Product: The Sims 4 Platform: Xbox One Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Often What is your current game version number? 2.3.2.2310 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything up until LD Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go to Alice's tree What happens when the bug occurs? Unplayed ghosts cluttering up a spot near Alice's tree with the chaos ability What do you expect to see? For ghosts to not spam thr ability and not use it all in the same spot Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Nope, on console Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Just came with LD On XB1, all packs. Unplayed ghosts are basically spamming the one chaos ability that makes trash and puddles appear and have cluttered up the spot near the tree where Alice is. Since I have Paranormal too they also spawn in the haunted dolls and goo puddles from that, all in the same spot (see pictures).

Product: The Sims 4Platform:Steam-PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.110.311.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? AllSteps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Not completely sure - play in Mourningvale for about 10 hours... maybe as a Haunted House Residential Lot on hard modeWhat happens when the bug occurs? Loading into Mourningvale lots causes the game to be unresponsive. Have to end the process in task manager to close the game.What do you expect to see? I expect the game to be responsive and run normally.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 I tested this by also playing another household outside of that neighbourhood. The game runs properly doing this until I have that sim visit Mourningvale - the game instantly becomes unresponsive. It doesn't freeze or even crash - just becomes unresponsive and I cannot click on anything. I can enter the options menu but I cannot save or even x out of the game. It has to be closed through task manager.Building on this lot also caused the same bug, even before I turned it into a haunted house so maybe they aren't related at all, I have no idea...Edited to remove info about Haunted House Residential that is probably unrelated.

I also had a haunted house in mourningvale, for me the issue was that even the household on the normal residential got the "scared by haunted house" moodlet when playing them The dolls and stuff that spawn arround the neighborhood may be spawned in by ghosts with the new chaos ability tho, definately the stuff at Alices Tree, cause that's what I got in my game too and I saw that a bunch of ghosts would spam that ability in the same spot (have made a report). So I dont think that is related to the haunted house.

@Rebekyy Would you be willing to share your save with me ?If so, please zip your saves folder and upload it somewhere like dropbox, googledrive or OneDrive and PM me the link.Guess @AgnesValravn is referring to this report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/LD-Ghosts-cluttering-world-with-chaos-ability/m-p/14262690

It doesnt just happen at the tree btw but that is the most cluttered spot, there are also objects floating in the air in mourningvale, like violins, that cant be picked up or reset.

@Rebekyy I didnt keep the haunted house long enough for Temperance (cause of the bug), Guidry showed up and one of those sigils spawned in the house and the green specters would show up though.Yes, the ghosts spawn all kinds of stuff from other packs too, its mostly paranormal stuff but I saw some horse poo too.

[LD] Ghosts cluttering world with chaos ability

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Rebekyy
Seasoned Hotshot
9 months ago
That's weird, I wonder if the clutter info is stored in the documents folder or something? There was a violin near the guardian tree and some haunted objects near the ghost cowplant crypt.
My specs are : i7-8700K 3.70GHz CPU, 32GB Ram, 1080ti GPU
It only happens in Mourningvale though.
I guess I might just have to wait and see if other people get the same issue and if they don't I'll just stop playing until I get a new PC or something.
crinrict
Hero+
9 months ago
@Rebekyy Found those. Guess it was a bit later yesterday.

Still can't get it to crash though.

Going to merge this post with Agnes post. It does seem that the haunted lot spawns objects anywhere in the world.
AgnesValravn
Seasoned Veteran
9 months ago
@Rebekyy I didnt keep the haunted house long enough for Temperance (cause of the bug), Guidry showed up and one of those sigils spawned in the house and the green specters would show up though.
Yes, the ghosts spawn all kinds of stuff from other packs too, its mostly paranormal stuff but I saw some horse poo too.
AgnesValravn
Seasoned Veteran
9 months ago
@crinrict I think there are two different things going on, the haunted house not functioning right and the ghosts cluttering.
I have since started a new save that never had a haunted house in it, so all the creepy dolls, tendrils, spooky puddles are spawned in by ghosts, not a haunted house.
I caught a ghost in action spamming the ability (see screenshots), that ghost is one I made btw so I know for sure she doesnt even have the chaos ability unlocked yet shes using it.
Also found some more clutter in mourningvale that cant even be selected (see screenshots).
AgnesValravn
Seasoned Veteran
9 months ago
Also Im getting an error code now whenever I try loading in to the previous nightclub lot in live mode, it is a rental res now btw, I could load it in build mode just fine tho.
Not sure if that is related to the mourningvale problems or for rent...
Error Code is 132:b16b8ae5:9bd3cfdf
crinrict
Hero+
9 months ago
@AgnesValravn I think it's all comes down to object cluttering in worlds where they shouldn't like all many other threads. For now it's probably fine to have one thread for morning vale. Maxis will need to decide if they want it split up.

For error codes, please create a separate thread (check first if there's that number already and post the lastException you get with it)

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