Cheat What it Does

testingcheats on Enables testing cheats in The Sims 4

kaching
motherlode
resetsim firstname lastname
death.toggle true/false
headlineeffects on/off
freerealestate on/off
household.autopay_bills true/false Enable or disable bills for the household
sims.remove_all_buffs
fps on/off
hovereffects on/off
fullscreen
bb.moveobjects
bb.showhiddenobjects
bb.enablefreebuild
bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement
sims.give_satisfaction_points x
fillmotive x
Money cheat that gives the family $1000
Gives the family $50,000 Simoleans
Resets a stuck Sim back to the home lot.
Disables death
Enables or disables headline effects (good for screenshots).
Makes homes free when typed while shopping for a house.
Removes all moodlets from your Sim. Positive ones (such
as high needs/environment) will come back.
Display the game's frames per second, useful when tuning
graphics settings.
Disable hover effect when you mouse-over a Sim
Toggle fullscreen/windowed mode
Allows you to move objects anywhere you want, good for
building. Use the 9 and 0 keys to adjust the item you're
'holding'.
The old buydebug cheat - lets you buy many hidden objects.
Build anywhere, even on locked lots.
Ignore Gameplay Unlocks Entitlement - lets you buy items
locked by careers.
Gives a Sim x amount of satisfaction points with which you
can buy rewards. Sims.give_satisfaction_points 5000 for
example.
use fillmotive motive_energy or fillmotive motive_hunger

Build Mode Cheats

We've got build mode cheats listed above, but you can learn a lot more
about using them by visiting the Building Cheats page.

Pregnancy and Multiple Birth Cheats

You 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 Pregnancy Guide.

Cheats to Make a Sim a Ghost

Head to the Ghosts guide for Cheats to turn a Sim into a ghost of any
kind, based on the death type. You can also skip Ambrosia or the Book
of Life 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 make needs stop falling; 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 Cheats

With 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 here. 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 aspirations.complete_current_milestoneand 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 compare
careers.

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 Astronaut Career

careers.promote athletic Athlete Career
careers.promote business Business Career
careers.promote criminal Criminal Career
careers.promote adult_critic Critic Career (City Living)
careers.promote culinary Culinary Career
careers.promote detective Detective Career (Get to Work)
careers.promote doctor Doctor Career (Get to Work)
 careers.promote entertainer Entertainer Career
careers.promote painter Painter Career
careers.promote activist Politics Career (City Living)
careers.promote scientist Scientist Career (Get to Work)
careers.promote secretagent Secret Agent Career
careers.promote socialmedia Social Media Career (City Living)
careers.promote techguru Tech Guru Career
careers.promote writer Writer Career

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 (Fitness Guide)

Major_Baking - stats.set_skill_level major_baking x Get to Work
Expansion (Baking Guide)
Major_Bartending - that is, the Mixology Skill (Mixology Guide)
 Major_Charisma - (Charisma Guide)
Major_Comedy - (Comedy Guide)
Minor_Dancing - Get Together Expansion (may not work on Teenage
Sims)
Major_DJMixing - Get Together (may not work on Teenage Sims)
Major_Fishing - (Fishing Guide)
Major_Gardening - (Gardening Guide)
Major_GourmetCooking - (Gourmet Cooking Guide)
Major_Guitar - (Guitar Guide)
Major_Handiness (Handiness Guide)
Major_Herbalism - Outdoor Retreat Expansion (Herbalism Guide)
Major_HomestyleCooking - Regular Cooking (Homestyle Cooking
Guide)
Major_Logic - (Logic Guide)
Major_Mischief - (Mischief Guide)
Major_Painting - (Painting Guide)
Major_Photography - Max 5, Get to Work (Photography Guide)
Major_Piano - (Piano Guide)
Major_PipeOrgan - (Vampires)
Major_Programming - (Programming Guide)
Major_Reaping - not really a thing, but it's there.
Major_RocketScience - (Rocket Science Guide)
Major_Singing - (Singing) (City Living Expansion)
Vampire Lore - This cheat is stats.set_skill_level Vampirelore 0-15
(Vampire Lore Guide)
Major_VideoGaming - (Video Gaming Guide)
Major_Violin - (Violin Guide)
Major_Wellness - Spa day Game Pack (Wellness Guide)
Major_Writing - (Writing Guide)

