Are you running out of simoleons and can't pay your bills? Or did you age up and turn into an elder and you would like to be young again? The Sims 4 has a variety of in-build cheats that players can use to facilitate their game play. There are different types of cheats:
- Testing cheats
- Building cheats
- Skill cheats
- Career cheats
- Aspiration cheats
- Careers cheats
- School cheats
- Children's Skill cheats
- Emotion cheats
- Trait cheats
- Aspiration Reward cheats
- Relationship cheats
- Get to Work cheats
- Dine Out Cheats
Testing cheats
- Press ^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C while in game. This will open a console window in the upper left corner.
- Type "testingcheats on" in the console. This will enable the testing cheats. ("testingcheats 1", "testingcheats yes", "testingcheats true" will also work.)
- Search which cheat you want to enable in the table below and type it in the console window. (You can enable multiple cheats at a time).
Summary | Cheat code | Description |
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Increase family funds | kaching | The family funds will be increased with §1000 |
Increase family funds | motherlode | The family funds will be increased with §50000 |
Reset stuck sim | resetSim [firstname] [lastname] | Resets the sim with given first name and last name by cancelling all his actions that may be preventing him from performing correctly. |
Turn off death | death.toggle true | All sims will not die, regardless of what happens to them. They can not die of old age or fatal accidents. |
Turn on death | death.toggle false | All sims will be able to die. This is the default value. |
Turn on headline effects | headlineEfects on | Enables headline effects, for example: plumbob and thought bubbles. |
Turn off headline effects | headlineEffects off | Removes effects like thought bubbles above the sim's head. Latest update:Also removes the plumbob. |
Make all lots/houses/buildings free to buy | freeRealEstate on | When the player is in the "Manage Worlds" screen, he can get every single lot for free. This is handy when the player has run out of simoleons. |
Disable automatic bills payment for the family | household.autopay_bills false | When automatic bill payment is disabled, the player has to go back to paying their bills through the mailbox or their sim's phone. |
Enable automatic bills payment for the family | household.autopay_bills true | It is not needed to click on the mailbox or phone and pay your bills. The bills that you need to pay will be automatically subtracted from your household funds. |
Remove all moodlets/buffs | sims.remove_all_buffs | Removes all positive and negative buffs from the selected sim. |
Display fps | fps on | Display how many frames per second the game is currently running at on the screen |
Remove fps-display | fps off | Remove the fps from the screen |
Remove mouse hover effect | hoverEffects off | Disables the hover-effect when you place your mouse over a sim. |
Enable mouse hover effect | hoverEffect on | Enables the hover-effect when you place your mouse over a sim |
Change sim's name, traits and aspirations | cas.fulleditmode | After saving a household for the first time, it is not possible to change the name and traits of a sim. This cheat will allow you to do this.
USE: Press ⇧ Shift+←🖰 Left Mouse Button on a sim Click on "Edit in CAS" It is now possible to change the name, traits, walk-style etc. |
Building cheats
- Press ^ Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C while in game. This will open a console window in the upper left corner.
- Type "testingcheats on" in the console. This will enable the testing cheats. ("testingcheats 1", "testingcheats yes", "testingcheats true" will also work.) It is not required to be in build or buy mode while entering these cheats in the console window.
- Go to build or buy mode and test out your cheats!
Summary | Cheat code | Description |
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Move objects anywhere | bb.moveobjects on | WARNING: The game play can become buggy when using this cheat, because of objects overlapping each other or being in a faulty position, always make sure you have a backup of the working version of the game .This cheat can place objects and furniture in places the game would normally not allow. Combine furniture to make larger furniture.
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Show hidden objects | bb.showhiddenobjects | Allows the player to buy objects that were previously not visible in build/buy mode. In sims 3 this was called the "buydebug" cheat. |
Enables building anywhere | bb.enablefreebuild | Allows the player to build anywhere, also on lots that were previously editable. |
Career cheats
Summary | Cheat code | Description |
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Promote Astronaut Career | careers.promote astronaut | Sets your sim's astronauts career to the next level |
Promote Athlete Career | careers.promote athletic | Sets your sim's astronauts career to the next level |
Relationship cheats
Summary | Cheat code | Description |
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Increase friendship level | modifyrelationship [firstname+lastname targetsim] [firstname+lastname ] [amount] Friendship_Main | Increases friendship bar to the set amount of the target sim. Note that this cheat will only increase the friendship between the target sim and the other sim, but not the other way around.
USE: modifyrelationship Bella Goth Mortimer Goth 100 Friendship_Main modifyrelationship Mortimer Goth Bella Goth 100 Friendship_Main |
Increase romance level | modifyrelationship [firstname+lastname targetsim] [firstname+lastname ] [amount] Romance_Main | Increases romance bar to the set amount of the target sim. Note that this cheat will only increase the friendship between the target sim and the other sim, but not the other way around.
USE: modifyrelationship Bella Goth Mortimer Goth 100 Romamce_Main modifyrelationship Mortimer Goth Bella Goth 100 Romance_Main |