No way to bust the dust from Off the Greed lot?

According to the live stream you can upgrade the vacuum cleaner to function off the grid.
Too bad scruberoo doesn't work.

Considering there are i think 4 kinds of vacuums, it wouldn't hurt to have 3 instead and one broom. It'll be weird to play the decades challenge and have sims vacuum in the 19th century... i know i can switch the whole dust system off, but then it would be nice to have those cabins all dusty ?

They really ought to make Scrubberoo work with it. I mean, that cute little riding vacuum works as a vacuum.

"telmarina;c-17826158" wrote:
Considering there are i think 4 kinds of vacuums, it wouldn't hurt to have 3 instead and one broom. It'll be weird to play the decades challenge and have sims vacuum in the 19th century... i know i can switch the whole dust system off, but then it would be nice to have those cabins all dusty ?

I think one of the GCs found the dust in debug. I think it was James Turner in his first video about it. It's the only reason I am thinking of getting it because I think I want to disable everything else. It would be cool to add dust to my run down haunted house.

"CelSims;c-17826118" wrote:
Your sim can just pick up the dust piles with their hands. When I told mine to get rid of their plate they would go round the entire house picking up dust piles along with it, to clean up. But yes, scruberoo and a good old broom would've been better.

I've tried it, but the floor continued to get dirtier, despite the dust piles removal :(

"Atreya33;c-17826052" wrote:
According to the live stream you can upgrade the vacuum cleaner to function off the grid.

(there def needed to be a broom option didnt there?)

"Brinn;c-17826240" wrote:

"CelSims;c-17826118" wrote:
Your sim can just pick up the dust piles with their hands. When I told mine to get rid of their plate they would go round the entire house picking up dust piles along with it, to clean up. But yes, scruberoo and a good old broom would've been better.

I've tried it, but the floor continued to get dirtier, despite the dust piles removal :(

Me too, picking up the dust piles does not seem to make the rooms 'clean'.

"dogzdinner;c-17826666" wrote:

"Atreya33;c-17826052" wrote:
According to the live stream you can upgrade the vacuum cleaner to function off the grid.

(there def needed to be a broom option didnt there?)

A broom option would definitely have been a nice alternative. I would probably have ended up using the broom more than the vacuum cleaner if they included it. Hopefully they will patch it in or someone will create a mod by the time I get the pack.

So, I tested this. I pulled my Sims4 folder, and started my game to generate a brand new one to assure there was absolutely no mod interference. I then put in my tray file so I could access my maxed skill test family. I bought them a computer, used motherlode to bump up their cash and bought a bunch of upgrade parts. I upgraded a vacuum to work OTG, and sure enough it doesn't work. OTG items usually work immediately upon placement, sometimes with limited functionality like stoves, and fridges, but they work w/o adding solar panels, windmills etc. I tweeted my findings to Ninja, Nick, and Frost...we'll see if it yields any response. I really like this pack a lot, and even if it's at the low end of the price scale it should work as advertised.

ETA: I let the house get moderately dusty, still no luck with vacs, and also no manual option to clean floors either, like the mop. It seems that that should be an option since we don't have brooms. To be able to just select "clean floor" and have them whip out their pocket mop and clean by sections, like after a fire, it would take longer yes, but it would also be pretty authentic for OTG play.

Zero has a broom mod already. It doesn't replace the vacuum. I think it adds a broom to bb with the same gameplay. I downloaded it today in his site but haven't tried yet.