Reaper’s Rewards Event

Update

2024-11-23

The event icon is now gone. A bit earlier as anticipated …

2024-11-19

The event is now over and you can no longer do tasks.

The event icon will stay in the game till Nov 26th so people that haven’t claimed the rewards they already done, can still do so.

2024-10-31

Week 6 has now started and you can finish up with the event. There will be extra time for those that are still behind.

Unfortunately I don’t have any more tips for those that can’t continue.

There are currently some issues with the event. Some are caused by mods, others are game issues and some are unclear what’s causing them.

You can find a method below on how to successfully finish the first week and avoid the problems. This should also work if you already started and experience issues.

Avoid saving until the GUI is fully loaded and don’t pause the game before or right after a loading screen

Rename the folder Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4 to Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4_cur (or any other name you like). This folder now has all your mods and save games. Nothing is lost.
Repair your game.
Start the game. Your save games and settings will be gone.
Start a new save game (don’t use scenarios)
Create a new family or download an existing one from the gallery/library. I would recommend not to add infants/toddlers or pets. Also don’t play occults.
Place your family on a regular residential lot.
Play the event until you have everything claimed that you can for the first week. All rewards that you claim (except the potions and skill books that you have in your game anyways) will be saved to your account.
Save your game and close it. You will need it again for the upcoming weeks.
Rename the folder Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4 to Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4_Event and Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4_cur to Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4
Start the game. You will now have your usual game back including all your mods.
Rename your folders back again next week to continue with the event:
- Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4 to Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4_cur
- Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4_Event to Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4

The second event Reaper’s Rewards lasts from September, 24th to November, 19 2024 and you can get 13 free rewards for solving quests in the game. You are collecting event points that you can exchange for rewards.

This article contains a FAQ specifically for this event. You can find more general info here: Events

The Reaper Rewards event will give 13 rewards. These are stretched out over 6 weeks.

Week 1

Gramophone The Grimophone
Earrings of Imminent Demise
Lot Challenge: Scare Seeker
Original Freezer Boney

Week 2

Trad Goth Jeans
Skill Book: The Green Lady’s Lost Tome to learn cooking, gourmet cooking and fishing.
Starborn Freezer Boney

Week 3

Trad Goth Buckled Boots
Bicycle: Grim’s Cruiser
Sugar Skull Freezer Boney

Week 4

Tattoo: Life & Death
Portrait: Lady Mimsy Alcron Shallot in the Garden
Metallic Freezer Boney

Week 5

Trad Goth Button-Up
Drink: Spectral Spritzer
Plush Freezer Boney

Week 6

Eyes: Prowling Peepers
Bed: Casket of Quiet Repose
Glow-In-The-Dark Freezer Boney

The second event is a bit more complicated and you need to spend some time in live mode to get your rewards. Each week there will be quests to solve that give you event points that you can exchange for the rewards. You will explore the secrets of ambrosia and learn how to cook it.

Steps

Make sure you login with the correct account and play online so that the rewards can be properly tied to your account.

Start a new save game or continue with an existing one in live mode. The rewards will not be tied to your save game but the progress in the quest is. You can of course make ambrosia again in any save though.

Rem: The event currently has issues and I recommend doing it as described in the box at the beginning.

Once in live mode you will get a pop up to start with your first quests. To access the event screen click on the event symbol in live mode.

You’ll be collecting event points by finishing quests and goals. More event points mean more rewards.

The event screen which can be accessed through the main menu or live mode lets you exchange points for rewards. Choose Claim to get them.

Note: You need to be in live mode to claim consumable rewards.

Claimed rewards will then appear in build mode, CAS or in the inventory of your Sim depending on the type.

During 6 weeks you will get two new quests per week that you can finish. You also have 2 extra weeks if something more important comes up.

The event is now over.

Event points are a limited-time measurement for this specific event. You can exchange them for rewards as soon as you collect enough points.

Each quest gives a certain amount of event points. You can check the tool tip of the quest to see how many.

Any points that you didn’t redeem will expire once the event is over.

There’s a new filter called Special > Event Rewards in both CAS and build mode.

CAS

Choose the correct CAS Part and filter by event rewards.

Earrings

Build Mode

Filter by event rewards or search for the names.

You can also find all the freezer boney in build mode

Yes. This event saves your rewards to your account. The rewards will be in your game even if you reinstall or rename the user folder.

The only condition is that you play online while you claim the rewards and that you login with the same account you got them on.

Consumable rewards are rewards that help you advance in the tasks. In the first week for example you get skill books (that you can also buy through the bookcase) or potions to put your Sim in a certain mood.

You will only get consumable rewards for the played household.

There’s also a new household collection of Freezer Boneys. You won’t get these in another household but you can buy them in build mode (no cheat necessary) and place in a Sims inventory so they appear in that households collection.

Some of the task can be pack specific. You just won’t get them if you don’t own the pack. You can still collect enough points to finish the event.

Remark: It seems that you can unlock all the items even if you don’t have any packs but some of the consumable become unreachable.

There are 2 quests to solve in the first week.

A call away
Assistant to the Grim Reaper

Each quest consists of several tasks. You can switch between the quests by clicking on the plumbob

In the first week you can get the following rewards

Skill Book: Gardening, Vol 1 (consumable reward)
Original Freezer Boney (can be found in build mode afterwards)
Gramophon The Grimophone
Skill Book: Cooking, Vol 1 (consumable reward)
Earrings of Imminent Demise
Energized Potion (consumable reward)
Lot Challenge: Scare Seeker
Happy Potion (consumable reward)

I don’t want to get into the different tasks here. There are a few issues as described below.

There are 2 quests to solve in the second week.

