How do you use cheats in Paralives?
Paralives cheats
Press Ctrl + Shift + C, type a command, and press Enter. Paralives 0.1.9b has 138 console commands that players use, and none of them need a cheat mode first. JACKPOT adds $50,000 and SETMONEY sets any amount.
From Paralives Early Access 0.1.9b, Steam build 25958869.
This page covers the 138 console commands in Paralives Early Access 0.1.9b, Steam build 25958869. You do not need a master testing command to unlock any of them.
Press Ctrl + Shift + C or Ctrl + F1 on Windows to open the cheat console. On Mac, press Cmd + Shift + C or Cmd + F1. Type any command from the tables on this page to change money, needs, skills, relationships, or time.
Every cheat
Showing all 138 cheats.
Money and bills
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
PIGGYBANK | Adds $1,000 to your household's money. |
MAKEITRAIN | Adds $10,000 to your household's money. |
JACKPOT | Adds $50,000 to your household's money. |
SETMONEY 25000 | Sets your household's money to exactly the amount you type (it works out the difference and adds or removes it).amount: a whole number. |
PRINTMONEY 5000 | Adds the amount you type to your household's money. A negative number takes money away. Also typed as DoggoIsRich.amount: a whole number, can be negative.Watch out: The DoggoIsRich alias does not work: aliases drop anything you type after them, so it runs PRINTMONEY with no amount (invalid-argument error) and then MyTailorIsRich, which is not a command. |
PAYDAY | Adds $200 to your household's money.Watch out: Help text says 'Gives daily salary', but the code always adds a flat $200, not the character's salary. |
LOTTERY | Adds a random amount to your household's money: a whole number of thousands from $1,000 to $99,000. |
PRINTHOUSEHOLDFUNDS | Lists every household in the town with its current money. |
GENERATEBILL | Sends a bill now for each lot your household owns, and runs the mail generator so it shows up in the mailbox. |
CLEARBILLS | Deletes all bills on your household's lots, including bill letters waiting in the mailbox. |
CLEARSELECTEDCHARACTERSBILLS | Deletes all bills and bill letters on your household's lots. It needs at least one character selected, but it clears the household's bills either way, not per character.Watch out: Same effect as CLEARBILLS once a character is selected; does nothing with no selection. |
CAUSEOUTAGE Electricity | Cuts a utility on your household's first lot. Type Electricity or Water to cut just that one, or nothing to cut every utility on the lot.utility: Electricity or Water; leave empty for all (optional). |
FIXOUTAGE | Restores all utilities on your household's lots and marks every bill on them as paid. |
Needs
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
SHOWNEEDS | Prints each need of the selected character with its current value (needs run from 0 to 10 normally). |
RELIEFNEED Hunger | Fills one need to the top for every selected character. Use the need's internal name.need: need name, e.g. Hunger, Sleep, Bathroom, Hygiene, MeTime, Fun, Affection. |
RELIEFALLNEEDS | Fills every need to the top for the selected characters. |
RELIEFALLNEEDSOFALLCHARACTERS | Fills every need to the top for every living character in town. |
SETNEED Hunger 10 | Sets one need to a value for every selected character. Values are capped at the need's maximum (10 by default) and it only works on characters in your household.need: need name, e.g. Hunger. value: number from 0 to 10. |
CHANGENEED Fun -3 | Raises or lowers one need by the amount you type for every selected character (household members only). Use a negative number to lower it.need: need name, e.g. Fun. change: number, can be negative. |
DECAYNEED Hygiene 5 | Lowers one need for every selected character by the amount you type, or by 1 if you leave it out, and prints the before and after values.need: need name, e.g. Hygiene. amount: whole number, default 1 (optional). |
Time and sun
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
SETHOUR 8.5 | Moves the clock to the hour you type, on the same day. Typing an earlier hour than now moves time backwards.hour: 0 to 24, decimals allowed (8.5 = 8:30). |
ADVANCEHOUR 3 | Skips the clock forward by the number of hours you type, or 1 hour if you leave it out.hours: whole number, default 1 (optional). |
ADVANCEDAY 2 | Skips the clock forward by the number of days you type, or 1 day if you leave it out.days: whole number, default 1 (optional). |
SKIPTO5MINUTESBEFOREWORK | Skips time to 5 minutes before the selected character's next shift or school day, for occupations they are not already at. |
MIDNIGHTSUN | Puts the sun and sky at the midnight position. The clock is not changed. |
DAWNSUN | Puts the sun at the dawn (5:30) position. The clock is not changed.Watch out: Console message wrongly says 'afternoon position'. |
NOONSUN | Puts the sun at the noon position. The clock is not changed. |
