All the ways your Sims can die in The Sims 4, updated for all Pack Releases!
Whether you're a Simmer searching for ways your Sim can avoid an untimely death, or a Simmer wanting to know how you can get your Sim into some new, tricky situations, you'll find everything you need to know about all of The Sims 4 deaths right here!
Updated on February 16th, 2026 by author AlyFurlong to include all death types up to 2026.
Updated on July 31th, 2026 by author EgonVM to add more detail, add tips to prevent and cause them, and correct the mistakes.
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Is Your Sim Ready to Meet Grim?
You can bet there is no shortage of ways to die in The Sims 4. Some of them are pretty normal deaths, like old age. Others are... kind of out there. And the more packs you own, the more odd The Sims 4 deaths seem to become.
Below, you can find each of The Sims 4 deaths across every pack released to date.
Is your Sim being Chased by Death?
Chased by Death is a trait from Life & Death Expansion Pack which makes death more likely. It comes in two stages:
- Sims begin in the Usual stage. This will simply raise the chance of death. Doing something that could lead to death will trigger a Near-Death Experience, which advances to the other stage.
- Near-Death Experience stage lasts for 3 days (after which it goes back to the Usual stage) which raises the chances even more. Dangerous interactions can really easily lead to death without needing the usual pre-conditions.
How exactly this trait affects each death will be described for each death that is affected by it. Not all deaths are affected by it though. However, trying to plead for these Sims’ lives will have a lower success rate.
The Sims 4 Deaths: Base Game
Starvation
This death in The Sims 4 is straightforward. Neglect to feed your Sims for long enough, and they will die of starvation once their Hunger bar is depleted. Infants, Toddlers, Children, Cats, Dogs, and Horses will be taken by social services before they get to this point. Livestock will run away, leaving the family. Pet rodents can, however, starve to death.
Prevention:
- Simply keep your Sim fed. Even snacks will be enough.
- Whenever it gets difficult, consider getting Moodlet Solver potion from the Rewards Store (500 Satisfaction Points) to instantly fill up all the needs.
- If you collect enough Satisfaction Points (at least 4,000), you can get the Hardly Hungry trait from the Rewards Store that halves the Hunger decay.
- There’s also Forever Full for 10,000 points that completely stops the Hunger decay, essentially making the Sim immune to this death (at least through normal gameplay).
- If your Sim has a moodlet that decays needs faster, be ready to feed your Sim more!
- An example of it is a Sim turning into a werewolf.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Simply wall in your Sim into a room so that they have no access to food.
- The Hunger need for teens decays faster than for the older life stages.
- Once tested 3 times, scientists can make tainted Synthetic Food serum. Whenever this serum fails, the drinker’s Hunger need temporarily decays 3 times faster. (Get to Work)
- The same effect comes from eating Taste of Diet ice cream. (Cool Kitchen)
- With Zazatotl Chaos Relic with a rare crystal inserted, you can give Sims a Curse of Greedy Needs, which will almost double the need decay, including Hunger. (Jungle Adventure)
- Get Famous Expansion Pack adds Duck Security© SCR009E Super XL Smart Vault which can be locked and unlocked. If locked, any Sim that is in the vault will be trapped like a Sim in a pool with no ladders in old games.
- In addition, there’s Duck Security© SCR009E Biometric Vault Door which turns the whole room into a vault. This gives the trapped Sim more room before they starve to death!
- Try getting a werewolf to bite your Sim to turn into one. During the turning process, the Hunger need can decay 10 to 15 times faster, making even keeping your Sim alive a challenge. (Werewolves)
Fire
There are various ways to start a fire in The Sims 4. Cooking, lighting fireplaces near flammable objects, lighting fireworks, angry spectres, rocket ship crashes, and even letting your house become too dusty can all potentially start a fire. If your Sim catches on fire, extinguish them quickly, or they will burn to death! Pets and toddlers cannot die by fire, but children can.
Chased by Death?
Catching on fire will cause a Near-Death Experience (they’ll survive it though). After that, being on fire will cause the death 3 times faster.
Prevention:
- Fires can happen, especially to Sims with low Cooking skill. Consider getting Alertz Smoke Alarm to automatically call firefighters once a fire starts in the room.
- Alternatively, you can get a Fire Prevention System Utility Panel which will deploy fire sprinklers everywhere once a fire starts somewhere indoors, immediately putting it out.
- If they aren’t available, use your phone to call firefighters or try to extinguish it yourself!
- Try not to cook while having bad luck (Enchanted by Nature)
- If your Sim is on fire, you can have them extinguish themselves by clicking on them, have them run into a shower or pool, or have another Sim extinguish them.
- Sims who have bought some Fire Foam from Selvadorada market will automatically use one once they catch on fire. (Jungle Adventure)
- Keep items away from fireplaces, bonfire, campfire, and burning incense.
- When exploring the jungle, Fireflies can set your Sim on fire. To counter that, your Sim can buy Drake’s Fire Quencher from the market or master the Selvadoradian Culture skill.
- In Laundry Day, make sure you clear out the lint tray in your dryer. Not doing so carries a chance of your Sim catching on fire when they activate it.
- Dryers can be upgraded to be Lint-Less with level 5 Handiness skill, eliminating this concern.
- If your Sim upgrades their toilet to have a Composting Department, be sure to empty it from time to time by tossing it to an insect farm. (Eco Lifestyle)
- With Busting the Dust kit, don’t let your house become filthy. This will otherwise summon Filth Fiends which can start fires.
- Filth Dweller trait from completing the Fabulously Filthy aspiration can bond with those Filth Fiends, which removes the fire risk.
- If your Sim lives in a haunted house residential lot, be sure to keep up the Spiritual Volatility by using the seance table and interacting with specters. Letting it go too low can make angry specters cause a fire. (Paranormal)
- Keep an eye on your Sim when they do risky activities, trying to pass the Fire Challenge on The Stationary Wall Climber from Fitness stuff for example.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Sims are once again able to run into fire! Well, not exactly into, but rather run between two active fires. Should they do that, they’ll catch on fire.
- However, after panicking for some time, Sims will route themselves to safety.
- Some Sims may try to extinguish fires themselves when they find one.
- Fire can now spread through walls.
- Once you have some fireworks (can be bought from festival stalls and computers), try to activate them indoors! (City Living)
- Using Zazatotl Death Relic with an uncommon crystal inserted will give a sim Marked for Death curse, which will set them on fire from time to time. (Jungle Adventure)
- In Island Living, being on a lot with the Volcanic Activity Lot Challenge may occasionally have volcanic rocks fall on the lot. Touching them while they are still hot will set your Sim on fire.
- Using Inferniate spell on Sims will just singe them, using it on the ground the Sim is standing on will have them burn. (Realm of Magic)
- Heatwave is the perfect time to slide down the BamCo Merry Metal Slide! (Adventure Awaits + Seasons)
Drowning
While Sims retain the ability to climb out the pool without a ladder from The Sims 3, they no longer have a special Moodlet that causes the death once it expires. Instead, once the Energy need runs out, the Sim will drown. If a Sim dies by another cause like Starvation, they will use the drowning animation if swimming, but will not be counted as if they drowned.
This death has been expanded over the years with the addition of two expansion packs.
Get Famous Expansion Pack introduces Luminary's Exotic Water Garden, which can be stocked with either kois, piranhas, sharks, or sprites. After stocking it with denizens, Sims can either jump in there or accidentally fall into it after playing with the fishes (especially if they’re tired or Clumsy). After that, the Sim may emerge from the pond alive or drown in there. While sharks or piranhas aren’t required for this death, a death of a Sim will fully feed them.
