My sims can't do important things?

[Kekuya Memeshima]

My sims are starving but can't make food, or use the toilet, etc. Every time I try to get them to make food a thought bubble with footsteps and a red explosion bubble with an exclamation mark in it appears over their head, so I assume the sims are thinking that there's something in the way? Does anybody else have this problem, and if so, does anybody know how to fix it?

[Laluzi]

Have you tried enabling cheats and telling them to teleport somewhere else? It may be that there's a broken object they can't path around.

Left-clicking and selecting 'reset object' may clear out their queues if there's a bugged interaction that's stopping them from doing anything.

Lastly, this is a simple one, but bring up the walls and make sure there aren't any locked doors preventing them from pathing.

[Angela]

You might have a low hanging ceiling light or pot rack or something in way, or not enough bench space to prepare food. Go check things like that.

Pull up the walls, zoom out a bit, and take a look at everything.

[Kekuya Memeshima]

Originally posted by Angela:

You might have a low hanging ceiling light or pot rack or something in way, or not enough bench space to prepare food. Go check things like that.

Pull up the walls, zoom out a bit, and take a look at everything.

I apologize I should have specified this in my post, but this is even when outside this happens. I set up kitchen counters outside the house, and my sim starts to make food on the counter, gets distracted, and then when I try to get them to get back to making the food, then that thought bubble pops up and the task is deleted from their queue asap.

[Angela]

Originally posted by Kekuya Memeshima:

Originally posted by Angela:

You might have a low hanging ceiling light or pot rack or something in way, or not enough bench space to prepare food. Go check things like that.

Pull up the walls, zoom out a bit, and take a look at everything.

I apologize I should have specified this in my post, but this is even when outside this happens. I set up kitchen counters outside the house, and my sim starts to make food on the counter, gets distracted, and then when I try to get them to get back to making the food, then that thought bubble pops up and the task is deleted from their queue asap.

You put a brand new oven and a brand new fridge down as well? Might be something stuck in your existing oven that was half cooked, until it's removed from oven your sims can't cook using it.

Can you try using a grill (outdoors/off the grid cooking thing), just to test that as well.

[Drew10643]

doors?

[Xautos]

Originally posted by Drew10643:

doors?

always leave 1 square free around doors to avoid routing issues. that doesn't always keep doors from causing other routing issues though, in those instances you'll have to remove the door and replace it from build mode to sort it out, but there is no guarantee that will fix it either.