My sim, Annie, wished to clone a sim, so I decided to let her. I'd never done it before, and it definitely wasn't like I expected. My sim got her DNA sample from one of her best friends, Sun Young Kim. My first surprise was that the baby was given the last name Kim, instead of Annie's last name, Gould.
I checked their relationship and got an even bigger surprise. They are only acquaintances. I have had sims, including Annie, make simbots. Those simbots are considered the son or daughter of their maker. It seems to me if a machine is considered the offspring of its maker, a cloned baby should be considered even more the child of the sim who made her. Nope.
The biggest surprise was the baby's traits. She is adventurous and a great kisser. Of all the traits to keep from Sun Young, I would have expected her to be artistic, and maybe to have a great sense of humor. Great kisser isn't supposed to be available to sims younger than teens, and adventurous is only available beginning at the child stage.
I used NRaas Master Controller to make her last name Gould and Annie her mother, but I'm going to leave the traits alone. She'll grow into them.
Here's a picture of the little clone:
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I have had clone Sims before but only in the form of hairstylists or as bouncers
I've been watching Orphan Black and after reading your post I might want to try something along those lines. In CAS I could make several sisters from the same sim, giving them different personalities. But the game would not recognize them as clones.
You can use the science station to clone a sim from a DNA sample. Your sim needs science skill level 9 to clone samples, but they get the interaction to ask for DNA at an earlier level. This will give you a baby.
Or you can use the Clone Drone potion from the alchemy skill. This will clone the sim at their current age span.
There's also a clone voucher LTR which I think gives you a child aged clone of the sim with the voucher.
It's been a while since I've used the 1st two methods, and I've never used the last one. I don't recall the relationship level with the cloned baby or clone drone sim, but they aren't connected to anyone on a family tree.
I don't know what you mean by "recognize them as a clone." In the 1st two methods the traits may not be the same as the source sim, but they will look exactly alike. There's nothing in the sim description or family tree that indicates the sim is a clone. After creation they are just another sim. The clone from the science station is added to the household. I seems to recall that a clone from the Clone Drone potion is not, and I don't think the relationship level is all that high (years ago I once had a sim marry his clone, I don't remember how I added the clone to the household).
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I always click on the science station to clone sims, but I think I need to have at least one other non-DNA sample in my sim's inventory for the DNA sample(s) to show up.
Also, I've been unable to clone in overstuffed households. NRaas mods don't currently remove that limitation (AFAIK).
Thanks everyone for the info on clones. Looks like I will need to create them in CAS as look-alike sisters but with different personalities and then place them in different households to get the "Orphan Black" scenario.