When do my poor Sims stop having fires?

Hmm, sounds like you need some incense and a fire pit for the third household...

Time for skill books! I make my sims wait to have dryers until they have enough handiness skill to make those appliances safer and they are absolutely not allowed to make anything that involves the cooker until they have read some books on it. They get very tired of garden salads :D

Even then, they still manage to electrocute themselves by standing in puddles and doing electronics or misfiring firecrackers... It never ends *sigh* ;)

Your sims sound a lot more disaster prone than mine too! My main sim is one of those annoying perfectionist types who are always unfairly good at everything they do though. Plus he's a vampire, so I don't have to worry about his mortality, thankfully. I also recommend building on cooking and handiness and upgrading objects to avoid further incidents happening. You can also complete the Freelance Botanist aspiration to achieve the Naturalist reward trait, which makes your sim immune to fire and able to extinguish it with ease. I would love more 'dangerous stuff' to happen and be added to the game though.

"invisiblgirl;c-17033785" wrote:
Hmm, sounds like you need some incense and a fire pit for the third household...

I almost forgot there are more ways to start a fire. (Thought my Sims had it pretty covered).

"duhboy2u2;c-17033787" wrote:
They get very tired of garden salads :D
Even then, they still manage to electrocute themselves by standing in puddles and doing electronics or misfiring firecrackers... It never ends *sigh* ;)

I normally do garden salads and cereal for my new Sims too; there was just something about this many Sims made me forget.
Hopefully it does stop, bit worried about prematurely losing one of my Simmies next time.


Glad you saved the maid @ShadyLady89. It’s a bit hard when you don’t control them (service Sims) isn’t it?


I’m all for a few surprises @annaliese39, but something about random fires when they are just starting out, I don’t know, Give me a nice, safe Sim like yours anytime.

I have had some fires in my households ( I make and play many of them by rotating also). It does get costly! I kinda gave up on the washer and dryer, they usually cause the most fires in mine. Now they struggle to do it the old fashioned way with the tub and the clothesline :D

As far as the apartment, that is probably the one that you can take the "Gremlins" trait off the lot and put another one on it, or leave it empty!

You could try getting your sim's handiness skill up to a good high level (level 8 minimum to be practical) then have them upgrade the appliances that catch fire. Also make sure you install fire alarms and the sprinkler system.

Just order pizza and get Kawaiistacie's explore mod and go out for donuts or chinese lol :smiley:

I remember back in the Pinstar's Legacy Challenge I took up, that one of the siblings of a much later heir (might have been Gen.8) was rather prone to fires. I seem to have just such a Sim back again, too. She's not really skilled at cooking. I'm lucky I could have her route to safety. Or, I'd be really upset. She was the new wife of my Global Superstar when the StrangerVille patch dropped. I made some player errors and the Road to Fame mod I was using broke. After I installed the updated version, my game save appeared to be corrupted. In further testing it, it was my Superstar who was corrupted (the Sim itself). This led to a very long trail of getting him back in a brand new save to Global Superstar. Once he was close, I moved in the remake of his wife had them elope. I took them into cas.fulleditmode and created their toddler son. This has taken lots of time. Just to learn we have yet another Mod-Busting patch set to drop tomorrow.

But, the best way to ensure a lack of fires is to gain cooking skill and upgrade the fireplaces to fire-proof. Other than that, I can't say.

I tend to do salad's only until my sim is level 3 in cooking or higher. That plus upgrading fireplaces and dryers should make fires on the home lot rare or never. Beware visiting other lots, though as many townies have 0 for cooking and most of my sim's friends will happily light their kitchen on fire while visiting them in the early game.

At least my Sims are not alone! ;)

To continue the saga -rotated back to the second household (the one with kids and not just YA/s). They have a (male) maid to help keep things tidy, what with the two children.

The maid started a (second) fire with the (new) dryer. :s
I’m not even going to put that one in my blog, because it didn’t last long and no real harm done. It did upset the toddler a bit though -she is sad.
The funny part was the smelly, sooty maid cleaning up the floor afterwards. And soldiering on with his job.
Wasn’t quite sure whether to give him a tip for his trouble/perseverance or fire him for causing the fire in the first place.
(It IS kinda his fault because I imagine he didn’t clean the lint tray).


Definitely time for some handiness skill and some upgrades. I wonder if you can upgrade your neighbours/friends appliances?