Servo

A Servo is a robot that was introduced in Livin' Large. The name possibly refers to "servus", which is Latin for slave. When translated literally, it means "I look after".

The Sims
Servos are bought at the cost of a whopping §15,000, but will walk around the house cleaning up messes and repairing broken items, so Sims don't have to. Servos will also do gardening, but appear to do so on the gardener's every-three-days schedule. A Servo that has nothing else to do may attempt to converse with or entertain visitors. A Servo can be told to make a group meal for your Sims. Since Servo literally makes the food, without using a fridge or stove, these meals aren't very fulfilling, but they are free, and a child can tell Servo to make food.

Servo comes with its own charging chamber, and will return to it and turn itself off when it has nothing more to do. Servo's charging chamber also has the control panel that's used to turn it on, and can be used to turn it off or tell it to serve food.

The Sims 2
When The Sims 2: Open for Business expansion pack came out, Servo returned - as an artificially intelligent Sim. There are some differences: Servo isn't concerned with comfort or hygeine or temperature, and doesn't need to eat; but a Sims 2 Servo is essentially a Sim in robotic form. As such, a Servo is fully controllable, and has relationships, wants, fears, aspirations, etc., just like human Sims. A Servo can get a job, or be employed by a business, or even own a business. A Servo can even WooHoo.

Building
To build a Servo you need a Robot Crafting Station and a Gold Talent Badge in Robotics. Building a Servo costs §3000, and takes about six game hours, not counting breaks.

Spawn Servo Cheat
You can also unlock the Servo by using boolprop testingcheatsenabled true and shift left clicking on any of your Sims, then clicking Spawn/More, and then clicking Servo.

Activation
When built, Servo is switched off and can only be activated by a Sim (teen or older) if there is room in the household for another member. The Servo can be activated as male or female, and can be given a name when activated. The Servo takes on the personality and skill points of the Sim who activates it.

Since an activated Servo is considered an adult, Servo cannot be activated in a college sub-neighborhood.

Features
Servo comes with 10 points in Cooking, Mechanical and Cleaning, and will take on all other skill points of the Sim who activates it. Servo also comes with one or more random talent badges, and will often have a gold badge. Servo also takes on the aspiration, turn ons and turn offs, and personality of the Sim who activates it, though it may have a different Lifetime Want. Servo can also alternate between everyday and formal attire, with the only formal wear option being a tuxedo jacket (male) or a pink dress (female).

Needs
Servo has only 4 Needs: Power, Social, Fun and Environment. Power can be restored either through Recharging, in which Servo goes under the sun to recharge, or by sleeping, in which case Power is replenished at the same rate that a human Sim would replenish Energy. Servos can also select a Secondary aspiration and Aspiration benefits if the player has the FreeTime expansion. They can eat, but it doesn't do anything, it is just a waste of food.

Dangers
Water to Servo is like fire to Sims except the effects are much more. Water will drain all of Servo's needs extremely fast, especially Power. If Seasons is installed, Servos may want to splash in puddles. Letting them do this is probably a bad idea.

When broken, Servo will run amok and cause havoc. Nearby Sims can be electrocuted by Servo at this time. Eventually he will power down, allowing someone to repair him. If nobody is on the lot at that time the repairman will automatically come to repair the broken Servo.

Other life states
Servos can be combined with the Vampire, Zombie, Werewolf, and Witch life states. Vampire Servos rapidly lose power in sunlight, and recharge in coffins (or beds, if none are available).

Age/Relationships
Servos never age and thus can live with a family for generations. They can be powered down, and can be left powered down indefinitely, effectively making them un-playable. However, they cannot be completely de-activated. Like human Sims, they can fall in love and get married to other Servos, and even to human Sims. They can not reproduce, but they can adopt. They can get jobs, and can even have job-related Lifetime Wants, but since they never become elders, they probably cannot retire.

The Sims 3
Although Servos aren't playable, there is a statue of one inside the science lab. There is a Level in the Science Career called Creature-Robot Crossbreeder, this could be a reference to Servos, they might be in a future expansion pack. They also make an appearance in a TV show (on the action channel) as an army being commanded by a mad scientist, and are defeated by a female protagonist. This was actually part of a The Sims 2 Free Time music video called "Fa-Fa-Fa" by Datarock.

Player Tips

 * Servos male and female CANNOT have children naturally
 * Servos needs are little and easy to deal with, so it's better to start a business with them.
 * Servos never age, so they can live forever. It is a good idea to create a Servo to watch over the family for generations if you plan on making a legacy family or a big family.
 * Servos will do chores by default when no actions are manually queued by the player.
 * Bigfoot and Servo can be great for a busy family. Bigfoot is an excellent worker and so are Servos. Combined, a business can prosper, babysitters aren't required if one stays unemployed, and the place is bound to be tidy because of a Servo's need to clean.
 * Servos can cheat to have children. Type in Boolprop testingcheatsenabled in the cheats window. Get your normal Sim to spawn a Tombstone of L and D and go to Get Pregnant with and choose the name of your Servos.
 * Sims can dress up as Servos. To do that, get a Servo, buy a wardrobe, go into Plan Outfit...outfit (replace outfit with Outfit) and they can dress up as a Servo
 * Servos have the invisible face genetic, like the Reaper, so if you use Cheating to make a Sim pregnant with a Servo, the babies genetics will have the first default face with possibly some of the mothers genetics. Also their heads(hair) are available in CAS via debugging cheats but it has an odd appearance.
 * While Servos do not need to eat, they may be able to prepare food depending on which other expansions are installed. If you want a Servo to prepare food, it may be better to use the "Make" option, and leave the serving to a human Sim.
 * Servos do indeed have the ability to eat, they can gain power from it along with sleeping and recharging.