AFTERNOONSUN | Puts the sun at the afternoon (14:30) position. The clock is not changed. |
DUSKSUN | Puts the sun at the dusk (18:30) position. The clock is not changed.Watch out: Console message wrongly says 'afternoon position'. |
SETSUNHOUR 19 | Locks the sun at the hour you type (whole hours, wraps past 24). Only the lighting changes, not the clock.hour: whole number 0 to 23. |
CLEARSUN | Releases a locked sun position so the sun follows the real clock again. |
Jobs and school
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
PRINTALLOCCUPATIONS | Lists the selected character's current and past jobs or schools with their rank. |
UPGRADEOCCUPATIONS force | Gives the selected character occupation upgrade points for each job or school. Without 'force' it rolls their job performance and may give 0, 1 or 2; with 'force' it always gives 1.force: type force to skip the performance roll (optional).Watch out: The console always says an upgrade was unlocked, even when the performance roll gave nothing. |
SHUFFLEOCCUPATIONEXTRAS | Clears the upgrade (extras) choices waiting to be picked for the selected character's occupations. |
ENDWORKDAY | Ends the current work or school day for the selected character's active occupations. |
GAINEXPERTISE SubjectMath 6 | Sets one school subject grade for the selected character. Level 1 to 6 maps to F, D, C, B, A, A+; leaving the level out sets it to 1.subject: internal subject name, e.g. SubjectMath, SubjectScience, SubjectArt, SubjectMusic. level: 1 to 6 (F to A+), default 1 (optional). |
LOWERGRADE | Lowers one random grade by a step for each of the selected character's active occupations and prints the change. |
RESETALLEXPERTISES | Erases all of the selected character's grades (expertises). |
ADDSTRIKETOOCCUPATIONS | Gives the selected character a strike in each of their occupations. |
CLEARSTRIKES | Removes all strikes from the selected character's occupations. |
ADDVACATIONDAY | Gives the selected character one extra vacation day in each active job. |
UNENROLLFROMALLOCCUPATIONS | Makes the selected character quit every job and school they are enrolled in. |
CLEARALLOCCUPATIONS | Quits all of the selected character's occupations and also erases their occupation history. |
Skills and personality
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
SHOWSKILLS | Prints every skill of the selected character with its level and progress to the next level. |
SETSKILLLEVEL Cooking 10 | Sets one skill of the selected character to the level you type, clamped to that skill's maximum (20 for most skills).skill: skill name, e.g. Cooking, Piano, Guitar, Painting, Programming, Fishing, Dancing. level: whole number. |
LEVELUPSKILL Guitar | Raises one skill of the selected character by one level.skill: skill name, e.g. Guitar. |
LEARNALLSKINS Recipes | Teaches the selected character every known variant of one type, such as all recipes or all paintings.type: Recipes, Paintings, Piano, Guitar, Triangle, PaintingStyles. |
SHOWPERSONALITYTRAITS | Prints the selected character's personality traits with their points and evolutions. |
LEVELUPPERSONALITY | Marks the selected character as ready to level up their personality and prints the level they can now reach. |
RESETPERSONALITY | Removes all personality traits from the selected character and puts their personality back to level 1 with no experience. |
Wants and story cards
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
COMPLETECURRENTWANTS | Completes every current want of the selected character (one character only). |
RELIEFALLWANTS | Removes all current wants from the selected characters without completing them. |
CLEARWANTCOOLDOWNS | Resets want cooldowns for the selected character so wants used today can come back. |
GAINSTORYCARD | Makes story cards ready for your household. |
Relationships
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
SHOWCHARACTERRELATIONSHIPS | Lists everyone the selected characters have a relationship with, and the labels and levels of each. |
BECOMEACQUAINTANCEWITHEVERYONE | Makes the selected character an acquaintance of every character in town they do not already know. |
REMOVERELATIONSHIP Jane Doe:John Smith | Deletes the relationship between two characters, on both sides. Type both full names separated by a colon.names: First Last:First Last (full names, not case-sensitive). |
RESETRELATIONSHIPSFORSELECTEDCHARACTER | Wipes all relationship labels and history of the selected character, then recreates a blank relationship with each person they knew. |
Pregnancy and family
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
GETPREGNANT 2 | Makes the selected character pregnant on their own. Type how many babies (1 to 3); for 2 or 3 you can add how many are identical twins.babies: 1 to 3. identical: 0 or 2 for twins; 0, 2 or 3 for triplets (optional).Watch out: The baby count is required in practice: with nothing typed the code fails to read a number and prints an error. The character needs the can-get-pregnant trait. |
