How to Have Your Sims Never Have Their Needs Go Down on the Sims 3

Co-authored by Alex Keller

Last Updated: July 25, 2020

Do you hate having to sleep, eat, or use the bathroom in The Sims 3 when you could be building skills or exploring tombs? This cheat will give your whole household bladders of steel and bottomless energy.

Steps

1
Enter the household you want to freeze the motives of.
2
Open the cheat console. Hold down Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C. A small bar should appear at the top of the game window.
- Windows Vista users may have to hold down the Windows button along with the other three.
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3
Enable testingcheats. Type testingcheatsenabled true and hit Enter.
4
Hold down ⇧ Shift and click on the mailbox in front of your house.
5
Select Make All Happy. This will fill all your Sims' needs bars. It only affects the Sims you control, not any NPCs or visitors in your household.
- You can also click and drag the needs bars up and down with your mouse. This will stop working after you make needs static.
6
Select Make Needs Static. Shift-click the mailbox a second time and select Make Needs Static. Your Sims' needs will not change as long as this is enabled.
- To make Sims' needs behave normally again, shift-click the mailbox and press Make Needs Dynamic.

Community Q&A

Question

How can I make my Sims needs not go down in Sims 4?

Community Answer

Press Ctrl-Shift-C and type in "Testingcheats on" (without the "s) and then you can shift click on a Sim or mailbox and stop the needs from going down.
Question

I shift-clicked on my mailbox and it said there were no interactions available, but my testing cheats were enabled. What should I do?

Community Answer

Try it again, making sure that it's written as "testingCheatsenabled true." Capital letters are important!