I dunno about everyone else...but in my game High Chairs have been an endless headache ever since toddlers were added. As soon as one of my sims put a toddler in the highchair and turns to grab a plate of food from a cooked meal for them...the toddler does the let me out motion and they stop what they are doing to take the toddler out. I've tried juggling back and forth between toddler and adult to keep autonomy from kicking in, canceling actions...etc. Doesn't work well, just a total headache. There are mods to supposedly fix it...but they don't work for me.Anywho...I finally cracked the nut! Using MCCC's MC tuner autonomy tuning functions, I turned off the autonomous "Pick Up" action on sims and it seems to have totally stopped the problems. Of course...it also stops the toddler from asking to be picked up for any other reason...Never really see that happen other than when in the high chair though, so whatever. When they ask for other kinds of help, that has it's own interactions.Now I just have to make sure I don't forget the little tykes in the high chair and make sure there's no issues with inactive toddlers on community lots where I've put highchairs (never see anyone use them other than active sims though as far as I can recall).Just thought I'd share this for any other simmers who want to use High Chairs and find them a real headache. It's the 2nd "Pickup" action when clicking a sim and selecting the "Autonomy Scan" option when Scumbumbo autonomy scanning is on.

Thanks, I never thought to use it for that, but it seems obvious now that you mention it :D

yah...I never thought of it either for the past what.. 10 months? Came to me today while I was cursing up a storm over the failure of yet another Highchair mod (tried like 4 so far).I am still concerned that it will cause some other issue where toddlers ask to be picked up, but so far haven't seen any. If you use it too, please do check in here and let me know if you find any issues with it. I don't want this thread around with 'bad advice' if it does cause some other problem.So far so good though!

Urgghh, I hate when I have computer problems that prevent me from simming. Some years back my desktop totally got borked and after a week or so, I bought a gaming laptop that could run TS3 at least on low-medium settings JUST to tide me over until I could afford to get a new high-end desktop. My addiction is real.I hope you get your issues sorted soon @loubyloulou!

I did that a long time ago, but it never worked. My toddlers still call to be let out of the high chair sometimes. I play with autonomy off, so it's not as bad but it's still annoying when it happens. I wish there was a way to keep them in the high chair until I want them to get out.

I don't think it causes any problems. Sometimes my toddlers ask to be picked up from sofas and their beds even though they can get down by themselves, but I think that's a bug with the game.

High Chair issues...finally figured out a fix

loubyloulou
Seasoned Novice
6 years ago
Thanks, I never thought to use it for that, but it seems obvious now that you mention it :D
JaggidEdje
6 years ago
yah...I never thought of it either for the past what.. 10 months? Came to me today while I was cursing up a storm over the failure of yet another Highchair mod (tried like 4 so far).

I am still concerned that it will cause some other issue where toddlers ask to be picked up, but so far haven't seen any. If you use it too, please do check in here and let me know if you find any issues with it. I don't want this thread around with 'bad advice' if it does cause some other problem.

So far so good though!
JaggidEdje
6 years ago
Urgghh, I hate when I have computer problems that prevent me from simming. Some years back my desktop totally got borked and after a week or so, I bought a gaming laptop that could run TS3 at least on low-medium settings JUST to tide me over until I could afford to get a new high-end desktop. My addiction is real.

I hope you get your issues sorted soon @loubyloulou!
Evie0602
6 years ago
I did that a long time ago, but it never worked. My toddlers still call to be let out of the high chair sometimes. I play with autonomy off, so it's not as bad but it's still annoying when it happens. I wish there was a way to keep them in the high chair until I want them to get out.
Evie0602
6 years ago
I don't think it causes any problems. Sometimes my toddlers ask to be picked up from sofas and their beds even though they can get down by themselves, but I think that's a bug with the game.
Karababy52
New Spectator
6 years ago
I gave up on the highchairs a long time ago, it's just much faster to drag a platter of food to the floor in the toddlers room and have them grab a serving themselves. I always put one of those cute toddler chairs in the room for them and they always use that to eat. But, if you actually like using the high chair to serve toddlers regular food, there is a way to do it that's worked for me in the past.

Have any Sim in the household that can do so, 'pick up serving' from the fridge. Pause. Go into that Sim's inventory and drag the plate of food to the highchair. Click 'put toddler here' on the high chair. Unpause. As soon as the toddler is in the highchair, pause. Switch to the toddler, click on the plate and choose 'eat'. Unpause and the toddler should immediately start eating. Of course, this is all done with autonomy off so I'm not sure if it'll work with full autonomy.

It's a bit fiddly, but it's never failed to work for me in the past. I'd try your method, but I haven't used any mods in my game, yet. Still ruminating over if I want to take that leap. :p Thanks for the tip for others who do use that mod though, very helpful. If I ever do get MCCC, I'll give it a try too. :)
JaggidEdje
6 years ago
The method you describe works really well with autonomy, @Karababy52, and I appreciate you sharing it! I just wanted to find some way to make the high chairs work without using a method that requires me to drag things for the sims. Same reason I don't feed them elsewhere like you do...it's a long walk to get the food. :)
Karababy52
New Spectator
6 years ago
Ah, okay, that's cool. You're looking for a more realistic method where no interference is required by 'The Watcher'. It's a shame Simmers need to resort to mods or fiddly methods to get the highchair to work. I actually like the highchair, it's realistic and the toddlers look so cute sitting in them eating their meals. Perhaps one day Devs will tweak it to work correctly. Unfortunately, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it though.

Happy Simming anyway! <3
DocTxt
6 years ago
Oh, nice to know... maybe it's time for me to try MCCC. I tried to avoid mods but there are so many things that I don't like and MCCC seems to fix all of them.
ladysweettart
6 years ago
@Karababy52 that's a really good suggestion, can't believe I never thought to try that!

Also @Stormkeep I never even knew MCCC could do that!

Unfortunately I'm also of the camp who gave up on high chairs a long time ago. I just have a couple of those big stuffed chairs in my kitchen for the toddlers to sit on when enjoying a meal with the rest of the family, and a few in the toddler basement for when they are eating on their own. It is just a lot easier and quicker I've found. The high chairs are cute and more realistic though!