Learn How To Master Your Fairy Skills With The Sims 4 Fairies Guide!

Occult Progression in The Sims 4 varies quite a bit between packs and specific occults. While mermaids and aliens have simplified and hidden progression, or no progression at all, Vampires, Werewolves, Spellcasters, and now Fairies have a skill tree or other form of skill progression systems. With these mechanics, your occult sims can become powerful as their life progresses and they use their abilities, allowing for further customization but also more variety in gameplay. This Sims 4 Fairies guide will assist with the ins and outs of levelling up your fairy, their abilities, and everything in between.

The Sims 4 Fairies Guide

How To Gain Experience

There are tons of ways to gain experience points, both to boost your fairy’s rank and to unlock more abilities and customization. Even once your sim maxes out their ranking to the Radiant rank, performing fairy actions and abilities can still produce experience points, allowing for ultra-powerful fairies with just about every skill and ability you can think of!

Abilities & Actions

All fairy actions and abilities, from interactions with plants, self-casts, and spells or abilities used on other Sims, will raise your fairy’s experience and progress them towards the next rank or produce more experience points. These can include Influence Sentiment, Turning Sims into Fairies, Ageing Sims, and many more abilities!

Fairy Dust

Fairy Dust is an object produced both passively and intentionally by fairies. They can brush it off their bodies, shake it out of fairy houses, but it also just shows up whenever a fairy is nearby. Both fairies and non-fairy sims can collect and use fairy dust. Common uses include using it to Enchant or Bloom plants, as well as bring Gnomes to life!

Fairy dust appears in-game as a small pile on the ground, multicoloured with a soft sparkle. It can be hard to spot at times, so make sure to keep an eye out!

Emotions

Emotions play a huge role in Sims 4 fairies gameplay as it appears as a main source of energy for fairies, many of their abilities are ways to produce or gain emotional force, and it is their source of life and the magic allowing them to use their abilities. Also, if your sim runs out of emotional force, they can die!

Abilities such as Bottle Emotions, Influence Emotions, and Absorb Emotions are used to raise your fairy’s emotional force need. It can also be refilled by sleep, depending on your customization choices, and by recharging it in a fairy house.

Ranks

As they use their abilities and learn more about their powers, your fairies will progress through five rankings, from Faint to Radiant, unlocking more tiers of powers and customization.

Rank 1 – Faint (Becoming A Fairy)

Rank 2 – Glowing

Rank 3 – Glimmering

Rank 4 – Brilliant

Rank 5 – Radiant

Skill Tree

Active Abilities

Active Abilities branch into three schools of magic: Manipulative, Emotional, and Nature. These abilities being Active means that they are choices actively made by you and your sim, and are actions rather than passive. These allow you to align your fairy with different ideas and customize their abilities, though none of them are off limits, and you can mix and match them however you like.

Manipulation

Manipulative abilities are spells and casts that allow your sim to change the world around them, including manipulating objects, bringing gnomes to life, ageing up sims, and more.

Rank 1 – Cure or Apply Ailment

Automatically Cure or Give Ailments to other Sims.

Rank 2 – Fairy Insight

Fairies can choose what information to learn about any sim, including traits, career(s), orientation, and more.

Rank 3

Tier 1 – Shift Luck
Fairies can influence their own luck, from good to bad.

Tier 2 – Shift Another’s Luck
Fairies can influence the luck of those around them, from good to bad.

Rank 4 – Manipulate Object

Fairies can change the state of an object. This can include burnt, dirty, clean, broken, etc.

Rank 5 – Bring Gnome to Life

Fairies can use fairy dust to bring a gnome to life and ask it to garden, clean, repair, or protect them from evil gnomes.

Rank 5 – Age Up Another

Fairies can immediately age up another Sim.

Emotion

Emotion abilities are spells and casts that allow your sim to influence, gather, and generate emotional force from sims or themselves. These include bottling emotions of themselves and others, influencing emotions, projecting emotions, and more.

Rank 1 – Sway Another’s Emotion

Rank 2

Tier 1 – Bottle Emotion
Fairies can absorb a current emotion and bottle it into their inventory.

Tier 2 – Bottle Another’s Emotion
Fairies can absorb another sim’s current emotion and bottle it into their inventory.

Rank 3 – Project Emotion

Fairies project their current emotions to influence surrounding Sims.

Rank 4

Tier 1 – Influence Relationship
Fairies can change their relationship with other Sims.

Tier 2 – Influence Another’s Relationship
Fairies can change the relationships between two other Sims.

Rank 5

Tier 1 – Influence Sentiment
Fairies can apply sentiments to change how other Sims feel about them.

Tier 2 – Influence Another’s Sentiment
Fairies can apply sentiments to change how other Sims feel about each other.

Nature

Nature abilities are spells and casts connecting your sim to the roots of nature and influencing it. This allows them to bloom plants, produce seeds, and even transform other Sims into fairies at the highest ranked ability!

Rank 1

Tier 1 – Nurture Nature
Fairies can care for plants or animals entirely, including weeding, illness, bugs, watering, etc.

Tier 2 – Enchant Plant
Fairies can enchant plants to speed up growth and keep them healthy.

Rank 2 – Forager Fae & Duplicate Harvestable

Fairies have a better chance of foraging ingredients, and can duplicate any harvestable.

Rank 2 – Manifest Seed

Fairies automatically create uncommon or rare seeds in their inventory.

Rank 3 – Sense Harvestables

Adds a highlight to all harvestables for easier collecting.

Rank 3 – Growth Eruption

All plants around the fairy grow to the final maturity stage.

Rank 4 – Bloom Plant

Brings a plant to its final maturity stage and produces harvestables.

Rank 5 – Transform into Fairy

Allows the fairy to transform other non-occult sims into fairies.

Customization & Passive Abilities

Customization is set passive abilities that influence how your Sims regenerate emotional force, and how they react to and influence the world around them outside of direct actions. One customization option is chosen for every tier you rank up, and you can only choose one per tier as they are often opposites of each other.

Rank 1 – Faint

Warm Force Gain

Emotional Force recharges more when having positive interactions with others.

OR

Wicked Force Gain

Emotional Force recharges more when having negative interactions with others.

Rank 2 – Glowing

Benevolent Absorber

Fairy gains extra emotional force when absorbing a negative emotion.

OR

Malicious Absorber

Fairy gains extra emotional force when absorbing a positive emotion.

Rank 3 – Glimmering

Embrace Relationship Changes

Relationship changes from fairy abilities, negative or positive, are increased.

OR

Negate Relationship Changes

Relationship changes from fairy abilities, negative or positive, are removed.

Rank 4 – Brilliant

Spillover Resistance

Lowers the chance for a spillover emotion to occur when absorbing emotions.

OR

Spillover Sensitivity

Increases the chance for a spillover emotion to occur when absorbing emotions.

Rank 5 – Radiant

Expert Regeneration

Using the “Regenerate Emotional Force” action (eg: in the fairy house) generates more emotional force.

OR

Energetic Dreamer

The fairy regenerates more emotional force when asleep.

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