The Sims 4 100% guide

Open the Gallery and download the following households before starting. Search by the listed Item Name first, then by EA Account ID if necessary. If a Gallery search starts returning No Results after the first search, restart the game and search again by Item Name or EA Account ID instead of browsing. Pregnant Tiplets can be hard to find by name; if so, search "triplets" and sort by popularity — the household may not look like its thumbnail. Community uploads can be renamed or removed, so if one disappears, search the achievement name and use a base-game-compatible household whose description clearly says it is staged for that achievement.

• Basketcase Trophy + — Naomie_Len
• Black Widow — AugustoApreaITA
• Circle of Life 2 (NZJoey89) — NZJoey89
• Ghost Family — Naomie_Len
• Grim Reaper Family Trophy — Naomie_Len
• Legacy Trop-hee Family — Malachen
• Pregnant Tiplets — NatiLeopold
• Trop-hee Family — Malachen
• Trop-hee Family 2 — Malachen
• Over-Achiever Trophy — Naomie_Len

Before using a download, check that it matches its expected state, so you can reject a wrong or edited copy:

• Ghost Family: eight Sims, all playable ghosts.
• Pregnant Tiplets: one Sim already pregnant; the household may not look like its thumbnail.
• Trop-hee Family: five Sims named Writer Spencer-Kim, Spy Sneed, Athlete Payne, Entertainer Tate, and Tech Guru Shelton.
• Trop-hee Family 2: five Sims for the Astronaut, Criminal, Culinary, Business, and Painter careers.
• Black Widow: eight Sims, including four elderly spouses.

When placing a household into an empty new save, use Replace unless this guide specifically tells you to merge it into an existing household. Run Live Mode at maximum speed whenever you are waiting for a prepared trigger.

Leave testingcheats off for every save. Gallery households are the shortcut: their skills, careers, genealogy, traits, money, emotions, and other progress are already staged, so you only need to cause the final trigger the Xbox achievement checks.

No manual backup is required because the early setups are disposable. Keep the Black Widow save until Ghostly and What would it be like? are complete, and keep the Trop-hee Family save until Channel Surfer, the first five careers, the rocketship, and the second five careers are all finished. Do not delete either save early. In the Trop-hee Family save, Entertainer Tate is the one Sim you keep for the whole save; the other four Sims are removed only after their career achievements have popped.

Start a new save with Black Widow. Enter Live Mode and let the clock run at maximum speed. Four elderly spouses are staged to die, but not immediately: reported Xbox runs take roughly 15–20 Sim days, around 45 real minutes at maximum speed. Pop-up prompts appear as they die and must be answered, or the game stops progressing. When a death prompt offers a choice, pick the freeroaming ghost option so the ghost does not take a household slot. If nothing is happening after a long wait, set Sim Lifespan to Short in Game Options; do not redownload or rebuild the household early. Let the Grim Reaper finish processing all four deaths and keep the urns or graves on the lot.

Go to Manage Worlds, edit the Black Widow household, open the Gallery, and merge Circle of Life 2 (NZJoey89) into the household. Do not replace the household. In Create a Sim, set the imported older Sim as the spouse of the surviving Black Widow Sim. In Game Options, set Sim Lifespan to Short, return to Live Mode, and fast-forward until the imported Sim dies naturally.

Move the spouse urns or graves outside. Do not choose Release Spirit on any of them; use Mourn or Strengthen Connection instead. Ghosts only appear after midnight and leave in the early morning, so keep the save running through the night until one of the deceased spouses appears. If an Add Ghost to Household interaction is available on the urn or tombstone, use it. Its availability in the base game on console is not confirmed, so do not rely on it. Otherwise use Friendly interactions with the ghost until the relationship is at Best Friends with a full green friendship bar, then choose Invite to Household from the Friendly options (it may be under More Choices). The spouse ghosts are the fastest first attempt, but Invite to Household availability is inconsistent: some ghosts never offer it, or decline, even at full friendship. Strengthening the connection again and waiting a few Sim days sometimes helps. If no ghost reappears or the invite never shows, use the fallback: in the same Black Widow save, place the Ghost Family household you downloaded during Preparation on another residential lot as its own household (do not merge it into yours), have a living Sim from your household visit one of those ghosts and befriend it to Best Friends with a full green bar, then use Invite to Household. No cheat is needed for this. Never use a cheat-based ghost-making shortcut: it requires testingcheats, which disables achievements for the save.

Start a new save with Grim Reaper Family Trophy and enter Live Mode. Let the prepared relationships register.

