Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)What is your current game version number? 1.60.54.1020What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All expansion packs except Uni and Island Living and every game pack except StrangerVille.Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a sim in your household who is tired.What happens when the bug occurs? Auto-solving the energy need sometimes causes sims to go back float in a pool instead.What do you expect to see? Auto-solving the energy need should cause the sim to get coffee or going to 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? Neutral/Not Sure Auto-solving the energy need sometimes causes the sim to back float in a pool instead. Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

This issue is related to the Island Living pack:Mermaids can replenish their Energy need by sleeping in a pool.But normal sims can't sleep in a pool so they back float instead.Same for the Hygiene need: Mermaids can replenish their Hydration need by drinking.Normal sims can't replenish their Hygiene need that way.

Mermaids really have gotten such little care versus other occult sims. They get no tombstones or urns, no bassinet, and now they are glitching out the regulars sims trying to drown themselves to sleep. Luckily this does not seem to be an issue for the ocean, just pools.

This is incredibly aggravating when trying to do any challenge where sims have full autonomy and you can't play them directly. Sometimes, I can "Call Over" to get them out of the pool, but babysitting sims constantly so they don't elect to die by drowning rather than sleeping is quite frustrating! There's no reason for this, I really hope they fix it.

I got recently this problem. Searching for solution I find out this post. Mean time I found the solution by myself so I decide to share this experience and maybe it works for others with same prolem as it work for me. So I build a house and save it in my library for later. Few days later I place this house on one of the lots and there I moved in a household. I start to noticed pretty weird things. Not only the Sims go back float instead of sleeping in bed but a lot of other little things. Usually every Sim automatically wash his/her hands after use toilet, putting books away after reading, clean dishes after meal/drink, mop the floor... well more or less. But usually more. So in my case even those things they didn't do but go to back float was pretty irritating. Then something cross my mind and thought maybe it is. And it was. When I saved house in my library I didn't specified number of bedrooms and bathrooms. So I evict the household and save this lot again, but this time I specified number of bedrooms and bathrooms. I bulduze this problematic lot and put there newly saved lot. Now I put there previously evicted household and run the game. Now it works like a charm. They go to bed now and they do all other tiny things which I mentioned here too. Doing that I lost upgrades on appliances and electronics. So I guess the solution for that will be put those upgraded appliances/electronics in family inventory before evicted them from the lot and put them back later when you move them in lot again. I apolagize if something what I wrote look awkward or weird since English isn't my native language.

This is still an issue. I walked away from my game for a bio break and came back to some exhausted sims about to drown in the pool if they had been left any longer because instead of going to bed they went out to back float. This is insane!

[OPEN] Auto-solving energy need causes 'Back Float' instead

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Zack4358
5 years ago
This issue is related to the Island Living pack:
Mermaids can replenish their Energy need by sleeping in a pool.
But normal sims can't sleep in a pool so they back float instead.
Same for the Hygiene need: Mermaids can replenish their Hydration need by drinking.
Normal sims can't replenish their Hygiene need that way.
MeltingPenguins
5 years ago
might an unusual amount of 'washing hands' when low on energy or something be related to that too?
canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I am also experiencing this.
OnyxAnonTS4
5 years ago
This is incredibly aggravating when trying to do any challenge where sims have full autonomy and you can't play them directly. Sometimes, I can "Call Over" to get them out of the pool, but babysitting sims constantly so they don't elect to die by drowning rather than sleeping is quite frustrating! There's no reason for this, I really hope they fix it.
Bearpal64
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Zack4358 For me it sometimes causes nap in tub
OnyxAnonTS4
5 years ago
I found a mod that fixed this for me! <snip-mod removed - Sorry, but we don't allow such links>
AprilTheSimmer9
5 years ago
I'm currently trying to drown Cassandra Goth in a pool and when I use the Ditty of Drowsiness (comes with the Piper Trait), she back floats too. 😆
I'm playing on Xbox One.
Zack4358
5 years ago
@OnyxAnonTS4 The reason is that the game does not distinguish between mermaid and non-mermaid sims (in regard of the hygiene need). And mermaids can sleep in a pool (this interaction does not exist for "normal" sims --> another similar interaction is triggered --> this causes the back float interaction)
Zack4358
5 years ago
@MeltingPenguins My sim auto-solves his / her hygiene need by washing hands instead of using the shower / bathtub in the same room.
BraskoOS
5 years ago
I got recently this problem. Searching for solution I find out this post. Mean time I found the solution by myself so I decide to share this experience and maybe it works for others with same prolem as it work for me. So I build a house and save it in my library for later. Few days later I place this house on one of the lots and there I moved in a household. I start to noticed pretty weird things. Not only the Sims go back float instead of sleeping in bed but a lot of other little things. Usually every Sim automatically wash his/her hands after use toilet, putting books away after reading, clean dishes after meal/drink, mop the floor... well more or less. But usually more. So in my case even those things they didn't do but go to back float was pretty irritating. Then something cross my mind and thought maybe it is. And it was. When I saved house in my library I didn't specified number of bedrooms and bathrooms. So I evict the household and save this lot again, but this time I specified number of bedrooms and bathrooms. I bulduze this problematic lot and put there newly saved lot. Now I put there previously evicted household and run the game. Now it works like a charm. They go to bed now and they do all other tiny things which I mentioned here too. Doing that I lost upgrades on appliances and electronics. So I guess the solution for that will be put those upgraded appliances/electronics in family inventory before evicted them from the lot and put them back later when you move them in lot again. I apolagize if something what I wrote look awkward or weird since English isn't my native language.