Sim’s mood, Fitness skill, how fed the fishes are, and traits do affect how likely is your Sim to survive. However, what traits help or hinder depends on whether they jump in or fall in. Do note that mermaids and Servos are immune to drowning.
| Jump in | Fall in | |
|---|---|---|
| Increase survival | ActiveSelf-assured Erratic Angler’s Tranquility Naturalist Long Lived Gym Rat | Active Loves Outdoors Naturalist |
| Decrease survival | Clumsy Geek Goofball Slob Lazy Glutton Mean Fear of Death | Lazy Glutton Erratic |
Island Living Expansion Pack not only introduces a new music sting for drowning in the ocean, but also introduces a new way to cause it. Swimming in deeper oceans introduces new scarier events, such as shark sightings (above 4.4 units) and getting caught in a current (above 4.5 units). In ocean parts deeper than 8 units, Sims run a risk of being pulled underwater. Such oceans are found in Mua Pel’am in Sulani, Foxbury Institute in Britechester, Iverstad in Nordhaven etc.
While this happens rarely (2%), events such as encountering a shark or getting an Island Curse from an Island Spirit double the chance. If your Sim has been pulled underwater before, the chance goes way higher. While death doesn’t always happen, having a moodlet from encountering a shark or being pulled underwater before will guarantee a death. Drowning caused by this way will play a different death music. Do note that if the ocean threat is summoned by a mermaid, it’ll never cause death.
Prevention:
- Don’t let your Sim’s Energy need run out while swimming. Have them exit the pool or ocean if it is low.
- If you own a Luminary's Exotic Water Garden from Get Famous, make sure to keep the denizens fed. Having it stocked with kois won’t guarantee your Sim’s safety.
- Be careful about having your Sim play with denizens (except for children) or jump in. It’s best to build up your Sim’s Fitness skill beforehand.
- As Sims may find themselves in there on their own, is Luminary's Exotic Water Garden really worth it?
- If you encounter a shark, it’s best to either get your Sim out of the ocean or to a shallower area. You may return to the deeper area once the moodlet from the encounter has expired.
- Remember, the deep water can be see through. The only parts that aren’t seen through are Scuba Diving areas.
- If you wish to have your Sim swim in a safer area, consider swimming in Ohan'ali Town for example. Remember, not all the areas where you can have shark sightings are random Ocean Threat dangerous though.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Ever since The Sims 3 days, Sims can simply climb out the pool without a ladder. So you’ll still need to build a wall or fence around the pool.
- As Sims will be Very Uncomfortable when they have low Energy need, you won’t be able to order them to swim to a specific place, only cancel the interactions that get them out of the pool.
- Luminary's Exotic Water Garden from Get Famous is the perfect place to jump in, especially when the fishes are hungry!
- With this, you’ll feed sharks and piranhas if they’re in there!
- If you encounter a shark in deep waters or get pulled underwater, calmly carry on swimming in that area.
- If you visit a lot with Island Spirits lot trait, you can try banishing those spirits for a chance to get the Island Curse! This moodlet lasts for longer and increases the chance of being pulled underwater as if your Sim has encountered a shark (won’t affect the death chance though).
- If you have a mermaid in your household (especially an Evil one), they can use Siren’s Call while swimming to drain the victim’s needs to red while replenishing their own from it. If the victim has a long way to swim back, they can very easily drown on the way.
- Good mermaids are unable to do this however.
Electrocution
Sims can die by electrocution while repairing broken electronics. They'll need to get zapped twice: once to get the Seriously Fried moodlet, and again while it's still active. The second jolt will kill them.
Chased by Death?
It will be much easier for your Sim to get electrocuted. If they haven’t had one, this will trigger a Near-Death Experience. If they had one, they’ll die, even without the Seriously Fried moodlet.
Prevention:
- If your Sim gets electrocuted, do not have them do that again. Instead, have them take a nap to get rid of the Seriously Fried moodlet.
- If you are exploring the jungle, consider getting a Faraday Fizz to remove the Seriously Fried moodlet. Exploring the jungle with Seriously Fried moodlet carries a chance of the next Lightning Bug attack to kill your Sim. (Jungle Adventure)
- In addition, get some Lightning Insulation Powder to ward off the Lightning Bugs.
- Mastering Selvadoradian Culture skill also helps.
- With low Handiness skill and less upgrades, the Weather Control Machine has a high chance of electrocuting your Sim. Increase the skill and upgrade the machine beforehand. (Seasons)
How To Cause It Easily:
- Objects can be broken easily by having them be sabotaged by a Sim with Tormentor trait.
- Don’t have the trait? Sims can still gain the ability by being in Club gatherings, Small Businesses, Custom Lots, or Getaways that encourage sabotaging objects!
- If your Sim gets electrocuted, don’t waste this opportunity! Get repairing again!
- Or building robots again, Sims can easily get electrocuted there after all! (Discover University)
- If your Sim has reached level 5 in the Scientist career, they can Push Big Red Button on the chemistry lab. Spoiler alert: it electrocutes your Sim. (Get to Work)
- Lots with the Cursed Lot Challenge will have a much higher chance for your Sim to get electrocuted. (City Living)
- Combine it with Gremlins Lot Challenge and you’ll be collecting graves of all those repairpeople you’ve hired!
- Using Zazatotl Death Relic with a common crystal inserted will give a sim Marked for Death curse, which will electrocute your Sim from time to time. (Jungle Adventure)
- To have the objects break easily, leave them outside in the rain. (Seasons)
Death by Anger: Cardiac Explosion
When a Sim surpasses the Very Angry emotional state and becomes Enraged in The Sims 4 by collecting at least 7 points from Angry Moodlets, they can perform an Enraged idle animation. Every time it happens, there’s a chance that the Sim dies if they are young adult or older.
Prevention:
- Try to calm your Sim down fast! Try exercising, taking a cold shower, using a mirror, or meeting other Sims.
- If you have no options and have to wait it out, send your Sim sleeping as being Asleep will override all emotions (unless the Sim has more than 10,000 Anger points for some odd reason).
- A drink of Moodlet Solver (available in the Rewards Store for 500 Satisfaction Points) will quickly calm your Sim down and fill up all their needs.
- Vampires are unable to die by any emotional death. (Vampires)
- If your teen is having a mood swing, don’t age them up yet. Wait until their mood swing is over. (Parenthood)
- The Supreme Authority trait from completing Enforcer of Order aspiration will lower the chance for your Sim to die by anger. (Journey to Batuu)
How To Cause It Easily:
- You’ll need to collect enough Angry moodlets to get your Sim Enraged. Some high scoring moodlets include:
- Room filled with many Angry decorations +3
- Having the other Sim call off the wedding +5
- Catching the partner cheating +3
- Losing Control from Fear of Unfulfilled Dreams +3
- Red Hot Serum (Get to Work) +3
- Reaper's Friend Serum fail (Get to Work) +5
- Being in Club gatherings with tier 3 Angry Vibe (Get Together) +3
- Death outcome from Wish for Promotion from a Wishing Well (Romantic Garden) +99
- Vampire’s Alter/Control Emotion power (Vampires) +3/+8
- Being Angry with Emotion Bomb Celebrity Quirk (Get Famous) +8
- Surging Fury Emotions when Emotionally Mindful (Snowy Escape) +4
- Having a Technophobe repair electronic objects (Snowy Escape) +3
- Cleaning in a Filthy house (Bust the Dust) +3
- Bad Temporary Stay guests (Growing Together) +4
- Exploring the Dreadhorse Cavern (Horse Ranch) +5
- Being levitated by a ghost (Life & Death) +4
- High Maintenance Sims have an easy time getting Angry moodlets. (Spa Day)
- Jealous Sims will also have an easier time when having bad time with relationships.
