Certain Sims can lose ability to eat

@thoughtfix I'm moving this to game issues for now for troubleshooting.

Will check this out later as I'm bit short on time currently.

Did you do similar with other Sims that have this issue or did it ever happen to one on an always vanilla game ?

Do you still have the Sim in the gallery ? If so, what's the name ?

EDIT: Your google link doesn't work for me.

Thanks, Crin. I tried to write it up as detailed as possible, like I'd write a bug report at work.

Google made public sharing take extra steps. I think I fixed that:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/150RC2U5bvC-HANSopx-trwgv1CDlzuQH/view?usp=drive_link

Before the sim in this savegame, I did a lot of troubleshooting but not as extensive.  I did repairs, reinstalls from scratch, and moving the savegame from the PC to the Mac.

The Sim is in my gallery, but it is not public. It's an edit of someone else's public gallery post (I don't remember who) and I didn't want to repost it with my name on it. Plus I tend to use a lot of less-than-mature names for my characters (Andy Felterbottom, Wayne Kingman, Peter Lee King, Drew Peacock, Ophelia Knightley, you get the idea) so I tend to not make my characters public.

I am continuing on the same save file with at least four characters in this "busted" state, all running as unplayed households so they can continue the family lines. Every time I go back to check on them, they refuse to eat whether they are being controlled by me or running as Townies.

Hope that helps!

@thoughtfix Started up your save and loaded the lot you described. She ate the garden salad that was in front of her. Then she made Delicioso'd spaghetti and ate that too ☹️

The installation on the mac was completely new with never played before ?

EDIT: Which packs do you own ? Cooking was also no issue. Moved her into a house.

That's odd! I am installing Sims 4 on a machine (through EA, not Steam) on a machine that never had anything on it before since reformatting (a spare Zephyrus laptop from 2020) and I'll try loading the savegame there.

I have a LOT of DLC. 39 I think. I'd screenshot the list but I can't be logged into the launcher on this PC while downloading from the other PC for (thanks EA)

Good afternoon!

I am still downloading it on the Zephyrus laptop. No idea why it's taking so long. I overestimated and this is my full set. Looks like 32.

1. Werewolves Game Pack
2. Vintage Glamour Stuff
3. Vampires
4. Tiny Living
5. Strangerville
6. Spooky Stuff
7. Spa Day
8. Seasons
9. Romantic Garden Stuff
10. Realm of Magic
11. Perfect Patio Stuff
12. Parenthood
13. Paranormal Stuff Pack
14. Outdoor Retreat
15. My First Pet Stuff
16. Luxury Party Stuff
17. Laundry Day Stuff
18. Island Living
19. Holiday Celebration Pack
20. High School Years
21. Growing Together
22. Goth Galore Kit
23. Get Together
24. Get To Work
25. Get Famous
26. Eco Lifestyle
27. Discover University
28. Desert Luxe Kit
29. City Living
30. Cats & Dogs
31. Backyard Stuff
32. Sims 4 Bonus Content (I think maybe from EA Plus from Xbox Game Pass?)

Okay this is on a brand new install: ROG Zephyrus G14, Ryzen 4900HS, 24GB RAM, 2060 GPU. Windows 11 (the other Windows PC was Win10) and it never had any EA game or game installer on the PC before.  Game version would obviously be "latest from EA" as of today.

Downloaded everything (took a while, had to pause and unpause a couple times to get downloads flowing again) and I started the game without my save to see if there were no errors. There were none. So zero mods, zero CC, and just my EA purchased content.

I downloaded the save game from the Google Drive link I posted in my message here to make sure I got the exact file you did and started the game.

The results: She is still unable to eat. I recorded this with Xbox Game Bar for Win11 and here's the result:

https://youtu.be/WdHNBgzuRHE

Sorry I accidentally inferniated the table instead of Delicioso. She had some problems making an edible meal after that, but when she did she still did not eat it.

I would just play a different family or different save game, but this one is eight generations deep and the eating sims are having more problems. Something happens with a sim flag, ability, trait, skill, or something else that permanently breaks a Sim and it remains present without custom content or mods installed since this PC never had mods.  I'll upload the sim to my shared gallery and re-download her and see what happens, but I am pretty sure she's busted.

I made sure all custom content was off and uploaded her to the gallery. Her name is Ravenous Cravensfood and the family name is Cravensfood Bugged.

I started a new game on the Zephyrus PC and downloaded her from my Gallery. She bought a lot in Newcrest, dropped a table and a chair, in Build Mode, and made salad with Delicioso. I set the salad on the table and told her to eat it. She sat down in front of it and ... drum roll ... cancelled the action and decided to play on her phone. Could not get her to eat.

I am convinced that the character is bugged. I think I've done everything to prove that it is not related to custom content. IT IS POSSIBLE that custom content set a flag in this sim that permanently broke it and somehow the flag is carried to new saves, Gallery uploads, etc. but it's worth some developer time to fire up a debug mode and see exactly why that flag is being set.

I hope we find it! Maybe this will permanently fix the problems others have with sims losing the ability to eat when they use custom content. Usually they delete cc beds and it's fixed, but that's not the case with this sim. I don't even think I've ever had any cc beds.

We must go deeper!

Through command line options, I meticulously removed DLC, several at a time, and saw the same results. Eventually I ended up with no DLC enabled, just the base game, and lots of errors of "missing content" when importing her. Still - she refuses to eat.

This tells me that there is something wrong specifically with THIS SIM and other sims that have this problem. It's not a conflict with any DLC. Something sets a property in the sim that breaks her ability to continue eating.

I decided to go in and remove all her Traits with MCCC several at a time. She didn't get finish the food and didn't fix her hunger, but got the "unbalanced meals" debuff after trying too many Rice Cake attempts. I tried to go into CAS and randomize her appearance and clothing. Same issues. I removed all her skills. Same thing, except she looked like she hated making her salad.

I went back in and enabled all custom content, had her cast Duplicato, and took control of her clone. Her clone EATS. She eats happily, every time. So the bug is some property that does not get copied in a Duplicato that is present in the original.

Without access to developer tools, I cannot get a dump of all properties of the broken Sim and the duplicate and run a diff against them. I'm researching modding tools now.