[ARCHIVED] Objects Stuck off Lots
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? the latest
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all except my first pet stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? put guitars in NPCs inventory and it will happen eventually
What happens when the bug occurs? the NPC either travels while playing a guitar or is culled from the game through my own deletion and the guitar gets stuck where ever they left it. Usually it is off lot and I cannot delete it.
What do you expect to see? I expect these random world items to get deleted.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No
I get we are not allowed to edit the world but there needs to be a cheat added in to take ownership of items that are off lot so we can delete them. I have a guitar stuck in the spice district and one stuck in the jungle near the cantina. I also have plates stuck in the Jang apartment elevator.
- @keekee53 I've had this happen before too, a long time ago and also fairly recently, in the same spot in the Spice District too. Probably because that's such a busking hotspot during festivals and such.
First time it happened, I noticed an NPC picked up a busking spot guitar and started playing it. Later, I noticed that he'd dropped the guitar on the ground in the middle of the Spice District, because either he despawned when I travelled away or the Festival despawned.
Because my sims did not own the guitar, I could interact with it only to play it, but "put in inventory" was greyed out. I couldn't delete it, because it was in the non-buildable area of the neighbourhood.
And the same thing happened again recently. So it's not a common thing, but it happens under rare circumstances.
The only solution I found was to download the Enable Debug Cheats mod (from MTS, but the one on the site is out of date - you have to scroll through the comments to find a newer version made by scumbumbo).
I put the mod in temporarily, went to the area the guitar was and activated testingcheats on. It adds a new option to Delete Object when shift-clicking on it.
I only used the mod to delete the object and then saved and quit and removed the mod, mainly because I'm really paranoid that if I kept it in, I'd accidentally use that Delete Object on something critical by accident, like one of the building props around the town.
But yeah, I think that's the only solution. I thought about maybe trying a Klepto sim swiping it, but I played one recently and I don't think instruments are swipeable things?
