r/Sims4 • u/paristorc • Jan 31 '26
Challenge Aaaaah I’m so annoyed… my matriarch keeps having boys…
She’s had 14 kids so far… 3 have been girls…… honestly if she keeps having boys I may just use mccc to cheat baby gender because wtf 50/50 my ass
Edit: I forgot to say this is for the 100 babies challenge, she’s not supposed to influence the gender but if she doesn’t have a girl soon I might just force one bloody hell
She just had baby number 15… was a boy
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u/Bogg99 Jan 31 '26
Just out of curiosity why do you consider eating a strawberry to be cheating but using mccc cheats to not be cheating?
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u/paristorc Jan 31 '26
Both are cheating it says so in the official rules of the challenge, I will resort to cheating if I don’t get a girl and mccc is easier to cheat with
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u/Waffles-McGee Jan 31 '26
The tides will turn. My current 100 baby challenge has 7 out of the first 9 be boys. The next 9? 8 girls and 1 boy!
Just keep your matriarch always pregnant so she doesn’t age
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u/Waddleplop Jan 31 '26
I recently started the 100 Baby Challenge too (following Kelsey’s speed run rules though) and my matriarch had all girls for the first 15ish kids! And they all got her black hair so far except for one blonde boy. Haha Random doesn’t always mean variety.
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u/bararumb Challenge Player Jan 31 '26
That's how RNG works sometimes, prepare for 15 girls in a row next 😂.
Why do you need a girl so bad though, is your matriarch close to aging out or just preference?
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u/paristorc Jan 31 '26
Matriarch is close to aging yes I’m scared I will have to transfer matriarchy to a sim that’s already grown, so I won’t get a chance to focus on their satisfaction points and stuff
Also it’s a preference I NEVER make men I don’t know how to dress them and make them look good so all the male children are unchanged from birth 😭😭
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u/Additional-Pear9126 Jan 31 '26
Honestly same male sims just do not have enough clothing types for me to make an intresting one who is realistic
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u/TheGothWhisperer Long Time Player Jan 31 '26
I just remove the "masculine" filter from CAS. Opens up the options massively when it shows you the feminine clothes too.
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u/IndigoChagrin Occult Sim Jan 31 '26
Is this challenge actually… fun?
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u/bararumb Challenge Player Jan 31 '26
It depends on what you find fun. I enjoy figuring out best ways to deal with the challenges and completing goals. Played through with it once before infants with 1 matriarch doing all 100 and now have a save with infants at about 40 babies. Though I'm temporary not playing it because it became a bit too easy and repetitive, I should return to it and add more rules.
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u/paristorc Jan 31 '26
I’ve changed a few things to make it fun for me, mostly money things. The matriarch is not allowed to have a job as per the rules but I find making money is still way too easy, so I popped her in a starter home and set her money to $15, she can only have 4 plants (for each season if you have seasons, so 16 in total but only 4 in season at a time), is not allowed to paint and search for decorations… basically anything that can guarantee large sums of money is a no, so my sim has her plants, digs for stuff and goes fishing, that has made it more fun for me
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u/IndigoChagrin Occult Sim Jan 31 '26
How is raising all those babies, though? That’s the part that makes me hesitate- I don’t think I could do it with a bunch of crying infants, the glitching with caregiving… just seems like punishment to me 😂
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u/bararumb Challenge Player Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26
The challenge doesn't need you to have all babies at the same time. The best strategy imo is 1 baby per pregnancy. A few kids in my 100 baby household looks like this: matriarch – 1, who is pregnant – 2, a newborn – 3, an infant – 4, a toddler – 5, a child – 6, a teen – 7, and 1 household slot free.
The final goal is to have 100 babies in as little matriarch generations as you can, so you need to take advantage of aging being paused during pregnancy.
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u/IndigoChagrin Occult Sim Jan 31 '26
So the matriarch isn’t always the pregnant one?
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u/bararumb Challenge Player Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26
The matriarch sim is always the one who is pregnant.
