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Seasoned Ace

4 years ago

Solved

Vintage Stove is party broken

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? Deutsch
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.75.125.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Base Game The Sims 4: Premium Edition Expansion Packs - EP01: Get to Work - EP02: Get Together - EP03: City Living - EP04: Cats & Dogs - EP05: Seasons - EP06: Get Famous -/Don't have! - EP07: Island Living - EP08: Discover University Game Packs - GP01: Outdoor Retreat - GP02: Spa Day - GP03: Dine Out - GP04: Vampires - GP05: Parenthood - GP06: Jungle Adventure - GP07: StrangerVille Stuff Packs - SP01: Luxury Party Stuff - SP02: Perfect Patio Stuff - SP03: Cool Kitchen Stuff - SP04: Spooky Stuff - SP05: Movie Hangout Stuff - SP06: Romantic Garden Stuff - SP08: Backyard Stuff - SP09: Vintage Glamour Stuff - SP11: Fitness Stuff - SP12: Toddler Stuff - SP13: Laundry Day Stuff - SP14: My First Pet Stuff - SP16: Tiny Living Stuff - SP17: Nifty Knitting Stuff Kits Courtyard Oasis Kit
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Place the Vintage Stove on a lot and chose cooking or baking.
What happens when the bug occurs? Some of the menues are grey out saying "no stove available"
What do you expect to see? to be able to cook all meals again with this stove like before with nothing greyed out.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. The stove is party broken since one of the latest two patches. It was still working a month ago when I last played the family with this stove.

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All of a sudden all the family members couldn't cook/bake some meals anymore on the vintage stove. In the menu list it shows several meals greyed out and the baking section is comletly gread out. All these meals been cooked several month ago with nothing greyed out.

When clicking on the greyed out meals, it says that there is no stove available, although there is one.

Partly broken Stove

All members have maximum cooking skills. I then tried different stoves and they all work. I do use CC in my game, but for further tests I removed them and started a brand new game to be extra sure before posting the issue here. Also found that every CC stove that uses these vintage tunings are also affected.

Tunings of the Culprit Vintage Stove
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LuvMySimz
4 years ago
Feedback:
So after uninstalling all my S4 games & Origin & removing all leftovers from my comp and re-installing everything from scratch, the stove now works again. Whatever the issue was, I guess we will never know. It's just very bothersome what one has to go through just to fix the game and bugged content. I suppose the thread can be marked as solved.

13 Replies

LuvMySimz
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Feedback:
So after uninstalling all my S4 games & Origin & removing all leftovers from my comp and re-installing everything from scratch, the stove now works again. Whatever the issue was, I guess we will never know. It's just very bothersome what one has to go through just to fix the game and bugged content. I suppose the thread can be marked as solved.
DizzyDee-K
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Hmmm. I have lot of those stoves in my game.
Maybe just a random glitch?
Am also wondering if there was an unfinished cooking/baking action with the oven. It looks like most of the things that can't be made require the oven. Sims to seem to do a lot of wondering away from cooking lately. Sometimes there's a "resume" in the stove pie menu.
I have had a similar glitch where the game doesn't recognize a fridge being present when I click on a stove. I have a very vague feeling that it has to do with stored produce, so I usually remove the fridge inventory to my sims inventory and do an "inventory.purge" cheat. Then I delete the fridge. Probably overkill, but seems to work. Just a thought.
Made a copy of my The Sims 4 folder. Deleted the Mods folder plus localthumbcache.package and the onlinethumbnailcache folder and all the caches for good measure. Went through all my households that owned the Vintage stove. Couldn't reproduce this.
Adding: Yes, I know it says solved. Just thought uninstalling and reinstalling the game seemed like a really cumbersome solution.
LuvMySimz
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@DizzyDee-K
Believe me, re-installing the game was my last step after trying several ways. With the newest patch and Dream Home Pack they have inruduced new stove variations, and I'm convinced that this is/was the issue. The bug I had does not mean that EVERYBODY has to have it just like not everybody has the same computer or packs installed. Your fridge exemple wouldn't have helped because for testing purposes I tested the stove in a brand new game folder & save file on an empty lot with an empty fridge, placed that vintage stove and a counter. The issue was the same. Re-installing the game AND Origin fixed it, whatever the issue was. Although it seams combersome, I even reccomment to completely re-installing the buggy game from time to time, especially Origin.
On a side note:
The new stove variations also broke lots of CC stoves. Some vanish when placing into counter or leaving a hole in the counter. Solution: deactivate "Auto" function on counters.