The Sims 4 Vampire Lore Skill

If you want to be the best vampire, or just know a lot about them you need to learn the sims 4 vampire lore skill.

This comes to the game with, of course, The Sims 4: Vampires.

This skill is all about learning everything you can about vampires so you can either become a master vampire or be a very informed sim!

What is Vampire Lore Good for?

This skill is great if you want to live in Forgotten Hollow but aren’t sure if you trust the vampires. You want knowledge, of course. This skill lets you do things like making potions as well as teaching sims how they can deal with scary vampires.

The best thing is that when you max this skill your sim will gain the ability to make The Ultimate Vampire Cure beverage and you can use this to change your sims back from a vampire to a sim!

How to Gain The Sims 4 Vampire Lore Skill

To start gaining the vampire lore skill you’ll need to use a computer. Your sim will need to research vampire secrets on the computer to gain the first level of the skill and at level two they can purchase books to gain the skill even further.

The next thing you’ll do is purchase the collection of vampire lore skill books, of which there are four. Each has a different cost and will get you a few levels of the skill:

• Encyclopedia Vampirica Volume I §75
  • “Origin of the Vampire Species, early history, alternate food sources.”
    • This book gets you from level 1 to level 6
• Encyclopeida Vampirica Volume II §150
  • “Known weaknesses, known strengths, defense techniques, favourite foods.”
    • This books gets you from level 6 to level 10
• Encyclopedia Vampirica Volume III §250
  • “Sunlight and the importance of sunscreen. Known uses for plasma fruit, garlic and wolfsbane. Vampire dental care techniques.”
    • This book gets you from level 10 to level 13
• Ultimate Vampire Compendium §1000
  • “From anatomy to Zeitgeist. Every detail collected on vampires is compiled here.”
    • This books gets you from level 13 to level 15

You can also gain the skill through asking other sims about vampire history but this skill gain is slow and annoying because you’d have to do it a lot to gain enough of the skill.

Ideal Mood for Learning Vampire Lore

The emotion system was a huge selling point for The Sims 4 and impacts your sims more than you may realize. Each skill has an ideal mood that will let your sims gain the skills more quickly.

The ideal mood for vampire lore is focused! Makes sense, you want your sims to be focused on learning everything to keep themselves safe. To get your sims focused you can ponder moves on a chess board or by using microscopes or telescopes.

Best Traits for Vampire Lore

The traits that you hand to your sims are important and can have an impact on their mood and their skill gains. These traits can help your sims gain vampire lore:

• Genius: Sims who have the genius trait are going to get focused moodlets more often!
• Cheerful: Cheerful is great if you’re trying to have sims who are just in good moods, this gives happy moodlets that can stack with focused.

You also want to consider what lot traits your household has. These two can be fun when working with vampire lore:

• Science Lair: The science lair trait helps with all scientific skills but not necessarily vampire lore. However, this lot trait can give sims random focused moodlets which can be helpful!
• Vampire Nexus: When you give this lot trait to your sims you’ll see more vampires hanging around this lot, which won’t necessarily help the skill but is fun!

How to Cheat The Sims 4 Vampire Lore Skill

Thankfully EA adds great cheats to the game with every skill they add. The cheat you need for vampire lore is slightly different than others because there are 15 levels of the skill instead of 10.

You’ll need to know stats.set_skill_level vampire_lore 15 to max out the skill. If you want a specific level of the skill you’ll just change the 15 at the end to whatever level you want from 1-14.

Levels of the Vampire Lore Skill

The interesting thing about vampire lore is that it doesn’t fit into the major or minor skills because it has more levels! Most skills in the game (major skills) have 10 levels and the other skills (minor skills) have 5.

Vampire lore has 15 levels to earn and with each you get new unlocks including abilities like making plasma packs or sharing your vampiric knowledge with others.

