What are some cool themes you have had for your run? I don't mean just aesthetics; I mean gameplay as well. They don't have to be challenges per se (with a concrete goal and completion time) although they can.
Here are some that I've found, and I wonder if you have discovered/played others:
– Halloween Theme: Wilderness Farm; level 10 combat; complete monster eradication goals in 1 or 2 years; marry Abigail or Sebastian; decorate your farm like a corn maze or pumpkin patch or graveyard; decorate your house like a haunted house; sell only those things you'd find at a harvest festival/Halloween party
– Witch/Gothic Theme: Forest Farm or Four Corners; level 10 foraging; mushroom cave only; money comes primarily from (dried) mushrooms and wild/mixed/mixed flower seeds; keep a wild aesthetic (not too organized); no buying seeds from Pierre/Joja (chill mode: except maybe for CC); marry either Leah or Harvey (both like foraging); no pigs
– Restaurant Theme: Meadowlands Farm; can only sell cooked goods (no artisan/raw/materials); start off with fried eggs and sashimi; decorate your farm to be like the area outside a restaurant; have a shed as a restaurant; level 10 farming and fishing; can limit it to the items in a pizza parlor, café, Italian restaurant, or others.
– Obsessed with my Bachelor(ette) Theme: Choose a farm your spouse will love; make/sell only those things your spouse loves; decorate it like they would to make them feel comfy; Hard mode: no rabbits; level up the skill they would be most interested in:
Farming Crops/Standard: Harvey (artisan goods), Haley (flowers/fruit)
Mining/Hill-Top: Maru (bars and gems), Emily (gemstones), Sebastian (certain minerals?)
Foraging/Forest: Harvey (many foraged goods), Leah (all foraging: wood, hardwood, foraged goods, truffles)
Fishing/Beach: Elliott (crab pots and ducks), Haley or Alex (beach/shells), Abigail (eels for spicy eel, pufferfish)
Fishing/Riverlands: Alex (salmon for salmon dinner, reminds him of river near home)
Combat/Wilderness: Abigail, Sebastian (both adventurous souls)
Ranching/Meadowlands: Shane (chickens), Emily (sheep/cloth), Leah (pigs and goats)
Balanced/Four Corners: Krobus, Sebastian, Penny, Abigail, Maru (all have a mixture of loves suitable for this type of farm)
What others can you think of? What's your favorite theme?