Sims 4 Types Of Lot Traits: How To Add Them (Guide) 2024

Lot traits were a cool addition to the Sims game with the release of Sims 4: City Living. With this, numerous apartment traits were introduced and along with that, there were several lot traits for the base game as well. These traits can transform your entire lot, help your sims gain more skills or let you add creepy crawlies. 

You can access these Sims 4 lot traits in the build mode and it’d open an entirely new world of Myshuno for you. Your sims would now be able to live in residential lots and have the perfect city view from their apartment.

This feature has an impact on the game’s storyline as well. So choose out of the 40 lot traits available to you, out of which 10 are compatible with the base game.

How to Add Lot Traits Sims 4?

As I mentioned earlier, these Sims 4 lot traits are available in the build mode. To go to the build mode, click on the button on the top right corner or press F2. In the build mode, click on the small house icon in the top left corner. 

You have the option to choose any 3 lot traits or none of them. But if you’re wondering about how to edit lot traits Sims 4, then let me tell you that the best part about this feature is that you can change these traits whenever you want, but there might be some of them that are permanent, such as the “historical” trait. For deleting a lot trait, hover over it and click on the small x in the corner. 

If you have the City Living Expansion pack, it’d add 12 traits, Vampires pack would bring in 3 traits, Cats and Dogs adds 6 traits related to pets. With Jungle Adventure, another lot trait is added regarding jungle vacationing, Get Famous adds 3 lot traits related to celebrities, and there are many more such ways to acquire this feature. 

Sims 4 Lot Traits

Now let’s look at the lot traits that this game offers. 

Base Game Lot Traits

• Homey – This trait increases your sim’s cooking, baking, gourmet, gardening, mixology, and handiness skills up to 50%. So if your sim wants a career in mixology or culinary, then this would be the perfect lot trait. Sims with the green thumb can also benefit from this and get a happy moodlet. 

• Bracing Breezes – Get ready to enjoy a 50% increase in your athletic skills, and if you have The Sims 4: Spa Day, then your wellness skill would also boost, rewarding you with an energized mood.

• Great Acoustics – For those preparing for the entertainer career or wants to earn money by doing small gigs, can use this lot trait, which increases guitar, violin, piano, organ, DJ mixing, and singing skills of your sim. The sims would also gain an inspired moodlet after learning these skills. 

• Fast Internet – Every skill related to computers, such as writing, programming, video gaming, and so on boost by 50%. A sim with the Computer Whiz Aspiration must have this lot trait, and they’d also receive an energized moodlet.  

• Private Dwelling – This lot trait is perfect for sims who love their privacy. No one can enter your sim’s house unless they invite them. 

• Natural Light – Lighting is quite an important factor when it comes to painting and photography, so this lot trait would boost these skills of yours by 50% and offer sims with an inspired moodlet. This would help sims with the Painter Extraordinaire Aspiration. 

• Teen Neighbourhood – If your household has a teenager, then this lot trait would work in their favor as they can make new friends quickly with the teenagers roaming around the lot. 

• Science Lair – This lot trait creates minimum distraction for your sims, and allows them to boost their rocket science and logic skills up to 50%. Those who wish to visit Sixam would find this trait really helpful, as it also gives them a focused moodlet.

• Convivial – If your sim is lacking in social skills, then this lot trait can fix that because it boosts your sim’s Charisma, Comedy and Mischief skills by 50%. Sims pursuing the Entertainer career, and especially the Comedy path can use this feature for their benefit because they’d also gain a confident moodlet, which is quite essential in such a profession.

• Off-The-Grid – This is one of the Sims 4 lot challenges in a way because your sim would have to live off-the-grid without electricity, they only have the “Take Quick and Tepid Shower” option, and they can only use a stove if cooking with gas. This trait works great with the Rags to Riches challenge, but otherwise, it creates a lot of difficulties and makes the gameplay more exciting. 

• Clothing Optional – As the name suggests, this lot trait allows your sim to run naked around their lot, and they’d only be covered with pixels. Some players might be interested in this because it promotes a natural and empowering lifestyle in a way. However, sims with the childish, squeamish, neat and snob trait can’t do the same. 

City Living Lot Traits

• Gnomes – This attribute is excellent for clumsy sims because it’ll magically fix every broken thing in the household at 3 am, so that when the sims wake up, all the things have returned to their original form. 

• Sunny Aspect – Your sims would gain the happy, energized, or inspired moodlet from 6 pm to 6 am because of this lot, and it’d last for 12 hours. 

• Romantic Aura – If your sim is involved in any romantic interactions, then this lot trait would give them a flirty moodlet. Any sim that enters your house would also feel the same way.

• Child’s Play – Whenever your child would be using a children’s object, they’d receive a playful moodlet. An adult sim with the childish trait would also feel the same way whenever they use a children’s object. 

