Sims 4 Features Added In Patches - Waffle Explains It All! (Patreon)

There's so many of these I thought it would be fun to simply list them.

The Sims 4 is one of the best maintained and supported games of all time, and it does not get enough credit for that.

ANYWAY! Let's go!

2014:

• Toggling highlights on/off on hover with the hover effects cheat

• Ghosts, in their ENTIRETY

• Death Types

• Ambrosia

• Death Flowers

• bb.showhiddenobjects

• 5 New Eye Colors

• Spooky Radio

• cas.clockspeed

• Pools

• Swimwear

• Drowning

• Non-culling of more distant family relations

• Business Career, Outfits, and Rewards

• Athletics Career, Outfits, and Rewards

• Paid Time Off

• Family Leave

• Career and Aspiration Improvements

• Holiday Celebration Pack

• Sims becoming grungy visually with low hygiene

• Edible garden harvests

• Death at Venues

• New Color Swatches

• Gallery Randomize in CAS

• Resized Objects on gallery

• "Move In Household From Gallery" button

• Give Satisfaction Points cheat

• bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement

• Set as Head

• Move Objects Cheat

• Viewing info panels while at work

• Career Panel redo

• Phone Panel redo

2015

• Genealogy

• Relationship/Career/etc info on hover on relationship panel

• Automatic Whim Refresh

• Legacy Achievements

• New Clothes

• New Gnomes

• St. Patricks clothing

• Basements

• Additional Floors

• "Move Lot" in build mode

• Placing oversized lots from the gallery

• Paint from Reference

• The Notebook

• Making Friends at Work/School

• Townies having Careers

• Sims telling you their career, with associated career info

• Overmaxing careers

• Easter Egg Challenge

• Easter Eggs

• Influencing gender of offspring

• Star Wars outfits

• Aliens allowed to wear any clothing

• Sims inviting you to events

• Newcrest, with 15 Empty Lots

• The Welcome Wagon

• Fruitcake

• Custom Room Tool (for drawing shapes)

• Half Walls

• Locking Doors

• New Doors

• New Fences

• New Lights (Subtle Saucer!)

• New Clothes

• New Gallery Filters

• Lot Info panel update

• World Info panel update

• Ability to edit world descriptions

• Dishwashers

• Jealous Trait

• Trick or Treat Limited Time Event

• Bed Claiming

• More new doors

• Repairman

• 64 Bit .exe

• Automatically disabled mods after a patch

• Add/Remove To/From Groups

• "Hire [Job]" interactions on bars, etc

• Sims doing contextually appropriate greetings

• Holiday Celebration Stuff update

• Pool venue

• Pool water colors

• World Maps In Color

• Map button in Live Mode

2016

• Inappropriate Behavior at Neighbors overhauled

• Friends cheer for you in fights, Enemies yell at you

• 8 Movie Posters for Sims 4 Advertising characters

• Tragic Clown painting and NPC

• Grilled Cheese Aspiration

• Kleptomaniac Trait and interactions

• Gardener

• Twitter sharing

• Maxis/CC Filter

• Trick or Treat Objects added for all

• Jasmine Holiday NPC

• Growfruit Challege

• 2 new Easter Eggs

• Tragic Clown outfit added to CAS

• Customize Gender options (Toilet use, pregnancy, etc)

• All 6 voices for all sims

• All gendered clothing for all sims

• Sunlight through windows

• Monster Under the Bed

• Nannies

• Light adjustment per-room

• Visual outfit picker for Change Outfit interaction (previously just pie menu options)

• Cell Phone covers

• Day of the Dead situation

• Day of the Dead clothes

• Day of the Dead collectible skulls

• Day of the Dead objects

• Day of the Dead food

• Lot Traits (As a concept)

• Copy button on stairs, roofs, and rooms

• Yet another Holiday Celebration update, the Meduso collection

2017

• TODDLERS and EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM

• Custom Teeth options

• Lullaby and Kids Radio

• Wabbit Tablet

• Several new toy boxes

• A good chunk of new furniture

• Plantsims

• Plantsim Challenge

• Household Thumbnails on Load Game screen

• Save Backup restoration button

• New Lights

• Various new clothes

• Various new build items

• Various new furniture

• Diwali Clothing and Objects

• Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon, and Round roofs

• Advanced Roof Curvature tools

• Eave Adjustment

• Photography as Base Game feature

• Size Down button (We only had size up before!)

