Always have fire accident

[skyvic.smile]

Fire accident always happens (almost every time) when the sims cook, is it a bug?

[Jarl Tobi]

dont cook at low cooking skills just make garden salad till cooking skill is 3 or 4

[CrackeR]

Upgrading the heat sensor might help, and if you own a fireplace, you may want to upgrade the fireguard as well. I never upgrade the autolight on a fireplace because my sims go crazy always trying to light it, then autolight lights it up as they get closer to re-light it. Kinda funny actually!

[Kevin]

It is hit for miss, i got several levels of cooking before my first fire this last playthough, but in the past i have had your issue.

[Xautos]

- You need your sim to be in a positive mood when cooking but ideally happy or inspired works best. don't cook in a negative mood, it just increases the chance of a fire.

- If you want to absolutely rule out fires:
1. Creating one of the various items from the fridge without a stove (BLT, Garden Salad, Salsa and Chips, Fruit Parfait, Tiramisu, et al).
2. Using a basic grill from a nearby park.
3. Buy a chef station and cook from that, it will never set on fire no matter what.

- Upgrading your stoves but you first need the correct upgrade parts and level in handiness. so either wait for items to break and repair them (try avoid repairing electrical items early on), or buy a woodworking bench and start crafting items for simoleons and skill.

[Lisa]

Is your sim tense?
(when the fires starts).

Also, does your lot have the lot trait Cursed?

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Lisa:

Is your sim tense?
(when the fires starts).

Also, does your lot have the lot trait Cursed?

Forgot about the lot traits.

There are positive lot traits as well like Chef's Kitchen, Homey, Home Studio and Sunny Aspect that can provide positive moodlets to your sim so they are more ready to cook.
The energised mood can allow your sim to cook protein plate and flirty allows you to cook flirty cookies as a bonus if you get those. (flirty can be gained from romancing a sim a bit and checking themselves out in the mirror)

Another thing i had forgotten is the spice festival. it's best to send a sim out that way and they are in just a fine mood, that way after a few game minutes while at the events an inspired moodlet will show up and your cooking level increases quickly from a grill. just keep grilling until you reach level 10.


You'll require the City Living dlc for the spice event as that is found in San Myshuno.

[Fugo]

Once your sim got a fear of fire, more fire accidents happen, even the mood is good. Get rid of that fear ASAP, preferably with a Fear-Be-Gone potion from the reward shop.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Fugo:

Once your sim got a fear of fire, more fire accidents happen, even the mood is good. Get rid of that fear ASAP, preferably with a Fear-Be-Gone potion from the reward shop.

the chance of a fire in the kitchen doesn't go away at lower levels even in a good mood, but the chances of having such an accident at the stove is considerably reduced when in a good mood though.

unfortunately you can't always control however an accident happens, for example if it gets to the part of a day sims all over are generally hungry and play rotational and switch to another household asa sim is cooking on a grill beyond the basic version, a fire could start almost immediately on that grill and you'd have no way to prevent it because this game assigns your sims to do something when you switch into the household from loading and by the time it takes to cancel the order, several seconds have passed by before the sim stops and the order is fully removed.

[Jarl Tobi]

i discovered something that might help you.
if you have a fire there a chance your sim will get a fear of fire.
if your sim has a fear of fire the chance of a fire drastically increases.
like it every time you cook so to get around it and get rid of the fear you need to start a fire easy. once the fire starts you need the sim who has a fear of the fire to put out the fire.
now it gotta be the sim with the fear not just any sim or else you keep getting fires.
once that is done your sim will get a moodlet saying they overcame they fear and no more fires every time you cook.

[Xautos]

you have five options for dealing with wants and fears:
1. you can switch off that fears and wants from the options.
2. you can put out a fire when it happens to overcome the fear.
3. you can buy a reward store potion and have your sim drink it once you got the required satisfaction points from completing aspirations.
4. you can use the console command to simply remove the trait from the sim.
5. you can use a mod to simply remove the trait.

i keep the wants and fears active and remove the fear the moment it shows up with the ui cheats mod, it's a simply right click on the trait in the window and a confirmation. if the wants didn't offer satisfaction points for completing wants i would of had it disabled.

the fear is not a big deal, but finding ways to avoid having a reoccurance has been provided in detail so far.

[Jarl Tobi]

Originally posted by Xautos:

you have five options for dealing with wants and fears:
1. you can switch off that fears and wants from the options.
2. you can put out a fire when it happens to overcome the fear.
3. you can buy a reward store potion and have your sim drink it once you got the required satisfaction points from completing aspirations.
4. you can use the console command to simply remove the trait from the sim.
5. you can use a mod to simply remove the trait.

i keep the wants and fears active and remove the fear the moment it shows up with the ui cheats mod, it's a simply right click on the trait in the window and a confirmation. if the wants didn't offer satisfaction points for completing wants i would of had it disabled.

the fear is not a big deal, but finding ways to avoid having a reoccurance has been provided in detail so far.

yeah i think they got the fear of fire fear thats why they getting fires every time they cook

[Tia1230]

If you have a low end stove try buying a higher end one because that is what causes the fires the stove.

[$100 Bill]

Hi all,

How do you put out a fire? I don't see a fire extinguisher in the build menu. Thanks for the help.

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Tia1230:

If you have a low end stove try buying a higher end one because that is what causes the fires the stove.

doesn't change anything and i've seen sims burn down a room with the highest end stove as it goes up.

Originally posted by $100 Bill:

Hi all,

How do you put out a fire? I don't see a fire extinguisher in the build menu. Thanks for the help.

by default the autonomy has the order to evacuate the sim and run around on the spot on the street but that order can be overridden by clicking it, then find the item that has caused the fire, click it and tell the sim to extinguish the fire.

if you have at least teenagers and older in the household and they are all there, you can exploit it by having them all go out and put the fire out and gain a big confidence moodlet once the fire is out.

[$100 Bill]

Ah, so no actual fire extinguisher to purchase. So once your Sim with fear of fire puts out a fire they will be able to use ovens like a normal sim?

As far as I what I have found out so far, the factors that contribute to the increased likelihood of a cooking fire on an unmodded version of the game are the following:

1. Fear of fire trait
2. Low cooking Skill
3. CWI --Cooking While Intense
4. Cursed lot
5. Low quality oven
6. No fire suppression?? Not sure If I have seen anyone explain this.
7. software bug