Skeleton

Skeletons are a temporary life state and summonable NPC in The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure. The NPCs function as temporary helpers that can do chores and look after children while their parents are away. Skeletons can be summoned through a rare relic and do not have bladder, hunger, energy and hygiene needs. Sims can become skeletons for two days through the use of a different relic. Skeletons may also spawn sometimes in the jungle temples in Selvadorada.
When a skeleton eats food, piles of food will spawn and if a skeleton drinks something, puddles spawn. They have special interactions like telling a skeleton joke or scaring a Sim.
With The Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff, Sims can summon Bonehilda the skeleton maid using the medium skill. Performing a "Ghastly Ritual" at a seance table also has a small chance of turning Sims into her for a short period of time.
==Playability==
It is possible to make a skeleton playable by using the cloning machine on one. Another way to make a skeleton playable is by enabling the testing cheats, shift-clicking on it, and then selecting the option to add it to the household. Either way, the added skeleton will have all skeleton features, except it will not be able to do special interactions like scaring or telling skeleton jokes. It will also have normal motives like other Sims. Trying to edit a skeleton will show it as a normal Sim, but no changes applied will be visible after exiting editing screen (except for a family screen picture, which also shows an added skeleton as a normal Sim). Skeletons added to the household in this manner are fully playable but may be removed from a family through a bug—using a relic to summon a skeleton helper can sometimes summon a playable skeleton, making it unplayable again and removing it from its family.
Added skeletons will have another glitch and will change their default colour (white, dark or blue, mosaic-like pattern) to another one from time to time. This becomes very evident when wearing earbuds.
Skeletons are able to catch fire, but cannot die from it.
==Permanence==
Using mods, it is possible to unlock skeleton clothing in Create a Sim, which allows for a Sim to permanently possess all of the unique skeleton abilities. However, there are a number of glitches with Sims created this way:
* The skeleton's outfit cannot be changed. If the skeleton travels to a place that necessitates a different outfit, the skeleton will arrive wearing the appropriate attire, but will be unable to change out of it.
* Skeletons will have the Energized moodlet indefinitely. The moodlet will not appear only if the skeleton is on another lot.
* Skeletons will suffer from regular motive decay when on a different lot.
* Asking a skeleton to join in snorkeling may freeze the game. If the skeleton goes snorkeling by themselves, they will transform back into a regular Sim temporarily.
* Skeletons cannot pass the toxic cloud on the second level of The ██████ Lab and cannot wear a hazmat suit.
* Skeletons will constantly perform idle animations (e.g. spinning its head or playing with its ribcage) while performing other actions.
* Other Sims will panic at the skeleton whenever a lot is loaded, even if they are friends with or relatives of the skeleton.
==Gallery==
TS4JA Render 5.png|A skeleton with Cara Tierra and Shaan Fonseca.
TS4JA Official Screenshot 9.png|A skeleton in a temple with two Sims.
SummonedSkelly.png|A skeleton servant summoned with the relic.
TwoSkelies.png|Two skeletons - servant and controlled.
== Trivia ==
The names of skeleton NPCs are actually references to bones, parts of the bone, body parts or other skeleton-related themes:
Known first names:
* Calavera - Some kind of representation of a human skull or skeleton used for the celebration of Día de Los Muertos, e.g. sugar skulls.
* Humerus - Upper arm bone.
* Kal C.M. - Reference to Calcium, the main component of bones.
* Medulla - (Bone) Marrow.
* Patella - Kneecap.
* Sans - "Without" in French, also the name of a famous skeleton character from the video game Undertale which launched 2015 (three years prior to The Sims 4: Jungle Adventure).
* Scapula - Shoulder blade.
* Tibia - Shinbone.
* Ulna - The lower of the two forearm bones.
* Yorick - The name of a dead Jester who's skull is famously held aloft in the Shakespeare play "Hamlet".
* Zygo - Cheekbone (zygomatic bone).
Known last names:
* Corporis - Genitive form of "corpus", which means "(dead) body" in Latin.
* Hueso - "Bone" in Spanish.
* Knorpel - "Cartilage" in German.
* Maximus - Latin for "biggest" or "huge", superlative of "magnus". Part of several medical terms (e.g. gluteus maximus).
* Osseus - "bony" in Latin.
* Osso - "bone" in Latin.
* Skeleton
* Skellinger
ru:Скелет
pt-br:Esqueleto
pl:Szkielet
es:Esqueleto
Category:Types of NPCs
 
Category:Jungle Adventure
Category:Paranormal Stuff