The Sims 4 Discover University sees the long-awaited return of roommates! Now there are two variations of roommates. The first is those who are automatically assigned to live alongside your Sim in university housing. This could be on campus or on a specified university housing lot. Of course with the game automatically assigning roommates, you could be in for a few surprises!
The second way of gaining roommates is actually by placing an advertisement. This actually allows your Sim to get to know potential new roommates before asking them to move in. You also don’t have to be attending university to use this feature.
Placing an Advertisement
Placing an advertisement for a roommate is easy. Simply head over to a computer/laptop and under the Household menu, you will find the option to create an advertisement. Alternatively, you can use your Sims’ cell phone and again under the Household tab, you will find the option to place an advertisement.
Once you place the advertisement, you will receive a notification telling you that your advertisement has been placed for a new roommate.
If, once you have placed your advertisement you decide that you no longer want to look for a roommate, simply repeat the process again to cancel the advertisement.
After You Place The Advertisement
Once you have placed your advertisement you will need to make sure that you have space to accommodate a new roommate. Whether this is their own room or a bed and some simple furniture in an existing bedroom.
It can take a few Sim days for applications to arrive. You will be able to tell which Sims are coming to meet your Sim as they will have Potential Roommate above their name.
Once the applicants arrive, you can get to know them and interact with them just like you would with any normal Sim.
When you have decided on the Sim you want to become your new roommate, simply click on them and navigate to the Roommate menu. You can then use the Accept as new Roommate option. As soon as you select a Sim to be your Roommate your advert will be closed and taken down. The chosen Sim will also move straight in.
Living With Your New Roommate
Your new roommate is now a part of your everyday life. The fact you have handpicked this Sim will hopefully mean they will help out around the home with cooking and cleaning. Just watch out as you may end up with a disruptive Sim who will throw surprise parties and not help around the home.
Roommates will also help contribute towards the household funds via rent. The amount of rent varies depending on how many Sims you have as roommates.
You will find that Roommates won’t move out on their own and only if you kick them out if you need to. Once they have left you can place an advertisement again to help find a new roommate.
Additional Information
- Roommates are not restricted just to the world of Britechester. Regardless of where your Sim lives or if they live in a standard home, apartment or penthouse you can have roommates.
- The number of roommates depends on the number of beds. This is the same for both university housing and for normal gameplay.
- University roommates are automatically generated. They will also claim their beds too.
- You may notice that roommates will leave you little notes from time to time as well. You will be able to either compliment or complain to the roommate who left the note too!
What are you looking forward to the most when playing with roommates? Let us know in the comments below.
How or can you replace roommates with people that are in your gallery?
when i try to make the sims i want my roommate (I make sims specifically for each dorm I live in) it makes them apart of my household
Can I move out with my roommate?
yes – if you get to know them well enough you can ask them to join your household and then move with them 🙂
Roommates will leave on their own after a while. They say something like it’s time to move on
I’m curious of the rent works, and was it’s a lower payment from them when you have more… like do I still get the same amount as I would with just one roommate.
Can I have my roommate assigned to my double bed so my sim and my roommate can sleep on the same bed?
yup! this is possible as of the latest patch ( Jul 2020 ).
can you be a roommate
They can move out on their own.
At least, one of mine did. I built a small house next to my main house. She complained the house wasn’t nice enough. I guess I was supposed to upgrade the furnishings (even though she had everything including a computer I bought her). Couldn’t do anything because I was broke at the time. She moved out a couple days later. It was fine. She was kept throwing parties, leaving piles of trash around and flirting with my Sim then getting mad when she didn’t reciprocate. Good riddance.
I tried to post for a roommate and I have 1 single person bed and 1double bed…but it still says I don’t have enough beds for a roommate…I do not understand why…if I add a 3rd bed to my lot it lets me…but I only have one sim so there’s no reason for a third bed. help!!!…is it possibly counting my cat?
Mine counts my pets, very annoying.
Yes it counts animals and children. I will put a couple double beds out post the ad and then once when I get a roommate I delete the other beds. Hope this helps!
My ” Place advertisement for roommate” button won’t light up. I made up a nice bedroom and still nothing. Plez help!
It might be counting your pets! I can’t get the option to light up unless I have more beds than I have sims + pets.
