[ARCHIVED] [CL] Boxes of junk not appearing for outside neighbourshoods

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.51.75.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play from another neighbourhood not sanmyushu
What happens when the bug occurs? boxes of junk dont appear whatsoever unless you live in the neighbourhood
What do you expect to see? boxes of junk appearing for the sims living outside the neighbourhood
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure

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Boxes of junk not appearing to sims who live outside the neighbourhood/preexisting sims in the neighbourhood.

would reach the area near where the spice festival is for a full day but none appears (coming during non-festival times) or at the park in San Myshu

But playing in the neighbour hood it appears with (newly created sims (made by the player.)
(not existing ones that already live in the neighbourhood )

Things ive done to try and fix it are;

verify files
repair game files
uninstall reinstall

and none have fixed it for the pre-existing sims and the neighbourhood created or preexisting sims unable to find the junk boxes (checking everyday in the morning until 11pm at night)

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

crinrict
24 days ago
Please use this thread going forward: [CL] Snow globes not spawning | EA Forums - 11936418

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crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
The spawners generally only work if you spend time in the neighborhoods. That has always been the case.

Are you spending any time at all in San Myshuno ? As I'm not sure I understand your report correctly. Did you spend a whole day there or did you come back after a whole day while playing another household ?
reveena
7 years ago
spend the whole day there and writing down when they spawn and then after a week swapping to another household/neighbourhood then going on those days when they usually spawn on the normal for the san myshuno, then i get there about 7.30am because im aware that it takes time to spawn but they dont.
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Do you just have issues with the boxes or also rocks/gems and posters ?
reveena
7 years ago
just the boxes, the rocks and gems and posters are perfectly fine. the boxes only appear every second day from Sunday as the first day (this is playing as a created sim in san mysho
Entoarox
7 years ago
Similar issue, while my sim lived in the city the boxes would spawn all over, but since I've moved the household into a different world, the boxes have stopped spawning completely.
Previously on a save where my sim never lived in the city at all, I never got the boxes in the first place (And boy was I confused about what boxes the flea market festival was talking about!)
From my experience, it does not matter where you live in the city, as long as you live in the city the boxes will spawn, and otherwise they simply never spawn at all.
I have even spend a long enough time in a single neighborhood in the past for the posters to respawn multiple times, yet during that whole time not a single box spawned there.
On the other hand, while my new sim lived in a appartment, the boxes pretty much got thrown at me like snow globes are going out of style!
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
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uglybxnes
6 years ago
@Entoarox this happened to me too. I had a sim live in san myshuno for a while before moving out to brindleton bay. after moving out to brindleton bay, whenever I returned to san myshuno to collect snow globes no boxes would show up. it doesn’t matter if I spend the whole day hanging out in any particular district, I can’t collect snow globes.
CGrant56
Hero+
6 years ago
I have noticed that the boxes do respawn but it takes more than a day for them to do so. At least 2 and sometimes 3 days so you have to spend a considerable amount of time in a zone unless you live there. They seem to spawn faster if you live there though.
samicharae
6 years ago
Me too. They used to spawn everywhere and I didn’t need to spend hours in the neighborhood, either. Now the only boxes that spawn are in my sim’s neighborhood. I have one globe left to collect. The description in buydebug says that it’s a common globe, but it’s elusive. It’s the city bridge one. All the poster boxes work fine, though.
samicharae
6 years ago
So I bought a tent, cooler, and the shower tarp from the outdoors pack, then put a bunch of skill building things in the inventory and camped out at the park. The boxes finally spawned there. Seems crazy, though. They used to spawn within the first hour of traveling to the new neighborhood.