I'm not sure if this is a glitch or not but one of my Sims Imaginary Friend just suddenly decided to show up at their house. The Imaginary Friend had been put away in this Sims inventory for quite a while. It still shows the Imaginary Friend toy in his inventory but the Imaginary Friend just randomly decided to come to my Sims house looking almost like a regular Sim except he still had the light bulb thing on his head and still walked like the Imaginary Friends do. Also the option to offer to make them a real Sim is gone. He also aged transitioned to Adult after he came in the house. I have never made one of them into a real Sim before yet. My Sims Imaginary Friends name is Jelly Bean and it was kind of nice to have it put away because this one is annoying and not very nice so I would like to have it put back away. If I put the toy back out and when my Sim leaves the house will the Imaginary Friend go back to to it's original state and I can put it back into my Sims inventory and not have it out being annoying? My Sim has two children that also have Imaginary Friends. I don't particularly want three of them in my Sims house. Also, is it a glitch that my Sims Imaginary Friend came in looking like an almost real Sim or is that just something that happens after they have been put away in a Sims inventory for quite a while?

I have had this happen once. It was years ago. Probably before Sims 4 was released. I ignored them. They run around town.Later on I got my Sim to make the potion to make their imaginary friend real. Then I moved it out of the house and it lived like a townie. I think you probably need to take the doll from your sim's inventory and put it on the floor and when it comes live you will get the option to make it real. If you have the mod, Debug Enabler, you will be able to force it to become live. I find that's a great way to get rid of the doll and I move them out of the house once they are made real.Before the IF is made real it lives in one of the homeless households but it can visit the house and appear visible to you when its owner is active.Imaginary Friends have two forms. Doll form and human form. Once you have control of them you can click on them and get them to change form. This is available to you even after they have become real. Before they become real they don't belong to your household so you wouldn't be able to tell them what to do. But once made real it will join your household and you can move it out to live on its own somewhere in town.In my video series '30 Grandchildren Badge' I had a town that was almost totally empty apart from my active family and about 6 other sims I'd randomly added from my library. But I had 15 children in the active household. Each child had an imaginary friend and I got the idea to make the imaginary friends real and move them out. This has worked well for this game as the town is much more active now. I am also having fun with them because when they become real I'm taking them into CAS and giving them a major makeover. This is Percy. He is an IF made real and I just moved him out to live on his own. I gave him a haircut first though. https://i.postimg.cc/MKL3mSTS/Percy-Long-Hair001.jpgCathy is another IF made real. I just moved her out too.https://i.postimg.cc/Wzm6GDgQ/Cathy004.jpgSome of the other IF's made real that I moved out earlierhttps://i.postimg.cc/Hx6QSCYr/JosieByronBrianPaulineBillColinJake_HoldenImaginaryFriendsMadeReal001.jpgPauleen - a professional authorhttps://i.postimg.cc/GhQQC8Nn/PauleenHoldenIF001.jpgBen wants to be a Celebrated 5 Star Chefhttps://i.postimg.cc/gjDxpd0z/Ben_Holden_IF_MadeReal001.jpgWin is confused and a lot of fun to playhttps://i.postimg.cc/hGgC58XW/Win016.jpgJakehttps://i.postimg.cc/nc1nrXB3/JakeHolden003.jpgByron has met one of my original sims I added from my library and they are romantic interests nowhttps://i.postimg.cc/52ktF1bZ/ByronHonlden001.jpgBrian, the first one I made real and took into CAS. https://i.postimg.cc/qMrkpsht/BrianHolden001.jpgJosie just got married to Colin. They game made them romantic interests and she became pregnant so I got them to marry.https://i.postimg.cc/26FG549T/JosieHolden_IFMadeReal001.jpgColin wants to be a superstar athletehttps://i.postimg.cc/vHDT8Gc6/ColinHolden001.jpgBill was one of the first to be made real and let loose. I haven't seen much of him since he moved out.https://i.postimg.cc/nzcsxpvM/BillRichards001.jpgAs you can see I am having fun with them. Added bonus is my town is much more lively and each owner gets a high logic skill from making the potions at the chemistry table.

