Death by Murphy bed occurs when your Sim is trying to open a Murphy bed manually. A broken Murphy bed will bounce back and forth a few times crushing your Sim.
Not being able to open the Murphy bed via remote control typically indicates the bed is broken. This increases the chances of your Sim getting crushed when they try to manually open the bed.
Sims can get crushed to death even when sleeping in a Murphy bed, especially if it breaks while your Sim is sleeping.
The bad news is that Murphy beds tend to break quite often.
How do you stop a Sim from dying in a Murphy bed?
The best way to completely avoid Death by Murphy bed in The Sims 4 is to upgrade your bed and add the Reinforced Spring Wiring feature.
This requires a high Handiness kill.
Until you reach that Handiness skill level, using a remote control to open a Murphy bed can help you keep your Sim alive.
Opening a Murphy bed manually doesn’t necessarily mean Death by Murphy bed is bound to happen.
Sims getting crushed and killed by the Murphy bed while attempting to pull it down from the wall are random events.
Your Sim may survive the event and get only an Uncomfortable moodlet after this experience.
The ghost of a Sim that was crushed and killed by a Murphy bed has a Z floating on their chest.
They’re also Scared all the time.
What’s the death rate of Murphy beds in The Sims 4?
The death rate of Murphy beds in The Sims 4 is about 1 in 4 or 25 percent. This means your Sim will get killed in one of four cases where they open the bed manually.
If your Murphy bed has the Reinforced Spring Wiring feature, the death rate is zero.
How do you make a Murphy bed safe in The Sims 4?
The best way to make a Murphy bed safe in The Sims 4 is to upgrade it. Getting the best Murphy bed version available in the game decreases the chances of your Sim getting crushed.
How do you upgrade the Murphy bed in The Sims 4?
To upgrade your Murphy bed in The Sims 4 and make it break less often, get the Spring Loaded feature. You can unlock this feature after reaching Level 3 of the Handiness skill.
The best upgrade to add to your Murphy bed is the Reinforced Spring Wiring. This feature will make the bed unbreakable.
That’s how you can completely avoid Death by Murphy bed.
You need to level up your Sim’s Handiness skill to Level 8 to access this option.
As a quick reminder, you’ll need special upgrade parts to make your Murphy bed unbreakable. You can get them by repairing various broken items or you can simply purchase them.
By the way, did you know you can bring dead Sims back to life? Use this option if you want to undo what the Murphy bed has done.
Learn more about Sim Deaths
If watching your Sims getting crushed by the Murphy bed doesn’t really appeal to you, you can trigger death by starvation, electrocution, overexertion, meteorite, fire, Pufferfish, Cowplant, or drowning.
Other potentially deadly activities include drinking Beetle Juice, sniffing a Death Flower bouquet, rock climbing, using the Research Machine, relaxing in the sauna, using a vending machine, or making a wish at the Wishing Well.
If you have Seasons, Sims can freeze to death, get heatstroke, or get struck by lightning.
The Sims 4 universe is full of angry flies, poisonous bugs, pets infected with Rabid Rodent Fever, and revengeful Mother Plants.
By the way, spellcasters can die of Magic Overload and vampires can burn to a crisp from sun exposure.
Emotional deaths such as Death by Anger, Laughter, and Embarrassment are also interesting options although they require a lot of work to trigger.
If your Sims live in the countryside, angry rabbits and chickens can attack and kill them.
If you want to get rid of teenagers, you’ve got two options: Death by Stink Capsule or Urban Myth.
Well, if your Sims have managed to escape all these dangers, they can’t escape Old Age.
Or maybe they can if you disable this feature.
Happy Simming!