Hi there, I experiencing an issue in game where I can't get my sims to sleep in the bed that's in a house that I downloaded from the in game gallery and placed on an empty lot using the build mode. The house I downloaded had a bed in one room where there were nightstands right next to the bed on both sides of the bed which I initially though may have been the reason why the sims would continually refuse to sleep on the bed. I can only get them to nap on the couch. I tried to get them to sleep in another double bed in the other bedroom where the nightstands were not located immediately next to the bed and they would still refuse to sleep in the bed. What's causing this and what can I do to fix this?

@CanadianGamer52 Solved and house fixed, you can use it easily. See the pictures, all you need to do is move that one wall I marked in the pictures out one square. The stairs were blocked, not the beds. As you can see my sim happily sleeps in either bed. Moving the wall does send the black bed, patio table and 2 chairs to family inventory, but that's easy to put back in place.

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15 Replies

Anonymous
9 years ago
If you have mods or custom content, remove them and see if that fixes it.

If not, right click on the game in Origin and choose repair. Let us know if you get it fixed.
CanadianGamer52
9 years ago
I don't have mods in the game but does a pre-made house created by another Sims 4 player from the Sims 4 in game gallery count as custom content? By the way, I've also tried the repair game option from within Origin and it didn't fix the issue.
roberta591
Hero (Retired)
9 years ago
@CanadianGamer52 You could try resetting the lot. Did you try replacing the bed? It's possible the bed is in use by a sim that is no longer there and now the game thinks the bed is occupied when it is not. A mod like Nraas overwatch may reset everything in one sim day.
Anonymous
9 years ago
Try this before you go bulldozing and replacing the whole lot, or even the beds.

Press CTRL+SHIFT+C all at the same time

Type TESTINGCHEATS ON

Press ENTER

SHIFT+CLICK on the beds that are not usable.

Choose RESET OBJECT

Click back in the white cheat console that is still at the top of the screen

Type TESTINGCHEATS OFF

Press ENTER

Press ESC to close the cheat console.

See if the beds work now, if not sell them and try new beds, then if that fails,try moving the sims out to another lot then, back to that one.
CanadianGamer52
9 years ago
@DarkAmaranth1966 wrote:

Try this before you go bulldozing and replacing the whole lot, or even the beds.

Press CTRL+SHIFT+C all at the same time

Type TESTINGCHEATS ON

Press ENTER

SHIFT+CLICK on the beds that are not usable.

Choose RESET OBJECT

Click back in the white cheat console that is still at the top of the screen

Type TESTINGCHEATS OFF

Press ENTER

Press ESC to close the cheat console.

See if the beds work now, if not sell them and try new beds, then if that fails,try moving the sims out to another lot then, back to that one.

I tried all that and it didn't fix the problem. The sim would still cancel the sleep action from the queue of actions when I click on the bed and select the sleep action. However when I move my sims to an empty house that's already in one of the worlds, there isn't an issue with getting the sims to sleep in the bed and that's not good because I obviously chose to use a house from the gallery because I liked the design that someone else made instead of the ones already available in-game which makes it unfortunate that this issue is happening to begin with.
Anonymous
9 years ago
I would try selling the beds and moving ALL of the objects in the bedrooms to family inventory, then re doing the bedroom with a new bed and, placing the rest of the objects back as far as possible WITHOUT using MoveObjectsOn. That would insure nothing is blocking the path to the beds.
CanadianGamer52
9 years ago
@DarkAmaranth1966 wrote:

I would try selling the beds and moving ALL of the objects in the bedrooms to family inventory, then re doing the bedroom with a new bed and, placing the rest of the objects back as far as possible WITHOUT using MoveObjectsOn. That would insure nothing is blocking the path to the beds.

I forgot to mention in my initially post that I've also tried selling the beds and buying new beds. I've also definitely made sure that there wasn't any objects like nightstands, couches, bookshelves, etc. that are immediately beside the bed on both sides of the bed and still I can't get them to sleep in the bed in the custom house. So, for now, until I can find a fix for the issue, I have temporarily moved them into one of the ready made houses that was already in one of the worlds. Not ideal but that will have to do for now.
Anonymous
9 years ago
Do you have a link, or the creator's name and lot name of the house? I'd like to check it in my game just to be sure it really is that lot and, see if it can be fixed.
CanadianGamer52
9 years ago
@DarkAmaranth1966 wrote:

Do you have a link, or the creator's name and lot name of the house? I'd like to check it in my game just to be sure it really is that lot and, see if it can be fixed.

Here's the link to the house that I was referring to. https://www.thesims.com/gallery/02D3016F7CED11E68BDAF7029172F49B
Anonymous
9 years ago
@CanadianGamer52 Solved and house fixed, you can use it easily. See the pictures, all you need to do is move that one wall I marked in the pictures out one square. The stairs were blocked, not the beds. As you can see my sim happily sleeps in either bed. Moving the wall does send the black bed, patio table and 2 chairs to family inventory, but that's easy to put back in place.