I change their names when they become real . I did accept that opportunity to make dreams comd true once. I completed it. I won't do it again. It takes a sim a long time to make the potion on the chemistry table but it is usually a massive amount faster than looking for a rainbow gem. Sims need to have logic level of 8 before they can discover the potion at the chemistry table. Once their logic is 8 it is random when they make the potion. The first time it is made it is free, after that it costs over 4,000 simoleans.I don't know why that happens. Maybe if you put the doll on the floor it'll become live. It needs to be live so your sim can become best friends with it as it won't drink the potion if they are not best friends.

I'm so glad I have a dog (in my Sims 3) He brings home a rainbow gem every single day. But then I have the mod that allows me to expand my queue from 8 to 30 and I send him out for the entire day. "Here go do 30 "sniff out items" and I'll see you back in time for supper. Between that, pink diamonds and soulpeace gemstones...it's no wonder they get stinkin' rich stinkin' fast. So...my suggestion is if you have the Pets EP... get a dog - they'll manage to find rainbow gems for your potions for your Metamorphium potion. Then you can get those annoying Imaginary Friends out of your house even quicker.

@Simmer2500 I have noticed some sims discover the potions super fast and others seem as if they are never going to get there. They don't seem to need the genius trait to do it fast but I'm sure it helps. I always try to get my sims the Fast Learner lifetime reward early on but still the time it takes for them to discover potions and grow their logic skill varies. They need level 8 in logic to be able to make the Imaginary Friend potion.

Given my families tend to end up on the wealthy side, I have one sim discover all potions and then buy additional potions afterwards. The opportunity doesn't even save any money, and you waste a valuable gem.For example, in my current game, the granddad is still making the potions for the extended family, even for other households. One of his grandchildren just discovered the potion himself (as his second potion, no less), so I should be set for a while."Simmer2500;c-17830864" wrote:I don't use mods in my game and wouldn't use that kind of one to get rid of them if I did but sometimes I wish it would let me sell the Imaginary Friend toy out of their inventory like it lets you do with other things but it won't let you do that.The vanilla way to achieve this is to just gift the doll to another sim. That works. Do it before the game generates the sim that accompanies the doll.

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karritz
Seasoned Rookie
4 years ago
I have had this happen once. It was years ago. Probably before Sims 4 was released. I ignored them. They run around town.
Later on I got my Sim to make the potion to make their imaginary friend real. Then I moved it out of the house and it lived like a townie. I think you probably need to take the doll from your sim's inventory and put it on the floor and when it comes live you will get the option to make it real. If you have the mod, Debug Enabler, you will be able to force it to become live. I find that's a great way to get rid of the doll and I move them out of the house once they are made real.

Before the IF is made real it lives in one of the homeless households but it can visit the house and appear visible to you when its owner is active.

Imaginary Friends have two forms. Doll form and human form. Once you have control of them you can click on them and get them to change form. This is available to you even after they have become real. Before they become real they don't belong to your household so you wouldn't be able to tell them what to do. But once made real it will join your household and you can move it out to live on its own somewhere in town.

In my video series '30 Grandchildren Badge' I had a town that was almost totally empty apart from my active family and about 6 other sims I'd randomly added from my library. But I had 15 children in the active household. Each child had an imaginary friend and I got the idea to make the imaginary friends real and move them out. This has worked well for this game as the town is much more active now. I am also having fun with them because when they become real I'm taking them into CAS and giving them a major makeover.

