[WORKAROUND] Sim has Mermaid Discovered trait (never been mermaid)
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? 1.58.63.1010
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except Moschino Stuff and Discover University
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? This may be exclusively a result of the November 2019 patch. OR Have a family with a female spellcaster and a male mermaid, parents of a spellcaster toddler. Move the family from Glimmerbrook to Sulani.
What happens when the bug occurs? The spellcaster sim uses mermaid animations in the ocean and in the bathtub. When entering the ocean, she does the mermaid flip. She does not have a tail, and she swims around normally, but she flips as if she was transforming when entering and leaving the ocean. When using a bathtub she does the "tail flap" to kick her legs/feet outside of the bathtub. Her human legs/feet hang out of the bathtub bent at an odd angle. She also seems to be unable to take baths with soaks, similar to another bug I saw reported. [EDIT] - She does have the option to use the soaks, but acts like she cannot path to them when directed to use them. She can take a normal bath in the same tub. Eating mermadic kelp had absolutely no effect on her - I tried twice and only got the moodlet for eating produce.
What do you expect to see? I expect my non-mermaid sims to use normal human animations when interacting with the ocean and bathtubs. I also expect all sims to be able to take baths with soaks.
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? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. November 2019 Patch
My spellcaster sim started using mermaid animations when entering the ocean and using bathtubs. She swims normally and does not have a tail, but she does the flipping transition when entering the ocean, and hangs her legs/feet out of the bathtub at an odd angle when taking a bath.
She also seems to be unable to take baths with soaks. [EDIT] - She does have the option to use the soaks, but acts like she cannot path to them when directed to use them. She can take a normal bath in the same tub.
I can't remember if this happened after moving her and her mermaid partner to Sulani or after the November patch.
I tried having her eat Mermadic kelp twice, and it had no effect on her at all. She only got the moodlet for eating produce.
Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title
@fishonamission Did you completely create her from scratch or download from the gallery ?
The Sim has a mermaid discovered trait what seems to be causing the issue
You can use the cheat: traits.remove_trait occultMermaid_discovered to remove that trait
She should be fine after that.