Butler doesnt sleep,eat or use the bathroom

Maybe butlers are really aliens in another disguised form, from a different world than Sixam or they are some deranged other form of supernatural. Just don't think of them as Sims but something else - like I have to think of Sims object babies as just child sim delivery units or a new form of human egg and not a baby at all - well you can make up something to represent a strange acting Sims like alien butler. This game is supposedly all about You ruling - well Rule. Decide for yourself it's not actually a Sim if the infant is not actually a Sim baby seeing it does not fit the rules of babyhood to toddler to child - it can't be a real baby - right? Just give the butler another persona - then it's weirdness can make more sense to logical order of things mindsets.

Unless of course you are more like me and can't quite come to terms with all the weirdness in Sims 4 - then do as I do and just act like they don't exist at all and you just got the pack for the other stuff in it that did make sense. I cannot make sense of that child delivery unit so I don't play with any more sims kids. Suggestion don't play with "the not of Simearth butler", Just hire a maid, a gardener, a repairman, and a nanny instead. At least they are sims or more simlike.

I am not a good judge of the nanny though as I said I don't even try to have Sims child delivery units in my game so therefore have never tried the nanny and therefore cannot guarantee it acts like a normal sim. Forgive me if I am wrong as I really do not know how the nanny is compared to former nannies. Nothing is a guarantee in Sims 4 compared to the last 11 years of Sims 2 and 3.


Hmmmm - in real life I just had a brand new stove delivered to replace the stove I had for the last 12 years - wonder if it works just like my old one? Hope so - and hopefully I am safe - it's not made by Maxis or EA.

Well this is a new one....
I opened up cheats and went off and changed my Butlers appearance (changed her to a him and renamed) in CAS and his skills and what not, got him the way i wanted him to look closed it all up and was working grat until a few sim days later when my Sim went out for dinner, came home and my butler had changed back to what he was when i first hired him...errr her...
Very frustrating
Is it just me or are butlers bugged from here to the yingyang?!?
I love butlers but they are hard work!!

Have to be honest i have not noticed, i stopped using butler because i felt his autonomous behavior were not really that great. I mean it didn't add any advantage for me by time i can order him to make food etc.. till he gets it done i could already made a family meal myself.(Kinda wish you could planned schedules for meals in menu choose which meals he should make during a day, like for instance make breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. So he would automatically start preparing them during that specific time a day then call to meal). Same with cleaning if you have cleaning trait it goes fast, or you can hire a maid with think free service or just if there not much to clean it's completely free.

Think Butler really needed to have a lot better behavior autonomously to really add a boon for his service fee, at least in my book less you just want a butler for the status and extra game play value in the interactions with one barking out orders.

But i am really disappointed with the butler usually his supposed to make life easier for you, managing maids, nanny's for kids if your filthy rich so you can enjoy and relax more when you're home at least that's my impression from movies and RL(never had luxury of having one RL so).

@DKguruArtist I can not see the point of either the butler or the nanny! They require as much tending as toddlers, seem to do very little, want to socialize instead of work.... My nanny would have NOTHING to do with the toddlers until a request to fire him, then he agreed to change one diaper. They were hired because the Mrs. was getting really worn out but the hired help brought zero relief. I can not figure out how to make the useful. (Caterer was not much better!) Services seem to just be added complications!

My butler only takes bubble baths and drinks my alcohol

"BlackSimmer101;c-16032479" wrote:
My butler only takes bubble baths and drinks my alcohol

Hello @BlackSimmer101
It may be best to fire your butler and hire a new one. The new butler may do his work better.

Same issue. I hired a butler for the goths and he just stands idle in the kitchen until I have my sim ask him to do something. Never eats and never sleeps. Seems like this has been an issue for a while now.. is this a bug?

hmae123 - Are you up to date on patches as that was fixed in a patch fairly recently for people who had that issue. That is one of the issues that did not happen to everyone - so those type are harder to find solutions to - but that was definitely fixed very recently - I am talking about the butler issue that is - nothing else. LOL.

"Writin_Reg;c-16790950" wrote:
hmae123 - Are you up to date on patches as that was fixed in a patch fairly recently for people who had that issue. That is one of the issues that did not happen to everyone - so those type are harder to find solutions to - but that was definitely fixed very recently - I am talking about the butler issue that is - nothing else. LOL.

I am up to date on everything. I moved my family and the Butler now drinks coffee and eats but doesn’t really do anything else unless told to do so, including sleep. My game itself has been kind of choppy lately (sims not acting right away when prompted, game freezing and things like that) so I might need to try a repair game but it’s probably my computer. I think seasons was too much for it so I worry about the next EP.

Mine Just Sleeps But he/She never eats or other stuff like that. I have had alredy tons of Different ones cause They all die of hunger :/