All Trait Cheats in The Sims 4 – Complete List

Every trait cheat in The Sims 4 follows the same syntax: traits.equip_trait [TraitName]. To remove a trait, swap equip for remove. You can stack as many traits as you want on a single Sim — there is no cap when using cheats — but you must enable testingcheats true first or none of the commands will register. This guide covers 150+ trait codes across base game, DLC packs, the Reward Store, career milestones, and death/inheritance traits, verified as of May 2025.

Whether you’re building a legacy family with pre-set personalities, skipping the grind for Reward Store traits, or just curious what “Death By Killer Chicken” does to a ghost’s aura — it’s all here, organized by source so you’re not hunting through one massive wall of text.

How to Enable Cheats in The Sims 4

Before any trait command works, cheats have to be active. The game won’t throw an error if they’re off — the command will just silently fail, which is frustrating. Here’s how to open the cheat console on every platform:

• PC: Ctrl + Shift + C
• Mac: Cmd + Shift + C
• PlayStation: L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 simultaneously
• Xbox: LB + LT + RB + RT simultaneously

Once the console opens, type testingcheats true (or testingcheats on — both work) and press Enter. You’ll see a notification confirming cheats are enabled. After that, trait commands can be entered one at a time in the same console window.

The full syntax for adding a trait is:

traits.equip_trait [TraitCode]

And to remove one:

traits.remove_trait [TraitCode]

Capitalization matters for some codes and not others, but copying the codes exactly as written below is the safest approach. Also worth noting: some DLC trait cheats will silently fail if the required pack isn’t installed — the game won’t tell you the pack is missing, it just won’t add the trait.

How to Add More Trait Slots Without Mods

The standard CAS limit is three personality traits for Young Adults and Adults. That number feels tight fast, especially for players building complex Sims for legacy challenges or storytelling.

Here’s the thing: cheats completely ignore that limit. You can stack trait after trait on the same Sim without any mod. Just keep running traits.equip_trait [TraitCode] for each trait you want. The game applies them all, and they all function — moodlets, social interactions, skill boosts, everything stacks and works as intended.

A few practical notes on this:

• Conflicting traits (like Good and Evil) can both be equipped. The game’s behavior gets a little unpredictable — moodlets from both can fire — but it won’t crash.
• Child and Toddler Sims have separate trait slots. Equipping adult personality traits on them via cheat may not produce visible effects since those interactions aren’t available at younger life stages.
• If you want to clear all traits and start fresh, you’ll need to remove them individually. There’s no single “clear all traits” command in the base game without mods.

That’s genuinely the whole method. No MCCC, no UI Cheats Extension required. Just the console.

Base Game Trait Cheats

These traits are available to every player regardless of which packs are installed. The base game has a solid spread across emotional, social, hobby, and lifestyle categories.

DLC Trait Cheats

Expansion Packs, Game Packs, and Stuff Packs each add their own personality traits. The DLC Required column is critical here — if the pack isn’t installed, the cheat will not work. A handful of traits, like Home Turf, appear across multiple packs; it activates as long as at least one of the listed packs is installed.

Reward Store Trait Cheats

Normally these cost Satisfaction Points earned through completing Whims and Aspiration milestones. Cheats skip all of that. Several of the most useful Sims 4 traits — Never Weary, Steel Bladder, Hardly Hungry — live here, and equipping them via cheat is dramatically faster than grinding the points legitimately.

Fair warning: Heatproof and Iceproof share the same cheat code (trait_Temperature_BurningMan) in some versions of the game. If you’re on a recent patch and notice one overwriting the other, that’s a known quirk rather than a typo.

Career Rewards Trait Cheats

These traits are normally earned by hitting specific career levels, graduating from high school or university, or completing organizational ranks. Cheating them skips all the associated gameplay — useful for setting up a Sim as a decorated professional from day one, or recreating a character with a specific background without playing through it.

The High School Years graduation traits are particularly worth knowing. trait_HSExit_Graduate_Valedictorian, trait_HSExit_Graduate_Honors, and trait_HSExit_Expelled each produce different moodlets and social recognition long after graduation, so they’re not just flavor — they have mechanical weight.

Aging, Inheritance, and Death Trait Cheats

This is where the trait system gets genuinely interesting — and where a few important warnings apply.

This category covers four distinct types of traits bundled together because they share one thing: players normally can’t select them in CAS. They’re assigned by the game based on parentage, occult status, how a Sim was raised, or how they died. Cheats bypass all of those conditions.

Bloodline and occult traits like Ancient Bloodline, Strong Bloodline, and Weak Bloodline from Realm of Magic affect how potent a Spellcaster’s magic is. Ancient Bloodline is the strongest, giving significant skill gain bonuses and reducing the cost of spells. Sulani Mana from Island Living functions similarly — it’s normally inherited from parents with a connection to the island, but cheating it onto any Sim grants those elemental buffs regardless of their origin story.

Toddler and Infant outcome traits — Happy Toddler, Top Notch Toddler, Happy Infant, Top Notch Infant — are normally earned by raising children well through their early life stages. Top Notch Toddler in particular carries a +1 bonus to all skill gains through childhood, which stacks with other traits. Equipping it via cheat at the start of a legacy save is a legitimate strategy if you’re not interested in micromanaging toddler skill sessions for hours.

Death traits are a different matter entirely. Equipping any “Death By” trait on a living Sim kills them. Immediately. This isn’t a cosmetic flag — the game treats it as the Sim having died by that cause, and the Grim Reaper arrives accordingly. The resulting ghost’s behavior, emotional aura, and available interactions are all determined by which death trait was applied. Death By Laughter ghosts, for instance, emit a Playful aura. Death By Anger ghosts emit a Tense aura. If you’re building a haunted household for storytelling purposes, choosing the right death trait for each ghost’s personality is worth thinking through.