Where do the dead sims go?

There are no urns or tombstones for Sims who die that's aren't on the active lot at time of death.

I think the November patch changed it so that housed sims will generate a tombstone when they die even if you're not on the lot. You can try looking on the lot where the sim lived to see if you can find a tombstone. The tombstone could also be in the inventory.

"SimGuruNick;c-16145238" wrote:

Ghosts in households (including non-active and NPC households) that live in the worlds will generate tombstones upon their death, including when you are not on the lot and they die. Ghosts/Tombstones now have their own culling timer as well, that when going below a threshold the tombstone gets a new interaction called 'Strengthen Connection to the Physical World' which resets the culling timer for that Sim.

This way the user can control what dead Sims they want to keep around while letting others expire on their own. And when they expire they get sent to the netherworld and are culled.

"LiaRose1435;c-16324644" wrote:
I think the November patch changed it so that housed sims will generate a tombstone when they die even if you're not on the lot. You can try looking on the lot where the sim lived to see if you can find a tombstone. The tombstone could also be in the inventory.

"SimGuruNick;c-16145238" wrote:

Ghosts in households (including non-active and NPC households) that live in the worlds will generate tombstones upon their death, including when you are not on the lot and they die. Ghosts/Tombstones now have their own culling timer as well, that when going below a threshold the tombstone gets a new interaction called 'Strengthen Connection to the Physical World' which resets the culling timer for that Sim.

This way the user can control what dead Sims they want to keep around while letting others expire on their own. And when they expire they get sent to the netherworld and are culled.

Yup, can confirm this is at least still working as of this month. Had a Sim starting off in the detective career who's first crime scene they went to happened to be their townie neighbors (an elderly mother and daughter) and found an urn on their back porch that was the mother (I hadn't known she had died yet).

Unfortunately I will echo my fellow Simmers--once a Sim dies in another household and you aren't there, there's no urn or tombstone. It's a bummer!

But the good news is that you CAN make a cemetery! Urns + tombstones can go in a Sim's inventory, so what I have done in my game is to build a beautiful, grand cemetery, have the Sim visit, and drop the tombstone on the lot. It's not a perfect system, but it's better than nothing. :) Good luck!

There's a family that I hadn't played yet and the oldest people died, but the urns were on the lot, so I guess that's something new.
I'm really happy with that.

I still don't know what happens to sims that don't have a house, so idk what happens to their urns.

I created my own cemetery. All of my deceased Sims go there; the lot is classified as a park, so Sims will visit and I’ll find them mourning the dead.
It’s simple and easy enough. I just have my Sim take the deceased Sim’s urn to the lot and plop it down somewhere.

Thanks @ChelleJo :blush:

That's disappointing (I loved the management system in TS3) :( Maybe I can spawn them all and cheat and add them to a household... I wonder if their urns will be in their inventory.

They won't be in their inventories either. Dead gets no urns unless on the active lot. You could cheat them in your house, bring them back to life then kill them again and you'd get an urn then.

I build a cemetery on an empty lot. Then if one of my Sims passes when I'm not playing them I buy them an urn or headstone in debug, place it in build mode and then in live mode I click on it and write them a short epitaph. For example: Don Lithario, so many to love. So little time.

Edit: spelling

"Kingo;c-16324676" wrote:
There's a family that I hadn't played yet and the oldest people died, but the urns were on the lot, so I guess that's something new.
I'm really happy with that.

I still don't know what happens to sims that don't have a house, so idk what happens to their urns.

I presume you'll never find it.