The Sims 4: General information - how to make Sims better Sims 4 Guide, tips
Last update: 03 April 2022
This section focuses on skills available in The Sims 4. Our tips will help you develop all your abilities. Here you will learn how the skill system works, as well as how to develop individual skills of your Sims.
Very often when Sim does something it also learns new skills. Every skill has 10 levels. If you want to learn a skill you have to do some easy activity. For example you can learn the first level of Cooking if you will start making a meal or to learn the first level of Handiness you only need to start fixing some home appliances.
In the skill panel you can see every skill learned by your Sim and its current level. The skill which you are learning at the moment will be highlighted.
When you are developing your Sim's skills you can see the learning indicator. Once it will fill Sim will level up what will open for him some new possibilities.
You can also choose using books. It will save you sweat, leaving your house or making some expensive shopping. However you need to buy a book which will develop a specific skill. Click on a bookshelf and choose the "Buy a book..." option. Now choose the skill menu (second from right) and choose the book which is related to the skill that you are interested with. You can level up each skill to level 10, however it takes 3 books for each skill to develop it to its highest possible level. In most cases volume one will give you an access to levels 0 to 3, volume 2 to levels 4 to 6 and volume 3 to levels 7 to 9 (you can't learn level 10 from a book). When you will confirm a purchase a bought book will appear in Sim's equipment.
Now you only need to read it. It is an interesting option since you can read books while doing some other things such as using a bathroom.