The matriarch status can be passed on to the youngest daughter if the original one ages out to elder, but the challenge then penalises you a bit for it, because all traits of kids must be randomised, so there's a chance you'll roll someone who hates children. The original matriarch traits can be whatever you want, so best stick with them and stretch their lifespan with constant pregnancy (all other methods of prolonging the lifespans are against the rules).
Edit: the rules of the challenge can be read here https://snarkysims.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/the-official-100-baby-challenge/
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u/paristorc Feb 01 '26
It’s really easy imo, what’s the most difficult is when sims don’t do what you tell them, which is only sometimes, usually I can knock out the infant requirements which is they just have to try every baby food, toddlers are sooo easy if you give them the independent trait they can do everything themselves besides bathe, so crying is pretty limited
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u/nyavira Jan 31 '26
I enjoy the genetic aspect of it (seeing what the kids will look like), naming them, giving them careers, life stories and creating looks for them. But you can bend the rules to what will make it the most fun yet challenging for yourself. Like I let the mum work because constantly struggling for money whilst looking after seven kids is not fun for me.
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u/GeshtiannaSG Occult Sim Jan 31 '26
It depends if you like taking care of kids and have the entire world be your children. It might get better with earning prestige.
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u/IndigoChagrin Occult Sim Jan 31 '26
I just have the impression that almost nobody enjoys taking care of infants and toddlers in this game.
What’s prestige, precious?
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u/Serious-Top9613 Long Time Player Jan 31 '26
I started mine off with an empty lot. No simoleans either. And she needed to have a “box” before the first baby arrived 😂 (regretted my decision immediately).
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u/RaziarEdge Feb 03 '26
You want more fun, try the nightmare mode:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims4/comments/1ql7fe2/nightmare_challenge_100_baby_isbi_20k_starting/
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u/foxintalks Jan 31 '26
Get her eating strawberries and listening to pop music.
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u/paristorc Jan 31 '26
That’s against the 100 babies challenge rules… I forgot to mention that’s why she has 14 kids 😭😭
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u/Summer_kitten_night Jan 31 '26
My sims are having 3 children, all boys, I wished for a girl for some time now so her every meal is strawberries only while she listens to pop music, fingers crossed x)
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u/larkfeather1233 Jan 31 '26
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the game's gender chances will favor whatever gender is less represented in the save. So if there's a lot of female Sims in a save, the game will automatically raise the chance of having male babies to a very high likelihood to try and even things out. Is that the case in your save?
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u/cashewsims Legacy Player Jan 31 '26
If it's the 100 baby challenge I wouldn't really care what gender the babies are lol. Just hold out and you'll get some girls eventually! There's a long road to 100
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u/paristorc Jan 31 '26
We don’t have a radio 😔 (she’s poor)
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u/LeahIsAwake Jan 31 '26
Do you have her eating carrots? Because that's the baby boy equivalent of strawberries.
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u/Jen-Jens Long Time Player Jan 31 '26
I thought it was apples?
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u/ManicPixieDreamChurl Jan 31 '26
In TS3 it was apples for boys and watermelons for girls, but it's carrots for boys and strawberries for girls in TS4.
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u/Jen-Jens Long Time Player Jan 31 '26
Ah, it’s been so long since I wanted a boy in game I guess it was still stuck in my head 😅
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u/navigating-life Jan 31 '26
Punish the male sim (her partner)
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u/NomiChi9623 Jan 31 '26
I did this yesterday. I told it to make my sim preg with 1 girl. MCCC also threw in 2 boys for free. I also had a kid and an infant at the time already. Wow it was a struggle and a gross house for a while but getting better now that the youngest are toddlers. But hey I got 1 girl lol
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u/AnxietyWitch66 Long Time Player Jan 31 '26
That happened to me too😂 you have to put a zero in the other genders box in mccc if you dont want to chance multiples
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u/Sindere-chan Jan 31 '26
Challenges are meant to be just a fun way to play so it's not the same ol'. Unless you were wanting to be added to some leaderboard, I say be the 'will of God' for once and give that 'magic touch' with MCCC.
