Is there a way to find an urn/tombstone of a sim who died while I was not controlling the household? It's not in family inventory and it's not in any of the sim's inventories. Is it lost forever? I looked all over the lot and couldn't find it. Could it be they died off lot? If so, might their tombstone be on one of the community lots? I want to set up a little private grave area for the family in the back yard.

I don't have an answer for you but I can help keep this bumped up so that, maybe, someone will have the answer.

The urns are HUGE, there aren't any in the house or on the lot anywhere. I really don't know where they died as I was not playing their household at the time. I'm playing a rotational game. I really hope there's a way to retrieve them if they don't die at home because I would very much like to set up grave sites for them all.Thanks for the responses so far.

I've been wondering about this too. I noticed I only saw two of my neighbors when there are three in the house, and when I made them active he was gone. My friendship panel says he's deceased, but there's no sign of an urn or stone anywhere. There are two other friends who have supposedly passed on, but I ran into one of them at the park. Still a good game. Just needs to have a few bumps smoothed out.

Bumping as I just ran across this problem :-(

"Trick;12924615" wrote:"lboosmommy;12924600" wrote:Bumping as I just ran across this problem :-(The problem of not having a tombstone for a household you're not playing?They're not there. Tombstones and urns only drop in the current household.I should have updated this after finding out but I forgot about the thread. Oops. Thanks :)Yes, tombstones/urns are only created in your current household so you don't have tombstones littering up the town (and causing lag). I asked them to look into allowing them to be created in played households and one of the Gurus said they would pass forward the suggestion and that they thought allowing them to be created in played households was a good compromise. I don't know if it will ever happen but, at least the suggestion is out there.

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dark5id3_hippie
11 years ago
I don't have an answer for you but I can help keep this bumped up so that, maybe, someone will have the answer.
moxiegraphix
11 years ago
The urns are HUGE, there aren't any in the house or on the lot anywhere. I really don't know where they died as I was not playing their household at the time. I'm playing a rotational game. I really hope there's a way to retrieve them if they don't die at home because I would very much like to set up grave sites for them all.

Thanks for the responses so far.
shay480
11 years ago

I've been wondering about this too. I noticed I only saw two of my neighbors when there are three in the house, and when I made them active he was gone. My friendship panel says he's deceased, but there's no sign of an urn or stone anywhere. There are two other friends who have supposedly passed on, but I ran into one of them at the park.

Still a good game. Just needs to have a few bumps smoothed out.
lboosmommy
10 years ago
Bumping as I just ran across this problem :-(
moxiegraphix
10 years ago
"Trick;12924615" wrote:
"lboosmommy;12924600" wrote:
Bumping as I just ran across this problem :-(

The problem of not having a tombstone for a household you're not playing?

They're not there. Tombstones and urns only drop in the current household.

I should have updated this after finding out but I forgot about the thread. Oops. Thanks :)

Yes, tombstones/urns are only created in your current household so you don't have tombstones littering up the town (and causing lag). I asked them to look into allowing them to be created in played households and one of the Gurus said they would pass forward the suggestion and that they thought allowing them to be created in played households was a good compromise. I don't know if it will ever happen but, at least the suggestion is out there.
moxiegraphix
10 years ago
Yeah a month and some days is really old isn't it? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
aimleasach
8 years ago
If you're not opposed to using a couple cheats and MCC, it is possible to remove the death trait and then kill the sim again in your presence to have the tombstone/urn appear. I've written up a walkthrough. kluessims4.blogspot.ca/p/tombstone-recovery.html which includes a video posted by another forum member. It does take away some of the immersion, but you can follow the process on another lot and deliver the urn to your active lot and maybe make it a little more acceptable.
Fanphoria
8 years ago
Nope. Right now, not much to be done. Happens to me all the time and I hate it.
arrows4pens
7 years ago
I could NOT find the tombstone of an inactive sim I killed on my Legacy lot, and I really wanted it for the, uh. reasons. Points reasons! But I didn't get a death notification about how he was dying and his tombstone went straight to my family inventory! Took at least a sim-day to think of looking there; I've never seen that happen before.
simgirl1010
Hero
7 years ago
"catmando830;c-16100473" wrote:
NECRO - NECRO - NECRO

Just curious. The previous post was from June. Just how old is old? 1 week? 1 month? 4 months?