- When a teen is in a mood swing, age them up before it ends. (Parenthood)
- Werewolves have an easy time gaining Angry moodlets. However, they are unable to die when they’re on a rampage. (Werewolves)
Death by Laughter: Hysteria
In The Sims 4, Sims can truly laugh themselves to death. If they surpass the Very Playful emotional state and become Hysterical by collecting a total of 15 points from Playful and Happy Moodlets, you'd better calm them down fast. Every time they do the hysterical laugh idle animation, young adults and older Sims run the risk of laughing themselves to death.
Prevention:
- Try to calm your Sim down fast! Use a mirror to get your Sim to calm down or get other positive emotions to override the Playful emotion.
- If you have no options and have to wait it out, send your Sim sleeping as being Asleep will override all emotions (unless the Sim has more than 10,000 Playful+Happy points for some odd reason).
- Vampires are unable to die by any emotional death. (Vampires)
- Embrace Cringe Personality Trait to gain a complete immunity to this death. (For Rent)
- Therefore, always get a Cringe Sim to be the Sim of Honor in Lampoon Parties, as the main goal will be making them Hysterical. (Get Famous)
How To Cause It Easily:
- As Playful emotion is a positive emotion, any Happy moodlet will contribute towards the Hysterical mood.
- The Reward Store sells Happy Potion for 200 Satisfaction Points. It gives a 3-hour 100 point Happy moodlet, which will make the Sim Hysterical if they are in the Playful emotion.
- Some high-scoring Playful moodlets include:
- Death outcome from Wish for Happiness from a Wishing Well (Romantic Garden) +99
- Vampire’s Alter/Control Emotion power (Vampires) +3/+8
- Surging Time for Fun Emotions when Emotionally Mindful (Snowy Escape) +4
Death by Embarrassment: Mortification
In The Sims 4, if a Sim surpasses the Very Embarrassed emotional state and becomes Mortified by collecting 8 points from Embarrassed moodlets, they will soon die from embarrassment if you don't intervene to calm them down. As with other emotional deaths, it has a chance to be triggered for young adult or older Sims when the Mortified idle animation is performed.
Prevention:
- Try to calm your Sim down fast! Try hiding in bed, closet, or bathroom stall, giving a pep talk using a mirror, or even asking for reassurance from other Sims.
- If you have no options and have to wait it out, send your Sim sleeping as being Asleep will override all emotions (unless the Sim has more than 10,000 Embarrassed points for some odd reason).
- A drink of Moodlet Solver (available in the Rewards Store for 500 Satisfaction Points) will quickly calm your Sim down and fill up all their needs.
- For 2,000 Satisfaction Points, Shameless trait is available for purchase from the Rewards Store. This will eliminate all the Embarrassed moodlets, essentially making your Sim immune to this death.
- Vampires are unable to die by any emotional death. (Vampires)
- If your teen is having a mood swing, don’t age them up yet. Wait until their mood swing is over. (Parenthood)
How To Cause It Easily:
- You’ll need to collect enough Embarrassed moodlets to get your Sim Mortified. Some high scoring moodlets include:
- Room filled with many Embarrassed decorations +3
- Having a Bladder Failure +5
- Being threatened by a criminal +3
- Getting caught cheating +4
- Getting proposal rejected +4
- Death outcome from Wish for Skill from a Wishing Well (Romantic Garden) +99
- Vampire’s Alter/Control Emotion power (Vampires) +3/+8
- Having a bladder failure when farting (Parenthood) +3
- No celebrities living in a lot with Celebrity Home trait (Get Famous) +4
- Surging Shameful Emotions when Emotionally Mindful (Snowy Escape) +4
- When a teen is in a mood swing, age them up before it ends. (Parenthood)
Old Age
Of all of The Sims 4 deaths, this one is fairly self-explanatory. With aging on, Sims will eventually grow old and die. It's the circle of life. To get this death type, have an elder Sim and just wait it out. Grim will come for them when their time is up.
The amount of days elders have depend on how long the lifespan is set. While there may be some variance (except for horses), the amount of days go as follows:
| Lifespan | Sims | Cats | Dogs | Horses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long | 56 | 44 | 36 | 52 |
| Normal | 14 | 11 | 9 | 13 |
| Short | 7 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 6.5 |
The Aging Bar is set to reach full some time before the days are up, ignoring the life extensions your Sim may have. However, once two days are left, you will get the first warning that your Sim’s time is soon up.
The Sims 4: Life & Death Expansion Pack expanded on this death. With this pack, Elder Sims can pass away peacefully in their sleep should they be asleep when their time is up. That bed will become haunted, which will make it unpleasant to sleep in (except for Macabre and Ghost Whisperer Sims).
Prevention:
- Under Gameplay options, you can set the lifespan and turn on and off aging.
- Gameplay options are set for each save separately, so this cannot be changed in the Main Menu. Whenever you start a new save, the settings of the last played save will be carried over.
- The following things can lengthen elder lifespan (do remember that the aging bar will not account for these):
- Active trait - 1.47x
- Long Lived trait - 2.175x
- Mermaids - 3.35x
- No Regrets from Soul’s Journey - 1.25x
- There are things that give your Sim an extension to the current life stage. The base game includes Potion of Youth in the Rewards Store (for 1,500 Satisfaction Points) and Ambrosia.
- Cats and dogs have a special Age-Down Treat that can be purchased from a vet clinic’s vending machine which, as it says, will age your pet down to their previous life stage.
- Vampires and werewolves with the Immortality Ability are unable to age, thus unable to die by Old Age.
- Spellcasters can craft Potion of Immortality, which will give your Sim the Immortal trait if successful. While the Sim still ages, they are unable to die by old age.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Setting the lifespan to short will result in less waiting for you! 7 days is much more faster than 14 or even 56 days after all.
- To rush your Sim into the elder stage, consider cooking a cake and adding birthday candles on it.
- Pets have their own Age-Up Treats. One for cats and dogs can be purchased from a vending machine, the one for horses is available in the general store in New Appaloosa, Chestnut Ridge.
- If the effects of Potion of Rejuvenation fails, the consumer will be close to aging up/dying by Old Age. (Realm of Magic)
- The death should happen within the same day, 24 hours max.
- In Ravenwood’s Crow’s Crossing, there’s a Well of Longing and Regret where Sims can wish for multiple things, including for a Long Life. If this wish fails, your Sim will be close to aging up/dying by Old Age. (Life & Death)
- There are few things that push Sim’s aging bar forward, gifting your soul to a specter in a haunted house for example. (Paranormal)
Overexertion
This The Sims 4 death type is more common in Elders. Elderly Sims are frail and don't have the stamina that they used to. Things like exercise and WooHoo can cause them to become Dangerously Exhausted. If this Sim continues to exert themselves through strenuous activities, like WooHooing, they'll die!
The Sims 4: Discover University expanded on this death. Electromagnetic Research Archive Machines can be used to do some research, but once your Sim has reached level 6 in Research & Debate skill, they can contribute knowledge to earn some extra money. However, should your Sim do it for too long, they will die by overexertion, even if they aren’t an elder!
