Have started having an odd problem in one of my houses, the sim can't make regular meals. Starts out OK, but part way through the preparation sim stops and shows a routing error bubble, the one with feet and an X. Tried moving said food to a fresh counter with absolutely nothing anywhere near it, and still got the routing error. Any ideas on how to fix it?

HelloMake sure that there isn’t any overhead hanging items or overhead cabinets that may he causing isssues. Try rearranging the furniture in the room and see if that helps. Try deleting any ceiling lights in the room and have a wall light, to test to see if that helps. If there are items placed using the moo cheat, remove them and see if that helps.Try selling and repurchasing the stove. If you have a basement , the sim may be trying to use the counters there but if there are items on it, this would cause it to fail. This can apply to bathrooms also. Try deleting the counters in the basement or bathroom, and test to see if that helps the issue.

Thanks for the ideas! No mods, CC, basement or moo items. Bathroom has stand alone sink. Room is one of the Maxis premade kitchens, with overhead cabinets, so that may be it, though why moving the meal to a totally clear counter would seem to be the equivalent. Unless the first fail flagged the item somehow. Will test it out. Thanks again.

I doubt it is the cabinets. Have just completed yet another test, with the fridge and counter in a totally open area, no cabinets, overhead lights, or anything else even remotely close to the test site. Instructed sim to make a meal, sim dutifully took ingredients out of fridge, began preparation, and quit about half way through, giving the tracking error as before. Directed sim to resume, and got the message again. 2 days ago at the original location did the test, got the usual results. That time sim went to fridge, got out more ingredients, and proceeded to make a salad in two stages, first half in the corner between fridge and the failed site, then took half done salad to the opposite end of the counter area and finished, again in a corner - the one between the counters and stove. In both locations there were cabinets above the site of the successful salad making. It appears that: a) there is a problem with food making now, b) the overhead cabinets are innocent. Am not amused with this latest example of something that used to work now being broken.

Just want to add here - I did not have any problems with any kitchen wall cabinets. In my case it was wall shelves the creator had used moo on to place a lot of decor - like plants and things high on the wall above the windows over the counter. Again not a wall cabinet issue - but a moo issue. There was no CC in the house or in my game, and no mods in my game. All I recall about the house was it was made right after toddlers came out - and was a toddler starter house. As i said I no longer download houses where the moo cheat has been used period and have not had any further issues like that one since. Definitely no issues with wall cabinets of any size. Right now the only thing in my game that gives me issues is the big round 6 chair dining table from the Laundry day stuff pack. It works fine for my sims to eat at - but they won't clear the dishes from it after eating. I have to physically move the dishes from the table to the kitchen counter to get them to wash them. So the table has an issue - and that is all I see with an issue in my game at all.ETA One other thing Oldeseadogge - in your house with the issue did you ever have a fire in you sims kitchen? I recall another instance in one of my remodelled Windenburg houses - where I have 3 grown triplet sisters living - one of my main sims sisters had set the kitchen on fire before I had added the sprinkler system to the house. My sim had managed to put the fire out and I thought I had replaced everything burnt and everything appeared fine - but i noticed for the longest time 2 of the triplets kept making faces everytime they came in the kitchen and when I instructed one of them to cook they'd never use the one free counter near the stove but would use the counter near the table in the dining room to make the food. Of course the two good cooks would - but the one lower on cooking skills sometimes would just stop making the food and go to the fridge and grab some yogurt. After a week of this and I could not see a thing wrong - all I could think was there was soot somewhere I just wasn't seeing - as I recall that was an issue in Sims 2 and 3 - so I hired a maid, as a maid was my solution in the other games. Only this maid instead of finding and fixing the issue waved her hands like something was blocking her in front of the empty counter. I see nothing of course. But I figured it must be something - so I simply moved all the 3 counters on that wall to the middle of the floor and finally saw the issue. Some how the pan that had started the fire on the stove did not vanish when I replaced the stove - somehow it ended up on the floor under the counter the sims would not use. In build mode I could pick the pan up and placed it in the center of the floor. Then back in live mode my sim was able to place it in the trash - I put everything back where it went - and had no further issue. In fact I have never had another issue like it since.It was like an odd glitch - but figured may as well mention that one too.Now when ever I do get a sim start a fire - which is extremely rare - I move everything in the room just to make sure nothing glitched underneath something else - just it case. But so far that has been the only time I had that issue. I can also see why two of the sisters in that house made the bad smell face every now and then in that kitchen as well.

