Want to make your Sim sick on purpose? Maybe you need them to skip work, avoid an event, or you’re simply curious about how many ways you can make your Sims miserable.
There are quite a few ways to trigger sickness, nausea, and other unpleasant effects in The Sims 4. Some methods require specific packs, while others can be done in the base game.
Here are 15 ways to make your Sims sick.
Deprive your Sim of sleep.
Don’t let your Sims get enough sleep. Keep their Energy level low for several days and you’ll eventually start seeing the effects.
A tired Sim is more vulnerable to becoming sick, so deliberately keeping them awake is an easy way to make them feel miserable.
Spend time around sick Sims.
Have your healthy Sim spend time around Sims who are already sick.
Sickness can spread between Sims, so the longer your Sim spends interacting with an ill Sim, the more likely they are to catch whatever they’re carrying.
Leave your Sim’s illness untreated.
If your Sim catches a cold, don’t immediately give them medicine or other remedies.
Instead, let the illness run its course. Some illnesses can become more severe when left untreated, so this method comes with a risk if you’re not careful.
Let your Sim’s hygiene get really low.
Don’t let your Sim shower or wash their hands. Keep their Hygiene motive low for an extended period.
You can make this easier by limiting their access to bathrooms. Poor hygiene can make your Sim more susceptible to sickness and give them unpleasant moodlets.
Keep your bathroom and kitchen filthy.
Don’t clean the bathroom or kitchen. Leave dirty dishes, trash, and other messes lying around and allow the house to become filthy.
Once the environment becomes sufficiently dirty, your Sim can get negative moodlets from the conditions around them.
This method takes some patience because it can take time for the house to become truly disgusting.
Make your Sim eat spoiled food.
Leave a cooked meal out until it spoils, then have your Sim eat it.
Spoiled food is one of the simplest ways to make a Sim sick. Once you see the telltale signs that the food has gone bad, serve it to your unfortunate Sim.
Feed your Sim raw meat.
If you don’t want to wait for food to spoil, raw or improperly prepared meat can also make Sims sick in situations where the relevant food mechanics apply.
Vegetarian Sims are especially likely to react badly to eating meat, so this can also be used to make them uncomfortable or nauseous.
Feed your Sim lots of junk food.
Have your Sim eat junk food repeatedly over several days.
A diet consisting almost entirely of unhealthy food can eventually leave your Sim feeling sick. It’s an easy method if you want to make a Sim miserable without relying on more unusual gameplay mechanics.
Make your Sim drink a disgusting smoothie.
Have your Sim prepare a smoothie and make it as unpleasant as possible, then have them drink it.
Depending on the available recipes and ingredients, some smoothies can give Sims negative reactions and make them feel nauseous.
Send your Sim outside in cold weather.
If you have Seasons, send your Sim outside wearing clothes that aren’t appropriate for the weather.
For example, have them wear summer clothing when it’s cold outside. Staying exposed to cold temperatures can make them sick.
Be careful with this method, though. During freezing weather, keeping your Sim outside for too long can eventually cause them to freeze to death.
Give your Sim Tiberium.
If you’re playing with The Sims 3: World Adventures and have access to Tiberium, keep the Tiberium rock in your Sim’s inventory.
After some time, your Sim can develop Tiberium poisoning.
This is a more unusual method, but it’s an option if you’re looking for something different.
Get your Sim poisoned in Selvadorada.
The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure gives you several ways to poison your Sims.
Your Sim can be poisoned by jungle hazards such as poisonous creatures and poison darts while exploring Selvadorada.
A poisoned Sim develops distinctive green spots across their body. If you don’t want the poisoning to become serious, you can obtain an antidote to cure it.
Give your Sim Rabid Rodent Fever.
If you own The Sims 4: My First Pet Stuff, your Sim can catch Rabid Rodent Fever from pet rodents.
Keep the rodent habitat dirty and allow your Sim to have a poor relationship with the pet. The rodent may eventually bite them and transmit the disease.
Rabid Rodent Fever can be deadly, though, so don’t use this method if your goal is simply to make your Sim sick without risking their life.
Give your Sim the Slob trait.
The Slob trait can help create a particularly unhealthy household.
Slob Sims aren’t particularly interested in cleaning, so they can allow the house to become dirty much more easily. A filthy environment can then contribute to unpleasant and sickness-related effects.
If your Sim doesn’t already have the Slob trait, you can change their traits using a Re-Traiting Potion or cheats.
Shake your mobile device.
If you’re playing The Sims 4 on a platform where the shake interaction is supported, try shaking the device.
This can make your Sim nauseous. Shake it again and you can make them feel even worse.
It’s certainly one of the stranger ways to make your Sims sick, but it can be useful if you’re looking for a quick way to trigger nausea.
Sick Sims can’t simply travel to the hospital to get treatment.
Instead, you can purchase medicine using a computer. The medicine will appear in your Sim’s inventory, and taking it can help them recover from sickness.
Hospital visits are available in specific situations, such as when a Sim is pregnant or working in the Doctor career.
So, if you’re trying to make your Sim sick, you don’t need to send them anywhere. Just pick one of the methods above and let the suffering begin.