I sent my sim to Batuu to start out with, had her do all the regular stuff, dodging stormtroopers, opening crates, molding her clay, drawing on her digital sketchpad, huh?? I can't keep her off either the clay or sketchpad. Of course there's nothing in their inventory except Batuu stuff, right, wrong, clay is in her inventory but her pad isn't. :# The only good thing about clay appearing in her inventory in Batuu is I get galaxy credits for it instead of simoleans. She now has over 1600 in credits. If this is the result in some mod okay, but if not, I won't be sending her back to Batuu anytime soon.

The clay bug has been happening for a while I believe, along with the constant cake-making bug. Maybe if we cross our fingers and wish extra hard, someone might fix it.LOL who am I kidding, we've had an alien face-shrinking bug for what, five years now? Ugh. Playing on ps4 is a nightmare because I have no mods to fix what EA won't. Had no idea the game was this broken or I'd have just waited for Sims 5 or something.

You need simvasions Eco Lifestyle Interactions fixes mod. It's a bug, played sims are not supposed to do NAP actions like that.

I swear if I play two in game days I end up with at least six clays. Does anyone know where are they /actually/ supposed to come from? Presumably a collectible? I hate to think they're robbing craft stores.

"notthatbellagoth;c-17680804" wrote:I swear if I play two in game days I end up with at least six clays. Does anyone know where are they /actually/ supposed to come from? Presumably a collectible? I hate to think they're robbing craft stores.They come from Planet Clay from outer space and during their time on sim earth they learned how to multiply themselves simply by growing from a sims fingers. It feeds on a sims lack of discipline and doesn’t seem to go anywhere anytime soon. ??♂️

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17680837" wrote:"notthatbellagoth;c-17680804" wrote:I swear if I play two in game days I end up with at least six clays. Does anyone know where are they /actually/ supposed to come from? Presumably a collectible? I hate to think they're robbing craft stores.They come from Planet Clay from outer space and during their time on sim earth they learned how to multiply themselves simply by growing from a sims fingers. It feeds on a sims lack of discipline and doesn’t seem to go anywhere anytime soon. ??♂️ :D Thanks for the laugh!I remember clay being debuted right at the beginning of the game, base game or pack soon after. I have always had a problem but only with some sims, not all. It wasn't a sims breaker for me. When I have to start fighting with a sim, fighting everything that is being pushed for them to do, I will delete that sim...even if it's one of my favorites. There's no fun always watching the que column to make sure they're not going to stop in the middle of cooking to go do something else, or "view" a picture on the wall. :s

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BeautyBot
Seasoned Traveler
5 years ago
The clay bug has been happening for a while I believe, along with the constant cake-making bug. Maybe if we cross our fingers and wish extra hard, someone might fix it.

LOL who am I kidding, we've had an alien face-shrinking bug for what, five years now? Ugh. Playing on ps4 is a nightmare because I have no mods to fix what EA won't. Had no idea the game was this broken or I'd have just waited for Sims 5 or something.
logionX
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
You need simvasions Eco Lifestyle Interactions fixes mod. It's a bug, played sims are not supposed to do NAP actions like that.
notthatbellagot
5 years ago
I swear if I play two in game days I end up with at least six clays. Does anyone know where are they /actually/ supposed to come from? Presumably a collectible? I hate to think they're robbing craft stores.
CAPTAIN_NXR7
Legend
5 years ago
"notthatbellagoth;c-17680804" wrote:
I swear if I play two in game days I end up with at least six clays. Does anyone know where are they /actually/ supposed to come from? Presumably a collectible? I hate to think they're robbing craft stores.

They come from Planet Clay from outer space and during their time on sim earth they learned how to multiply themselves simply by growing from a sims fingers. It feeds on a sims lack of discipline and doesn’t seem to go anywhere anytime soon. ??‍♂️
bshag4lv
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17680837" wrote:
"notthatbellagoth;c-17680804" wrote:
I swear if I play two in game days I end up with at least six clays. Does anyone know where are they /actually/ supposed to come from? Presumably a collectible? I hate to think they're robbing craft stores.

They come from Planet Clay from outer space and during their time on sim earth they learned how to multiply themselves simply by growing from a sims fingers. It feeds on a sims lack of discipline and doesn’t seem to go anywhere anytime soon. ??‍♂️

:D Thanks for the laugh!

I remember clay being debuted right at the beginning of the game, base game or pack soon after. I have always had a problem but only with some sims, not all. It wasn't a sims breaker for me. When I have to start fighting with a sim, fighting everything that is being pushed for them to do, I will delete that sim...even if it's one of my favorites. There's no fun always watching the que column to make sure they're not going to stop in the middle of cooking to go do something else, or "view" a picture on the wall. :s
justme22
5 years ago
"MissClairely;c-17680798" wrote:
The clay bug has been happening for a while I believe, along with the constant cake-making bug. Maybe if we cross our fingers and wish extra hard, someone might fix it.

LOL who am I kidding, we've had an alien face-shrinking bug for what, five years now? Ugh. Playing on ps4 is a nightmare because I have no mods to fix what EA won't. Had no idea the game was this broken or I'd have just waited for Sims 5 or something.

I've seen a lot of clay around (but not in my inventory) but haven't seen the cake-making bug yet, not even at University (one cake showed up my last term there but it was strawberry). The only issue I had with Sims breaking queue to do something else was early in Nifty Knitting, where they'd quit cooking and everything else to go knit, and that got fixed in a patch already.
Simmerville
Legend
5 years ago
So, there are NAPs and elections on Batuu, too? Or is it part of the glitch? Sounds quite annoying...

Did we ever hear from EA re those ECO Lifestyle manias that nobody wants? How nice would it be if our sims actually had to have clay, violin, book or pad in their inventory in order to behave according to running NAP? It would make sense, and if we wanted NPCs to keep up with these NAP behaviors, we could gift them what hey need - and earn influence pomts. I'm pretty sure hardly any sane simmer would help NPCs to do this stuff...
LiELF
Legend
5 years ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that bug is connected to Eco Lifestyle because I don't have that pack and my gameplay in Batuu is practically flawless, which surprised me a lot.

It might be worth modding out for now until there's a proper fix. But at least you have credits! :p
Sharooonia
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"logion;c-17680802" wrote:
You need simvasions Eco Lifestyle Interactions fixes mod. It's a bug, played sims are not supposed to do NAP actions like that.

No! What we need is for EA to fix the problem. Mods shouldn't be a requirement in order to play the game without these kind of disruptions.
burnished_dragon
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I have found the violin glitch now, told the sim to eat and pee before she passed water or died from starvation. What does she do starts playing the violin! I didn't think the family owned one. The only think I can say about the clay is that is pays the bills lol