sims 3? Just subscribed to your channel

[@monxitaaa]

She's an icon, she's a legend, she's SixAmy

[@riqrimoli]

how did you get the kid to live alone?

[@yenisoediro]

wait this sounds rly fun but i don't wanna install the mod that can make the kid live alone

[@kimpanioncube7554]

How does your Sims 3 run so smoothly??

[@Zephyr-kn5hg]

is there a mod that enables kids to fish or is it in game already?

[@jaybaybee94]

This is low key kinda sad.

[@kam1776]

What mods did you use to do this?

[@RoMayDrako]

Man I wish I could get the sims3 to work

[@celina3621]

You should Look Up acottonsock ultimate Sims 3 fix it works wonders believe me

[@HBCSChannel]

Did you use a mod to let the child be alone?

[@lug358]

Do you know where i can get sims 3 and all expanssions and not purchase it from EA? Thanks 😁

[@ryanplaysthesims]

As a man who is unfortunately an EA whore I’m afraid I can’t help here 😔 I got mine from steam but I’m sure Google can help

[@Tevi_L7151]

Reddit can help you, google their posts

[@supercat9784]

*cough Google Mr.dj repack or fitgirl repack cough* Pirating content is neeeeverr the answer and totally cannot be done with Blams Sims 3 downloads of store content. Just don't do it~

[@aliveslice]

6:05 this is the poorest looking rich house you could find 😂 It looks in very poor taste in general. I'm guessing intentionally

[@gyppygirl2021]

The Landgraabs aren't quite as flaunt-y with their wealth as the Altos. It's part of why they contrast. :p

[@meowmocha12]

That bathroom is so unnecessarily big. Just an impractical waste of space.

[@lucaspessoa2041]

how can i do this? what are the mods/cheats?

[@hocomiren]

based off of what i am assuming and my own experience, you can create a adult and child sim (the adult doesnt matter) then when you load into a lot, select the kid then press ctrl+shift+c and type testingcheatsenabled true, shift click the adult and delete

[@renren5660]

Try the base game only

[@Shadowthevampire]

I can't even get my sims 3 to launch and nobody tells me what to do I've asked in forums 😢

[@meowmocha12]

What sort of processor does your computer have? Sims 3 has compatibility issues with 12th-gen and newer Intel processors.

[@Shadowthevampire]

@@meowmocha12 ehhhhhh it is a i core 7 and I bought the laptop just some months ago its a Rog Strix 16 I think but idk the exact gen of the processor maby it can be googled?

[@redbird3682]

11:12 WAS THAT A HORSE???

[@Hannah_Kas]

LMAO IT WALKED THERE SO CASUALLY

[@lenelene3488]

U gotta follow him untol he brcomes a rich adult

[@moonjg4418]

I want to play that but how did you make it so that the social worker doesn't take the kid away?

[@moonjg4418]

I mean i tried with killing the parrents off but then it was like "there is no adult in the household the social worker takes the kid now - game over

[@ryanplaysthesims]

turn testingcheats and then delete the adult while you have the child selected. Just make sure you don't switch households or the child will disappear!

[@meowmocha12]

@@ryanplaysthesims Everyone says, "Don't delete sims, you'll corrupt your save," and you're just over here like, "Embrace destruction."

[@lillianawesome4235]

How do you get a child to live alone without getting taken by the social worker?

[@Lavenge]

how to create an orphan?

[@aliveslice]

3:20 4:43 5:38 9:34 9:56 12:23 17:25 21:36 22:40 26:10

[@ingeuys5690]

What? No social workers?

[@NitroIndigo]

Is this modded?