Product: The Sims 4Platform:PCWhich language are you playing the game in? EnglishHow often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)What is your current game version number? 1.84.197.1030What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All of them.Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go to the Thebe Estate in live mode. From there go into build mode and delete the chimneys. The smoke stays. Go back into live mode, it is still there. What happens when the bug occurs? I renovated the build, moved the chimneys. Only one had smoke and that smoke stays in the original location and will not go away. If you enter build mode from the map, the smoke is not there. I bulldozed the lot and the terrain and the smoke was still there.What do you expect to see? I expect the smoke to go away if there is not chimney or move with the chimney.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? YesPlease describe the patch or change you made. I've never had this issue before. Obviously it happened after getting My Wedding Stories as the lot this is happening on is in the world that came with that pack. There is smoke coming from the roof of Thebe Estate in Tartosa. It won't go away. Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title. Please add pack tags yourself so I don't have to break the template.

The smoke is still in the game. One of the four chimneys on the roof of Thebe Estate lot has smoke coming out it. The other three do not and the fireplaces are not lit. It only shows up in cold weather just like the smoke at the chimneys of the shell buildings in the town. Any movement on this issue yet?

I'm having the same issue in my game. At first I thought it was some invisible chimney on that lot, but after bulldozing the Thebe mansion, I put some other build here, the smoke still exists. I play my game in fall season. So would it be some fix to this glitch? it's really weird seeing the smoke coming from nowhere above Thebe in the sky even playing from other lots at Tartosa.

Did a bit more testing. - when I place the Thebe Estate lot on another lot in Tartosa the smoke is gone. So it seems tied to that specific location in the world but it was placed at one of the chimneys so its not there by accident. I really hope someone will take a look at this at it will drive me crazy everytime I play in the new world and that is the only reason I bought this broken pack.

@rlc77 Could you possibly share your save file where you're seeing this occur? Your Config.log would probably be useful as well (located in \Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4). You can DM me the link to your files, thanks so much! Instructions for sharing files: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/INFORMATION-How-to-Send-User-Files-to-The-Sims-4-Team/m-p/6065302

This problem is still present in the game. I bulldozed the lot from manage worlds in spring and moved in my sim the following winter. The smoke was immediately present. I was hoping to build a legacy mansion there, but I guess that's gonna have to be done elsewhere, unless I wanna have phantom smoke appearing. Such a shame as it's a very nice lot otherwise.

[OPEN] [MWS] Strange smoke at roof of Thebe Estate in Tartosa

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rlc77
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@SimGuruNick Thanks for your reply. I sent you the link to my files.
rlc77
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
The smoke is still in the game. One of the four chimneys on the roof of Thebe Estate lot has smoke coming out it. The other three do not and the fireplaces are not lit. It only shows up in cold weather just like the smoke at the chimneys of the shell buildings in the town. Any movement on this issue yet?
RichMeSuperRich
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
I'm having the same issue in my game. At first I thought it was some invisible chimney on that lot, but after bulldozing the Thebe mansion, I put some other build here, the smoke still exists. I play my game in fall season. So would it be some fix to this glitch? it's really weird seeing the smoke coming from nowhere above Thebe in the sky even playing from other lots at Tartosa.
rlc77
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@RichMeSuperRich Thank you so much for replying to this. I'm sorry you are having this issue but I'm glad someone else finally noticed it. I hope this will get fixed at some point but who knows. If you see the chimneys on the shell buildings in town with smoke coming out of the chimneys, it will be visible on the Thebe Estate lot too, any time it's cold. I imagine there is some debug smoke objects that they use for the shell buildings that got used on this lot but I can't find it in debug and I can't delete it. If you watch the build video of the game changer who built it she says that she used a bunch of debug stuff but they made her remove it from the final build. My theory is that something didn't get deleted. I wish if the game changers are given the opportunity to build for the game that they would at least follow Maxis' rules so these thing don't happen. This may never get fixed and I can't not see it now.
simprediem
3 years ago
This problem is still present in the game. I bulldozed the lot from manage worlds in spring and moved in my sim the following winter. The smoke was immediately present. I was hoping to build a legacy mansion there, but I guess that's gonna have to be done elsewhere, unless I wanna have phantom smoke appearing. Such a shame as it's a very nice lot otherwise.
iamsweetmystery
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I'm having the same issue on PS4. Got rid of the chimneys because I only kept one of the fireplaces. Disappointing that bulldozing the lot won't fix it. It was an option I was considering. Thought maybe it was a shrunk down item I couldn't locate placed for additional effect, or maybe an invisible emitter like that one set of lights that vanishes when you leave build mode, but looks like its a bug judging by this thread.

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