The Sims 4: Tips and Cheats!

Welcome, everyone, my favourite people, to another blog! Today's blog is going to be about

The Sims 4: Tips and Cheats. There's going to be two parts to this blog, as you may have guessed, one on some tips, and another on some cheats... so let's get started!

The Sims 4: Tips

A good way to start out your life in the Sims 4 world is to buy one of the cheaper houses, or make a small and cheap one by yourself and find a job immediately. Then get to work! The jobs I recommend to get are: Tech Guru and the Scientist Career (Only available in the Get To Work Expansion Pack for The Sims 4 - Where you can go to work with your character) because they earn the best pay, and have the most increase in pay as you get promoted. Also, in the Scientist career, when you invent something, you can use it back at home after it is constructed. It can become really fun, like a machine that changes items into another random other item, or a satellite that can make everyone around you need to go to the toilet or become really tired and faint. I can tell you, that's really fun! Spend a month or two just earning money (In Sims time) and then you'll have loads to spend on anything you want in the end. In the long run, after you've upgraded your house like you want, save up for a new house, and go with the Sims 4 flow as you discover more options, get married, etc. But... if you are a bit too lazy (just admit it) then here is the Cheats section coming up!

The Sims 4: Cheats

Lets do the fun stuff now! To bring up the Cheats window, press Ctrl + Shift + C on your keyboard, in LIVE MODE, then let go. Now, a space should appear in that window allowing you to type something. This is where you'll be typing your cheat commands. Here's a list of some cheats to type in, and what they do:

• Type kaching or rosebud - Gives the family $1000 each time you type them.

• Type Motherlode - Gives the family $50,000 each time you type it.

• Sim Stuck? Type Resetsim Firstname Lastname - to reset a stuck Sim back to the home lot and resume your game.

• Type death.toggle true/false Use false to disable death. You will need to do this every time you load your game. Without true/false it does not say death is off/on, just that it's toggled.. It's safer to just use death.toggle false

• hideheadlineeffects on/off toggle between showing headline effects over Sims. This is good for taking screenshots or making movies.

• freerealestate on/off - Makes homes free when typed while shopping for a house - this can let you live in a mansion without needing to afford it. This is a helpful cheat when you're Moving a Sim out of the house and want that Sim to live in a better home.

• households.autopay_bills - Annoying bills will trouble you no longer.

• sims.remove_all_buffs will remove all moodlets from your Sim. Those from high needs and environment will come back up, so you can effectively remove negative moodlets with this one.

• fps on/off - display frames per second. Good for tuning graphical settings for optimal performance.

• hovereffects on/off - enable/disable the outline effect when mousing over an object/sim.

• fullscreen - type this to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode - you can even adjust window size! Great for checking guides while you play.

• bb.moveobjects - the Move Objects cheat returned in a Patch. Type this, then use 9 and 0 to adjust the item being 'held'. With this, you have powerful creative control over objects and can place them without constraint. It allows for some super cool looks, so experiment with this one if you love building/decorating!

• bb.showhiddenobjects (Buydebug Cheat) - After typing this, look to the top right of the list for 'Filter Objects'. You can see Content there. Under Content will be Debug. Then, when going to a category, you will see only the Debug objects. By doing this, you can build things like ponds on your lot, objects created by skills, and other debug objects. An easy way to see everything under build mode is to go to objects by function and select Show All on that dropdown. To find Ponds for fishing holes, type fishing in the search box.

• bb.enablefreebuild - Allows you to build on otherwise locked lots, such as the new Active Careers' Science Lab, Police Station, and Hospital

• bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement - to make that one more readable, it's spelling ignore gameplay unlocks entitlement. This allows you to ignore the restrictions placed on certain objects and the styled rooms that come with career promotions.

• sims.give_satisfaction_points x - to give you satisfaction to spend at the Rewards Store. For example, if you wanted 30,000 points you would type:sims.give_satisfaction_points 30000 - note the lack of a comma. Requires testingcheats on to be enabled or it won't work.

There you go. A medium sized list of really useful cheats commands, the main ones, to use in your own Sims 4 game. Try it out now, and I'll see you later.

Until then,

Have Fun!!!

Mr Pengwah