How to Change Family in the Sims 4

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Manage Worlds is a game mode in The Sims 4 which allows the player to edit and customize the lots and families in the worlds of the active saved game file. It is the successor to the Edit Town mode from The Sims three.

Even though Manage Worlds doesn't allow any options to customize the world autonomously from the lots, information technology does allow many options for the actor to manage existing households, especially the townie population. Manage Worlds tin can be entered from alive manner by either clicking the icon on the top left corner, or by pressing F5 on the keyboard. Players are automatically greeted by Manage Worlds later inbound an already created salve game.

While in Manage Worlds, the top left corner includes to option to open up the gallery, the notification wall, game options and finally, the manage households card. The top correct corner also has the option to enter the globe choice screen.

When clicking on a family in Manage Worlds, various options announced to the lesser left corner of the screen. The iii basic ones are play, visit and build. When clicking "More", three more options appear to motion out the household, adios the household, or the manage household menu. The manage household menu allows the player to alter the households proper name, description and appearance. There also options to delete, move to another lot, movement into my households, and to transfer Sims between households.

The transfer choice allows the player to move individual Sims of households between i another and there are ii options; move to another existing household or create a brand new household. Creating a make new one places the household equally not in earth, which can viewed from the manage households menu.

The another option when clicking a family unit is viewing the private information of the households Sims, which are name, appearance, age, traits, aspiration and the current location. When clicking on an empty residential lot or a community lot, the selection to view the lots proper name, description, price and lot traits appear.

1 Manage Households
- 1.ane Alternative
- 1.2 Other Households
- i.3 Trivia
two Gallery

Manage Households [ ]

The manage households menu allows the player to edit the existing household and townie population of the relieve game, either by editing them in CAS or past merging, renaming and splitting unabridged families.

The menu is carve up into two categories, "my households" which contains families that were played before and "Other Households" which contains all unplayed families and well-nigh townies and NPCs, actor can transfer the Sims between the two past selecting a centre next to the familly icon.

Culling [ ]

There are options to change the Sim limit from 80, to 150, 200 (max recommended) and unlimited, which controls how many Sims are allowed to the saved game, before the game decides to start culling. Households in "My Household" are safe from culling.

Other Households [ ]

Other Households is supposed to contain all the families in-game, those families are afflicted by alternative and can be chosen past game to exist an NPCs, such as working in a eating place or behind the bar.

Additionaly, a shape of the familly, their members and current dwelling may constantly alter equally the game tries to "simulate" their life in the groundwork, these families may move into empty houses, join university or appear in vacation destinations, members of the familly tin become married, take a baby, die out of former age (Their crumbling can be turned off in the menu), or move out of the familly and join another ane or live on their own.

This category contains nigh of the in-game Sims and NPC, however, in that location are several Sims that are missing:

Special NPCs such every bit the Grim Reaper, Flower Bunny, Skeletons (Both summoned and guardians) or Patchy the Straw Man cannot be edited hither; however, Father Winter , Magic Sages, ghosts summoned with the Kid of the islands trait, Night Wraith, Baby Ariel and Guidry tin be edited.
While almost of the townies, including working NPCs, celebrities and even Possessed Sims can be edited, some townies cannot be edited, such every bit three pre-made mermaids or curio shop possessor.
While some ghosts are available to edit, ghosts from Von Haunt Estate (Mimsy and Bernard) and Temperance cannot be edited.
Stray Pets and ghost pets cannot exist edited with the exception of Mayor Whiskers and Captain Whitaker.

Trivia [ ]

Through Other household card, actor tin can edit Sim'south confront structure and their names, only not their age and traits unless cas.fulleditmode is used.
When editing Baby Ariel, role player will exist asked to give her a surname earlier saving changes (As "Baby Ariel" is considered a name).
When the game tries to simulate life of the Sims from "Other Households" it ordinarily ignores traits and aspirations of the Sims, simulating everyone's life in the same way.
- For example, a Sim with Noncommittal trait has the same chances of getting married as a Sim with "Soulmate" Aspiration.