As I start my new life simming adventures in Paralives, I’ve realized that decades of using shortcuts in The Sims have spoiled me. The strategy of it all is brilliant, but if you’re anything like me and just want to play in build mode sometimes, then you’ll be happy to hear there are Paralives cheats to help with that.
It’s just like using The Sims 4 cheats, and if anything, I can appreciate how simple the Paralives shortcuts are to use. I’ve been playing and testing its long list of console commands for a while now, so here’s what I’ve found while trying out Paralives’ cheats for money, wants, needs, and more.
How to use Paralives cheats
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Opening the command window and using codes
We’ve got a quick and easy reference for players only interested in a Paralives money cheat, but if you need a rundown on how to use those commands in Paralives, I’ve got you covered there too.
Use CTRL+F1 to open the Paralives command console (cheat window)Type (or copy and paste) your cheat code into the text fieldPress Enter
In addition to those starting basics, I’ve got a few handy notes for players coming from The Sims or other games:
There is no initial command to enable cheatsParalives cheats are not case sensitive and don’t require a forward slash (/)In the console, you can click the last cheat used to trigger it again
Basic commands for getting started
HELP – Displays a list of all cheats (Alias: CHEATLIST)CLEAR – Clears all text from the cheat consoleALIASES – Displays a list of commands with alternative shortcutsSHOWCURRENTCHARACTERGUID – Displays the unique GUID assigned to selected Para
Paralives money cheats
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Paradime cheats
Cheat
Description
PRINTMONEY
Gives specified amount of paradimes
Ex: PRINTMONEY 20000
SETMONEY
Changes the household’s balance to specified amount
Ex: SETMONEY 20000
PAYDAY
Gives selected Para’s salary
PIGGYBANK
Gives 1,000 paradimes
MAKEITRAIN
Gives 10,000 paradimes
JACKPOT
Gives 50,000 paradimes
LOTTERY
Gives a random amount (between 1-100,000) of paradimes
GENERATEBILL
Sends updated bank statement to the mailbox
CLEARBILLS
Clears all billing statements from the mailbox
CLEARSELECTED
CHARACTERSBILLS
Clears all billing statements related to a selected para from the mailbox
CAUSEOUTAGE
Cuts power from the selected lot
FIXOUTAGE
Fixes power outage for the selected lot
Paralives character cheats
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Customization cheats
Cheat
Description
EDITCHARACTER
Returns to character creator for edits to selected household
PRINTAGE
Displays para’s age in the console
SETAGE
Changes para’s age to specified value
Ex: SETAGE 32
SHOW
PERSONALITYTRAITS
Displays para’s values for Physique, Mind, Creativity, and Charisma in the console
LEVELUP
PERSONALITY
Adds one level to para’s personality
RESET
PERSONALITY
Resets para’s personality to level 1
SHOWSTATUS
EFFECTS
Displays para’s current status effects in the console
CLEARSTATUS
EFFECTS
Clears selected para’s status effects
CLEARSTATUS
EFFECTSONALL
CHARACTERS
Clears all status effects from all parafolk
GAINSTORYCARD
Adds one story card
Pregnancy cheats
Cheat
Description
GETPREGNANT
Makes selected para pregnant, can specify a value for multiples (1-3)
Ex: GETPREGNANT 2
GIVEBIRTH
Makes selected para give birth
MAKEBABIES
Makes two selected paras have a baby together
PREGNANTSTATUS
Displays details on current pregnancy in the console
Aging and death cheats
Cheat
Description
NEXTLIFESTAGE
Progress para’s life stage to the next level
PREVIOUS
LIFESTAGE
Reverts para’s life stage to the previous level
NEXTGROWTH
SPURT
Triggers growth spurt for infant or teen paras
PREVIOUS
GROWTHSPURT
Reverts growth spurt for infant or teen paras
KILLCHARACTER
Kills the selected para
(Using this in a household of one triggers a game over)
REVIVEALL
SELECTED
CHARACTERS
Revives the selected para
(Does not work while the game over screen is active)
Household cheats
Cheat
Description
ADDSELECTED
CHARACTERSTO
HOUSEHOLD
Adds selected NPC para to your current household
CREATECHARACTER
Creates a new para using the model GUID or the DisplayName
Ex: CREATECHARACTER 1234567891011120000
Ex: CREATECHARACTER HumanAdult
KICKCURRENT
HOUSEHOLDINTO
NEWHOUSEHOLD
Removes all but one para from the household
KICKSELECTED
CHARACTERS
FROMHOUSEHOLD
Removes selected para from the household
Relationships and social cheats
Cheat
Description
SHOWCHARACTER
RELATIONSHIPS
Displays all of selected para’s relationships and their labels
BECOMEACQUAINTANCE
WITHEVERYONE
Adds the Acquaintance relationship label for all paras in town
Paralives wants and needs cheats
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Need cheats
Some Paralives cheats in this section require you to input a specific variable to edit your para’s needs. You can use several of the following commands with the need IDs below.
