The Sims 4: How To Bring A Sim Back To Life (2025)

Death is a part of life for every Sim in The Sims 4. Whether from old age and passing away peacefully, to more strange methods like death from getting smashed by Murphy beds, when the time comes for a Sim's life to end, there's not much you can do about it.

Or is there? If you feel like cheating the Grim Reaper and having more time with your favorite Sim, there are ways you can bring your dead Sims back to life. Once you know what to do, you'll be able to resurrect any of your ghost Sims for a second chance at life.

All Ways To Bring A Sim Back To Life

There are five different methods for bringing a Sim back to life, and these include:

• Using the Book of Life
• Eating Ambrosia
• Wish at the Wishing Well (Romantic Garden Stuff)
• Cast the Dedeathify Spell (Realm of Magic)
• Drink Vitality Nectar (Horse Ranch)

Any of these five methods are able to bring a deceased Sim back to life so long as their ghost is lingering around.

How To Save A Sim Before Death

If you want to avoid having to resurrect a Sim, any Sim can be saved by pleading for their life with the Grim Reaper. While the Grim Reaper is reaping the deceased Sim, click on them and choose Plead for Sim; if you succeed the Grim Reaper will not reap the Sim, and they will return to life as they were before.

Use The Book Of Life

You can bring a Sim back to life by having them read the Book of Life if their soul is bound to it. The Book of Life can be written by a Sim with a level of ten in the Writing skill, who has also completed the Bestselling Author aspiration.

Once these requirements have been met, your Sim can bind a soul to the Book of Life. Have your Sim go to any computer, choose Write, then Book of Life, and once the book is finished, it will be in your Sim's inventory.

Find the book in your inventory and choose Capture Epic Saga, which will bring up a menu of Sims you can choose. Choose the Sim you want to keep alive, and when that Sim perishes, their ghost can read the Book of Life that is bound to them, bringing them back to life.

Eating Ambrosia

The special dish Ambrosia can be eaten by any ghost to bring that Sim back to life. To use this method, a Sim must have a level 10 Cooking skill and a level 10 Gourmet Cooking skill.

With those skills maxed out, your Sim can then whip up the Ambrosia dish. Here are the ingredients needed for the dish, and where to find them:

Once you have the proper ingredients, click on any fridge or stove and choose to make Ambrosia. Have any ghost Sim eat it, and they'll come back to life.

Wish At The Wishing Well

A ghost Sim can make a wish at a Wishing Well available in the Romantic Garden Stuff Pack for a chance to be brought back to life. This option isn't available in the base game.

You can place a Wishing Well wherever you want; it costs 7,775 Simoleons and can be found under Skills and Activities > Miscellaneous. Have your ghost Sim go to any Wishing Well and choose to wish to be brought back to life, then Make a Wish, and last, Wish for Life.

The more Simoleons they throw into the well, the more likely they are to have their wish granted. However, not all outcomes result in having the Sim come back to life, and there are a few different results that can come from this:

• The Sim comes back to life (Positive)
• The Sim is given Ambrosia ingredients (Somewhat Positive)
• The Sim is given the Wish Not Granted sad moodlet (Neutral)
• The Sim begins to be revived, but it fails and receives Just a Ghost sad moodlet (Somewhat Negative)
• The Sim receives the Accepted Fate happy moodlet (Negative)

If your Sim gets the 'Accepted Fate' moodlet instead of being brought back to life, they will have to wait for the moodlet to expire before trying again.

Cast The Dedeathify Spell

If your Sim is a spellcaster, they have the opportunity to learn the Dedeathify spell in their spellbook and bring Sims back to life by casting it. You need to have the Realm of Magic Game Pack for this option.

The Dedeathify spell can be taught by the magical Sages to any spellcaster who is a Master rank. Go to the Realm of Magic and ask L. Faba, Simeon Silversweater, or Morgyn Ember to teach your Sim Untamed spells.

One of the Untamed spells they can learn is Dedeathify. Once your Sim knows the spell, click on a ghost, choose Spellcaster, and Dedeathify to bring them back to life.

Drink Vitality Nectar

The final way a Sim can be brought back to life is by drinking the Vitality Nectar available in the Horse Ranch Expansion Pack. To get the Vitality Nectar, your Sim can either make it themselves or be given a bottle.

Both ways can be accomplished by befriending Roberto Crinkletop. This Sim can teach you plenty of recipes for nectar, and if you have a high enough friendship, will teach them the Vitality Nectar recipe.

Roberto will gift your Sim a Vitality Nectar bottle once they've been taught, so you will have one on you. If you need to make more, here is the recipe for Vitality Nectar:

Once you have the ingredients, head to the Rootin' Fruit'n Nectar Maker which is available in Buy Mode for 350 Simoleons. It can be found under Skills and Activities > Outdoor Activities.

You can then use the nectar maker to make bottles of Vitality Nectar. Have a ghost Sim drink the nectar, and they'll be brought back to life.