How to use the move objects cheat in The Sims 4, and every other Build/Buy cheat

Turn cheats on, then toggle placement

Nothing typed into the cheat console does anything until cheats are enabled for the session. The flag clears every time a save loads, so this command goes in first, every time.

The move objects cheat itself is a toggle. On frees placement, off restores the grid.

The string is one word: a dot after bb, then moveobjects with no space and no underscore. Most reports of a broken cheat come down to that one detail.

Opening the console on each platform

The command strings are the same everywhere. Only the way you open the console and type into it changes, which is why controller players hit typos more often.

The other native Build/Buy cheats

These five sit beside the move objects cheat in the executable, in a block of help strings outside the eleven-entry console help table. Two of them carry help text we could read and it is quoted below; for the other three the note is our own description of what happens in Build mode.

Why this page carries no verified build

Most cheat pages on this site name the build their commands were checked against, because the command turns up in the game's own shipped Python at a module and a line number. That proof does not exist for the bb. family, and the CAS page carries no stamp for the same reason.

The native executable handles those strings, and nothing next to them records a version, so any build number pinned to them would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. The page gives the offset instead.

The next table is the opposite case: the game registers each of those commands in a Python module it ships with, at the line shown.

Build/Buy and object commands the game registers in Python

These are the Build/Buy adjacent commands the game itself registers. The Type column comes from the registration: entries marked Cheat require cheats enabled, entries marked Live are mostly the game talking to its own interface and are listed for completeness.

The file records an argument signature and a type for each command but no description, so there is no effect column here. Other sites fill that column with guesses. A dash in Pack means the file records no pack code against that command.

The pack column prints the code the file carries, such as EP09, rather than a store name, because the code is what the file contains. One entry has a pack code; the rest are base registrations with no pack gate recorded.

Commands taking an obj_id need the id of a specific object, and the Build/Buy interface does not hand you one. They are listed here because the game registers them, not because you are likely to use them.

When a Build/Buy cheat does nothing

Work through these in order before assuming a patch broke something.

• Cheats were never enabled this session, or the save was reloaded since they were.
• The command was mistyped: moveobjects takes no space and no underscore.
• You are in Live mode. Placement cheats change nothing outside Build mode.
• A script mod is failing to load and taking the Python command registration down with it. Move the Mods folder aside and retest before blaming the game.
• The cheat did work and the effect is not visible: bb.showhiddenobjects changes what a Build/Buy search returns, not what the catalogue shows by default.

The cheat flag is the same one every other section depends on, so if nothing at all responds, the problem is upstream of Build/Buy and applies across cheats list equally. Appearance and Sim editing are covered in the cas cheat sims 4.

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