Death is inevitable in The Sims 4, unless of course, you have an occult Sim with an unnaturally long life. If your Sim is ordinary or unlucky though, they will eventually pass on, become a ghost, and eventually lose their connection to the physical world. Thankfully, there are ways to combat death after it’s already happened.
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With the Book of Life, you can resurrect Sims that have already died. This is only possible if this book is written by another Sim who has completed the Bestselling Author aspiration though. In this guide, we are going to take a look at the complete process of making and using the Book of Life.
Updated April 9, 2024 by Jacqueline Zalace: In The Sims 4, the Book of Life is, well, a lifesaver. We’ve updated the formatting of this guide slightly and added a bit more information on leveling up the writing skill, allowing you to create this book as soon as possible in order to bring a Sim back to life.
How To Complete The Bestselling Author Aspiration
The Bestselling Author aspiration will require your Sim to reach the maximum level of writing, as well as publish a certain amount of bestselling books and earn a specific amount of royalties.
Below, you can see each milestone of the Bestselling Author aspiration, as well as what you need to do for each.
As a reward for the final milestone, you will get the
Poetic trait,
which is what allows you to write the Book of Life.
How To Increase Writing Skills
Overall, the best advice we can give to increase the writing skill is to write! Whether your Sim is practicing writing or writing books, the skill will increase.
You can also join the Writer career, which also requires you to increase your writing skill. In addition to this, you can earn promotion rewards that boost Inspiration and Focus, which can be helpful as you increase the writing skill.
Inspiration and Focus boost activities, including writing. This will include how fast you learn the skill while doing any writing-based activities.
Once you have completed this aspiration, you will be able to write the Book of Life.
How To Write The Book Of Life
The first step to writing this powerful book is to head to a computer and select the “Write…” option. On the menu just before selecting the genre, you will see a new option, called “The Book of Life”.
Select this, and your Sim will start to write the Book of Life. This book is quite important, so it may take you a few sessions to complete it. Fortunately, the Book of Life has the same writing process as other books; you can pause writing and come back at a later time.
How To Use The Book Of Life
Now that you have a Book of Life, you will need to bind another Sim to it. Interacting with the book will give you the option to “Capture Epic Saga”. This will bind the chosen Sim and allow them to be resurrected once they die.
The subject of the epic saga
must be alive at the time the book is bound.
You cannot bring back someone who died prior to this.
After death, your writer Sim can interact with the book once more and choose the option to “Summon” the Sim, bringing their ghost to the lot. If the ghost of the Sim is already at the lot, you don’t have to do this; it’s just an easy way to find the ghost. At this point, they are not yet resurrected.
To fully resurrect the Sim, they will need to read their own Book of Life. The easiest way to do so is to add the ghost Sim to your household (either by increasing your friendship or by using cheats). With the Sim in your household, simply place the Book of Life down and have the ghost read it.
Once this happens, they will be resurrected! The book cannot be used again, so you will need to write more if you want another.
If the deceased Sim’s spirit has passed on to the Netherworld,
they cannot be resurrected.
Thankfully, this doesn’t happen randomly, as you
manually do this from a gravestone/urn.
How Many Books Of Life Can A Sim Write?
Sims who have completed the Bestselling Author aspiration can write as many Books of Life as they want! There are only a few limitations to keep in mind.
Firstly, your writer Sim cannot write the Book of Life for themselves. Additionally, only the author of the book can use it to capture an epic saga. If, for some reason, your writer Sim is gone before binding the book, then it’s essentially useless.
Other than that, you can have your writer Sim make dozens of these books. One possible option is to write several books without binding them to another Sim. When you meet worthy Sims, you can take one of these books and bind it to their soul.
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