There are two main types of Sims 4 players. There are the folks who are here for the simulation side of things, with all the fun drama that entails. And then there are those who are here to build dope houses. Regardless of which of those you are, there’s one cheat that is absolutely essential (though it’ll matter much more for the builders): bb.moveobjects.
This cheat is among the most-used Sims 4 cheats aside from the ones that give you money. Once you’ve used it, it’s not tough to understand why it’s so beloved–the moveobjects cheat makes building a realistic house much easier, and generally allows you to play a lot more items than there would normally be room for. It’s so fundamentally important that EA has actually incorporated certain aspects of the cheat into the base game. At this point, EA treats it more like a tool for advanced users than a real cheat.
How to turn on bb.moveobjects
To activate this cheat, press ctrl+shift+C on PC, or hold down all four shoulder buttons if you’re playing on a console, to bring up the command console at the top left of your screen, and then type “bb.moveobjects on”. There is no need to activate cheats generally with the separate “testingcheats true” command or to do anything else. Moveobjects works by itself.
What bb.moveobjects does
The main thing that the moveobjects cheat does is to allow you to place any item anywhere you want without limitation. The reason we need this is because The Sims 4 can get pretty finicky about placing items too close to each other when they don’t intrinsically go together (like a desk chair with a desk). So if you place a bed against a wall, for example, you cannot place a light fixture or painting or anything else on the wall above the bed.
Why you need bb.moveobjects
With the moveobjects cheat on, however, all those limitations go away, and you can place anything you want anywhere you want. This allows you to place far more things in your house than you normally could, and also to place them more realistically–you can make your sim’s house look like a real house.
To really amp up the cheat, use it in conjunction with The Sims 4’s free placement tool by holding down the Alt key while placing an item–this will disable the item from being snapped to the grid, allowing you to more granularly place it how you like. If you’ve ever looked at a house in the gallery that seemed particularly naturalistic in terms of how it was arranged, it’s almost always because it was built like this.
What not to do with bb.moveonbjects
Even though you can put any item wherever you want, that doesn’t mean you should. You’ll still need to be careful what you do with functional objects, ie stuff that your sims can use or otherwise interact with. If you stack too many things in a single grid square, your sim may not actually be able to get to any of the usable items. It’s not always easily predictable how multiple items in the same grid space will interfere with each other, so keep this in mind if your sim keeps giving you the footsteps thought cloud when you tell them to use the microwave in your overly cluttered kitchen.
Do you need to turn on bb.moveobjects before downloading a house from the gallery?
When you’re browsing user-created houses and rooms in the gallery, you’ll see that a ton of them include a note that you need to turn bb.moveobjects on before downloading and placing it–and if you see one that says “MOO” in the description, that means the same thing, because it’s short for “Move Objects On.”
But you don’t actually need to turn on the moveobjects cheat to download a house built with it anymore. These days, any room or lot created with moveobjects will download seamlessly without any need to intervene with console commands. EA apparently decided that the cheat’s use was so widespread that it should make this part of it intrinsic to the game’s function. Since you had to turn it on every single time you changed lots, this is a really helpful change.
