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Triple Play achievement in The Sims 4

Triple Play

Have a Sim give birth to triplets.

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How to unlock the Triple Play achievement

  • SPACE ODDITYSPACE ODDITY
    07 Jan 2018 07 Jan 2018 24 Mar 2018
    This guide is for people who don't want to have to buy the City Life expansion pack.

    Ok, the 'Triple Play' achievement is the hardest achievement in the game, and is basically luck based. you could get this at the first attempt, or it may take you 100 hours. I finally figured a way to have 7 chances for triplets per attempt, and one attempt every 15-25 minutes (Depending on how fast you are). It does take a bit of time setting up, but I highly recommend doing it.

    Here is a step by step guild on how I got the achievement in the end.

    Household Setup

    Step One - New game and create a new household.
    Step Two - Have the new household consist of one adult male & seven adult female.
    Step three - Have all 8 sims have Family Aspiration.
    Step Four - Have all 8 sims have these traits, Family-oriented, Romantic and finally Bookworm.
    Step Five - This is important. Make sure all 8 sims have a different surname to each other.
    Step Six - Start game with new household
    Step Seven - Once game has loaded, go into build mode and add home traits located in top left corner of screen. Have your home have these traits Homey, Natural Light & Teen Neighborhood. (Not sure if this helps, so might be able to skip this, but this is what I had done)

    Preparation

    Step Eight - Use the cheat to give all 8 sims the Fertile trait. This cheat will NOT disable achievements. To add the fertile trait to each sim you have to do one sim at a time. To activate the cheat -

    1) Have the sim you wish to give fertile trait selected.
    2) Press and hold LB, RB, LT & RT. This will bring a command bar up on the top of your screen.
    3) Highlight command bar and press A. Now enter this code Traits.equip_trait Fertile
    4) Repeat previous steps for all 8 sims, and check all 8 sims have the fertile trait.

    Step Nine - Build relationships with the 7 female sims using your male sim. Now your object here is to get all 7 sims to the point they will try for a baby with you. I recommend building relationship's with one sim at a time. So basically do this -

    Preparing female sims.

    1) Build friendship up, I like to get the friendship green bar to around 40-50% full before romancing starts..
    2) Start romancing until you have the option to try for a baby but don't try for baby just yet. Do not ask any sim to be your girl friend or get married in this step. Depending on how fast you are at getting through all sims, I recommend building your romance up alittle, as over time your romance bar drops while working on other sims.
    3) This step is optional. I did this step as my sim was living in a small house, and at times things can be a little hectic, and my sims would get jealous of each other when I romance with them. Move the newly romanced female sim out of household into their own household using the manage world/household (located top right of screen) or press start and select manage worlds. For more information on how to, check this link out - http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/tutorials/moving-sims.php
    4) Repeat previous steps with the remaining 6 female sims. Just make sure each female is in a household on their own, if you chose to do step 3. Don't stick all 7 female sims in the same household as there wont be room for future babies.

    Step Ten - Now you should be at the point where your male sim is living alone and the 7 female sims are living by their self's. Wait until 7am or just before and make a save.
    We will call this save one, and Do not overwrite this save at any time or you will have to start again from beginning.

    Step 11 . That's all the Preparation done, so now Lets begin making babies!

    1) invite one of the female sims to your home using the mobile phone.
    2) Once sim arrives, try for baby.
    3) Then ask her to leave.
    4) Repeat with all 7 female sims.
    5) Make a new save. We will call this save two.
    6) Fast forward 2-3 days until all seven females have had children. To know when the babies have arrived, some (Not all) sims will ring you to inform you are a dad. You can keep our eye on the relationship tab located bottom right of screen for when the babies are born.
    7) If none of the females have triplets, reload save one and repeat all of step 11 from the beginning, and so on until you get triplets.
    8) When one of the females gives birth to triplets, make a note of which female it was and reload save 2 and invite her round to your home using the mobile and ask her to move in so she is a controllable sim.
    9) Now just fast forward until she has those triplets and you get your achievement.

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    FelskorpionSasoridonna10 thanks it worked for me.
    Posted by Felskorpion on 11 May 22 at 22:59
    FelskorpionSasoridonna10 thanks it worked for me.
    Posted by Felskorpion on 11 May 22 at 23:00
    MaceteurAmazing
    Posted by Maceteur on 18 Sep 23 at 20:47
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  • oO CRAIGE OooO CRAIGE Oo
    23 Feb 2020 23 Feb 2020 23 Feb 2020
    Easiest way to complete this achievement within 5 minutes.

    Go to manage world
    Open Gallery
    Type in the search bar "triplets"
    I chose the 3rd one as she was on her own (credit to "Rasilitin" for the sim)
    Click on the sim you want and press "place household" in the bottom right corner
    Place on any lot
    Play for roughly 1 sim day (around 5-10 mins)
    She will give birth to trplets and the achievement should pop
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    EsperiousSuper easy and effective! Worked perfectly! Thank you!
    Posted by Esperious on 26 Feb 20 at 01:38
    Skaos3010Amazing job! Makes the achievement so much simpler!
    Posted by Skaos3010 on 01 Mar 20 at 22:46
    WhiteythereaperI'll add a comment, make sure you're doing this either in a new household or a household with only 3 Sims or less. I kept only getting twins when using a household with 4 Sims already. Also there's a pregnant sim in labour already in the gallery under recents so if you have a bassinet already on the property you can make her give birth immediately
    Posted by Whiteythereaper on 29 Dec 20 at 04:28
  • Project TortureProject Torture
    24 Mar 2018 24 Mar 2018 24 Mar 2018
    I'm not trying to take anything away from Space Oddity's guide. I just want to make it a bit smaller and add some new information that many may find useful. I actually got this achievement with the help of his guide, so, onward. An EA community manager has spoken about this achievement specifically, and mentioned that the ONLY thing that can change the number of babies born, is the Fertile Trait. Also, the second your two sims bump uglies, the # has already been decided so there is no point in doing anything special or extra at that point, whether it be watching kids tv/radio or eating special stuff. It's just a waste of your time.

    Essentially, follow Space Oddity's guide but keep in mind you can and should do the bare minimum to avoid extra work that will not help you in any way. Also, it would help to not send off the 7 female sims you're going to mate with as soon as you get the option to try for babies, as that romance level has a high failure rate for doing so, and as time passes the bar depletes, and in most cases will not be high enough for you to try when they come over. I suggest just filling it out to max. It doesn't take much longer. So, just do that, and one by one, have them come over, then bang n' ditch them all, save the game in another slot. (have the first game before you mate with any of them, with their romance levels in another slot) and never save over it again. Once one of the girls have triplets, reload your second save that you made after you've mated with them all and know one is going to have the triplets, and have that one move in before she gives birth. It won't unlock if she doesn't live in the house when she gives birth. Also, make sure they have different last names or all of the babies will have the same last name, making it pretty impossible to tell if it's a triplet or just one of many mothers babies.

    I had about 100 babies before I finally got this.
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    eHeadThanks for this.
    Posted by eHead on 03 Apr 18 at 23:08
    Project TortureYou're welcome, hopefully this helps someone save time on this achievement. I feel like it's a bit unnecessarily grindy lol.
    Posted by Project Torture on 09 Apr 18 at 02:59
    A BatwomanHow do you know if they've had triplets it tells you when your at home right?

    I saw the thing you said where it said it tells you what your getting later like "eating for two" someone said the keyline trait for the house isn't necessary since it says twins but other people said it helps.
    Posted by A Batwoman on 17 Mar 19 at 18:13
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