Your character
Needs, moods and skills, your home, health and family.
How to…
- Manage & fix your Sim's needs
- Switch camera views at home
- Buy and arrange furniture
- Repaint walls, change flooring & recolour items
- Install room partitions & dividers
- Extend an owned home
- Rent or buy a new house
- Hire another player as a decorator
- Host guests or visit other players
- Treat illnesses & visit the hospital
- Date real players & form relationships
- Propose & host a wedding
- Move in together with your bae
- Have and raise children
- Fulfil daily wishes & unlock permanent perks
- Search for the daily hidden gem
Guides
- Needs, moods and skillsYour six needs are Hunger 🍛, Energy ⚡, Fun 🎉, Social 💬, Hygiene 🫧 and Bladder 🚽. Each runs from 0–100% and drops over time. Your mood is affected by your needs and feelings.
- Your home: views and camerasChoose how you see your home:
- Using things at homeTap furniture to see what you can do with it. Actions can fill your needs, build a skill or give you a good feeling. You can also select several furniture pieces to change their c…
- Buying and decorating your homeBuy lets you furnish your home with 150 items in ten categories, from 🛏️ Sleep to 💎 Luxury. Use 🎨 Design for paint, floors and kitchen and bathroom tiles, and 📦 Storage to sto…
- Moving, renting and buying homesPhone → Houses lists homes to rent or buy in your city.
- Health and hospitalNeglecting your needs can make you ill with malaria, typhoid, food poisoning or catarrh. Sickness drains your energy, and serious sickness stops you from working.
- Dating, engagement and marriageYou can date up to 4 players or one townsperson. With a player, you can get engaged, marry, have children and live together. Engaged and live-in partners can feed and play with ea…
- Children and ageingEngaged or married couples can have up to 3 children. Sims do not age and have no birthdays. Babies grow through milestones over real days. Children have game ages and can grow in…
- Goals, wishes and perksStarter goals teach you the basics. Wishes give you ✨ blessings, which you can spend on permanent perks.
- Rooms and partitionsDividers split a room. You can also use Room Walls and Room Doors to split a room or make an ensuite.
- Home extensionsExtend a home you own to make it bigger. Each extension adds 2 tiles along the right wall and the front. Your furniture stays where it is.
- Duplex homes and the floor buttonSix homes have two floors, with an upstairs master suite, family lounge, bedrooms and bathroom:
- Hiring a decoratorYou can pay another player through Hustle to decorate your home. They can work while you’re offline. You pay for new pieces only if you accept their look.
- Guests and visitsVisit other players’ homes, or let guests into yours. Guests can move around, sit, lounge, watch TV and use the house chat. You and your guests can see each other move during a vi…
- Moving in togetherYou and your bae can share a home. The host pays the rent. You can chip in towards rent and bills, and rearrange the home. The host pays for new pieces you add through Arrange whe…
- Gem huntA gem hides somewhere in the city each day. Read the riddle to find it.
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Last updated 4 Nov 2026 · Handbook version 59 · Applies to the game as of 4 Nov 2026 (build 1793797350)