The Sims 4: How to Use Life & Death Reaper and Ghost Cheats

If you searched for The Sims 4 Life & Death cheats and a “cheats” page handed you category names instead of commands, this fixes that. Below are the actual, copy-pasteable cheat strings for the Reaper and Undertaker careers, the Thanatology skill, Life & Death traits, Soul’s Journey, Ghost Mastery, and the new Murder of Crows death. One quick correction first: every one of these requires the Life & Death expansion. The Autumn Apparel Kit is a separate clothing kit and adds none of these mechanics.

The short version

• Enable cheats: press Ctrl + Shift + C (PC) or Cmd + Shift + C (Mac), type testingcheats true, then cas.fulleditmode if you want to edit a Sim in Create A Sim.
• Reaper career: careers.promote Active_Reaper (and careers.demote Active_Reaper).
• Undertaker career: it uses the internal name “Mortician” — careers.promote Mortician / careers.demote Mortician.
• Max Thanatology: stats.set_skill_level Minor_Thanatology 5 (skill has 5 levels).
• Traits: traits.equip_trait trait_ChasedByDeath, trait_Macabre, trait_Skeptical (Macabre and Skeptical are mutually exclusive — remove one before adding the other).
• Ghost Mastery XP: stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 3000 for the top rank.
• Murder of Crows death: there is no cheat string for it — you trigger it by provoking a Grim Standard Ascendant Crow, and there’s no clean undo.

First: Autumn Apparel Kit is not where these cheats live

The Autumn Apparel Kit is a Create A Sim kit. It released on October 9, 2025 at $4.99 USD with 27 CAS items, split across two fashion themes, “A Chill in the Air” and “Cozy and Classy.” It launched on PC and Mac via the EA app, Steam, and Epic Games Store, and on PlayStation and Xbox. It adds clothing only.

• No build/buy objects.
• No skills, careers, aspirations, traits, or occult systems.
• No Reaper, Ghost, Thanatology, Soul’s Journey, or death-state content.

So there is no “Autumn Apparel Kit cheats” beyond the base-game cheats you already had. The pack that governs Reaper progression and ghosts is the Life & Death expansion. If you only want to confirm what the kit does and doesn’t do, see our companion guide: How to check Autumn Apparel Kit cheats.

Enable cheats before any Life & Death command

Open the console with Ctrl + Shift + C on PC or Cmd + Shift + C on Mac (all four shoulder buttons on console). Type testingcheats true and press Enter. If you plan to add or remove traits or a death state directly in CAS, also enter cas.fulleditmode.

• Make the target Sim active before entering Sim-specific commands.
• Use a backup save before editing death states or ghost powers — some of these have no clean reversal.
• If the UI doesn’t refresh, travel to another lot or reload the household.

Reaper and Undertaker career cheats

Life & Death adds two careers: the Reaper (an objective-based active career) and the Undertaker, which the game stores internally as “Mortician.” Run a promote command repeatedly to climb the track.

• careers.promote Active_Reaper — promote in the Reaper career.
• careers.demote Active_Reaper — demote in the Reaper career.
• careers.promote Mortician — promote in the Undertaker career.
• careers.demote Mortician — demote in the Undertaker career.

Both careers require the Thanatology skill to function well, so max that alongside the rank rather than only forcing promotions. Reaching rank 10 in the Reaper career also grants the Grim’s Right Hand reward trait, which you can apply directly with traits.equip_trait trait_ReaperCareer_DeathReward.

Thanatology skill cheat

Thanatology is the one new skill in the pack, and it has five levels. To set it, run:

• stats.set_skill_level Minor_Thanatology 5 — max the skill (use 1–5 for a specific level).

This is the cleanest category to cheat because skill edits are far less destructive than death-state edits. If you want to become a Reaper efficiently, max Thanatology first: both new careers are gated by it, and a missing interaction is more often a skill problem than a career-rank problem.

Trait cheats: Chased By Death, Macabre, Skeptical

Life & Death adds three standard personality traits. EA’s display name for the third is “Skeptic,” but the cheat token is trait_Skeptical.

• traits.equip_trait trait_ChasedByDeath — Sim dies more easily and has more near-death experiences.
• traits.equip_trait trait_Macabre — Sim gets positive moodlets in scary situations.
• traits.equip_trait trait_Skeptical — Sim demands proof and resists the supernatural.

Swap equip for remove to take a trait off. One catch: Macabre and Skeptical are mutually exclusive, so you must remove one before adding the other. Edit one trait at a time when debugging — traits drive autonomy, conversation pools, and story beats, and stacking them makes it hard to tell which one is causing a behavior.

