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Re: Active households are deleted/erased from game when placing residential unit

@naturalista98 The blue square of death is usually a mod related issue (corrupting save games, persisting even when removing mods/cc) but with all the issue the pack has, who knows.

Once you have the issue and saved the game this way, there's unfortunately no way to to go back.

Do you have a backup ? If you do, copy back the backup and try again if it happens on a vanilla game as well.

https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/recover-backup-save-game/

You can find more info here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/MOD-RELATED-Sims-disappeared-from-household-Blue-flashing-square/m-p/8428174

3 Replies

naturalista98
2 years ago
@crinrict I restored the same save to before i placed down the residential rental lot. When i started the game with this restored save the problem was gone. Is this what you mean by back up? And by vanilla game do you mean to do an entirely new game save file (including updated mods/cc) or a new save file with no mods/cc?
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@naturalista98 Yes, an older save that doesn't have the issue yet.

Vanilla means no mods/cc in your game (aka empty mods folder)

If it works this way, I would just continue on the backup (do make sure to create a new one in case something else goes wrong)
naturalista98
2 years ago
@crinrict Thanks so much for the suggestions and help, i've just been able to fix the problem so ill post it here for anyone else that has this issue.
After closing out the game and removing all of my mods/cc from my mods folder, i created a new save file. Because i had backed up my save, i was able to save all my active households (who all had cc) to the gallery. I created a place holder sim in the new world then placed down the residential rental j was having touble with. After seeing no issues with the place holder household, i exit the game and placed all my CAS CC back in the mods folder and reloaded the game. I then placed down the households that i saved in the gallery that i had trouble with in the previous save. After seeing no issue i exited the game and one by one redownloaded the mods i had that needed updating into my mods folder leaving maling sure to load the game each time and delete localthumbcache from my sims 4 folder each time before starting up my game. It now works with no issues and i have several rental properties that i have placed in the world with no issue.