How to Change Traits in The Sims 4

I've read plenty dime-shop fanfiction to know that humanity probably shouldn't take the power to freely manipulate each other'due south personalities. That said, The Sims has always been something of a living behavioral psychology experiment, so if you want to rewire your Sims' brains a bit, that'southward perfectly fine. Here's how to change traits in The Sims iv.

Your Sims' traits are, well, their personality traits; the little quirks that inform their deportment and decisions. Lone Sims prefer beingness by themselves, Slob Sims don't like to make clean up after themselves, Mean Sims are rude jerks, and so on. Y'all select your Sims' traits when you're first creating them, but if you cease upwardly with a cocktail of traits that don't mesh with your playstyle, you're gonna take a bad time. Luckily, there are ways to reset their traits, though they don't exactly come up easily.

How to Change Traits in The Sims 4

There are two ways to change a Sims' traits: the proper way, and the cheating style. If you want to do this the proper way, yous'll need to save upwardly a lot of Satisfaction Points, earned by collecting Whims and generally aiding your Sim in their pursuit of their goals in life. When y'all've got five,000 Satisfaction Points, yous can use them to buy a Re-Traiting Potion from the Rewards Store. Have your Sim chug it down, so you lot can alter their traits freely.

If y'all don't take the time or gumption for the proper way, then do information technology the fast way: cheating! It's like trying, only easier. To use cheats, type Ctrl+Shift+C on your keyboard to open the command prompt. Enter the command "testingcheats" to enable cheats, then enter "cas.fulleditmode." Close the command prompt by pressing Esc, so hold Shift and click on the Sim y'all want to alter. Among their available options, you should come across "Modify in CAS." Click that, and y'all'll get the Create A Sim menu, where you can switch up their traits.

You tin also do this in the PS4 and Xbox versions of the game; only hold R1/RB, R2/RT, L1/LB, and L2/LT for a few seconds to bring up the command prompt, enter "testingcheats," select the Sim you lot want to edit, press those aforementioned buttons again, and enter "cas.fulleditmode." You should get the selection to open the CAS menu.