150 best sims 4 mods you need to download

Many of the best Sims 4 mods affect the ways Sims interact with each other. The Sweet Tooth trait, for example, makes your sims better at baking and adds new moodlets to help them express their love of cake, while the New Hobby Traits helps encourage you to have your sim engage in their favorite activities to stay stress-free. There are tonnes of traits available on ModTheSims in case you're looking for even more unusual choices to try out.

Want to try out several new traits at once? This mod lets you add more than three traits at a time: you just need to type a quick cheat code including the name of the desired trait to add it to your Sim. Download here. With the new Create-a-Sim tool in The Sims 4, you can spawn Sims of many different widths, but you can't alter how tall they are. This height slider from GODJUL1 lets you adjust the height of your Sims so that the world looks more naturally varied: just click and drag their feet in Create-a-Sim to stretch or shrink them.

The second version of Xmiramira's darker skin tones pack comes with some improvements on original colors and new makeup. No longer will you suffer a greyish pallor for your darker skinned sims. The skin options available in the Melanin Pack add a ton of vibrant options.

After the base game update that's added a bunch of default skin tones and a brightness slider, Miramira's modded tones all appear in the "warm" tones section". Technically this is actually a Live Mode mod, but because it affects your Sim's appearance we'll let it hang out in Create-A-Sim. With this mod, your sims will grow a beard over time. If you don't want to wait for nature, there's even a beard tonic to speed things up. Once it's too long, your Sim can shave and style their facial hair in the mirror.

We all know The Sims 4 needs more personal chores, right? This is a big must-have for players who like constructing intricate scenes. Placing clutter items naturally in The Sims 4 can be a bit of a headache. Even if you've gotten good at using your ALT key for free placement and the 0 or 9 keys to change an object's height, you can run into snapping nightmares.

The OMSP shelf helps you add clutter to just about anything by acting as a placeholder surface while you clutter to your heart's desire. This mod expands the number of rows while browsing for objects and makes using filters easier too.

The real biggie though is how easy it makes hunting for debug items—the neat items that exist in The Sims 4 but can usually only be revealed for use via cheats. Debug items have color swatches too. Ravasheen's working bunk beds made a real splash back before The Sims 4 added bunk beds of its own.

Even though bunk beds are official now, Ravasheen's bunks are a great modular option for saving space. You can also put Ravasheen's miniature desks beneath a lofted bed and Sims are still able to use them, unlike a lot of base game items paired with standard Sims 4 bunk beds. You'll probably want to grab Ravasheen's bunk bed updates to go with the regular set as well. Another of KawaiiStacie's mods is this immersive mod that adds physical changes to Sims as their emotions change.

They can blush when flirting or drunk, get teary-eyed when sad, and have dirty hands when they really need to wash them like, now. That's just the start of what this mod can do though. There's an interactive conversation system with dialogue options, the ability to get drunk, and personality types based on the 16 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test.

It's a pretty huge overhaul that adds a lot more emotion and quirks for all your Sims. Life's Drama adds a dash of controversy to every neighborhood, with 11 new dramatic scenarios for townie NPCs, some of which you can intervene in.

Your Sims might peer out their window to see a couple embroiled in a huge argument, a robber trying to pick a pocket, or a bride running away from her wedding. You can cause some drama yourself via the new "Exposing A Loved One" action, which works on Sims that have partners. Drop the bombshell, and grab some popcorn. Full installation instructions are here. This mod from KawaiiStacie adds a bunch of rabbit hole actions—activities your Sims can do on their own without you following—that activate buffs or improve your Sims' relationships with those closest to them.

Once your Sims have visited the DMV for a license or bus pass, you can send them exploring just by clicking on them, which brings up a radial wheel of options. You can send them shopping they'll come back with new clothes , to dance classes, to local attractions, to gambling spots, to take on some part-time work, and more.

Their skills and motives will change based on the activity you choose, and you can tell your Sim to "Explore With" another character if you want to improve relations. Sims will also randomly explore if you don't intervene, which is neat. Just be sure to avoid the yellow stuff. Fishing is one of the most boring skills in The Sims 4, and thankfully Kawaii Stacie Patreon created an advanced fishing mod that just makes it a bit more interesting.

