The Sims 4 Cheats (Full Updated List)
The Sims 4 Cheats
Full List of Cheat Codes & Console Commands for PC/Mac
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How to Cheat
To use cheats in The Sims 4, press Control + Shift + C to toggle the console. Press enter after typing the cheat. For many cheats, you must also use testingcheats on or they will not work. Most cheats are used in live mode (F2).
Sims 4 Cheats
CheatWhat it Does
testingcheats onEnables testing cheats in The Sims 4
kachingMoney cheat that gives the family $1000
motherlodeGives the family $50,000 Simoleans
resetsim firstname lastnameResets a stuck Sim back to the home lot.
death.toggle true/falseDisables death
headlineeffects on/offEnables or disables headline effects (good for screenshots).
freerealestate on/offMakes homes free when typed while shopping for a house.
household.autopay_bills true/falseEnable or disable bills for the household
sims.remove_all_buffsRemoves all moodlets from your Sim. Positive ones (such as high needs/environment) will come back.
fps on/offDisplay the game's frames per second, useful when tuning graphics settings.
hovereffects on/offDisable hover effect when you mouse-over a Sim
fullscreenToggle fullscreen/windowed mode
bb.moveobjectsAllows you to move objects anywhere you want, good for building. Use the 9 and 0 keys to adjust the item you're 'holding'.
bb.showhiddenobjectsThe old buydebug cheat - lets you buy many hidden objects.
bb.enablefreebuildBuild anywhere, even on locked lots.
bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlementIgnore Gameplay Unlocks Entitlement - lets you buy items locked by careers.
sims.give_satisfaction_points xGives a Sim x amount of satisfaction points with which you can buy rewards. Sims.give_satisfaction_points 5000 for example.
fillmotive xuse fillmotive motive_energy or fillmotive motive_hunger
Build Mode CheatsWe've got build mode cheats listed above, but you can learn a lot more about using them by visiting the .
Pregnancy and Multiple Birth CheatsYou can use relationship cheats to Try for Baby quickly, and follow up with a cheat once the Sim is pregnant in order to force the Sim into labor. You can also cheat to get twins, triplets, quadruplets, or more! Find this near the end of the .
Cheats to Make a Sim a GhostHead to the Ghosts guide for
of any kind, based on the death type. You can also skip
and make a Sim who's died back into a normal Sim by removing this ghost trait once they've been added back to your family.
Testing Cheats
To enable Testing Cheats, open the console with Left CTRL+Shift+C (press/hold in that order) and type testingcheats on. To disable them, type testingcheats off. The console will say, "Cheats Enabled". If it does not, you can try other options: testingcheats 1, testingcheats true, and testingcheats yes all work to enable the cheats. You must do this every time you load an area until a bug is fixed. Here are the things you can do with testingcheats - note that this command is also necessary for the extra cheats further down.
Shift-Click the Mailbox to access the ability to stop need decay for your current household or the entire neighborhood (effectively make everyone happy). Disable Need Decay will mak re-enabling them is as simple as selecting Enable Need Decay. Make Happy will then fill needs to the maximum. You can do this on an individual Sim level by Shift-Clicking Your Sims. This will let you select to make only that Sim's needs static or make them happy by filling all needs. You are also able to completely redesign a Sim by shift-clicking them and selecting Modify in CAS. This takes you to Create-A-Sim where you can make the Sim look however you want, but not change their gender or traits.
To fully edit a Sim in Create-a-Sim, type cas.fulleditmode with Testing Cheats On. This will let you change the gender, traits, everything, and is much more powerful than the scaled down version you get without typing this cheat. Thanks Pokeh321 for giving me this information.
Shift-Clicking NPC Sims will allow you to add them to your household or reset them if they get stuck. You should also be able to enable/disable need decay and make them happy if you so choose - good if your Sim's date has to leave due to being tired! You can also Edit them in CAS if you like.
Shift-Clicking the Ground will allow you to Teleport anywhere you could walk in the neighborhood. Shift-Clicking Objects allows you to reset them, should something get stuck or broken.
Shift-Clicking Objects, for those that can get dirty, allows you to either make them dirty or clean - all objects can be reset, as well.
Customize the size of Items - Enlarge or Shrink - This only works while in build mode, as changing object size requires you to be able to fit it somewhere. Take the object you want to change size of and Press Shift + ] to make it bigger. You can shrink objects down to one tile by using Shift + [ or using Control + Z to undo your changes. Press this too much and it will grow enormously. The controls for this are a little wonky, so experimentation is recommended. I press control + ] then move the object to see the change. This is necessary. Thankfully, if you go overboard like in the picture above you can always undo it and shrink the object down to a size you like.
