[OPEN] [W] Celene Lopez not working at grimtooth bar

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Italiano
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? latest june patch (werewolves)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? move the grimtooth bar to another lot to use that nice mostly empty 50x40 lot and visit it with a sim
What happens when the bug occurs? Celene Lopez does not appear if you move the lot or make another bar in Moonwood Mill. Visiting the lot as it is spawns at least one townie bartender who just hangs around sniffing their pits and howling. Moving the bar lot or modyfing it causes Celene Lopez to not work there anymore, cease to offer lycantropy cure drinks and doesn't offer her flavor texts when asked about moonwood mill, resulting in immersion and gameplay loss of a special NPC. Supernaturals still spawn correctly however
What do you expect to see? I expect to always find Celene Lopez working in bars in Moonwood Mill to offer her unique interactions
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure

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Only mod content I've started using are CC related to CAS items and removing them has no effect, no script mods or anything game altering or related to this pack in any way that I know of.
Honestly I find extremely odd to use one of the best/biggest lots of the werewolves game pack to house a very small bar and underground werewolf bunker, they could have easily fit it all in the 30x30 lot (which I did with minimal decor loss) and let us live our lumberjack/farming best life provided the unique characteristics of the grimtooth bar could be moved elsewhere. Moonwood mill is simply wonderful but having to decide between living in a cramped lot or lose gameplay and immersion elements is not a choice I'd want to make

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PipMenace
Hero
4 years ago
Perhaps more of a feedback item then a bug, but I do wish the unique elements of a pack’s bar were more transferable. The bar as placed from build buy offers neither the werewolf cure nor any of the food. Are those options attached to the lot? Fine, make it a lot trait we can apply. Don’t want it as a lot trait? Attach it to the bar object.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could set your bar to serve different types of food/drinks (# of options based on # of packs) instead of all of them just offering the same enormous drink menu and nothing else when placed in a custom build?
EsperAngel
Seasoned Vanguard
4 years ago
@PipMenace that would be ideal! slapping a trait on the lot would save everyone an headache, since lots of people, even those who never moved the lot, can't find Celene.
Or, since the communal lots of moonwood mill have a special tuning that beckons supernaturals, they could just add the elusive bartender to that
Rosehrtgirl
Seasoned Vanguard
3 years ago
I am having the same problem with the wolf bar, generating a new werewolf bar worker each time I visit the bar. I had this happen in a game without mods I was playing for a short while. So the wolf bar is affected by this bug as will.
tommytiger13
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
@WingedSnek I started a new game in Moonwood, and Celene was not bartending like she should have.

The game took some Sunset Valley townies and generated a few others, but I never saw Celene the entire game. She was still in the bin (she didn't get randomly killed by a story), so it was just the game never choosing her.
crinrict
Hero+
3 years ago
@tommytiger13 I moved your post over to the thread on Celene.

The Henford issue is different.
PipMenace
Hero
3 years ago
@tommytiger13 I’m curious, did you ever spend an extended period of time at the bar, or just check in, see she wasn’t working, and leave again? I noticed after the first few times I played that she never seemed to be the FIRST bartender, but if I hung around the lot long enough for a shift change or two she would eventually show up.
Jeremy_GoneWild
New Scout
3 years ago
I'm having a similar issue. Not sure if it's related. Celene is no longer working at Grimtooth Bar.
One of my Sims married her. After, she has no job. I also replaced Grimtooth bar with a better version from the gallery. I moved the family out of my households but she still doesn't show up to work. The bartenders that do show up are wearing similar clothes as her. I had a sim sit around for multiple shift changes and she never showed up. How do I get her back to working there?
Edit: I should note, I'm not intending to play her or her household. I was just wanting to make a more fleshed out NPC household.
PipMenace
Hero
3 years ago
@Jeremy_GoneWild "One of my Sims married her." - as soon as any NPC special character is moved into a played household, they lose their special role and are replaced. They don't get it back if you mark them unplayed again.
The problem is Celene doesn't actually seem to get replaced? The other bartenders don't seem able to help with werebies.
Did you have her briefly as a played Sim for the wedding? You might be able to reset her with cheats: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-Feedback/Premade-sims-losing-their-occupation-when-played/td-p/10693448
Jeremy_GoneWild
New Scout
3 years ago
@PipMenace Thanks for the reply. Yeah I did briefly play the household, and I guess that's when she broke. I used fulleditmode in cas to make her married to the other sim, but I briefly played the household because I wanted her husband to be a pack alpha. I suppose I should've done that and moved the household back out of my played households before merging Celene into the family. At least now I know the correct way to edit special NPCs for the future.

Thanks for the link to the cheats to reset NPC occupations. I see most of those are for cottage living NPCs, which will probably come in handy for me, but I don't know what the specific career code for the grimtooth bar is. If you or another person reading this knows what that is, so I can use those NPC career cheats, that would probably fix my issue.
LyssSimpatico1
3 years ago
last night I noticed Celene was no longer the bartender. So I went to a save she was and copied all of her buffs and added them to the Celene in my main save. So she is assigned as an Npc mixologist but to prevent her from working elsewhere there is a buff that keeps her in “weretown” I also think she isnt dressed like a regular bartender because her career outfit is just customized to her. You could probably fix all of this with mccc.