The Sims™ 4

The Sims™ 4

James3157 Feb 11, 2024 @ 10:32pm
More New Bugs
Not only is the holiday bugged for some of my sims where the holidays do not show up for some of them (which three got it and the other three are missing them and mentioned it from a previous thread), but my sims are not getting gourmet cooking skill either. I am noticing a lot of bugs recently and more bugs than what I am used to. My game mistakenly thinks that my gourmet cooking skill is only cooking skill, but that is false. Because of this reason I may have to cheat with gourmet cooking, because it is bugged. I have played with gourmet cooking and have never noticed this before until only recently.

Another bug as well is that from one of my treehouses from Growing Together dlc (but not all of them) the enclosure option was available at one point then disappeared completely and never came back even after deleting local thumbcache from my Sims 4 folder. It happened after my child sim got out of the treehouse for dancing to music and I got upset where I reloaded game because of an aspiration that requires sleeping in treehouse for six hours. When I reloaded game the option to sleep in enclosure disappeared completely forcing my child sim to sleep at a different treehouse from a different lot.
Last edited by James3157; Feb 11, 2024 @ 11:01pm
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James3157 Feb 11, 2024 @ 10:45pm 
I did not want to, but while my MCCC mod recognizes the Gourmet Cooking skill my game does not. I cheated by setting it to level 10 because my sim was not gaining any gourmet cooking skill which is very unusual and only the first time I have ever noticed this problem on The SIms 4. I will have to cheat for gourmet cooking requirement as well for Master Chef aspiration. It seems to fail each time even when I select the gourmet cooking option instead of cooking option.

(Edit) Unfortunately, gourmet cooking skill does not show up even when I cheat it up to level 10. It does however show up as level 10 from the oven where I can cook level 10 gourmet if I cheat. I think that this bug levels up both cooking and gourmet cooking skill at the same time, but the gourmet cooking skill is not visible while cooking skill in contrast is visible. The bug is think is confusing gourmet cooking with cooking.
Last edited by James3157; Feb 11, 2024 @ 10:56pm
Xeriath Feb 12, 2024 @ 5:57am 
I think your gourmet issue is mod related. I can’t reproduce it. My sims learn the gourmet skill just fine if I unlock this skill after homestyle cooking is on 5.

To the treehouse bug; I don’t use children, so I never use these things and if I test it then it is all there, and all works correct. It could be an issue which only occurs after a while (I think I read some bug report which had some similar issue, but this person never tested it on vanilla, so the report was worth nothing because other could not reproduce it.)

Because you write you use mods, I need to ask... have you ever try to reproduce it WITHOUT any mods? I know the game has plenty of bugs, but still please always test it on vanilla. It has his reason that AHQ normally take bug report more seriously from people which always played vanilla or comes from console gamer.
James3157 Feb 12, 2024 @ 7:47am 
Originally posted by Xeriath:
I think your gourmet issue is mod related. I can’t reproduce it. My sims learn the gourmet skill just fine if I unlock this skill after homestyle cooking is on 5.

To the treehouse bug; I don’t use children, so I never use these things and if I test it then it is all there, and all works correct. It could be an issue which only occurs after a while (I think I read some bug report which had some similar issue, but this person never tested it on vanilla, so the report was worth nothing because other could not reproduce it.)

Because you write you use mods, I need to ask... have you ever try to reproduce it WITHOUT any mods? I know the game has plenty of bugs, but still please always test it on vanilla. It has his reason that AHQ normally take bug report more seriously from people which always played vanilla or comes from console gamer.

I am not sure if the gourmet cooking bug is mod related and I am not sure what is causing it because I do not have any mods specifically related to cooking besides a little bit with my MCCC mod that I never noticed before until February of this month even though I did not add any new mods from this month or from the previous month of January, but if someone does not notice this bug even with MCCC (regardless of whether or not it is the most up to date version) then it might be caused by some other mod in theory especially if this bug goes away on vanilla. As for the treehouse bug perhaps i might try later to see what happens when I remove all mods if the enclosure option returns back, but if that does not work even on vanilla then I might have to clear cache from EA App in addition to deleting local thumbcache file to see if that makes a difference. The treehouse can still be used, but not for napping or sleeping and it is strange that my child sim has to go to some other treehouse for sleeping in enclosure from a different lot.

