The Sims 4 skill cheats to master bartending, herbalism, and more

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Using these Sims 4 skill cheats will make your Sim pretty much perfect, or at least incredibly skilled up. This guide will have you maxed out on all the special abilities and skills in The Sims 4 with little in the way of actual practice, meaning faster career progression and getting more money in The Sims 4. Plus, with expansion packs like Growing Together giving us the infant life state to nurture, you'll want to give your struggling parent Sims some shortcuts to help stay afloat.

Whether you’re looking to skip the gym shred, best your neighbors at gardening, or excel in gourmet cooking, we’ve got cheat codes for that. For a more general look at global cheats, check out our Sims 4 cheats guide, including Sims 4 relationship cheats and Sims 4 career cheats. Spend less time levelling up and more time playing. Here are the best Sims 4 skill cheats.

Sims 4 skill cheats: how to enable cheats

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Before you use Sims 4 skill cheats, you'll need to enable them in the game first. It's fairly straightforward and essential to using Sims 4 skill cheats as nothing will work until you do this step. Here's how to do it: 

  • The Sims 4 PC cheats: Hold Ctrl and Shift, then press c
  • The Sims 4 Mac cheats: Hold Command and Shift, then press c
  • The Sims 4 PS4 and PS5 cheats: Hold down all four shoulder buttons at once
  • The Sims 4 Xbox One and Xbox Series X cheats: Hold down all four shoulder buttons at once

That should give you a text box where you can then enter in all the cheats you want. 

The Sims 4 skill cheats

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Here are all the Sims 4 skill cheats you'll need to max out a skill for your Sim. If any skill is missing from this list, try and swap it into the existing formula and see if the cheat will work for you! There are even some child and toddler skill cheats you can use to make your kids more social, creative, or smart. 

Most skills have a max level of 10, but not all of the skills in the game. Wherever the max number is less than 10, we'll let you know what that max number is next to the skill. Also, some of these skills are specific to a Sims 4 Expansion Pack, so some of the skill cheats won't work unless you've got the extra content.

Type the following into your cheat box and then slot in any of the skills listed below:

stats.set_skill_level [Skill Name] X - replace X with 1-10 (10 = max) to set your Sim's skill level, and swap [Skill Name] for any of the following skills

  • Major_Acting
  • AdultMajor_Fabrication
  • Major_Archaeology
  • Major_Baking
  • Major_Bartending
  • Major_Bowling
  • Major_HomestyleCooking
  • Major_Charisma
  • Major_Comedy
  • Minor_Dancing (max level 5)
  • Major_DJ
  • AdultMajor_FlowerArranging
  • Major_Herbalism
  • Major_Fishing
  • Skill_Fitness
  • Major_Gardening
  • Major_GourmetCooking
  • Major_Guitar
  • Major_Handiness
  • Major_HomestyleCooking
  • Major_Logic
  • Minor_Media (max level 5)
  • Major_Mischief
  • Major_Painting
  • Major_Photography
  • Major_Piano
  • Major_Programming
  • Major_RocketScience
  • Major_Snowboarding
  • Major_Skiiing
  • Major_Vet
  • Major_VideoGaming
  • Major_Violin
  • Major_Wellness
  • Major_Writing

The Sims 4 child skills cheats

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Here's the skill cheats that'll help you advance your child's skills in The Sims 4:

  • Child_Creativity
  • Child_Mental
  • Child_Motor
  • Child_Social
  • AdultMajor_Knitting

The Sims 4 toddler skills cheats

Here's the cheats to type in to level up your toddler's skills in The Sims 4:

  • Toddler_Communication (Max level 5)
  • Toddler_Imagination (Max level 5)
  • Toddler_Movement (Max level 5)
  • Toddler_Potty (Max level 3)
  • Toddler_Thinking (Max level 5)

Those are most (if not all) of The Sims 4 skill cheats that will have your Sim starring in films or painting masterpieces in no time.


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Alyssa Mercante

Alyssa Mercante is an editor and features writer at GamesRadar based out of Brooklyn, NY. Prior to entering the industry, she got her Masters's degree in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University with a dissertation focusing on contemporary indie games. She spends most of her time playing competitive shooters and in-depth RPGs and was recently on a PAX Panel about the best bars in video games. In her spare time Alyssa rescues cats, practices her Italian, and plays soccer.

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