Prevention:
- If an elder gets the Dangerously Tired moodlet, do not push further.
- Usually, due to the Very Uncomfortable emotion it gives, your Sim will be unable to exercise. Woohoo interaction will not be disabled however.
- Once your Sim gets a Dazed moodlet from contributing knowledge, stop. Do not push that further either. (Discover University)
- With Businesses & Hobbies, consider getting the Stellar Stamina Skill Mastery Perk. This can be obtained when an adult or elder sim has at least one Physical skill on at least level 8. With this, elders cannot get Dangerously Tired.
- In addition, eating a Family Recipe food with Mystery Fuel effect will temporarily make elders immune to getting Dangerously Tired.
- With The Silver Charter Noble Decree, elders will be unable to die this way when they Woohoo. (Royalty & Legacy)
How To Cause It Easily:
- Spend 200 Satisfaction Points for an emotional potion from the Rewards Store and drink it before having your elder exercise. The 100 point moodlet it gives beats the 50 point Dangerously Tired moodlet, allowing them to exercise themselves to death.
- If an elder has a romantic partner or Woohoo partner, it’s time for a fun night full of Woohoo!
- Living on a lot with Cursed Lot Trait (City Living) or having the Island Curse from an Island Spirit (Island Living) will make this death happen faster.
- Your Sim’s knowledge is very valuable, spend the rest of their life contributing it to a research machine! (Discover University)
Cowplant
A staple The Sims death of the series, Sims can be eaten by their carnivorous Cowplant. In The Sims 4, your Sim can obtain a cowplant berry, plant it, and take good care of it until it grows into a fully grown Cowplant. It will stick its cake tongue out when it's hungry. Use the Have a Sim Eat Cake interaction to get swallowed up by the Cowplant. The Cowplant will spit them up the first time, but if they get swallowed up again while their Uncomfortable moodlet is still active, they'll be digested for good.
Chased by Death?
Being eaten by a Cowplant without the Drained moodlet will cause a Near-Death Experience. After experiencing one, the next grab at a cake, Drained or not, will cause death.
Prevention:
- Don’t grab the cake when Drained. Sims won’t do it on their own while Drained.
How To Cause It Easily:
- The Drained moodlet lasts long enough for your Sim to grab the cake again!
- Don’t let the Cowplant be hungry for too long, otherwise it dies.
- A Cowplant can be found in build mode with
bb.showhiddenobjectscheats. Do note that it needs time to fully mature. - A ghost Cowplant can be found in Mourningvale neighborhood in Ravenwood. (Life & Death)
- Undead Cowplants can also be found in haunted houses in Crow’s Crossing or purchased from the Rewards Store for 3,000 Satisfaction Points
- Undead Cowplants never die.
Meteor
This The Sims 4 death was added to the game in a free base game update. Along with new smaller telescopes came a new death type: death by meteor. If your Sims are stargazing at night and you receive a warning to get inside, you should listen and get your Sim indoors pronto. If you don't, they'll be struck and killed by a meteor!
Chased by Death?
The meteor will suspiciously be arriving 1.8 times faster. After having a Near-Death Experience though, it’ll arrive 4 times faster.
Prevention:
- The chances are rare (1% after each animation cycle), but if you get the warning, get them indoors fast!
- You have half an hour to do that, so do not use the telescope far from a building.
- Telescopes cannot be used indoors unfortunately.
- If you don’t mind huge objects, consider getting a Backyard Observatory. It not only also prints out the finds, but also eliminates the risk of this death.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Keep using the small telescope, day and night, it’s now your Sim’s life.
- Using a telescope can be encouraged by a club, Small Business, Custom Venue, or Getaway. This may result in some Sims getting killed.
The Sims 4 Deaths: Expansion Packs
City Living Expansion Pack
Pufferfish Poisoning
Hopefully, your Sim is a good cook, because eating poor-quality Pufferfish Nigiri can cause your Sim to die in The Sims 4! Sims can learn the Pufferfish Nigiri recipe by eating it from the Japanese Food Stall in San Myshuno (which is always safe to eat). Sims in a bad mood or with low Cooking skill have a higher chance of making poor-quality Pufferfish Nigiri.
Every Pufferfish Nigiri has a chance of killing your Sim unless it’s the best quality. Poor quality is but one of the things that raise the chance. Being in a bad emotion and fearing death will also increase the chance. Vampires and mermaids are immune to this death though.
Chased by Death?
Eating some Pufferfish Nigiri will cause a Near-Death Experience. If your Sim already had one, even the best quality Pufferfish Nigiri has a high chance of causing this death.
Prevention:
- If you wish to experience the rush again, ordering some Pufferfish Nigiri from a food stall is always an option, as it is always excellent.
- Also consider learning the safer alternative: Nigiri!
- Be sure to improve the Cooking skill before making your own Pufferfish Nigiri. If the once made isn’t at least Excellent, throw it away by dragging it to to a trash can or sink or order your Sim to get rid of it.
- Alternatively, you can give it to a mermaid to eat. They are immune to this death.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Pufferfish Nigiri is best made with low Cooking skill, with bad mood and cheap kitchen furniture helping towards it!
- Remember: At least Excellent quality removes all the death risk.
- With Dine Out, you can set it as a menu item! With a terrible chef, your restaurant could experience quite a few deaths!
- Bonus points for making it the only food on the menu!
Seasons Expansion Pack
Overheating
Staying out in the hot sun without appropriate hot weather clothing or swimwear can cause your Sims to overheat and die. Sims may also start to feel too warm if the heat or fireplace is on during a heatwave.
Chased by Death?
Receiving a warning about the potential death will trigger a Near-Death Experience. After having a Near-Death Experience, the Sims will find themselves heating up 3 times faster.
Prevention:
- Wear Hot Weather Clothing or swimwear during Hot or Heatwave temperatures.
- The game won’t care what clothing pieces you exactly use there though.
- During Heatwaves, set the thermostat to cool your house down. This will raise your bills however.
- Have your Sim drink cold drinks or do some water activities to cool down during warm weather.
- Air Conditioning Units from For Rent also help to cool down your Sims. This can be synced with thermostats to automate their activation.
- From Environment settings, you can untick Enable Temperature Effects On Sims to remove this threat.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Wear Cold Weather Clothing during Hot or Heatwave temperatures.
- Other outfits will heat your Sim up slower though.
- During Hot temperatures, set the thermostat to heat your house. As an added bonus, this will reduce your bills!
- Have your Sim drink hot drinks and be near the fire to heat up during warm weather.
- Radiators from For Rent also help to heat your Sims up. This can be synced with thermostats to automate their activation.
- From Environment settings, make sure you have the Temperature Effects enabled.
Freezing
Likewise, staying outside in freezing cold without warm winter clothing will cause your Sim to freeze to death. Swimming in colder weather will make your Sim really cold, really fast!
Chased by Death?
Receiving a warning about the potential death will trigger a Near-Death Experience. After having a Near-Death Experience, the Sims will find themselves freezing up 3 times faster.
Prevention:
- Wear Cold Weather Clothing during Cold or Freezing temperatures.
- The game won’t care what clothing pieces you exactly use there though.
- During Freezing temperatures, set the thermostat to heat your house. This will raise your bills however.
- Have your Sim drink hot drinks and be near the fire to heat up during cool weather.
- Radiators from For Rent also help to heat your Sims up. This can be synced with thermostats to automate their activation.
- From Environment settings, you can untick Enable Temperature Effects On Sims to remove this threat.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Wear Hot Weather Clothing or swimwear during Cold or Freezing temperatures.
