The Sims 4: Life & Death - Guide To Crypts

If you've been wandering around the Ravenwood world added in The Sims 4: Life & Death, then you've no doubt stumbled upon a crypt or two. Different from the standard gravestones around the cemetery in Crow's Crossing, crypts are larger structures for multiple bodies - and you can explore each one.

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The bravest Sims willing venturing into the crypts in The Sims 4: Life & Death may find themselves with any number of treasures. You'll find gemstones, several of the tarot cards for Lady Ravendancer Goth's deck, scary moodlets, and so much more within the crypts in The Sims 4.

Updated on October 30, 2025: Now With more exposure to the Crypts in the time since the Life & Death expansion launched for The Sims 4, and more systems added that play with the wants and fears, we're back with another update to our guide to the Crypts in Ravenwood. Be safe in there!

What Can You Do In A Crypt?

Whether it's the pair of them located in the back corner of the Eternal Rest cemetery in Crow's Crossing, the one out in front of the rather peculiar Specter family lot, or any placed at your discretion around the world, The Sims 4: Life & Death introduced the crypt item to the game, and it serves a number of functions (in addition to making any homemade cemetery look that much more polished!).

By interacting with a crypt, you can do a number of things. Did you head to the cemetery with a friend? Pop into a crypt and tell ghost stories within them, which might make your Sim feel Playful. Did you go to the crypts with someone who's more than a friend? If you're feeling scandalous, you could even Woohoo in them now. Want to sleep in a more literal sense instead? Head inside and take a nap - these are probably the quietest neighbors you'll ever have.

While you can also do it in the normal slew of ways (like from your Sim's cell phone or a computer on any lot), you're also able to join the Undertaker career when you interact with a crypt around Ravenwood. Maybe your Sim just feels inspired to do so, and maybe helping the dead or their surviving relatives is their calling?

The biggest part of the crypts in The Sims 4: Life & Death, though, is undoubtedly the ability to explore the crypts in a series of text-based adventures! If you're trying to hunt down rare loot like gemstones, tarot cards, and more.

Lay A Sim To Rest

When you interact with a Crypt in The Sims 4 while your Sim has the urn belonging to a dearly departed Sim in their inventory, you'll see an additional option on the menu that allows you to inter deceased Sims in mausoleums instead of burying them in the cemetery proper. Here, you can visit and mourn them all the same, offering a different option for burial.

There seems to be a bug that occasionally duplicates any Sim remains you place into Crypts, so be mindful of any duplicate departed pals!

Explore Crypts For Various Rewards

If your Sim isn't afraid of the dark, then you'll have the opportunity to explore the crypts via chance cards anytime your Sim comes across one. They'll head inside for a while, and while you wait above ground for them to return, you'll be prompted with a series of text-based chance card adventures that can do any number of things.

You might need to pass a skill check to choose certain answers, and different choices may lead to different treasures or pathways within, so it's almost always something different each time you explore! You'll be tested on your physical Fitness and smooth-talking Charisma skills directly, and you may want to have experience with a musical instrument before heading inside, too. It also doesn't hurt to bring a snack or two in your inventory.

And who knows? You might even stumble onto a few of the missing tarot cards you needed to complete Lady Ravendancer Goth's Tarot Deck, if you've started that collection! The primary tarot cards come from your adventures around Ravenwood itself, but the four suit cards all come from the crypts.

You might also periodically run into Waylon Warez, the Mysterious Merchant, who runs a pop-up shop within the crypts in Ravenwood. You'll be able to randomly get an object from him when you find him within the crypts, incuding another tarot card, but finding him is never a guarantee.

If you haven't elected to explore the crypts on your own, there are two reasons you might need to even outside the tarot deck collection. Not only does the Ghost Historian aspiration ask you to explore a crypt a few times over, seeking rare items in the crypts for two of the four milestones in the aspiration, but if you're trying to help the ghastly Alice near the Guardian Tree with Alice's Sorrow, head into a crypt and get to searching.

As part of the Alice's Sorrow quest, you'll find Deimos, one of her children, inside a crypt. He's got his own special card, requiring some Thanatology skill experience. You'll need to choose to "Read the Stone Tablet" when it comes up, and doing so completes the requirement to find Deimos for the quest.

All Crypt Chance Cards In The Sims 4: Life & Death

Chance Card

Your Decision

Results

It Follows

Light a candle and continue exploring.

"Respite from the Departed" Happy moodlet that lasts for three hours

Rummage the sarcophagus.

Small treasure, a small amount of cash, possibly the "Shouldn't Have Done That!" Scared moodlet that lasts for three hours, and potentially the Sword tarot card.

(The next card will be "A Lingering Feeling.")

A Lingering Feeling

Increase the pace.

Proceed to the "Who Goes There?" card.

Who Goes There? (It Follows)

Try to fight.

"Am I The Jerk?" Confident moodlet that lasts for three hours.

Offer a bribe of §200.

Lose §200 Simoleons. (If you don't have the cash in your household funds, this option will not be available.)

Talk your way out. (Requires level 3 in the Charisma skill.)

Nothing happens, and your Sim continues exploring the crypts as intended.

Mystery Boxes

Continue exploring.

Nothing happens, and your Sim continues exploring the crypts as intended.

Choose the Box of Life.

Receive a collectible or small amount of cash.

Choose the Box of Death.

"Past and Future" Scared moodlet that lasts for three hours.

Choose the Box of Ethereal.

Receive a collectible, or become a ghost temporarily and receive your own tombstone.

A Loose Brick

Remove the brick and stick your hand inside.

Your Sim may gain Simoleons, collectible items (like gemstones), possibly the "Something Bit Me" Uncomfortable moodlet that lasts for three hours, and potentially the Coins tarot card if your collection has begun.

Ignore and keep exploring.

Nothing happens, and your Sim continues exploring the crypts as intended.

A Place to Rest

Rest a while.

Replenishes the majority of your Sim's needs if they're low while exploring. We didn't see much of a Social increase, but the remaining five needs improved into the green.

Continue exploring.

Nothing happens, and your Sim continues exploring the crypts as intended.

Play a Little Tune

Improvise.

"YOLO-deling My Way Out" Energized moodlet that lasts for three hours, or your Sim leaves the crypts with nothing happening.

Play the actual notes. (Requires level 3 in either Guitar, Piano, or Violin.)

Triggers the "Meaningful Memories" card that grants the "Cryptic Musician" Inspired moodlet that lasts for three hours.

Waylon's Hideout

Rummage blindly.

Your Sim may receive cash, collectibles, an item from Waylon's shop, or potentially the Wands tarot card.

Ignore Waylon and continue exploring.

Nothing happens, and your Sim continues exploring the crypts as intended.

Hissing in the Dark

Continue exploring.

Proceed to the "Who Goes There? (General)" card.

Who Goes There? (General)

Try to run.

Your Sim leaves the crypts with the "Make a Break For It!" card, potentially with the "What The Heck Was That!?" Dazed moodlet that lasts for three hours.

Try to pet.

"My Heart Can't Take This Rejection" Sad moodlet that lasts for three hours.

Offer food. (Requires a serving of any food in your Sim's inventory.)

Proceed to the "Snack Attack" card.

Snack Attack

Sigh in relief and continue exploring.

Receive cash and the "My New BFF" Happy moodlet, and potentially the Cups tarot card.

If you've got Wants and Fears enabled, be mindful that these experiences don't trigger any lingering fears in your Sims!

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