Skill, Career, and Aspiration Cheats
Powerful Hidden CheatsWith the permission of TwistedMexi, a Simmer who took the time to look into The Sims 4's source code and find all the developer cheats, I am listing the cheats that help with Sims 4's Skills, Careers, and other common things here. You can find a full list of cheats TwistedMexi has discovered . The Wiki is being updated with newly discovered cheats, so you might find something that helps you a lot there.
Testingcheats on should be enabled, as some cheats will not work without it. Skill/Career cheats affect the selected Sim.
Money X - Type Money 50000 or 1000000, whatever you like, and your family will have that amount exactly. This can be used to subtract funds, because it sets the money to whatever amount you specify.
Satisfaction/Aspiration Cheats - Type <plete_current_milestone and you will get all the satisfaction from completing that milestone and move on to the next, one stage closer to the special trait you get for completing the aspiration.
You can do this repeatedly until you have every Reward trait and gobs of satisfaction. It's listed above but bears repeating here: sims.give_satisfaction_points gives the selected Sim an amount of satisfaction equal to what you enter. sims.give_satisfaction_points 50000 would give you 50k.
Infinite Consumables - One-time use potions can be bought with satisfaction. You may also milk Cow Plants that have killed Sims to get a potion that increases a Sim's lifespan. You can make these consumables infinite by using the objects.consumables_infinite_toggle Cheat. This can allow you to always get a particular emotion, or make a Sim immortal with aging still on.
Remove negative moodlets by typing Sims.remove_all_buffs. This will take away positive as well, but you can get those back. The link to TwistedMexican's wiki has a list of all buffs, which can be added/removed individually.
Careers Cheats
While already in the career you want (via normal hiring from the phone or computer) and with testingcheats on, type Careers.promote X - for example careers.promote astronaut would promote your Sim to the next level in the Astronaut career. Any Careers that have multiple words should contain no spaces, for example careers.promote secretagent.
careers.demote X also works, causing a Sim to go back a level. You cannot use this to go back to the branch choice for a career - if you're at the first level of a branch, you'll be fired using this. If you don't know which branch you want, check out the linked Career guides to see the benefits and pay of each. The Careers Guide also has a table to .
To quickly get multiple promotions, copy the command below for the career you're in - just the careers.promote x part - and paste it into the game's command line with Control - V (Command-V on Mac). Paste it until you're level 10!
careers.promote astronaut
careers.promote athletic
careers.promote business
careers.promote criminal
careers.promote adult_critic
careers.promote culinary
careers.promote detective
careers.promote doctor
careers.promote entertainer
careers.promote painter
careers.promote activist
(City Living)
careers.promote scientist
careers.promote secretagent
careers.promote socialmedia
(City Living)
careers.promote techguru
careers.promote writer
School Cheats
Raise a Sim's grades with careers.promote gradeschool or careers.promote highschool. You can lower them as well with careers.demote gradeschool/highschool.
Skill Cheats
Type Stats.set_skill_level major_X with X being the level of skill you'd like the selected Sim to be. Note the different syntax for fitness and children's skills in the list below. If you cannot get skill cheats to work try stats.set_skill_level adultmajor_x. You can find _ near the backspace key on your keyboard.
With testingcheats on, type Stats.set_skill_level major_handiness 10 - make handiness 10. Note the Major_ before the skill name. If you did this, you'd see the level 10 popup. If you want to see what unlocks with each level, read the linked guide or adjust it by 1 each time so that you can see information on each new level. Here are all the skills in Sims 4, which you can cheat to max. Beside each, there's a link to the associated Skill Guide so that you can learn how to use it!
To max all cheats quickly, copy stats.set_skill_level major_ and paste it into your command console in-game. Finish the command with the skill, then the level. This doesn't work for fitness so you need to copy that line. Remember Photography caps at 5.
Skill_Fitness - stats.set_skill_level skill_fitness x ()
Major_Baking - stats.set_skill_level major_baking x
Major_Bartending - that is, the Mixology Skill ()
Major_Charisma - ()
Major_Comedy - ()
Minor_Dancing -
Major_DJMixing - Get Together (may not work on Teenage Sims)
Major_Fishing - ()
Major_Gardening - ()
Major_GourmetCooking - ()
Major_Guitar - ()
Major_Handiness ()
Major_Herbalism -
Major_HomestyleCooking - Regular Cooking ()
Major_Logic - ()
Major_Mischief - ()
Major_Painting - ()
Major_Photography - Max 5, Get to Work ()
Major_Piano - ()
Major_Programming - ()
Major_Reaping - not really a thing, but it's there.
Major_RocketScience - ()
Major_Singing - () ()
Major_VideoGaming - ()
Major_Violin - ()
Major_Wellness -
Major_Writing - ()
Toddler Skill Cheats
- toddler skills cap at 5, potty is maxed at level 3.