Start a new save with Ghost Family and enter Live Mode. The household is already composed of eight playable ghosts.

Start a new save with Legacy Trop-hee Family and enter Live Mode. The household carries the genealogy needed for both legacy achievements.

Start a new save with Pregnant Tiplets. The household is staged with a Sim pregnant with triplets. Fast-forward through labor and complete the birth sequence.

After the births, use an adult Sim such as the mother, not one of the newborns; a baby age-up may not register. Cook a birthday cake, place it on a usable surface, add birthday candles, and have the Sim blow them out early rather than waiting for the scheduled birthday, which is reported not to pop it.

Start a new save with Basketcase Trophy + and immediately run Live Mode at maximum speed. Give the prepared emotional sequence time to finish registering before intervening.

Start a new save with Trop-hee Family. The household has five Sims, each staged near the top of one career: Writer Spencer-Kim, Spy Sneed, Athlete Payne, Entertainer Tate, and Tech Guru Shelton. Entertainer Tate has every skill maxed except Charisma, so Tate is the Sim behind every skill achievement below and the Sim you keep for the rest of this save. Enter Live Mode at maximum speed and let the prepared skill, trait, money, and career states register before changing the household. Do not delete or replace any Sim yet.

Do this before removing Writer Spencer-Kim.

Return to the Trop-hee Family save. Use Entertainer Tate. Buy seed packets on a computer, plant at least two different base-game plants, and let them mature.

Five household Sims are staged near the top of their careers. Check each Career panel, complete the listed Daily Task before work, and choose Work Hard while the Sim is at work. Keep advancing in-game days until each reaches the maximum career level. Do not remove a Sim until that Sim's career achievement shows on the Xbox list. If a career achievement does not pop at level 10, travel off the lot and back, then save, fully quit, and reload.

Use Entertainer Tate. Buy a GeniusVision television and The Landlord Whisperer radio, then apply the Super Reception upgrade to both. Super Reception requires Handiness level 9, which Tate exceeds. Each Super Reception needs 4 Common and 2 Electronic upgrade parts, which you can order on a computer. On the TV, Super Reception adds the Fireplace and Music channels; on the radio, it adds the Retro station. Use the same Sim for the entire viewing and listening requirement.

Start a new disposable save with Over-Achiever Trophy by Naomie_Len. This current shortcut avoids the older Trop-hee method, whose final writing aspiration can be inconsistent.

Return to the Trop-hee Family save. Before removing anyone, confirm that all of the following are done: the skill achievements, Smooth Talker, My, You've Changed!, Splice of Life, Channel Surfer, and the first five career achievements. Then go to Manage Worlds and edit the household. Remove Writer Spencer-Kim, Spy Sneed, Athlete Payne, and Tech Guru Shelton, and keep Entertainer Tate. Merge Trop-hee Family 2 into the household; do not replace it. Trop-hee Family 2 adds five Sims staged for the Astronaut, Criminal, Culinary, Business, and Painter careers, giving six Sims, within the eight-Sim limit.

Place the cheapest base-game rocketship, the Steampunk Flyamajig, on the lot. It costs about §5,000 to place, plus §1,000 to build. Have Entertainer Tate (max Rocket Science) or the Trop-hee Family 2 Astronaut start building it. Building takes roughly 12 Sim-hours and is not skill-gated, and other Sims can help. While the rocket is being constructed, build a romantic relationship between two Young Adult or older Sims so WooHoo is available.

The merged household supplies the remaining career setups. As before, complete each Daily Task, send the Sim to work in a good state, choose Work Hard, and continue until the actual promotion to the maximum career level occurs. If an achievement does not pop at level 10, travel off the lot and back, then save, fully quit, and reload.

Open the Xbox achievement list and confirm 50/50 achievements and 1,000/1,000G before deleting any of the temporary saves. The Gallery households remove nearly all of the normal grind, but they rely on the game registering pre-existing state, so delayed pops are the main thing worth checking.

First let Live Mode run for a few Sim-hours and switch to the Sim who satisfies the requirement. Then save, return to the main menu, fully quit The Sims 4, relaunch, and reload. For career achievements, also try traveling off the lot and back first. If the achievement still does not register, redownload the named household or search the Gallery by the exact achievement title and use another recent base-game-compatible setup. Do not turn on testingcheats as a troubleshooting step; doing so disables achievements for that save.

With the eight Gallery save setups completed, the Xbox list should be 50/50 for 1,000G. No DLC, online co-op, second achievement stack, difficulty run, or normal 26-generation manual legacy is required.