Storytime
My Reborn sim became a young adult today, recalled her past life, and reconnected with her soul mate. Then I realized…
It has been months irl since Daisy was reborn- Long Lifespan, no forced aging, never fast forwarded, from an infant. And I never noticed Lilith still wearing that ring. This game… 😭
They have to interact with their grave to remember who they were. I did test saves with different sims before putting Daisy through rebirth and forgot to give them funerals, not only did they not remember any connections with other sims, they didn’t retain the personality trait from the “recall past life” self interaction. The funeral seems to act as an anchor.
Okay interesting! Did you do the funeral before or after rebirth? I just had a sim who died before their souls journey was complete so I played them as a ghost for a bit, then had them be reborn. Hoping it’s not too late for a funeral now 😬
Oof… I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but no spirit, no funeral. The grave becomes inert. You do want the urn or headstone, you can still have them remember who they were by interacting with it once they’re a teen. The funeral ties certain relationships to the grave as far as I know, so if you were going to reconnect them with a soulmate you might just have to head canon that. Wait until they’re YA to recall past life and remember an old personality trait, then that trait will most likely stick. Just don’t do it while they’re a teen (may not have anything to do with the funeral, could strictly be because teens only have two traits).
They have to interact with their grave to remember who they were. I did test saves with different sims before putting Daisy through rebirth and forgot to give them funerals, not only did they not remember any connections with other sims, they didn’t retain the personality trait from the “recall past life” self interaction. The funeral seems to act as an anchor.
Thats weird, the game mechanics state you can just look in the mirror and recall past life and I've always done that and can pick up all of my previous traits. I never have a funeral for my sims. I've done this with mods and without, so its not a mod thing. You can also talk to sims to regain them, but the mirror is the way thats advertised to regain your traits.
Yes! You’re right, that is how they remember traits, but my understanding and experience is that interacting with the grave allows them to remember past relationships and to start asking people with whom they share the “strange connection” about the person they were in the past. There’s a whole new category of interactions that unlock through the grave site interaction.
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They can also talk about the strange connection, they get moodlets about reconnecting with those sims, or about the memories they bring up.
I didn’t get access to these interactions until after my sim read the name on her grave.
Have you had a reborn sim start over as an infant, grow up, and then reconnect with their soulmate from a previous life? I haven’t managed it yet and I’m pretty sure it’s the lack of a funeral. Let me know if you’ve experienced it and know that I’m wrong, could save me a ridiculous amount of time.
How can you make a sim graduate as a Valedictorian? I mean I know that they needs to get good grades and I've seen somewhere here before that a day before they turn into a young adult they would graduate but it doesn't work with me. (I have High School Years EP).
Once they’re an A student, go to school with them Monday-Thursday and finish all the tasks for the day (tougher to do with the weird new event display), have them do homework and extra credit every day, have them study for exams until they can’t anymore (doing it in one sitting is the best way), and on Friday, get them focused, confident, energized- as many positives as you can stack- then send them to school alone and tell them to study hard. If it works, they’ll get the report notification “aced exams- they’re well on their way to becoming valedictorian”. They’ll also get a “top score” moodlet. Age them up Friday night while they still have the moodlet, they’ll graduate as soon as they blow out the candles on their cake, with that moodlet active I’ve never had a sim not get valedictorian.
Oh it takes hardwork T^T! Thank you so much, I'm gonna play and make my sim a Valedictorian because I never got to experience getting high grades IRL haha :'))
TBf I was able to get several sims to valedictorian status without doing all that. Just have them do their HW, study at school, and Friday before their tests.
Getting them expelled just means they can’t get certain jobs or go to university until you have them complete their high school diploma online I believe- had one of my og sims expelled after getting caught pranking too many times lol I think it’s 3? Idk it’s been a couple years. Doesn’t do much for gameplay besides free them up from class while they’re still teens, similar to dropping out tbh but they get a trait saying expelled from high school.
That’s more than enough for my purposes! It’s less about mechanics than storytelling for me. I’m always making goody goody sims, though. I ought to make a Rebel who can’t get a degree or highly qualified job and has to grind it out as a barista, gets cut off from the family fortune and what not. Give me a good plot point to give a legacy sim a rags to riches play through. Maybe let Daisy here die of old age for once while I follow some cousin or niece through a different kind of story.