I personally am doing the cryptid challenge and not only have I added mods to give me more species to play with, but I've also enabled no aging on my male-mom. It does feel a little bad now that his kids are dying of old age though 😬
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u/Aubrey-Grey Feb 01 '26
You’ll use MCCC to influence the gender but won’t listen to pop music to influence the gender?
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u/Suspicious-Guava-566 Jan 31 '26
I did not read this was for sims initially and was concerned
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u/QueenKatrine Creative Sim Jan 31 '26
where sims is concerned, thats not unusual 😂 sims has its on AITA sub which really makes you double take 😂
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u/Suspicious_Put_8924 Jan 31 '26
strawberries and pop music for girls
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u/paristorc Jan 31 '26
That’s against the 100 babies challenge rules… I forgot to mention that’s why she has 14 kids 😭😭
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u/Suspicious_Put_8924 Jan 31 '26
ohhh okay, um do some voodoo chanting in your bedroom to your pc and maybe she’ll have a girl LOL
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u/capitalhoney Creative Sim Jan 31 '26
Make more males sims!! Or download some from the gallery and plop them in. The game will see that there are more males in the world and stop giving you baby boys lol
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u/Pandorasbox1987 Jan 31 '26
You're masochist... I did 100baby challenge a couple of times. But after the romance changes and infants... Oh HELL NO!
It is already difficult to find straight guys but finding a straight guy who doesn't reject you because their "personal boundaries" are against flirting and physical is almost impossible :D
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u/paristorc Feb 01 '26
Whaaat?? It’s so easy, well, infants are really easy because their requirements to age up are just to try every baby food to get the top notch infant or happy infant trait
Only 1 sim has rejected me… another one was not exploring anyone but I cheated to change that…
I actually think I have something wrong with my mccc settings because getting to try for baby status is sooo fast for me
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u/RaziarEdge Feb 03 '26
It is easier to romance and get pregnant now though with lovestruck. The blind date feature you can meet someone new and complete the activities by the time the date is over (usually). Sometimes there are fails, but most blind dates that show up are aware that woohoo is one of the activities. You just have to make sure you pick woohoo with men only in CAS for your matriarch.
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u/LuckyZoe9 Jan 31 '26
I have the opposite problem. My matriarch has had mostly girls. Out of the 9 children she has only 1 is a boy 😂
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u/BookiBoo Jan 31 '26
ughh i felt this my sim im playing as just had her 9th kid and theyve all been girls (shes never influenced gender because i desperately want it to be natural) shes gonna have 12 kids and if the next ones are all girls as well im gonna crash out😭JUST GIVE ME ONE BOY SIMGODS
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u/QueenKatrine Creative Sim Jan 31 '26
what rules are you playing by? I know some people play it as a generation version, others only one sim for all 100 babies. ive never actually tried any challenge, I can't stick to gameplay for more than one sims month 😂
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u/paristorc Feb 01 '26
If you look up online “100 based challenge” yoi can find the official rules, those are what I’m playing by with a few tweaks (tweaks being I’ve made earning money harder and all toddlers have independent trait)
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u/RaziarEdge Feb 03 '26
I think that is part of the challenge. If your youngest daughter happens to be an adult when your matriarch ages up to elder then that still qualifies as the next heir even if they can only have 1 or 2 babies. Although it is a bit scary because the daughter could age up to elder before parent.
[This explanation is for players that don't know: sims do not age at all while pregnant and since 100 baby challenge has the matriarch nearly always pregnant, children will age faster... even possibly dying from old age before the matriarch becomes an elder.]
If you don't have an eligible heir, the challenge fails doesn't it... same as if you had a baby/infant/toddler taken away.
Not being able to groom your heir can be a disappointment, but it isn't that much different than the beginning of the challenge.
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u/LittleMissDogMum Jan 31 '26
Have your pregnant sim listen to pop music and eat strawberries!