Cleaning

Cleaning is a chore throughout The Sims series, and is also featured as a skill in The Sims and The Sims 2. Most objects, such as toilets, stoves, and sinks, will get dirty over time and will eventually need to be cleaned. Puddles that are created by broken plumbing will need to be mopped. A higher cleaning skill allows Sims to clean objects and mop up puddles faster and more efficiently. Dirty objects and puddles left not mopped will lower the environment score of the room and will cause negative moodlets to appear. All Sims aged child and older can clean up most messes, although some messes cannot be cleaned by children. Several social interactions between household member are featured, that allow to tell one another to clean up or take up the garbage.
==The Sims==
In The Sims, cleaning is a hidden skill that's mostly used by maids, community lot janitors, Servos and Bonehilda. All playable Sims and townies have the cleaning skill, even if it's zero. However, the skill doesn't appear in the skill panel, and cannot be changed or improved in-game without the use of hacked objects or third-party programs.
==The Sims 2==
It goes without saying that a clean house is a happy house, but Sims should work on their housekeeping abilities to make the cleaning process quicker and easier. They can tidy up around the house to improve this skill; it comes most naturally to neater Sims.
In The Sims 2, the cleaning skill can be improved by tidying up the messes which occur during daily life (for instance, washing counters, appliances, toilets, sinks, and mopping) or by reading a skill book. Sims can also gain cleaning skill points by using certain career rewards, or by filling in holes dug up on the lot. A higher cleaning skill speeds up the cleaning process.
There are several career tracks that focus on building the cleaning skill in order to get a promotion, that are Medicine, Science, Law enforcement, Natural scientist, Paranormal, Education, Law, Intelligence and Oceanography. For teenagers, having eight points or more in the cleaning skill will earn them the §750 Kim Metro Prize for Hygienics when they apply for college.
===Prints Charming Fingerprint Scanner===
It uses ultraviolet radiation to quickly and easily dust fingerprints everywhere, then display the ironclad evidence right on the viewscreen.
The Prints Charming Fingerprint Scanner is the career reward unlocked when a Sim reaches level 6 of the law enforcement career. It is a pistol-sized gun that looks much like bar-code scanners used by employees in modern supermarkets. If a Sim scans an object that was used by someone recently, that Sim's fingerprints will show up and the Sim's picture will appear in a thought bubble above the Sim using the scanner. If no one has used the object recently, a question mark will appear in a thought bubble. The scanner has a skill gain rate of 250%, and has a fun rating of 4.
==The Sims 4==
In The Sims 4: Bust the Dust Kit, cleaning is expanded upon by allowing entire floors to get filthy, requiring the need to be vacuumed with floor or handheld vacuums. Rooms that go untidy will gradually get stinky and cause uncomfortable moodlets for Sims and generate dust piles. There are multiple additions this grants other pack features: maids will be able to automatically use vacuums by themselves. This includes Bonehilda. Robot Vacuums will fulfil the same vacuuming needs without needing a Sim to do it. Cleaner Utili-Bots will then clean the dust piles and surfaces.
Pristine level cleanliness allows Sims to clean easy, this also allows Sims to be more inspired and confident in pristine environments.
Dusty level cleanliness is a normal state for a house, this allows Sims to gain relationships as well as fun and social needs gain a little faster. Dust Bunnies appear when a floor is dusty.
Dirty level cleanliness is a negative state for a house, it makes cleaning take longer, romantic interactions fail a bit more, Parties hosted on dirty floors will make the host embarrassed, cooking and crafting skills start getting harder. However, Slob Sims don't get affected.
Filthy level cleanliness is the worst state for a house, cleaning is slower and harder, Sims will get frustrated or angry from everything being filthy, and Sims who keep cleaning will enter a rage cleaning state where they'll get energy and fun for cleaning as their anger builds. Dust Bunnies turn into filth fiends in this state.
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