Another, arguably sounder methods involves tampering with a house’s fireplace.
If your Sim has a very low cooking skill, try pointing them towards their oven and telling them to cook a complicated recipe.
That’s the tricky part, and may require some finagling in build mode. Setting a Sim ablaze is one of the quickest and easiest ways to get away with murder - but only once you’ve got a proper fire going. In order to kill a Sim, therefore, you must bring about a situation that produces one of these causes-of-death. Seven are “natural” causes, and three come about from the game’s newfangled emotions. Learn Your Sims’ Weaknesses, Then Exploit ThemĪt present, there are ten different causes of death in The Sims 4. Since EA removed swimming pools in The Sims 4, the fan-favourite practice of removing ladders and leaving Sims to drown is no longer an option either. There must be a specific cause of death for a Sim to croak, and “being shot in the face” isn’t one of them. Killing Sims isn’t as simple as walking up to some zombie and shooting it in the face, though, which is where the challenge comes in.
At the end of the day, your Sims are pixellated avatars like any other. When it comes to committing murder, The Sims 4 may appear tricky at first glance. This story has been updated since its original publication, most recently to include bunny and chicken murder via Cottage Living.