Sims 4 How To Change Traits (Complete Guide) 2024

Your characters in Sims 4 have their own personality traits, skill set, and much more. However, there might come a time when you start to feel that the traits of your sim aren’t in sync with the gameplay, or you wish to add some other trait, then here’s how you can use the Sims 4 change traits option. 

The adult sims can have a maximum of 3 traits, teens can enjoy two traits, and children, as well as toddlers, can only have one trait. There are two ways to do so: cheating and re-traiting potion. So let’s learn more about these two methods.

Types of Traits

There are numerous characteristics for you to edit, and they are – 

Personality	Emotional, hobby, lifestyle, social, and toddler.
Death	Ghost
Bonus	Animal affection, high metabolism, muser, dastardly, domestic, essence of flavor, business savvy, quick learner, home turf, alluring, collector, gregarious and entrepreneur.
Reward	Aspiration reward, inherited, toddler skill reward, child aspiration, character value, satisfaction reward, career reward, food mastery, mountaineer, temporary and sage.

How to Change Sims 4 Traits?

1. Re-Traiting Potion

One of the ways to change traits Sims 4 is to use the re-traiting potion from the reward store with 5000 satisfaction points. To go to the rewards store,

• Navigate to the Aspirations tab in the upper right-hand corner
• Click on the “Present Icon.” There you’d see the “Re-traiting Potion” from the Potions category. 

You can change your sim’s entire personality with this potion, which doesn’t cost that much. 

You can view this potion in your sim’s inventory, and when you click on it, you will get an option to change your sim’s personality traits and choose 3 new ones. 

You can earn satisfaction points through whims or by using a cheat code, sims.give_satisfaction_points # (replace # with the amount of satisfaction points you want).

In case you want to use whims for earning points, then you need to enable them again because they were turned off by going to “Options’ > ‘Game Play’ > ‘Show Whims.” Once you do this, you can collect whims for doing every day activities and gain satisfaction points.  

2. Sims 4 Change Traits Cheat

You have an easier way for changing traits in Sims 4 as well and that is through shortcuts. So here’s how you can use cheat codes for your own benefit. 

• For PC – Players using a PC can follow these steps:

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + C, and input ‘testingcheats,’ then enter
2. Type ‘cas.fulleditmode’
3. Press Esc to exit the cheat input box
4. Hold Shift and click on the sim whose traits you wish to change
5. Select ‘Modify in CAS’ 
6. Once the Create a Sim menu pops up, you can change the traits of the sim.

• For Xbox and PS4 – Those with an Xbox or PS4 can use the cheats in the following manner. 

1. Click on R1/RB, R2/RT, L1/LB, and L2/LT simultaneously for a few seconds
2. Input ‘testingcheats’ and enter
3. Choose a sim to edit their traits and press R1/RB, R2/RT, L1/LB, and L2/LT simultaneously
4. Type ‘cas.fulleditmode’ and  hit enter
5. Click on ‘Modify in CAS’ and change their traits

Apart from traits, you can also change their appearance, voice, aspirations, and much more.

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Conclusion

Change is the only constant, and Sims 4 change traits option believes in this phrase. You now have the chance to edit your sim’s appearance, characteristics, voice, age, and so much more.

This way, you can bring in an exciting twist to the game and prevent it from being stagnant. You can be as creative as you want. So try this out soon!