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whitejade1979
5 years ago

Re: [OPEN] Trash Cans Stop Working on Some Lots

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.68.154.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Cats and Dogs, Dine Out, Vampires, Holiday
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Attempt to dispose of garbage (only tested with Nanocan so far, might work on others).
What happens when the bug occurs? The sim will pick up the trash (or disposable object), then set it right back down in the form of trash and complain about its presence. I can sometimes salvage the trash repeatedly, but it is impossible to dispose of despite the trash can being in a very accessible area. I can't drag and drop it into the can, either. In essence, the game doesn't seem to realize that the can exists.
What do you expect to see? The sim should put the disposable object into the trash can (or like I was trying to do with the pet poop, store it in the inventory for use as fertilizer).
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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If it helps, my sim has the Loves Outdoors, Family-Oriented, and Bookworm traits, with the Freelance Botanist aspiration.  I only noticed this happening after she gave birth and aged up the baby to a toddler, though it could have happened before, given that Trash Plants had started sprouting on Brindleton Bay's beach before she got pregnant.  She is on the Hound's Head lot, with the lot having the Off-the-Grid, Convivial, and Homey traits.

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  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    5 years ago

    If you replace the can, and maybe the outdoor one too, can you drag and drop the trash to the can yourself then? When this happened to me, I eventually resolved it by dragging and dropping every single piece of trash on the lot to a nanocan (normal trash cans didn’t work). Once there was no old trash left on the lot, new trash that generated could be thrown out by the Sim again.

    Of course, I’d also restarted and reset the game a few times by then. And deleted and replaced multiple trash cans. Drag-and-drop had not worked on previous cheaper trash cans.

    Edit: As a side note... you mention Brindleton Bay. That was the same world it happened to me in, with a fluffy cat that left fur piles all over the house. I wonder if it’s somehow related to not keeping up with pet trash?

  • whitejade1979's avatar
    whitejade1979
    5 years ago

    It might help, but I already had the nanocan and tried to drag and drop all my garbage.  While one of the piles had originally been pet poop (which I was trying to pick up for fertilizer), most of them had been normal trash from repairing.  I'm not sure how it would be solely related to pet trash, but I'll try the suggestions.

  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @whitejade1979 Yeah I'm not sure how or why specifically it would be pet trash, but mine started on cat fur in Brindleton (and became all trash on the lot) and I just thought it was interesting yours was the same world and you also had a pet. There were only one or two other people who had the issue when I first brought it up: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Trash-Cans-Stop-Working-on-Some-Lots/td-p/9305638

    Fingers crossed replacing the trash cans works for you!

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