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Unfortunately, the popular simulation framework SLiM has always been intrinsically limited to simulations of a single diploid chromosome. Modeling multiple chromosomes of different types, such as sex chromosomes, has always been cumbersome, even with scripting, presenting a substantial barrier to the development of full-genome simulations. Here we present SLiM 5, a major extension of SLiM's capabilities for simulating multiple chromosomes. Modeling up to 256 chromosomes is now possible, and each chromosome may belong to any of a wide variety of types\u2014not just autosomes (diploid and haploid), but also sex chromosomes (X, Y, Z, and W), haploid mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA, and more. This new functionality is integrated across all of SLiM, including not only the mechanics of reproduction and inheritance, but also input and output of multi-chromosome data in formats like VCF, and tree-sequence recording across multiple chromosomes. 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