NC4T Be A Burglar Mod (Patreon)

You like to play criminal Sims, but the Criminal career is not enough? You'd like your Sim to steal from strangers, but the Klepto trait doesn't quite offer what you want?

With this mod, your Sim can finally Be A Burglar!

Break into the houses of strangers (or friends), steal all their expensive stuff and make off with a fortune - but beware that you don't get caught!

What this mod does:

New Reward trait: Burglar - Enables Break In and Swipe interactions

New interaction: Break In - lets you break into the houses or apartments of any Sim (Celebrity houses and Private Dwellings have higher security and need a higher Burglary skill level to break in to)

New interaction: Swipe - you don't need the Klepto trait to steal things! What kind of items are available for stealing depend on your Burglary skill

New Skill: Burglary - 5 level minor skill

Some new buffs, strings and icons

Do not get caught!

Getting caught breaking into houses or stealing will make your Sim flee the crime scene

Each time your Sim gets caught, there's a chance the police will arrest them for Burglary and take away the stolen items - this chance is lower the higher the skill level

Basemental integration: If your Sim carries drugs from the Basemental Drugs mod, the police will confiscate them if your Sim is being arrested

Optional Addon: Vaults

Personally, I think it's stupid that any random Sim with Mischief skill can break into the Get Famous vaults, so this little optional Addon overwrites the game's "Break Into Vault" interaction and makes it require level 5 of the Burglary skill instead. Remove the optional file if you do not want this, or if you don't have Get Famous.

For Rent Overhaul

This Version of the Mod utilizes the For Rent Break In event situation and locks it behind the Burglar reward trait, so breaking into houses is not available for just anyone.

Do not Install this version if you do not have the For Rent Expansion pack!

A small note:

I cannot recommend trying to rob default EA houses on Level 1 or 2, as those houses usually are very bare and do not offer many items to steal. I recommend using houses you created yourself or downloaded from the gallery instead.

Translations:

Translations are not included in the mod, please download the translation files for your language below:

Spanish (Thank you, VidaSIMple!)

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

Russian (Thank you, Origamika!)

Polish (Thank you, livi!)

Italian (Thank you, ISY!)

Traditional Chinese (Thank you, MeowCats!)

German (Thank you, Torte446!)

Ukranian (Thank you, mariliuiw!)

All other translations are welcome! If you'd like to translate this mod, please send me a message via Discord, either on the Sims After Dark server or via DMs.

Special Thanks

Andrew and the Sims 4 Studio Team for creating and maintaining S4S

Frankk for his String Table Editor tool

Shay for being awesome, brainstorming with me, always offering valuable feedback and ideas, and helping me troubleshoot - I appreciate you <3

Kuttoe and LeRoiDeTout for their scripting help and offering advice when I get stuck or have questions

Basemental for being very supportive and helping me with the integration

Moxie for being the most amazing cute snail and mod tester ever <3

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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Changelog:

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

March 2, 2024: Fixed issues related to patch 1.105

February 18, 2024: For Rent Overhaul & Updated BG Version

July 27, 2022: High School Years Patch Fix

April 29, 2022: added Polish translation

April 21, 2022: added Russian translations and changed how I handle translation files in general, please read the translations chapter above

April 19, 2022: fixed a bug with swiping and added French translation

April 18, 2022: fixed a syntax error with some strings and added Spanish translation

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

Download ONLY ONE of the Versions below: