Want your Sim to leave behind a legacy when they die? With The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack your Sims can now plan what happens when they pass on to the afterlife. They can choose what happens to their remains, their dependents, Simoleons, and specific Items.
Wills are a way for your Sim to leave instructions for when they die. There are lots of options your Sim can include in their Will—some only come into effect if the entire Sim Household is gone, and some only if the Will author dies.
If the author of the Will dies:
If the entire Household is gone after the death of the author of the Will:
Once your Sim is a Teen, or older, they can write a Will. To write a Will, first you’ll need the Will Object in your Sim’s Personal Inventory.
There are five ways to start a Will:
Your Sim can find the Will Object in their Personal Inventory. Selecting it will bring up the following options:
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.
When your Sim dies, their resting place will turn into an urn or tombstone depending on what they requested in their Will. If your Sim becomes a Ghost when they die, they’ll no longer be able to create or edit their 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!
Sometimes not all of a Sim’s wishes in their Will can be fulfilled.
For example:
With The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack, you can set specific Items as Heirloom Objects. This specializes the Item for future generations, so it can be passed down through a Will.
When you set an Item as an Heirloom Object:
To create an Heirloom Object:
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.
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.
Item descriptions in Build Mode will include Heirloom Eligible if it can be made into an Heirloom Object.
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:
This isn’t an exhaustive list, there are many other Items that can be made into Heirloom Objects.
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