TODDLER SKILL CHEATS

Toddler Guide - 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

Guide to Children's Skills

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 Emotions 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 Energized)
Flirty: FlirtyLow or FlirtyHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 Flirty)
Inspired: InspiredLow or InspiredHigh (do not stack, high gives
+2 Inspired)
Focused: FocusedLow or FocusedHigh (do not stack, high gives
+2 Focused)
Playful: PlayfulLow or PlayfulHigh (do not stack, high gives +2 Playful)
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 Happiness)
Uncomfortable: e_buff_uncomfortable
Embarrassed: e_buff_embarrassed, peedself (these two stack)

TRAIT, REWARD & ASPIRATION REWARD CHEATS

Traits can be equipped to Sims, as well as Satisfaction Point

Rewards and those you earn for completing Aspirations. 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 Book of Life, 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 Computer Whiz Aspiration
If you can't find one - it may have a weird name. See a list of traits
here on TwistedMexi's wiki, and if you can afford it, Buy him a coffee!

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 GTW.

Retail Perk Cheats

Be 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 Perk Command

Register of Tomorrow bucks.unlock_perk RegisterMimic true
Stunning Sign bucks.unlock_perk SignageMimic true
Provocative Pedestal bucks.unlock_perk PedestalMimic true
Extra Worker Slot 1 bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWorker_1 true
Extra Worker Slot 2 bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWorker_2 true
Serious Shopper bucks.unlock_perk CustomerPurchaseIntent true
MegaManager bucks.unlock_perk ImproveManagementSocials true
Slick Salesman bucks.unlock_perk ImproveRetailSocials true
Superfluous Surplus bucks.unlock_perk DecreaseRestocking_Temporary true
Cheaper Restocking bucks.unlock_perk DescreaseRestockingCost true
My First Simoleon bucks.unlock_perk StorePlacard_1 true
Fobbs 500 bucks.unlock_perk StorePlacard_2 true
Snazzy Shirt bucks.unlock_perk RetailOutfit true
Faster Checkouts Small bucks.unlock_perk CheckoutSpeed_Small true
Faster Checkouts Large bucks.unlock_perk CheckoutSpeed_Large true
Faster Restock Small bucks.unlock_perk RestockSpeed_Small true
Faster Restock Large bucks.unlock_perk RestockSpeed_Large true
Curious Shopper bucks.unlock_perk CustomerBrowseTime true
Sure Sale bucks.unlock_perk SureSaleSocial true
Instant Restock bucks.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

Perk Code to Unlock

Curious Customers
Additional Waiter #1
Ingredient Quality Options
Meal Rush
Surplus Harvest
Patient Patrons
Additional Chef
Curiouser Customers
Additional Waiter #2
Inspirational Speech
Fast Eaters
Lower Employee Training Costs bucks.unlock_perk LowerEmployeeTrainingCost true
Ingredient Discount (small)
Well Funded Foodies
Tidy Tippers
Ingredient Discount (large)
Well Managed
The Chef's Hat
bucks.unlock_perk RecommendDishSocial true
bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWaiter_1 true
bucks.unlock_perk IngredientQualityOptions true
bucks.unlock_perk MoreCustomers true
bucks.unlock_perk IngredientCostDiscount true
bucks.unlock_perk LengthenImpatienceTimeout true
bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalChef true
bucks.unlock_perk RecommendDishFrequency true
bucks.unlock_perk AdditionalWaiter_2 true
bucks.unlock_perk InspirationalSpeechSocial true
bucks.unlock_perk EatFaster true
bucks.unlock_perk CheaperIngredients_1 true
bucks.unlock_perk ExpensiveOrders true
bucks.unlock_perk RiskFreeMarkup true
bucks.unlock_perk CheaperIngredients_2 true
bucks.unlock_perk LowerChanceBadEvents_Small true
bucks.unlock_perk ChefsHat true

VAMPIRES CHEATS

Make Sim a Vampire

stats.set_stat commodity_BecomingVampire 2160 will begin the natural
conversion process, while traits.equip_trait trait_OccultVampire will
make them a vampire immediately. To remove the vampire trait and
revert a Sim, use traits.remove_trait trait_OccultVampire. You can use
these cheats to convert Sims from the Gallery.

Unlock Vampire Perks

stats.set_stat rankedStatistic_Occult_VampireXP 1593 will max out your
vampire rank and give you 2 power points each time you enter it. Copy it
from here and use control+V after opening the cheats panel in-game to
paste it repeatedly. You can find more specific vampire cheats on
TwistedMexi's wiki. He discovered these and gave me permission to
share some of them.

Credit Where It's Due

Half 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 here. If you'd like to thank him for his time, buy TwistedMexi a
coffee 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