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"Pegasys;c-16936012" wrote:
I learned something recently about tombstone generation. My sim had moved out of her childhood home, and then my sim's mother died, but there was no urn/tombstone left at her mother's lot. There was something about this particular lot that prevent the urn/tombstone from being generated.

The lot also had my sim's father's tombstone - he died while my sim was still living there. After some testing, I learned that because I'd used the "moveobjects" cheat to move some grass around her father's tombstone, that prevented her mother's tombstone from being generated.

From a previous save, I removed the grass and other objects around the other tombstone (my sims's father) and then when the mother died, the tombstone was generated properly - well, actually intersecting the father's tombstone. I guess the game wanted to place the tombstones near each other and couldn't because of my use of MOO.

Useful to know @Pegasys I didn't use moo etc. Maybe the hall was too small though for both.

I got struck by a death in the family again today. I had made a family of 8 adults and given them all their own houses. Now they are dying off one by one but which one where? The notification is too quick to fade and my families are all sad and wanting to sleep it off in bed.

Problems like this get more difficult to solve if you have a huge population with most lots filled.

It's about time for a graveyard. It reminds me of SimCity Rush Hour when you are reminded to get one for your grieving population!

If you click on the notification wall you can see messages that have faded, for what it's worth. Clicking on the sim's picture will even move the camera to the sim if it's possible, although if they're dying in a different zone you're out of luck, yeah.

Also, check the household inventory ... I've sometimes had urns show up there after someone dies in a different zone.

"Bagoas77;c-16933780" wrote:
I'm surprised that a graveyard or mausoleum still hasn't been added to ts4. It's getting a bit old as a computer game since it was released almost 5 years ago, but finally adding in a graveyard for the dead to automatically be interred would be a convenient way for us to find our dead sims... (or a mortuary... I'd love to play as a mortician... think of all the crazy makeup you could put on dead sims).

We need a graveyard lot. Huuugh I'm so tired of this game having so many important features missing...

I made a small cemetary for my Sims in Windenberg under the high wall and one of my Sims took her mum Hazel's urn there along with the family so that they could mourn her and engrave an epitaph on her headstone. I have since found it useful for another family whose dad's urn I couldn't trace. They went there and mourned Hazel! It seemed to satisfy them. (I loved the original example on the headstone - "I told you I was dead").
I made the plot Generic and given it a Haunted, dog friendly and Gnomes traits to keep it tidy, plus a public toilet and hope the ghosts can haunt there. I'm not sure if they can haunt outside their family home.

A strange thing-- On going back to another family who've been dropping like flies (another eight). There are now three named headstones in their memorial plot in their large garden and I cannot remember putting more than two in! Who did that? :o