The dreaded clay bug is back!

Probably due to sims still having the various clay in their inventory. Popped into one household and one sim had at least 5 clays in her inventory.

:# I had to shift click and destory a lot of clays that end up getting left around, more so in the community spaces in the neighborhood. Was before I turned off naps and sims still had molding clay in their inventory. Literally leave this everywhere and no sims touch it like they woudl something like a bicycle or another to retrieve it.
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Yeah I encountered this bug the other night. My sim caught a clay from the river and I inevitably ended up selling it because she kept playing with it or whatever. I wouldn’t mind her doing it if the action resulted in a new object being created or something for decoration, but nothing results from a sim molding the clay as far as I’ve seen, so I find it annoying.

Oddly enough, this particular sim has been having other glitches including the gardening glitch, there was a glitch with her tent that wouldn’t let her sleep through the night, her cat keeps phasing in and out of objects. Ugh, it really left a bad taste in my mouth especially because I usually have a glitch-free playing experience but maybe I just don’t play enough to see these things.

ETA: in the pics above from @LadyKyn it looks like Sims do actually make decor objects with the clay, but my Sim doesn’t do that. Maybe I’m just impatient.

Looks like the Sylvan Glade Coven has a lot of Inferniation ceremonies ahead.

"amber_ilumire;d-990832" wrote:
I will be reporting this bug next time I’m online, but is anyone else experiencing a return of last year’s ‘clay / future cube bug’ that was related to the EL release?

NAPs are turned off in my game, but sims are constantly moulding pieces of clay and doing autonomous animations with the EL tablet wherever I go! Last year I experienced this bug, but it was fixed in an update and only affected the sims in my main household when I switched households and then went back to my main again, so now I’m stuck playing just the one household because I don’t want to risk clay suddenly spawning continuously in their inventories.

Is it just me? It is possibly the most infuriating bug I’ve ever experienced!

i'm wondering why some of my sims are grabbing a future cube out of nowhere and using it and then putting it away after an emotional reaction. this has been going on for months, i thought it was just another feature of the game. obviously not.

When i mean nowhere, i mean they don't have any such things in their inventory before i switch out to another household, but for some reason they pull out this future cube and use it.

@LadyKyn oh I hadn't thought about that. I was positive I deleted all the clay in my sims' inventories when the bug was fixed, but I'll go ahead and double check. Thank you.

@Hoverael the clay bug and the future cube bug are essentially the same, just with different objects. Both are to do with the EL NAPs and had to be fixed in a patch last year.

I've submitted a bug report. Hopefully the Sims team will release another patch to fix it or something. I'm glad it's not just me experiencing this in my game.

I thought that by canceling the associated NAPs, the clay and cube convention would go away, but alas its still here. I honestly hate opening up a household to see that each family member has a million clays in their inventory. >:/

I thought that removing the NAPs would stop clay from spawning in their inventories and the clay they had was from when I was playing eco lifestyle last year. I hope it still doesn't spawn in sims inventories.

Kinda forgot MC Command has a option to wipe sims inventories across the game. Might give that a try and see how that works.

I've had the clay problem resurface as well.

I installed a mod from Bienchen called "noautonomousmouldclay" to stop the madness.

It doesn't stop it from spawning, but it DOES stop sims from becoming so obsessed with it they forsake all other activities to play with clay.

In my game, they will drop actions I assign to them to autonomously play with clay instead. It's one of those things that, for whatever reason, takes priority over literally everything else, including addressing needs that are in the red...so I stopped the autonomous clay obsession with Bienchen's mod. It works beautifully, and is WAY more efficient than having to go through every sim's inventory to delete lumps of clay that are just going to keep coming back no matter what you do anyway.

Bienchen has a lot of good mods that fix many, many things, and they all work very well. Highly recommend.

I do not have a problem with my Sims playing with the clay, rather that then playing video games. There will be some sort of result