The Sims 4: Wishing Well (Romantic Garden Stuff)

The wishing well has been a staple in The Sims franchise since The Sims 2 and has returned to the game with The Sims 4: Romantic Garden Stuff. Your sim is able to interact with the wishing well and hope for things like romance, simoleons, happiness, and more.

However, beware of the negative consequences because it’s rather easy to die from the negative aspects of the wishing well.

Wishing Well Basics

The wishing well came with Romantic Garden Stuff and is available in buy mode, however, this is an expensive item. It will cost you §7,775 so you better start saving, or use money cheats to get the job done.

The description of the wishing well states the following:

Step closer, won’t you? What’s the harm in simply tossing a coin? You can spare a single coin can’t you? You don’t believe in “magic” after all… it’s just an old well. Did that face just move… did it twitch?! No, it must be shadows playing tricks on you; bear no mind to its appearance. Make a wish… it’s all in good fun, right? You’ve already brushed aside the warnings of the locals in your hubris. They know better than to cast their lot with the Whispering Well.

Making an Offering to the Wishing Well

A huge factor in getting better results from the wishing well is the happiness of the wishing well itself, so making an offering can be a great way to make the well pleased with you. However, your offerings must be pretty large if you want to have the best results.

There are 3 values of offerings that you can offer the well. The first is §100, this offering is essentially useless because the wishing well wants more from you. This low of an offering is probably going to make the wishing well upset.

The second offering size is §1,000. This offering has about a 50% chance of changing the mood of the wishing well, but it can also go down. You should avoid spamming this action because the more you do it the more annoyed the wishing well will be.

The final offering size is §5,000. This offering will always raise the wishing well’s mood which means that you’ll have a higher success rate!

Faces of the Wishing Well

A decent way to sort of guess the outcome of your wish is by looking at the face that the wishing well is making. There are four faces that are possible and they are: happy, neutral, mischievous and deadly.

Types of Wishing and Outcomes

Child

Adult or Young Adult sims are able to wish to have a child, but make sure you don’t have a full household when making this wish.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+2 Happy, Joy Of Children	A child will be added to the household instantly. Most of these children will also have the genius trait.
Positive	+1 Happy, Adoption Preapproved	Your sim will get a phone call where they can adopt a child without paying the §1,000 for a regular adoption.
Neutral	+1 Flirty, Try For Baby	Your sim will get a guaranteed pregnancy when trying for baby.
Negative	+2 Embarassed, Temporary Infertility	The sim who made the wish will not be able to get pregnant for a few hours.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+2 Angry, “Joys” of Children	A child will be added to the household, but this child will have the evil trait.
Death	+1 Sad, Raising a Ghost	A ghost child will be added to the household for you to take care of.

Grades

Children and teenagers are able to ask the wishing well for higher grades.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+1 Happy, Good Grades	Your sim’s school grade will be increased by one (i.e., C to B)
Positive	None	Your sim’s school performance will be maxed out
Neutral	+1 Angry, Not What I Wished For	Your sim will only have to finish 50% of their homework for the day
Negative	+2 Tense, I Wished for Better Grades	Your sim’s school performance will be lowered
Overwhelmingly Negative	+2 Embarassed, Grades Dropped	Your sim’s school grade will be decreased by one (i.e., B to C)
Death	None	None

Happiness

Sims of any age (except toddlers) can ask for happiness which can improve their mood.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+2 Happy, Always Sunny	For two days any happy moodlets your sim gets will last longer, allowing them to stay very happy.
Positive	+1 Happy, Forever Cheerful	Your sim will get a happy moodlet that lasts 24 hours.
Neutral	+1 Happy, I AM HAPPY	Your sim will get a happy moodlet for 24 hours, however, when it ends they will get a +3 Sad moodlet.
Negative	+2 Angry, Where is my Happiness?	Your sim will have their happiness removed, and their happiness will be given to any sims nearby.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+3 Sad, Leaking Happiness	Your sim will become sad when other sims are around, but those sims will become happier
Death	+99 Playful, Can’t Stop Smiling	Your sim is going to become hysterical which is the first step toward death by laughter.

