How to get rid of an object you can't interact with in live or build mode?
So I was having trouble with my sim not being able to cook anything and to fix that I put everything into my family inventory. (It was apparently an issue with my oven. My sim likes to randomly stop cooking whatever I've told him to and instead watch TV if I switch over to take care of another sim. So there was food left inside the oven.) When I put the oven in the inventory, it separated the food and oven. I put the food out of the inventory so my sim could "Clean Up" but it doesn't give me that option! It only gives me "Empty Oven" which I try that and my sim acts like he can't do anything with it. I cant even do anything with it now in live mode and build mode doesn'teven recognize it as an object. How do I delete it??
@mariahkaye13 Please try the following:
- In live mode and paused, open the cheats panel by (shift + control + "c" - no quotation marks). A small box should open in the top left of your game window.
- Click in the box and type "testingcheats on" - no quotation marks - and hit enter. You should get a message "Cheats are enabled".
- Now shift+click on the object. Select "Reset Object (debug)". If it cannot then be deleted by the sim or dragged to 'sell' in build mode to delete it or selected and deleted to get it off the ground, try...
- Try the same process on the stove to debug/reset it. If this does not work....
- Sell and replace the stove.
If it's still stuck on the floor you can try saving the room to your library and placing it from the library over top of the current room. If this doesn't work you can save the home to the library and re-place the home. If this doesn't work you can sell the home then visit the home in love mode, leave it and re-purchase and move into the home and see if it is fixed.
You can also try a game repair [ Open Origin, click 'Game Library' then right-click Sims 4 > Repair Game ]. Make sure to let it run until it has completed all repairs (it will do the base-game first, then run through each of your expansions/packs).
Another thing you can try is to go back to a previous game save, from before you had the issue: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/save-games/
Please let us know if these things work or not and we can try other things if they don't. Btw... If you can get the pan back into your inventory, just leave the stuck item there. It won't hurt anything.
Edit:
@klsjersey, thank you for adding that information! I will highlight it here also for visibility for future players, since this post was marked as solution. Since responding to this post I have found that there are certain times that a build item can also get stuck (this has happened to me when building using debug/MOO/enlarging, and I have seen it with objects). I've found sometimes an object seems to get embedded into the wall or floor/foundation. In such a case deleting the wall may work, and for the floor deleting the floor with the sledgehammer, then deleting the object if it's still there on the ground, then rebuilding the floor, can be the solution (click a wall of the room to highlight it, then click the yellow rim on the bottom of the room that says 'rebuild floor' when hovered over). And @klsjersey, your idea of drawing a room around the frozen object to do this so you don't have to delete as much floor is great!
