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Re: How to get rid of an object you can't interact with in live or build mode?

@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!

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  • @SheriGRDoing a game repair and restarting origin seemed to help me! All other things suggested before that didn't help since the game basically didn't even recognize it was there. Thanks for the assistance. 🙂

  • klsjersey's avatar
    klsjersey
    Seasoned Novice
    4 years ago

    If anyone else has this problem, I found another solution for this exact problem. Build a new room around the item, then select the whole new room and delete it. For mine, it finally went away when I did this.

  • zoeann22's avatar
    zoeann22
    3 years ago

    The puzzle boxes were stuck on the floor and I couldnt perform any interaction at all. This worked for me, and got rid of them. Genius. 

  • notharley's avatar
    notharley
    Rising Novice
    3 years ago

    Thank you so much! Worked flawlessly when I had the same exact problem as OP

  • 7TLO's avatar
    7TLO
    3 years ago
    @klsjersey this is the only thing that worked for me, everything else is irrelevant. I placed uncooked food on the ground and could not pick it up again. build 4 walls around it, then select the entire room (1 square) and delete it. Thank u good job.
  • My English is terrible, but of all the tips yours was the best, it really helped me and it worked. THANKS

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