Sims' Life Hacks

- Free will off is my number one sanity preserving and efficiency measure.

- No sinks. Hygiene gain is too slow, no need to waste time on that interaction. Plus sims had the annoying habit to queque the useless sink after toilet/pizza even without free will in the older games. Dishes can go into the trash (and later a dishwasher).

Example: Once two Sims have had a couple of interactions, ask to cloudgaze is a great way building acquaintances to friendship relationships (speed 3 even more so) without having to click a string of interactions and without Sims continually walking away from each other.

Nice! Did not know that.

Uhm, I use the expensive trashcan to get money back. Drag dishes and dirt from repairing stuff in it. I always switch from aspirations to get the most points. Toddlers must gain all their skills to the max en children all their aspirations to get max profit.

Get your sim a girlfriend/boyfriend quickly for easy way to restore Fun and Social (Woohoo)

Yep. I use the switching aspirations and woohoo for fun hacks too ;)

I think this is a glitch, but if you look for snow globes in a box in the city, your sims fun meater maxes out in an instant.

I also attend festivals to harvest the harvestables for a quick money grab, or if you can’t find a specific harvestable just buy it at the produce vendor in the city.

"filipomel;c-16465509" wrote:

I also attend festivals to harvest the harvestables for a quick money grab, or if you can’t find a specific harvestable just buy it at the produce vendor in the city.

I usually go there for the dragonfruit. Harvesting the others for money is also useful, but the dragonfruit is great to plant on your lot.

If I'm starting off a new sim I (almost) always start them somewhere with 3 fishing spots. I switch aspirations as I do whatever fits.. friend of the world to meet anyone, switch to jokestar and joke, switch to cooking to cook ect. They go gather in the area and hopefully get two frogs. I switch to fishing and hit the three fishing spots.. maybe lingering and doing up to the second level of that aspiration. Then I switch to collector aspiration and pull the stuff I've collected in and out of the inventory with whatever I have on hand that matches.. can go through quite a few levels if your lucky the first day. If there are multiple sims in the household I trade the inventory over and have them do most of the aspiration also. Then I buy a few rewards (always welcome and always friendly are favorites). Then my sim is ready to start life. They might focus more after that on aspirations meant just for them.
I never give them a job right out of the box. I give them a few days to build up some reward points at least.

These are great guys. I didnt see the max out fun for the snow globes! I liek aspirations idea too hermitgirl. I love getting the beloved trait from friend of the world aspirwtion. So much easier without rapidly falling relationships especially with ageing off. Another hack if you will haha.

You don't need to buy a toddler chair in order to feed toddlers food, you can leave food on the counter and the toddler can reach up and grab it. Really useful when they're hungry and don't want to waste time picking them up and putting em in the high chair.

If you have the Outdoor Retreat GP, cloud/stargazing is a much more efficient/faster way to get a Sim inspired then taking a thoughtful shower. As soon as the moodlet pops up, cancel the action and it'll stay active.

If you have a Sim using the woodworking table and again own Outdoor Retreat, once your Sim reaches Level 7 (or 8?) travel to the campgrounds and study the large Camp mascot statue for a schematic. That way instead of making bathtubs which take 1.5 hrs. each to make, they can make a smaller version of that statue in just 45 minutes! It cuts your Sims woodworking time in half and make about the same amount of simoleans as the bathtubs.

If you like to play Rags to Riches style, but want to make some fast simoleans, travel to Magnolia Promenade. The fishing spot at the end of the pier is great for reliably fishing up dragonfruit and voodoo dolls. Voodoo dolls sell for 950 simoleans. If you fish up a cowplant and don't want to grow one, don't just sell it for 20 simoleans, plant it first. Immediately go into buy/build mode and sell it there for 475 simoleans!

Want an easy way to cut down on your bills? Put all your collectibles you want to keep, but not display on a Generic lot. Other Sims won't go there or steal your stuff and anything on that lot doesn't count toward your Sims bills. Same goes for retail lots. Sometimes I'll plop my Sim down on an empty lot then immediately buy a retail lot and live there without ever opening the business. You can build to your hearts content and have super low bills! Build a mansion and only pay 33 simoleans a month! Cool eh? :)

I always build a bathroom near or next to the kitchen. That way if one of my culinary challenged Sims starts a fire cooking, they can run to the shower quicker to put themselves out.

My Sims homes rarely consist of more than one level. It saves time from having to go up and down stairs. I like an open floor plan too for the living and kitchen areas.

That's all I can think of at the moment, I'll post again later if I think of anymore. Hope these are helpful! :)

EDIT: Thought of one more. Drinking water will fill your Sims hunger bar. Their bladder will go down quicker, but if you have a homeless Sim with no simoleans, no plants to harvest and no helpful platters of food cooked by other Sims around in a park, its a good way to fill their tummies in a pinch.

Also, as soon as I have all the appliances/electronics I want to keep, I upgrade everything. It takes a bit of time at first but will save heaps of time in the long run. Here's a hack for getting upgrade parts for free. Have them scavenge for parts from the trash pile you get when repairing something and then direct them to trash it. BUT, immediately cancel the action. They'll drop the bag and a new pile will be on the floor/ground. Scavenge for parts again, rince and repeat over and over. Voila! As many free parts as you wish.

It's a good idea to have the trash can far away from appliances though or sometimes you can't cancel the action quick enough.