Yesterday I wrote about how to age your Sim in Sims 3 using the “Blow out Candles” option on the birthday cake. But what happens when your Sim mysteriously can’t bow out the candles? Sadly, then it’s time to fall back on a cheat.
My sucessful Sim couple finally decided to have their first child. All was going well — I used the birthday cake to age him from a baby to a toddler. I trained the toddler well and was ready to make the transition into child. But when I bought the birthday cake and clicked “Blow out Candles,” there was no option to choose my toddler to age!
I don’t know why this happened… maybe it’s a bug with the birthday cake (The Cake Is a Lie?). In the end, I had to rely on a cheat to force the toddler to age. Here it is:
Aging Your Sim Cheat for Sims 3
- Bring up the cheat console (Ctrl + Shift + C)
- Type testingcheatsenabled true
- Shift-click on the Sim you want to age
- You will get an option to age the Sim or to change that Sim’s traits
- By choosing to age that Sim, they will celebrate their birthday without using the cake
I guess that’s how I’ll be doing it from now on. Saves on the cash of buying the cake and then dragging it out of inventory… when I’m not even sure it will really work on the Sim to begin with.
Oooh- cheating! *Waggles gamer finger* Hee, just kidding.
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Oooh, nice. I haven’t gotten around to getting all the cheats for the new game yet.
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The same thing happened to me!!! My boy is a toddler nw and the cake doesn’t work. I was just looking up how to fix that, and found your cheat.
Thank you!
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I had that problem and found out if you do EVERYTHING to teach the toddler (read ALL the kids books to him and have him play with ALL the toys) the cake will finally work without needing to cheat.
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Actually, what you have to do to get the child to age up is unfreeze aging, let them age up one day and re-freeze it. That will let you age up then
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Hey there. I tried to click the option to stop aging In the options menu But it’s not enabled for some reason, any ideas for me?
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What Drake said makes sense.
The Sim’s previous birthday was Day 1 of being a toddler; since aging is off, the game still thinks it’s Day 1 and won’t let you celebrate a birthday twice in the same day.
(Sorry for the late response. I was trying to figure this out myself today when my Sims threw a birthday party, I got a ton of great pictures, and the birthday boy wasn’t allowed to blow out the candles.)
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Yeah, i don’t do either.. i just wait until they age by themselves. I realized i could do this and it was easier than wasting my time
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thanks! Ü
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hi i don’t get the option to age the Sim,,,, any ideas thanks
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When it doesn’t have the option to blow out candles, it’s because the sim is not naturally close enough to their next birthday. You have to be within a certain range to age up this way.
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I just invited the paper boy in and made him an old man
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