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12 months ago
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Crystal Creations Kit_Bug from the gemology worktable

Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? French
How often does the bug occur? Permanently since the addition of this Crystal Creations Kit at the game.
What is your current game version number? After two repairs of the game, 1.104.58.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All content for this game.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Make this Crystal Creations Kit content playable, the gemology worktable is not functional.
What happens when the bug occurs? Nothing happens, no error is displayed, it's just this gemology work table which is non-functional, she is buggy, and as a result the whole of this Crystal Creations Kit is unplayable.
What do you expect to see? I want everything in this Crystal Creations Kit to be playable. If the gemology work table is not functional, we cannot play with this kit.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? After forgetting the very first time when launching the game after adding the kit, I noticed a problem, the gemology work table refused to be functional. So I left the game without saving my game, then I removed all the files from the Mods folder as well as the localthumbcache.package file, and performed a repair of the game.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? This problem exists as soon as Crystal Creations Kit is added to the game. Without a mod, whether on an already saved game or on a completely new game created, the gemology worktable remains unplayable, she is buggy. Before making this observation on this gemology worktable, I received the game update, and after adding the kit I applied the latest EA patch released and available wednesday to thursday morning. And the gemology worktable continues to remain buggy, and therefore all the gameplay of this kit cannot be played.

How many of us have a Crystal Creations kit that we can’t play with?

Feel free to describe what happens to you when you try to achieve something on this gemology worktable. As long as she is not functional this worktable, all the contents of this kit will be unplayable, no jewels created and no gameplay in connection with these jewels, only construction mode is possible.

This Crystal Creation content is not working for me, the game does not detect any crystals, metals or models. The Gemology skill and Crystal Craftswoman aspiration cannot be carried out, as is also all the gameplay with jewelry creation and jewelry that has the ability to change Sims' moods or relationships.

- After clicking on the gemology worktable to select a task (Create a jewel, Cut a gemstone), the windows displaying the different choices (Model, Metal, Crystal) to create a jewel or cut a gemstone appear completely empty once the selections have made, there are no Models, Metals or Crystals detected by the game in the Sim's inventory or in the gemmology worktable reserve.

- As for creating a random jewels, my Sim walks up to the worktable and stands there doing nothing.

- If I click Open on the "Humphrey S.A. All-In-One Gemology worktable Items", the window also appears empty, because Metals and Crystals are not detected by the game, neither in the gemmology worktable, nor in the Sim's inventory. In addition, these Metals and Crystals disappear a few minutes after being added to the gemmology worktable reserve.

I also noticed that the game did not save these 3 new crystals and 3 new metals in the collections window once the Sim had acquired them.

As for the steps I took to try to resolve this issue, I first deleted the contents of my Mods folder as well as the localthumbcache.package file and repaired the game. Then I launched the game and my game part (without any mod). Nothing has changed, this kit remains unplayable.

I then quit the game and repaired it again. And once restarted, I created a whole new game part with a whole new Sim (still without any mods in game). This kit is still unplayable despite a newly created game part.

I downloaded the last EA patch released and available wednesday to thursday morning, then restarted my computer. But even if the patch is installed, nothing changes, the problem persists.

  • @LinetteMJ I just looked at your LE (need to read your post later) but that seems to be this issue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-LE-SetAgeProgress/m-p/11709431#M226925

    Not sure if it has anything to do with the problem at hand.

    I'll get back to you on that after dinner.

    EDIT: Do I understand you correctly that it works now on all saves ?

    To clarify: Vanilla does simply means removing all thrid-party content you have. Saves and trays are usually fine to leave to test modless. Also exception files without the client data aren't uselss, it's just not possible to tell from them if a game is without mods or not. 

    If an issue persists, a clean folder approach is always best though, s if that helped you, that's great.

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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    11 months ago
    @LinetteMJ I suggest to post in that setage thread for the LE you're getting. This way they known it's still an issue. Think the thread didn't have any traffic in a while (if you haven't done so, I didn't check the bug forum yet)
  • LinetteMJ's avatar
    LinetteMJ
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    11 months ago

    @crinrict 

    Yes on this subject the dates of last player interventions are 2022 and 2023.

    I responded yesterday on this subject that you indicated to me in order to be able to compare the errors that were listed by my game, but I neglected to insert the link to be able to view the lastexceptions files recently provided here on this subject here.

    I will insert the link right now   🙂

  • LinetteMJ's avatar
    LinetteMJ
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    11 months ago

    @crinrict 

    I have a question.
    Since the new latest update of the game which added a shopping cart icon to the game interface as well as the E-patch and the update which followed, there is a file named houseDescription-client.package which is newly present in the user folder. And at the same time perhaps some other files linked to this shopping cart on the interface would also be newly present in the game installation folders (but which I have not yet searched for at the moment).
    Could this package (and possibly other related files) influence the game, and thus cause these errors listed by the game over the last few days?
     
     
    I ask this question, because in fact each exception file that is created in the user folder, it is only when I click to go to the residential lot where I want to start playing with the Sims home which there are residents, and the same is also listed with new errors detected by the game and added in addition to the other errors already listed in the exceptions file when I want to visit another of my Sims households with my selected Sim.
    And it doesn't matter the world map where the residential land is located or the place where the selected Sim or the Sim I wish to join is present.
    These errors are listed in the exceptions file as soon as it concerns one of the residential lots or Sims played on one of my saved game parts. And like the game when it is launched from the game part, it is conditioned to take into account any package made available to it in the user folder as well as elsewhere all files present which are also necessary for the display and operation of the game during of each game session, I then wonder if with regard to my saved game parts there would not be a cause and effect link which would exist since the appearance of this new package, and possibly associated with other new linked files located in game installation folders.
     
     
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    11 months ago
    @LinetteMJ That file was introduced with the For Rent patch and is used to store some info on lots. It's a cache file so it will recreate if you delete it. Not sure if outdated info can accumulate there.

    The setage LE predates FR so I don't think they are related.
  • LinetteMJ's avatar
    LinetteMJ
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    11 months ago

    @crinrict 

    I only see this file, and I never saw it after applying the For Rent patch, it has only been present in my user folder for the last few days. Perhaps the game tests I have carried out over the last few days using newly created game parts will have caused this file to appear in the user folder. A bit like a correction for what had been missing for several months in this file.
     
    On the other hand, yes it is used to store information like for cache files, because as soon as I delete it at the same time as the localthumbcache.package file before restarting my game, it is recreated as soon as I launch the game.
     
    Okay, so you don't think it's related to any errors in the game over the last few days.
     
    Thank you for this additional information, I wish you a good evening Crinrict  🙌
  • So, out of all the looong text (Sorry i may skip some), is this being solve? as I also have this bug.

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