- Other outfits will cool your Sim down slower though.
- During cold temperatures, set the thermostat to cool your house down. As an added bonus, this will reduce your bills!
- Have your Sim drink cold drinks or do some water activities to cool down during cool weather.
- Air Conditioning Units from For Rent also help to cool down your Sims. This can be synced with thermostats to automate their activation.
- From Environment settings, make sure you have the Temperature Effects enabled.
Lightning
In The Sims 4, thunderstorms can be deadly too! If you choose to stay outside during a thunderstorm, you may be struck by lightning. This could be cool the first time, but you risk dying if you get struck again while still Dazed. Or you could become Supercharged and temporarily gain the ability to control lightning. So maybe it's worth the risk?
Chased by Death?
Getting struck by lightning will cause a Near-Death Experience. After experiencing one, the next lightning strike will kill your Sim.
Prevention:
- Make sure your Sim is indoors during thunderstorms. Sims will run indoors on their own though.
- While Erratic and Loves Outdoors traits do increase the chance of becoming supercharged after the second strike, they still have a chance to die.
- Sims with the Storm Chaser trait (available in the Reward Store for 1,000 Satisfaction Points) will make your Sim immune to this death.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Just keep your Sim outdoors during thunderstorms. If you’re lucky, it’ll take getting struck by lightning twice for your Sim to die.
Death Flower
At level 9 in Flower Arranging skill, Sims can scent flower arrangements with Death Flower scent. By just keeping it, it has no special effect. However the special effect comes once gifted. Give it to a Sim and they’ll age up. Give it to an elder and they will immediately die.
Ghosts won’t age up from it and will instead love the gift. Vampires will age up from this, but cannot die by this death though if they’re an elder. Servos will not only age up, but also become a human Sim from it.
Prevention:
- Don’t give this flower arrangement to Sims you don’t want to age up/die.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Make multiple Death Flower scented flower arrangements and give them around to everyone! Elders only get one arrangement, younger Sims get multiple!
- If the Sim is in your household, you can transfer the flower arrangement back to the maker to regift it!
Discover University Expansion Pack
Catastrophic Meltdown
This The Sims 4 death is unique to Servos. If a Servo goes too long without maintenance, they can break down and suffer a catastrophic meltdown. The poor servo will deteriorate into spare parts, leaving behind a futuristic-looking tombstone. Do note that no matter how a Servo dies, they leave behind no ghost.
In addition, when Servos get electrocuted (or struck by lightning), they will get Super Charged, which fills their Charge need and halves its decay. Getting electrocuted again gets them Hyper Charged, completely halting their Charge need. However, do not risk with electrocution when Hyper Charged, as the next one has a 25% chance of causing them a Catastrophic Meltdown.
Prevention:
- Keep an eye on Servo’s Durability need. Try to tune them up to keep it up.
- Should it reach zero, try to have a Sim repair the Servo within a day.
- Keep Servos away from water as it will drain their Durability.
- If your Servo is Hyper Charged, keep them away from electrocution and lightning.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Let their Durability need run out, then let them stay broken.
- When Hyper Charged, don’t worry about electrocution. The chance of a Catastrophic Meltdown is 25% after all, meaning 75% chance of surviving it!
Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack
Flies
The classic death by flies makes a comeback from The Sims 2! With Reduce and Recycle Lot Challenge, letting your trash overflow can attract flies to the smelly junk heap, but the flies are anything but harmless. If your Sim tries to clear them or bond with them, the flies may attack your Sim, giving them an Angry moodlet. Trying to do that again with that moodlet carries a rare chance for the flies to swarm your Sim to death!
Prevention:
- Try not to let your trash cans and bins overflow. Trash bins will be emptied once a week though, so you can have your Sim take it to a garbage dump for that Industrial Eco-Footprint or use a recycling machine for bits and pieces!
- The less trash cans and bins you have, the less places the flies have.
- If you see flies, try to ignore them.
- You could try to bond or clear them once (whether you succeed or fail, they’ll be gone), but if your Sim fails and gets that Angry moodlet, it’s best to not try again for a while.
- If it feels too challenging, feel free to remove Reduce and Recycle Lot Challenge.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Interact with flies as much as possible. The more you can interact with at the same day, the better.
- Try to have a lot of trash cans and bins on your lot. Fill them with trash!
- In addition, Reduce and Recycle Lot Challenge introduces new sources of trash piles. Cooking food can leave compostable trash and changing diapers give you trash piles.
Beetles
Sims who drink beetle juice three times in a row instantly become a ghost with no death notification or urn spawn. This doesn't appear to be any particular death type and is more of an easter egg; it's a reference to the movie Beetlejuice.
Snowy Escape Expansion Pack
Vending Machine
You can get all kinds of neat things out of vending machines but be careful; vending machines get items stuck in them a lot and your Sims can be crushed by the vending machine while trying to get the item unstuck, especially when they are an Angry or Uncomfortable Technophobe, Clumsy, or have low Energy.
This The Sims 4 Death ties into the injury system. Injury can come from many sources: falling while rock climbing, failing at skiing, snowboarding, or sledding, fighting with werewolves, or getting crushed by a vending machine. It starts off as Battered and Bruised, which advances to Close Call if your Sim gets hurt more, disabling most interactions. If a Sim with the Close Call moodlet gets crushed by a vending machine, they will die.
Chased by Death?
Vending Machines will be more likely to crush your Sim when shaken. This will cause a Near-Death Experience. After having one, the next crush will kill your Sim, even without the Close Call moodlet.
Prevention:
- If an item gets stuck, make sure your Sim isn’t too injured before shaking the vending machine.
- If your Sim has the Close Call, do not shake!
- While NPC Sims can shake the machines on their own, it will never crush them. Only player-directed shakes carry a chance of the vending machine falling on your Sim.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Buy a lot of stuff to try to get the machine stuck!
- We’d suggest Simmi Capsule vending machines as you won’t need to go through an additional menu before the Sim attempts to buy stuff.
- Having a Close Call moodlet is the perfect time to shake the vending machine!
- If there are no other methods nearby, your Sim will need to get crushed by a vending machine 3 times to die by it.
Rock Climbing Fall
Rock climbing is an exhilarating sport, but it's also a potential death in The Sims 4. Sims who reach far enough in a Mountain Climb Excursion will reach The Croft Icefall, the final area before the summit featuring the tallest rock climbing wall! To even attempt climbing it, your Sim needs 6 levels in the Rock Climbing skill. Falling from it can certainly cause an injury.
This The Sims 4 Death ties into the injury system. Injury can come from many sources: getting crushed by a vending machine, failing at skiing, snowboarding, or sledding, fighting with werewolves, or falling while rock climbing. It starts off as Battered and Bruised, which advances to Close Call if your Sim gets hurt more, disabling most interactions (including Rock Climbing).
Sims who are Battered and Bruised will fail often while attempting to climb the tallest rock climbing wall. However, most of the time, they won’t make it far when they fall off. However, should your injured Sim climb high up and then wall, then that’s it; they’re dead.
Prevention:
- Always be prepared before going on a Mountain Climb Excursion!
- Having a high Rock Climbing and Fitness skills always help!
- You can buy some Climbing Gear from a computer to wear.
- Make sure the weather is clear. Check the Conditions on Mt. Komorebi from a Hiking Info Board in Yukimatsu. It will let you know about icy conditions too!
- You can disable Icy Conditions and Thundersnowstorms from the Environment settings.
