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 expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? By trying to make a child sleep in a room with anything in it or waking up a child from sleep.
What happens when the bug occurs? The child wakes up scared after 30 or so real time seconds of being asleep if there's anything in the room other than a bed. Even when there's just a bed, he still wakes up and screams in fear and gets the tense moodlet every single time he wakes up.
What do you expect to see? The child sleeps through until the energy bar is refilled without a negative moodlet appearing from waking up scared. The child can sleep in a room with other furniture than just a bed.
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. I had a child - previously I only played with adult sims.
It started with the child not sleeping, as soon as he aged up from a toddler. He wouldn't sleep in any bed, he'd wake up after 30 seconds or so and scream in terror. This now happens every single time he sleeps in a normal room in a house.
After some game repairing, moving house, trying different beds and removing mods, I worked out that the only way to get him to sleep is if his bed is in an empty room, so I've had to make a whole new room for him to sleep in that's tiny and empty and have the rest of his stuff in a separate room.
Now he will sleep through until his energy is full, but he still wakes in terror every time, and if I try to put anything in his room he wont sleep at all. There's never been a monster under the bed that I'm aware of, but every time he wakes, he has that fear scream and ends up tense. That's not fun. He goes to school in a bad mood every day.
This has really stumped me and I saw another thread stating that a similar issue (just the waking in terror) was going back to July 2017, so I'm really surprised to see that this is still here.
The not sleeping at all except in an empty room thing is really odd, as his parents have never had that problem. This was my first sim child in around 6-8 months so I can't comment on how long this bug has been going on for, but as this was more than the waking in terror, I thought that I'd make a separate bug report for it.
I've tried repairing the game several times, removed all mods, moved house, changed beds, changed rooms, restarted the game several times, and the PC itself, and nothing other than having him in an empty room will let him sleep, and even then, he still wakes up tense and screams every single time he sleeps.
