If the quaint and comforting countryside sounds like the perfect place for your Sims to spend their days, then there’s no expansion pack that’s better for you thanThe Sims 4: Cottage Living. Build your dream cottage, grow tons of crops and plants, and raise plenty of adorable livestock like chickens and cows.

There’s even more to the Cottage Living expansion pack, though. Like plenty of other expansions and game packs, Cottage Living brings a brand-new collection for your Sim to find. This is the Village Fair Ribbons Collection, which while it seems small at first, is actually a massive collection that your Sim can show off with pride.

A pie entry in the Finchwick Fair in The Sims 4

How To Get The Village Fair Ribbons

To earn a Village Fair Ribbon, you need to have your Sim win first place in the weekly Finchwick Fair.The fair takes place every Saturday from 3:30 PM to 9:30 PM in Henford-on-Bagley. There are nine different fairs your Sim needs to win first place. These are:

To enter the fair,you need to bring the corresponding item for the competition to the Finchwick Fair by placing it in your inventory. Head to theGnome’s Arms Puband the fair is taking place right nearby.

A Sim socializes with their chickens in Sims 4

Choose to enter your item in the fair byclicking on any of the stands, and picking Submit Entry. Then, you’ll choose the entry from your inventory. If your entry is of high enough quality, you’ll win the first-place ribbon.

While you can win any number of ribbons from the fair just for participating,you’ll only complete the Village Fair Ribbons Collection by winning first place in all nine competitions.

The option to collect eggs from a chicken coop in Sims 4

you may tell which fair is upcoming by checking the calendar. This will make it easier to prepare your entry for the upcoming fair. Simply click on the Saturday that’s coming up, and you’ll be able to see what type of competition it will be.

How To Win At The Village Fair With Chickens, Cows, And Llamas

The most important factor in winning first place for any of the animals is that they are well taken care of.They should be groomed, well-fed, and well-socialized.

You can take care of your animals at any time, so long as you are on your lot.You can click on them or their housing (the chicken coop or barn) to feed them, bathe them, and socialize with them.

A Sim planting a fruit on the soil in Sims 4

Make sure to keep their habitats clean, too. Even if your cow, chicken, and llama are clean, if their barn or chicken coop isn’t, they can very quickly get dirty.

How To Win At The Village Fair With Eggs, Milk, And Wool

The products you get from your cows, chickens, and llamas are also dependent on how well you take care of your animals.If your livestock are healthy and happy, they’ll give you better quality items to harvest.

You can get eggs from a chicken coop that has female chickens inside. Cows can be milked, and you can get wool from shaving a llama.

A Sim stands with their fresh baked pie in Sims 4

Since you collect these items every day from your animals, you can collect a large variety, so you can enter the best one in the competition.

You can also use animal treats to get different types of wool, eggs, and milk. While entering a special egg, wool, or milk won’t guarantee you first place, it can definitely help if it’s good quality. Here are all the special items, with the treat to feed your animals to get them:

The Sims 4 Village Fair Ribbon Collection in household collections

How To Win At The Village Fair With Garden And Oversized Crops

Crops with high quality are more likely to win first place at the Finchwick Fair, just like animals. You can check the quality of your crops at any time by hovering over them.

Be sure to water them, weed them, and fertilize them. By having a higher Gardening skill level, you can also get higher quality plants to enter in the fair. Taking care of your plants daily increases this skill, so you’ll gain it as you continue to care for your garden.

Pies

Finally, pies that win first-place ribbons in the Finchwick Fair are also of high quality.Sims with a high Baking skill level are more likely to bake high-quality pies.

you may alsouse fresh ingredients from your garden or purchased from food vendorsto make pies with even higher quality. You can find the ingredients for specific pies by clicking on a fridge or stove, choosingBake, and looking through the list of pies.

All Village Fair Ribbons In The Collection

There are a total ofnine ribbons your Sim needs to win to complete the Village Fair Ribbons Collection. Here are all of them, along with their rarity and value:

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First Place Wool Competition Ribbon

While the collection is completed by winning first-place ribbons,you can add to the collection by winning second-place, third-place, and participation ribbons. They will show up in the household collections menu, just as bonus ribbons instead.

All the first-place ribbons will be red, second-place ribbons will be blue, third-place ribbons will be yellow, and participation ribbons will be white.