The house I built has two kitchens. There is a big kitchen on the first floor and a small kitchen on the third floor. When I tell my sim to cook something, by clicking on the stove on the first floor, she grabs the ingredients from the fridge and then proceeds to go all the way up to the third floor kitchen to prep and cook the food! Why???? There is plenty of counter space in the first floor kitchen and none of the objects were placed using the moveobjects cheat. Also, she's the only one in the kitchen so no other sims are blocking counters or the stove. Why won't my sim cook in the kitchen she is already in? Why go all the way up to the THIRD FLOOR? lol

I was afraid of this. I really wanted to try and create a duplex or apt style house so I could keep a young adult on the same lot but feel like they have their own place. I was worried they would use each others kitchens and bathrooms all the times though.

I figured it out!! I had one of those pot racks hanging from the ceiling and it was one of the lower hanging ones. It was blocking my sim from getting to the stove so she was going to the one upstairs :) FIXED :)

It's like my Sims when they go to wish dishes. There's a kitchen literally a few steps next to where they are eating but nope, walks upstairs to the bathroom......

I dunno. Did you put a better stove up there? Or better anything? But the sims seem to like washing dishes in the bathroom better than in the kitchen sink too, sooooo. I dunno! But actually, come to think of it, I had that problem in 3 too when I played the hunger games challenge. My slave sim always wanted to go cook in the contestant kitchen rather than her own. I ended up deleting the fridge and stove in the contestant house.

Good question, I didn't think about that. But, no. The stove and counter tops and fridge are identical and the rest of the upstairs appliances are not as good as the ones on the first floor

Sim is going to the wrong kitchen to cook!! *SOLVED*

15 Replies

peopleperson69
11 years ago
It's like my Sims when they go to wish dishes. There's a kitchen literally a few steps next to where they are eating but nope, walks upstairs to the bathroom......
fullspiral
11 years ago
I dunno. Did you put a better stove up there? Or better anything?

But the sims seem to like washing dishes in the bathroom better than in the kitchen sink too, sooooo.

I dunno!

But actually, come to think of it, I had that problem in 3 too when I played the hunger games challenge. My slave sim always wanted to go cook in the contestant kitchen rather than her own. I ended up deleting the fridge and stove in the contestant house.
Jaxie086
11 years ago
Good question, I didn't think about that. But, no. The stove and counter tops and fridge are identical and the rest of the upstairs appliances are not as good as the ones on the first floor
hmae123
11 years ago
I was afraid of this. I really wanted to try and create a duplex or apt style house so I could keep a young adult on the same lot but feel like they have their own place. I was worried they would use each others kitchens and bathrooms all the times though.
Jaxie086
11 years ago
I figured it out!! I had one of those pot racks hanging from the ceiling and it was one of the lower hanging ones. It was blocking my sim from getting to the stove so she was going to the one upstairs :) FIXED :)
Writin_Reg
11 years ago
Actually I notice sims will choose a smaller kitchen over a larger one - so it is best just to have one in a house until they give us an ep that offers programming for apartments. It is a bad idea to try and do any form of apt like living until the programming for that is in the game.

Keep in mind - just because you know how apts are supposed to work - the Sims do not. They need to be taught that stuff which programming is their teachers. No matter how bad we want something - means until programmers make it happen - we will have to wait to do those things.
luthienrising
Hero+
11 years ago
"Writin_Reg;12937075" wrote:
Actually I notice sims will choose a smaller kitchen over a larger one - so it is best just to have one in a house until they give us an ep that offers programming for apartments. It is a bad idea to try and do any form of apt like living until the programming for that is in the game.

In my neighbourhood, a lot of houses that aren't divided into apartments have two kitchens. There's the regular kitchen on the main floor, and there's a "summer" kitchen in the basement. Not that we have basements, mind ...
Suecom
Rising Hotshot
11 years ago
The ability to lock doors would be useful.
Writin_Reg
11 years ago
"luthienrising;12937086" wrote:
"Writin_Reg;12937075" wrote:
Actually I notice sims will choose a smaller kitchen over a larger one - so it is best just to have one in a house until they give us an ep that offers programming for apartments. It is a bad idea to try and do any form of apt like living until the programming for that is in the game.

In my neighbourhood, a lot of houses that aren't divided into apartments have two kitchens. There's the regular kitchen on the main floor, and there's a "summer" kitchen in the basement. Not that we have basements, mind ...

Yes but we are real people - the sims are not. As i said they need the programming to "know" things like that.
fullspiral
11 years ago
"Sucom;12937097" wrote:
The ability to lock doors would be useful.

Agreed. Still waiting for that patch. It would help some of my gameplay tremendously.