Another theory is that it might be For Rent related with this bug relating to residential rental lots instead of mod related or from Growing Together, but I am not sure. The Michaelson's house from San Sequia is a residential lot instead of residential rental lot, but does not yet have the enclosure bug yet. It does however have something else that might be a bug where the top part of treehouse is invisible contrary to my other treehouse where the top is clearly visible where I did not use the Michaelson family to build that treehouse but with some other family to build their treehouse. Also, my adult sims can still woohoo in treehouse, but enclosure option is missing for all ages.
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The Last Unicorn Feb 12, 2024 @ 12:23pm 
I have bug where, spoiled cat learns faster how to behave than regular pet, I dont have any mods ;p
James3157 Feb 12, 2024 @ 12:35pm 
Originally posted by The Last Unicorn:
I have bug where, spoiled cat learns faster how to behave than regular pet, I dont have any mods ;p

Speaking of pets I was lucky once and adopted a pet from the adoption drive event at the residential rental place, because if you befriend a stray pet you can adopt him or her for free. However, that is not a bug contrary to a spoiled cat.
Last edited by James3157; Feb 12, 2024 @ 12:41pm
Xeriath Feb 12, 2024 @ 8:20pm 
Originally posted by The Last Unicorn:
I have bug where, spoiled cat learns faster how to behave than regular pet, I dont have any mods ;p

I think you just lucky. My spoiled cat is a piece of work… and is in a state which she hates her caretaker.

Mods doesn’t need touch a specific thing to break something totally unrelated. This can happen, because of this the first advance is always to test it without mods.
Last edited by Xeriath; Feb 12, 2024 @ 8:39pm
JANUS Feb 12, 2024 @ 8:49pm 
EAxis gave us a few new bugs and resurrected old bugs with the For Rent content patch last December and that last patch we had in January was... *exhales*

For Rent itself has it's fair share of half-baked or broken features.

My last #HeadsUp still isn't resolved yet. Every Gallery and Library lot created before that December content patch is still potentially nuclear.
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James3157 Feb 12, 2024 @ 9:12pm 
I can confirm that both the treehouse enclosure bug and gourmet cooking bug are mod related meaning that I do not have clear cache from EA App and delete local thumbcache after I temporarily removed all mods and cc. I do not know what mods specifically are causing this problem but only thought that comes to mind at least for gourmet cooking bug is from MCCC mod and unclear as to why. This also means as well that I do not think that the treehouse enclosure being bugged specifically relates to Residential Rental lots from For Rent. (Edit) Weird thing is that when I temporarily removed all mods and cc and returned them all back without checking to make sure I needed to update any of the mods first the enclosure option is still there and gourmet cooking skill appears as normal. It is very strange that temporarily removing all mods and returning them all back resolved the problem instead of clear cache from EA App/deleting local thumbcache, but another theory is that I did not have to do that again since I deleted local thumbcache at least once (but not the temporary removal of all mods until just now).
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Xeriath Feb 13, 2024 @ 3:57am 
You are not wrong that treehouses are buggy but its only for rental lot: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/GRO-FR-Completed-treehouse-resets-on-Rental-units-after/m-p/13292576#M262913 Its from a console player so its legit.

I found your treehouse issue and that options not showed up with mods: Pregnancy Overhaul (LMS) + Run, Don’t Jog (Lotharihoes), that means more mods could cause this issue although they don’t touch the treehouse from the description. (LMS maybe fixed the issue, the report was from March 2023)

The problem is that many simmers avoid the For Rent gameplay after all the reports which warns from using rental lots. You write in the past you don’t have many issues on rental lots, but enough people just avoid it now. So, people which test this aspect of the game with more DLC are small and we all know EA don’t test their product good before it gets released. So, the group which never used mods or are console player almost not there and many of them just don’t report it.

I don’t think its MCCC which cause you problem with gourmet skill. I fand a topic to it but the person just wrote back that she fand the mod which caused the issue without to name the mod.
Last edited by Xeriath; Feb 13, 2024 @ 3:59am
The Last Unicorn Feb 13, 2024 @ 5:20am 
Originally posted by Xeriath:
Originally posted by The Last Unicorn:
I have bug where, spoiled cat learns faster how to behave than regular pet, I dont have any mods ;p

I think you just lucky. My spoiled cat is a piece of work… and is in a state which she hates her caretaker.

