How do Wills and Heirloom Objects work in The Sims 4?

There are five ways to start a Will:

1. Create your own Will: Select Start Will from the phone or computer, or by self-selecting your Sim.
2. Hire a lawyer over the phone: Using the phone, select Hire a Service > Inheritance Lawyer. This costs §225.
3. Go to City Hall: Travel to Ravenwood, then select Start Will at City Hall in Crow's Crossing.
4. Use a lawyer in person: Go to the Ravenwood Family Day Festival and talk to the Inheritance Lawyer.
5. Use the Mysterious Merchant's services: You can find the Mysterious Merchant Waylon Warez near the Crypt at the Old Specter Graveyard. If you use him, he'll automatically set your Sim's Will with these rules:
   • Simoleons: 60% goes to the Mysterious Merchant and 40% goes to the Household the Sim has the highest relationship with.
   • Children and Pets: They'll be assigned to the Household the Sim has the highest relationship with.
   • Funeral: He'll randomly choose a burial type and the three activities for the Sim’s funeral.

Your Sim can find the Will Object in their Personal Inventory. Selecting it will bring up the following options:

• Read Will
• Destroy Will
• Clear Choices
• Update Will
  • Pass on Simoleons
  • Pass on Dependents
  • Leave Personal Note
  • Set Remains Preference
  • Pass on Heirlooms.

As well as letting their friends and family know what they’d like to happen to their belongings, Sims can also leave custom notes in their Wills. Leaving a custom note is optional, but players will see this when editing the Will, and when the Will is read after the Sim has passed.

You can also add an emotion to this custom note, which might influence how a Sim feels when they read the Will.

A copy of their Will is delivered to all each Household’s mailbox who’ve been left something. The next time those Households receive mail, the Will is added to their Personal Inventory.

Select the Read Will out Loud interaction to execute the Will. This is when inherited Heirlooms go to the Household Inventory, Child Sim and Pets will appear in the Household, and Simoleons are deposited.

Once Sims read the Will they can have varying reactions like happy, resentful, or jealous, based on what the deceased Sim left them!

For example:

• Children and Pets: If adding a Child or Pet would bring the chosen Household over the limit of 8 Sims, they’ll instead be added to the My Households Bin. From here you can either edit the chosen Household so they can be added to it, or choose another Household for them to move to.
• Simoleons: If the Household the Simoleons were being left to no longer exists the Simoleons would either go to the Ghost of the dead Sim (if there is one) or it’s gone.
• Heirloom Objects: If the Household the Heirloom Object was being left to no longer exists the Heirloom Object would either go to the Ghost of the dead Sim (if there is one) or it’s gone.

To create an Heirloom Object:

1. Select the Item you want to set as an Heirloom Object.
2. Choose Make Heirloom.

These can be created by Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims. There’s a limit to how many Items one Sim can set as Heirloom Objects.

• All Sims can set five Items as Heirloom Objects.
• Through the Soul’s Journey rewards system Sims can earn three more Heirloom Objects.
• Sims with the Materialistic Trait can set ten Items as Heirloom Objects. They won’t be able to earn any more through the Soul’s Journey rewards system.

If your Sim has already reached the max amount of Heirloom Objects and wants to create another, they can remove Heirloom Object status from an Item and then create one. Deleting or selling an Heirloom Object will also reset how many your Sim has.

The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack includes new Items that make ideal Heirloom Objects, like The Inexorable Grandfather Clock by Tell-Tale Arts, or the Quilted Memories quilt.

Other Items can be made into Heirloom Objects from the following categories:

• Living and Dining Chairs
• Wall Décor
• Table Décor
• Floor Décor
• Indoor Plants
• Lamps and Lighting
• Kids Toys
• Crafted or Gathered Objects like Paintings, Woodworks, and Jewelcrafts.

This isn’t an exhaustive list, there are many other Items that can be made into Heirloom Objects.