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• Method 1 of 3: Killing Sims in the base game
• Method 2 of 3: Killing Sims with add-ons and store content
• Method 3 of 3: Cheats
• Tips
• Warnings

Are you a bit done with your Sims, or are you trying to get a nice ghost and gravestone? There are more ways to kill your Sims than you may realize, especially when you have an extension.

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Method 1 of 3: Killing Sims in the base game

1. With fire. Buy the cheapest grill or stove you can find and let a Sim with low cooking skills cook with it. Otherwise, place flammable objects near a fireplace and have the Sim start the fire several times. Sims on fire for an hour in game time will die, and then become red-colored ghosts.
   • Some Sims have hidden abilities that allow them to survive for three hours when on fire. Firefighters and women cannot be killed by fire.
   • With the extensions there are very many other ways to start a fire. However, these are not described here, as they do not give unique results.
2. Cause an electrical accident. Have a Sim with low dexterity try multiple times to repair or upgrade an electrical device. The first time an accident occurs, the Sim will be scorched, and the second time he will die if the moodlet still indicates that he is scorched. Increase the risk of an accident / death by standing in a puddle and trying to fix expensive, complicated equipment. Your Sim's ghost will be yellow.
   • A Sim with a Handy trait cannot die this way. A Sim with a high level of Dexterity is unlikely to die this way.
   • The Sim must be at least level 1 with Dexterity to work on objects.
3. Starve the Sim. Remove refrigerators, ovens, stoves, and telephones so your Sim has no way of getting food. You can also lock your Sim in a room. After approximately 48 hours of game time, the Sim will die and become a purple ghost.
4. Let them drown. Pools were notorious places in previous Sims games because your Sims couldn't climb out when you took the ladder away from them. They've gotten smarter in the Sims 3, so you'll have to build a wall around the edge of the pool to lock them in. Drowned Sims leave blue ghosts.

