Revision as of 22:58, 16 August 2012

Imaginary Friends

An imaginary friend doll.

Imaginary friends are a feature introduced in the Generations expansion pack. They are the new life form for this expansion.

Occasionally, when a baby is born in your sim family, a they will receive a doll in the mail. Some toddlers created in CAS will also have a doll in their inventory. As a baby, of course, your sim can't do much with their doll, but they can do more and more as the sim - and, at the same time, the doll - grows up.

Your sim will have to keep up a good relationship with his or her imaginary friend and interact with it a often so that it grows up. If you choose to, you can also make your sim's imaginary friend real, using a potion created with the Chemistry Lab. Imaginary friends who have been made real become a controllable member of the family.

Growing Up

Imaginary friends have different interactions and features as your sim ages.

With Toddlers

When your sim is a toddler, their future imaginary friend will be only a doll. At this stage, the doll is similar to a teddy bear. The doll can be given a name, played with, or sung to.

As toddlers play with or sing to their dolls, they develop a relationship. As the relationship becomes higher, a popup will indicate that the doll is "becoming a very special toy" for your sim and that they may "stay as good friends" when the sim ages. If the relationship between the two is high enough, the doll will "grow up" when the toddler ages up to child stage.

With Children

An imaginary friend ages up to child size.

Soon after your sim toddler grows up into a child, a popup that will suggest to take the doll out of your sim's inventory and put it on the floor, provided their relationship was high enough. When the doll is placed on the ground, it will "grow up" into a larger form. This is the point at which the doll stops being a doll and becomes an imaginary friend that your sim can interact with.

The doll can now walk around and interact with objects and sims. It has free will as if it is a visitor. It is visible only when the owner of the doll is selected – with any other sim selected, you won't be able to see it. Imaginary friends turn back into dolls when their sim friend is asleep, and will usually sleep near their sim's bed.

Children can perform most of the same interactions with their imaginary friends as they can with other sims, including chatting, playing, joking, and so on. They can also play with and sing to their imaginary friends while they're in doll form, just like when they were toddlers – but you have to queue up the action while your sim is asleep, while the imaginary friend is in doll mode. Kids can also play with other children's imaginary friend dolls, even though they can't see them when they're "real".

Children can also order their imaginary friends to go get them a snack, or to clean up after them – with varying degrees of success.

With Teens

When your sim child grows up to be a teen, the imaginary friend will return to being just a doll unless it has been made real. However, the doll can still be used by other toddlers and children.

Making your Imaginary Friend Real

If a sim has level 9 logic skill, they can make Imaginary Friend Metamorphum at the chemistry table for §4500. An imaginary friend who drinks this will become a real sim that will wear clothes similar in style to the doll's design. This adds the imaginary friend to the household.

Help! Imaginary Friends creep me out!

There are two options to get rid of an unwanted doll.

You can delete the doll by entering the cheat code "testingcheatsenabled true", then shift clicking on the doll and selecting Object --> Delete it. The doll must be removed from the sim's inventory in order to be deleted. You cannot sell the doll.

You can also prevent the doll from aging by not having a good relationship. You can either ignore the doll or use the cheat code "testingcheatsenabled true" to drag the relationship bar down.