It allows you to sell fish to a marketplace and turn them into food, and more! This includes tons of stuff, like a burn book, a popularity system, dirty secrets, and so much more. One thing that tons of simmers are constantly begging for is the ability to go to school with their sims. You get to create a lot where you can go to school, including desks, and a kitchen, and send your sims there each day.

The have some personality please mod, created by Polarbearsims patreon gives your sims a bit better personality, involving things like no idle chat, and more things learned from deep conversations.

You can also use this mod for things like risky woohoo and giving your sim extra autonomy. The go to school mod that was created by Zerbu and lets you actually go to school with your sims. It created an entire school with class rooms, offices, and more. This mod uses the same systems as The Sims 4: Get to Work and therefore requires that pack to be installed in order to function properly, as the go to school mod works just like the active careers from that pack.

This mod, created by LittleMsSam Patreon allows you to start an at-home business instead of having to own a separate lot. This includes things like a live in daycare, a live in vet clinic, and so much more. In The Sims 4 we are only given 3 slots for choosing traits for our sims which is a down grade from 5 in The Sims 3, which is disappointing.

Thankfully, modders like Vicky Sims patreon create mods that you can use to add more traits which can help give your sims more personality. This is awesome because you can create more unique looking sims that are more beautiful than ever before!

Thankfully, modders like Vibrant Pixels Patreon have created body sliders that can be used to drag body parts further than you are able to just with the game functions. This mod makes it so your can use the 3 key to go extremely quick to speed through boring parts of the game, allowing you to have more time for the fun stuff and less time watching them eat or do homework. Unfortunately, since EA never added real cars there is no way to really make it so your sims cars are drivable properly.

The daily save mod by Tempest is totally game changing and will make it so you never lose your progress again! This mod allows you to choose a time of day in the game where your game will automatically save. You could make it so your game saves every morning at 8 am so you never miss a full day if your game or computer crashes again.

Right now your sims can get sick, but you just take medicine that you order on the computer and then everything is fine.

This mod adds things like blood pressure, health checkups, longer lasting illness, and the ability to call out of work when you are sick. A lot of players want The Sims 4 to be more like real life, and in real life, we get sick. So this mod is a great one for realism and interesting family gameplay. This mod requires only the base game but can be made better by owning Get to Work or Cats and Dogs, or both. That way you can do health stuff with your pets or incorporate it with the Doctor Career.

Something that really needs some work in The Sims 4 is romance, it is really stale and lacking some flair that it desperately needs. Thankfully, Lumpinou Patreon is creating a road to romance mod to make things better. This mod lets you go on new romantic excursions with your sims, and adds a whole bunch of new romantic interactions to the game so you can have a better romantic relationship in the game. My favourite part about this mod is that they added a whole new romance skill that your sims can earn to get better at romance and learn new interactions.

One thing that is severely lacking in The Sims 4 is realism when it comes to pregnancy and giving birth. Now with this mod by LittleMsSam Patreon you can have your sims experience the joys of an ultrasound! I am obsessed with things like the ultrasound mod because it really makes your sims pregnancies feel more like a serious event, and less like a 3 day long nuisance. The career mega pack mod, created by Midnitetech Patreon , allows your sims to have A TON of new career options in the game.

These range from things like robbers, real estate agents, psychologists and so much more. You are able to add one of the careers to your game, or all if you choose, giving you total customization on which careers you may want. It allows you to learn all sorts of spells and sorcery and do a bunch of cool stuff and it all starts with a small lump of clay.

This is not enough and weerbesu Patreon has a mod that will let you change it up to 3, 4 or 5 columns instead. This may be something so simple but it allows you to see so many more items at a time making creating beautiful characters exponentially easier in The Sims 4.

The faster eating and drinking mod makes your sims eating speed just go a little bit faster so you can spend more time doing other things, it will also decrease the amount of time they are focused on talking or watching TV while they are eating.

This includes things like a honeymoon, daycare, pet sitters, hiking trips, and so much more. These things are of course, rabbit holes, but it still adds to the immersion of the game because it still feels like your sims are off doing these things.

