Can't play households in sims 4
This feels so stupid but I've spent hours trying to fix it or find a tutorial and can't figure it out.
I got the game yesterday. I made a family/houehold, went to the map screen, selected an empty lot and moved them into it. I then spent like, 6 hours, building a custum house before saving the game and going to bed.
Today, I cannot figure out how to just... play the house. Every time I go to the map it automatically is in "moving in" mode, I don't know what else to call it, but it shows the household I made yesterday--the only one I made--and the little moving-van button. It will not let me select the house they were already living in yesterday (it is marked "unavailable") but clicking on other empty lots or premade houses does nothing.
I cannot access the "manage households" button in the upper right--it says it is unavailable while moving. The "manage worlds" tab in the main menu is also greyed out. I cannot seem to avoid this, it happens if I load any of my saves from last night or just hit the "play" button at the main menu. I can make new games but the house I spent hours building yesterday is not there, and I am pretty sure it starts having this problem on its own immediately anyway.
It is not that I select it and it loads forever and takes me back to the map screen bug, it is that nothing happens at all whenever I click a house. This seems like it must be some simple button I just can't find and I feel so dumb for being stuck this early in the game?? I just don't want to lose the house I spent hours building and decorating ☹️ I have no mods installed and didn't use any premade houses or whatnot from the gallery.
Update: I ended up saving/publishing the house to the gallery, uninstalling/reinstalling the game, and starting over. Then I just remade the sims and downloaded the house design to use. I still have no idea what was wrong the first time but it was definitely some sort of bug, not just on me, because there are several more buttons available I just never saw the first time. Like the "add/create sim" next to the play button on the start menu screen, that wasn't there any time I opened the game before. And now when I go to the world map there is no sim already in the lower right corner, it lets me just select a house and I can play as anyone. Before, it only had the first custom household I made and the only available button to click was the moving truck. Bizarre!!! Hopefully it all goes smoothly now.
