The Sims 4

Age Extension and Immortality

The Sims 4 Life Extension and Immortality
Drinking the Essence of Life from a Cow Plant will reset your Sim back to day 1 of their current life stage. Potions of Youth do the same, costing 1500 Satisfaction.

There are a few ways to make your Sim live forever in The Sims 4. Some involve cheats, while others do not. Let's explore some of the means of life-extension in the game, and what we can do to make that a regular part of the Sim's life.

Non-Cheating

Age Settings
Know that there are aging settings in The Sims 4's gameplay options menu. You can select whether all Sims age, or only those in your household, or disable aging entirely. Setting the Life Span to long will make children and teens take quite some time to age up, but you'll have loads of time to accumulate satisfaction for the following reward.

Potion of Youth
The Potion of Youth Reward is the easiest means of keeping a Sim youthful without cheating. The potion only gives one drink, but will reset the Sim back to the beginning of their current age group. Use it right before they age up for maximum value. Simply accrue 1,500 Satisfaction points by pursuing Whims and your Sim's Aspiration. and purchase this. You can even transfer these between Sims. This is my main go-to for keeping Sims young. However, there are other a couple of other options.

Cow Plant
When a cow plant kills a Sim, they give an essence of life that can be drank, offering the same benefit as a Potion of Youth. But a Sim must be killed. Don't feed the cow plant, and have them in a place guests will mingle or else have one of your own Sims take the cake it puts out as bait when hungry. Do this once, the Sim gets a negative moodlet. Do it a second time, and the Sim dies and leaves behind the essence, which is available when you milk it. You can learn more about Cow Plants in the Gardening Guide.

Get to Work - Scientist and Cloning Machine
Scientists can make the Age-Away serum, which will reset a Sim's age back to day 1 just as the other options do. It also is rather easy to get, though you've got to be level 10 in the Career. Additionally, the Scientist Career gets access to the cloning machine which can be used to make copies of potions, such as Age Away and Potion of Youth, and even Ambrosia or its ingredients. There are other great benefits to this Career, so I highly recommend it.

Cheating

Free Potion of Youth
Multiple routes to a free Potion of Youth. You can cheat to give your Sim points by using sims.give_satisfaction_points 1500 (or more) with testingcheats on. Additionally, you can use bb.showhiddenobjects to be able to find potions of youth for $0 in buy mode (use the search function).

Make Sim a Ghost
This requires a cosmetic change, given your Sim will be transparent. Look to our Ghosts Guide for cheats to make your Sim a type of ghost and take on the side effect of immortality. They won't age, and can't die!

Edit in CAS
Apparently, at time of writing, using the cas.fulleditmode cheat along with testingcheats to set your Sim back in age will result in them losing all their reward traits, while aspirations stay completed. This is no good, as you'd have to cheat to add them back in given the inability to redo the aspiration. Just use the points cheat above for this!

Prevent Death

With all this stated, Death can still take you (unless you're a Ghost). The solution to this is to have a Sim who has Death Flowers (Graft Orchid with Pomegranate) in their inventory to protect the other Sim from death by giving them to Grim on his visit. Additionally, Sims with high level Mischief can toy with death to perhaps prevent a Sim from dying, Sims can plead, and this works better when they're Confident.

Mods

Eternal and Immortal Buyable Traits
Created by vitopiresa at modthesims.info, you can buy the two listed traits for 6,000 and 8,000 satisfaction each. These are permanent. Eternal stops a Sim from aging, while Immortal will prevent a Sim being taken from the reaper. You can Download the Mod Here.