HelloThe issue with the round dining tables is posted in this thread on the AHQ EA site @Writin_Reg https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Can-t-clean-dishes-on-big-round-tables/m-p/6591722#M57207

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OldeSimsFan
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Brand new house, built from scratch by me with liberal raiding from various stylized rooms, including the infamous kitchen. No CC, moo, or anything else like that. No fires. Crum, the stove is hardly used as I send the sim out to eat when I want a meal to be more than fruit loops or yogurt. Handy since I'm having the sim test a new multi use community lot I built and put up on the gallery. Will have to write down Danny's suggestions, too many to remember. Hopefully something in there will fix things.
Writin_Reg
8 years ago
"Oldeseadogge;c-16481351" wrote:
Brand new house, built from scratch by me with liberal raiding from various stylized rooms, including the infamous kitchen. No CC, moo, or anything else like that. No fires. Crum, the stove is hardly used as I send the sim out to eat when I want a meal to be more than fruit loops or yogurt. Handy since I'm having the sim test a new multi use community lot I built and put up on the gallery. Will have to write down Danny's suggestions, too many to remember. Hopefully something in there will fix things.

Sorry then - I just have no idea what the issue may be. The only cabinets I have not used in a build yet is the ones from JA - and thus far other than the incidents I mentioned - I have not had any issues with any of them. Sure wish I knew something to help you out Oldeseadogge.
OldeSimsFan
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Nope. Will go through your suggestions first. With my luck, the bug would get copied as well as the house. Might also try a different game save to see if it happens there.
rosemow
Hero
8 years ago
There has been other simmers with this issue that have posted on this link thread on the AHQ EA site. You may like to also post on the thread also
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/TO-ADD-Sim-can-t-cook/m-p/6717060#M61066
joleaco
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
I have had this happen, but it was on a lot where there were multiple kitchens. All the kitchens were in their own self contained apartments behind locked doors. Never used to have a problem with sims cooking on this particular lot, then all of a sudden (maybe after a patch) they wouldn’t cook anything on a stove that required a two step process, that is prepping on a counter then taking it to the stove. Routing fail every time, even though the stove was right there in front of them.

Even though my situation was different to yours (you prob don’t have multiple stoves on your lot) I did find a work around. It might work for you - I found that the sims could complete a meal if I clicked on the stove to select the dish instead of the fridge. Give it a go, I will cross my fingers for you. :)
OldeSimsFan
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Thank you, Dannydanbo! Followed your procedure, though it took a while, and have gotten two consecutive completed meals with the final stage kitchen. Old one is now gone, as you suggested. There must have been something messed up in one or more counters, as initially I tried doing the new kitchen 'on the cheap' by bringing over original items, and got the problem back after good prior test stages. Got rid of them all, put in totally fresh, and all went well. Thanks again! You saved the game as well as the bacon. Procedure has been kept for future reference.

Rosemow: Thank you for the link, added my 'me too'.

Joleaco: Thank you! Every idea helps with this wacko game. Always good to have encouragement from 'down under'.
OldeSimsFan
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
Hopefully this is not considered necroposting, though it's this year... I know there are bigger bugs in TS4 to squish than this one, but I do wish they would fix the kitchens! Yes, I am very grateful for the repair procedure noted above and which has been written down. However I am not grateful that I am constantly needing to use it! While I have not calculated how many meals need to be done before breaking, sooner or later every TS4 kitchen breaks. This is in different households in different saves, and has been ongoing. This includes the ones pulled in directly from the rooms tab. Why the incessant routing errors when a sim wants to make dinner/lunch/breakfast?

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