The Sims 4 Cheats: All Skill, Career, and Trait Cheats

Sure, money and needs cheats are welcome in most households in The Sims 4, but sometimes you might want to give your favorite Sims a bump to do better. That’s where cheats for skills, career advancement, and adding traits come into play.

In this guide, we’re going to list off every single cheat to boost the aforementioned aspects of your Sims, including cheats exclusive to toddlers, children, and teens. Expansion-exclusive traits, skills, and careers are also included in this guide.

The links below will take you to specific sections of this guide. 

• The Sims 4 skill cheats
• The Sims 4 career cheats
• The Sims 4 trait cheats

For more The Sims 4 cheats, check out our other cheat code lists for the game. One is The Sims 4 general cheats, focusing on things like needs, relationships, money, and Buy / Build; and the other is focused on The Sims 4 expansion pack cheats.

How to Use Cheats in The Sims 4

There is one thing you must do before using any cheat in The Sims 4, and that is to enable cheats in the first place. This is done by:

1. Pressing the Ctrl, Shift, and C keys simultaneously
2. Typing testingcheats true in the prompt
3. Hit enter

Once you do this, you can enter as many cheats as you like. You will have to enter it each time you relaunch the game and want to use cheats.

The Sims 4 Skill Cheats

Make sure you use testingcheats true before trying to input other cheats.

TS4 Adult Skill Cheats

Each cheat listed below includes an X at the end. In place of the X, type a number between one and 10. For example, stats.set_skill_level Major_HomestyleCooking 10.

Most skills have a cap of Level 10, but there are some exceptions. Exceptions are listed with their unique caps in parenthesis, for example “(Max 5).”

TS4 Child Skill Cheats

As with adults, the maximum value for kids’ skills is 10.

TS4 Toddler Skill Cheats

As toddlers can only improve skills by so much, the maximum skill value for toddler skills is five. The only exception is Potty, which has a maximum of three.

The Sims 4 Career / Job Cheats

Make sure you use testingcheats true before trying to input other cheats.

TS4 Career Cheats

Below are all the cheats related to manually promoting a Sim in its current career.

There are some additional cheats you should be aware of to make your Sims’ lives easier aside from the ones listed below. These are:

• careers.add_career X – Replace the X with the career of your choosing to immediately start your Sim in that career.
• careers.remove_career X – Replace the X with the Sim’s career to force the Sim to quit.
• Careers.retire X – Replace the X with the Sim’s career to have them retire and collect a pension.
• Sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas [Sim ID] – Change a career’s outfit in CAS. To get a Sim’s Sim ID, first input Sims.get_sim_id_by_name [Sim name]

TS4 Part Time Job Cheats

TS4 Teen Job Cheats

The Sims 4 Trait Cheats

Aside from all the trait cheats shown in the table below, there are two toddler-exclusive cheats to be aware of.

• traits.equip_trait top_notch_toddler – Applies Top-Notch Toddler trait
• traits-equip_trait happy_toddler – Applies Happy Toddler trait

Make sure you use testingcheats true before trying to input other cheats.

Check out our other cheat lists, such as the general TS4 cheats or TS4 expansion pack cheats, or even take a look at our other guides on The Sims 4.

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