MAKEBABIES 3 0 | With exactly two characters selected (one who can get pregnant, one who can get others pregnant), makes the one who can get pregnant pregnant by the other. Type how many babies (1 to 3).babies: 1 to 3. identical: 0 or 2 for twins; 0, 2 or 3 for triplets (optional).Watch out: As with GETPREGNANT, typing nothing gives an error; a baby count is needed. |
PREGNANTSTATUS | Prints how far along the selected character's pregnancy is and the time left in minutes. |
GIVEBIRTH | Makes the selected character give birth right away. The code forces it and skips the usual is-the-pregnancy-finished check. |
BRINGBACKSELECTEDCHARACTERSFROMSOCIALSERVICES | Returns selected characters taken by social services to their last household, with needs refilled and status effects cleared. |
Age and life stages
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
PRINTAGE | Prints the selected character's name and age. |
SETAGE 30 | Sets the selected character's age in years and updates their life stage, looks and personality to match.age: whole number of years. |
NEXTLIFESTAGE | Ages the selected character up to the start of the next life stage. |
PREVIOUSLIFESTAGE | Makes the selected character younger, back to the start of the previous life stage. |
NEXTGROWTHSPURT | Moves the selected character to the next growth spurt within their current life stage. |
PREVIOUSGROWTHSPURT | Moves the selected character back to the previous growth spurt within their current life stage. |
Death, revival and fire
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
KILLCHARACTER | Kills the selected character (exactly one must be selected). |
KILLALLNPCSBYOLDAGE | Sets the age of every character outside your household to 100 and refreshes their life stage. |
REVIVEALLSELECTEDCHARACTERS | Brings dead selected characters back to life in their last household, with needs refilled, status effects cleared and age reset to the start of their life stage. |
REVIVEALLCHARACTERS | Brings every dead character in the save back to life the same way. |
SETITEMONFIRE | Sets the selected object on fire. |
SETSELECTEDCHARACTERSONFIRE | Drops the selected characters' Get Away From Fire need to zero. It does not light a fire itself and only affects household members. |
EXTINGUISHSELECTEDCHARACTERSONFIRE | Puts out the fire on the selected characters and cancels what they are doing. |
EXTINGUISHALLFIRES | Puts out every burning object on your household's lots and every burning character in town. |
Items, home and mail
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
REPAIRALLITEMS | Fixes every broken object on your household's lots. |
CLEANALLITEMS | Cleans every dirty object on your household's lots. |
UNSPOILALLITEMS | Makes spoiled food on your household's lots fresh again. |
ADDITEMTOINVENTORY ApplianceFridgeRetro | Puts one catalog object into your household inventory, by its numeric ID or its exact internal name (case-sensitive).item: catalog ID or exact internal item name. |
PRINTINVENTORY | Lists the objects in your household inventory with their IDs. |
CLEARINVENTORY | Deletes everything in your household inventory. |
UNLOCKALLCOLLECTIBLEELEMENTS | Unlocks every collectible for your household. |
CLEARCOLLECTIBLEELEMENTS | Removes all collectibles your household has found. |
SETMUSEUMDONATIONS 20 | Makes the museum count the number of donations you type. It is held in memory, not written to the save, and -1 goes back to the real count.count: whole number; -1 to use the real count. |
RESETMUSEUMDONATIONS | Wipes all museum donations and claimed museum rewards from the save. |
GENERATEMAIL | Runs the mail generator now so new letters arrive. |
RESETMAILBOX | Deletes all letters and bills from every household's mailboxes and lets the game generate letters again today. |
GENERATENEWSPAPER | Generates a new newspaper issue. Type part of a newspaper's name to pick one, or nothing for every newspaper. |
DELETEALLNEWSPAPERISSUES | Asks for confirmation, then deletes every newspaper issue in the save. |
Characters
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
EDITCHARACTER | Opens the selected character in the Paramaker (character creator) so you can change anything about them. |
SETSEX F | Sets the selected character's genetic sex. Type F, M or C as a capital letter.sex: F (female), M (male) or C (custom); must be uppercase.Watch out: Only the first letter is read and it must be uppercase: 'setsex f' is rejected. |
GETSEX | Prints the selected character's genetic sex. |
GETSLIDERS | Lists every body and face slider set on the selected character with its value. |
SETSLIDER TheSliderName 0.5 | Sets one body or face slider on the selected character. Use a slider name from GETSLIDERS.slider: slider name (see GETSLIDERS). value: number, usually 0 to 1. |
ADDSELECTEDCHARACTERSTOHOUSEHOLD | Adds the selected characters to your household. |