- If your Sim fears death, overcome it before starting an Excursion.
How To Cause It Easily:
- The best time for an excursion is during heavy snow and icy conditions!
- With testingcheats on, you can shift-click on a ground to enable Icy Conditions.
- Even though injury is needed, do not get injured before reaching the Croft Icefall. Otherwise, should your Sim get injured before that twice, they will be unable to climb any rock climbing walls due to the Close Call moodlet.
- With testingcheats on, you can also teleport your Sim to skip the rock climbing walls if they’re Battered and Bruised.
- Once you reach the Croft Icefall, simply have your Sim climb it.
- If your Sim successfully climbs it, don’t worry! You can have them climb down.
- If your Sim fears death, even better!
Cottage Living Expansion Pack
Killer Rabbit
Who said bunnies were all cuddly and cute all the time? Haven't you seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Well this Sims 4 death is a scene right out of that movie. These fluffy little critters may seem sweet at first, but get on their bad side, and they might just decide to turn vicious on you!
You can easily use this death on your Sim by using the Be Slain by a Vicious Killer Rabbit self-interaction with the following cheat enabled: testingcheats true. This will only kill the active Sim and can't be used to kill other Sims.
Chased by Death?
Being attacked by a rabbit will trigger a Near-Death Experience and are more likely to get attacked by one. Getting attacked after having a Near-Death Experience will cause death.
Prevention:
- Just don’t be mean to rabbits, alright?
How To Cause It Easily:
- Be mean to rabbits! Scare them! Insult them! Get them to attack your Sim after one mean interaction!
- Few Sims die after one attack, many need two attacks, few will survive more than two attacks. It’s up to chance when an attack kills your Sim.
Killer Chicken
Needless to say, you should be nice to your chickens if you want good quality eggs, but there's another benefit to being friends with your chickens: not being murdered by them. No, seriously. Do enough mean socials with your chicken, and they will decide to go all velociraptor on you and peck you to death in The Sims 4! Especially if they are an evil chicken from the Midnight Treat.
Chased by Death?
Your Sim will be enjoying some guaranteed death, especially after having a Near-Death Experience. Surviving one will trigger one.
Prevention:
- Don’t be mean to chickens, please.
- Think twice before feeding Midnight Treats to your chicken. If you have an Evil Chicken, keep a good relationship with them and they will even save your Sims from death!
- Keeping a bad relationship with Evil Chicken may result in them setting things on fire or killing Sims.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Time to be mean to your chickens! Tease them! Scare them! Mock them! Get the relationship low enough for them to just attack your Sim after one mean interaction.
- If you have a Midnight Treat, feed it to a chicken as Evil Chickens are more likely to kill your Sims.
- And having a bad relationship with an Evil Chicken will have them set things on fire too! Fun for the whole family!
High School Years Expansion Pack
Urban Myth
The High School Years expansion includes two new Sims 4 deaths, including Death by Urban Myth. At level 8 of the Mischief skill, teens unlock the Summon Urban Myth Mischief interaction on other Sims (which they can keep using as an adult with Authentic Prankster trait). If it succeeds, the victim gets scared. If it fails, the prankster will get scared instead. A Sim doing it with this Scared moodlet will make that urban myth come to life and kill your Sim by fright! What a way to die in The Sims 4!
Chased by Death?
Failing this prank will cause a Near-Death Experience. If the Sim has already experienced one, they will die when they Summon the Urban Myth, no matter what. This trait won’t increase the failure chance though.
Prevention:
- Do not do this when your Sim is scared from this prank.
- Vampires are immune to this death. Apparently, they have known the truth about this myth for a long time and for them, it’s just a friendly face.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Perform it until your Sim fails and becomes scared. Then do it again.
- Have another Sim summon the Urban Myth with your Sim, then have your Sim do it!
Stink Capsule
This Sims 4 death can happen to any teen (or Authentic Prankster) who thinks it's funny to prank the school lockers or trash bins. After reaching level 3 of the Mischief skill, teens can click on lockers or trash bins to plant a stink capsule in them. Every time you do this, there's a chance the prank backfires and stinks your Sim instead. If you attempt to prank a locker or trash bin again while your teen still has the Self-Stinked moodlet, the second backfire will be deadly!
Chased by Death?
Similarly to the previous one, failure at placing or defusing a Stink Capsule (though not having an increased chance) will cause a Near Death Experience. If the Sim has already had one, they will die next time they try to place one.
Prevention:
- If the prank fails once, do not do it again while the Self-Stinked moodlet is active. Do not tempt fate, kid!
How To Cause It Easily:
- Plant a Stink Capsule everywhere! Every locker should have one, every trash bin should have one, and once the school is over, spread it to every trash bin in the world!
For Rent Expansion Pack
Mold
If your Sim lives on a lot with Mold Lot Challenge, keeping the house clean gains extra priority. Leaving trash overflowing, puddles on the floor, and plumbing objects dirty will eventually get some mold growing in your house. The chances of it increase when it’s raining, during fuller moon phases, in lots that are Off The Grid, and when it’s not winter. While usually Allergenic Mold Piles grow, which just make Sims Uncomfortable, there’s always a small chance that a black Toxic Mold Pile grows instead.
Being near a Toxic Mold Pile will cause mold to accumulate in your Sim. The more piles there are, the faster it accumulates. There are 3 stages of Moldinitis Sims can acquire from this, Mild, then Severe, and finally, Deadly (the point the appearance changes and Sims spread the Toxic Mold Piles around). Being near a Toxic Mold Pile will lengthen the Moodlet duration, and should it reach beyond the 12-hour mark, it’ll progress to the next stage. The Deadly Moldinitis, however, will result in death.
Chased by Death?
These Sims will find the mold accumulating twice as fast for them. Being away from Toxic Mold will only result in a little slower decrease of Moldinitis. Upon reaching the Deadly Moldinitis stage, a Near Death Experience will be triggered, making other deaths also more likely.
Prevention:
- Make sure to keep your house clean regularly. Keep the trash from overflowing, puddles mopped, and plumbing objects clean.
- If you’re having trouble but have funds, consider hiring a maid.
- Sometimes mold does grow. These you can scrub away or pay some money to remove every single Mold Pile.
- If you see a black Toxic Mold Pile, removing it will be the priority.
- If you Sim has caught Moldinitis, send them to a shower or bath for quick removal. In addition, keeping them away from Toxic Mold will make the Moldinitis go away on itself slowly.
- If it feels too challenging, feel free to remove Mold Lot Challenge.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Throw caution to the wind, keep the house messy for mold!
- Bonus points for Slob traits as they aren’t bothered by dirty surroundings.
- From Environment Settings, you can also set Full Moon as the permanent moon phase for more mold.
- Toxic Mold will spread to where your Sim is when they have Deadly Moldinitis.
- Alternatively, you can enable bb.showhiddenobjects in the Build Mode and search for Toxic Mold Pile! You can add them to every house. The more you add them in the same room, the faster will the Sims die.
Lovestruck Expansion Pack
Broken Heart
Dying from a broken heart is not just an expression; it can really happen in The Sims 4! And for some Sims, the world of love can be too cruel to them. Whether constantly getting rejected, having a relationship fall apart, or simply gorging on a Sweetheart’s Box to get over Sadness or Embarrassment, having it happen too much will really give someone a broken heart. Lovebug, Romantically Reserved, and Jealous Sims take it more to their heart, while Gloomy and Erratic Sims take even more.
