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Carpincho54's avatar
6 years ago

Houses disappearing

I’ve had Sims 4 for almost a month on a Mac and I’ve had no problems until now. I have no packs and all my households are in willow creek. When I go on a house it brings me to an empty lot and the household is just on the driveway. However, the only house that does show up when I go on it is one I got from the gallery, also the paintings from the gallery don’t show up and only their frame does. In the gallery all the things I saved disappeared and only the lots you automatically get from the sim world are in my library. I did use the motherlode cheat and the money cheat in case that has something to do with it. Please help me because I really want to play and don’t want to have to redo everything and lose my huge family.

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  • @Carpincho54  I'm not sure what has gone wrong to cause what you have described so can you provide a bit more information please?

    Did all the houses in a zone disappear or just the one for your active household?  From what you have said, I get the impression that all the houses disappeared except the one you got from the gallery.  Is this correct?

    Where do the paintings not show up or show up blacked out?  In the house you downloaded or were they on another lot? 

    When you downloaded the lot with the paintings, was it flagged as cc?

    On the gallery and library:  Are you saying that houses you uploaded to the gallery have disappeared or are you saying that houses you downloaded to your library disappeared?  It is possible to download a lot from the gallery and place it directly so when you do it that way, the lot never goes into your library.  So I find it best to download a lot or sims to my library and then place them into my game from my library.

    Do you have a previous save that you can go back to look if your house is still there?

    Hope this helps.

  • thank you for your response. So I have multiple houses in willow creek with households I created, but ever single lot in every single world disappears. Yes, only the house from the gallery appears. A very strange glitch just happened to my house from the gallery, it said the lot type was a park, but I never changed it and it wasn't like that before. So now I can't buy anything or build in the house because I do not have enough business funds since its now a park. I know it wasn't a park before because I never had business funds, I only had the household's Simoleons. Im having so many glitches that I'm considering restarting everything, I'm very sad about it. Any advice would be very helpful?

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @Carpincho54  There have been a number of different posts about lots changing the venue type.  You should be able to get into the lot in build mode from the map and change it back to residential.

    On the disappearing houses, have you tried starting a new game and placing the house from the gallery to see if you can reproduce the others disappearing?  Atm, I'm inclined to think that something with that house is messed up and it might be causing your problem so you need to rule that out.

    And did I understand you correctly, that all houses in multiple worlds disappeared?  Including all the premade ones?