Skill Level	Level Unlocks
Level 1	Your sim is delving deep into researching vampires. There seems to be a lot of knowledge they could unlock if she continues to research.
Level 2	Your sim has discovered The VonFlavius Vampire Emporium while searching for vampires. They can now purchase Encyclopedia Vampricia Vol 1 on the computer.
Level 3	Your sim has discovered that there is an alternative method for Vampires to satisfy their thirst. They can now order plasma packs on the computer.
Level 4	Your sim has learned the secrets of converting fish and frogs into tasty plasma packs. They can now make plasma packs from Fish or Frogs.
Level 5	Your sim has learned there are primitive ways of warding away Vampires by making garlic braids. They can now make garlic braids, garlic wreaths, and garlic garlands.
Level 6	Your sim has completed the first vampire tome. If they want to continue to gain the skill they need to purchase the second.
Level 7	Your sim has learned a lot about vampires and they can now share vampire knowledge with other sims.
Level 8	Your sim has learned that there are some special ingredients that are used in some vampire-specific recipes. They can now purchase plasma fruit, wolfsbane and sixam mosquito trap seeds.
Level 9	Your sim has learned that Plasma Fruit has some interesting uses in recipes. She can now prepare plasma fruit salad and plasma jane drink.
Level 10	Your sim has completed the second vampire tome. Purchase the third on the computer to continue learning.
Level 11	Your sim has learned that it is possible for a vampire to reverse the effects of sunlight using a special drink. They can now craft the sunlight reversal cocktail on the bar.
Level 12	Your sim has learned that there is a drink that helps sims resist the effects of vampire powers. They can now craft the vampire resistance cocktail on the bar.
Level 13	Your sim has finished the third vampire tome. Purchase The Ultimate Vampire Compendium on the computer to continue learning.
Level 14	Your sim has learned that there is a drink that allows vampires to reset all their powers. They can now make the draught of reconfiguration on the bar.
Level 15	Your sim has learned the ultimate vampire secret: how to cure vampirism! They can now make the ultimate vampire cure on the bar. There is nothing else for them to learn about vampires.

Vampire Lore Beverages

As you gain more levels of the skill you’ll start having new beverages you can create that have an impact on vampires including:

• Sunlight Reversal Cocktail
  • Reverses the effects of the sun on a vampire
  • Costs §27 to Make
    • Requirements
      • 2 Garlic
      • 1 Plasma Fruit
• Vampire Resistance Cocktail
  • Makes sims unaffected by vampire powers
  • Costs §25 to Make
  • Requirements
    • 2 Wolfsbane
• Draught of Reconfiguration
  • If this is drank by a vampire they can reset their vampire powers and choose new ones.
  • Costs §1,000 to Make
  • Requirements
    • 2 Wolfsbane
    • 2 Garlic
    • 2 Plasma Fruit
• The Ultimate Vampire Cure
  • If this is drank by a vampire they will be turned back into a sim.
  • Costs §2,500 to Make
  • Requirements:
    • 10 Garlic
    • 10 Wolfsbane
    • 10 Plasma Fruit

Things You’ll Learn About Vampires

As your sim reads the vampire tomes you’ll see random notifications teaching you facts about vampires that your sim is learning including:

• Some Vampires have been observed turning into bats
• Vampires prefer to sleep in coffins. As an added bonus, it protects them from the sun
• Vampires can be out during the day as long as they have a ceiling over their head which stops the most powerful of the sun’s rays
• It is possible for Vampires to be cured!
• Talented Vampires can turn other sims into vampires. A mortal sim can even ask a vampire to turn them (provided they know the vampire well enough)
• Vampires have the ability to cast and dispel various mind powers
• There is a special drink concoction which can allow vampires to walk in the daylight for a limited time
• Garlic spread around the houses can prevent a vampire from biting sims
• Some powerful vampires pass down their experience to sims they turn
• The Ultimate Vampire was mortal once but he was turned immortal through a curse

Vampire Secrets Unlocks

As you gain the skill your sim will unlock new abilities including purchasing vampire tones and ordering vampire items like plasma packs and wolfsbane seeds!