Gremlins!

"Simsister2004;15390444" wrote:
Where do you find the repair gnomes, and what do they look like? Can I only have them in apartments?

Hello @Simsister2004
The Gnomes is a lot trait that you can put on houses and apartments. This is a link to a list of lot traits and the effects that they have on homes.
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/lottraits/

This is what is written about the lot trait on the site

Broken things just seem to get mended overnight. It's as if kindly Gnomes watch over the place... While Sims are sleeping, gnomes may appear late at night to fix any broken objects.

I put a bunch of gnomes on a shelf in my apartment. Instead of stuff being broken every day, it's been about 2 sim weeks with no broken stuff. I guess it worked. Will post back if stuff breaks again.

Unbreakable does NOT defeat the trait for the record. I got unbreakable plumbing so as to avoid at least that issue (I hate when the tub breaks), and the tub and toilet both break every night. Which would bother me less if the tub was fixable. There is no progress ring when my Sim attempts to repair the tub-- she just goes on and on and on fixing it and it never finishes. I have now replaced the tub and this time I'm testing to see if the repairman can do it, but he's been here for hours too.

Is that because of the Gremlins trait or is this yet another glitch?


ETA: Repairman couldn't fix the tub either.
This is ridiculous.

It's so frustrating! Imagine if you had a huge apartment and everything broke! It happened to me and my sim died from fixing a stove..

I love chaos in my game it makes it more interesting. Though if you have the gnome trait with the gremlin trait it tends to help out a lot with sims with low handiness skills.

What if you have both the Gremlins lot trait and the Gnomes lot trait?

I know this is thread necromancy in the extreme, but this is the thread that pops up when you google "Sims 4 Gremlins trait," so I thought I'd pop in here to let people know how to control this trait if you just want the gremlins to come SOME nights (like when you have the next day free to do repairs and want a steady source of upgrade parts).

Just be awake at midnight. The gremlins only come if the household is asleep. So: pause the game at 11:45, get up to go pee, and then by the time you pee and wash your hands it's past midnight and you're safe to go back to sleep. :)

I had a sim who had a gremlins apartment as her first one as I wanted to make it realistic (she'd moved into a bad place on her first house) and ended up putting EVERYTHING that could break in my inventory every night, then replacing it the following morning. It got tedious and I eventually moved her out... Looking back I could have added Gnomes or just made her stay awake until midnight.

I was about to place my sim in an apartment that had the gremlin trait until I searched it up because I was uncertain. Thank the lords I didn’t place her there. Skipped a problem there