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04531a07814ff79's avatar
3 years ago

[Update!] How long does it take for Elders to die?

As the title suggests, I'm curious to know how long it takes Elders to die once their age bar is maxed out and starts to glow white.

For some context, I'm playing with Bella Goth and don't want her to die as I want to have a sim max out all skills and aspirations. I've used the potion of youth about 3 times, and last I checked before the bar was maxed, it said she was in ~130 days. It's been like that for a good week or so (maybe more) and she isn't dying.

I do have death flowers in her inventory so I'm not worried about her dying permanently, but I am worried she may die when I travel with another Sim to another lot and not use the death flowers in her inventory.

She has the fitness aspiration complete which I know extends their life, I'm just wondering if she will ever actually die and reset, or if it will stay in the glowing white phase forever.

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  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    The latest numbers are so:
    • Short: 7 days
    • Normal: 14 days
    • Long: 56 days


    Though what these lists leave out is variance. Every life stage can be either a little longer or a little shorter for each sim. Thus it won't usually be exactly 14 days. And long lived trait, even though the aging bar won't be affected, will allow your sim to live longer.
  • "Starfree;c-18255543" wrote:
    @ShooterII I normally play with aging off, but if I'm remembering right a sim needs to offer Grimmy a death flower while pleading for a dying sims life. So if Bella dies another sim needs to plead for her life while offering Grimmy a death flower.


    Oh goodness, thank you for this info. I guess it must've changed from Sims 3 so I'm glad I caught this.

    Fun fact, she's still not dead (not that I want her to, I just want the age bar to reset), and I'm curious to see how old she is
  • Update!

    She finally died while at work not even 24 hours after witnessing her youngest daughter (Sonya) pass away of old age at 130 days.

    Luckily her grandson was able to use the Death Flower on the Grim Reaper. I didn't realize that it doesn't reset their age bar, it keeps it in the white glowing phase.

    I had to use a youth potion to reset it... she's 190! Still kicking (once again!) and back to her goal of maxing all skills. Until next time Grim Reaper!

    https://i.imgur.com/xEY3OHf.png

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