[OPEN] Game does not follow active sim back home from another lot

You could try clicking a Sim's icon at the bottom of the screen and transferring control. It would probably be faster, easier, and less annoying than using Manage Worlds.

I've never encountered this problem myself. I suspect it's caused by one of the mods you use but it would be hard to track down which one if the problem only happens once in a while.

@akasunanokitten Are all Sims greyed out and actually home and it still doesn't go back ? It can take a while until all sims are back home.

Did you delete the localthumbcache file after removing your mods/cc ?

Yes they are all gone home and greyed out. It's only happened to me twice so I did do that and haven't been able to replicate since but it could just be because it hasn't happened yet 😅

I've actually had this happen to me on both PC and console, so it's definitely not a mod issue. It's the same for me in that it doesn't happen very often, but I have encountered it, even when I've sent all sims back to home lot using occult teleport options so that it shouldn't take long for them to get there. All sims in the household will show as being in self-care mode on the home lot, yet the game stays in the lot they were visiting until I manually follow them home by going to Manage Worlds. It's an odd bug for sure.

This has been happening to me a lot recently as well (on ps5). I just click “Go here” somewhere on the screen and they appear again and then I send them home a second time and it usually works.

YES this is exactly the bug that I'm talking about. all of the sims leave the lot in self care mode and you are just kinda there until you go to manage worlds and manually load their home lot. at least as far as I'm aware now it's not caused by mods or cc.

i'm having the same issue but after it happens i'm unable to load that game again, when i go to manage world and then try to re-enter the lot it does an endless loading screen. i have to close the game in task manager, and if i try to load that save again it does endless loading screen every time. i have to recover a previous save, usually one where the sim isnt at their home lot.

i've had to do all kinds of things like bulldoze the lot and replace it with the same one (i saved it to my gallery), temporarily relocate the sim, etc. i had the issue with one save that i gave up and didnt troubleshoot all and just deleted because it was early on, and now a second save i've persisted with and it is happening constantly and making the whole thing pretty unplayable.

not sure if it's just this save that's rekt or it's an issue that will eventually happen to any save, but lmk if any tech support ppl want to see the files/error log

This has happened to me a few times on Xbox Series X with all packs. My Sims leave me behind. I just use their thumbnail image to switch back to them on their home lot. It's happened mostly at Snowy Escape and City Living Festivals as I send them home one by one. I expect to follow the active Sim home but I'm left on the lot. It hadn't happened for a while but it happened last week. 

I had this issue occur yesterday playing on PC unmodded. It was in a household of two - I was on a community lot with one Sim whilst the other was at home. I clicked on the house icon on the out Sim's picture to go home and they left me behind on the lot. Clicking on their greyed out portrait did nothing, so I ended up saving the game, backing out to the main menu, and reloading the save to join them on their home lot.