Sims 4 needs cheats

Unlike the money cheats, none of this works until the master switch is on. Open the cheat console with Ctrl + Shift + C on Windows, or with all four shoulder buttons held together on Xbox and PlayStation. Type testingcheats true, press Enter, and the game confirms that cheats are enabled.

That setting sticks to the save you are playing, so you do it once per session rather than once per command. If you have never used the console before, how to enable cheats in The Sims 4 has the keys for every platform and what the switch turns on.

Every fillmotive command is the word fillmotive, a space, then the internal name of the need. The internal names are the six you can see in the needs panel, each prefixed with motive_: hunger, energy, bladder, hygiene, fun and social.

Three things go wrong with them. The first is the prefix, which people drop. fillmotive hunger does nothing; the command needs motive_hunger. The second is the Sim: the command affects whichever Sim is currently selected, so click the portrait of the Sim you mean before you open the console. The third is scope, because fillmotive does one need on one Sim. Filling a household of five means the household command, not thirty separate lines.

Toddlers have a seventh name. Their Attention need sits where Social does for everyone else, and it is motive_toddler_attention.

Filling needs is a repair job. Freezing them is the actual fix, and it lives in the shift-click menu rather than in a command. Hold Shift and click a Sim, and a cheat menu opens with the options below.

Disable need decay freezes the needs where they currently sit. It does not fill them first, so a Sim frozen at the wrong moment stays exhausted and filthy until you switch decay back on. Run Make happy, or fill the needs with a command, and freeze after that.

Make happy is worth knowing for another reason: it sets the mood as well as the motives. A Sim with full needs and a Sad moodlet is still sad, because moods come from moodlets rather than from the bars. If a stubborn moodlet is the problem, sims.remove_all_buffs clears the lot, pleasant ones included.

For everybody living in the house, use stats.fill_commodities_householdCopy. This is the spelling community guides settled on. EA's own FAQ writes it as stats.fill_all_commodities_household, so if the shorter one comes back as an unknown command, type the longer one. They do the same job.

Wider than that, shift-click the mailbox and choose Alter needs. From there you can apply a needs change to the entire household or to every Sim in the world, and switch decay off at the same scale. It is the setting to reach for in a building or storytelling save where you do not want anybody dying of hunger while your attention is elsewhere.

One caution about sims.fill_all_commodities: EA describes it as filling the needs of the active Sim, while PC Gamer describes it as covering the whole household. EA's wording is the one this page follows, and the household command above is the reliable way to get the household behaviour.

Toddlers use the six standard motives plus motive_toddler_attention in place of Social, and the household fill covers them like anyone else.

Mermaids swap Hygiene for Hydration. sims.fill_all_commodities tops Hydration up along with everything else, and no separate fillmotive name for it is documented, so the all-needs command is the one to use on a mermaid.

Cats, dogs and horses are the gap. Motive names for pets are quoted in various places, but none could be confirmed against two independent sources, so this page leaves them out rather than printing a command that may not exist. Fill the household instead, or shift-click the animal and use its own cheat menu.

The commands are identical on console. Hold all four shoulder buttons to open the cheat console, type the cheat with the on-screen keyboard, and press Enter.

Shift-click has a controller equivalent. On PlayStation, hold Circle and press X. On Xbox, hold B and press A. That opens the same cheat menu, so Make happy and Disable need decay are available to console players too.

Everything on this page needs testingcheats true, and on PlayStation and Xbox that disables Achievements and Trophies for the save you are in. Other saves keep their progress.

There is no command to switch them back on for that save. If you are chasing trophies, keep a second save for the cheating and leave the first one alone.

UI Cheats Extension, the free script mod by weerbesu, makes the needs panel itself editable, and needs are the feature it is best known for.

Left-click anywhere along a need bar and that need jumps to the point you clicked, so leaving a Sim deliberately hungry while you top up the rest takes one click per bar. Right-click the same bar and you type an exact value from -100 to 100. Right-click the icon that opens the Needs panel and every need on the selected Sim fills at once.

The same panel handles occult progress where the pack is installed: right-click a vampire, spellcaster or werewolf experience bar to pick a rank, right-click the Power point or Talent point counter to set it, and right-click a spellcaster curse or a werewolf temperament to remove it.

What the mod does not do is freeze decay. No decay toggle appears in the author's feature list, so shift-click and Disable need decay stay the way to do that. Moodlets are covered, though, by right-clicking one in the moodlet area to remove it.

Everything UI Cheats can change in one click goes panel by panel. The mod is Windows and Mac only, needs Script Mods Allowed switched on, and has to match your game version.

Work through these in order.

1. Cheats are off. Type testingcheats true and watch for the confirmation before anything else.
2. The motive name is missing its prefix. It is motive_hunger, not hunger.
3. The wrong Sim is selected. fillmotive and sims.fill_all_commodities both act on the active Sim, so click the portrait you mean first.
4. The household command was rejected. Try EA's longer spelling, stats.fill_all_commodities_household.
5. Cheat need is missing from the shift-click menu. That menu only exists once cheats are enabled, which takes you back to the first item.

If the console will not open at all, or every command is rejected, the problem is bigger than this page. Sims 4 cheats not working works through it in order.