Overview
Learn more about the Natural Living skill in The Sims 4 like how to increase skill, rewards, and cheats.
How to build the Natural Living skill
The Natural Living skill is a level 10 skill that comes with The Sims 4 Enchanted by Nature Expansion Pack. This skill allows your Sim to fill their Needs in nature, and make nature their home! There are multiple ways for your Sim to build the Natural Living skill. Some interactions are only unlocked when your Sim reaches a certain level. Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, and Elder Sims can all access this skill. For Child Sims, it’s linked to the Mental skill.The best way to build this skill is to have your Sim fill their Needs through Natural Living activities.
- Hygiene Need: Sims can bathe in wadeable water like the ocean, ponds, and rivers, and use public bathrooms to solve their Hygiene Need.
- Select a body of water and choose Bathe in Water.
- Use a public bathroom or Fairy Hub and choose Sponge Bathe in Bathroom.
- Bladder Need: Sims can fill their Bladder need outside, without a toilet. Select any natural terrain and choose Summon Privy Bush.
- Fun Need: Sims can boost their Fun Need by foraging for food or mediating once they reach level 7. To meditate, select any natural terrain and choose Meditate in Nature.
- Hunger Need: Sims can eat food they find in nature.
- Select any natural terrain and choose Forage.
- Fish your Sim catches while fishing can be eaten directly from their Personal Inventory.
- Frogs caught in ponds can be eaten directly from a Sim’s Personal Inventory.
- Energy Need: Sleep outside by selecting any outdoor terrain and choose Sleep Here. Once a Sim has a high enough skill level, they’ll also be able to sleep on the floor indoors.
- Social Need: the Talk to Nature interaction unlocks at level 5 of the Natural Living skill.
Reading skill books will work towards building skills, but is slower than other methods. Books will only get you as far as level 9 of a skill. To buy skill books:The skill books are:
- 1Select a bookshelf and choose Purchase Books.
- 2In the pop-up, select the drop-down at the top-left that reads Show All.
- 3Choose Skill and scroll through to find the book you want to buy. These will be added to your Sim’s bookshelf.
- Natural Living Vol 1: Sprout About It!
- Natural Living Vol 2: Leaf It To Me
- Natural Living Vol 3: Wilderness Wisdom
If you own The Sims 4 Discover University Expansion Pack, your Sims can attend skill-building classes. These are rabbit holes, so your Sim will leave the Lot for some time and then come back when the class is over. Note: Skill classes are only available between 9 a.m. and 9pm.
- 1In Live Mode, select your Sim’s phone.
- 2Open the Business app (the briefcase icon).
- 3Choose Sit in on Skill Class (§250).
- 4In the pop-up menu, choose Natural Living. Your Sim will leave the Lot and gain Natural Living skill while at the class.
If you own The Sims 4 Businesses & Hobbies Expansion Pack, your Sim can learn or teach the Natural Living skill using the Sharing is Caring Whiteboard.
Natural Living skill rewards
As your Sim builds the Natural Living skill, they’ll unlock new abilities and interactions along the way. Sims improve their success rates and outcomes as they use each interaction over time. To start, your Sim will experience a negative Moodlet and fill their Needs slowly when using Natural Living interactions.Once your Sim has a skill level of 5, they:- are more likely to have a Confident Moodlet after Natural Living interactions
- have a higher chance of finding Collectibles
- look visibly more comfortable sleeping outside
- fill their Needs outdoors faster.
Natural Living skill cheats
When using skill cheats, type in the number of the level you want to reach. For example, putting stats.set_skill_level Skill_NLS 7 into the cheat bar will get your Sim’s Natural Living skill up to level 7.PC and Mac
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- 1Press Control + Shift + C to open the cheat dialogue box.
- 2Type testingcheats true and press Enter to turn on cheats.
- 3Type stats.set_skill_level Skill_NLS [skill level] and press Enter.