In The Sims 4, death need not be an inevitability. Although sims come with a set lifespan from birth to old age and death, this can be adjusted, or even turned off altogether. You can adjust your game settings to turn off the aging process or cheat your sims' age down whenever you like. In addition, certain rewards in the game, such as the bodybuilder aspiration, let your sim live longer.
There are many other ways to cheat death, through either avoiding dying altogether or coming back to life after rising from the dead. In typical Sims style, these ways can be wacky, in tune with the signature The Sims franchise style. Escaping death in The Sims 4 can be adventurous, fun, and even pretty humorous, depending on the method the player chooses.
Not Saving Your Progress
Why try to deal with the issue of death, when you can simply ignore it. If your sim eats a dodgy pufferfish nigiri by accident and dies a death you didn't plan on, you can simply erase your progress. This is useful if your sim dying is not what you had in mind for your gameplay and disrupts your plans.
To do this, simply quit the game without saving. This should take you to your last saved point. While it is somewhat cheating to backtrack your gameplay like this, it is rather amusing to cancel out something as dramatic as death in your game.
Ambrosia
If a beloved sim has been sent to an early grave, the rest of their household can conjure up a recipe to give their ghost and bring them back from the dead. To do this, they need to learn to cook ambrosia, a dessert that requires at least level 10 of both the cooking skill and the gourmet cooking skill, as well as level 5 of the gardening skill.
The recipe also requires you to find a death flower and angelfish to cook the ambrosia. Then, you can present it to a ghost to eat and return them back to their living sim form. This method requires lots of skill-building as well as general trial and error. However, it is a fun and adventurous method of bringing a sim back.
The Book of Life
In The Sims 4, writing is a powerful tool. The book of life is one of The Sims 4's hidden secrets most players never discover. If your sim mastered the Bestselling Author aspiration, they can write a book of life for another, living sim. When the option is available, the game will allow you to "capture epic saga" of a selected sim.
Once said sim dies, the author of the book can then "summon" this sim, bringing them back to life. While this can take a while to do and only certain sims and their relationships can do this, this method is certainly a sweet and creative way for your sim to use their skills. It is one pleasant way in which a sim's relationship can help keep them alive in a fun, fantasy way.
Befriending the Mother Plant
In The Sims 4, friendships are very powerful things. If you own The Sims 4: Strangerville game pack, you will be familiar with the Mother Plant monster hidden in the factory of Strangerville. The plant is not friendly to strangers, but if you try multiple times, especially while possessed, you can strike up a friendship.
The Mother Plant will provide you with a fruit, which extends your sim's lifespan by a day. You can prolong your sim's life with frequent fruit requests. The fruits are one of the hidden details of the game that typically only die-hard Sims fans know of. This is a rather silly, supernatural way to cheat death, although daily effort is required.
Living as a Ghost
Why bother trying to survive, when you can just live your life while dead" and carry on playing the sim as normal, unaffected by death.
Better yet, by living as a ghost, you do not worry about fulfilling your sims' needs, as they are less reliant on essential needs like hunger. This erases the need for knowledge of Sims 4 cheat codes in order to keep your sims in a good mood. While it may sound silly to cheat death while being dead, a dead sim allows your sim to "live" in a humorous and beneficial way.
Flower Arranging
If you like pretty flowers, good news - they can help save your life. The Sims 4: Seasons expansion pack has been long regarded by fans as one of the most essential packs for the game due to its high-quality content and features. Many players, however, are unaware that the pack can even provide the key to immortality for your sim.
Players can unlock this by getting to level 10 of the flower arranging skill that comes with the pack. If a player creates an "excellent" quality flower arrangement, they can add an orchid scent. Then, a sim has the option to inhale the life essence, adding an extra day to their lifespan. While it requires work, this option is a humorous method of granting a dark, supernatural side to a cute Sims hobby.
Asking a Vampire to Turn You
Vampires in The Sims 4 can be highly irritating when they wait outside of your home, but if you're looking to cheat death, they may be able to do you a favor. Striking up a relationship with a vampire sim can unlock an opportunity for immortality. When your relationship level is high enough, your sim can select the "ask to turn" option, where you can also become a vampire.
If you are accepted into turning into a vampire, your sim is no longer on a natural lifespan and has the opportunity to live forever. The drawback to this is that your vampire sim can still be killed by going out in the sun, but you can still live as a creature of the night. Although not a foolproof plan, it certainly is a funny way to turn your sim's life supernatural.
Woohooing With The Grim Reaper
What better way to avoid death in The Sims, than romancing death itself? When a sim dies in the game, you have the opportunity to plead for the life of the sim to the Grim Reaper. According to the theories of players, having a higher relationship with Grim can improve your chances of success.
To achieve this, you can have a lot of fun. If your sims are flirty with Grim, they may be able to come to the aid of loved ones when their time comes. Although this isn't a foolproof plan, and the odds are still uncertain even with a good relationship with Grim, you can certainly have fun trying to woohoo with death to save lives.
The Wishing Well
The wishing well in The Sims 4 is a rather hidden hack that many players may not be aware of. The well came with the Romantic Garden Stuff stuff pack, and its powers are often overlooked. While playing as a ghost sim, players can "wish for life," bringing them back to the state of a living sim.
The well is a temperamental being, however. The well often wants gifts one exchange for wishes to be granted. Should it be feeling generous, your sim will get its life back, as well as a pact with grim that keeps you immortal. If luck is not on your side, your sim may be cursed, leading to hilarious, and often disastrous, results. Your sim may be rejected, or could even be brought back to life, just to die again.
Killing a Sim to Appease the Cowplant
If you take pleasure in killing sims, you also have the benefit of being able to save your sim's life. If a sim is tempted into eating cake from a cow plant twice in a row, the sim is permanently swallowed by the cow plant and killed. If your sim witnesses a death by cowplant, they can then milk the plant for "essence of life," fresh from the recent victim.
Drinking the milk will then add multiple days to your sim's life span. The cowplant is one of the most beloved aspects of The Sims 4 by fans, due to its hilarious design and interactions, even its gruesome method of death. While a cruel way to gain more life for your sim, its dark humor is something that many Sims fans love.