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The Sims 3 Cheats: The Cheat Console for PC/Mac
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Welcome to my guide to The Sims 3 cheats. If you wondered how to cheat in the Sims 3, or wanted to know the console commands that you can use, this is the page for you. I'll give some good, step by step instructions to cheating in this game. The Sims 3 is a bit different than other games for me, personally. I don't usually cheat, but sometimes with the Sims you just want to try something new, and managing your Sim's needs like hunger and energy, or making money can get in the way.
Maybe you just want to cheat so your Sims will have a lot of money, so that they can have their dream house from the start. Another reason to cheat might be to improve skills. While there are no skills cheats per se, there are ways you can raise your Sim's skill level by working the system a bit. Look at that page for information.
How to use the Sims 3 Cheat Console
To access the Sims 3 cheats console, press Control + Shift + C at the same time on your keyboard. If you're using Windows Vista and for some reason the console won't come up, press Control, Windows and the Shift button along with 'C'. I'm not sure why, but some have to do this. When the console comes up, you can type one of the cheats below to give your Sim whatever you desire. When you're done cheating, press the escape key.
Infinite Money Cheats: Kaching or Motherlode
Typing the Kaching cheat into the command console will give your Sim an instant 1,000 Simoleons. This is a decent sum of money and may help if you don't want to go all out with your cheating. Use this if you only need to get one more item at the beginning for your Sim to enjoy their home at the start, or to pay the bills in an emergency so that you don't lose your stuff to the repoman the next day. You could also use it when there is a sale going on at the stores and you want to grab the discounts while you can. For people who want to go all out, the Motherlode cheat will give you 50,000 simoleons. This might as well be infinite money, because the cheat can be used again and again. You may use this if you just want to experience something like gardening or fishing without going through the entire process of making money to suit your Sim's needs. This is probably the most commonly used cheat in the Sims 3.
Cheating for Millions of Simoleons
It's unwieldy to use the kaching and motherlode cheats to give your Sims millions of Simoleons. Thankfully, EA provided a cheat to satisfy the most greedy Simmers. Use testingcheatsenabled true (see more on the testing cheats below), followed by familyfunds (familyname) (amount). For example familyfunds Smith 1000000 would give the Smith family 1,000,000 Simoleons. That's a lot of cash! Home builders will love this because of the flexibility it gives them in design without having to type motherlode repeatedly. Thanks to Swede1992 of our Sims 3 Forum for the heads up!
World Adventures Cheats
While teleporting, making needs always green, and giving your Sims cash is nice while traveling, the Sims 3's World Adventures expansion adds one known new cheat to the game. To use it, first enable "god mode" by typing testingcheatsenabled true followed by buydebug. This cheat allows your Sim to purchase all the new items in the expansion pack and enables you to partake in Tomb Building. This can be useful for fixing broken merchants in the new destinations' marketplaces. If a vendor isn't there you can enable this mode, delete their cash register and place another one of the same kind in its place. Purchasing Pangu's Axe and other unique items can also be helpful for people who don't mind cheating their way through.
"Vanilla" Sims 3 Cheats
The following works for all players with the Sims 3 installed. They'll of course work with World Adventures and any future expansions as mentioned above.
Infinite Life by Disabling Aging
This is not really a cheat, but many may not notice that it is present in the game so I felt it should be listed here. Go to the options menu and head to the game options tab at the top of the window. Here you can slide the Sims' lifespans bar all the way to the right to make their life last for 900 days. Additionally, if you uncheck the enable aging box, you will disable aging, your Sims will no longer age. Be careful, this is not immortality in the basic sense. You can still die from fire or electrocution. To help prevent this, be sure to install a smoke detector in your Sim's home and if you get shocked while tinkering, repairing, or upgrading an object don't go back to work for a while because the second shock can kill your Sim.
Prevent Early Death
If your Sim has a death flower in their inventory when they die, they'll give it to the grim reaper in exchange for their soul. You can usually find a death flower at the graveyard in the beginning. Harvest the plant and keep this on your Sim. If they happen to die by fire, drowning or any other preventable way, your Sim will hand over the flower and live on. Read up on Gardening to learn to grow your own.
Moveobjects on
Type this cheat in to the console to give yourself the ability to place items anywhere. You can do silly things with this, or use it to your advantage to help you decorate your Sim's house. With it, there won't be restrictions as to where you can place certain items, like cars. To disable the cheat, type moveobjects off
Select your Baby's Gender
While only world reknowned surgeons can actually determine the gender of your babies, you can improve the chances your Sim will have the gender of baby you're looking for. You can boost the odds of having a male by having the pregnant Sim eat apples, or increase chances for a girl by eating watermelon. This is a tried and true gender-selection method. Note this takes place after a Sim is already pregnant. So, if you really want your Sim to have a boy or girl, head to the supermarket and get them eating the produce of choice.
Have Twins of Triplets
Since some want to have twins, and aren't aware of this, I'll write a bit about it. To increase the chances of having twins or triplets before your Sims Woohoo for baby, take the fertility treatment lifetime reward for one or both. One Sim with this will work sometimes, but if both have the treatment, you're almost guaranteed multiple babies.
Sim Stuck? Try Resetting Them
Sometimes Sims can get stuck in horrible predicaments they just can't get out of due to a game glitch. Some players' Sims have even died from standing around too long while their masters fumbled for a way to save the day. The answer is the ResetSim Firstname Lastname Command. Type in the Sim's full name and voila, they'll be reset to the starting point without facing a horrible death from starvation.
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