Life

A sim who is a ghost has the option of asking the wishing well to help them come back to life.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+3 Happy, Miracle Revival	Your sim will be resurrected immediately and are unable to die of anything (except old age) for the next 24 hours.
Positive	+2 Happy, Chance at Life	Your sim will be given an ambrosia in their inventory that they can use to come back to life.
Neutral	+1 Inspired, Ingredients of Life	Your sim will be given the ingredients to cook ambrosia in their inventory that they can cook to come back to life.
Negative	+1 Sad, Wish not Granted	Your sim’s wish will be ignored.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+1 Happy, Accepted Fate	Your sim loses its ability to be resurrected for the next four hours.
Death	+2 Sad, Just a Ghost	Your sim will be resurrected but then will die again immediately after.

Promotion

Sims who are teenaged and older who have a job can ask for a promotion.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+1 Happy, Movin’ On Up	Your sim will be instantly promoted.
Positive	None	Your sim’s career performance is maxed out and will be promoted the next day as long as they meet requirements.
Neutral	+1 Angry, Not What I Wished For	Your sim will receive a bonus.
Negative	+2 Tense, I Wished For The Promotion	Your sim’s career performance will be instantly lowered.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+1 Embarassed, Rethinking Options	Your sim will be instantly demoted.
Death	+99 Angry, Worked So Hard	Your sim will be instantly demoted and will become enraged giving them a chance of dying from cardiac explosion.

Romance

Sims who are a teen or older are able to wish for a romantic relationship, as long as they don’t currently have a significant other.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+3 Flirty, Mystical Romance Tips	A random sim will be summoned and they will have max romance and high friendship with your sim.
Positive	None	Your sim will have 100% success the next time they use the pick up line interactions
Neutral	+2 Flirty, Ultimate Flirt	Your sim will start feeling flirty.
Negative	+2 Sad, Helpless in Romance	Your sim will become sad and all romance interactions will fail.
Overwhelmingly Negative	None	A random sim will be summoned and they will have max romance but will be enemies with your sim.
Death	+2 Happy, New Partner	A ghost sim will be summoned and they will be soulmates with your sim and be their boyfriend/girlfriend

Simoleons

Sims child aged and older are able to wish for simoleons from the wishing well.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+2 Happy, Won The Lottery	Your sim will win the lottery, adding any amount of money over 10,000 to your household funds.
Positive	+1 Happy, Fortunes Abound	Your sim will win any amount over 1,000 added to your household funds.
Neutral	+2 Inspired, Learned Darkest Secrets	Your sim will learn of a sim’s secrets and has the ability to black mail someone for money.
Negative	+1 Sad, Sadim Touch	Your sim will lose money to the wishing well.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+3 Tense, Microtransactions	Your sim will gain a bit of money from the wishing well, however, it will decrease quickly because they will now love mobile games and their microtransactions.
Death	+99 Tense, My Simoleons Burned Up	Your sim will lose a large sum of money and then will catch on fire, if not put out quickly they can die.

Skill

Sims can ask for skill gains that will add to existing skills or give them an entire new skill.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+3 Confident, Universal Knowledge	Your sim will get a random skill maxed out.
Positive	+2 Confident, Skill Learned	Your sim will get a random skill increased by two points.
Neutral	+1 Confident, Expedient Learning	Your sim’s skill gains rate will be increased for the next four hours.
Negative	+2 Sad, Fogged Mind	Your sim’s skill gains rate will be decreased for the next four hours.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+3 Dazed, Mind Numbed	Your sim is unable to gain any skills for four hours.
Death	+99 Embarassed, Lack of Talent	Your sim will become mortified and has a chance of death by embarassment.

Youthful Vigor

Sims can ask for youthful vigor and add some time to their lifespan.

Outcome	Moodlet	Effect
Overwhelmingly Positive	+2 Energized, A Few Years Longer	Your sim will be reset to the beginning of their current life stage.
Positive	+1 Energized, Extended Life	Your sim will have a few days added to their life span.
Neutral	+1 Energized, Feeling Young	Your sim will become energized.
Negative	+2 Energized, Overflowing Vigor	Your sim will get an energized moodlet that will quickly change to being dazed.
Overwhelmingly Negative	+2 Sad, Loss of Youth	Your sim will age up to the next life stage immediately, however, elders are not changed with this outcome.
Death	+3 Sad, Perpetual Youth	Your sim will be changed into a ghost, but will remain a member of your household.

Wishing Well Cool Down

After you use the wishing well you will need to wait for the cool down period of 8 hours to finish befor eusing it again. You can also turn off the cool down period by using the testingcheats true cheat and shift clicking on the wishing well.

Final Thoughts

The wishing well was a fun addition to the game and can give you some interesting outcomes if you let it. Just be careful of getting the death outcomes because you don’t want to kill your sims!