The Sims 4 cheats: Every cheat code and life hack you need

All of the Sims 4 cheats for each expansion, all in one convenient place.

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Let’s be real: not a single one of us is life simming without some form ofSims 4 cheatsup our sleeves. Whether you’re working on your next cottage build, or setting up for one of the popularSims 4 challenges, or just moving that new family into the mansion they can’t afford, cheats are here to solve your problems.

We’ve got a huge cheat sheet for you full of all the live mode shortcuts you need, build mode unlockables, and that one cheat for unlocking career entitlements that I guarantee none of us have memorized.

Every one of Sims 4’s expansions and packs also has its own set of cheats. Usually, those cheats are tied to the jobs, deaths, and traits that are unique to that expansion or pack. We’ve organized the page to make it easy to find tables for all the skills, careers, and traits you might need to max out your Sim’s level in. With a handy Ctrl+F, you can search the page for the name of the expansion or pack you’re wanting to find cheats for.

How to enable Sims 4 cheats

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To use Sims 4 cheats,press Ctrl + Shift + Cto open the cheat console. Type your chosen cheat codes into the text field that opens and press enter.

For certain cheats, including thost marked as “shift click,” you’ll first need to use the “testingCheats true” cheat. With testing cheats on, you can unlock some new Shift-Click menu options on Sims, objects, or the ground.

WithtestingCheatsactive, you’ll be able to move Sims between families, fill up their needs and happiness bars, dirty or clean up objects, and teleport Sims anywhere you like, among a few others detailed below.

Sims 4 money cheat

Spending all your money on groceries and bills is too much like real life. Why make your Sims start at the bottom when it’s way more fun to start at the top? Enter any of these Sims 4 money cheat keywords into the cheat console to instantly gain stacks of cash.

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Sims 4 UI cheats

Sims 4 UI cheats

Use these handy UI cheats for The Sims 4 to remove game elements from your view or add extra utilities:

Sims 4 build cheats

Sims 4 build cheats

These cheats will provide you with some extra freedom while building, so you can explore your Sims creativity untethered.

Sims 4 Live Cheats

Sims 4 Live Mode cheats

Things have a way of going entirely sideways in The Sims 4 when you lose track of time. Here are some cheats to get you out of (or into, if that’s your thing) sticky situations:

Sims 4 occult sim cheats

Several different Sims 4 expansions have added different types of occult Sims. So long as you have the corresponding DLC, here’s how to turn your Sims into your favorite kind of weirdo using thetraits.equip_traitcheat:

Sims 4: Seasons cheats

You can’t change the season at will after creating a new world, so you’ll have to use a cheat instead. Or, you know, live through each season in Live Mode but that would take way too long.

Useseasons.set_season [#]to change it at will. Each season is represented by a number:

You can also useseasons.advance_seasonto go forward in time by just one season.

Sims 4: Get Famous cheats

If you want to climb the ladder to stardom, you can use the super simplefamepoints [#]which will add the number of fame points to your currently selected Sim.

Sims 4 Island Living cheats

On a lot with the “Volcanic Activity” trait, usevolcanic_eruption [small/large]to make lava bombs rain from the sky onto your lot.

Sims 4: Eco Lifystyle cheats

One of the first things you might be compelled to do with Eco Lifestyle cheats is change your neighborhood’s Eco Footprint. If you just can’t stand starting out with an industrial neighborhood, useeco_footprint.set_eco_footprint_statewith one of these numbers:

Sims 4 Highschool Years cheats

Get your teen Sims through (or kicked out of) school with these cheats for graduating and getting expelled. These are all handled through the trait system, so you’ll use the cheattraits.equip_trait [trait]to help them graduate, get expelled, or drop out:

Like other traits, you can usetraits.remove_traitto get rid of each as well. You can find more Highschool Years cheats for careers, skills, and personality traits in the tables below.

Sims 4 Batuu cheats

If you want an unlimited supply of Galactic Credits, what you’ll need to punch into the console. You can change that number to whatever, so go crazy with it.

Sims 4 Shift+Click cheats

After typingtestingCheats truein the cheat console, Shift+Click on Sims and objects for the following effects:

Sims 4 relationship cheats

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If you’re finding that your Sims' difficulty in meeting new people is a little too relatable, the cheat console coderelationship.introduce_sim_to_all_otherswill instantly introduce your Sim to all their neighbors.

For an even easier icebreaker,relationships.create_friends_for_simwill spawn a new Sim on the lot who’s already friends with yours.

If you need more specific friendship (and romance) control, use the following to add and subtract from relationships between two Sims:

modifyrelationship [SimFirstName] [SimLastName] [TargetFirstName] [TargetLastName] 100 LTR_Friendship_Main

Substitute “Friendship” for “Romance” to change romantic relationship values. Positive values will increase a relationship, while using a negative value (ex: -100) will decrease it.

Sims 4 death cheats

Kill or resurrect your sims

To save your Sims from death entirely, usedeath.toggle [true/false]

In the Sims 4 Vampire expansion, you can kill your fanged sims withstats.set_stat commodity_Vampire_SunExposure -100.

For all your other deadly designs, use the following trait codes to turn your Sim into a ghost who has been died in the respective manner with the code:traits.equip_trait [trait]

Many of these death types give the resulting ghost sim some special ways to interact with the world even after they’ve left the mortal coil.

Kill or resurrect your pets

traits.equip_trait Ghost_OldAge [Pet ID]will turn your pet into a ghost if you are either an absolute monster or (spoiler alert) attempting an elaborate Sim version of John Wick. To get your pet’s ID (you monster), usesims.get_sim_id_by_name [PetFirstName] [PetLastName]

You should also be able to resurrect your pets withtraits.remove_trait Ghost_OldAge [Pet ID].

Sims 4 skill cheats

If you want to max out your Sim’s skills or set them to any particular skill level of your choosing, you can use this list of skill codes.

Usestats.set_skill_level [skill code] [#]to set your Sim’s skill to any level you want. Substitute in the skill code and the skill level you want, which should look something like: “stats.set_skill_level Major_Writing 10”

For your child Sims, substitute withSkill_Child_[Creativity/Mental/Motor/Social]all of which also max out at 10.

And for all you horse enthusiasts, before you can modify your ride’s skills, you’ll need to find their HorseID withsims.get_sim_id_by_name [HorseFirstName] [HorseLastName]. Once you have your HorseID, make sure you append it at the end of each skill command, so it should look like this:stats.set_skill_level Horse_Temperament 10 [HorseID#].

Sims 4 career cheats

After your Sims are all skilled up, you can also give them free promotions or add new careers.

Usecareers.add_career [career]to add careers with their career code in the list below.

careers.promote [career]andcareers.remove [career]work in the same way to get a promotion or remove your Sim’s job. You can also usecareers.retire [career]to quit your job and collect a weekly pension.

Sims 4 trait cheats

You can pick certain traits for your Sims during the Create-A-Sim process that control some of their preferences, habits, and how they react to other Sims. The quickest way to add and remove standard traits is to use thecas.fulleditmodecheat and then the Shift+Click cheat for “Modify in CAS” to change your Sim’s traits.

However, there’s a long list of other traits that you can only get in other ways such as buying them with Aspiration Points or when a Sim grows into a new age group. Here are all the handy codes for the traits you won’t find tucked away in the Create-A-Sim menu.

After using the base cheat “testingCheats true” you can use the following cheats to add and remove all of the cheats on this list with their respective Trait code.

traits.equip_trait [trait]

traits.remove_trait [trait]

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