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Ghostly achievement in The Sims 4

Ghostly

Have a Ghost in your household.

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How to unlock the Ghostly achievement

  • oGARY86oGARY86
    03 Dec 2017 03 Dec 2017
    To get this achievement you need to live on a property with a grave or urn which appear after a Sim dies.

    Every few nights a ghost will appear. You need to get the friendly interaction filled right to the top, then select "Invite To Household".

    Ghosts will only come out late at night and return to their grave early in the morning.

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    AtomicKing74It seems like ypu must ask a ghost to join, you can not be a ghost and ask to join
    Posted by AtomicKing74 on 31 Mar 21 at 23:29
    VastyrrThis isn't working for me and when I try filling up the green friendship bar it goes back down or turns red :/
    Posted by Vastyrr on 15 Nov 22 at 04:05
    Flopsy86If anyone is struggling with this. I did the black widow achievement first. Placed all 5 urns outside the house (where they will become tombstones), wait for a ghost to appear at a tombstone then increase relationship with them. Because you used to be married to them, it doesn't take an awful lot to get the green relationship bar full then you can "invite to household"
    Posted by Flopsy86 on 23 Jan at 02:55
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  • BenderWinBenderWin
    04 May 2021 04 May 2021 04 May 2021
    I know a lot of people were having an issue trying to get the option to "Invite To Household" to a ghost, but here are the setups that seemed to work for me.

    TLDR:
    You can start a new family, use one that you've been playing for awhile, or even move random families/friends from other lots into your family (best if you've already established a friendship so you won't have to take up too much time doing that). The Goal is to get your friendship level to "Best Friends' and that the green friendship bar is at 100%, anything less wasn't giving me the option to invite ghosts to household.

    Current Family (Good if you've been doing a long-play and established relationships prior)
    I used the same family I used for all of these achievements. I already knew I wanted to have a family "graveyard" in the backyard for when I would get around to this achievement so the setup was easy. Any time a family member died, I would put their urn in the backyard (which would transform into a tombstone). Make sure you "strengthen the connection to the physical world" on their urn/tombstone so that we have an opportunity to interact with ghosts and have them appear on the lot.

    I currently have 13 tombstones, ironically, and so the ghosts would show up after midnight. Since they were family members I've interacted and had a friendship with before, I just had my main character interact with one of his deceased ancestors until they were good friends and then, until they were best friends. Now I was getting worried because I figured since they were "best friends" I would have the option to invite them, but it wasn't until their Happy/friendship bar was all the way 100% green for me to finally get the option to do so. You may not see it on the first set of FRIENDLY options so go through them slowly until you see "Invite To Household".

    New Family (Good if you are just focused on this achievement)
    Much like the previous section, the method will be similar. Just create a family of 8, make sure they are young adults or up. Make sure they are all related and pick a lot to start the game. Build up everyone's friendship and aim to get up to "best friend". Once that's reached, close the specific sims up in a small room with no door or access to anything and wait for them to kick the bucket. Once dead, "Strengthen the connection to the physical world" on their urn/tombstone and they should start showing up at midnight. Interact until the friendship bar is 100% green and the option to "Invite to Household" should show up under the FRIENDLY options.

    Transferring Other Sims to Current Family (Good if you're doing a short-play or having issues with ghosts showing up after midnight)
    Same method, but if you are struggling to get some ghosts to appear or the friendship is progressing slowly, go into the "Manage Worlds" option and click on your current family lot. Click the option to transfer sims to different households and you can then add other sims (preferably sims you've established a good friendship with) into your household. From there on, the process is the same, get up to "best friends", kill the sim via your method, and then "strengthen the connection to the physical world" on their urn/tombstone. Interact until the friendship bar is 100% green and the option to "Invite to Household" should show up under the FRIENDLY options.
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