How To Bring A Sim Back to Life Sims 4 (Guide) 2024

The death of a person, in life and in-game, can be very painful and upsetting. Sometimes you lose a sim over a silly incident, or an utterly catastrophic thing happens to hit them, whatever be the case, you do wish to bring them back.

Now, every dead sim in the game that has his character data stored is capable of being brought back to life. This process of bringing back a dead sim to life is called resurrection.

So, if your sim has a tombstone or an urn after his death, you can be assured that his character data is saved and can thus be resurrected.

Now, there are different sims 4 revive sim cheats or actions that you can perform to bring a sim back to life. All of these are mentioned in this article. So, let’s plunge into this TS4 resurrection guide to know them all!

What’s a sims 4 resurrection cheat?

A cheat is supposed to be a quick fix to all your troubles in the game, and as the name suggests, a resurrection cheat is supposed to revive your dead sim. However, there’s a twist here!

The sims 4 currently doesn’t have a one-liner, aka cheat code, to reverse this situation. However, there are other interesting ways that can do the trick. But they will require a tad bit of effort from your side.

So, this guide will take you through all of those ways to cheat the grim reaper. But now you might be tempted to ask why isn’t there a cheat for this yet?

Well, we do not have an official answer to this since Maxis and the Sims studio hasn’t released anything on this matter. Yet, simmers speculate a lot on this.

Our best possible explanation for why there isn’t a cheat for resurrection yet is that developers don’t want the act of dying to lose its meaning.

See it like this – If you know you can bring back your sim with just one click, would death mean anything to you in the game? Will a sim dying to give you even a hint of sadness? The obvious answer is no.

So, to preserve the game’s “reality” and the concept of life and death, there isn’t a cheat code yet. However, as stated earlier, we have other ways to help you out.

The sims 4: how to bring a sim back to life?

We talked so much about why we do not have a cheat code, and it might have left you a bit disheartened. But worry no more! We are now to discuss the revival of your long-lost sim and the ghost sims as well.

The methods below are some of the easiest and tested worldwide by an army of simmers. Some of these might be known to all and will fall into the basic techniques category, and some might be known to a few. But, be assured that this guide will leave you with all the knowledge that you need to master these tricks and use them to your advantage.

We start with the easiest methods and move to a tad bit complex ones. In addition to this, some might require you to have one or two EPs or work on certain skill-sets. So, let’s quickly get to know them!

Not saving your progress

While this might not sound like a full-fledged solution, not saving the progress in your game can resurrect your character. It is one of the simplest and quickest ways of bringing them back.

So, if you are a new player and wondering how this works, then let me elaborate it for you: Whenever your sim dies, leave the game straight away (without saving it) and move to the main menu.

Then, go back to playing the game from your last save point. This way, you’d lose your progress and the part where your character was taken away by the grim reaper and basically reverse the whole situation.

Now, this isn’t really a resurrection per se, but a way of going back in time so that you can make better decisions and not let your dear sims die as a consequence of them.

However, there are certain downsides to this method. Firstly, you lose your most recent progress, including any skill you might have leveled up or acquired, your new home, etc. Basically, you have to start all over again from the last save point. And secondly,

it won’t work if you do not decide to exit the game quickly after your character’s death because if you accidentally save your game, then it’s all done and dusted! Therefore, you won’t be able to undo the deed.

So, if these problems seem a little too much for you, then you might want to skip this method.

Book of life

Those who are veteran simmers must already know what the book of life is. But if you are a newbie, then know that it’s the perfect weapon when it comes to defeating death.

So, what is this book of life?

It’s an item, an actual book that you acquire when you opt for a writer career path. This book can be used to bring back ghost sims to life. So, it’s perfectly suited for the process of resurrection. Now, to get this book of life, you’ll need to do a couple of things. These are:

• You should have level 10 in writing skills. This can be a long process, but you can instantly use cheats to max the bar.
• Achieve the ‘best-selling author’ aspiration. For this, you have to write and publish some books.
• Lastly, you have to be a writer and WRITE. (On your computer)

Now, once you’ve completed all of these steps, you need to do the final thing – bind the book of life to a sim.

Binding a book of life to a sim simply means that before your character dies, you need to bind this book to them (an option will be there), and when they die and turn into ghosts, you can use this book to revive them. Furthermore, you can create as many copies of this book as you like and bind to as many sims as you want. The only catch is that it needs to be done before their demise; otherwise, it won’t work.

Ambrosia

This is one of the most popular ways of resurrection and is known by almost all simmers. Moreover, Ambrosia was also a part of sims 3 and found its way into sims 4 as well. So, the function of this item remains the same.

Now, for those of you who don’t know, Ambrosia is a food item that a ghost sim can eat to guarantee his revival and coming back to the original sim state. But acquiring an Ambrosia is not an easy feat, even if you use cheats for the same. So, let’s see what you need to create this magical food item:

• Death Flower
• Angelfish
• Potion of Youth

How to get these items?