The best part is that depending on the activity you send a sim to go complete, your sim will get needs up or skills. For example, you will get social filled if you go to visit friends, or can get the painting or photography skill if you send your sim on an art exhibition. This mod only requires the base game to download and use, making it awesome for all players!

Not longer after The Sims 4: Cats and Dogs was released players realized that there was code in the game allowing cats and dogs to be playable if you just do a quick fix. This mod makes it so you can fully control your pets, however, since it was never released by EA as an option you may see some issues with it occasionally. With The Sim 4: Get to Work we got a bunch of new active careers that are really fun, but there were no aspirations to make them more well rounded and interesting for your sims.

I feel like if a sim is going to become a doctor they need a full aspiration, it just makes sense. Thankfully a creator named Konansock created a set of 4 aspirations for your sims to use with these careers. For example, a sim in the doctor career would use the Guardian of Health aspiration. Since this mod is tied to the Get to Work careers, you are going to need both the base game and The Sims 4: Get to Work for it to be functional. Arnie is an amazing custom content creator Patreon and this mod creates an entire world where you can go to different shops, movie theatres and even a functional airport, seriously.

Somehow Arnie has managed to create an entire world that is open, allowing you to go all over the world without loading screens. There is even a story for you to solve to get you to the new world. This mod features both open venues and brand new rabbit holes that your sim can visit and is just so cool. The road to fame mod features things like hiring back up dancers, performing for tips, writing lyrics and recording songs, and so much more.

This mod requires you to have the base game as well as The Sims 4: City Living installed for it to function properly, as you need the singing skill in your game. Everything we do with kids in The Sims 4 feels entirely useless the second they age up from child to teen because they lose all skills they may have gained. This adult skills for kids mod is incredible because it will allow your kid sims to gain all of the adult skills while they are doing those tasks.

Our next mod is the Armageddon mod by sacrificial mods that allows you to make the decision of whether you want to be a super hero or a super villian which is extremely fun and a totally different way to place The Sims 4. There are a whole bunch of traits in The Sims 4 that you can only get if you complete aspirations that they are tied to. This is super annoying because some of them are really great, even better than the traits you can get in CAS. This mod takes those traits and plops them into the reward store for you to purchase with your satisfaction points instead of having to earn them.

One huge annoyance for simmers who have played past games is that teens have no distinction from older sims. They are the same height, have the same hobbies and look pretty identical. This auto shorter teens mod will remove at least one of those annoyances by changing the default height for all teens in your game.

However, with any mod that alters the shape of a sim there are going to be multiple animation issues when playing, so just be aware of that. Something that a lot of people deal with is growing beards and having to constantly upkeep their beards. The automatic beards mod gives you the option to have your sims facial hair grow gradually over time and gives you the option to shave and trim your beard to bring it back to previous levels of growth.

Our next mod on the list is the babies for everyone mod that lets any sim try for baby with any other sim regardless of gender.

This mod also allows all male presenting sims to get pregnant as well regardless of the gender of their partners, definitely an awesome and inclusive mod.

This bachelor mod is awesome and will add these parties to your game allowing you to go off and have one last party with your friends. This mod adds functional drugs to your game and allows you to do a lot with those drugs.

Your sims are able to start drug dealing and selling them to all sorts of different sims in the world and even have run ins with the police as well as tons of other stuff, definitely a fun one to check out.

For whatever reason when EA added bikes to the game with Discover University, they only made them available for teens and older which is wild to me because kids ride bikes way more than adults in my experience.

This bicycle mod is really great because it adds a bike for both your sim kids and your sim toddlers, with the kids bike having these adorable baskets on the front. This mod even has a version for toddlers which is one of those ridable cars that got super popular a few years ago. Any player who loves to take screenshots in The Sims 4 will spend a ton of time using the tab mode camera, but for whatever reason this camera is not useable if you are in build mode.

This means that you have to build a house and move a sim in if you want to get decent screenshots. Having this mod is definitely not for the family game player but it can be really fun to mix up gameplay with mods like this once in a while.

This is the best we can do until babies are no longer objects! Sometimes when I see a mod, I think wow, why is this not already a thing?

