Specials: Skills and Books in The Sims 4
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In The Sims 4 it's all very convenient for your Sim to get new items. Need books? Just click your bookcase and buy new books! The menu is filtered by several categories:
- Show all
- Children's
- Fantasy
- Non-Fiction
- Poetry
- Romance
- Sci-Fi
- Mystery
- Skill
- Emotional
So in The Sims 4 base game there are a whole lot of new skills we didn't have in previous games! The ones we already had in The Sims 3 are:
- Charisma
- Cooking
- Fishing
- Fitness (Athletic)
- Gardening
- Guitar
- Handiness
- Logic
- Painting
- Writing
The new base game skills are:
- Comedy
- Gourmet Cooking
- Mischief
- Mixology (was added in TS3 Late Night)
- Piano (was added in TS3 Late Night)
- Programming
- Rocket Science
- Video Gaming
- Violin (was added with TS3 store content)
I didn't have time to write all the books down, but I did take some time to write down all the skill books I could find. Here they are.
- Charisma Skill
- Charisma Volume 1: Diplimacy For Dummies - §75
- Charisma Volume 2: The Science Of Diplomacy - §150
- Charisma Volume 3: The Art Of Diplomacy - §250
- Comedy Skill
- Comedy Volume 1: Get The Jokes - §75
- Comedy Volume 2: Grab The Mic - §150
- Comedy Volume 3: Show Them The Pain - §250
- Cooking Skill
- Cooking Volume 1: Let's Cook! - §75
- Cooking Volume 2: Let's Keep Cooking! - §150
- Cooking Volume 3: I'm Here To Cook - §250
- Fishing Skill
- Fishing Volume 1: Getting Hooked - §75
- Fishing Volume 2: Tackles And Techniques - §150
- Fishing Volume 3: See The Fish, Be The Fish - §250
- Fitness Skill
- Fitness Volume 1: Put Down The Milkshake - §75
- Fitness Volume 2: Be World's Strongest - §150
- Fitness Volume 3: Pressing Steel - §250
- Gardening Skill
- Gardening Volume 1: Water, Light and Dirt - §75
- Gardening Volume 2: Getting Your Thumbs Green - §150
- Gardening Volume 3: Strange And Forbidden Plant Genetics - §250
- Gourmet Cooking Skill
- Gourmet Cooking Volume 1: Make Food Fancy - §75
- Gourmet Cooking Volume 2: Presentation Is King - §150
- Gourmet Cooking Volume 3: Can You Eat That? - §250
- Guitar Skill
- Guitar Volume 1: Intro To Rocking - §75
- Guitar Volume 2: The Classical Sauce - §150
- Guitar Volume 3: Furious Finger Techniques - §250
- Handiness Skill
- Handiness Volume 1: Try Not To Die - §75
- Handiness Volume 2: Sparks Are Nature's Kisses - §150
- Handiness Volume 3: Upgrading The Soul - §250
- Logic Skill
- Logic Volume 1: An Introduction To Reason - §75
- Logic Volume 2: The Reason To Reason - §150
- Logic Volume 3: The Problem With Paradoxes - §250
- Mischief Skill
- Mischief Volume 1: What's Funny, What's Illegal? - §75
- Mischief Volume 2: What's Illegal, What's Frowned Upon? - §150
- Mischief Volume 3: The Long Con - §250
- Mixology Skill
- Mixology Volume 1: Beverage Basics - §75
- Mixology Volume 2: A Twist Of Lime - §150
- Mixology Volume 3: The Mixologist's Bible - §250
- Painting Skill
- Painting Volume 1: The Fundamentals Of Painting - §75
- Painting Volume 2: The History Of Painting - §150
- Painting Volume 3: The Painting Of Painting - §250
- Piano Skill
- Piano Volume 1: It's Pretty Black And White - §75
- Piano Volume 2: Sharps, Flats, And Naturals - §150
- Piano Volume 3: Concertos, Minutes, And Sonatas - §250
- Programming Skill
- Programming Volume 1: Turn It Off And On Again - §75
- Programming Volume 2: Maintaining Healthy Semicolons - §150
- Programming Volume 3: Learn To Talk Robot - §250
- Rocket Science Skill
- Rocket Science Volume 1: So You Want To Be A Rocket Scientist - §75
- Rocket Science Volume 2: The Nuts And Bolts Of Constructing Your Spacecraft - §150
- Rocket Science Volume 3: Counting Down To Launch - §250
- Video Gaming Skill
- Video Gaming Volume 1: Trolling For Noobs - §75
- Video Gaming Volume 2: The Official Guide To Gaming - §150
- Video Gaming Volume 3: The Game Of Life - §250
- Violin Skill
- Violin Volume 1: Basic Violinin' - §75
- Violin Volume 2: Classic Techniques - §150
- Violin Volume 3: Horsehair High Jinks - §250
- Writing Skill
- Writing Volume 1: The Conjugation Conundrum - §75
- Writing Volume 2: The Importance Of Punctuation - §150
- Writing Volume 3: Let's Get Weird - §250
There were also a couple of books with (I think) collections of recipes and stuff like that. So they're also skill books, but more like how in The Sims 3 we would usually buy recipes and sheet music separately. And now those are bundled into bigger books. Most of them are expensive too!
- Baker's Dozen 13 Fabulous Flour-Filled Recipes - §2500
- How To Be A Successful Socialite - §2500
- Mmm! What's That Smell? - §2500
- Shaken Or Stirred: 400 Pretentious Drinks - §150