Is there a way to add a new sim to your dorm?
Can I assign my roommates a bed in non-university houses?
i have a 1 teen household, i placed an ad but no potential roomies, guessing teens cant have roommates?
I’m having a problem keeping my roommates. I have all the amenities they could imagine and I still can’t seem to keep them more than a week.
I cooked a bunch of food and put it in the fridge and I got a comment from the roommate that they were happy now which may or may not have been coincidental.
Can you move the household to a new lot and still have roommates?
When I move homes, can my roommate move with me?
If my sim moves will her roommate go with her?
i odo have an issue. some of my sims have neds they say, i have had a few says that they cant take care of themselves and end up leavin? how do i find what they want or what’s missing for them to feel at ease?
I have 11 single beds in my lot. I have 3 in household and 1 roommate and want to add one. How many more beds do I need? 20? I don’t understand 🙁 I am asking sims directly and the option doesn’t come up
how do i know witch dorm room is mine? and who my roomates are it never told me?
If you hover your mouse over the beds it will give you the name of the roommate it is assigned to. The one that doesn’t have a name pop up is your bed.
How long does it take for potential sims come check out the house?
For all those who still have trouble acquiring roommates
No matter how many beds you have in your lot
You need to change the lot feature/trait to ‘2 beds’ or more
In addition to having Discover University installed, of course.
How do you have your sim leave their roommate notes ?
The Add for the roomate doesnt work for me on normal non university house. I post it and the potencial roommates never showed up. I managed to get a roomate by clicking on option “roommate” and “ask to be a roommate” (idk if its in english the same. My game is in my first language) and they always accepted. I always made them really nice room with empty space for their stuff, computer, bathroom and they leave after while because they cant take care of themselves. it doesnt make any sense. Sometimes they left a note by their bed.
Hi there! I’m trying to post an ad to get roommates in the DU pack and it’s not allowing me. I have enough extra beds, i have NO pets. I did notice when I locked the front door and only allowed “roomates” none of us were able to leave the house, is my sim and the other roommates not considered official roommates? I’m not sure. I have also renovated my lot, it used to be the house that had 4/4 roomates but now i updated it so it has 8 beds now instead of 4.
what will happen if i already built a room decor in my roommate’s room? is that really have an effect to my roommate’s when they’re going to move in?
Every time I post an ad for a roommate it will last a couple of days and then I will have to do it again. What does this mean? In the space of time where the ad was still active. There have been no potential roommates.
It takes a few days but they should show up. If you hover the mouse over people appearing at your front door, it will say potential roommate. Then you can talk to them and decide if you want them to live with you. Also check to see if you have enough beds, unfortunately pets count towards your occupant count and pple have had to add an extra bed.
My sim is a Young Adult and living alone in an apartment. If I go to University Housing, do I still need to pay my apartment rent?
Alright so my sim went on a date with his girlfriend, and when he came back, I’ve noticed that his grandma’s urn was removed from it’s place and replaced with something else I’ve check the house inventory and their inventory does that mean that she’s gone forever?
If it’s not in the household inventory, you may have a kleptomaniac???
Is possible to play the household of a roommates for example, you get a roommate out of briechesters, i mean a roommate in a house, and you want to change to their household to i dont know make then apply for uni, its posible to play their household?
A sim roommate did move out from my house – he said that conditions were bad and promptly moved out.
I’m playing the Elderberry household and bought a bed and placed in a spare room, since their bill is too high for them to afford I figured a roommate was a good way to go. I placed an ad, and after a few days I got a notification that said the ad was taken down, but no potential roomates had come to visit. I then bought a new bed and placed another ad but I’ve played probably a couple of in game weeks now, and nothing’s happened. This is the first time I’m playing Sims 4 DU and the roommate thing is yet to work… Anyone got any suggestions for what to do?
i found that pregnant roommates will move out when they have the baby. i also just had a roommate move out claiming the living conditions were terrible although i’m not sure why. they had a bed and functioning bathroom/kitchen.
I had a household of two friends in a dorm together and when the semester ended wanted to move them to a new dorm. I moved both of them separately when each of their terms ended but now only one is showing up there and I can’t find the other one in the gallery. I tried a friendly interaction to invite him to be my roommate but it wasn’t an option. Any solutions?
