Sims 4 age and death cheats

Open the console with Ctrl + Shift + C on Windows, the same shortcut or Command + Shift + C on Mac, or by holding all four shoulder buttons on PlayStation and Xbox. Type testingcheats trueCopy and press Enter.

That switch is what makes the traits., sims. and stats. commands below work, and it is also what puts Modify in CAS in the shift-click menu. The full walkthrough, including the console button combinations, is on the page on enabling cheats.

Most commands here act on the Sim you currently have selected, so click the right Sim before you type.

Two routes, and the one you pick depends on which direction you are going.

Forward, one stage at a time. With cheats on, shift-click the Sim and choose Age Up. On PlayStation hold Circle and press X; on Xbox hold B and press A. It is quick, it needs no second command, and it only goes forward.

Any direction, any stage. Enter cas.fulleditmodeCopy. The console prints nothing in reply, which makes people think it failed. Then shift-click the Sim, choose Modify in CAS, and the age selector is unlocked along with every other field. Pick the life stage, confirm, and the Sim comes out of Create a Sim at that age.

Full edit mode is also how you change a Sim's name, traits, aspiration and appearance in one pass, so it is worth knowing for reasons that have nothing to do with age. The trait codes that do the same job from the console are on the Sims 4 trait cheats page.

Plenty of guides print aging.toggle, aging on or aging off. Those are Sims 3 commands. No current source documents any of them working in The Sims 4, and typing them does nothing.

Aging is a game setting instead. Open Game Options, go to Gameplay, and use Auto Age. You can switch aging off for played Sims, for unplayed Sims, or for both, and the setting applies to the save rather than to one Sim.

sims.Set_Age belongs in the same paragraph. It is widely quoted and appears in none of the sources checked for this page, including EA's own cheats documentation. Use Create a Sim or the shift-click Age Up option instead.

death.toggle trueCopy and death.toggle falseCopy are a pair. EA documents the command as enabling and disabling death and does not say which value means which, and the guides that repeat it disagree: PC Gamer treats it as the way to save Sims from death entirely, SnootySims as the way to turn death off.

So test it. Enter one value on a save you have just backed up, then push a Sim toward a death you can trigger on demand, and see what happens. Whichever value protected them is the one to remember.

For a death already in progress there is a faster answer: sims.remove_all_buffsCopy clears every moodlet on the selected Sim and drops them back to a neutral mood. Death by laughter, embarrassment, anger and the other emotional deaths all come from moodlets, so clearing the moodlets ends the countdown. The cost is that it clears the good ones too.

Every death type in the game has a ghost trait. Select the Sim, enter traits.equip_trait and the trait name, and they become a ghost who died that way.

traits.equip_trait drownCopy gives you a Sim who drowned. traits.equip_trait oldageCopy gives you one who died of old age. The full list, base game and pack by pack, is in the table above.

There is a second route worth knowing. A recent patch added ghost death types directly to Create a Sim, so with cas.fulleditmode active you can shift-click a Sim, choose Modify in CAS, and pick a death type from the interface rather than typing a trait name. That is easier to undo if you change your mind.

Pack deaths need their pack. Ghost_Lightning and Ghost_Frozen need Seasons, Vampire_Sun needs Vampires, and trait_Ghost_SecretPassageway, the cuckoo clock death added in 2026, needs Royalty & Legacy. Without the pack the command is rejected.

One gap: Enchanted by Nature adds Death by Emotional Overload for fairies, and PC Gamer states there is no cheat for it. You have to trigger it in play, by letting a fairy absorb Overload moodlets until Enraged, Hysterical or Mortified fires.

Equipping a ghost trait skips straight to the result. If you want the death itself, with the animation, the Grim Reaper and the urn, use a buff instead.

sims.add_buff Buff_HystericalCopy pushes a Sim toward death by laughter, and sims.add_buff Buff_MortifiedCopy toward death by embarrassment. Vampires have their own route: stats.set_stat commodity_Vampire_SunExposure -100Copy empties the sun exposure meter and kills them on the spot.

sims.add_buff GhostlyCopy is the harmless one. It makes a living Sim a ghost for a few hours and then wears off by itself, with nothing to undo.

A few fire-related commands circulate for this, sims.add_buff BurningLove among them. Only one of the guides checked for this page lists them, so they are in the table with that caution attached rather than presented as reliable.

There is no resurrect command. Resurrection is the ghost trait coming off: traits.remove_trait oldageCopy brings back a Sim who died of old age, and the same pattern works for every other death type. Select the ghost first, and use the trait that matches how they died.

If you are not sure which one they carry, open them with cas.fulleditmode and Modify in CAS and look at the death type listed there.

Any command elsewhere that claims to be a dedicated resurrection cheat is worth checking carefully. None of the sources behind this page document one.

Pets take the same commands with an extra argument, because you cannot select a pet the way you select a Sim. Run sims.get_sim_id_by_nameCopy followed by the pet's first and last name, and the console prints a long number. That number is the pet's identifier.

Then traits.equip_trait Ghost_OldAge followed by the identifier turns the pet into a ghost, and traits.remove_trait Ghost_OldAge followed by the identifier brings it back. PC Gamer words the resurrection half as something you should also be able to do rather than as a confirmed result, so try it on a save you have backed up.

All of these commands work on Xbox and PlayStation. Open the console by holding RB, RT, LB and LT together on Xbox, or R1, R2, L1 and L2 on PlayStation. Shift-click becomes Circle plus X on PlayStation and B plus A on Xbox.

The UI Cheats Extension is a free Live mode mod by weerbesu for PC and Mac. On this topic it covers exactly one thing, and covers it better than the console does.

Age. Right-click the age progress bar in the Simology panel and you can add or subtract days spent at the current life stage, or change the total number of days the Sim has lived. The console has nothing equivalent: cas.fulleditmode moves a Sim between whole life stages, and that is all it does.

Death. Not covered. Killing a Sim, setting a death type and resetting a Sim are all absent from the mod's documented feature list, so the commands above stay the only route. With Life & Death installed the mod can right-click a ghost XP progress bar to set a ghost rank and set the Soul's Journey meter, but that is a ghost's progression, not the death itself.

The rest of what it covers, panel by panel, is on the UI Cheats feature list. If you have not got it running yet, the installation guide covers both files and the two Game Options toggles.

• Check the master switch. Every command here needs testingcheats true. If you are not certain it is still on, shift-click a Sim and look for the cheat menu, or simply enter it again.
• Check you selected the right Sim. traits.equip_trait, sims.add_buff and sims.remove_all_buffs act on the Sim you currently have selected, not on the one you are looking at.
• Check the pack. A ghost trait from a pack you do not own is rejected without a useful message.
• Check for a typed space. A space ends the argument, so a trait name split across two words cannot work. Type the name exactly as the table prints it.
• Expect no confirmation. cas.fulleditmode prints nothing at all. Test it by shift-clicking a Sim and looking for Modify in CAS.

If the console will not open, or commands are being rejected across the board, work through the fixes for Sims 4 cheats not working. For the mod rather than the console, see the UI Cheats troubleshooting guide.