Statistic_Skill_Toddler_Communication X - so stats.set_skill_level statistic_skill_toddler_communication 5
Statistic_skill_toddler_imagination X
Statistic_skill_toddler_movement X
Statistic_skill_toddler_potty X - Caps at 3!
Statistic_skill_toddler_thinking X
Children's Skill Cheats
Skill_Child_Creativity - so stats.set_skill_level skill_child_creativity 10
Skill_Child_Mental
Skill_Child_Motor
Skill_Child_Social
Emotion Cheats
You can influence
slightly by adding buffs to Sims, though you may need happy or other boosts to put them at 'Very Inspired' or add more negative buffs to make a Sim super-embarrassed (Mortified). Here are some I took from TwistedMexi's wiki which I'm using with his permission. Use Sims.add_buff X, for example Sims.add_buff social_happy:
Energized: EnergizedLow or EnergizedHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 )
Flirty: FlirtyLow or FlirtyHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 )
Inspired: InspiredLow or InspiredHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 )
Focused: FocusedLow or FocusedHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 )
Playful: PlayfulLow or PlayfulHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 )
Sad: SadLow or SadHigh (do not stack, high gives +2)
Angry: Social_Angry, e_Buff_Angry, feelingangry, unfaithful (these all stack)
Happy: Social_Happy or e_Buff_Happy (these two stack, adding )
Uncomfortable: e_buff_uncomfortable
Embarrassed: e_buff_embarrassed, peedself (these two stack)
Trait, Reward & Aspiration Reward Cheats
can be equipped to Sims, as well as
and those you earn for completing . The cheat to add/remove them is Traits.equip_trait X or Traits.Remove_trait X. Most Traits boil down to TheNameWithNoSpaces or Underscore_as_space in between those with multiple names. When new content comes out, you can try the new rewards/traits to cheat them on to your Sim by trying the new name in this format. For example, there are:
Traits.equip_trait Active - the regular trait, active
Traits.equip_trait Antiseptic - Hygiene decays at half rate (Reward)
Traits.equip_trait EpicPoet - If you're looking for Poetic to make the , this is one that is named oddly
Traits.equip_trait Hardlyhungry - Hunger decays at half rate
Traits.equip_trait Independent - Social decays at half rate
Traits.equip_trait Neverweary - Never Weary, which makes Energy deplete at half the usual rate.
Traits.equip_trait SteelBladder - Bladder won't decay
Traits.equip_trait Web_master - Webmaster Reward trait for completion of the
If you can't find one - it may have a weird name. See a list of
on TwistedMexi's wiki, and if you can afford it,
Relationship Cheats
You can modify Sims' relationships by using the somewhat long modifyrelationship yoursimfirst yoursimlast targetsimfirst targetsimlast x relationshiptype. Relationshiptype is either Friendship_main or Romance_Main. X is the percentage of the bar, either full, half, or half into the red (negative numbers). While there are many different relationship names, these are simply combinations of varying amounts of friendship/romance (either positive or negative).
For example:
modifyrelationship Bella Goth Mortimer Goth 100 Friendship_main - Bella and Mortimer are now best friends
modifyrelationship Bella Goth Mortimer Goth -100 Friendship_main - this will make Bella and Mortifer go all the way to enemies
modifyrelationship Bella Goth Mortimer Goth 100 Romance_main - They're now soulmates if they have a high friendship level as well
modifyrelationship Bella Goth Mortimer Goth -100 Romance_main - Drain their romance bar all the way to red
Get to Work Cheats
The following are, again, provided by TwistedMexican who kindly took the time to find these cheats hidden within the game engine. Here are the most important finds. You can find more on his specific wiki about .
Retail Perk CheatsBe sure to include the true at the end of these cheats in order to unlock the associated perk. This makes perk point cheats unnecessary, though it does require a bit more typing.
