Sims 4 skill cheats

Open the cheat console with Ctrl + Shift + C on a Windows PC. On a Mac, Command + Shift + C is the shortcut most guides give, though EA's own cheats page says Ctrl + Shift + C works on both. Try one, then the other. On PlayStation and Xbox, hold all four shoulder buttons at once.

Then type testingcheats trueCopy and press Enter. Skill cheats belong to the stats. family, which the master switch controls, and the setting applies to the save you are playing.

The full walkthrough for every platform, including what to do when the console will not open, is on how to enable cheats in The Sims 4.

The pattern never changes:

stats.set_skill_level <internal name> <level>

The internal name is the part people get wrong. It is not the name in the Skills panel. Cooking is Major_HomestyleCooking, Mixology is Major_Bartending, and Natural Living is Skill_NLS. Fitness uses a Skill_ prefix while almost every other level 10 skill uses Major_. There is no rule to learn here, only a list, which is why this page exists.

The level is the second half. The command sets the skill to that number rather than adding to it, so stats.set_skill_level Major_Painting 3 is a Sim who has done a little painting, not a Sim who has done three more paintings than before.

Two things are worth knowing before you copy anything. The first is spaces. At least one large guide prints Major_Rocket Science and Major_DJ Mixing, and neither can work, because the space ends the argument and the console reads the rest as a level. Close them up. The second is capitalisation, which does not matter at all. Cheat codes are not case sensitive, so a capital letter is never the reason a command failed.

One useful limit to know: EA states that skill books take a Sim to level 9 and no further. Cheats have no such ceiling, so the command is the only way to hand a Sim a level 10 skill outright.

These are the adult skills: everything that is not a child, toddler or horse skill. The first table is the base game. The second is everything a pack adds, with the pack named in the Notes column, so you can skip the rows for packs you do not own.

A minor skill has five levels rather than ten, and every one of them comes from a pack, so 5 is the top of the range in every row below.

Pet Training is the row people misread. It is the Sim's skill, not the pet's, even though the pet is the one learning to sit.

Children and toddlers have their own short skill sets, and the codes look nothing like the adult ones. Child skills use Skill_Child_ and run to 10. Toddler skills use the long statistic_skill_toddler_ prefix and stop at 5, except Potty.

Potty is the one cap worth flagging. One large guide gives 3 and another gives 5. The skill has three stages in game, so 3 is the more credible number, and typing 5 is harmless because the game clamps the value.

Horse Ranch splits its skills in two. Horse Riding belongs to the Sim and works like any other adult skill. Temperament, Agility, Jumping and Endurance belong to the horse, and the command needs the horse's identifier at the end.

Get that identifier with sims.get_sim_id_by_name <FirstName> <LastName>, using the horse's name as it appears in your household. The console prints a long number. Paste it after the level.

There is no single command that maxes every skill. None of the sources behind this page documents one, and a page that invented one would waste your time at the console. What you do instead is run one command per skill.

Copy the commands you want from the tables above and run them one after another, pressing Enter after each. Keeping the list in a text file beside the game means you only assemble it once.

If you are maxing a lot of skills often, the click route is faster than the typing route. The UI Cheats Extension sets a skill from its own progress bar, so a full panel takes one right-click per skill and no internal names at all.

Two caps to remember while you work through a list. Minor skills stop at 5, so a 10 in those rows does nothing useful. Vampire Lore goes to 15, and if you type 10 there you have left five levels on the table.

The commands are identical on every platform. Only the way you open the console changes, and on console what it costs you changes too.

On a Mac, EA's cheats page says Ctrl + Shift + C works on PC and Mac alike, while Sims Community and SnootySims both give Command + Shift + C. Both are reported to work on most Mac keyboards, so if one does nothing, try the other before assuming the console is broken.

On PlayStation, hold R1, R2, L1 and L2 together. On Xbox, hold RB, RT, LB and LT. Press all four again, or Esc, to close the bar. There is no mod shortcut on either platform: The Sims 4 on consoles does not support script mods of any kind, so the UI Cheats Extension is a Windows and macOS tool only.

The achievement rule is straightforward. Skill cheats need testingcheats true, and on console that switch disables Achievements and Trophies for the save you are in. Build mode cheats do not, which EA calls out explicitly. Nothing is lost permanently and nothing carries to your other saves.

The UI Cheats Extension is a free script mod by weerbesu that puts these cheats onto the game's own panels. For skills it removes the part of the job this page exists to solve: you never type an internal name, so no spelling is ever disputed.

Open the Skills panel, and the mod adds these actions:

• Right-click a skill bar to choose a level.
• Right-click the icon that opens the Skills panel to add any skill to the panel, including one your Sim has never started.
• Right-click the Skill Mastery Perks title bar to add mastery perks.
• Right-click a mastery perk to remove it.

The same right-click works on a skill bar in the Sim Profile, and since version 1.37 that covers pet skill bars too.

The trade-off is that the mod only helps on PC and Mac, it has to be installed and kept current with the game, and Script Mods has to be switched on in the game's options. The typed commands on this page do not depend on a mod staying up to date. Everything the mod can click is listed panel by panel, and what the UI Cheats Extension is covers the download and the install.

Work through these in order.

• The master switch is off. Type testingcheats true again. The setting belongs to the save you are playing, so it is the first thing to re-check.
• The internal name is wrong. Copy it from the table rather than typing it from memory. Cooking is not Major_Cooking.
• There is a space in the name. A space ends the argument, so anything after it is read as the level. Close the name up.
• You do not own the pack. A skill from a pack you do not have is not in your game, so the command has nothing to set.
• The spelling is one of the disputed ones. Fabrication, Juice Fizzing, Entrepreneur, Nectar Making, Selvadoradian Culture, Horse Riding and Swordsmanship are all printed two ways across the major guides. Each row above gives both, so try the second form before giving up.
• You typed a level the skill does not have. Minor skills stop at 5.

If no cheat at all runs, and not just skill cheats, the problem is the console rather than the command. Start with Sims 4 cheats not working, which goes through syntax, outdated mods, the game cache and a repair in the order that actually resolves it.