Method 2 of 3: Killing Sims with add-ons and store content

1. Died of the mummy curse from World Adventures. Once you've installed the World Adventures expansion, go to the Al Simhara tombs and look inside the sarcophagi to awaken mummies. Let the mummy take your Sim, and the Sim may be cursed by it. It will take two weeks in game time for your Sim to die, but you'll be left with a cool white ghost chased by a black cloud.
   • Sims who are good at martial arts can fend off the mummy and thus escape the curse.
   • There are several ways to end the curse, but most of them are difficult to do by accident. Don't meditate, travel to the past, be blessed by unicorns, kiss with snakes, or sleep in sarcophagi.
2. Hope for a meteorite with the Ambitions or Seasons expansions. There is only a small chance of this happening, but you can increase this chance by using a telescope outside. If you hear ominous music and see a shadow, have the Sim who has a death wish quickly run to that spot. These ghosts will be orange, like fire victims, but will also smolder with black sparks.
   • If you also have the Seasons extension and control an alien, that alien can summon meteorites.
   • Meteorites never fall on children, ghosts, or aliens, but those Sims can run to the impact point of the meteorite to die.
3. Turn into a thirsty vampire with the Sims 3 Supernatural or Late Night. Surprisingly, vampires in the Sims 3 can survive sunlight. The only special death they can get is their own version of starvation; death of thirst. After about two days without plasma, the vampire will turn into a red ghost with a red, pounding heart. He will also receive a bat-shaped headstone.
   • To turn into a vampire, look for NPC Sims with neck tattoos and bright eyes. (You will get the moodlet "chased" when there is one nearby). Become acquaintances with the vampire and choose "questions to transform" while talking to the vampire.
4. Install University Time to shout about death with a megaphone. Every time you do this you have a chance to attract the Grim Reaper. The first time you will get a warning, shown by a moodlet. Keep yelling about death while the moodlet is still active, then the Grim Reaper will be less forgivable next time.
5. Crush the Sim in a collapsible bed at the University. This is another easy way to die with College Time. Open the bed, put the Sim on it, and close it again!
   • You may have to make a few tries for this.
6. Shake a snack vending machine at the University. Shake the machine multiple times, every time you shake it you have the chance that it will fall and crush your Sim. Completely worth it for that free soda.
7. Fail as a magician in Showtime. Have your Sim pursue a career as a magician, and entertain the audience with your suicide! Surprisingly, the hazard box is still quite safe, but the tricks "buried alive" and "water illusion escape" have a slim chance of death.
   • Talented magicians and lucky Sims can try the tricks hundreds of times without dying.Because these traits are hidden, it's hard to say the likelihood of a Sim dying this way.
8. Take the Supernatural expansion and turn yourself into gold. This is the only death that will leave you with a new piece of furniture - a golden statue of your Sim! Fulfill enough wishes to receive the Lifelong Reward of the Philosopher's Stone, then turn anything you can find into gold. Every touch gives you a small chance of killing yourself.
9. Eat some supernatural jelly beans. Add a magical jellybean shrub to your home and keep using it. there is always a 5% chance that your Sim will be set on fire or electrocuted, as well as a 1% chance of a special jellybean death. This death will give you a purple ghost with blue hair.
10. Haunt other players as a supernatural witch. Anytime a witch casts a curse on another player, there is a chance it will go the wrong way and kill the witch. This will only happen when your witch reaches a certain strength level, so keep practicing those spells!
11. Die in the Island Paradise expansion. You might think that a paradise exotic island would be free from death, but you'd be wrong. Sims can drown or starve while diving, and even be killed by a shark if they can't find a place to hide. Mermaids can die from spending too much time on land, but a Sim nearby may throw water on the mermaid to save her life.
12. Die in the future. The Forward in Time expansion gives you two additional ways to die. Flying a jetpack for too long has a high probability of crashing, which may or may not kill a Sim. Using a time machine can lead to the moodlet time paradox disease, leading to "do I actually exist?" And "blinking out of existence". Eventually, the Sim can disappear completely ... sometimes along with his or her descendants!
13. Become neighbors with the Grim Reaper. For this death you need the "door of life and death" from the Sims store. Knock on his door and challenge him to a guitar competition. Fail and meet the deadly "pit monster"!
14. Take advantage of the Cow Plant. One of the strangest ways to die has to do with the Koeplant from the Sims shop. Scold the plant and leave it without food for a few days. Eventually it will offer you a piece of cake and eat you when you try to take it.

Method 3 of 3: Cheats

1. Turn on testing cheats. Open the cheat console with Control + ⇧ Shift + C.. Type testingcheatsenabled true to enable the following options.
   • Be careful! These cheats can cause broken saves and crash your game, especially when used on NPCs. When you're done, turn them off with testingcheatsenabled false.
2. Age the Sim. Keep ⇧ Shift and click on the Sim. Select "Next Life Stage" to take the Sim to the next Life Stage. Continue until the Sim is an elder, then go one more time so that they die of old age.
3. Change the hunger arrow. With these cheats on, moodlet arrows can be changed by clicking and dragging. Drag the hunger arrow until the Sim starves.
4. Delete the Sim. This will skip all deaths in the game and simply delete the Sim, which can be useful if your Sim is permanently stuck in a spelling mistake. Shift-click the Sim and select "delete / delete".
   • This gives an extra high chance of damaging your save when you try it out on an NPC.

Tips

• You can get your Sims back by seizing opportunities or by having their ghosts eat ambrosia.
• If a gardening Sim can find seeds for the death flower and grow them into plants, each flower will bring the Sim back to life once after death. This allows you to try many different kills without having to reload your game.
• Turning off free will can help put some of these situations in place, but even then, your Sims may work independently to save their own lives.

Warnings

• When a unlucky Sim dies for any reason other than old age, the Grim Reaper will automatically revive him.
• Save your game before trying to kill your Sims. You may want them back!
• A Sim cannot die outside of a lot, such as on a road or in the ocean. Trying to kill a Sim in these places can cause wrong results.