The Sims 3 cheats, codes and tips (guide)

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These The Sims 3 cheat codes are awesome unlockables for everyone’s favorite life sim PC game. These Sims 3 codes will let you unlock different outfits, 50,000 Simoleons at a time for easy money, and enable slow-motion. Tips include stopping the aging of your Sims, getting rich fast, and making friends easily.

The Sims 3 on PC Go into cheat mode:

While playing the game, press the CTRL + SHIFT + C keyboard buttons at the same time to display the cheat console window. In that text box (comes up in the corner), type the below listed codes in and hit the ENTER key to get the desired effect.

The code is followed by — Its effect on the game:

  • Kaching — Get 1,000 more Simoleons added to your household funds.
  • Motherlode — Get 50,000 more Simoleons added to your household funds.
  • moveObjects on [or off] — Hand tool can move any object anywhere in buy and build modes. Basically removes limitations for placing/moving objects
  • testingCheatsenabled true [or false] — Enables testing cheats on objects. Lets you move your Sims’ status (fun, energy and other) bars by clicking and dragging them. Note: This will unlock everything that you could also do in The Sims 2 with the boolProp testingcheatsenabled true/false command.
  • constrainFloorElevation true [or false] — Allows terrain adjustments regardless of objects/Sims/etc on them.
  • disableSnappingToSlotsOnAlt on [or off] — When on, objects will not snap to slots while holding ALT.
  • enablellamas on [or off] — Unknown result, it doesn’t seem to do anything, so it might be a joke.
  • fadeObjects on [or off] — Toggles whether objects fade when the camera gets close to them. Does not affect Sims.
  • fullscreen on [or off] — Turns full-screen on or off.
  • hideHeadlineEffects on [or off] — Shows or hides the talk/thought balloons above Sim heads.
  • jokePlease — Prints a random joke to the console.
  • quit — Exits the game.
  • fps on [or off] — Shows the framerate in upper right corner.
  • resetSim [first name here] [last name here] — Returns Sims to a safe, neutral state at their home location.
  • slowMotionViz 8 [down to 0] — Puts visuals in slow motion. 0 is normal, with 8 being the slowest. Does not affect the speed of time in-game.
  • unlockOutfits on [or off] — This must be entered before going into CAS. Shows career outfits and service uniforms.
  • familyfunds [Familyname] # — Add or extract money for a chosen family.
  • help — Shows all the cheats in The Sims 3 like this list does.


    • How to stop the aging of your Sims:

    In the game’s main options menu, go into “Game Options”, then look under “Options” for the option to toggle aging on or off. No cheat codes needed, easy does it!

    How to make easy money:

    To become rich very fast by writing books, you have to take these steps.
    1. Start writing novels on your computer. Write fiction novels since they take the least amount of time. But at first they won’t bring in much money.
    2. When you write your skill will automatically advance. If your skill is high enough you will be able to write more novel types/genres.
    3. The most money can be made from “Romance Novels”. You get royalties for 6 weeks once you finish a book.
    4. With the writing skill maxed out, you can make around 40.000 every week, which is more than 34.800 you get by purchasing all neighborhood businesses and takes less time to achieve.
    5. In three game weeks you should have super high-speed writing, 9/10 novels as best-sellers and 100.000.

    How to make friends easily:

    To become friends with the whole neighborhood, you have to take these steps.
    1. Buy a guitar, then play it to learn how to play guitar. The higher your guitar skill is, the faster other Sims become your friends.
    2. Keep playing until you reach level 5/10, which gives you the ability to “play for tips”.
    3. When you have the ability, go to the park with the guitar in your inventory.
    4. When you are in the park, click on the guitar in your inventory and select “play for tips”.

    How to prevent death:

    1. Go to Pleasant Rest Graveyard, and near the gate, there is a strange bush called a “Death Flower Bush” – Harvest the flower from it.
    2. Keep this flower in your sim’s inventory, and if you die, you will automatically offer this flower to the Grim Reaper, who will ressurect you in exchange for it.
    Note: This flower will not reappear, but there are Unknown Special Seeds (requires level 7 Gardening to plant) dotted about near the graveyard (and a few other places) which may grow another Death Flower(and sometimes more Death Flowers if your Sim has the Green Thumb trait to revive the plant.

    Funny video about new ways to kill off your Sims once you get bored! 😀

    Thanks to Gary R. for sending these in.