Life is beautiful when you have some nice music to listen to. DuringBitLife’sBittersweet Symphony challenge, you’ll understand the joys of music as you master the piano, pursue a career in the music industry, and attempt to escape crippling debt.
BitLife Bittersweet Symphony challenge guide
BitLife’sBittersweet Symphony challenge has five tasks to complete:
Although you’re not required to buy any career packs or expansions for this challenge, having the Musician pack will unlock the musical special talent for your character. This talent makes it slightly easier to master instruments, but you can complete this challenge without it if you’re a free-to-play player.
Be born a male in Austria
The first objective ofBitLife’sBittersweet Symphony is to create amale character born in Austria. When making your character, choose Male as your starting gender and Austria as your country. The place doesn’t matter for this particular challenge, so I chose the option the game defaulted to, Vienna.
If you have the Music special career pack, you can pick Music as your special talent, making it easier to master instruments like the piano later. However, this is optional, and it’s very easy to complete the challenge without this extra step if you don’t have access to this feature.
Master the piano
Once your character turns six, they’ll have access to theInstrumentsmenu underMind and Body. As a child, your character will have to ask their parents whether they can take lessons, to which the parents will answer yes or no. Starting these early will make it much easier to master the piano later.
If your parents say no to lessons, remake your character or try again another year. Typically, your parents say no happens because of low Money or Generosity stats, so you may have to make another character or two if you low-roll either of these. Otherwise, your odds of them saying yes are relatively high.
You can take lessons three times a year for free until your character reaches adulthood, so take advantage of this and attend as many as possible until you master the piano. If your progress is very slow after a few years, you can remake your character and try again or spend some extra time in adulthood leveling it up. It’ll cost money once you turn 18, but considering we’ll need to go into debt later, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Become a Music Composer
Once your character turns 18, it’s time to become a music composer. Becoming a music composer requires auniversity degree, withMusichaving the highest odds of success. Its starting salary is relatively low, so scroll to the bottom of the list as you check. If it doesn’t appear right away, age up or close and reopen theBitLifeapp before rechecking.
The role you’re looking for is Apprentice Music Composer. It’ll appear with a piano emoji and requires no job experience. Once you find it, apply for the job and pass the interview to become a music composer, knocking out another challenge task.
Taxidermy three or more pets
Throughout your character’s life, you’ll want to adopt at least three pets that you can taxidermy later. You can adopt an animal by heading toActivities, Pets,and either going to thePet Store or Animal Shelter.Your best bet for this challenge is to adopt some elderly pets and give them as much love as possible before aging up.
Once they pass the rainbow bridge, you’ll find options to mourn them or have them taxidermized. Choose Taxidermy and pick whichever option your character can afford before doing this three total times. What you do with them now is entirely up to you.
Go into debt
Your last task is to go into debt. There are many ways to do this, with the options below being a few suggestions:
Combining some of these methods will make it very easy to go into debt, letting you completeBitLife’sBittersweet Symphony challenge. As a reward for your efforts, you’ll receive a mystery box containing a cosmetic item. At what cost? A lot, but at least it was fun. At leastBitLifelets you win the lotteryto make some money back.
