I haven’t played my game in a while, I updated today, I also use one mod ‘happy Buffs changed to fine’ and I’ve also updated that too...in on my sims living room they keep getting a playful decor buff, it is only in this room and there is nothing in here to trigger this buff as far as I’m aware. If they leave the room it goes away, and I just can’t figure out why. Can somebody tell tell me what items can do this? I’ve checked everything that has an emotional aura and they’re all disabled. I’m literally just about to delete the entire save as it’s annoying me so much.—T

@to7m. Here is a good guide to the emotions; see the part about Playful.https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/emotions/Mods will do the darndest things to your game; if you want to exclude any influence from them, trying in a new folder is recommended.

@to7m @BlackjackWidow The other clay shape that gives a Playful moodlet looks just like the lump of clay when it is newly bought from Build/Buy and 'unshaped'.The one the the left is the original lump of clay; the one to the right gives Playful moodlet in the room. (I tested).

@to7m @BlackjackWidow Well, I am not sure I would call it the 'missing' shape though, because I tested some more: my sim made clay shape after clay shape, but no others than the already by Carl recognized ones were created. Several ordinary lumps of clay give moodlets when in the room: Inspired, Focused, Energized and Decorated (as well as the Playful from before). One guess is that they are unfinished/remodeled/begun shapes of the kind that when done are suppose to give/or gave these moodlets. But logging out of the game/putting them in household inventory removed this moodlet from the shapeless lumps; so if OP has done that, then those cannot explain the room moodlet.

@akihamuko. Take a look at the thread linked above and see if you have any of those listed items in your living room. You can also take a screenshot of the playful mood message, as well as your sims' living room from different angles and attach to your post, and I'll try to help you look for it. What careers are your sims in? A lot of reward items give off auras. Trophies too I think, and what they do in the living room matters as well. Are you sure you don't have the clay? You can leave your sims on high autonomy, they are bound to go for it eventually if it's there. If you click on any object in the room from within build mode, the object info, including if it emits any auras, is listed in the lower right corner. Also put up your walls if it is a wall decoration creating the mood.

okay wow... after some thorough investigating, I found the problem was some photographs one of my sims took that I hung on the wall... I never would’ve expected that as the issue, but when i took them down the buff suddenly went away. I’m happy I finally found out what it was, but its strange how the photos never gave me this issuemaybe OP has the same problem? I hope they figure it out too

Playful decor buff is driving me mad

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ShinoTypeError
New Ace
6 years ago
@akihamuko @to7m Yeah this is a thing lately, I think it's a bug. If not a bug and by design, then the design is annoying lol...

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Photos-taken-in-emotional-state-give-permanent-buff/td-p/8132665
7e4e604dfb2ef36
6 years ago
I know this is a super old thread but I have an answer no one has mentioned. If select a camera and choose "take picture of...," if either you or the sim your taking a picture of is in a playful mood then the picture ypuve produced will have a playful debuff that cannot be turned on and off. It just stays playful forever. If you hang these mood buff pics on your walls they give all sims in that room the playful buff (or focused, or inspired, etc). I figured this out because I have a massive picture wall in my 100 baby challenge house of all tnhe kids during each different age. At first it was fine but when they updated the different color frames I logged in and everyone in that room was perma-playful. It just so happened that the update had removed all the picture frames on my millions of pics so I had to individually click on each one to re-frame it, which is how I found the pic-moodlets and figured out what was happening. I took down all the pics with moodlets and it stopped happening. Now I only use the "Take pic" option while standing in front of my desired target. Unless the sims are just happy or fine you cant use "take pic of..." Without creating a mood-buff photo.
DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Thank you, that was great. If it matched this bug report it is fixed and you can perhaps toggle off the mood 🙂
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Photos-taken-in-emotional-state-give-permanent-buff/td-p/8132665
BlackjackWidow
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
@7e4e604dfb2ef367 - as mentioned, this was a bug with emotional photos that was causing the problem. Thankfully, that bug was fixed in December: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-Photos-taken-in-emotional-state-give-permanent-buff/td-p/8132665

So, good news - if you want to do another 100 baby challenge & have all those portraits on the wall, you can choose to disable the emotional effects again! 🙂

(You should be able to "take picture of..." again without any issues, too)

Sorry @DonroaAkashu , we must have been replying at the same time! I type slowly lol
DonroaAkashu
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
..And we meet again @BlackjackWidow .. :D

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