This is Percy. He is an IF made real and I just moved him out to live on his own. I gave him a haircut first though.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKL3mSTS/Percy-Long-Hair001.jpg

Cathy is another IF made real. I just moved her out too.
https://i.postimg.cc/Wzm6GDgQ/Cathy004.jpg

Some of the other IF's made real that I moved out earlier
https://i.postimg.cc/Hx6QSCYr/JosieByronBrianPaulineBillColinJake_HoldenImaginaryFriendsMadeReal001.jpg

Pauleen - a professional author
https://i.postimg.cc/GhQQC8Nn/PauleenHoldenIF001.jpg

Ben wants to be a Celebrated 5 Star Chef
https://i.postimg.cc/gjDxpd0z/Ben_Holden_IF_MadeReal001.jpg

Win is confused and a lot of fun to play
https://i.postimg.cc/hGgC58XW/Win016.jpg

Jake
https://i.postimg.cc/nc1nrXB3/JakeHolden003.jpg

Byron has met one of my original sims I added from my library and they are romantic interests now
https://i.postimg.cc/52ktF1bZ/ByronHonlden001.jpg

Brian, the first one I made real and took into CAS.
https://i.postimg.cc/qMrkpsht/BrianHolden001.jpg

Josie just got married to Colin. They game made them romantic interests and she became pregnant so I got them to marry.
https://i.postimg.cc/26FG549T/JosieHolden_IFMadeReal001.jpg

Colin wants to be a superstar athlete
https://i.postimg.cc/vHDT8Gc6/ColinHolden001.jpg

Bill was one of the first to be made real and let loose. I haven't seen much of him since he moved out.
https://i.postimg.cc/nzcsxpvM/BillRichards001.jpg

As you can see I am having fun with them. Added bonus is my town is much more lively and each owner gets a high logic skill from making the potions at the chemistry table.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
4 years ago
I change their names when they become real .

I did accept that opportunity to make dreams comd true once. I completed it. I won't do it again. It takes a sim a long time to make the potion on the chemistry table but it is usually a massive amount faster than looking for a rainbow gem. Sims need to have logic level of 8 before they can discover the potion at the chemistry table. Once their logic is 8 it is random when they make the potion. The first time it is made it is free, after that it costs over 4,000 simoleans.

I don't know why that happens. Maybe if you put the doll on the floor it'll become live. It needs to be live so your sim can become best friends with it as it won't drink the potion if they are not best friends.
NikkeiSimmer
Seasoned Adventurer
4 years ago
I'm so glad I have a dog (in my Sims 3) He brings home a rainbow gem every single day. But then I have the mod that allows me to expand my queue from 8 to 30 and I send him out for the entire day. "Here go do 30 "sniff out items" and I'll see you back in time for supper. Between that, pink diamonds and soulpeace gemstones...it's no wonder they get stinkin' rich stinkin' fast. So...my suggestion is if you have the Pets EP... get a dog - they'll manage to find rainbow gems for your potions for your Metamorphium potion. Then you can get those annoying Imaginary Friends out of your house even quicker.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
4 years ago
@Simmer2500 I have noticed some sims discover the potions super fast and others seem as if they are never going to get there. They don't seem to need the genius trait to do it fast but I'm sure it helps. I always try to get my sims the Fast Learner lifetime reward early on but still the time it takes for them to discover potions and grow their logic skill varies. They need level 8 in logic to be able to make the Imaginary Friend potion.
UlanDhor
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
Given my families tend to end up on the wealthy side, I have one sim discover all potions and then buy additional potions afterwards. The opportunity doesn't even save any money, and you waste a valuable gem.

For example, in my current game, the granddad is still making the potions for the extended family, even for other households. One of his grandchildren just discovered the potion himself (as his second potion, no less), so I should be set for a while.

"Simmer2500;c-17830864" wrote:
I don't use mods in my game and wouldn't use that kind of one to get rid of them if I did but sometimes I wish it would let me sell the Imaginary Friend toy out of their inventory like it lets you do with other things but it won't let you do that.

