Sims 4 Build Mode Cheats

bb.moveobjects on removes the placement grid and the collision rules with it. Objects can overlap, sit half inside a wall, or float. It is the single cheat that separates a default-looking build from a designed one, and almost every build you have admired online used it.

Two keyboard controls only work while it is on. The 9 and 0 keys raise and lower the selected object in small steps, which is how objects end up on top of shelves and inside cabinets. Holding Alt while dragging frees the object from the grid rotation, letting it sit at any angle.

The cost is that the game stops checking whether a Sim can actually use what you placed. A bed clipped into a wall is still a bed as far as build mode is concerned, and a Sim will simply refuse to sleep in it with no explanation. The rule that keeps builds working is to place functional objects normally and use moveobjects for the decoration around them.

bb.showhiddenobjects is usually called the debug cheat. It adds several hundred items the catalogue normally hides — plants, rubble, food props, collectibles, small clutter that exists in the world but was never made purchasable. After running it, search the build catalogue for "debug" to see only the newly added set rather than hunting through everything.

bb.showliveeditobjects adds a second and larger group: world set dressing, the big props used to decorate neighbourhoods rather than lots. There is some overlap with the first cheat but plenty that only appears with this one.

bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement is the third catalogue cheat and works differently. It does not add hidden objects; it unlocks the ones already visible but locked behind career progress, making them buyable at their normal price.

bb.enablefreebuild is about lots rather than objects. It lets you edit lots the game refuses to open in build mode, including venues and the special lots attached to certain packs. Use it carefully — some of those lots are locked because their scripted behaviour depends on what is on them.

The last one is only for screenshots. hovereffects off removes the highlight that appears when the cursor passes over an object, which is otherwise impossible to keep out of a clean build photograph.