The other day while finishing up a challenge, my last Sim turned out to be the longest living Sim I've ever had without help from age cheats, Elixir of Life, the genie lamp or any other items that lengthen life or motive cheats.
I'm wondering how long anyone else has managed to keep a Sim going without cheats or helps from birth (or infant spawn).


Jorje was spawned as an infant in my latest Orphanage Challenge attempt. He was either green or gold at most of his growth changes, except he was platinum when he turned Elder.
He maxed all 7 skills, along with Fire Safety, Couples Counseling, Parenting, Anger Management, Physiology -- all of them. He, also earned the gold badges in fishing, sewing, robot making. He was up to the Silver Pottery Talent Badge when he passed. He received a few plaques, too, but I can't remember them all offhand -- the Music and Dance one, Games? and Culinary.
His favorite autonomous activities were playing the piano and chatting online. Occasionally if he was in the mood, he'd go fishing on his own, too.
Before turning Elder he reached his LTW of becoming the Head of SCIA in Intelligence, second LTW of becoming a Mad Scientist in Science and had just stated his third LTW of becoming Chief of Staff in Medicine. He reached that as an Elder and went on to hit the Top of Career in the Senior tracks in: Business, Architecture, Medicine (again), Law, Adventure, Law Enforcement, Music, Dance, Military and Journalism. He was in the Gamer track when he died of old age.
Right after he turned 84 days old, coming home from work with a promotion to Button Masher, Grimmy came a-calling.

I tried keeping this guy as happy as possible to see if I could get a Sim to live to 90. Has anyone managed that without cheats, etc??? He outlived everyone else on his lot, along with all former housemates and most of his friends on other lots.

Awesome Sim!
i never had before. Good job! XD

I got sim to the middle of Adulthood. Thats the longest one of my sims live before I forget to feed them

I have to admit, my Sims are addicted to the Elixir of Life. I get terribly attached to my Sims...Seeing them die really makes me feel bad.

Good work with Jorje Chen.

My longest was 80 days. But that was a spoiled perma-plat grandma family sim who had 6 children, 3 graduated college, reached the big anniversary, and had a whopping total of 15 grandchildren. This was part of the longest legacy you'll ever play.

I have had sims who've lived very long lives. I think the oldest one was 86--with absolutely no age hacks whatsoever. My daughter says one of hers lived to be just over 90, but I've never witnessed this in any of my sims. We were just talking earlier today about this, actually because I was wondering the same thing: what is the longest possible natural lifespan of a sim?

I saw a 108-year old one...


Some are only 9 days old (I think it was in Pleasantview)

Oh my Goodness ! You are very "BRAVE" to let your sims live that long. Me, Myself, and I, oh yeah and my shadow have a "Very Hard" time letting my sims get to the elder stage. The sims in my game that are elder was already elder to start with, maybe I will try this with Old Mortimer Goth who should have been dead a long time ago like around 2006.

Mine tend to be less because I forget to feed them, and more because "game go boom." (Seriously, I think I'm on my fifth re-install in less than a year!) I think the longest any in-game born sims of mine have lasted was the first few days of childhood.

As for natural lifespans, I have heard that the 108 day one was a glitch (the pic is posted in the "bloopers and glitches" thread in the pic section of this site, afterall). I really don't know how many actual days old any given one of my sims are, since I use individual aging hacks on them, to "give them more time." One of these days, I'm just going to have to challenge myself, create a hood where there is absolutely no use of aging cheats or hacks, and see how it goes.

Also, congrats on your fantastic sim, Deatherella. Sounds like he was one hell of a sim who lived an incredible life, even by the out-there standards of sims. Here's to you, you amazing little pixel man!

I didn't know about the 108 day old one. I usually just ignore or kill off any passing elders in my hoods. You and your daughter did good M3g7e.

My longest was 86 days.

In twojeffs's description of a mod, he described elder spans as:

There was apparently supposed to be some randomness built into the base elder lifespan, it should be a random 10-20 days + the aspiration bonus of -2 to +10 days for a range of 8-30 days. But it's not random as all and is always 20 days and then the asp bonus/penalty is applied for a 18-30 day range.

I had a sim called Lily Long who lived for 83 days. I was very surprised - she'd lived quite a hectic life including having a successful affair, illegitimate child, twins, another child, twin alien babies from illegitimate child, and 7 grandchildren from her other children who all lived in the same house.