Full list of The Sims 4 Life & Death cheats for becoming a Reaper or maxing out your Ghost Mastery

The Sims 4's big ghost overhaul expansion turned the afterlife into an entire occult sim experience with new ghost abilities and a Soul's Journey quest to dog your sim past the grave. This full list of Life & Death cheats can help you max out your Thanatology skills, cheat to the top of the new active career as a Reaper, or quickly unlock those ultimate abilities for your ghost sims.

See our main list of Sims 4 cheats for a refresher on all the basics, or scroll down to get the trait codes you need for defying death.

Life & Death Career cheats

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There are two new career paths in the Live & Death Expansion: Undertaker and Reaper. If you want to become a scythe-wielding dealer of death, the Reaper career is the objective-based active career you're looking for.

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Life & Death new death cheats

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There are a few new ways to die in Life & Death, technically, but mostly they're just new contexts for existing deaths like old age. You can find all the relevant base game death cheats in our Sims 4 cheats page. The one truly new death in the expansion is the Murder of Crows.

I have not managed to find any cheat code for the Murder of Crows death. Below I will tell you how to achieve the death quickest but I have not found a way to undo it, so proceed only if you're certain!

How to get murdered by crows

• Place a "Grim Standard Ascendant Crow" from Buy Mode
• Enable testingcheats true in the cheat console
• Shift + Click the crow and select Cheat Relationship > Set Min Friendship
• Normal click the crow and select Socialize > Provoke
• Repeat the provoke action several times until the crow is "dangerously" angry

How to get unmurdered (in theory)

As mentioned above, there is not a known trait cheat to remove the death by crow status easily. Below is a way to un-ghost yourself with cheats otherwise but this method has not worked for me and when re-entering Live Mode my sim remains a crow'd ghost. Here's how to remove a cause of death:

• Enable testingcheats true in the cheat console
• Enable cas.fulleditmode in the cheat console
• Shift + Click your sim and select "Modify in CAS"
• Open the "cause of death" panel in the top left
• Hover over the currently selected death and click the x to remove it
• Click the ✔️ in the bottom right to save changes and exit Create-A-Sim

Life & Death skill cheats

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The Life & Death expansion comes with just one new skill track for Thanatology. Use the cheat testingcheats true before setting a skill level via cheat code.

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Life & Death trait cheats

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There are three new standard sim traits in this expansion: Chased By Death, Macabre, and Skeptical. You can easily add or remove these by:

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• Using testingcheats true in the cheat console
• Using cas.fulleditmode in the cheat console
• Clicking your sim and selecting "Modify in CAS"
• Find all three in the "Lifestyle" traits section

You can also add or remove these traits in the cheat console with the codes below.

Personality traits

❗ Remember that Macabre and Skeptical are mutually exclusive traits. You'll have to remove one before you can add the other.

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Grief style traits

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Grief styles are part of the new system for this expansion that controls what type of mood your sim will usually experience while grieving a death. They're noted in the simology panel with all their other traits.

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Reward traits

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Soul's Journey cheats

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Add bucket list items

To easily add items to your sim's bucket list in the Soul's Journey section of their Aspirations panel:

• Enable testingcheats true in the cheat console
• Shift + Click your sim
• Use the interaction path Pack Cheats > Expansion packs > EP17 - Life & Death > Add Unfinished Business Objective

From there, choose a bucket list category like "I want to create!" or "I wanna party!" which will open a menu to select a specific bucket list goal.

Earn Soul's Journey ranks

To easily complete ranks of your sim's Soul Journey, use the cheats below to jump to a particular rank. You can skip to the end of your Soul's Journey by using the highest rank cheat right off the bat.

❗You must become a ghost to progress to ranks "Newfound Purpose" and "The Big Picture" but you can use these cheats to skip ahead to the final rank after going see-through.

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Ghost mastery cheats

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After becoming a ghost, your sim will have ghost experience points to unlock in their Simology panel like other occult sim types. To jump ghost ranks and unlock ghost powers, use these cheats below.

Ghost Mastery ranks

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Ultimate Blessings

After leveling up to Transcendent Wraith rank, you can cheat your way to unlocking the good or evil Ultimate Ability as a ghost with one of the cheats below. Use the interaction category "Ghost Mastery" on another sim to either grant them longevity and need fulfillment or drain their life force and siphon their needs meters depending on your alignment.

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