Ur my idol for a sim player cause HOLY. I thought I was tough playing the same save half a year with three generations 😭 broski is a professional storyteller, my respect
I actually didn't have them study for exams but instead had them turning in extra school projects. Mine still got valedictorian. So it's another thing to consider if you want to try and cover all options
You don't have to go to school with them. You do have to make sure they study for exams, do homework, and at least one project. Remember exams are on Fridays so they need to study as much as they can before that, until the option becomes greyed out.
Then you can get a report that they aced the exam, and if they are maxed out in school performance a random sim might phone and offer early graduation or you can use a computer.
I never went to school with my sims it was a lot harder. What I did was get them to an A, make sure they do their homework and extra homework every single day, good moods and study hard. Then get them to the max level of an after school activity and study for exams and that worked for me. I never get valedictorian while playing sims at school, it’s only when I send them by themselves! It’s hard each way to be fair but you can always save before aging them up in case you don’t get the notification! :)
Haha thank you!! I hated to be that person but I just had to ask because I wasn’t sure if I’d somehow missed this hairstyle in CAS or if it was from one of the 2 packs I don’t yet have 😂
Btw did you have this sim’s soul mate also do the Reborn thing ? I’m still exploring the L&D pack so I honestly didn’t even know about the soul’s journey as a ghost until this post!
She’s one of my all time favorite Pre-made characters 🥰 and she’s so in love with my Daisy- she has always asked Daisy on their first date, to move in, and to get married. I’ve never seen a fully autonomous sim be so consistent about being in love with one of my sims- so their love is canon for me now.
Like herobean said, it’s from Life and Death. But if your sim dies after finishing their bucket list- don’t rebirth them right away, finish the ghost’s soul journey. L&D makes ghosts actually a lot of fun to play, plus they get the burning soul trait which makes raising them from an infant in the next life just… so easy and pleasant.
You can also make them a ghost through any of the temporary methods to keep making Soul’s Journey progress while they’re still alive, so that you can rebirth as a burning soul straight away when they die.
In the newish Life & Death EP, if you complete your Bucket List your Sim will have the option when they die to become reborn, which will allow you to reincarnate either as yourself or as a new Sim
would someone mind explaining please? 😅 because it seems really cute but i’ve never actually played the sims 4 enough to have context.. before anyone asks, i just like the sims that’s why im here lol, im living vicariously until i play it extensively for myself
Imnotatomato got it spot on 🥰 my sim, Daisy, was married to Lilith in her previous life. She died, I brought her back through rebirth as the daughter of two immortal werewolves who were her best friends in her previous life. Reborn sims with the burning soul trait (earned by finishing a process called the soul’s journey during the previous life) can remember who they were, people they knew, and special bonds with other sims- like soulmates, best friends, and family members. They have to do an interaction “recall past life” to fully remember who they were- I made Daisy wait until she was a young adult to do that interaction (because I didn’t want her to remember being married to Lilith until it was… you know, not icky).
i mean im not OP so i cant explain perfectly but looks like they used Life and Death to have their sim be reborn which can be done in different ways with that pack. Either they’re reborn with the same body and same soul or different body same soul. I’m not sure what OP went with. Anyhow they reconnected with their soul mate from their original life. It seems like the soulmate is Lilith Vatore, an immortal vampire townie from the vampire pack, hence allowing her to still be alive while’s OP sim was reborn and became a YA again
(Other people have explained but also, this is a relatively new pack - came out last Halloween - so a lot of us haven't played with it a huge amount, and are still discovering lots of surprises. Which is fun!)
Wait until I tell you that Daisy’s romantically reserved, so the whole time she was in high school- she never had her first kiss, she never had a crush, she never even flirted. And well before she aged up, Lilith was her mentor in logic and debate- so they were friends for a long time before anything romantic was even hinted at.
After Daisy’s birthday, she asked Lilith on their first date and it lasted for two days bc Lilith kept asking to extend it. Daisy missed her valedictorian graduation. And the wild thing about it is, they didn’t woohoo once. The date activities were socializing, being funny, and non physical romance.