KICKSELECTEDCHARACTERSFROMHOUSEHOLD | Removes the selected characters from your household. |
UNSTUCK | Frees the selected characters: releases anything they carry or are carried by, releases them from objects they are locked to, and runs the game's pathfinding unstuck fix. |
UNSTUCKALL | Does the same unstick fix for every character in town. |
RESETTOWNAUTONOMY | Clears every character's current town destination and walking path and sets them back to idle. |
CANCELSELECTEDCHARACTERSINTERACTIONS | Cancels every action in the selected characters' queues. |
CANCELALLHOUSEHOLDINTERACTIONS | Cancels every action in the queues of your whole household. |
CANCELALLCHARACTERSINTERACTIONS | Cancels every action of every character in town. |
DELETESELECTEDCHARACTERSINTERACTIONS | Marks every action in the selected characters' queues for deletion rather than normal cancellation. |
SHOWSTATUSEFFECTS | Lists the status effects (moodlets) on the selected characters with minutes left. |
CLEARSTATUSEFFECTS | Removes all status effects from the selected characters. |
CLEARSTATUSEFFECTSONALLCHARACTERS | Removes all status effects from every character in town. |
CLEARMEMORIES | Erases the memory log of the selected character (one character only). |
CLEARALLONSELECTEDCHARACTERS | Runs several resets at once on the selected characters: refills needs, clears wants, deletes queued actions, clears bills, memories, want cooldowns and status effects.Watch out: Memories and want cooldowns are only cleared when exactly one character is selected; the bills part clears the whole household's bills. |
Fun and joke commands
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
EIGHTBALL | Prints a random answer from a magic 8-ball (12 possible replies). Also typed as 8ball, eighteightball. |
BEAR | Prints an ASCII-art bear. |
HOTEL | Prints 'Trivago'. |
EQUIFAX | Prints a fake French Equifax credit-monitoring notice addressed to 'Charlie Paralives'. |
SPIN 25% | Spins the game's success-chance wheel and tells you if you won. Type the win chance as a percent or a fraction; default 50%.chance: percent like 25% or fraction like 0.25 (optional). |
RANDOMIZEALLDEFORMATIONS | Sets every body and face slider of the selected character to a random value. |
CHANGEALLCHARACTEROUTFITS Formal | Dresses every character in town in a random outfit of the type you type.type: Casual, Formal, Workout or Nightwear. |
SETFILTER BlackAndWhite on | Turns a screen filter on or off.filter: filter name, e.g. BlackAndWhite, Fisheye, AlternateReality, GreenDetector. state: on or off. |
Console, saving and screen
| Cheat | What it does |
|---|---|
HELP JACKPOT | Lists every console command by category, or shows the description of one command or alias. Also typed as cheatlist.command: a command or alias name (optional). |
ALIASES | Lists all command aliases and the commands each one runs. |
CLEAR | Clears the console text. |
SCHEDULE FPS | Runs a command over and over on a timer (interval 0.25 in the shipped settings) and shows the result on screen, until you type STOP. Also typed as leak, !.command: the command line to repeat.Watch out: The ! alias drops what you type after it, so '! FPS' runs SCHEDULE with nothing and errors. |
STOP | Stops the command started with SCHEDULE. |
SAVE | Saves the game now. |
MANUALAUTOSAVE | Makes an autosave now and restarts the autosave timer. |
PRINTSAVENAME | Prints the file name of the current save. |
QUITTOMAINMENU | Leaves the game and goes back to the main menu.Watch out: There is a help string for MAINMENU, but the command is QUITTOMAINMENU, so HELP shows no description for it. |
RAGEQUIT | Closes the game right away. |
STARTCAMERATUTORIAL | Replays the camera tutorial. |
STARTMULTISELECTTUTORIAL | Replays the multi-select tutorial. |
TOGGLETOOLTIPS | Turns the hover tooltips in the Paramaker on or off. |
FPS | Prints the current frames per second. |
CAPFPS 60 | Caps the frame rate at the number you type; 0 removes the cap. Also typed as SetFPS.fps: whole number, 0 for uncapped.Watch out: The SetFPS alias drops what you type after it, so 'SetFPS 60' runs CAPFPS with no number and errors. Type CAPFPS directly. |
VSYNC 1 | With a number, sets VSync passes (0 off, 1 on); with nothing, prints the current setting.passes: 0, 1 or 2 (optional). |
RESOLUTION | Prints the screen resolution and whether the game is fullscreen or windowed. |
SETRESOLUTION 1920x1080 | Changes the screen resolution and keeps the current fullscreen or windowed mode.resolution: WIDTHxHEIGHT, e.g. 1920x1080.Watch out: The shipped help text is cut off at 'Ex' (the example after the colon is lost). |
FULLSCREEN | Switches the game to borderless fullscreen. |
WINDOWED | Switches the game to a window. |
How to open the console and type commands
Press Ctrl + Shift + C or Ctrl + F1 on Windows to bring up the text box. On Mac, press Cmd + Shift + C or Cmd + F1 instead. Command names are not case-sensitive, so you can use uppercase or lowercase letters.
