Product: The Sims 4Platform:MacWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.59.73.1220What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except: island living, realm of magic, vampires, moschino, bowling night, backyard stuff and movie hangout stuff Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Make a cleaner bot and use for a few days. Will break and form a pile of rubbish.What happens when the bug occurs? My sim is level 8 robotics skill. I have the cleaner bot that she built for a few days. after ~3 days of use where i repair it 2x and enhance 2x it disappears. The first time it happened it broke for the 3rd time and I was going to have my sim repair it when it just disappeared and in its place was a pile of rubbish. Then it kept happening whenever I made replacement bots. I'd repair and enhance it to level 3 and it would disappear. I'm not sure if this is actually part of the game or something but it's getting tedious having my sim replace the bot every few sim days bc I want her to build other bots too. I didn't see any other posts about this problem with bots so I decided to just go ahead and ask.What do you expect to see? The bot shouldn't disappear after a few days of use.Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? YesDid this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure ... Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

I've seen this happen with all the utility bots. I kept wondering where my bots were getting off too when they kept disappearing until I finally saw it happen with a party bot. It appears that if you don't repair a damaged bot within a certain amount of time, it will self destruct into a pile of rubble. While I don't mind it happing too much, it does appear to happen too quickly in my opinion. It is somewhat annoying that after you've spent all that time and effort building and upgrading the things that it would self destruct in less than a day after it broke down.

@208974618 I've had bots since the package became available. Enhanced all of them to 10 over time. Played with them for months after that with zero problems. Repaired them if I saw they were broken but only if I saw them. Now all my bots are self-destructing. All that work enhancing them and tuning them up is gone in a flash. So frustrating.Not only that, but I built a brand new house on an empty lot and when I moved my Sims in, there was a cleaning bot flying around that another Sim made. Not a member of that household or anyone who had previously lived on that lot, but a member of a household they don't even know.I just wonder why I never had a bot explode but suddenly have all but one self-destruct at the same time after the latest update/Eco Living. The latest one that exploded had just been enhanced and tuned up the night before. So not neglected. It's already annoying enough that Level 10 Robotics Sims still hit themselves in the head with the tools four times per enhancement, now all that work and pain was for nothing? Not a fan of this.

last I checked, the utility bots could only get to level 9 for menow they are randomly gaining upgrade levels and then eventually (without even breaking down) turning into piles of scrap.I don't think they are supposed to do that because 1: I never had this problem before the eco lifestyle update. 2:the scrap pile has servo parts, not utility bot parts (I think the game is treating them like servos by making the durability bar depleting having deadly consequences)but they were randomly going level 10 as far as I remember, at level 7, the durability bar freezes.they didn't even need to fall to the ground, after a while I just see them suddenly turn into scrap.Worked for hours getting all those bots, I don't want to lose all of that hard work.😞

I've noticed this weirdness after the eco update as well...The utility bots keep constantly gaining upgrade levels while they are turned on, all the way up to level 10... and after a day or two they turn into scrap. At this point their durability doesn't deplete at all, so it can't be the reason for them to explode. Also, for some reason, every bot placed in the world self-destructs at the same time regardless of their upgrade level or whether they are turned on or off.The only way to protect the bots is to keep them in a sim's inventory.

Could anyone experiencing this issue possibly share a save file with me where it's occurring? You can DM me the link to your save, thanks so much for the help! Instructions for sending me your save: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065302

[OPEN] [DU] Cleaner Bots disappearing into a pile of rubbish

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crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@208974618 Did you also test this on a game without mods/cc ?
Nettis2009
6 years ago
@208974618 Did not have problems but thought of one thing.
Have you put Utili-Bots on Robotics Workstation and recharge. You have to do it sometimes. All Utili-Bots have battery charge and durability stats which can be seen when hovering over them.
CGrant56
Hero+
6 years ago
I've seen this happen with all the utility bots. I kept wondering where my bots were getting off too when they kept disappearing until I finally saw it happen with a party bot. It appears that if you don't repair a damaged bot within a certain amount of time, it will self destruct into a pile of rubble. While I don't mind it happing too much, it does appear to happen too quickly in my opinion. It is somewhat annoying that after you've spent all that time and effort building and upgrading the things that it would self destruct in less than a day after it broke down.
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@CGrant56 Was it you that reported this elsewhere too ?
CGrant56
Hero+
6 years ago
@crinrict No, I haven't reported it before. I don't see it as a bug really since I think it was programmed that way. I just think it should take longer before they self destruct.
208974618
6 years ago
@CGrant56 Yeah it's super annoying I'll try keeping an eye on my bots but they wander so it's hard to constantly keep track of them.
208974618
6 years ago
@Nettis2009 I'll try doing that and see if they break down less or slower than before.
CGrant56
Hero+
6 years ago
@208974618 Yeah, I know what you mean about the wandering. The cleaning bot in particular. That one can be anywhere. I kept wondering why I kept seeing it outside then I realized that it may clean up leaf piles on the lot. Haven't seen that yet though since I don't usually make leaf piles on the lot. The gardener bot tends to stay close to the harvestable plants and the party bot seems to stay close to where they were when you turned it on. The fixer bot tends to stay close to stuff that breaks. That one keeps getting in the way in the kitchen on one of my lots for some reason but not on others. Over all, I like them though. Just have to keep an eye on them so I can get them fixed when they break.
Yurnz
6 years ago
SAME and this is really irritating. I only got the University expansion to focus in robotics, since that's what I'm in school for irl... I was so excited for this feature. Instead my sims are running around to clean piles of garbage where my bots use to be.. All of them. Every type of robot disappears and its an issue in the University code. I don't have much on my pc, its top of the line and its not apple like OP's pc. I also do not have anything running in game other than purchased expansions, and I dont have same expansions as OP except University and Vampires. @Nettis2009 You cant move them because they simply turn to garbage. You can Only rummage for parts or clean up.

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Nettis2009
6 years ago
@Yurnz You must do it before it becomes a pile of scrap.