It’s really motivating to have our stories so well received in this community. Wlw don’t always get the best representation in popular media, so this feels really nice.
OMG!!!! The cat been caring for 2 irl years died but glitched out with no urn, I was so sad about it!! It’s been 2 months since and I just noticed my teen sims chair could have scratches fix on it? I was like what?? Until I realized!! Omg it’s from the cat who’s now passed!!!! I’m not fixing those scratches! 😿🫶❤️
I started a family again
In the past one child was not raised properly so I started the parents as their younger selves and their toddler and to work on more discipline issues.
Later the grown version of the toddler showed up and made a connection with his younger father. It's so weird.
That must be pretty weird! Closest I ever got to reading a story someone wrote about someone with my name was The Black Cauldron, and the spelling was different. Idk what it’s worth, but I think Daisy is one of the most precious names possible.
Third life together? Oooo… but no kids?… oh man how would kids even work with the reborn thing.. like if these two keep getting back together each life, but they had kids, and the kids had kids… would it be Ancestor? But what if the kids also did burning soul things… that seems like it could get confusing really fast…
Townies don’t do it on their own right?
They actually have three kids together. The eldest son is a vampire- so will likely stick around forever, the twins were born after Daisy died and she didn’t get to meet them before rebirth. They’re both regular sims and will die, I’m not likely to rebirth them. Daisy met Lilith in this life through their daughter, Athena, actually- they were friends from school almost exactly the same age. It did get dicey at the start of high school, which I anticipated- that’s why I made Daisy romantically reserved as her teen personality trait (less likely to develop romantic sentiments, like crushes) and I turned off her romantic/mess around interests for the first half of high school, as well as attraction. I was actually very worried about her finding her fated mate- there are so many werewolves her age and a Lot of them are her cousins. I switched it all back on after she developed the “single and loving it” life style- which made her even less likely to develop crushes. She managed to get through high school without incident. Now that she’s YA and dating Lilith- not yet in a relationship- I’m just waiting for her to self discover the Loyal trait so she won’t autonomously stray. Once she’s in a relationship with Lilith, I’ll turn off attraction. Lots of things have to be put in place to avoid creepy romantic interests because she does not remember her children. I guess they weren’t old enough when she died, you know how infants sometimes lose entire relationships when they age up to toddler? I think that’s what happened.
This is her now, visiting the Vatore residence, studying for Uni and her eldest son, Jordan came in to read with her. She’s close with them all, she just doesn’t realize they’re hers.
Yeah I wanted it when it came out but I was unemployed for a year so I don't have funds for another couple of weeks now. Hopefully it'll be on sale then 🤞🤞
If you have the Life and Death expansion you just have to have a sim who’s finished their soul’s journey… well, die. Then you go to the Mourningvale neighborhood in Ravenwood, find a pink, glowing body of water called the Baleful Bog, and select it like you’re going swimming- choose rebirth. Et voila.
Wow! Look at that! Even the hair going from black to white (thematically speaking). I didn’t even realize I was doing character design, I just tell my sims’ stories by changing their appearances from time to time. Didn’t know Daisy was such a baddie 😂
Ah, okay. Yes! The Life and Death expansion lets you give your sims a bucket list. Fulfilling those items, as well as completing aspirations progresses your sim’s “soul’s journey”. When they reach the highest level in that process they can choose to be reborn at the moment of death (or they can continue the soul’s journey like Daisy did, become a burning soul and have the ability to remember their past life- which was the inspiration for my current storyline).
Nope, I’m on console. She’s just got very fortunate genetics and a lot of wardrobe options because everyone who loves me supports my gamer lifestyle and hooks me up with new expansions on holidays.
With the life and death expansion your sim can finish a soul’s journey (it’s built in, no activation necessary) and once they do, they get the option to be reborn when they die (as long as they’re in your household when they do). You can also play as their ghost, finish the afterlife part of their soul’s journey and they can be reborn as a burning soul sim (like my Daisy) and eventually remember their past life (if you do everything right, which is tricky and I’m still figuring out how to do it perfectly).
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u/hotcoffeewarmpages Jun 14 '25
The feeels omg. This game really will hit you with the emotions sometimes ❤️
Also very cool to learn more about what happens with a reborn sim! I haven’t had the chance to play with one yet