Let’s wade through everything we know so far about The Sims 4 Kayaking, included in the Adventure Awaits Expansion Pack!
A new way to travel the waters and level up your Sims’ Fitness and Fishing skills is finally here. Kayaks have been added to the Sims world in the newest expansion pack, The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits. Now your Sims can grab their paddle and row around the world with ease.
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Pick up a Paddle
Ready to explore life on the water? If your Sim is looking for a new mode of water transportation outside of the classic Aqua Zip or Outrigger Canoe, send your Sim over to This Oar That Shop to purchase their very own Paddler’s Pride Kayak. There are five kayaks available in various colors of the rainbow, each costing 320 Simoleons. These are also available in Buy Mode for a pricey 525 Simoleons.
Since they’re available to ages Kids and up, just about any Sim can enjoy their time on the water in a kayak.
It’s Row Time
When your Sim is ready to go out on the water, just click on a body of water and select the Paddle Here interaction to hop in a kayak. Once they’re in the kayak, your Sim can click on the water to Paddle Around.
You can also click on your Sim in a kayak to access the following interactions:
- Customize Stickers…
- Exit Paddler’s Pride Kayak
- Go Fishing (not available while the kayak is moving)
- Paddle Around on Paddler’s Pride Kayak
- Rename Paddler’s Pride Kayak
- Set Favorite Water Vehicle
If you want to add some personality to your kayak, there are five sticker customization options in The Sims 4:
Glow-in-the-Dark Jellyfish
Butterfly & Plumbird Paradise
Voidcritter Friends
Precious Gems
Camper’s Delight
Your Sim can kayak in both shallow and deep waters, and even pools! Rain, shine, or snow, no matter the weather, kayaking is always an option with The Sims: 4 Adventure Awaits.
Fitness & Fishing with a Kayak
As your Sim traverses the waves in their kayak, you’ll notice they’ll also increase their Fitness skill. The weight of the oar paired with the water resistance works as an excellent exercise, helping your Sims get stronger with each paddle.
If your Sim is looking for a more leisurely day out on the water, they can fish right from their kayak. Your Sim will try to catch fish, and their Fishing skills will increase, just like fishing on land.
The Sims 4 Kayaking Limitations
The Sims 4 kayaking feature has some exciting new aspects, like fishing from the kayak, but we can’t help but notice some limitations that come along with it.
Despite several worlds having flowing rivers, deep fishing ponds, and even beachfront access, there are still a handful of water features that are not accessible by kayak.
It’s disappointing that we can’t kayak through places like the winding rivers of Tomarang from The Sims 4: For Rent or the swampy pond in Ravenwood from The Sims 4: Life & Death.
This could be due to the fact that kayaking was not given the “skill treatment”, unlike Natural Living, which introduces the Bathe in Water interaction. This is also slightly disappointing, since kayaking is a very skilled activity. Increasing the Fitness and Fishing skills is a nice touch, but it does not simulate the full kayaking experience.
While your Sims can Paddle through parts of Tomarang, you can’t interact or Paddle through the winding rivers of Koh Sahpa, which would have been an exciting way to increase the kayak skill. Imagine being able to access different types of water as your Sim improves at kayaking, or learning new moves like a Barrel Roll.
Are you ready to paddle the waters with your Sim? Do you think The Sims 4 kayaking could use a little more work? Let us know your thoughts on the new feature from The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits below!
Author’s Note: Thank you for providing feedback on this article and helping to clarify where exactly Sims can Kayak! The article has been updated to reflect this information. Unfortunately, I ran into an MCC error that caused my kayak to be removed from the Personal Inventory during Travel, which led to some confusion on my end. Happy Simming!
No kayaking on Tartosa/San Sequoia and specially Tomarang (imagine camping on the island and traveling by kayak…) is extremely disappointing, and I have to laugh at them letting us kayak on that ditch on Britechester of all places. I don’t understand the limitation since some of the unusable bodies of water are massive. Massive fumble by the team with this pack, yet again.
The kayak can be used in any body of water that can be swam in, I’m not sure why the article says otherwise. I’ve tested it in-game myself.
I saw pictures of sims who kayaking in Tomarang, so not sure this article is 100% accurate
Well, the fact that you can’t use the kayaks in some worlds is another blatant omission of this underwhelming pack.
Did you know that the jellyfish is not visible on the big Spa Day aquarium and it’s visible on the Cats and Dogs aquarium?
My bad, the aquarium of Dine Out does not display the jellyfish either.
You can kayak in all worlds with swimmable water. The trick is to get the right depth. Kayak requires deep water. The screenshots to ‘prove’ that there is no kayak all show the bathe in water option which is only available in more shallow water. If you can’t find the kayak option, try clicking elsewhere in the water, preferably a deep water. Finding the right depth for bath in water is far more tricky than finding the kayak depth. My sim successfully paddled in Toomarang, Tartosa, Nordhaven, Ravenwood and Moonwood mill