Cockroach

Cockroaches or 'vermin' were introduced in The Sims: Livin' Large and The Sims 2. They infest houses when they are dirty, and once a swarm appears, they can be hard to get rid of. Spraying them can kill them, but as long as there are still dirty items in the house, they will keep coming back.

In The Sims: Unleashed, cats and dogs may hunt them.

In The Sims 2, spraying them may cause the Sim doing the spraying to become ill, so Sims can now call an exterminator. Sims will get bad memories from seeing vermin and will often cry about having seen them even after the vermin are gone. However, with testingcheatsenabled you can shift click on the vermin and select "Debug--Exterminate" Without getting sick. Or, if you have Moveobjects on, you can click on the vermin and sell them in buy mode, and sims won't remember having vermin.

With The Sims 2: Apartment Life, evil witches can also summon them using magic (the head evil witch will do this frequently on community lots).

The Sims 3
In The Sims 3, cockroaches can be collected and donated to the Science Facility.

Players Stories

 * The sim become ill it happened to me too but now I use a cheat called moveObjects on where I can sell them for $0.
 * My kid sim got the flu because I just couldn't get him to stop stomping on them (Sims 2). So, I just simply... used the boolProp cheats to kill him. YAY!


 * My sim fell in love with the exterminator and they got married.


 * My family (including Cassandra, Alex, Jason and Brittany) Just got sick with the flu. They didn't have the cold first! I'm going to lock them in their beds by trapping them where they can't get out. To make sure they get food, comfort bladder and others, I will use maxmotives.

by the social worker and their ghost is green. - That doesn't work well when your ex comes and kicks your garbage can over while at work!
 * Isabella and Phineas got bugs and they got sick so Phineas made a bug killing poiton (moveobjects)
 * In my story the Broke family got infected by cockroaches then Dustin and his mother died by disease and Beau got taken
 * I've never had any vermin because i'm not idiotic enough to leave dirt around the houses i manage.
 * once my friend's family died because they left diapers all over the place. Roaches! illness! DEATH!
 * It's not cockroach I want to talk about, but something similar. After I collected some bugs in FreeTime, I moved in a new apartment and hung my bug collection on the wall. Somehow, my bugs came out from the collection and they scatter around my apartment! I deleted it with moveobjects since they can't be stomped on or sprayed. They look like cockroaches, only colorful.