If you’re playing The Sims 4 and you want to purposely get your Sims sick, keep on reading this guide to learn what your Sims need to do to get sick.
Maybe you don’t want your Sims to go to work or you want them to skip an important social event.
Or you simply want to watch them suffer.
Whatever your reasons, there are many methods you can use to make your Sims sick and nauseous.
How do you make your Sims sick?
If you want to make your Sims sick, deprive them of sleep, don’t let them bathe, have them eat spoiled food or raw meat, or spend time in cold weather dressed in summer clothes. These methods are guaranteed to get your Sims sick and drain the energy out of them.
If the Grody lot challenge is active, there’s a 30 percent chance your Sims will feel nauseous when eating, drinking, or using the toilet.
Of course, these are not the only ways you can get your Sims sick.
I compiled a list of 15 tested methods you can use to make your Sims sick.
Let’s dive in!
How can I make my Sim sick in Sims 4?
1. Deprive your Sims of sleep
If your Sims don’t get enough sleep, this will eventually take a toll on their health after a few days. As a result, players will be able to make their vulnerable Sims sick much quicker.
2. Spend time with sick Sims
Spending time around sick Sims is a great method to make your healthy Sims sick. If your Sim spends enough time with sick Sims, they will get infected with the same virus.
If your Sim touches a sick Sim, they will become ill within minutes.
3. Don’t treat your Sims if they catch a cold
If your Sim gets a cold, don’t treat it. Don’t give them tea, orange juice, or other natural home remedies as these will speed up recovery. Don’t buy medicine either.
Left untreated, a minor cold can develop into pneumonia.
Follow this strategy only if you’re willing to take risks. Severe pneumonia might also kill your Sims.
4. Promote lousy hygiene
Bad hygiene is a key ingredient if you want to make your Sim sick. Don’t let your Sims bathe or wash their hands and they’ll get sick in about two or three in-game days.
Take away the bathroom for better results. Once the hygiene level has dropped, your Sims will be much more vulnerable to viruses.
Speaking of hygiene, if your Sim gets near a Sim with bad hygiene, your Sim will become nauseous.
5. Don’t clean the bathroom and the kitchen
If you don’t clean the bathroom and the kitchen, they will become dirty and moldy. When your Sim enters the room to clean it, they’ll get sick from the smell and filth.
Don’t throw away the trash and don’t clean up dirty plates. Let filth build up to trigger the Filthy Surroundings moodlet.
Of course, this method requires a bit of patience as you need to wait a few days until enough mold grows in the bathroom or kitchen.
6. Eat spoiled food
If you’re aiming for diarrhea, the quickest solution is to have your Sim eat spoiled food. Leave out a meal, wait until you see some stink lines, and then invite your Sim to eat that special meal.
Diarrhea is guaranteed.
7. Eat raw meat
If you don’t want to wait until you can serve your Sim spoiled food, you can try raw meat instead. Make sure the meat is undercooked, serve it to your Sim and they will get sick in no time.
This works perfectly for vegetarians. If you give a vegetarian Sim meat, and especially raw meat, they will instantly become nauseous.
8. Eat loads of junk food
Another way to make your Sims sick is to serve them loads of junk food. Have them eat loads of junk food. After three or four days, they will get really sick.
9. Drink disgusting smoothies
Prepare the strangest smoothy possible, make it as disgusting as possible, and then have your Sim drink it. They won’t like it.
10. Spend time in cold weather dressed in summer clothes
Send your Sims outside wearing light summer clothes even when it’s cold. If your Sims don’t dress appropriately for the weather, they will catch a really bad cold.
Speaking of cold days, if your Sims go swimming in a pool and they spend enough time in cold water, they will definitely catch a nice cold.
By the way, if you have Seasons, Sims can freeze to death if they wear summer clothes during wintertime.
11. Poison your Sim with Tiberium rock
If you’re playing World Adventures, make sure to keep Tiberium rock in your inventory. After a few days, your Sim will get Tiberium poisoning.
12. Get your Sim poisoned using other methods
Speaking of poisoning your Sim, in The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure, there are a lot of ways your Sims can get poisoned.
Sims can get poisoned after being bit by poisonous spiders or bees, or after being hit by a poison dart.
The telltale signs of poisoning are the green circles all over your Sim’s body.
You can trade Bone Dust to a Selvadoradan Sim to get the antidote that cures poison.
13. Get Rabid Rodent Fever
This method works if you’re playing The Sims 4: My First Pet Stuff. If your Sims don’t have a good relationship with their pet rodents, they may get bitten by them.
Add on top of that a dirty habitat and your Sims will get Rabid Rodent Fever which is a potentially deadly disease.
Caution with that one, you want to make your Sim sick, not kill them
14. Get the Slob trait
Sims that have this trait don’t like tidying up and cleaning their house too often. With them around, the house will get dirty faster thus increasing the chances of your Sims getting sick.
If your Sim doesn’t have the Slob trait yet, you can use the Re-Traiting Potion or cheats to edit their traits.
15. Shake your mobile device
If you’re playing on a mobile device, try shaking it for a few seconds. This will make your Sims nauseous. To that again, and your Sims will get really sick.
And now let’s answer perhaps the most common question when it comes to sick Sims.
Can your Sim go to the hospital when sick?
Your Sim cannot go to the hospital when sick. Sims can order medicine from the computer which will show up in their inventory. Only pregnant Sims and Sims that are in the Doctor career can go to the hospital.
There you have 15 ways to get your Sims sick. If you’ve got other ideas on how to make Sims sick, feel free to list them in the comments below.
Happy gaming!
This guide was updated in August 2022.