NC4T Pickpocketing Mod (Patreon)

Ever wanted your Ne'er-do-well Sims to be able to make some Simoleons by stealing from others and live off that? I did, but the pickpocketing interaction the game offers is only available with the Criminal Career, so I made a mod to unlock it for everyone instead. It comes with a few nice extras, here are the details:

NC4T Pickpocketing Mod

What it does:

Unlocks the pickpocket interaction for everyone, instead of it being locked behind the Criminal Career and adjusts the moodlets that Sims are receiving accordingly.

Changes the animation (for Teen-Elder) from a hug to one of two paranoid looking around animations. If the interaction is successful, the Sim will follow up with a generic pick-up animation, if it fails they will be yelled at by the target Sim.

Removes the "need to greet" and "has met" restrictions, so that the interaction is available either from the introduction menu, or under mischief interactions. It also cancels the interaction queue after the pickpocketing interaction has been done, so that no awkward chatting will take place.

Moves the cooldown of the pickpocketing interaction from the Actor Sim to the Target Sim, so that the interaction can be done several times in a row, just not on the same target.

Adds a new skill to the game: Pickpocketing. Major skill with 10 Levels - the higher the skill, the higher the chances of success and money gain.

"Master Thief" reward trait for reaching level 10.

Custom icons for the trait, skill and interaction.

Getting the Hell Outta Dodge Update 

When failing a pickpocket interaction the Sim will now run to safety and will be unable to pickpocket in the current area again for a while. This restriction can be removed by travelling to a different lot.

See the complete changelog on the Getting The Hell Outta Dodge update post for more details.

Little Thieves Update 

Enables the pickpocket interaction and pickpocketing skill for Children with a different animation (unlocks after mastering the Motor skill).

See the complete changelog on the Little Thieves update post for more details.

Consequences Update 

Your Child and Teen Sims will now receive penalties on Manners, Responsibility and Empathy; Reputation and Relationship loss have been reworked and all penalties are now adjustable via settings (see the changelog post for a how-to).

Bystanders will now call your Sim out if they see them pickpocketing.

Added a new cheat to remove "Caught" restrictions.

See the Consequences update post for a complete changelog and a guide on how to change the settings.

Master Thief Update 

Master Thieves can now swipe small objects

King/Queen of Thieves aspiration

Charming Con Artist CAS trait: talented pickpockets with higher success chance; Con Artists have a few new interactions and are sometimes able to gain relationship points while pickpocketing

Pickpocketing the Grim Reaper will be rewarded - or punished

New whims, buffs and lessons

Some other changes and adjustments: read the Master Thief Update post for the detailed changelog

Basemental Drugs Addon 

If you are playing with Basemental Drugs, check out my Basemental Drugs Addon too, which makes it possible to steal drugs from Drug Dealers or Consumers.

Requirements and Conflicts:

This mod is Basegame compatible but requires Strangerville to be able to use the paranoid idle animation I chose for the interaction. However, it will still work without SV, it just won't show the first part of the animation sequence and will go straight to the pick-up animation (if successful), or being yelled at (if failed) instead.It is also still Basegame compatible with the pack-specific updates of the Consequences Update - if you don't have those packs installed those specific changes will simply have no effect and should not affect your game at all.

This mod will conflict with any other mod that edits the pickpocket interaction.

Known issues:

Frankk's awesome Language Barrier mod prevents your Sim Children from being able to pickpocket until level 5 of the TargetSim's assigned language is reached (if it's different from the Actor Sim's native language). You can use this Mod Integration Addon to ensure full compatibility.

PolarBearSims's mod "Have Some Personality Please!" is currently overwriting the game's pickpocket interaction and therefore conflicting with my Pickpocketing Mod (it will cause my interaction to not show up)

Translations:

Translations are no longer included in the mod, please download the translation files for your language below:

German 

Russian (thank you, Origamika!)

Italian (thank you, Isy!)

Czech (thank you, Xeria & Clairine!)

Simplified Chinese (thank you, MonicaJ!)

Portuguese (thank you, Desze!)

Spanish (thank you, VidaSIMple!)

Polish (thank you, livi!)

French (thank you, Kimikosoma! - Découvrir le test complet du mod sur le site de modsims4)

Korean (thank you, Leeham!)

Other translations are always welcome! If you'd like to translate this mod, just shoot me a message, here or on Discord.

Additional Credits:

Andrew and The Sims 4 Studio team for making Sims 4 Studio,

Kuttoe for teaching me the basics of modding, helping me get started and patiently answering all my noob questions as well as helping me troubleshoot,

Basemental for explaining skills and helping me figure out how to tune the xp gain,

LeRoiDeTout for his tremendous and invaluable help with the scripting part of the mod and for being awesome,

Shay for always being there for me to cry, rant or be happy with, for offering feedback and brainstorming with me and for pointing me into the right direction when I'm stuck and helping me figure shit out,

my awesome friends Moxie, Or and Nes for offering funny ideas, feedback and advice and generally being amazingly supportive.

Discord Server

If you have any trouble with my mods, discover a bug, or simply wanna talk about them, please come join us on the Discord Server Sims After Dark, which is a joint modders support server for the mods of Shino Nox/Shay, LeRoiDeTout, Kuttoe and myself. I'd love to see you there!

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Change Log:

July 1, 2025: updated for patch compatibility

May 11, 2025: updated for patch compatibility

November 18, 2024: updated the mod to reflect recent SimData changes

August 1, 2024: Fixed issues related to patch 1.108

May 31, 2024: updated some icons for DX11 compatibility

March 2, 2024: Fixed issues related to patch 1.105

September 09, 2022: Fixed a small issue with played Sims autonomously pickpocketing - please let me know if this still happens

July 27, 2022: High School Years Patch Fix

April 16, 2022: Added Spanish translation

November 20, 2021: Scenarios Patch Fix Update

August 9, 2021: Added Portuguese translation

July 22, 2021: Fixed Russian translation to include missing strings

July 21, 2021: Cottage Living Patch Fix Update

July 19, 2021: Updated Simplified Chinese translation

July 15, 2021: Small Bugfix & Updated Russian translation

July 12, 2021: Master Thief Update

May 7, 2021: Consequences Update

April 25, 2021: Updated Italian strings and added Czech translation

April 20, 2021: Little Thieves Update

March 20, 2021: Getting The Hell Outta Dodge Update

March 14, 2021: Added Russian translation

If you're enjoying this mod, or generally like playing with down-on-their-luck or criminal Sims in an imperfect world, check out my Begging and Be A Burglar Mods as well!