Soul’s Journey progression cheats

Soul’s Journey is the progression framework that ties living, Unfinished Business, ghost gameplay, and Rebirth together. You skip to a milestone by setting its ranked statistic:

• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_movingon_soulsjourney 20 — “No Regrets” milestone.
• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_movingon_soulsjourney 30 — “Dreams Fulfilled.”
• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_movingon_soulsjourney 35 — “Newfound Purpose” (ghosts only).
• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_movingon_soulsjourney 40 — “The Big Picture” (ghosts only).

Completing Soul’s Journey also unlocks the Burning Soul reward, which carries a trait into the Sim’s next life: traits.equip_trait trait_MovingOn_BurningSoul_Reincarnated. Treat these as a repair or shortcut tool — skip too far and you’ll have unlocked states with no idea what triggered them.

Ghost Mastery and ultimate ability cheats

This is the category most people mean when they search “max out your Ghost.” Ghost Mastery is the ghost-only progression tree, and you raise it by setting ghost XP:

• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 300 — Ethereal Novice.
• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 700 — Phantasmal Ascendant.
• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 1600 — Spectral Luminary.
• stats.set_stat rankedstatistic_ghostpowers_ghostxp 3000 — Transcendent Wraith (top rank).

For the two ultimate abilities, set them to full:

• stats.set_stat statistic_ghostpowers_good 100 — Benevolent Blessing.
• stats.set_stat statistic_ghostpowers_evil 100 — Otherworldly Curse.

Apply ghost edits in isolation. If you change death type, career rank, and traits in the same pass, you won’t know why an ability is greyed out. Set the ghost XP, reload, confirm the power set, then layer other edits on top.

Death by Murder of Crows — there is no cheat for it

Murder of Crows is the one genuinely new death in Life & Death, and it is the exception to this guide: there is no working cheat string to apply it, and no reliable cheat to undo it. You trigger it manually:

• Place a “Grim Standard Ascendant Crow” from Buy Mode.
• Enable testingcheats true, then Shift + Click the crow and choose Cheat Relationship > Set Min Friendship.
• Normal-click the crow, choose Socialize > Provoke, and repeat until it is “dangerously” angry.

Because there’s no clean reversal, do this in a disposable branch save. If you only need a generic ghost, the base-game death-state trait cheats (traits.equip_trait trait_ghost_[cause]) are far safer to apply and remove. You can also toggle dying for the whole save with death.toggle true / death.toggle false.

A safe order for building a Reaper or high-level Ghost

Start with systems that grant access, then move to systems that change identity:

• Enable testingcheats true (and cas.fulleditmode if needed).
• Max Thanatology: stats.set_skill_level Minor_Thanatology 5.
• Set the career rank: careers.promote Active_Reaper or careers.promote Mortician.
• Add traits only after skill and career are stable.
• Set Ghost Mastery XP once the Sim is already in the correct ghost state.
• Do death-type testing, including Murder of Crows, last and only in a backup save.

Common mistakes

• Wrong pack installed. If a command does nothing, confirm Life & Death is installed and active — the Autumn Apparel Kit adds none of these.
• Forgetting the career’s internal name. The Undertaker is “Mortician” in the cheat; careers.promote Undertaker won’t work.
• Stacking edits. Changing skill, career, traits, and death state at once makes it impossible to tell which edit broke something. Change one category, reload, verify.
• Expecting a Murder of Crows cheat. There isn’t one — provoke the crow manually, and only in a save you can throw away.
• Skipping cas.fulleditmode. Some trait and death-state edits are easiest from Modify in CAS, which needs that command enabled first.

Where Autumn Apparel Kit still fits

There is one real overlap, and it’s purely cosmetic. The Autumn Apparel Kit can dress a Life & Death household well — its sweaters, layered outerwear, scarves, and fall swatches suit solemn or cool-weather storytelling. But it remains a wardrobe add-on. None of its 27 items change how Reaper progression, Soul’s Journey, or Ghost Mastery work.

Practical takeaway

Enable cheats, max Thanatology, set the career, then handle traits and ghost progression in that order — one category at a time, reloading to verify. Use the exact tokens above (Active_Reaper, Mortician, Minor_Thanatology, the trait_ names, the ghost XP stats), keep Murder of Crows in a throwaway save since it has no undo, and remember that all of it needs the Life & Death expansion, not the Autumn Apparel Kit.