• Home Studio – Now your sim can create better objects, such as painting, woodworks, and so on with a 10% boost that they can sell and earn money. The sims with Painter Extraordinaire and Best Selling Author Aspirations could really use this trait because their livelihood depends on creating masterpieces. 

• Gremlins – This Sims 4 Gremlins lot trait is the opposite of the Gnomes one because with this feature, objects in your sim’s house would break every night and your sims would have to fix them in the morning. It would improve your sim’s handiness skills, though. 

• Grody – With this trait, your sims would have a 1 in 3 chance of feeling nauseous whenever they eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. 

• Good Schools – Your sim’s performance in school would improve 15% with this trait and 10% for high school students. They’d also receive an A in school because of it. Along with this, 255 sims would gain a quality education moodlet that will increase their confidence. 

• Cursed – The cursed lot trait is everything that it sounds like. Your food would spoil quickly, cooking would lead to fires, your sims would get uncomfortable or tense at random times, and they could also die due to exhaustion or electrocution. 

• Spooky – Your sim’s house would be haunted by ghosts who can break things or create a lot of drama, and they’d always appear at 10:30 pm to scare your sims. Earlier this trait was named “Haunted,” but to avoid confusing it with the Haunted House Residential Lot in the Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff, it was renamed as Spooky. 

• Penny Pixies – Do you remember the feeling when you find loose change around the house? Well, this trait does just that. Your sim would find loose change while doing things around the house, and it’d help them gain a happy moodlet. 

• Mean Vibe – Whenever your sims would be involved in any mean or mischievous interactions, they’d receive an angry moodlet due to this lot trait.

• On Ley Line – Your sims would have a better chance of conceiving twins or triplets on this lot trait. This would be perfect for players going for the 100 baby challenge. 

• Quake Zone – Be ready for your sim to feel earthquakes at random times, which would make them tense and some of the objects at their house would also break. 

• Great Soil – Soil is quite a vital ingredient when gardening, so this lot trait would allow your sim’s plants to have good quality and grow faster by 10% from 7 am to 7pm. It’d be profitable for sims with the Freelance Botanist Aspiration. 

• Filthy – This lot trait isn’t that fun because it’d turn your house filthy quickly, and you’d continuously keep cleaning it. You might even have to hire a maid to help you out. 

• Party Place – Social events would improve your romantic and friendly interactions. In addition, it’d be easier for you to achieve your social event goals because the sims would gain a “Great for Atmosphere” happy moodlet when they enter the event, which is especially important for sims with the Party Animal Aspiration. 

• Chef’s Kitchen – Your sims can now cook delicious food and receive an inspired moodlet that would last for 2 hours, along with a 10% boost in their cooking skills. If your sims are rich, and have the refined palette attribute, then you’d definitely need to have high quality food. However, this lot trait works with Master Chef Aspiration as well. 

Locked Apartment Traits

These traits are the ones that are assigned to specific lots and the players can’t add these attributes to other lots or delete them. 

• Serviced Apartment – If you choose a lot with this trait, then you’d be blessed with a maid service for free. The maid would visit on every weekday at 9 am to clean the apartment. But remember that buying this apartment would cost you a lot. 

• Great View – Your sims would receive a “fantastic view” moodlet everytime that they are near the window, which would make them happy. 

• Historical – With this lot trait, your house would have a historical plaque that you can’t remove or move somewhere else in the house because when your sim views this plaque, they gain an inspired moodlet.

• Quiet – Isn’t it annoying when your neighbours are too noisy? Well, this trait would solve that problem because your house would never be around noisy neighbours, and you can sleep peacefully. 

• Romantic Fireplace – Your house would have a fireplace and you won’t be able to do anything about it. However, it’d work in your favor because whenever your sim is near it, they’d get a flirty moodlet, which would work well if your sim has a Serial Romantic Aspiration. 

• Lively Neighbours – Ah! The opposite of the quiet lot trait is this one because your house would have real noisy neighbours who’d party all night, and keep you awake the whole night. These goofball or erratic sims might also enter your lot uninvited. 

• Needs TLC – Tender loving care is all your house would need because it houses mice, roaches, weird smell, broken pipes, and power outages. So living here won’t be easy, but you might create a good bond with your landlord, and it’d improve your sim’s handiness. 

• Oceanic Paradise – You can enjoy the ocean life with this trait because sims can swim in the ocean with aquatic animals, and the non-mermaid sims can play with dolphins. 

Vampires Lot Traits

• Vampire Nexus – Vampires would be regular visitors to your lot because of this trait, and if you’re an aspiring vampire yourself, then this would help you learn from them. 

• On a Dark Ley Line – If you want a vampire baby, then this lot trait is the one for you. It doesn’t matter if the parents aren’t vampires. Your sim could even give birth to vampire twins or triplets as well. 

