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A baby eats baby food in The Sims 4’s new, free infants update.

The Sims 4has now birthed its free Infants update, which takes the runtiest part of your digital doll’s lives and expands upon it. Sims during those pre-walking years now have full needs and wants, which means the Sims around them will need to spend more time caring for them lest they grow into maladjusted adults.

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Infants can’t walk, but they can crawl, poop, play, and cry. and other Sims of all ages can interact and nurture them. There are new items to help , including a Changing Station and an Infant Playmat. How you treat your Infants can have long-term consequences, as the more family members interact with them, the more “special reward traits” they develop that affects their skill at forming healthy relationships later in life. Raising a child is high stakes - and in the game, and in the game, and in the game.

You can read some more details about how infants work onThe Sims blog. You can also readthe complete patch notes, which contains mention of other bug fixes and features, such as the ability to determine under Create-A-Sim whether a Sim can produce milk.

Infants are free and out now, but in two days the Growing Together expansion will release. It addsmore complex family dynamicsto the series, at which infants can sit at the centre.