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malvamoors's avatar
1 year ago

Child disappeared from the game

I had a very odd experience with one of my families. There were parents with twins and I hadn't played with them for a while. Today I realized that the other twin is missing like she never existed.

The parents have no memory of having her, although both remember the birth of her twin sister. The child is not anywhere in the world or family tree, and no one has any relationships with her. I have no idea what caused this since I'm not even near the culling limit. The Sim cannot be found with the resetSim cheat.

Nothing refers to an instant death or anything, as there should be at least a tombstone (and autonomous child deaths shouldn't be nearly impossible.) The family is in my library but in much earlier state so I would not prefer to use that as a safe file. Can someone tell me what could have possibly happened?

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    1 year ago

    @malvamoors 

    Your child was taken away (culled) because of neglect. You can load a game prior to this happening. There is no other way to get the child back.

  • Thank you for your answer! This could be possible, but I have never seen children getting whisked away outside the active household. That's scary! I hadn't even played with the family in question for a long time.

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    1 year ago

    @malvamoors 

    It can happen when you play rotationally if they were at risk of being taken away when you changed to play another household.