Two of my Sims (Jupiter and Benjamin) tried for a baby and I heard the chimes after they'd WooHooed. I was playing other families and when I went back to check on them, their baby had been born but she is missing!Jupiter and Benjamin both have the "It's a girl" moodlet, with about 9 hours left to go. I can see the baby in their family trees; she is a vampire ghost called Malinda...but she is nowhere else to be found. She isn't on the family side bar or in the list of the knows Sims for Jupiter, Benjamin or their older son, Lee. Neither of the adults have Malinda's gravestone and it isn't at the graveyard either.What happened to her? Did she die off screen? How can I get her back please? This is so horrid :(

She could have been taken away by the child services social worker while you were playing elsewhere.But besides that without mods, TS3 is not conducive to rotational play. It was designed to be, but things like this happen all of the time. As soon as you make another household active, anything can happen to the one you just left behind. In many cases, the game will emigrate (cull) sims, including babies, out of the game permanently when it thinks the town is overpopulated even when it really isn't. This isn't supposed to happen with sims you have played actively or those related to your currently active household, but it happens anyway.A placeholder in the family tree does not mean the sim is still in your world (game).Mods such as NRaas StoryProgression do not allow culling/emigration, at least not by default. SP also offers the tools many players use to protect the households they wish to play in turn from other unwanted forms of progression. Depending on how much time has passed, a MasterController Reset might bring the baby back but even that won't be effective if the sim is really no longer in your game.

Even if there was a crib on the lot, the baby wouldn't necessarily go in the crib if it came back. You said you quit the lot but is that the same as evicting them in edit world and moving them back in? Sometimes that will bring back missing sims. And you said she wasn't listed in the sims from add sim with MC? Did you check every option? When I was trying to get my cats back, they were in a very unlikely area (can't remember now what it was, but I remember thinking, "that wasn't right").

I have big games and play rotationally. My sim families often have babies and multiple toddlers. It is normal for me to activate a household and find one of more of the babies and toddlers missing. They don't have icons on the left of the screen either. In almost every case I get them back by clicking on the roof of their home and use master controller to reset the Sims in the household. The missing babies and toddlers usually appear in that list and I reset them and they pop back into the family. The one time this hasn't worked I did something else because I couldn't think of that else to try. I used master controller to add sim to the household. I chose to add the sim from the home world by age. This gave me a list of toddlers in the home world and I found her in that list. I hope you find a way to get your baby back.

Ow, sorry that you lose babies and toddlers! I tried adding in a Sim from age but it only showed the other two toddlers in my game (Nicky and Clara).How do I reset all Sims in the house please? It that the same as "reset lot"?

Reset Lot will reset the Sims too. But I usually see Sim in the list of options when I click on the roof and choose NRAAS Master Controller. Then I see another list and I choose Sim from that list and then I find reset sim from there. It might be under advanced which would be the next choice after choosing sim.

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Kieran_Agravane
New Spectator
9 years ago
@coco, IT WORKED! I'VE GOT HER BACK :D

Sorry for all the caps but I am SO stoked! I'd given up on recovering her; I'd *just* made her a memorial out in the back garden of her home.

Blimey, I can't even remember exactly what I did it now but she's there, in the family and waiting outside the house for her Dad to pick her up!

Poor little thing, when I looked at her personal info, it said she had died of thirst and was an "Out of towner".
Suziish
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
@plushtrap_107 YAY!!!!! I'm so glad you got your baby back! <3
Jessa_Dakkar
Rising Ace
9 years ago
Ouch! Died of thirst...Poor baby :( Glad you got her back!
cocokayla
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
@plushtrap_107 So happy for you! I thought that she must of been in the game somewhere because you still had her picture in the family tree. Not sure if you have StoryProgression or not but it's definitely a must have mod to prevent this sort of thing happening again. I'm really glad you managed to save her though :smiley:
Kieran_Agravane
New Spectator
9 years ago
Thanks so much guys! Also, thanks so much for helping and being patient while I scoured Bridgeport for the little tyke ;)

I'm going to download StoryProgression tomorrow and also MC Cheats. (It's after 2 in the morning her, boohoo, I can't play any more). I'm really impressed by how much the mods help my game, by fixing bugs and letting the save file run smoothly.

Thanks again everybody :)
Evalen306
9 years ago
@plushtrap_107 I am a little new to all this now, just coming back but would reset the baby work.
IreneSwift
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
You said she died of thirst. Did she return to the family as a ghost?
Kieran_Agravane
New Spectator
9 years ago
@Evalen, it's OK, I got her back :) I was able to access her family tree in MasterController (the only place she appeared) and add her from there.

@IreneSwift, yes, the poor little thing is a vampire ghost. I thought she was that way from her Mom at first (as Jupiter is a vampire ghost too) but the baby must have been born a vampire and then somehow neglected and died.

Here she is, just as Dad finds her outside and picks her up. He was scared of her at first but I made him pick her up and now he's bonded with her :)
LatinaBunny
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
Aw, poor vampire ghost baby!

Glad you got her back. :smile:
Jessa_Dakkar
Rising Ace
9 years ago
"plushtrap_107;15242256" wrote:
@Evalen, it's OK, I got her back :) I was able to access her family tree in MasterController (the only place she appeared) and add her from there.

@IreneSwift, yes, the poor little thing is a vampire ghost. I thought she was that way from her Mom at first (as Jupiter is a vampire ghost too) but the baby must have been born a vampire and then somehow neglected and died.

Here she is, just as Dad finds her outside and picks her up. He was scared of her at first but I made him pick her up and now he's bonded with her :)

Holy 'plum', she's stunning... I want one. I want a baby vampire ghost. I really hope you keep us updated on her, I'd love to see her as a toddler. So cool. Scary cool.

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