Hi!
How do you move out from your current dorm to another dorm in Sims 4 discover university?
Sorry if this is out of topic but please do answer if you have time.
You have the choice/option to move when you sign up for a new term. Also, beware, my sim accidentally got pregnant during her 2nd term and when she reached her third trimester, she was kicked out because “there wasnt enough room for her and her baby”.
I’m kinda annoyed right now bc yesterday I spent a couple hours creating roommates and putting them in my sims dorm and everything was fine and then just now as I’m playing all the roommates were switched out worth townies. Does anyone know why this happened?
I have that same issue! I’m so annoyed I spent all this time making my sims absolutely beautiful only to return to the monsters we call NPCs I need answers!
https://prnt.sc/py78wz <===== My Sim is currently at UB, in University Housing. Should she be getting a 25K housing bill?
roomates can move out on their own! please update article.
ok so i premade roommates for my sisters in my game. they’re all in a group using get together and friends since hs. but every time i ask them to be my roommate they say “sorry i already have a house” or “sorry i have people in my household who depend on me” but i already made all their rooms and i REALLY wanted this group of friends to be roommates in college. how do i cheat or get around them saying no to me??
The roommates do move out on their own! 1. If their needs aren’t being met and 2. After a while a notification pops up saying “It looks like my time here is at an end. With age comes new adventures. I’ll be moving out by the end of the day.” But you can convince them to stay!
What I did to cheat them into accepting to be roommates is that I did “testingcheats true” then right clicked and made the people I wanted part of my household, then used the same technique to remove them from the household. And then I made my sim ask them again and this time they said yes because technically adding them and removing them makes them “homeless” hope this helped!
Thank you so much! I will try this!
If they say no because they have a home, maybe evict them from their homes in manage worlds? That way they’re technically homeless. Also I’m guessing they won’t move in with you if they are the sole adult in a household with minors.
Hello there! I have a question. Is it possible to kick out your housemate? And if we can, how?
Do roommates spawn on University housing if no active household is assigned to that lot? Does anyone know if NPC students ever graduate or do they stay students forever?
how do you get two roomates from same housholde to universyty
Is anyone else having their roommates just… move out and not say anything? When I hover over them in the friends section, it doesn’t say they are roommates anymore, but their beds are still assigned to them and everything. They didn’t tell me they were leaving. They just paid rent once and then kinda just went away.
I just had this same thing happen, they didn’t say they moved out they just all disappeared and now have homes.
Anyone know how to generate more roommates in university housing? I go in to my manage worlds and delete crazy looking NPCs my game spawned, and apparently they were roommates in the dorm I chose. So when they got deleted, no new sims showed up. I have played 2 semesters in this dorm and no one has shown up. I only have 3 roommates, and it feels pretty empty.
How do I collect rent from my roommates?
They pay you every week on Monday I think
My sims roommates keep moving out saying their needs haven’t been met.. Anyone else experiencing this? I have everything the roommates need and no appliances are broken. I can’t figure out what the problem is. 🙁
Check the lock settings on the doors. Unlock all doors.
I have the same thing happening. I have no unlocked doors. I do have a kitchen (with everything), a livingroom with a tv, stereo and sofas, a bedroom set aside to the roommate (with bed and desk+chair) and a bathroom (toilet, shower, sink and bathtub)
What is going on here
I can’t seem to be able to place an ad for roommates unless I have 6 basic university form beds in a room.
I set up my apartment so I have 4 rooms for room mates and 2 for the brother and sister that own the apartment but i had to redesign the whole thing so that all the beds were in one room……why?
I want a roommate so bad. I did as described above. I furnished a room with a bed and desk next to my Sims room, but no one is showing up 🙁
I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong here.
Has anybody had an issue where the roommates just disappear/move-out? Happened twice to me already with two rounds of different sims. If I check my relationships the sims still exist but just completely leave the house. I don’t get a notification or anything, just no longer living in the house and I can place an ad for roommates (won’t allow if all beds claimed).
Can kids be roommates and if not, is there a mod for that?
No roommates ever show up for me, I tried in several different games and even canceled the advertisement and put it up again. I literally waited until my sims almost aged up so I am waiting long enough. 🙁