Sims 4 gnomes: how to appease them

The Sims 4 gnomes are garden gnomes that come alive on Harvestfest. The Seasons expansion pack adds them. During the holiday, the gnomes appear at random places on your lot. Give each gnome a gift that it likes, and it gives you seeds back. Give the wrong gift, and it breaks your appliances.

Harvestfest is a holiday in the fall. It has four default traditions, says EA: Decorating, Thankful Spirit, Grand Meal, and Holiday Gnomes. The gnomes come from the Holiday Gnomes tradition. Many players call it "Appease the Gnomes", after the action that you use.

Snooty Sims says that Harvestfest runs from 6am to 2am the next day. SimsCommunity says that the gnomes come alive at 6am. So you have one long game day to deal with them.

This guide uses the official EA Help page first. Where fan guides give a different answer, we say so. For the other parts of the pack, read our Sims 4 Seasons guide.

Click a gnome, choose Appease the Gnome, and pick a gift that it likes. You do not need the gift in your inventory. The game gives you the choices.

1. Wait for Harvestfest. Check the calendar in Live mode for the date.
2. Find the gnomes. They appear around the lot on the morning of the holiday.
3. Click one gnome. The menu shows Put in Inventory, View, Name, and Appease the Gnome.
4. Choose Appease the Gnome.
5. Pick one gift: Coffee, Fruitcake, Future Cube, Pie, Salad, or Toy.
6. Look for a halo over the gnome. The halo shows that the gnome is happy.
7. Repeat for each gnome on the lot.

Each gnome likes some gifts and not others. The table below shows which gift to give. If you do not know the gnome, Pie and Coffee are the safest guesses. Each of them is on the list of many gnomes.

EA lists three gifts that each gnome accepts. Fan guides, such as GGRecon and Snooty Sims, list one best gift. Their best gift is always one of the three gifts that EA lists. Use the EA column if a guide gives you a different answer.

The names differ a little between guides. EA writes "Bearely Gnome", and most fan guides write "Bearly Gnome". SimsCommunity writes "No Matter What" for "Gnome Matter What".

Gnomes with no clear gift

EA says that the Upside Down Gnome Decor and the High Rider Gnome have no preferences. Some fan guides still give them a gift: Salad for the Upside Down gnome, and Coffee for the High Rider. The guides also disagree about The Gnome Wolf. EA does not list it. GGRecon says Coffee or Pie. The 2022 SimsCommunity list says Pie, Salad, or Toy.

How many gnomes appear?

The guides do not agree. EA says that the tradition places six gnomes, and that the gnomes that you placed yourself come alive too. SimsCommunity says that your own gnomes come alive, and three new ones appear if you have none. Snooty Sims says that you cannot know the number in advance.

An angry gnome breaks the appliances on your lot, such as sinks and TVs. EA says that fire appears over the head of an angry gnome. A gnome gets angry when you give it a gift that it does not like.

Do not kick a gnome. Kick the Gnome is an action on the menu. EA says that one kick makes all the gnomes on the lot angry, not only that gnome.

Can you say sorry to a gnome?

Yes, with Plead for Forgiveness. It does not always work. If it fails, a lightning bolt can hit your Sim. EA says that the lightning does not kill. The Sim looks burned and gets the Dazed moodlet. Read what that mood does on our estados de ánimo de Los Sims 4 page.

SimsCommunity says that angry gnomes also start fires on the lot. EA mentions only the fire over the gnome. We did not find a second source for fires on the lot. Keep a smoke alarm in each room in any case.

What if you ignore the gnomes?

The gnomes that you do not touch stay calm in the guides that we read. The trouble comes from a wrong gift or a kick. If you do not want the risk, do not click the gnomes at all, or turn the tradition off.

You get seeds. EA says that a happy gnome gives a gift back, often packets of seasonal seeds on the lot. Plant the seeds in your garden, or sell them.

Snooty Sims gives a tip to get more seeds. Put a happy gnome in your inventory. Place it again, and appease it again. Repeat before 2am, when Harvestfest ends.

Some players think that this is too many seeds. Search results show EA forum threads about "excessive gnome gifts" and seed packets that do not stop. We could not open those threads, so we do not know if EA fixed them.

For a garden that pays, read about the cowplant, or see the Sims 4 gardening skill in our Habilidades de Los Sims 4 list.

Remove the Holiday Gnomes tradition from Harvestfest. Then the gnomes stop coming. EA gives these steps:

1. Open the calendar in Live mode.
2. Select Harvestfest.
3. Click the edit button.
4. Point at Holiday Gnomes and click the x.
5. Save the holiday.

To get the gnomes back, edit Harvestfest again. Add Holiday Gnomes from the list under the default traditions.

There are two other ways:

• Keep the tradition, and sell the gnomes in Build mode. EA and GGRecon both say this.
• Delete the whole Harvestfest holiday from the calendar. SimsCommunity says this.

You can also do the opposite. SimsCommunity says that you can make a new holiday on every day with the gnome tradition. Then the gnomes come every day.

Yes. Harvestfest is not the only place with gnomes. These are the other ones that our sources name:

• Enchanted by Nature. Gnomes appear in Coast of Adhmor. EA says that a Sim with Fairy Dust can Bring Gnome to Life, for gardening, cleaning, repairs, or protection. This makes an evil gnome more likely. Sims can also make gnomes on the woodworking table. Read our Encantado por la naturaleza guide.
• City Living. Snooty Sims says that the Gnomes lot trait repairs objects. Read our Vida en la Ciudad guide.
• Cottage Living. The pack has gnome decor, such as a gnome that rides a chicken. See our Vida en el campo guide.

SimsCommunity also says that the gnomes move around cribs and circle infants. This is a small joke in the game. It does not hurt the baby.

In The Sims 4, Harvestfest is the same each year. The gnomes, the gifts, and the traditions do not change unless you edit them.

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• EA Help: How to appease the Gnomes and bring them to life in The Sims 4
• SimsCommunity: Appease the gnomes in The Sims 4 (December 25, 2025)
• SimsCommunity: Sims 4 gnomes, appeasing the gnomes (November 23, 2022)
• GGRecon: How to appease every gnome in The Sims 4
• Snooty Sims: Sims 4 how to appease gnomes