The vanilla way to achieve this is to just gift the doll to another sim. That works. Do it before the game generates the sim that accompanies the doll.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
4 years ago
"Simmer2500;c-17832426" wrote:
"Turjan;c-17830986" wrote:
Given my families tend to end up on the wealthy side, I have one sim discover all potions and then buy additional potions afterwards. The opportunity doesn't even save any money, and you waste a valuable gem.

For example, in my current game, the granddad is still making the potions for the extended family, even for other households. One of his grandchildren just discovered the potion himself (as his second potion, no less), so I should be set for a while.

"Simmer2500;c-17830864" wrote:
I don't use mods in my game and wouldn't use that kind of one to get rid of them if I did but sometimes I wish it would let me sell the Imaginary Friend toy out of their inventory like it lets you do with other things but it won't let you do that.

The vanilla way to achieve this is to just gift the doll to another sim. That works. Do it before the game generates the sim that accompanies the doll.

Once it's in their inventory it's considered theirs, so how would you gift it to another Sim before it gets to their inventory if that's what you mean?

I did the same thing with one of my households. I had no problems moving the potion from the making sim's inventory to the other sim's inventory. I just dragged it across.

It was in another game where I had a lot of Imaginary Friends and the game had been running for a long time and they had millions of simoleans and I'd already had a lot of sims make their own potion and was tired of it and one sim had found all of the potions and just seemed to love making potions so I got her to make a few extra imaginary friend potions. They cost over 4,000 simoleans each but that cost didn't make a dint in their wealth.
Lucy_Henley
New Spectator
4 years ago
Another way I’ve obtained rainbow gems is by breaking space rocks on the board breaker. In one of my saves, I have a teen Sim who has the “make my IF real” opportunity and needs to find a rainbow gem. Her mother has mastered martial arts and the family has already obtained a lot of gems via her skill. The mum did already get a rainbow gem with the board breaker, but she got it cut and it’s being used as house decor. Both her parents also have the Collection Helper lifetime reward too. In any case, the household is already at capacity so I’d have to wait to make the IF real. The teen’s four younger siblings also have IFs... I don’t mind them overall. I’ve only made an IF real twice.
Simmer2500
4 years ago
"Karritz;c-17829271" wrote:
I have had this happen once. It was years ago. Probably before Sims 4 was released. I ignored them. They run around town.
Later on I got my Sim to make the potion to make their imaginary friend real. Then I moved it out of the house and it lived like a townie. I think you probably need to take the doll from your sim's inventory and put it on the floor and when it comes live you will get the option to make it real. If you have the mod, Debug Enabler, you will be able to force it to become live. I find that's a great way to get rid of the doll and I move them out of the house once they are made real.

Before the IF is made real it lives in one of the homeless households but it can visit the house and appear visible to you when its owner is active.

Imaginary Friends have two forms. Doll form and human form. Once you have control of them you can click on them and get them to change form. This is available to you even after they have become real. Before they become real they don't belong to your household so you wouldn't be able to tell them what to do. But once made real it will join your household and you can move it out to live on its own somewhere in town.

In my video series '30 Grandchildren Badge' I had a town that was almost totally empty apart from my active family and about 6 other sims I'd randomly added from my library. But I had 15 children in the active household. Each child had an imaginary friend and I got the idea to make the imaginary friends real and move them out. This has worked well for this game as the town is much more active now. I am also having fun with them because when they become real I'm taking them into CAS and giving them a major makeover.