• You’ll need herbalism skills to get the death flower in the sims 4. Furthermore, you need to do grafting (pomegranate + orchid) to get this flower. (Note: Grafting requires combining two plants to create a new variety, and it’s a skill that you acquire when you level up in Herbalism.)
• Angelfish isn’t something that you can craft, but it’s a hidden item that is found in some specific locations. One such location is near a boat in the Willow River.
• The potion of youth is buyable from the rewards store in just 1500 satisfaction points. However, you can use the “buydebug” cheat to get it.

Now, the struggle doesn’t end in acquiring the ingredients; you’ll need your cooking and gourmet skill maxed out, too, to craft this. 

Tip: If you have the realm of magic pack, and you are also a spell caster, you can easily get the ingredients by cloning them.

Wishing well

A whispering wishing well is another sure way of giving your beloved sim a shot at life again. If you haven’t heard of this item, then this is something you get when you have the sims 4: Romantic Garden stuff pack installed.

So, if you have the stuff pack, this is what you need to know about the wishing well.

The wishing well is a build mode item in the game that can be bought for 7,775 simoleons. It’s a magnificent item with a statue-face that alters all the time. This face is also an integral part of the revival process.

Now, how does this wishing well work?

The wishing well is a place where you can go and whisper to the face to make him grant your wish. However, this face statue goes through 6 different emotional states throughout the day, and thus, the outcome of your wish depends a lot on his mood at that time. So, if you asked him at the wrong time, chances are he turned your wish into a curse!

The trick here is that you or your ghost sim should approach him when he’s in a happy mood or add more money into the well to cheer him up.

Here are the possible outcomes that might appear when you reach out to the wishing well with your wish:

The best time to get your wish granted is when the wish is happy. The chances that you’ll receive a neutral outcome, in this case, will be 25 percent, followed by 7 percent negative and 3 percent overwhelmingly negative.

Real of magic

The TS4: Realm of magic pack added a plethora of magical possibilities for the sims, including some astonishing magical cheats. Furthermore, it granted an opportunity of being spellcaster sims and defeating the grim reapers.

Now, there are two spells that can let you revive your character. One is for instant resurrection, and the other lets you clone the ingredients needed for crafting Ambrosia.

Here are the cheats to learn these spells quickly,

• Copypasto – spells.unlock_spell spells_Practical_3_Duplicate
• Dedeathify – spells.unlock_spell spells_Untamed_4_Resurrect

The process of using these spells is easy-peasy; you need to locate the dead character and do a “dedeathify” spell on him. Or you can use “copypasto” to clone ingredients, craft the food item and hand it to the ghost sim.

The move object cheat

Now, this is an actual cheat that can be used as a replacement of the sims 4 resurrect cheat. However, this method is slightly tricky.

To use the move objects cc, you’ll need to first enable the cheat by simultaneously pressing the keys – CTRL, Shift, and C. Then, you need to type “testingcheats true” in the cheating console to enable the cheats. Next, you have to add the “move_object on” cheat code in the console to activate the move objects cheat. Once this is done, you can use this to move anything in the game, including the grim reaper!

Now, here’s what you should do to revive your character with this cheat when he dies:

• Pause the game when the grim reaper comes to claim your dead character.
• Click on the grim reaper and press the “delete” button on your pc to make him disappear.
• Lastly, click on the fallen sim and choose the “+” option to revive him.

That’s all you need to do to get back with your deceased character. But be quick because if the grim reaper is successful in capturing your sim’s corpse, then he’s gone for good, and this cheat won’t ever work on him.

The MC command center

Lastly, we have the MC command center, which is another most reliable way of getting your deceased character alive and kicking. This can be counted as a real resurrection cheat in TS4.

It’s highly unlikely that a simmer does not know what MCCC is, but for those rare ones – it’s an ultimate mod/cheat tool that is made for TS4. It is jam-packed with cheats and modifications that can change even the tiniest things on the game, including the number of children, weather, etc. All you need to do is select your character and toggle through the menu to alter anything that you want.

Now, to revive your deceased character, you need to right-click on his icon. There you’ll get the option of “sim commands,” which will offer you another option of “Revive sim.” Pretty easy, isn’t it? This will bring back your fallen sims in a blink of an eye and is the safest option out there.

How to revive a character in The Sims 4 on Xbox One and PS4?

All the methods described above work fairly well for the Xbox One and PS4 users. However, only MCCC isn’t available for you to be able to resurrect your deceased sim. We don’t know why that is the case, but MCCC is strictly built for PCs. Rest all of the other methods can be utilized by you.

Conclusion

We know not having a resurrection cheat can be really infuriating for you simmers. But, know that the methods mentioned above do wonders when used correctly. So, let’s not whine over what we don’t have and use the amazing Sims 4 revive sim hacks to our advantage! Our best bet is to use the MCCC for its hassle-free process and instant result.

Have fun swimming!