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Tags: <sims-3>
Title: How do you prevent Sims from aging?
Question: In Sims 2 you could make Elixir of Life to stop Sims from aging. Is there any way to do this in Sims 3?

Answers:
sents: text: Making a Sim "Younger" Life Fruit
text: You can reduce a Sim's age by a single day by eating a raw Life Fruit .
text: However, they can only be planted by a level 7 Gardener and the "Unknown Special Seeds" or "Life Seeds" are only available under certain circumstances:
text: Sims can receive the seed by searching the town, as a science career reward, by exploring the catacombs in a mausoleum, fishing it out of a body of water, or while using the Time Machine.
text: Source:
text: Sims 3 Wikia, Life
text: Fruit page Ambrosia
text: The better option is to cook Ambrosia , which resets the Sims age to a predefined value (adults eating it will reset to have 26 days until aging).
text: It can also bring Ghost Sims back to life.
text: Ambrosia requires purchasing the recipe (§12000), a level 10 Cooking Skill and then one Life Fruit and one Deathfish as ingredients.
text: A deathfish can only be caught with level 10 Fishing skill, from the Graveyard between midnight and 5AM and needs angelfish bait.
text: Note that if you catch enough deathfish you can stock a pond and have a supply of these available all day round.
text: Young Again potion
text: This potion requires the Generations pack and is created using a chemistry set, it resets a Sim who is older than a young adult back to day 1 of the young adult.
text: You will need a high Logic skill for this.
text: Prevent / slow down further aging Age Freeze Potion
text: Another potion, so also requires the Generations pack.
text: This is a lifetime reward that requires 65000 lifetime happiness to obtain.
text: Drinking it will completely stop your Sim from aging further.
text: Note that if you eat birthday cake after drinking the potion, your aging will start up again.
text: Change form
text: If you have the relevant expansion pack, you could also get the Sim converted to a Vampire or Mummy, as they have longer life spans.
text: Cheats
text: If you enable the "god mode" cheat (testingcheatsenabled true) in the cheat console, which is activated by pressing control, shift and c in unison, you can decrease the sim's age, but only in the given stage of life.
text: By shift clicking the sim, and editing them (you don't even have to change anything) in create a sim, the game will set their life back to the first day of whatever stage they are in.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1485/DMA57361
score: 56
sents: text: You can stop (not reverse) the aging process via the general menu.
text: There is a checkbox for "Enable Aging".
text: You can adjust the lifespan.
text: Here's a screenshot:
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/11811/Stephan Schielke
score: 22
sents: text: Look under Options -> Game Options for the option 'No aging'.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/10646/Dorus
score: 4
sents: text: Sort of.
text: There is the Ambrosia, which you can make yourself, although it is a little tricky.
text: Here is a quote from another helpful player
text: There is the Ambrosia recipe that you can buy from the book store.
text: It's a level 10 cooking recipe and when you make it it resets your current life meter.
text: So if you're 20 days into the Adult stage of life, it sets it back to 0.
text: Also, if you have a sim ghost eat it, they will be brought back to life.
text: Of course, to be able to make it requires some items that are not easily come by.
text: Namely you need a life fruit which can only be grown from a special seed found somewhere on the ground and grown by a high level gardener, and you need a Deathfish, which I believe can only be found in the graveyard pond after midnight and probably only fished by a higher level fisherman.
text: I hope that helps.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/8232/Glen Wheeler
score: 3
sents: text: Assuming you have the generations expansion, there are two aspiration rewards:
text: The Anti Aging Potion and the Young Again Potion.
text: They are both pretty pricey, but less so than Ambrosia, which is, comparatively, underpowered and overpriced.
text: Edit:
text: On closer reflection, these two might actually be available in the base game patched up to full, but I'm not certain on this point.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/9401/Williham Totland
score: 3
sents: text: To reverse your sims age just press ctrl+shift+c then type testingcheatsenabled true then shift click your sim and click edit sim in create a sim
text: (This doesn't work on vampires, but it does on ghosts) then press the desired age (Note: it may messup the sims clothes but nothing to major happens)
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/31122/Yo yo mc Joe
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
You can eat a raw Life fruit or cook Ambrosia to reset the Sim's age. You can also take a Young Again Potion or Age Freeze potion. You can also change the ageing process via the general menu under Game Options.
There is a variety of in-game solutions or cheats to prevent Sims from ageing