How to Hobo: A sims guide

Hobo living means that you and your sims/family are dependant on the "genorsity" and gullibility of your friends and neighbors. Essentially being a hobo means that you are unable to provide for yourself in a more convienant fashion and must relay on altenatives in order to live and thrive. In order to do this your family will need to first move into a very basic home with very little room. Besides some windows keep it empty and if its your first time you should put in a basic bed, dumpster, shower and toilet. after that you will need to remove almost all funding you possess until mabye you have around 100 or 200 left to pay for the first couple of taxes.(to remove money just plant some trees or somthing)

Heres a list of traits that are helpful to your sim as they progress in the hobo world

Kleptomaniac(required): This trait allows your sim to steal from people when your in their house/property. You are granted to steal 3 times a day and only when no one is watching, what you steal is up to luck as your sim will go about and "borrow" what he pleases. Also this trait allows you to rummage through neighbor's trash cans for goodies.(seeds,gems,trash,rubber duckies,etc)

Mooch(highly reccomended): Mooching allows your sim to mooch food and cash from other sims which is essential to survival as a hobo. Before attempting to mooch try to talk a bit with that sim which will help increase the chance for them to give you some dough.(mooching doesn't get alot of cash, but hey its something ok)

Loner(helpful): Good when you have to spent alot of time alone and as a hobo(if you have no family), you do. This trait will give you a bonus of +15 mood while you are alone and you won't be urged to be social, friends were too mainstream anyways...


Lucky(helpful): Lucky means that your sim will have better luck with well everything and some days just wake up even luckier than usual, they also have a better chance to find items when dumpster diving.

Good sense of humour, friendly, charismatic(useful): These traits will aid you in making conversations and relationships last longer and can help you with mooching and your overall day to day life.

Now that you have picked your traits and built your dream shack, its time to face the world. Since your a hobo you must get your money and items elsewhere by:

Stealing: I don't think your friends will mind if you just take that off their hands. I mean your doing them a favour that thing is hideous.

Dumpster Diving: a great method for getting random junk to fill your house, but you will get really smelly in the process.(Use this and stealing as your only method for obtaining furnature for your house)

Fishing: good way to get a trinkle of cash.

Collecting bugs/seeds/rocks: nice side hobby that provides some modest home furnishing and cash.

Opportunities: these events sporadically occur and if you accept them they will get you an assorment of bonuses.(money, skill points, secrets unlocked)

Trashcans: One mans trash is another mans treasure -Macklemore

Gardening: A bit of a noob move,but if you don't care for a challenge then make one, provides free food and constant cash.(shame on you)

Mooching: Mooching allows the player to mooch free food or money off another sim, to increase your chance to get cash try to talk with that sim for a bit, mooching will not get you alot of cash though.

Explore catacombs: Who better to explore havens of the undead than your local hobo.

As any human being you have needs, and with your house practically empty you must gather what you can to get by. Here is a list of essential needs.(those not listed rarely are cruical to survival)

Hunger: Mooch food from people, go to the park and eat from a picnic basket, plunder neighboorhood and community gardens.(don't buy food)

Bladder/Hygeine: your shack, neighbor's home, community bathrooms.

Energy: Neighbor's bed(they will get mad, but let you sleep) your bed, coach(if you don't have a bed), park benches,the floor.

Being a hobo and the diffuculty of being one is dependant on the idea of having limited resources and opportunites as a result I've compiled a set of rules.

1. Jobs, don't get one

2. Besides buying you starting house, you may not purchase any furniture, you may still buy additional rooms and expand your house later

3.Cheats, Don't even try

4. Don't sell the furniture you find, what you get is what you must decorate your house with.

5. Don't sell anything you find thats too valueable. example: expensive ores, meteorites, bugs.

6. Don't be stupid, if you have to be do it somewhere else

If you want to be a true hardcore hobo then you can have no house and opt for an empty lot and spend your days roaming the street surviving only on the community and stupidity of your neighbours.

Try surviving and living while supporting a family with kids

Try buying alot of expensive items using cheats then keeping them in the family inventory, this way you will be forced to keep up with your insane taxes.

Have your sim try to romance everyone in town just to mooch off their money and food.

If you want the game to be easier then you can sell furniture...

This idea of being a hobo is just a different way to play sims in which people that may have played the game traditonally may want to try something new.

Should your sim find a mate then you 2 shall live together happily as a hobo couple and your spouse must relieve themselves of any jobs,money, or home of which they possess.

Make sure to milk your friends and neighbor's for as much as they got, when you come "visit" take advantage of their free bathrooms, books, pools and televisons.

Use libraries, gyms and community pools accommodations sparingly or not at all if you want a challenge. Gym have free food at the fridge there and they have showers, toliets and lounge chairs to sleep in, libraries have skill books and computers, and pools have showers and toliets

using the money you have you can expand your house from a shack to a mansion then decorate it and furnish it with all the things you "aquired" over time.

Have fun with it.