In The Sims 4, you often encounter situations where your Sim dies. Whether that’s through old age or by burning or drowning, when this happens, it can set you back several hours or even completely lock you out of playing your chosen household. However, there are several ways you can bring your Sim back to life.
In this guide, we’ll look at how you can bring your Sims back to life in the Sims 4. There are two main ways you bring your sims back; by cooking Ambrosia or writing the Book of Life, additionally, you can plead with the Grim Reaper to spare your life, cast a spell and if all else fails, use a cheat!
Bring a Dead Sim Back to Life Using Ambrosia
Ambrosia is a dish that can bring a dead Sim back to life. It requires rare and freshly picked ingredients and can only be cooked by a professional Gourmet Chef.
The only hurdle you will face in making this dish is collecting all the required ingredients. But don’t worry; we have covered everything you need to know for making Ambrosia in Sims 4.
1. Level Up Gardening Skills to Make Orchid and Pomegranate Tree
First, you will need to level up your gardening skill to level 5 to learn how to get a cowplant and grow it. You will need grafting to make a new type of plant by inserting a piece of one plant into the base of another plant.
We will be using grafting to make orchids. To do that, you must cut a part of the Lilly plant, graft it into your Snapdragon, and leave it for a few days. After a couple of days, your Orchid will be ready.
For making a Pomegranate tree, you can graft an Apple on the Cherry tree and wait a few days. If it is out of season, you plant them inside the greenhouse.
2. Purchase the Potion of Youth
You will need to gather around 1500 satisfaction points to buy the potion. Collecting all these points is difficult, but if you have them, you should spend them on the Potion of Youth.
3. Graft the Orchid onto a Pomegranate Tree to make a Death Flower
Once your Orchid and Pomegranate are fully grown and ready, you must graft the Orchid onto the Pomegranate to make the Death Flower required for the Ambrosia.
4. Catching an Angelfish
Catching the Angelfish is probably the most time-consuming part of the whole process of making Ambrosia. The best place where you can find this fish is Willow Creek. You should use the bait to increase the chances of catching this rare fish.
5. Cook Ambrosia to Resurrect Dead Sims
Once you have all three ingredients required to cook Ambrosia, you can let your skilled chef cook it. It is guaranteed that a dead Sim will be resurrected after eating this dish. Even normal Sims can eat it for returning to the early stage of their life.
Bring a Dead Sim Back to Life Using the Book of Life
You can recite the Book of Life to bring back dead Sim to life. But for that, you will first need to author the Book of Life. But even for authoring this book, you must fulfill a few requirements.
1. Create a New Sim with Best Selling Author’s Aspiration
You will need a Sim with a passion for writing to author the Book of Life. You must max out your writing skills and complete the aspiration goals to get the Poetic Trait. The poetic trait reward is what you will need to unlock the Book of Life.
2. Write and Publish the Book
After unlocking the Book of Life, you will need to write and publish it so that it can be accessed through your inventory. To access it click on the “Capture Epic Saga” and select the Sim to bind to this book. If the Sim dies, you can summon it back using this book. You must have a good relationship with the Sim for this method to work.
Other Ways to Resurrect or Bring Dead Sim Back to Life in The Sims 4
Apart from the main two ways, there are several other ways you can bring your Sim back to life in The Sims 4. Below, we’ve highlighted all the ways you can resurrect your Sim.
1. Bring a Dead Sim Back to Life by Pleading with Grim Reaper
Pleading in front of the Grim Reaper is another method to get your Sim a second life. But for this, you need to be lucky because this method will only work if a Grim Reaper walks close to your Sim, who is about to die.
You have to plea in front of the Grim Reaper, and there is a chance that it might give a second life to your Sim.
Additionally, you can use the Voodoo Doll to “Toy with Death” This can have two outcomes, either the Grim Reaper will continue with reaping the soul of the dead Sim or he will revive the dead Sim instead. This method is a coin toss, but worth looking into.
2. Use the Deathify Spell
You can also order your Spellcaster Sims to bring back a dead Sim to life if you have The Sims 4: Realm of Magic. To cast the spell, you must learn it from a Sage who’s a Master Rank first.
3. Use the Wishing Well
Wishing Well is another method of bringing back dead Sims to life. But to get the Wishing Well, you will need a Romantic Garden Stuff Pack. After installing the pack, you can pick the Wishing Well from the build mode items.
The Wishing Well can be used anytime and costs 7775 Simoleons. After making a wish, you have six possible outcomes, which are given below.
- Overwhelmingly Positive: In this Ghost, Sim will be brought back to life and get immunity for 24 hours.
- Positive: In this Ghost, Sim will get Ambrosia, which can be used to bring Sim back to life.
- Neutral: Sim will get all the ingredients required to make Ambrosia in this Ghost.
- Negative: Your Sim wish will be rejected.
- Overwhelmingly Negative: This will prevent you from bringing Ghost Sim back to life in the next 4 hours.
- Death: This will cause instant death of your Sim.
4. Drink the Vitality Nectar
You can also craft Vitality Nectar, and similar to the Ambrosia method, you can have your dead Sim drink it to bring it back to life. For this, you’ll require the Death Flower once more and some spinach. Next, buy a Rootin’ Fruit’n Nectar Maker and craft the Nectar.
5. Bring a Dead Sim Back to Life Using Cheats
You can also bring back your Sim by using the cheat. You must first access the cheat console by pressing Ctrl + Shift + C. After that, enter the TestingCheats true to activate the cheats. Now you can enter the death. Toggle, and it will disable the death of your Sim.
6. By Not Saving Your Progress
Another trick you can use to bring back your dead Sim to life is not saving the game. So you have to do it whenever a Sim dies; just quit the game without saving and start it from the previously saved progress.
It is the fastest way to bring your Sim back to life, but you will also lose the unsaved progress you made until your Sim dies.