This mod adds a few new emotional socials for your sim to partake in that make a lot of sense. We are always looking for new types of hobbies for our sims to participate in and canning is something really fun to do as a skill or hobby for your sims. This functional canning station allows your sims to create their own jams, pickles and spreads. These items are even edible with your sims having the option to eat it alone or spread it on bread.

You can even sell your jams and preserves to an evil corporation to make a bit of money! These functional donut boxes are found in build mode and allow you to click on them and purchase donuts for your sims to enjoy. The best thing is that different kinds of donuts will give your sim different emotional buffs.

For example, a sim who eats a strawberry powder donut will get a flirty moodlet, but a sim who eats a banana nut muffin will get an energized moodlet. Are you looking for a way to have way more sims in your game? Well, look no further than the full house mod. This will allow you to add more than the 8 sim limit to your house which can make a lot of funny stuff happen. Download at your own risk!

It has always baffled me that there is no graduation event for high school students in a life simulator. Graduating high school is a big deal for most teenagers and it should definitely be a part of The Sims 4. This graduation event mod is really important for realism and will allow you to start a graduation event for your sim teens and it will auto-invite other teens in the world and let your family members come by.

Once you reach the top of a career level 10 in The Sims 4 you can no longer be promoted, but you are able to over-max and get a higher pay level. This mod will give you more money every single time you overmax your career so you can earn closer to 50 simoleons instead of just 10 each time allowing your sims to get even richer. For whatever reason in The Sims 4 there is really no definition between teens and adults and this bugs so many players.

We desperately need more things for teens to do that no one else can do. We need justice for teens! With so many impressive Sims 4 mods out there, choosing the best ones is no easy task. Some of them fix common gameplay issues, while others add more depth to your Sims' stories.

Whether you're looking for more cheats or just want to turn your Sims' world into a horror movie, there's something for everyone! The Sims 4 mods can truly improve your gaming experience. Although the game is fun enough on its own there's plenty of stuff you can do in The Sims 4 already , it gets even better when you're able to have more meaningful conversations, or fix the lag that's been bothering you.

We selected some of the handiest, most entertaining, and most beautiful Sims 4 mods out there. To install the best Sims 4 mods in your game, all you initially need to do is download the mod file. Normally any specific requirements for mod installation are listed on the page you download the mod from, but it's usually a very straightforward drag and drop job.

One thing to remember is that if you download a zipped file, don't unzip it - simply just drag and drop the entire zipped file into your mods folder.

Newer mods might have a. Set employment rates for various sim ages, find out who's pregnant, abort said babies if required, and even filter through settings for non-player controller Sims to make sure they're living their best lives. My favourite tweak is the time-based ones though, which make sure your Sim doesn't take hours upon hours to shower and eat breakfast before work every morning. If I can't do that Mortimer Goth, you can't either.

If you want your Sims to behave like actual people in your absence, then you will like this Simulation Lag Fix mod by simmythesim.

This mod takes care of your Sims' autonomous behavior problems caused by massive simulation lag, such as sitting and staring at the wall for hours on end. The mod alters the game speed in such a way that the autonomy requests don't cause simulation lag. This fixes time slowing down, time going back, and the empty shell behavior. No more infamous head bobbing! A lot of Sims players will know the main cheat codes off by heart, and typing in 'motherlode' for a stack of simoleons is almost second nature.

However, there are a ton of cheats available, and unless you plan on learning them all then looking them up can become a time-consuming process. That's where this mod from weerbesu comes it, as it adds all the cheat options directly into the UI without any typing required. Most efficient! This one is super handy if you add random NPC Sims to your world. If you don't want to manually stir every Sim towards a certain career or don't want to fill out their skillset, this mod will do it for you.

It comes with a bunch of interesting bonus traits too, such as a sweet tooth, a drinking problem, or bad cooking skills. Tired of watching your sims change their moods every ten seconds? The Meaningful Stories mod from roBurky gives your Sims deeper, long-lasting, and more realistic emotions. Your Sim can become depressed for days after a breakup or feel intense happiness after a first kiss.

You won't be able to change a Sim's sad mood by simply putting him in a nicely decorated room.