Sims won't go to bed by themselves
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? 1.67.45.1020 What ex...
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@ValiantRedKnight Could you attach a video ?
I don't know how to. I tried attaching a video as a file but it said it was too large.
- @ValiantRedKnight Try uploading to unlisted youtube and attach. Or upload it to google or onedrive
I have the very same problem as @ValiantRedKnight . I'm not uploading a video, but here is how to reproduce the bug.
Please note that I've completely removed the folder "Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4", so to start a fresh game.
My game is v. 1.68.154.1020, with all the expansion, game and stuff packs.
I first noticed the problem after installing Star Wars, but it may have occurred earlier and I may have just overlooked it.
Here are the steps to reproduce the bug.
- Start a fresh new game, create a random sim and lodge him at Crick Cabana in Willow Creek.
- Assign the right side of the double bed to the sim.
- Set game to x3 speed without interacting with the sim.
- As soon as the Energy bar becomes yellow, click the Auto-solve button of the energy bar: the sim will go to bed and sleep all night long.
- NOTE: if the sim goes autonomously to bed, it doesn't count: you must send him to bed using the auto-solve button in order to trigger the bug.
- The next day, set the game speed to x3 until the Energy bar becomes yellow again.
At this point:
1) If you click the auto-solve button, the sim will take a nap (not sleep) on a bed or couch (in other games, my sims went to nap on chairs, too, and long chairs, hot tubs or even sitting at the kotatsu table from Snowy Escape; sometimes they just waved with their hand and did nothing; their first choice is the coffee, if there's a machine on the lot).
2) If you don't click the auto-solve button, the sim will autonously go napping on a bed or on a coach.
I'm attaching the savegame file (saved as soon as the bug occurred: my sim is still napping on the bed); and I'm also attaching the Config.log file, in case it's useful.
Let me know if I can provide any more information about the problem.
Some more (hopefully) useful information.
1) If you never click the Energy auto-solve button, the sim will spontaneously go to bed and sleep, night after night, without problems; the bug is triggered when you click the Energy Auto-solve button for the first time.
2) When the bug has been triggered, doing the following things are completely useless to solve the problem:
- selling and re-buying the bed
- restarting the game (saved with the bug active)
- shift-clicking the bed to reset the object.
3) No matter how many beds there are on the lot, once the bug has been triggered, the sim won't use them spontaneously.
4) In any case, manually sending a sim to sleep works fine.
5) Clicking other auto-solve buttons (bladder, hunger...) doesn't affect the bug; however, I noticed (in other games, not this specific test game) that occasionally some other auto-solve buttons trigger odd actions, like drinking coffee to auto-solve the bladder bar. This last oddity may be totally unrelated to the bug, though.
- @ValiantRedKnight Tagging for feedback. Do you still see this ?
- @crinrict I haven’t patched yet, but the issue does seem to be with the right side of the bed in the patch before the latest one.
- @ValiantRedKnight Let us know if it still occurs once you patch.