This is Percy. He is an IF made real and I just moved him out to live on his own. I gave him a haircut first though.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKL3mSTS/Percy-Long-Hair001.jpg

Cathy is another IF made real. I just moved her out too.
https://i.postimg.cc/Wzm6GDgQ/Cathy004.jpg

Some of the other IF's made real that I moved out earlier
https://i.postimg.cc/Hx6QSCYr/JosieByronBrianPaulineBillColinJake_HoldenImaginaryFriendsMadeReal001.jpg

Pauleen - a professional author
https://i.postimg.cc/GhQQC8Nn/PauleenHoldenIF001.jpg

Ben wants to be a Celebrated 5 Star Chef
https://i.postimg.cc/gjDxpd0z/Ben_Holden_IF_MadeReal001.jpg

Win is confused and a lot of fun to play
https://i.postimg.cc/hGgC58XW/Win016.jpg

Jake
https://i.postimg.cc/nc1nrXB3/JakeHolden003.jpg

Byron has met one of my original sims I added from my library and they are romantic interests now
https://i.postimg.cc/52ktF1bZ/ByronHonlden001.jpg

Brian, the first one I made real and took into CAS.
https://i.postimg.cc/qMrkpsht/BrianHolden001.jpg

Josie just got married to Colin. They game made them romantic interests and she became pregnant so I got them to marry.
https://i.postimg.cc/26FG549T/JosieHolden_IFMadeReal001.jpg

Colin wants to be a superstar athlete
https://i.postimg.cc/vHDT8Gc6/ColinHolden001.jpg

Bill was one of the first to be made real and let loose. I haven't seen much of him since he moved out.
https://i.postimg.cc/nzcsxpvM/BillRichards001.jpg

As you can see I am having fun with them. Added bonus is my town is much more lively and each owner gets a high logic skill from making the potions at the chemistry table.

Thanks for the info. It sure looks like you made a lot of them real in your game. Did you change most of their names either before or after you made them real or not? I noticed that the names given to them by the game is usually kind of weird ones like Jelly Bean. I haven't bothered to change any of their names but if I were to make some of them real I probably would. I haven't had my Sims work at that Chemistry table enough yet to make one of that potion to make the Imaginary Friends real. I also get an opportunity that pops up all the time to find a rainbow gem and give it to the science building so that they can make it into a potion that you can use to make the Imaginary Friends real but I don't even know where to look to find those so I always decline that opportunity. Most of the time I let them stay out from the time the Sims are a child to some of the Young Adult stage and then once I move them out of the parent Sims house it just ends up sitting in their inventory the rest of their Sim life. Maybe eventually I will have them work at the chemistry table enough to make the Imaginary Friend potion and try make one of them real. This particular one that came in looking like a real Sim except for the light bulb on it's head and walking like the Imaginary Friends do hung around all that day and then it disappeared after my Sim went to bed and hasn't come back like that so far.
Simmer2500
4 years ago
"Karritz;c-17829771" wrote:
I change their names when they become real .

I did accept that opportunity to make dreams comd true once. I completed it. I won't do it again. It takes a sim a long time to make the potion on the chemistry table but it is usually a massive amount faster than looking for a rainbow gem. Sims need to have logic level of 8 before they can discover the potion at the chemistry table. Once their logic is 8 it is random when they make the potion. The first time it is made it is free, after that it costs over 4,000 simoleans.

I don't know why that happens. Maybe if you put the doll on the floor it'll become live. It needs to be live so your sim can become best friends with it as it won't drink the potion if they are not best friends.

Oh, okay. Well, it sounds like those rainbow gems are hard to find then especially if you don't even know where to look for them. Working up to making the potion from the chemistry table sounds like the better way to do it. I switched households so I'm currently not at that house right now but next time I switch back to it maybe I'll try taking it back out of the inventory on the floor. My Sim is old friends with that Imaginary friend though a little chunk was taken out of the relationship bar because Jelly Bean the Imaginary Friend is not very nice. He seems to have one of those grumpy or mean traits and insulted my Sim a few times and also has the Insane trait. I don't like those mean kind of traits and never use those ones and that's why I want to keep that Imaginary Friend put away in the inventory unless of course I decide to try to make him into a real Sim.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
4 years ago
Sometimes the IF gets the evil trait. But if you move them out it doesn’t matter what their traits are. I find evil trait sims can be hysterically funny to play.

If your sim already has a high logic skill it might not take much time for them to discover the potion.