Looking For Tips on Using Multiple Fridges
Hey Simmers! I haven’t had this as an issue in the past, so if I need to report it as a bug I will. However, in the past, Sims would be able to have access to all foods made in a household at any ref...
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@jpkarlsen In my experience of testing, the inventory is not shared. If condo A made a vegetarian meal and condo B made a regular meal, condo B won’t be able to access the vegetarian meal without going to Condo A’s fridge (and vice versa). This is with different refrigerators. Now at one point and for years, I could access any food in any fridge if they were all the same model. As of late, within the past month, this no longer works. Only the sims living in their own “condos” can access their own previously prepared food items and not the entire condo’s community food items.
Just did a quick test to se if anything had changed. Grilled skewers and put them in the mini fridge and cooked two dishes that where put in the normal size fridge. All three where available from both fridges so nothing have changed in this regard.
Interesting, are you using any mods? Previously all fridges on the same lot shared inventory.
I have also found in past plus with the most recent lot I built (within the last week - which had multiple floors, a semi-attached living space with a mini-fridge, and an upstairs and downstairs refrigerator of two different types) that the ability of the household Sims and to access leftovers and ice cream did not seem to behave any differently than previously. I use this function almost exclusively to feed my large households... I prepare multiple types of meals (or ice cream/baked goods) and drag them to any of the refrigerators in the home. The refrigerator contents all sync. If I want to direct someone to get food I choose 'Get Leftovers' on one of the refrigerators or the mini-refrigerator (as @jpkarlsen suggested). If I don't direct them to do this they do it nicely autonomously.
@jpkarlsen ... thank you for the information/tests on the nuances of how they behave if directed in overlapping ways to access leftovers from the same platter. Interesting... and good to know!
This method seems to help my households not get fat from eating when called to a meal even if they aren't hungry and from a lot of the musical chairs meal chaos that came when I forced it with planned meal times and call to meal commands. I save the chaos of that for holidays and such. LOL! That saved me some sanity as well since I love huge households. 🙂
I don't have Mods and CC, though, so maybe that could be a factor?
@MzMelonz , I also have the same experience as @jpkarlsen , @xochiquetzl_xkvn , and @SheriGR in that all my meals are accessible to all the fridges on the lot, regardless of whether they were in the same building, or on the same floor, or even if the models of the refrigerators were different. (But like @SheriGR , I also do not use any Mods or CC, so I don't have to worry about outdated Mods/CC causing problems in my game, or having to replace them all when the Mods/CC gets updated to work with an updated game. 😅)
Does this happen even in a different save game file? 🤔
