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bond_with_bees
Seasoned Vanguard
1 year ago
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[GRO] Infants can't get on and off playmat by themselves

Infant earned the Scoot milestone, and unlocked the "Scoot Here" interaction on any area of nearby floor. However, they cannot independently scoot to the playmat, and can only be carried there by a caregiver.  
Playmat is in-range (Scoot Here is available on any area of surrounding floor tiles)

Vanilla save, no mods or CC, cleared cache files etc.

Edit By crinrict: Adjusted Title to fit old bug report.

  • Hello,

    This is currently functioning as designed. Please feel free to provide your feedback on this design choice here if you'd like.

    Thanks!

10 Replies

  • bond_with_bees's avatar
    bond_with_bees
    Seasoned Vanguard
    1 year ago

    To clarify, the playmat itself is working fine, an Adult sim can "Put [infant] Here" and the infant can play, sleep, etc. 
    But the infant cannot go there independently even when able to Scoot. 

     

  • rma209's avatar
    rma209
    Seasoned Veteran
    1 year ago

    I would like it adjusted but I figured it was a design choice or oversite myself. 

  • plumploaf2's avatar
    plumploaf2
    Seasoned Newcomer
    10 months ago

    I didn't even know this was an option when they have the scoot ability!! This is happening on xbox series x as well. :) 

  • This is an option?  really?  I have never seen an infant crawl or scoot on the playmat, nor have I ever seen that option available on the infant or playmat.  Not ever.  Are we sure this is supposed to be an option????   I really question this because Infant and toddlers are my absolute favorite ages to play!!!  For infants, I always turn off aging until I know I will need them to age up.  

  • I sadly thought this was by design but I would love this to be fixed because I also love infants :)

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    5 months ago

    Hello,

    This is currently functioning as designed. Please feel free to provide your feedback on this design choice here if you'd like.

    Thanks!

  • Since this has been moved to feedback, here's mine: please allow infants to access the playmat on their own once they've unlocked "scoot" or "crawl."

    Thank you

  • Elliefint's avatar
    Elliefint
    Newcomer
    14 days ago

    Can't believe this thread hasn't gotten more feedback since EA's clarification. I would love to hear the explanation for why they made it this way, because I can't imagine what design choices could have made it remotely reasonable to deliberately obstruct infant gameplay and force players (unless we delete the play mat entirely as soon as an infant learns to sit/scoot or crawl, which I, for one, hate being forced to do every time) to micromanage every time their mobile infant gets put down because Sims will autonomously imprison them on the play mat for no reason instead of putting them on the floor where they can move around and play with objects and interact with their environment (which, by the way, is actually developmentally vital for babies), blocking access to basically all infant-as-active-sim gameplay.

  • rma209's avatar
    rma209
    Seasoned Veteran
    13 days ago

    but is that locked behind the pack or not?

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