Cheat
Description
SHOWNEEDS
Displays all need values in the console window
SETNEED
Sets one need to a specified value (1-10)
Ex: SETNEED Hunger 8
DECAYNEED
Decays need by specified variable (or by one if left blank)
Ex: DECAYNEED Hygiene 2
RELIEFNEED
Completely restores specified need
Ex: RELIEFNEED Sleep
RELIEFALLNEEDS
Completely restores all needs
RELIEFALLNEEDS
OFALLCHARACTERS
Completely restores needs of all paras in household
Need IDs
Affection
Bathroom
Fun
Grump
Hunger
Hygiene
Peace
Sleep
MeTime
EnergySurplus
GetAwayFromFire
NeedToMove
Want cheats
Cheat
Description
CLEARALLON
SELECTED
CHARACTERS
Removes all wants, interactions, bills, memories, and emotions while also relieving needs on all paras in the household
CLEARWANT
COOLDOWNS
Offers new wants from para’s emotions
(Complete/clear currents wants if the para’s list is full)
COMPLETE
CURRENTWANTS
Completes all selected para’s wants
Skill and occupation cheats
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Using general knowledge skills or more targeted talents
Just like with needs, you’ll need (heh) to use specific IDs to edit your para’s skills. Every Paralives skill has a main knowledge skill it falls under, and improving those collective knowledge categories makes learning specific skills (like Piano, Cooking, etc) faster.
Skill cheats
Cheat
Description
SHOWSKILLS
Displays para’s skill levels in the console
LEVELUPSKILL
Adds one level to the specified skill
Ex: LEVELUPSKILL Astronomy
SETSKILLLEVEL
Sets skill to the specified value
Ex: SETSKILLLEVEL Astronomy 9
LEARNALLSKINS
Unlocks all skill-related extras for specified ‘skin’
Ex: LEARNALLSKINS recipes
Skill IDs
This is the same list provided by the SHOWSKILLS command, but since Paralives is still in early access you may notice a few skills (Outdoorsiness and Fishing) don’t work. I’ve only included skill IDs implemented into the current build in the table below.
Knowledge skill IDs
Individual skill IDs
Knowledge
Music
Piano
Guitar
Triangle
Knowledge
Fitness
Dancing
Exercising
Knowledge
Science
Astronomy
Biology
Surgery
Knowledge
Technology
Programming
GraphicDesign
Knowledge
Food
Cooking
Knowledge
VisualArt
Painting
Knowledge
Repair
For babies and toddlers:
Potty
Language
Occupation cheats
Cheat
Description
UPGRADE
OCCUPATIONS
Unlocks new upgrades for selected para’s occupation
ENDWORKDAY
Finishes work day; para receives salary and any earned upgrade points
PRINTALL
OCCUPATIONS
Displays all jobs the selected para holds
PRINTNUMBER
OFEXTRASFOR
EVERYOCCUPATION
Displays all possible occupations and their upgrade paths in the console
PRINTALLPOSSIBLE
EXTRASFOR
OCCUPATION
Displays all possible perks for the specified job
Ex: PRINTALLPOSSIBLEEXTRASFOROCCUPATION Parallel_CharacterArtist Rank 2
CLEARALL
OCCUPATIONS
Removes all of selected para’s current jobs
ADDVACATIONDAY
Gives selected para additional vacation day
ADDSTRIKETO
OCCUPATIONS
Adds one strike to para’s current jobs
CLEARSTRIKES
Removes strikes from para’s current jobs
UNENROLLFROM
ALLOCCUPATIONS
Quits all para’s current jobs
Live mode cheats
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Time and day cheats
Cheat
Description
ADVANCEDAY
Advances time by one day (24 hours); also adds new story page
ADVANCEHOUR
Advances time by one hour
SETHOUR
Changes time to specified value
Ex: SETHOUR 12
SKIPTO5MINUTES
BEFOREWORK
Adjusts time to five minutes before para’s job starts
Fire cheats
Cheat
Description
EXTINGUISHALL
FIRES
Extinguishes all fires
EXTINGUISH
SELECTED
CHARACTERS
ONFIRE
Extinguishes fire on selected para
SETITEMONFIRE
Sets the selected item on fire
SETSELECTED
CHARACTERS
ONFIRE
Sets selected para on fire
Newspaper and mail cheats
Cheat
Description
DELETEALL
NEWSPAPERISSUES
Deletes all newspapers
GENERATEMAIL
Sends pending mail to your box
GENERATE
NEWSPAPER
Creates a new newspaper
RESETMAILBOX
Removes all mail from your box
Build mode and item cheats
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Build mode cheats
While there are a few debug commands for broken objects and inspecting lots, there aren’t many cheats for building tools. I’ve included the two I tested, but they’re not nearly as useful as the Paralives item cheats that follow.
