The Sims 4 For Rent December 14 hotfix patch notes
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The Sims 4: For Rent December 14 Hotfix: Full Patch Notes Listed

Everyone loved taking showers for a few days

In The Sims 4: For Rent, you experience opportunities to live an interesting life as a tenant, make a ton of money as a landlord, and explore the pleasant city of Tomarang. However, with these additions come bugs, which today’s hotfix aims to fix.

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The Sims 4: For Rent December 14 Hotfix Patch Notes

Today’s update for The Sims 4: For Rent focuses on four major bug fixes focusing on build mode, the FreeRealEstate cheat command, and tweaks to property pricing mechanics.

Below are the patch notes for The Sims 4: For Rent’s hotfix, released on December 14, 2023.

Bug Fixes

For Rent

  • Mellowing out Build Mode: Drawing, deleting, and auto-filling wallpaper in Residential Rentals will stop causing Build Mode slowdown.
  • Mellowing out Evil Landlords: Taka Soi premade lot rents won’t get into the Billions and force you to stay. Let’s keep it civil. Any incorrect price UI in existing saves should quickly update to normal by the next bills cycle.
  • Mellowing out water usage: Sims will no longer obsessively excessively autonomously shower when hygiene is not low. Like, you’re clean already, Sim. Stop.
  • FreeRealEstate On cheat will now turn on again: Cheaters can happily mellow out once more.

That’s it for the The Sims 4: For Rent patch notes! Although it is a short list, these changes help make building easier, balance pricing for premade rental lots so you don’t lose billions as a tenant, and improve water usage mechanics so you don’t see Sims showering constantly. The FreeRealEstate cheat was also patched, allowing you to use it again to make housing more affordable.

Are you interested in learning more about the For Rent expansion? Check out how to create units in The Sims 4: For Rent, or click the tag below to browse our growing article list.


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Madison Benson

Madison was a staff writer at Prima Games who has played video games for over twenty years and written about them for over two years. Her love for video games started with turn-based strategy games like Heroes of Might and Magic and has since extended to casual farming sims, MMORPGs, and action-adventure RPGs.