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7 years ago

Have household collections changed?

I could swear that prior to Seasons (or the pre-Seasons patch), my legacy family's household collection showed everything they had ever collected, even if the item had been collected by a great-great grandparent who had long since moved out and gone to the Great Llama. Now, the 'household' collection only shows what my currently selected Sim has collected, even though the family still has everything in the treasure chest. To get everything in the treasure chest to show in the household collection, I had to transfer everything from the treasure chest to my Sim's inventory. (It stayed in the household collection when I transferred it back to the chest, but when Hollie moves out and her daughter starts her own family, I'm going to have to do it again.)

I can see that for an individual Sim working on the collection aspiration, they shouldn't be credited for collecting items someone else collected, but it's hard to tell what the household is missing. Hollie's mother had completed the egg collection, but Hollie still had to collect all the frogs to get the 'complete a collection' requirement, and that makes sense. However, on a household level, it was nice to see at a glance what the household had collected over the generations.

(I do like the little gifts thunderstorms leave for my Sims - it makes up for having to replace their outdoor lights all the time. They had an intense storm last night, and the garden was littered with elements.)

3 Replies

  • Yeah, this tends to happen sometimes when they unfortunately reset all of a household's collection progress and you have to transfer the collection items back into their inventories before it can be registered again. There is no fix for it other than the workaround you've already used.
  • Hi, I've been having a problem where just some of my collections disappear and when I go in and out of build/buy mode I check my collections again and it says collections 99/99 in red writing. Please help.
  • "mitchntezza;c-16823421" wrote:
    Hi, I've been having a problem where just some of my collections disappear and when I go in and out of build/buy mode I check my collections again and it says collections 99/99 in red writing. Please help.


    Hello @mitchntezza
    If you have cc/mods in your game, move your whole mods folder to the desktop.
    Delete the cache files
    https://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/delete-cache-files
    Then start the game and see if the issues are still there. If it has helped with the issues, put your mods/ CC back into the newly generated mods folder that is in the sims 4 folder one by one or in batches and testing after each one to see which is the causes of the problem.

    Repairing the game may help. To do that, go to games library in Origin, right click on the sims 4 picture and click repair

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