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BowJo22says...
This isn't any thing to do with the immortality section but I'm trying to get the grim reaper to marry my other sim Jenni but it just won't work!! Please can u help me☹️☹️
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Playalotsays...
Without mods you can not marry or romance the Grim Reaper in TS4 apart from flirt, give rose, compliment.
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Catherinesays...
If I have my settings to long lifespan, will npc also be affected.
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Playalotsays...
Yes. Smile As long as you have the settings correct.
Game Options>Game Play>Auto Age Unplayed Sims checked. This effects NPC's
If you check the Played Sims, this effects your own sims.
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BowJo22says...
Laugh thanks!!
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avettysays...
thanks it helps me figure out how to do certain things
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SirThanesays...
This page may be deprecated by now, but may want to add this. With the Vampires game pack, you become immortal without negatively affecting game play with the added benefit of practically never having to worry about motives. Simply pop a few plasma fruit every day and your awake and functioning forever.

And if you're worried about the master/offspring relationship, more specifically, the fact that you have a master, just become friends with them, offer the cure, then offer to turn. Voila. You're now a supreme grand master vampire without your own master.
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Hamptonsays...
My sim isnt coming back at night! The urn is in the house, but shes not here! Please help!Sad
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Playlotsays...
Can take up to two sim weeks, just have to be patient and be on the lot between the hours of 11pm and 6am every day.
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English muffinsays...
These are some awesome cheats love them.
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Alexissays...
how do you age up a ghost sim?
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Playlotsays...
Bake a cake and add candles to it (click on the cake) Age them up by directing the ghost to blow out the candles or taste the frosting which are available when you click on the birthday cake.
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Alexissays...
that's the thing, the game doesn't recognise that a ghost needs to age up.
even if you go into the calendar and try to arrange B-day party, it won't.
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Playlotsays...
My bad, instead what you can do to age up a ghost is enable testingcheats on. Then enter the cheat cas.fulleditmode on and shift-click the ghost and choose 'Modify in CAS'. On entering CAS you can click on the next age group up (teen to young adult, or young adult to adult, or adult to elder). On exiting CAS your ghost will now be older. Save your game before doing this and remember aging down in CAS is never a good idea and can lead to all sorts of reward traits and aspiration glitches.
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Lsays...

time to add in potions from spellcasters!

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Playalotsays...

Guide to Realm of Magic potions here

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RoxyLuffersays...

You could even say that Vampirism is a form of immortality, so long as you're careful during daytime hours XD Playing a Vampire is fun....until you burn up and die anyways! XD

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Baran Chahardovaleesays...

Everytime I do testingcheats, it says that cheats are disabled. What do I do?

-New Simmer

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RoxyLuffersays...

you type "testingcheats on" to turn them on, and off at the end to do what you'd expect.

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OtakuDsays...

Realm of Magic also has an option here with potions in case ppl need, you can stop ageing at the current life stage or even stop them only dying as elders.

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joesays...

VERY EPIC, THANK U!!!

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Gudangsays...

Post should be updated to include Immortality potion from Realm of Magic.

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Anonymoussays...

At least one legit method of resetting age us missing - Mother Plant in Strangeville. Upon completing the quest line, killing the Mother plant the player can revive and then befriend it. That opens up a conversation option to ask for "life extension". That resets your age back to the beginning of current sge group.

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mrsays...

you could cheat a sim into spellcaster

max level with cheats

and cheat a tome of immortal

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Itzel Gonzalezsays...

The Mother Alien in Strangerville resets your current age if you ask her.

You have to defeat her and befriend her but there’s eternal life!!!!

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Ethansays...

Is there a way to go back to being mortal legitimately?

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TheBestDerpsays...

No matter what you do with game settings, Alex Moyer does not age and can't be killed. Those traits are copied onto any sims made by using an upgraded cloning machine to clone her.

You can use this and cas.fulleditmode to clone Alex and then change the new sim to whoever / whatever you want, and still keep the immortal / eternal tags from Alex. I've had a whole family of non-vampire immortals from this method. :D

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Marten Maloneysays...

I saw that satisfaction points can be transferred, how do i do that?

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Lauriesays...

My favorite Sims site. :) Thank you, Carl!

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Kipparsays...

Some of the commands don't work for me, am I putting it wrong or smth??

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Kipparsays...

Some commands won't work for me, am I putting it wrong or something?? (It's mostly the trait commands.)



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