So over the past two weeks I have continued to play and confirm that if a household disappears from a residential lot as if it never existed, this empties the lot of its furniture when I try to fill the house with other townies.
But if I go into build mode of the supposedly empty lot, I find all the furniture in place and can even save it to my library.
The lot, however, will remain without furniture once I transfer other townies into it.
In addition, I have found that the disappearance of these pre-made townies occurs concurrently with the game's creation of those townies needed to fill scenarios (e.g., to create bartenders for pubs, cooks for restaurants, scientists and soldiers in StrangerVille, college students in campus dorms).
I've disabled culling through MCCC, I've disabled neighborhood stories completely, but the moment new townies are created for those situations, unused in-game households such as the Bjergsen, Judith Ward, the Harris family, the Goth family, disappear without any logical connection.
The only solution I'm thinking of is to save the households I'm actively using in this game, and create a new save, because at this point I can only think it's my save that's corrupted.
And hope that it's not really the few MODs I have that create this bug.