• Registered Vampire Lair – Communication with other vampires becomes a lot easier with this lot trait because now your sim can receive mails, books, plasma packs, and more from other vampires. 

Cats and Dogs Lot Traits

• Training Ground – This trait enables your sim to train their pets faster because they receive a 505 boost in their pet training skills. 

• Dog Hangout – All the dog lovers would love this trait because it allows stray dogs to enter your lot and roam around. You can even become friends with them, and if you feed them, they’d forever be grateful. 

• Dog Friendly – The concept of this attribute is similar to a dog park where several dogs meet and play with each other. This lot trait is especially for community lots where everyone can bring their dogs, and it’d work in favor of the sims with Friend of the Animal Aspiration. 

• Cat Hangout – With this trait, instead of dogs, you’d have cats hanging out at your lot and feeding them would make them love you even more. 

• Cat Friendly – You can now bring your cat to meet other cats due to this community lot trait, where they can play with each other and it’d help out sims with the Friend of the Animal Aspiration as well. 

• Breeding Grounds – This is sort of like the pet version of On Ley Line where your pregnant pets can have more than one baby in their litter. 

Jungle Adventure Traits

• Peace and Quiet – Your sim can now enjoy reading a book in the quiet, and even learn skills 50% faster by reading the skill building books. In addition, their tense mood after working hard would disappear once they start reading a book. 

• Creepy Crawlies – One of the most annoying traits is this one because it can spawn spiders, bees, bats or any other creepy crawly on your sim affecting their mood negatively. 

Get Famous Lot Traits

• Hottest Spot in Town – These lots are known as the hottest spot in town for a reason. Your sims would have to pay double for food and drinks, and if this trait is assigned to a restaurant, then they’d even have to pay §50 for a seat there. So this trait is not for an average sim. Also, the starlight accolades award show also take place here. 

• Up-and-Coming Hotspot – Unlike the previous trait, this community lot trait allows your celebrity sims to get a 25% discount on food and drinks. So if you’re planning on meeting your fans, plan it in a place with this trait. 

• Celebrity Home – Now this attribute is quite interesting because it’d restrict fans from visiting your lot to click pictures of you as they won’t have access unless they are invited or have a relationship with a member of the household. However, if you aren’t famous and live in this lot, then you’d receive negative moodlets. 

Island Living Traits

• Island Spirits – If you’re living in a lot with this trait, then you’d encounter haunted spirits, and you can communicate, release or banish these spirits. 

• Volcanic Activity – Just like the earthquakes, this lot trait would lead to volcano eruptions randomly. The ground would shake, objects would break, and lava would ooze out of the volcano on to the lot. Sims can either risk their lives and touch the lava bomb, or wait for it to cool down.

Discover University

• Study Spot – All the university students, teens and children would be able to study and do homework quickly, and also receive a skill building boost. This would enable them to study for a while longer before getting mentally exhausted. 

• University Student Hangout – University students can frequently visit this lot and have food and drinks at a 30% discount. 

Eco Lifestyle Lot Traits

• Eco Lot – The eco-footprint would work towards green 10% quickly. 

• Geothermal – With this trait, the power bill reduces to 28.57 power units per day and swimming in the pool offers your sim a happy moodlet. 

• Natural Well – Water bills also reduce to 28.57 water units per day, and drinking water would acquire your sim a happy moodlet. 

• Landfill Lot – Unlike the Eco Lot, in this the eco footprint would move towards industrial 20% quickly. Sims in the town would throw trash and other broken electronic appliances in the lot, and at 3 am, all of it would turn into trash plants. 

• Reduce and Recycle – Due to this lot trait, all the trash cans and dumpsters need to be sorted or sent to the garbage dump because if the trash overflows, then it’d bring roaches and flies along with it. Your sim’s inventory might include some recyclables, food compost, and garden compost depending on their interactions. 

Cottage Living Traits

• Simple Living – While living in a cottage, you won’t receive free ingredients for cooking, and you must purchase them from a grocery store, grow them yourself, or forage. Sims who are at level 10 in the cooking skills and have made 15 dishes can write their own cookbook. Other sims who read this cookbook can gain skills faster. 

• Wild Foxes – If your lot has chickens and rabbits, then beware because foxes might sneak in to steal eggs from your chicken’s coops or attack the animals on your lot.

Conclusion

Here we come to the end of this article. After reading this article, I’m certain that you’d have understood a lot about all the Sims 4 lot traits and might have even made a list of the ones you want to add.

Even though there are numerous lot traits, it might be a difficult task to choose any three attributes out of so many, but like we said, you can always switch them with something new.

There are no restrictions as to how many traits you can try, except the locked traits that are permanent. So keep on deleting and adding new lot traits as soon as you get bored of the existing ones. Enjoy swimming.