The Sims 4 UI Cheats Extension: How To Install It And What It Costs

Almost everything the Sims 4 cheat console does involves typing an exact string with an exact spelling into a box. The UI Cheats Extension deletes that step. With it installed, you right click the thing you want to change, whether that is the household funds, a needs bar, a skill, a job level or a relationship, and type the number you want. For anyone who cheats at all, it removes more friction than any other mod of its size.

What It Actually Edits

The mod attaches itself to the interface rather than adding content, so what it edits is whatever the interface already shows you. Right clicking a need fills or empties it. Right clicking the simoleon total lets you set the household's money outright. Right clicking a skill or a career panel sets the level. Relationship bars take a value between -100 and +100, which is the range the game itself uses for friendship and romance.

Put next to our cheat codes guide, the appeal is obvious. Instead of remembering that money is motherlode for §50,000 and rosebud for §1,000, or that a skill wants stats.set_skill_level followed by the internal skill name, you click the number. The same is true of promotions: our career cheats guide lists a different code word for almost every job, several of which do not match the job's name, and the mod sidesteps every one of them.

Installing It

The mod is made by Weerbesu and distributed through their Patreon, which is where to get it rather than from a mirror. Installation is the standard script mod routine:

Download the file and unzip it.
Open your Sims 4 folder and go to the Mods directory.
Create a folder inside it called UI Cheats Extension.
Copy the unzipped contents into that folder.
Start the game, go to Game Options and then Other, and make sure the boxes for Enable Custom Content and Mods, and for Script Mods, are both ticked.

That last step is the one people miss. This is a script mod, not a package of furniture, so it does nothing at all unless script mods are switched on, and the game turns that setting off again after some patches.

The Price And The Versions

There are two versions. A legacy build is free, and the current one, v1.32 at the time our guide was last updated, sits behind a two dollar Patreon tier. The installation steps are identical either way. The practical reason to pay is patches: The Sims 4 updates frequently and a UI mod is exactly the kind that breaks when the interface changes, so the maintained version is the one that keeps working.

Is It Worth Installing?

If you use cheats at all, yes, because it replaces the most tedious part of them. If you are building a mod list from scratch, it appears in the gameplay section of our best mods roundup alongside MC Command Center, and the two together cover most of what players actually install mods for: control over the simulation, and not having to type.

One thing it does not replace is the build mode unlock code. The reward objects each career hands out are still gated, and our career items guide has the single line that makes all of them purchasable at once.

UI Cheats Extension Questions

Is the UI Cheats Extension free?

The legacy version is. The current version is behind a two dollar Patreon tier, and it is the one kept up to date with game patches.

Why is the mod not working?

Nearly always because Script Mods is unticked in Game Options, or because the folder is nested too deep inside Mods. Check both, then check the version against your game patch.

Do you still need testingcheats?

For the console codes themselves, yes, as our cheats and careers guide explains, and the Sims 4 hub walks the rest of what the console can do.