• Grim's Ghoulish Guitar

• Animal Hats

• MORE HOLIDAY OBJECTS

• New Henna tattoos

2018

• New Hair

• 10 new skintones

• Anniversary Shirt

• New toddler bed with inventory capability

• Upgraded versions of some reward traits (Forever Fresh, etc)

• Noctis outfit

• Glass Roofs

• Cold and Hot Weather category in base game

• Swimwear for Toddlers

• Re-trait potion

• DRAMATIC overhauls to Gardening

• Gardening Sort in buy mode

• Uncommon and Rare seed packets (Previously, these plants needed to be found in-world)

• Research Plants

• Sell Harvestables from Plant

• AOE on gardening interactions (i.e. sell all within a range)

• Huge gallery updates

• Place lots and rooms even if the lot was entered from Live Mode (previously required exiting to map view and opening lot in build mode)

• Live-Draggable Easels

• Carribean Inspired clothing

• Carribean inspired Objects

• New makeup

• 4 sliding doors

• Terrain Tools

• Foundation Heights distinct for each building (previously, all buildings on a lot shared foundation height)

• More basement levels

• More half-wall heights

• First Person Camera

• Style Influencer career

• Sketchpad and illustration

• Lots of new clothing

• Positivity Challenge + Posters

• Register with Ministry of Labor/Self Employed Career Names

• Simology Panel sections became collapsible

• YET! ANOTHER! HOLIDAY! PACK! UPDATE!

• New recipes

• Lin-Z Smart Speaker

2019

• Lunar New Year Objects

• Lunar New Year Recipes

• Lunar New Year Clothing

• Freelance Artist Career

• Freelance Writer Career

• Freelance Programmer Career

• 11 New Freelancer/Workspace Objects

• New freelancer clothes

• White Immaculate Shelf

• Moschino Hoodie

• Randomize Traits Button

• Lounge Chair

• Pride Clothing

• Pride Flags

• Stilt Foundations

• Eaves Update

• 350 New Door Swatches

• Clothing Optional lot trait

• Off the Grid Lot trait

• Toddler swim diapers

• Back Float interaction

• Fishing Notebook/Info learning interactions

• Joinable fishing interactions

• Fishing rebalance

• Angle For Big Catch interaction

• Mentor for Fishing

• Fishing tuning made unique for each world

• Bait System

• Ceiling Fans cool rooms

• Ceiling Object category

• Random Swimming Buffs

• Part Time Jobs unlocked for adults

• Two Part Time Jobs at Once

• CAS Stories

• New Cover Art, Pack Icons, Marketing Sims, etc

• More new clothes and whatnot for rebrand sims

• New swatches across various packs clothing

• Live Edit Objects cheat

• Change Orientation on photos

• Photos placeable on surfaces

• Configurable Modular Stairs

• Summer Clothing

• New Build Items

• Outdoor item set

• Muslim-inspired clothing

• Muslim-inspired build items

• Robot Costumes

• Multi-Story Columns

• UI Scale

• Yet Another Holiday Celebration update

• Hip Hop radio station

• New Alternative Music

2020

• Simplified Chinese support

• Birthday Hot Tub

• 4 new songs

• Inventory Filters

• Inventory Multi-Select

• Free placement of windows and doors

• Ladders

• MAC Cosmetics

• Repo Man

• Bills Breakdown

• Neighborhood map tags/icons/descriptions added to older content

• Massive off the grid update tying into water, power, appliances, and cooking

• No Tresspassing on doors

• Send Home interaction

• Build Mode bills and fire and whatnot modifiers on objects/floors/walls

• Firefighter NPC

• 20 new styled looks

• Phone call invitation rebalance

• Nameable Cowplants

• Super Subtle Saucer Light

• Windows Stacking on the Same Tile

• Sims can elope to destination worlds (im not actually sure what this is)

• Config Override folder

• Hispanic Heritage furniture

• Hispanic Heritage recipes

• Hispanic Heritage clothing

• Hispanic Heritage tattoos

• Skintone decompression efforts

• Updated natural hairstyles

• PLATFORMS

• 12 additional half-wall heights

• SENTIMENTS

• Sim Profile page

• Additional skintone updates

• Vacations Anywhere

• S-Pop Radio Station added to Base Game

• 100 new skintones

• Skintone sliders

• Makeup sliders

• Saveable swatches

• Additional natural hair updates

Wait, is that all? Nope, that's just the first 6 years of Sims 4's lifespan. We still have 4 to go!

I'll update this gradually over time and make a new post when there's new additions, which will be done one or two years at a time until we reach present day.