Mechanics

There are two ways to reach almost everything on this page. One is played out over Sim weeks of promotions, skill bars and gardening. The other is a line typed into a console box in about two seconds. The guides below are ordered by how much of the played route the typed one actually removes, because the gap is far wider than a list of codes makes it look. They run from commands that finish a job outright to a challenge whose rule list names just two cheats across ten generations.

Switch the console on before anything else

None of the codes below does anything until cheats are live. On Windows that is Ctrl, Shift and C together, on Mac it is Command, Shift and C, and on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One you hold all four shoulder and trigger buttons at once. Our career cheats page spells the controller pairs out as L1, L2, R1 and R2 on PlayStation 4 and LB, LT, RB and RT on Xbox One. Type testingcheats true into the box that appears, and the game confirms it. Typing testingcheats false closes the door again. Shift-clicking a Sim opens a second menu of options, reached with X and O together on PlayStation and A and B together on Xbox, where you can reset a Sim, teleport one to a spot you click, or turn need decay off entirely.

How far each shortcut gets you

The lines that finish the job outright

Money is the cleanest example. Typing rosebud or kaching drops 1,000 simoleons into the household, motherlode drops 50,000, and Money followed by a number hands the household the custom amount you name. FreeRealEstate On cuts the price of the surrounding lots, and autopay_bills true switches the home utility billing off. Skills work the same way: set_skill_level takes a skill name and a number from 0 to 10, and our full cheat list spells out twenty of those skill lines, from Major_Bartending to Major_Writing. Build mode gets bb.moveobjects for placing things off the grid, bb.showhiddenobjects for the catalogue entries you are not supposed to see, and bb.enablefreebuild for building where the game says you cannot.

Promotions are nearly as quick. careers.promote followed by a job's code word moves a Sim up one rank, and the career cheats page carries careers.add_career for joining, careers.remove_career for quitting, careers.retire for leaving with a pension, and modify_career_outfit_in_cas for redressing a Sim in their work clothes. The promotion tables cover twenty seven full time careers and ten part time jobs, and the code word does not always match the job title you see in game: Athlete answers to Athletic, Politician to activist, and Civil Designer to careers_Adult_CivilDesigner. Eight entries on the main cheat list are flagged as pack content, with Activist, SocialMedia and the Critic code tied to City Living, Actor to Get Famous, Scientist, Detective and Doctor to Get to Work, and Scout to Seasons.

The codes that only open a door

Career rewards are the halfway case. A Sim earns them naturally between roughly the second and sixth rank of a job, and bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement makes the whole set purchasable at once instead. Console players reach the same box by pressing all four shoulder and trigger buttons, R1, R2, L1 and L2 on PlayStation 4 or RB, RT, LB and LT on Xbox One. The career items guide also covers the mod route, which asks you to tick Enable Custom Content Mods and Script Mods under Game Options, leave the tmex-unlock download zipped where it is, restart, and type tm.unlockall, which reaches the hundred-plus locked objects the game is carrying. When the reward objects stay greyed out, the usual causes are being away from your Sim's home lot or never having entered testingcheats true, and the cheat will not unlock special CAS outfits whatever you do.

Vampires sit in the same bracket. You need The Sims 4 Vampires installed, after which traits.equip_trait trait_OccultVampire turns a Sim immediately, or stats.set_stat commodity_BecomingVampire 2160 lets the change creep in over a few days. Five ranks follow, Fledgling, Minor, Prime, Master and Grand Master, and the vampire cheats page gives an XP figure for the four above Fledgling, 202 through to 1,486, with 1,593 adding two Power Points on top. Vampire Lore runs to fifteen levels and Pipe Organ to ten, both settable in a line. What the codes cannot skip is the cost of power: a weakness gets picked roughly every four levels, several powers block each other, and clearing weaknesses means fetching a Sim ID with Sims.Get_Sim_ID_By_Name first. If a code simply refuses, the fallback is TwistedMexi's AllCheats Mod, dropped as a ts4script file into the Mods directory with both mod options ticked.

The two jobs no code finishes for you

The Salary Person path is taken from Find a Job on a phone or computer and runs Monday to Friday on long days, with no option to work from home. The first four ranks pay $140, $210, $250 and $370 a day, and then the track splits: Supervisor wants a Communications degree and climbs to Head of Department at $2,485 a day, while Expert wants Computer Science and tops out as Cloud Data Guru at $1,904. Ambitious and Loner suit the hours, Writing and Logic carry the reports, and a maid is worth hiring because the weekdays leave no time for chores. careers.promote CorporateWorker still works, repeated until the top position, and the degree standing in front of both branches is the one thing the cheat lists never mention. Our Salary Person guide also weighs it against the Business track, where the Investor branch reaches $3,248 a day on shorter shifts.

The vet clinic in The Sims 4: Cats and Dogs is a business you buy and staff yourself, and the cheats on its page unlock perks and skills rather than run it for you. You buy a lot and kit it out with a vet podium, plus an examination table and a bin, at a bare minimum of $6,000 and comfortably at $10,000. Each patient is examined until every symptom is found, at which point a thumbs up marks the treatment that will work and a thumbs down marks the one that will not; if nothing earns a thumbs up, surgery is the answer, and it pays 35 perk points. Standard examinations are worth charging $100 to $150. Veterinarian level 5 unlocks Soothe Pet, which replaces the relaxation serums you otherwise craft, and the clinic's star rating is driven by wait time, decoration, treatment quality and how stressed the animals get. The vet career guide closes with five mods for the parts the game handles badly, including one that lifts the cap on praising employees.

When the shortcut changes the answer

Death is where the two routes stop being equivalent. death.toggle switches dying off in a single line, and it is the option held back for when all else fails. Ahead of it, the resurrection guide gives two main routes and several long shots. Ambrosia is the guaranteed one and also the longest chain: gardening level 5, an Orchid grafted from a Lilly onto a Snapdragon, a Pomegranate tree grafted from an Apple onto a Cherry, the Potion of Youth for around 1,500 satisfaction points, an Orchid grafted onto the Pomegranate to yield the Death Flower, and an Angelfish landed at Willow Creek with bait. The Book of Life takes a different currency, a writer with maxed Writing and the Best Selling Author aspiration finished for the Poetic reward, then Capture Epic Saga to bind a Sim you are on good terms with. Beyond those, a Spellcaster can learn Deathify from a Master Rank Sage, the Wishing Well from the Romantic Garden Stuff Pack costs 7,775 simoleons and rolls six outcomes of which one is instant death, and Vitality Nectar needs the Death Flower again plus spinach.

The run that puts the cheats back in the box

At the far end is the Not So Berry challenge, a legacy run of ten generations in a fixed colour order: Mint, Rose, Yellow, Grey, Plum, Orange, Pink, Peach, Green and Blue. Each heir takes that colour across hair, clothes, makeup and the house itself, and each comes with an aspiration, three traits and career work to finish before the next one is born. Only the heir has to match the colour, so spouses are free, and the lifespan setting stays on normal. The cheats the rules do permit are free real estate and free money, which is a neat summary of this whole page: the codes are welcome where they remove bookkeeping, and unwelcome where they remove the game. If you want the paid work behind those generations instead, the highest paying jobs chart ranks the branches by wage, our careers guide sorts the nine jobs we cover in depth by what each one actually asks of a Sim's week, and the rest of what we cover sits on the Sims 4 hub.