Not all the events affect the same. From severe to less severe, the events that can lead to a broken heart are:
- Divorce
- Breaking up, catching a significant other cheating, having love fade out, and having a terrible date.
- Getting romantic interactions rejected and gorging on a Sweetheart’s Box.
As these keep happening, Young Adult and older Sims (except vampires) will get two warnings. Once you get the second warning alongside the Total Despair moodlet, it’s time to take a break from the romantic world. If they experience more romantic misfortune, they will die. If they keep gorging on those Sweetheart’s Boxes instead, your Sim will just choke to death instead (same death, different animation).
Prevention:
- Approach love carefully. Find out who your Sim is compatible with and don’t be afraid to ask what the other Sim thinks about yours.
- On dates, try to get at least a Bronze medal by completing the goals.
- There are other ways to alleviate Sadness and Embarrassment than Sweetheart’s Boxes. Try crying or hiding in bed, closet, or bathroom stall instead. Or talk with other Sims.
- For teens, this is not something to worry about fortunately.
- To keep this ability, become a vampire!
How To Cause It Easily:
- Have your Sim constantly break up with others. Bonus points if they catch their significant other cheating!
- Additional bonus points for a marriage divorce.
- Once a date begins, immediately have your Sim end it. Ending Date Abruptly will automatically fail it.
- Failing 21, 25, 26, or 32 dates should be enough for this The Sims 4 Death (depending on your Sim’s traits).
- Try to romance with incompatible Sims for those rejections!
- Getting 41, 49, 53, or 64 rejections should be enough for death (depending on your Sim’s traits).
- Whenever possible, always gorge on Sweetheart’s Boxes when Sad or Embarrassed.
- Devouring 41, 49, 53, or 64 boxes should be enough for your Sim to choke to death solely on them (depending on your Sim’s traits).
- Of course the problem will be keeping your Sim Sad/Embarrassed and spending that amount of money for at least 41 to 64 boxes…
- Try painting Sad paintings and filling your room with them for that constant Sad moodlet!
Life & Death Expansion Pack
Murder of Crows
Sims who use the Provoke interaction too many times on the Pet Crow may end up being attacked and dying by a murder of crows!
Chased by Death?
Provoking a pet Crow will cause a Near-Death Experience. If a Sim had one, the next provocation will have the crow kill them, no matter what the crow is feeling.
Prevention:
- The game will warn you when provoking crows becomes dangerous. At this point, do not provoke crows that are feeling Dangerously Angry.
- You can calm the crows down by being affectionate towards them or by having them kill a Sim.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Keep provoking a pet crow until they are Dangerously Angry and your Sim has Feathers Will Fly moodlet. Keep provoking them after that!
Baleful Bog
Submerging in Ravenwood's Baleful Bog lets your Sim have an Out of Body Experience, turning them temporarily into a Ghost. Doing this too many times in a row will cause your Sim to become a Ghost forever! Your Sim's death will be automatically assigned a random death type based on the packs you own.
Enchanted by Nature Expansion Pack
Emotional Starvation
Since Fairies in The Sims 4 don't have the traditional Hunger or Bladder Needs, they must focus on their Emotional Force instead. If this Need is depleted, they will die of Emotional Starvation.
Prevention:
- Simply keep the Emotional Force need up.
- You can absorb emotions from other Sims. Try to not absorb them when the need is full, as it can lead to Emotional Overload.
- Consume Emotion Potions.
- Fairy homes can also be used to regenerate it.
- Remember that fairy abilities will drain this need, so make sure you have plenty before casting one.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Simply keep your fairy from absorbing emotions.
- Use fairy abilities to drain the need faster.
Emotional Overload
Fairies thrive off of emotion and need it for survival in The Sims 4. Absorbing too much emotion, however, will cause your Fairy Sim to become emotionally unstable. Continuing to Absorb Emotion or Detect Emotion in this state can trigger the Hysterical (from positive emotions), Enraged (from Angry, Tense, and Bored emotions), or Mortified (from Sad, Embarrassed, and Scared emotions) moodlet. These will quickly lead to Death by Anger, Death by Embarrassment, or Death by Laughter. Trying to absorb emotions in the critical state will immediately trigger the emotional death.
Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack
Malfunctioning Cuckoo Clock
If a Cuckoo Clock has been sabotaged, there is a chance that using the Check Malfunctioning Cuckoo interaction could kill your Sim! Your Sim may be lucky enough to get a warning the first or second time, but it is probably best to proceed with caution.
Chased by Death?
If your Sim has already had a Near Death Experience, they have a higher chance to die. Surviving this will not count as a Near Death Experience though.
Prevention:
- If you see a Cuckoo Clock sabotaged, avoid it for a while. Have another Sim check it.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Sabotage it as soon as possible. The clock needs to be sabotaged again once a Sim checks it.
The Sims 4 Deaths: Game Packs
Spa Day Game Pack
Steam
Saunas can be relaxing, but don't overdo it! Staying in the sauna too long can be fatal. Your Sim may get too much steam if you leave them in there for too long. Talk about a Sims 4 death too hot to handle!
Chased by Death?
After having a Near-Death Experience, the Sim will heat up 5 times faster in sauna. Reaching Superfluous Steaming will trigger one.
Prevention:
- It is not something to worry about. Sims will stop using it on their own after some time.
- If you have them use the sauna again, they’ll stop once they get the Superfluous Steaming Uncomfortable moodlet. Do not make them use the sauna again once they have it!
How To Cause It Easily:
- To have your Sim die, they have to sit in the sauna 3 times.
- After the second time, they get the Superfluous Steaming moodlet, which warns that they’ll die the next time.
- If Spa Activities are encouraged by a club, small business, custom venue, or Getaways, Sims may stay in sauna often enough.
Vampires Game Pack
Sunlight
This Sims 4 death is unique to vampires. Leave a Vampire Sim out in the sun until their Vampiric Energy completely depletes, and you'll have an extra crispy vampire tombstone on your hands. Vampires with the Full Sun Resistance ability are immune to this death type.
Prevention:
- Consider getting Sun Resistance power, available on the Master Vampire rank for 5 Power Points. This power comes in three tiers though, with tier 1 reducing the Energy drain by 1/3, tier 2 by half, and tier 3 completely making the Vampire immune to sunlight.
- This power becomes unavailable once you take on Thin Skinned weakness.
- This can be reset with Draught of Reconfiguration.
- Having 11 levels in the Vampire Lore skill allows your Sim to make Sunlight Reversal Cocktail from a bar for that temporary sun resistance.
- This power becomes unavailable once you take on Thin Skinned weakness.
- During daytime, simply keep your vampire indoors when the weather is clear.
- Forgotten Hollow and Windenburg have shorter day hours, allowing vampires to be outside for longer.
- If your vampire works during daytime or attends school, living in an apartment or penthouse will come in handy. These are found mostly in San Myshuno.
- Keep the Vampire Energy high before daytime for more time to get indoors. Should it run out, your Sim still has some time before they die.
- You can also get an umbrella to block the sunlight from an umbrella rack.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Daytime is the perfect time for a vampire to be outside!
- Bonus points if they have Thin Skinned weakness. The higher its tier is, the better.
Jungle Adventure Game Pack
Poison
If you're planning a trip to the wild jungles of Selvadorada, beware of the danger. Temple traps and creepy crawlies in the jungle can poison your Sims. Sometimes they can fight it off on their own, and sometimes they can't. If your Sim isn't able to overcome the poison on their own, they'll need an antidote quick, or they will eventually succumb to this Sims 4 death after a few days.
Chased by Death?
