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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Expanding/building basement puts plants into household inventory

when I enlarge/ place things in my basement random plants or furniture get placed into my household inventory, and I have to place them back to where they were in the lot. The worst part is if the pla...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Okay, followed all the steps, money cheat to get lot into new game and no bug. I loaded saves from before basement was built and no bug. Reloaded old save with basement and bug is there. Recovered old save to earliest possible(05/10/17), loaded that, no missing mod notification so this is definitely before i had any cc installed, and bug is there. Bulldozed the lot and placed from library, no bug. Then i put all my mods back in and loaded my current save. This is a continuation of my old one, except i had saved the build to library and moved to a bigger lot so i could expand. I got only some of the plants both in ground and in boxes to bug to inventory and only 1 box auto-sold(cant be placed in inventory, only option is to sell) on basement expansion, and 2 tombstones to bug into inventory when reducing the basement. After putting them back they stayed. I made the lot move on 5/15/17, and i know i had to replace a few plants/boxes that completely disappeared during building shortly after the move. There were patches on 5/25 and 6/1. I'm pretty confident that only things that were placed/generated before either of those patches are currently being affected. Anyways, it looks like my particular bug has been squashed by the recent patches, so im gonna go ahead and mark this as solved. I did take a video of the bug in action as proof im not insane, and i can upload it somewhere if you wanna see it. Thanks for the help all, and happy simming.

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bookmaster325
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago

I've experienced this in several saves (I hesitate to say all only because I don't remember if it happened the first time I started to build basements). Certain things seem to disappear (usually to the inventory) when expanding the area, usually because of the proximity of objects. I can easily get around this though. While in build mode, I enable testing cheats and turn on moveobjects cheat before I expand the basement. (can easily turn off the moveobjects cheat again afterward, unless you like floating plates, etc. lol)

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    BryonyRae
    Hero (Retired)
    8 years ago

    @bookmaster325 that doesn't sound exactly like the issue we're discussing here.  When you change the shape/size of a room or area in the game, such that the change intersects with objects, then yes, they will be moved/removed, and that is expected behavior.  In the case of the OP's issue, she is building on a floor beneath the objects that are being removed, and the changes in room shapes/sizes below do not (should not) affect anything placed above ground.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      8 years ago

      Okay, followed all the steps, money cheat to get lot into new game and no bug. I loaded saves from before basement was built and no bug. Reloaded old save with basement and bug is there. Recovered old save to earliest possible(05/10/17), loaded that, no missing mod notification so this is definitely before i had any cc installed, and bug is there. Bulldozed the lot and placed from library, no bug. Then i put all my mods back in and loaded my current save. This is a continuation of my old one, except i had saved the build to library and moved to a bigger lot so i could expand. I got only some of the plants both in ground and in boxes to bug to inventory and only 1 box auto-sold(cant be placed in inventory, only option is to sell) on basement expansion, and 2 tombstones to bug into inventory when reducing the basement. After putting them back they stayed. I made the lot move on 5/15/17, and i know i had to replace a few plants/boxes that completely disappeared during building shortly after the move. There were patches on 5/25 and 6/1. I'm pretty confident that only things that were placed/generated before either of those patches are currently being affected. Anyways, it looks like my particular bug has been squashed by the recent patches, so im gonna go ahead and mark this as solved. I did take a video of the bug in action as proof im not insane, and i can upload it somewhere if you wanna see it. Thanks for the help all, and happy simming.

  • lilchimpy32's avatar
    lilchimpy32
    5 years ago
    @bookmaster325 Thank you for this! Turning on Move Objects worked for me, too. Thanks for sharing!
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      EA_Lanna
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      5 years ago
      Closing thread here.

      For future readers, please try the advise shared in this thread. If it helps, please consider giving the post that shared the helpful advise some XP as Kudos.

      If not, please open a new/fresh thread and add more information from there.

      Thanks,

      EA_Lanna

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