The Great Famine

The Great Famine starts when the Gen 1 Founder’s eldest child ages up to Teen.

The Great Famine lasts for 7 days.

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📜 The Great Famine (1315-1317)

The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was a devastating food crisis that struck much of northern Europe, including England, France, the Low Countries (like modern Belgium and the Netherlands), Germany, and parts of Scandinavia. Unusually heavy rains and cold weather caused widespread crop failures, leading to massive food shortages, soaring prices, and even reports of desperation like theft and cannibalism. Mortality rates are estimated to have been between 10% to 15% of the population.

At the start of the famine:

Delete all plants from your garden
Delete all food items currently in your inventory (fridge, storage boxes, etc.)
Immediately or gradually sell off all of your animals

During the famine:

Sims can only eat one cooked meal per day
They cannot grow or harvest any crops
One Sim per household can be sent out to forage for food each day
- [Optional] When they return home, roll a D4 to determine their outcome per the chart below

Foraging Outcomes [Optional]

***Roll a D4** to determine your foraging outcome:*

1 → Bandit Attack

Your sim is ambushed on the road and loses everything.

Outcome: Delete all foraged items. Consequence: Sim is injured and cannot work or forage for 2 days.

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2 → Spoiled Food

Your Sim returns with a small bundle of food, but it’s gone bad.

*Outcome: One family member falls ill from food poisoning. Consequence: Choose one Sim or ***spin a wheel to see which Sim got food poisoning. They cannot work or forage for 2 days. Optionally, all leftover foraged items from that day must be thrown out.

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