Spellcaster Sims will no longer get reset when Brewing Potions gets canceled and then Resumed.
Fixed in Patch 1.75.125/ 1.42
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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? 1.68.154.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All packs except Snowy Escape - (On the time of putting this report, Snow Escape is not released yet)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I feel that the bug may have been caused by the new walkstyles for Snowy Escape (Skiing, Snowboarding), along with the script updates which broke routing for the cauldron. But the LE may have the answers.
What happens when the bug occurs? When a Sim brews with Bat Teleport, Mist Teleport or Witch Teleport enabled, he/she will get reset.
What do you expect to see? When a Sim brews a potion, the Sim should brew it with no interruptions.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Updated to the latest patch for the Base Game Updates.
As a modder, I have modded new potions into the game and when this bug happened, I thought that it was the potions that caused it. I have removed all potions that were modded in but the routing issues continued. However further testing shows that the cauldron works when there are no forms of teleport styles enabled.
With teleport enabled, an LE would show up with issues with crafting_process.py and family_funds.
So when a Sim with any forms of teleport enabled brews a potion, they would run the interaction and stop that interaction before running the next interaction (where the next one depends on fast, medium, slow or slowest cauldron brewing interaction). When I tell the sim to resume the potion, he/she would reset themselves and an LE would appear.
I have attached a MCCC LE that shows a cleaner LE along with the regular LE.
After doing quite a fire bit of testing, I can say that my cauldron routing issue is caused by teleport system update on the mist and bat teleport.
Firstly, I've found out that teleporthere-vampire_mist and teleporthere-vampire_bat were scrapped and replaced with vampires_spiritpowers_flyasbat and vampires_spiritpowers_teleportasmist. This update was not mentioned in the patch notes. (Basically the teleporthere-vampire_mist and teleporthere-vampire_bat uses the GoHereSuperInteraction to teleport, however the update now uses TeleportStyleSuperInjection instead)
Secondly, from my experience modding, I've remembered that the Spell Teleport have testset distance of 7 which disallow the caster to teleport. However I do believe that the mist and bat teleport do not have any form of testset distance which could be the issue as they kept on teleporting on very short distances, which with the old system would have them walk.
So I decided to write a small mod to test this, and using the system did show that the updated mist and bat teleport system was the issue.
The current workaround is: Vampires with Bat or Mist Teleport Enabled OR Spellcasters with Mist or Bat Teleport Enabled (Applies to Vampiric Teleport Spells) MUST disable their teleportation before using the cauldron otherwise they will LEs will generate and the Sim will cancel the interaction.
A very quick fix is to add a TestSet to the teleport interactions to test the distance and stop the issue. (I have tested this and it does stop the interactions getting cancelled.)
