UI Cheats Extension for The Sims 4: click map, versions and honest limits

That Patreon post is the only current distribution point. weerbesu edits the same post in place for every release, so its title changes with each version while the numeric id stays put. The Legacy Edition build lives on Mod The Sims and is a separate, much older file.

What it does

The mod is two files and they do different jobs. UI_Cheats_Extension.package is the click layer: patched copies of the game's own Scaleform interface movies, with click handling injected into them. UI_Cheats_Extension.ts4script is the command layer, a Python script mod that registers commands in the ui_cheats namespace and performs the actual state change.

That split explains almost every support question about this mod. The click layer opens the dialog; the script layer applies the value. Install one without the other and dialogs open onto nothing.

weerbesu's credits say EA and Maxis created the original cheats extension the mod is built upon, and the injected class sits in the olympus.extensions.cheats namespace, which is EA's own. UI Cheats Extension turns on and extends a cheats layer that already ships inside the interface.

The click map

Every row below is weerbesu's own published feature list, read from the download post. Ranges are weerbesu's. Nothing here is inferred from watching the mod run.

Nothing in that list touches build mode. Strings like bb.moveobjects and freerealestate are not part of this mod and are not Python either: both are handled inside TS4_x64.exe, which is why they are typed rather than clicked.

The two are not native in the same way, and the difference is checkable. freerealestate is one of the eleven entries in that executable's console help table; the bb.* family is not in that table at all, and what places it in the native client is its help strings elsewhere in the same binary. The typed side of cheating is covered at sims 4 cheats all.

Version and compatibility

This mod is version-locked by design. weerbesu stamps every release with the game build it was made for and says a build will not work for older versions of the game. Compatibility comes down to one pairing: which mod build was made for which game build.

Patreon returns an error to every automated fetch route available to us, so the three newest lines are secondary reporting rather than something we read on weerbesu's page. Different trackers give the v1.58 release date as both 6 and 7 August 2026, so this page publishes no day for it.

To read the version you actually have installed, right-click the notebook icon beside the phone icon in Live mode, or run the mod's own command in the cheat console:

Neither route needs testingcheats, since the mod dropped that requirement in v1.1. The game's own typed cheats are the opposite case and still need testingcheats true entered in the session before anything else works. Neither applies on PlayStation or Xbox, where script mods never load and this mod cannot run.

Installing it

Both files from the zip go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods, no more than one subfolder deep. Enable Custom Content and Mods and Script Mods Allowed in Game Options, then Other, and restart the game.

If it worked, the package shows under Custom Content in the mods list and the script under Script Mods. See how to get mods on sims 4 for the folder-depth rule and the Script Mods toggle in full.

What it costs you

The package replaces interface files instead of hooking into them. It ships whole copies of EA's compiled interface movies as overrides, which is what makes clicking work and what makes the mod fragile.

We tore down the v1.58 zip against an installed game on build 1.126.73.1030 and counted 24 overridden interface resources at roughly 33.5 MB decompressed, plus 71 registered ui_cheats commands. Twenty of those 24 movies were smaller than the same resources in the game's live interface package, so installing the mod rolls those panels back to an older build of themselves. That is our measurement of one zip, not a figure weerbesu publishes.

One of the 24 is classlibraryolympus, the shared class library for the whole interface, which is why a clash with another interface mod is rarely limited to one panel. weerbesu's own framing is milder: the mod conflicts only with other UI mods that override the same resources, and not with script mods or tuning mods.

There is no undo, no confirmation and no value preview, so a mis-click commits immediately. There is also no configuration: left-click on the money counter always grants $1,000 and left-click on a needs bar always sets that need, with no documented way to turn either off.

When it stops working

Three failure patterns cover nearly everything, and weerbesu documents all three himself: the half-install, the game-version mismatch, and the leftover duplicate copy. The first pattern shows up two ways, so it gets two rows.

If all of that checks out, the standard clean test comes from luthienrising, the moderator who maintains the EA Answers HQ broken-mods lists: confirm script mods are enabled, confirm there is no duplicate, then run the mod as the only thing in the folder after deleting localthumbcache.package from the Sims 4 documents folder.

Platforms

We confirmed the Legacy build is still linked from the current post, but not whether EA still supports Legacy Edition in 2026, so treat that row as a route that exists rather than one we recommend.

What this page does not claim

weerbesu publishes no terms of use. The Mod The Sims profile renders that as a site-generated notice about creators without a TOU, and that notice is written by Mod The Sims rather than by weerbesu, so it is not permission. Default copyright applies, which is why the download button above points at that post and we host no copy of the file.

No total install count for the current build exists either. Patreon does not expose attachment download counts, so the download figures quoted around the web are for the 2019 Legacy listing on Mod The Sims, not for the mod most people are running.