Sims 4 Easy Steps To Reset A Sim (Complete Guide) 2024

The Sims 4 is quite an efficient working game, but at the end of the day, it’s a game which is prone to glitches and lagging. For instance, you might have encountered times when your sim stops listening to any of your commands or just gets stuck at a specific place.

It’s pretty annoying when something like this happens, but this article would talk about all the ways Sims 4 Reset Sim works instead of restarting the game every time.  

How to Reset a Sim in Sims 4?

There are numerous ways to reset your sims if your sim is stuck Sims 4, including cheats and other methods. Let’s try to understand all these methods so that the next time this happens, you don’t have to wonder about “why is my sim not responding Sims 4.”

1. Back up everything – 

The first thing that you can try is to save your game before restarting it or using cheat codes to avoid any mistakes in case the game doesn’t load correctly, or you click on something you didn’t intend to. Saving your game and then reloading it works most of the time. 

2. Use cheat codes – 

So the next thing that you can do to reset your sims is to open the cheat console by clicking on Ctrl+Shift+C for PC and MAC users, and on the top left-hand side, a blank box would appear that indicates that the cheat console is activated. For PS4 or Xbox One users, click all four triggers at once. 

Once you activate the cheat console, all the achievements and trophies of your sims will disappear. 

1. Type “testingcheats on” or “testingcheats true” in the blank box and press enter. 
2. A message saying “testing cheats enabled” will pop up on the screen once you’re successful. 

There are a lot of cheats that you can use to check which one works the best for you. Here’s the list of all the reset sim cheat methods:

Use a cheat code

The first way is to use a reset sim code “resetsim FirstName LastName.” Enter the name of your sim here, and don’t forget to use capital letters wherever required. For example, “resetsim Bob Pancakes.” This cheat code allows you to reset any household sim of yours, even if you aren’t controlling them. 

Cheat menu

The second option is to use the cheat menu wherein PC/MAC users can press the shift button and click on the sim you wish to reset. A menu will open from which you can select the “Reset Object (debug)” option.

For Xbox One users, click on the A and B buttons at once, and PS4 players can click on the X and O buttons simultaneously for this menu to appear. The sim would jump and start functioning normally as soon as you reset them. 

Teleport your sim

The last method is to teleport your sim. To do so, make sure the sim you wish to reset is the one you’re controlling, and then shift-click on the ground of the place where you want to teleport your sim. Choose the “teleport here” option from the menu, which would reset your sim. 

3. Go to Create a Sim –

The shift-click menu allows you to go to create-a-sim, which sometimes works in case of unusual glitches as it changes your sim’s appearance and place. A vanity table or dresser can also work for create a sim, where you can choose the “create new outfit” option. 

4. Travel with sims

A concept similar to teleporting, you can travel with the sim you want to reset or with your entire household as it’d change their location and reset them. Travelling with the entire household would also solve any other glitches you’re facing with the items. 

5. Use Extreme Measures

The last option for you to make your sim function properly is to move them to a new lot and back to the old lot. You can shift your entire household to a new lot as well; however, there’s the risk of all your furniture vanishing or being placed in the inventory. Therefore, use this method only if the ones mentioned above don’t work. 

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Conclusion

These were all the ways for resetting Sims 4, and they work most of the time. Since there are so many methods, we advise you to try all of them before moving on to the last resort, which is taking extreme measures.

We hope this article on Sims 4 reset sim helped you out, and these different ways would come in handy whenever you face such a glitch in the game again.