Digging Holes
Friends with Death

Each quest consists of several tasks. You can switch between the quests by clicking on the plumbob

In the second week you can get the following rewards

Trad Goth Jeans
Skill Book: Gardening, Vol 2 (consumable reward)
Starborn Freezer Boney (can be found in build mode)
Instant Hygiene (consumable reward)
Skill Book: The Green Lady’s Lost Tome to learn cooking, gourmet cooking and fishing (can be found in build mode after claiming the reward).
Instant Fun (consumable reward)

I don’t want to get into the different tasks here. There are a few issues as described below.

There are 2 quests to solve in the third week.

The First Ingredient
Learning from the Lady

Each quest consists of several tasks. You can switch between the quests by clicking on the plumbob

In the third week you can get the following rewards

Trad Goth Buckled Boots
Sugar Skull Freezer Boney
Bird of Paradise (consumable reward)
Bicycle: Grim’s Cruiser
Batfish (consumable reward)

I don’t want to get into the different tasks here. There are a few issues as described below.

There are 2 quests to solve in the fourth week.

Death’s Favorite Flower
Flirting with Death.

Each quest consists of several tasks. You can switch between the quests by clicking on the plumbob

In the fourth week you can get the following rewards

Metallic Freezer Boney
Tattoo: Life & Death
Inspired Potion (consumable reward)
Portrait: Lady Mimsy Alcron Shallot in the Garden
Skill Book: Fishing, Vol 2 (consumable reward)

I don’t want to get into the different tasks here. As a small tip: You can buy the death flower through the phone.

There are a few issues as described below.

There are 2 quests to solve in the fifth week.

An Inspiring Potion
Skilled Chef

Each quest consists of several tasks. You can switch between the quests by clicking on the plumbob

In the fifth week you can get the following rewards

Trad Goth Button-Up
Happy Potion (consumable reward)
Plush Freezer Boney
Moodlet Solver (consumable reward)
Drink: Spectral Spritzer
Sleep Replacement (consumable reward)

I don’t want to get into the different tasks here. There are a few issues as described below.

There are 2 quests to solve in the sixth week.

Fruits of Your Labor
The Moment of truth

Each quest consists of several tasks. You can switch between the quests by clicking on the plumbob

In the sixth week you can get the following rewards

Glow-In-The-Dark Freezer Boney
Jet
Eyes: Prowling Peepers
Bed: Casket of Quiet Repose
Cowplant Berry
Trash Fruit
Want refresher
Death Flower
Re-Traiting Potion

I don’t want to get into the different tasks here. There are a few issues as described below.

Problem

The game things that all tasks have been done and the quests/plumbobs no longer show although the tasks aren’t marked as done properly.

Cause

The cause is unclear. There’s a possibility that this has something to do with pausing the game before or shortly after a loading screen.

Solution

There’s currently no solution but you can try the following things.

Move the file Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4>accountDataDB.package to the desktop The Happy Home Login Event rewards have been moved to base game. You don’t have to fear loosing them.
Start a new save game and see if it works there.
Be patient while loading the game. Wait a but until the GUI has fully loaded.
Don’t pause the game before and shorty after a loading screen.

Please try the following things if the tasks don’t check off after doing them

See this, if you don’t see the quests/tasks anymore
See this, if you have issues with the flower/tree tasks
See this, if you have issues with the newsletter
Move the file Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4>accountDataDB.package to the desktop The Happy Home Login Event rewards have been moved to base game. You don’t have to fear loosing them.
Try doing the task with another household
Try another save game
Avoid occult Sims for doing the tasks (especially Vampires)

Problem

Batfish isn’t available although all tasks have been done.

Cause

Week 3 has a pack based task again and it’s possible that the missing task leads to the week not finishing off.

Solution

There’s currently no solution.

Remark: The last 5 rewards of the event are consumable ones. I suspect that it might not be possible to get them all if you don’t own all the packs. The consumable are basically extras you can get. You can collect points to get all the unlockable rewards without the packs but not all the available one.

Problem

I already planted several snapdragons and lilies but the task is still not marked as done.

Cause

For most this is related to Better BuildBuy. The mod has a parts that are still active even after removing the mod like the Organized Debug.

There are other theories floating around though.

Plants that are not in season
Certain planters
Queuing the tasks back to back.

Solution

Turn off Organized Debug before if you are using the mod
If you don’t have the mod anymore, either reinstall and turn the option off, or repair your game.
Restart the game after this and see if the tasks are done. If not, try them again.

Update

This particular issue has been solved in Patch 1.109.207/2.00.

Problem

The list of tasks is empty from start
I did a few tasks and now the list is empty.

Cause

The cause is currently unclear but it’s probably connected to the game being paused before or shortly after a loading screen. or if it’s being save before the game had a chance to load the GUI. It’s also possible that certain events like the For Rent or Discover University ones bug out the game.

The problem can be expedited by mods like MC Command Center as they have mechanisms to pause the game under certain conditions. There’s other mods that do the same.

Solution

Currently the only solution is to remove the file Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4>accountDataDB.package. This is a bit problematic as the file also contains the rewards from Happy Home.

There are several methods that you can try (unfortunately not for console)

The easiest method is to use the one described at the beginning of this post. This should work.

You can recover the event rewards from Happy Home if you have a backup of usersetting.ini from before Patch 1.109.185/1.98 or a backup of accountDataDB.package from before the event. Remove the current accountDataDB.package from your user folder and copy back the backups. Certain progress from the Reaper’s Rewards that you’ve already done might also be already saved on your account and you can continue playing from there.

I would not delete anything but just move files. You can delete later when you have everything back. Also make backups somewhere safe before attempting.