Mods doesn’t need touch a specific thing to break something totally unrelated. This can happen, because of this the first advance is always to test it without mods.
I never had any mods installed ;p I am not lucky I tested it again on another sim, its a bug ;p

Ill see if it gets fixed if update the game, I just need figure out which version is good to go ;p I think horses right before for rent were in good state right ?
James3157 Feb 13, 2024 @ 6:21am 
Originally posted by Xeriath:
You are not wrong that treehouses are buggy but its only for rental lot: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/GRO-FR-Completed-treehouse-resets-on-Rental-units-after/m-p/13292576#M262913 Its from a console player so its legit.

I found your treehouse issue and that options not showed up with mods: Pregnancy Overhaul (LMS) + Run, Don’t Jog (Lotharihoes), that means more mods could cause this issue although they don’t touch the treehouse from the description. (LMS maybe fixed the issue, the report was from March 2023)

The problem is that many simmers avoid the For Rent gameplay after all the reports which warns from using rental lots. You write in the past you don’t have many issues on rental lots, but enough people just avoid it now. So, people which test this aspect of the game with more DLC are small and we all know EA don’t test their product good before it gets released. So, the group which never used mods or are console player almost not there and many of them just don’t report it.

I don’t think its MCCC which cause you problem with gourmet skill. I fand a topic to it but the person just wrote back that she fand the mod which caused the issue without to name the mod.

It was a bug relating to not being able to complete a treehouse on residential rental lot after I looked it up. The residential rental lot I added from the gallery (so that way I would not have to waste time building a new one because of my family being evicted which I mentioned earlier from a previous thread that I mentioned previously than even some of the most popular residential rental lots may not have big enough units) already had a treehouse built meaning that it was a different kind of bug. However, I did not know about this specific type of bug either of not being able to build a treehouse might effect only residential rental lots.

I think that a more clear distinction needs to be made as well about the differences between For Rent vs. Dine Out. I have noticed that being a landlord is actually more profitable overall than owning a restaurant (especially if owning multiple units, have good unit ratings, and raising rent price for tenants) and the dine out experience seems to be much more limited as well than tenants and landlords such as for example more room for households and less sims who are homeless which is more beneficial for older saved games than new games which also helps compensate at least to some extent for The Sims 4 not being open world. It is however worth pointing out and I am aware of it that having more than six units on just one residential rental lot could potentially corrupt a save file which I have not tested this yet, but apparently other people are aware of this problem and not just me that I only found out recently. Another contrast as well is that despite me owning Dine Out I have not really played as a restaurant owner yet despite me owning this gamepack, but have already played as a landlord. To be fair it is however worth mentioning that Dine Out does not have any new aspiration which I think was a missed opportunity that perhaps could have made Dine Out slightly more popular just like retail owner (from Get to Work)/vet (from Cats&Dogs) possibly could have had aspirations as well but did not.
Last edited by James3157; Feb 13, 2024 @ 6:50am
The Last Unicorn Feb 17, 2024 @ 5:27pm 
Originally posted by The Last Unicorn:
Originally posted by Xeriath:

I think you just lucky. My spoiled cat is a piece of work… and is in a state which she hates her caretaker.

Mods doesn’t need touch a specific thing to break something totally unrelated. This can happen, because of this the first advance is always to test it without mods.
I never had any mods installed ;p I am not lucky I tested it again on another sim, its a bug ;p

Ill see if it gets fixed if update the game, I just need figure out which version is good to go ;p I think horses right before for rent were in good state right ?
So I started a new save and looks like it works fine ;p On the other hand the dust is bugged and I cant hoover it up ;p
iancw Feb 18, 2024 @ 2:47am 
I seem to have lost the ability to just replace the endless broken objects.
James3157 Feb 18, 2024 @ 5:53am 
Originally posted by The Last Unicorn:
So I started a new save and looks like it works fine ;p On the other hand the dust is bugged and I cant hoover it up ;p

Fortunately, Bust the Dust kit pack can be turned off anytime. It is also one of the few kit packs I do not own yet besides Industrial Loft (I may not use much anyway unless if shared from gallery and has mixed reviews on Steam), Bathroom Clutter (because I overall like Everyday Clutter more than Bathroom Clutter), and Modern Menswear (mostly negative reviews and it has at least some CaS items that I may not want randomly generated on male sims). Also, I own Moonlight Chic as one of my later kit packs, but I could understand why it has mixed reviews and some people do not like it.
Last edited by James3157; Feb 18, 2024 @ 5:59am
The Last Unicorn Feb 18, 2024 @ 9:11am 
The cat learns too fast either way imo ;p After some 2 to 5 lectures he learns, it used to be impossible to lecture him in original version, he would only learn after being begged number of times.
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