I've had several home fires, sometimes daily, from using the dryer. Is this normal? I mean in real life people don't usually set their house and themselves on fire from the dryer. Why are all my households...and butlers...turning into tinderboxes from drying clothes?

Dryers have a chance of catching fire if you don't clean the lint tray. The option to clean it comes up when clicking on the dryer after every load you dry.

I've had a few. Originally, I blamed it on the Butler's negligence when it came to cleaning that lint tray! When I'm directing my Sims to do their own laundry, I'm able to prevent such fires. Once your Sim places the wet clothes into said dryer, there is an option to Clean Lint Tray. I have them do this before they dry clothes. However, I'm not always successful. Unclean lint trays in RL can and do cause such fires, just an FYI.This is Aaron Cantrell, the eldest of the five Cantrell children, brother to my Teen Global Superstar, Erik Cantrell. He's a recently aged up YA, trying to help around the house. Gives credence to the old axiom good deeds do not go unpunished. :open_mouth: Something absurdly wrong with that.https://i.imgur.com/ISGfUyi.jpg

Clean the lint tray, and you can upgrade it to "lintless" so that doesn't happen anymore.

Ah--I hadn't noticed that dryers could be upgraded to "lintless" to avoid fires. That's good to know! I have generally stopped using washer/dryers in the game because of the fire issue.

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Perthelia
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
"Mstybl95;c-17862923" wrote:
Ah...so they won't autonomously clean the lint tray then. My sims do the laundry on their own and I never direct them. Looks like I'll be removing the laundry stuff since I don't like to micromanage, especially with household chores I don't even like to do in real life. lol

Well, as I mentioned, if you upgrade it to "lintless" it stops catching on fire.
AaronRulz78
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
I like this feature because it adds the possibility of random death since sims will do laundry autonomously.
JanuaryGarnet08
New Spectator
4 years ago
"aaronrulz;c-17863408" wrote:
I like this feature because it adds the possibility of random death since sims will do laundry autonomously.

Yes, this. There’s precious little unpredictability in this game. You create a sim or have one born in game and you are basically 100% guaranteed they will live to a ripe old age having lived a very cushy adversity free life. ?
MstyBL95
4 years ago
The problem for me is that I modded my game to be harder so random death happens a lot. So far the dryer has been a guaranteed death. I've lost a lot of sims over the past few days playing with laundry. Haha

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