The Sims 4’s infant update launches in March

One of Sims 4’s most anticipated updates will arrive in-game on March 14, developer Maxis announced during its Behind The Sims Summit livestream on Tuesday. You can find it here. course, it’s the babies update. The developer debuted a brief trailer and a quick behind-the-scenes look at the infant update, showing off everything that infants — and the player! — can do once it’s live.

And it’s huge. Of Sims 4’s seven different life stages, babies are currently terribly limited, basically props linked to a bassinet. Babies just lay there, but the player’s still got to take care of them. The infant update on March 14 will make taking care of babies much more interesting, because they’ve finally got some agency. It starts with the Create-A-Sim screen for babies, which is where you’ll be able to change how a baby looks and what it’s wearing.

Beyond that, babies can crawl, spit up, take baths, have tantrums, bite, and be breastfed — and that’s not even it. It’s truly an all-encompassing life stage, with a ton of new technology: sitting or standing while holding a baby, giving your baby to another person, and a bunch of ways for babies to move, crawling all over all sorts of things. Baby’s social interactions with animals and other people can be varied.

You’ll find a variety of adorable new products, including toys and nursery items.

It’s unclear whether this new life stage will go between newborns and toddlers, or simply be the first life stage available, but we’ve reached out to Electronic Arts for clarification. For their part, toddlers were also added. Sims 4In 2017, the game offered more depth and variety to families. Each toddler has their unique personality and can learn new skills throughout their life.