TOGGLEEDITTOWN
Toggles special edit mode where you can alter the town while you have a household selected. This is not the normal Edit World mode, and this command may cause some issues.
SPAWNALLITEMS
Spawns all items in the world, but turns the town into an unusable mess. Not recommended unless you’re experimenting with commands.
Item cheats
Cheat
Description
ADDITEMTO
INVENTORY
Adds a specified item to a para’s inventory using item IDs
ex: ADDITEMTOINVENTORY ClutterClothingRingEngagement
SHOWITEMINFOS
Displays the item ID for currently selected object in Build Mode
PRINTINVENTORY
Displays the item ID for all items in para’s inventory
CLEARINVENTORY
Removes all items from para’s inventory
REPAIRALLITEMS
Repairs all items in the game
UNSPOILALLITEMS
Unspoils any spoiled food in the game
SETITEMSTATE
Changes an item state to specified value
SHOWITEMSTATES
Displays selected item’s animation and interaction data
ex: SETITEMSTATE IsOn 1
Performance, System, Debug cheats
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Performance and UI cheats
Cheat
Description
UILIST
Displays a list of all UI windows in the console
SHOWUI
Opens the specified UI window
Ex: SHOWUI UImods
BENCHMARKFPS
Begins 15-second FPS benchmark
CAPFPS
Caps FPS at specified value
Ex: CAPFPS 60
FPS
Displays current FPS
VSYNC
Displays and sets vsync
FULLSCREEN
Sets the game to Fullscreen mode
WINDOWED
Sets the game to Windowed mode
RESOLUTION
Displays the current screen resolution
SETRESOLUTION
Changes the resolution to specified value
Ex: SETRESOLUTION 1920×1080
SHADOW
DISTANCE
Displays the current shadow render distance
STARTTOWN
BENCHMARK
STORYBOARD
Begins benchmark storyboard to test town performance
Save cheats
Cheat
Description
SAVE
Saves the game
ZIPSAVEFILE
Zips your current save and saves it to the desktop
QUITTO
MAINMENU
Exits to the title screen
RAGEQUIT
Exits the game
Debug cheats
Cheat
Description
UNSTUCK
Adjusts selected para’s location to correct pathing
UNSTUCKALL
Adjusts the location of all parafolks to correct pathing
SHOWCHARACTER
POSITION
Displays para coordinates and surrounding lot/zone values in the console
WARPCHARACTER
Teleports para to specified coordinates
Ex: WARPCHARACTER 133.6,7.3,95.1
RESETMUSEUM
DONATIONS
Clears all museum donations and makes them available to fulfill again
SCHEDULE
Executes a specified command and displays its current status in the top left of the game
Ex: SCHEDULE FPS
STOP
Stops the scheduled command
PRINTHOUSEHOLD
FUNDS
Displays every household’s paradime balance
COUNTITEMS
Displays number of items in the world
SHOWACTIONS
Displays current and incoming action data
SHOWALLACTIONS
Displays more detailed action data
SHOW
INTERACTIONS
Displays current interaction data
SHOWCANCEL
INTERACTION
DETAILS
Displays cancelled interaction data
SHOW
CANCELLING
INTERACTION
Displays interactions currently being cancelled
CLEANUP
DUPLICATEDITEMS
Removes duplicated items from the world
GETSLIDERS
Displays all slider values for selected para
STOPALLAUDIOS
Stops all music, speaking, and environmental sound audio
SHOWCHARACTER
CURRENTITEMSLOT
Displays details on para’s current interactions in the console
GETCHARACTER
DEFORMATIONS
Displays all values for para body customizations in the console
GETEQUIPMENT
Displays all values for para customizations in the console
TESTCHARACTER
SKIN
Displays all values for para’s clothing, accessories, makeup, etc. in the console
Misc cheats
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A few more Paralives cheats included just for fun
Cheat
Description
BEAR
Displays ASCII art of a bear
CAT
Displays a picture of a black cat in the console
EIGHTBALL
Displays random Magic 8 Ball phrase in the console
Alias: 8BALL
HOTEL
Displays “Trivago” in the console
RANDOMIZEALL
DEFORMATIONS
Randomizes a para with no regard for slider proportions
SPIN
Spins a wheel with a chance to land on green at the specified value; displays results in console
ex: Spin 15%