The poison will progress twice as fast. Should your Sim be unable to fight it off on their own, they’ll have a Near Death Experience. After having one, it progresses 10 times as fast.
Prevention:
- Be sure to keep the bone dust you collect as this can be traded with a local for the antidote.
- Alternatively, you can order it from a computer.
- It’s best to be prepared and keep your Sim’s skills up to reduce the chance of getting poisoned.
- However, unless it’s from a curse, the poison can go away on its own.
How To Cause It Easily:
- There is a curse that will poison your Sim with no chance of overcoming it on their own.
- One sure-fire way to get this curse is through Zazatotl Death Relic with a rare crystal inserted there.
- Lots with Creepy Crawlies can get spiders, bees, and bats to attack your Sims outside the jungle, carrying a risk of poisoning them.
- Do note that bats cannot poison your Sim. Spiders are more likely to give your Sim poisoning than bees.
- With bb.showhiddenobjects cheat, you can buy temple switches to your home. These never have a correct answer, so it can do some nasty things like poisoning your Sims!
Turning Into a Bone Pile
Wanna get rid of the skeletons you encounter in temple at night or summon through a relic to serve you? Skeletons in The Sims 4 have a special Skeleton Joke to teach you. After learning it, tell it back to them 3 times to have them laugh so hard they collapse into a bone pile.
Strangerville Game Pack
Consumed by the Mother
This death requires your Sims to play through the StrangerVille Mystery storyline. When you get far enough along in the story, you'll come face-to-face with a terrifying plant monster known only as The Mother. She means business. If your Sim rushes into battle unprepared, she will gobble your Sim up, and that's the end of your Sim. This is definitely a unique way to die in The Sims 4.
Prevention:
- Simply follow the StrangerVille Mystery storyline and gather up a team.
- Never fight her alone, especially after being defeated by her once.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Just try to fight her alone. What could go wrong?
- Don’t want to go through the storyline? With bb.showhiddenobjects cheat, the motherplant is available at your convenience in Build Mode! Simply click on the search icon without searching for anything.
Realm of Magic Game Pack
Spellcaster Overload
This Sims 4 death is unique to Spellcasters. A Spellcaster needs to watch their magical charge; casting too much magic too quickly can cause them to become overcharged. If a Spellcaster continues to use magic while overcharged, they can literally explode from the overload. Boom! And then another overload may be your Spellcaster’s final one.
Chased by Death?
When a Spellcaster has an overload, they’ll experience a Near-Death Experience. When they already have had one, the next overload will kill them (unless prevented by Magical Resonance).
Prevention:
- If your Sim has too much Spellcaster Charge, it’s best to take a rest from spellcasting.
- Besides the risk of overload, overcharging may also cause Curse of Infectious Laughter and Curse of Uncontrollable Charge.
- If your Sim has Curse of Uncontrollable Charge, it’s best to get rid of this curse.
- Consider the Discharge perk to be able to empty the charge. This is available as soon as your Spellcaster earns their first Talent Point.
- There are also Power Shunt and Charge Control perks that reduce the charge earned.
- If your Sim has Magical Resonance perk (top of the Prowess/right-most tree), they are immune to this death when they are in the Realm of Magic.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Cast those spells as much as you can!
- If the Spellcaster has the Curse of Uncontrollable Charge, even better!
- Once your Sim has a magical overload, try to have them have it again!
- Be sure to dismiss those pesky familiars as they can save your Sim from death once each day.
The Sims 4 Deaths: Stuff Packs
My First Pet Stuff Pack
Rabid Rodent Fever
Another old favorite returns in The Sims 4. If a rodent with a dirty cage bites your Sim, they can contract Rabid Rodent Fever. This Sims 4 death starts as a highly contagious illness that spreads to everyone in the household if you don't act fast to quarantine the infected Sim. Neglecting to cure them with Rabid Rodent Fever Medicine will result in death after a few days.
Chased by Death?
These Sims find their disease progressing 5 times faster. This will not trigger a Near-Death Experience nor will having had one affect this one.
Prevention:
- Be sure to treat your pet rodent well and keep their cage clean!
- Should your Sim get sick with it, research it from a computer or ask about it from a vet to gain the ability to purchase the cure.
- Researching Rabid Rodent Disease from the computer can be done at any time.
- Alongside the cure you can purchase the Inoculation Serum to make the Sim immune to this disease.
How To Cause It Easily:
- Once the cage is dirty, it’s playtime!
- Bonus points if your Sim has a bad relationship with rodents.
- At late stages, get your Sim near other Sims to spread to them!
- Only Sims in your household can die by this though.
Tiny Living Stuff Pack
Crushed by Murphy Bed
And yet another fan-favorite death type from The Sims universe returns. Murphy beds are great space savers, but uh... make sure you upgrade them as soon as possible. They have a bad habit of falling on your Sims and sometimes killing them. Like a lot, especially once they break down.
Chased by Death?
Should a Sim be crushed by a Murphy Bed, they will have a Near-Death Experience. After having one, they have a higher chance to be crushed by one. The chance to die from it remains the same though.
Prevention:
- Upgrade the bed as soon as possible. Murphy Beds have two upgrades special to them that reduce the chance of them breaking down.
- Spring Loaded upgrade (unlocked at Handiness level 3) will reduce the chance of it breaking down. The chance of the bed malfunctioning and crushing your Sim will be halved.
- Reinforced Spring Wiring upgrade (unlocked at Handiness level 8) will not only prevent the bed from breaking down, but will also eliminate all chances of it crushing your Sims.
- Children and Servos are immune to this death, so if you have one in your household, have them open it.
- Malfunctioning Murphy Bed can help to get that loose tooth out for children!
How To Cause It Easily:
- Just open it and close it and open it and close it…
- Consider leaving the bed out in the rain for it to immediately break down. (Seasons)
- If all the Sims sleep in a lot with Gremlins Lot Challenge, at night all the objects may break down, including Murphy Beds. (City Living)
Romantic Garden Stuff Pack
Whispering Wishing Well
Making a wish in the Whispering Wishing Well can be risky, but doing so when the face on the well is in a bad mood (especially when hooded) can be deadly! Most of the wishes have their own Death outcome, which can either put your Sim to a deadly situation or even create a new ghost! Here’s what the Death Outcome looks like for the wishes that has it available:
- Youthful Vigor - Instantly turns your Sim into a ghost with a random death trait.
- Romance - Creates a ghost with a random death trait to be your Sim’s partner.
- Child - Creates a ghost child to be your Sim’s child.
- Simoleons - Sets your Sim on fire alongside removing at least §10,000 from the household funds.
- Happiness - Immediately makes your Sim Hysterical.
- Skill - Immediately makes your Sim Mortified.
- Promotion - Demotes/fires your Sim while immediately making your Sim Enraged.
Out of all of The Sims 4 deaths, which one is your favorite? Are there any death types from The Sims universe you wish they'd bring back? Let us know in the comments below!
6 Comments
Missed one death. If Sims teen and older contribute too much knowledge at a research station (from Discover University), they die from overexertion.
Reply to Adipup
I was going to say the same!
Reply to Adipup
Thanks! That would go under Honourable Mentions though since it’s not a unique death type; it still counts as overexertion. 🙂
Heyah! Rocket Ship Crash is not a death type – the sims never die from
fire after (confirmed by SimGuruNick on this thread –
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/BY-DESIGN-Sims-never-get-killed-by-fire-after-rocket-crash/td-p/4333837) They automatically pat themselves out. Great article – very informative!
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