Unlock Retail Perks
Retail PerkCommand
Register of Tomorrowbucks.unlock_perk RegisterMimic true
Stunning Signbucks.unlock_perk SignageMimic true
Provocative Pedestalbucks.unlock_perk PedestalMimic true
Extra Worker Slot 1bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWorker_1 true
Extra Worker Slot 2bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWorker_2 true
Serious Shopperbucks.unlock_perk CustomerPurchaseIntent true
MegaManagerbucks.unlock_perk ImproveManagementSocials true
Slick Salesmanbucks.unlock_perk ImproveRetailSocials true
Superfluous Surplusbucks.unlock_perk DecreaseRestocking_Temporary true
Cheaper Restockingbucks.unlock_perk DescreaseRestockingCost true
My First Simoleonbucks.unlock_perk StorePlacard_1 true
Fobbs 500bucks.unlock_perk StorePlacard_2 true
Snazzy Shirtbucks.unlock_perk RetailOutfit true
Faster Checkouts Smallbucks.unlock_perk CheckoutSpeed_Small true
Faster Checkouts Largebucks.unlock_perk CheckoutSpeed_Large true
Faster Restock Smallbucks.unlock_perk RestockSpeed_Small true
Faster Restock Largebucks.unlock_perk RestockSpeed_Large true
Curious Shopperbucks.unlock_perk CustomerBrowseTime true
Sure Salebucks.unlock_perk SureSaleSocial true
Instant Restockbucks.unlock_perk InstantRestock true
Dine Out Cheats
The following restaurant perk cheats for Dine Out were gathered based on Twistedmexi's format for the GTW Cheats. I found the same code works, just had to track down the name of them within the files. You'll notice they differ. Note that Meal Rush and Surplus Harvest can be used every 24 hours. For those like additional waiter or discounts on ingredients, you may need to take them in oder. You can take tidy tippers multiple times but I'm not sure if you need to do something special to add extra ranks.
Restaurant Perks
PerkCode to Unlock
Curious Customersbucks.unlock_perk RecommendDishSocial true
Additional Waiter #1bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWaiter_1 true
Ingredient Quality Optionsbucks.unlock_perk IngredientQualityOptions true
Meal Rushbucks.unlock_perk MoreCustomers true
Surplus Harvestbucks.unlock_perk IngredientCostDiscount true
Patient Patronsbucks.unlock_perk LengthenImpatienceTimeout true
Additional Chefbucks.unlock_perk AdditionalChef true
Curiouser Customersbucks.unlock_perk RecommendDishFrequency true
Additional Waiter #2bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWaiter_2 true
Inspirational Speechbucks.unlock_perk InspirationalSpeechSocial true
Fast Eatersbucks.unlock_perk EatFaster true
Lower Employee Training Costsbucks.unlock_perk LowerEmployeeTrainingCost true
Ingredient Discount (small)bucks.unlock_perk CheaperIngredients_1 true
Well Funded Foodiesbucks.unlock_perk ExpensiveOrders true
Tidy Tippersbucks.unlock_perk RiskFreeMarkup true
Ingredient Discount (large)bucks.unlock_perk CheaperIngredients_2 true
Well Managedbucks.unlock_perk LowerChanceBadEvents_Small true
The Chef's Hatbucks.unlock_perk ChefsHat true
Credit Where It's DueHalf of all cheat sites on the web have ripped off the efforts of a person who spent time tracking down these commands for us and started a wiki on reddit to host them . If you'd like to thank him for his time, buy
for finding most of these that were not released by EA. You can find some specific cheats on the wiki, I won't publish those that players might infrequently use and don't want to put literally every cheat on this page as it's already quite long.
If You Cannot Get Cheats to Work
Many cheats require testing cheats to work. Ensure you've done testingcheats on first. This mainly works from the live/build/buy modes of the game as many do not work on the map. You should pause it by pressing tilde (`) or clicking the pause icon, and when the time comes will need to first press and hold the left CTRL key, then Shift, then C in that order, without letting go of any of the keys, to open the console in the first place. This should be a fluid motion and not too slow. Secondly, cheats must be typed exactly. You can get some help with testingcheats by following .
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CarlLukeCarl: Well, some were available in the game directly on day 1, available by typing help in the cheats box.
TwistedMexican came along and analyzed the game's details and found extras, then shared them with the community. I compiled the list so that the most useful ones would be here, while I link to his Wiki so that people who want every little cheat that is available can go there. These are the ones most people want most, so I got permission to post them. I didn't want to rip off his entire list. Some of these have never been acknowledged by The Sims Studio, they were in the code to allow testing the game. Let's hope they leave them there :)Emily GarsonCarl: If your sim is already dead then making ambrosia will be the easiest way. While your sim is getting all the skills etc you can invite the ghost to live with your sim again. Under friendly socials. This will protect the ghost from being culled.AsharaeCrystal LuckbirdZeroHerorobveinEmmyCarl: Make sure you have turned on 'testingcheats on' first then type 'money 20000' for example to give your sims 20Kisabella kiernanLinaCarl: The cheat you need is bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlementMoonlight Holdsjoe bishopMelCarl: I'll test these out and alter the guide if needed. Thanks for letting me know.MelAliceKaylaJordanCarl: Stats.set_skill_level Minor_dancing. The minor due to only 5 levels of skill.EmilyCassandraAlexaClaraanonymousanonKawaii-yandere 1
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has been heavily updated, with details on individual postiive emotions provided by the ever-helpful Playalot, who helps players who post comments and on the forum. You can see long lists of most ways that you can make your Sim either:
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