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The Sims 4: Best Custom Traits Mods to Add to Your Game

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Skills-Based Custom Traits

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Custom Traits Mods For The Sims 4

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Guitar Legend

“The guitar skill comes very easily to a Guitar Legend. They score big in the entertainment industry and also make higher royalty payment for the songs they write! Rock on!”

Special Whims:

  • License a Song
  • Play the Guitar
  • Serenade Someone
  • Jam
  • Enthuse about Solos
  • Mentor Someone on the Guitar

Artistic Prodigy

Here’s what this trait adds:

  • Sims will learn the Painting skill faster, children will learn the Creativity skill faster
  • Sims will be inspired by default
  • Sims will get a lot of whims to paint

Mixology Boss

“These type of sims enjoy making drinks, they gain the mixology skill faster.”

Does exactly what its description says and increases the mixology skill faster than normal.

Green Thumb

“Sims with the green thumb are great gardeners, they’ll easily gain skill in Gardening and Herbalism. Plus, with their knowledge of fruits and vegetables they’ll be better cooks. Their hygiene bar will drop slightly faster than the other Sims as they’re always in the dirt.”

Here’s what the trait adds:

  • Gardening Skill and Herbalism Skill are gained faster
  • Cooking, Gourmet Cooking, and Baking are gained slightly faster
  • Hygiene drops slightly faster
  • Sims will have a lot of gardening whims

Author

“These sims are all about creating worlds and stimulating the senses with their words. Authors easily find inspiration in anything and everything. These sims want to write all the the time and often find time to write instead of sleep.”

This mod does exactly as you’d expect from the description, giving sims the innate ability of kicking butt while writing books.

Born Chef

“Sims with this trait are gifted chefs and every meal they make is a work of art. They achieve cooking and baking skills a lot faster than regular sims.”

Like the description implies, cooking savants will be made with this trait.

Tech Genius

“Tech Geniuses love to use computers and technology. They are naturally gifted at technological skills such as programming and rocket science. Give them a computer and/or a rocket ship and they are more than happy. They are suited best for the Astronaut and Tech Guru careers.”

This custom traits mod will let Programming, Rocket Science, Video Gaming, and Logic skills all gain faster than they usually do.

Gamer

Gamers boost their Programming, Hacking, and Gaming skills, and they have whims to play games, buy new consoles, and such.

Awakened Mind

Sims that have this custom trait will gain all mental-based skills faster. Additionally, they won’t have much need for sleep.

Internet Kid

Here’s what this custom trait brings to the table:

  • Programming and Video Gaming skills will gain faster
  • All skills gain a little faster
  • Friendships will gain faster
  • Fun and hunger decay faster
  • Social and energy decay slower

Anti-Social Custom Traits

Custom Traits Mods For The Sims 4

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Anti-Social Mastermind

“These sims are extremely antisocial and have no conscience. They are prideful, aggressive, and live a selfish and lonely life.”

Social Anxiety Disorder

Sims with this custom trait will have a hard time being social.

Introvert

“Outside… whats that? These sims are shy, hate being outside their house, and will get uncomfortable when out of their house for too long. These sims social need decays much slower, and building lasting relationships is more difficult.”

Relationships will decay faster, social and fun decays slower, and all skills can be gained slightly faster.

Lonely Intellectual

“These sims hate socializing, excel in mental activities, and are also fairly talented in the arts. They often find themselves down.”

Socially Awkward

“Socially Awkward sims perform poorly at pretty much everything social. They build social skills much slower than the average sim, can never become confident, and also suffer intense embarrassment on occasion even before talking to someone.”

Loser

“These sims have a harder time succeeding in life than other sims, be it at work or school. Losers also gain experience more slowly and have a harder time establishing relationships.”

Miscellaneous Custom Traits

Custom Traits Mods For The Sims 4

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Baby Maker

“Babies, babies, babies! Can’t get enough of them. This Sim wants lots of children. They are flirty very often and have many ‘baby mamas’ or ‘baby daddys’ to give them children. Commitment issues are possible if their significant other doesn’t give them enough children. Babies make the world go round!”

Pathetic

“These sims will be worse at their jobs, take longer to do their homework, get electrocuted and exhausted more easily, and make things dirtier, faster. They will tend to feel sad as well; this leads certain important figures to have compassion on them. They don’t realize they have a form of protection offered to none else…”

Siren

“These sims, like the eponymous mythical creature, possess an almost eerie quality of being able to charms others.”

Sorceror

“These sims, if you’re wondering for the purposes of searching out prospects for a witch hunt, definitely do not have supernatural powers and can do nothing “magical” that other sims can’t.”

8 Teen Traits

Here are the eight traits included with this mod pack:

  • Emotional Conduit
  • Electric Sliderule
  • Frenzied Rebel
  • Goody Two Shoes
  • Living Instrument
  • Perpetual Motion
  • Relentless Tease
  • Walking Punchline

Anxious

“These sims experience excessive anxiety and worry. They obsess over the ‘what ifs’ no matter how illogical they may seem, and often get stuck in negative thought cycles. They sometimes experience panic attacks.”

Bipolar

This includes two traits in one, essentially.

Bipolar I: Either depressive states, feeling very tense, feeling very angry, or feeling very energized. All states last 18 hours.

Bipolar II: Same states as the first stage, but they last 15 minutes to four hours.

Violent

Sims that are violent will almost always be angry, get angry very easily, and will want to perform angry actions much more than the average sim.

Depressed

“These sims just have a bit harder of a time getting up every day, and are often feeling as if they’re moving in a fog. However they have wonderfully creative minds and can turn their emotions into beautiful art.”

Pyromaniac

“Pyromaniacs enjoy fires a little more than others do. They can create fires and are immune to them.”


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Yamilia Avendano
Yami was the founder of Twinfinite having written for the site since its inception in 2012 through until she sold it to the GAMURS Network in March 2022. Yami has been playing games since 1991, with a penchant for anything in the simulation and action genres. The Sims 4 has consumed thousands of hours of Yami's life, and she's totally ok with it.