Bonehilda is driving me nuts

enkeli63 wrote:
She tends to eat all the candy, chips or nuts that I place on the edge of the bar

I had no idea there was candy or nuts in the game, where do I find that? :D

and very helpful thread, thanks! I've tried having Bonehilda a couple times, but she walks right past the dirty laundry on the floor, never cooks, only puts food away *as soon as* a sim puts it on the counter, etc etc. Honestly I've thought the same thing as Zessinna -- Bonehilda appears to be one of those things that EA designed deliberately to be a "fun" annoyance. :roll:

That's such a shame you are all having problems with Bonehilda!

I have a Bonehilda in one game, in a mansion looking after two families and believe me she doesn't have time to corner, teach tricks, pet animals etc. She does her job, she is excellent with the three toddlers in the house, she feeds them, changes them, she cleans the house, fixes stuff and yeh got electrocuted :P

But other than that, the only problem I ever have with Bonehilda is the papers that get delivered. As soon as they rot she wants to dispose of them, and because I have locked my gates to household only she cant get out to clean, so I cancelled the service and she doesnt complain anymore, and her actions dont go wierd over it. She has a cue of things to do, and sometimes if you know she is at the children or pets, check the emotes of the rest of the household, and i can guarantee her cue will be broken if you cancel those emotes. She will do it less and less, that's how I have trained my Bonehilda so to speak. She tried to interfere but I wont allow that, and when her emotes are cancelled because you make another sim to do that task, she actually cheers! Well my Bonehilda does anyway lol

The one thing she simply will NOT do though is pick up the laundry and clean them.

In mansions with heaps to do, she actually is a dream come true. She saves my sims from burning out with a set of werewolf twins and a cheeky little fairy.

Hope you can find the right balance with her, cause if you have stuff in the house, like the DJ thing, OMG she rocks out for ages! :D I find her endearing and so lovable :D The toddlers totally adore her. :)

I've had little trouble with her. You've got to manage Bonehilda just like any other Sim. Doing it is a little different though as you're not managing her needs so much as keeping her contained and occupied.

Things that make managing her easier...

Have a bar. Bonehilda will drink rather than eat the majority of the time. I've got two bars in my home and she very, very rarely gets into the fridge. Keeping a bowl of snacks on the bar as well has kept her out of my fridge completely.

Have lots of stuff to do. Bonehilda likes to play games, dance, and keep occupied. I've got a party room in my basement with a DJ booth, stereo, bar, various games, and she spends a lot of time in there when she's not working. She also seems to have a particular liking for hopscotch.

As mentioned set ownership on your children's doors. She'll complain, but she won't make life nearly as difficult for them. Having a 'playroom' for the kids she can't get into helps a bit as well.

Create a pet pen and feed pets outside. A fenced in area she can't get into with a door leading to it from the home that is locked to 'anyone but my household'. Pets can get in and out, but she can't.

Put her away. She doesn't care if she's dismissed that I've noticed. I leave her in her box, and if you have difficulty keeping her in there, take her box and put it into your inventory. Leave an open spot in the home you can place it to summon her when you need her and then put her away and put the box back into your inventory when you're finished with her.

She requires much less upkeep than a sim does, but she's easily manageable with relatively little effort. I've got two of her running around my home with no troubles.

Edit: Now have five of her. I now have an entire sentai team of skeleton house maids. We'll see how well I can manage that many of her at once just for the lulz.

Re: Edit again: Two of her actually makes things easier. She gets distracted and won't clean if she's occupied with playing games, dancing, whatever. If you've left her out too long and she's not working when you need her to, put her away and summon the other . She sometimes goes right back to goofing off if you've only got one of her, but the second Bonehilda has gone right to work right away every time for me.

She really, really wants to date me now. Kind of creepy, but it's still worth keeping her around anyway. Every other call I get is her asking for a date, but I do have five of her after all. The price I pay to keep safe from giant rubber skeleton monsters.

Also, I've discovered she can cause the 'Sims won't use bed' glitch. I was getting it constantly and had to resell and buy back my bed several times. . I had set ownership of the bed to my Sims as well. I put a door to my room that was locked and replaced my bed, and the glitch hasn't happened since.

I noticed she likes to lounge or nap at times, and figured out she was trying to use the bed. It was set to my Sims, but I think that she was still taking up the quiche spot so the bed was in 'use' so that they couldn't sleep. Keeping her out of the room has put a stop to it.

I'm so relieved that I'm not alone. She is driving me insane with raking leaves! There are dirty dishes, broken toilets, dirty bathtubs, etc. and she insists on raking... even in the snow :-)

I have a similar issue but not exact....a lot of my actions get cancelled out too by Bonehilda. I've never had my kids get to the red but its bothersome none the less. I usually let Bonehilda "out" in the morning when everyone is trying to get ready, so if she does go and hold the toddler and continuesly toss her in the air at least she'll be awake and fed when the parents are out the door to work.

Yeah, I feel the same way. She constantly harrasses the todders and one of my toddlesrs get a scared moodlet from her. She also wont stop taking quick meals out of the fridge, and then she puts the spoiled quick meal back in the fridge and all my sims get sick. I would get a butler but my sims can't afford one.

shan_26 wrote:
Yeah, I feel the same way. She constantly harrasses the todders and one of my toddlesrs get a scared moodlet from her. She also wont stop taking quick meals out of the fridge, and then she puts the spoiled quick meal back in the fridge and all my sims get sick. I would get a butler but my sims can't afford one.

Lol she does this to me too! My fridge is stock full of cereal, canned soup, spoiled food, etc...

shan_26 wrote:
Yeah, I feel the same way. She constantly harrasses the todders and one of my toddlesrs get a scared moodlet from her. She also wont stop taking quick meals out of the fridge, and then she puts the spoiled quick meal back in the fridge and all my sims get sick. I would get a butler but my sims can't afford one.

So that's her fault too. I couldn't figure out why I had tons of quick meals in the fridge.
I think the family can afford a butler, 1 is doing pretty good on painting and the other is the top of the military career and writing a few books.. She is driving me friggin insane

That reminds me of TS2 Servos.
They would not leave the children alone.


My solution was to power them down during the day and let them work at night while everyone else was asleep. Can you put her coffin, or whatever that thing is, in the household inventory?

That's what I would do. I would let her work at night.

CK213 wrote:
That reminds me of TS2 Servos.
They would not leave the children alone.


My solution was to power them down during the day and let them work at night while everyone else was asleep. Can you put her coffin, or whatever that thing is, in the household inventory?

That's what I would do. I would let her work at night.

she takes the babies out of the cribs..
She'll clean everything, (and apparently fill my fridge with crap).. but then she goes and wakes up the babies and holds them until she's dismissed. and if I'm lucky, she'll put them down and go back to her coffin.. most of the time she still stands there holding a crying baby. :-/