Some arguments that follow a command do care about capital letters. For example, ADDITEMTOINVENTORY needs the exact internal item name, and SETSEX only reads an uppercase F, M, or C.
Type HELP or cheatlist to list the commands by category in the console. Avoid aliases that need a number after them, such as DoggoIsRich or SetFPS, because the console drops what you type after an alias and shows an error.
Commands that use your selected Para
Many cheats in the game act on the Paras you currently have selected. Before you run a character cheat, click the Para you want to change. If you need help selecting more than one Para at a time, run STARTMULTISELECTTUTORIAL to replay the tutorial.
Pay attention to how many Paras a command expects. Cheats like RELIEFALLNEEDS, SHOWSTATUSEFFECTS, and CLEARSTATUSEFFECTS work on every selected Para at once. Other cheats, such as COMPLETECURRENTWANTS, CLEARMEMORIES, and KILLCHARACTER, require you to select 1 Para.
A few commands require a specific pair or household membership. MAKEBABIES requires 2 selected Paras, 1 who can get pregnant and 1 who can get others pregnant. Need commands like SETNEED and CHANGENEED only work on members of your own household.
Cheats to reach for first
The game calls its money paradimes and shows amounts with a dollar sign. For quick funds, type PIGGYBANK for $1,000, MAKEITRAIN for $10,000, or JACKPOT for $50,000. If you want a specific balance, use SETMONEY 25000, or use PRINTMONEY 5000 to add or subtract a custom amount.
To take care of your household, type RELIEFALLNEEDS to fill the needs of your selected Paras to the top, where needs run from 0 to 10. You can also type REPAIRALLITEMS, CLEANALLITEMS, and UNSPOILALLITEMS to fix broken objects, clean dirty items, and refresh spoiled food on your lots.
When a Para gets stuck, run UNSTUCK to free them and fix their pathfinding, or EDITCHARACTER to open them in the Paramaker. To raise skills, use SETSKILLLEVEL Cooking 10, which caps at 20 for most skills.
Cheats in every life sim
| Game | Open the console | Money cheat | Unlocks the rest | Cheats in our list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sims 4 cheats | Ctrl + Shift + C | motherlode adds §50,000 | testingcheats true | 81 |
| The Sims 3 cheats | Ctrl + Shift + C | motherlode adds §50,000 | testingCheatsEnabled true | 47 |
| The Sims 2 cheats | Ctrl + Shift + C | motherLode adds §50,000 | boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true | 52 |
| Paralives | Ctrl + Shift + C | JACKPOT adds $50,000 | Nothing: every command works | 138 |
Each count is the cheats players can type in that game, read from its own files. Debug and developer commands are left out.
Questions
How do you open the cheat console in Paralives?
Press Ctrl + Shift + C or Ctrl + F1. On a Mac, use Cmd in place of Ctrl. Type a command and press Enter. Both keys open the console in the game's own keyboard code (UpdateKeyboardShortcuts). Commands are not case-sensitive, and HELP lists them all.
Do I need a testing cheats command in Paralives?
No. None of the 138 commands needs a master switch first. They all work as soon as you open the console.
How do I get more money in Paralives?
Type PIGGYBANK for $1,000, MAKEITRAIN for $10,000, or JACKPOT for $50,000 in paradimes. You can also type LOTTERY to get a random amount of whole thousands from $1,000 to $99,000, or SETMONEY followed by the exact balance you want.
How do I edit an existing Para in the Paramaker?
Select the Para you want to change and type EDITCHARACTER into the console. This opens the selected character in the Paramaker so you can change anything about them.
Why do GETPREGNANT and MAKEBABIES give an error?
Both commands require you to type a baby count from 1 to 3 after the command name, such as GETPREGNANT 2. If you type the command with no number, the game fails to read a number and prints an error.
How do I change the time of day without changing the clock?
Use the sun commands like DAWNSUN, NOONSUN, AFTERNOONSUN, DUSKSUN, MIDNIGHTSUN, or SETSUNHOUR 19 to move the sky and lighting only. Type CLEARSUN when you want the sun to follow the real clock again.