Front door changes

There’s a super annoying bug in The Sims 4 where the front door keeps resetting by itself. You manually set a 1-tile-wide door as your front door—because that’s the actual main entrance—but after a few in-game minutes, the game randomly switches it to a 2-tile-wide door in the back of the house.

This seems to happen especially when your house is built on a foundation and has both a 1-tile and a 2-tile door. The 1-tile door leads to a fenced balcony with stairs going down, but the game might assume it’s not a proper entrance because it leads to a balcony first, even though it’s fully functional. Meanwhile, the 2-tile door leads straight to a staircase without, so the game decides that one should be the front door—even if it’s at the back of the house.

No matter how many times you reset the front door, it changes back again, breaking immersion and messing up things like where guests arrive, where deliveries go, and even how your Sims enter and exit the house. It’s like the game ignores your layout and insists it knows better.

My in-game front door keeps changing from the one I have selected as my front door to another door that is either in another building or a door inside the building. I spend time every time my Sim leaves the lot changing the door back to the door I want as the front door. It doesn't matter if they are traveling to another lot or just going for a walk in the neighborhood. I had a pizza guy knocking on the door from inside the water heater room so the pizza guy got mad that no one came to accept the food. The only setting I use on doors is no vampires allowed. This has been happening for months now.

HI julle073​ 

I merged your post with the existing bug report

I still have this problem too. I have a house and a greenhouse on my lot, both with front doors. I have to constantly continue to set the house door as the front door, and then it'll swap back again. So frustrating!

I have this problem too. Every time I load up a lot, whether it's changing to a different household or after traveling somewhere, the front door changes to the door that's closest to the front.

I also have this issue, specifically on a haunted house save. Front door changes to the door on the greenhouse at the back of the lot almost every time I load the game or load the lot after travelling, but also sometimes it doesn't even require that to switch. I thought it was a bb.moveobjects issue at first but the door is perfectly accessible even when it's switched.

This issue went away for a while, but has now recurred. It's a pain to have to reset it every time. I'm a PS5 player.

I'm currently playing on the Canter Cottage lot in Chestnut Hills, which has 2 doors. A front door and a back door. For some reason, the game has decided that the back door is the front door and sims keep knocking on that door. I've set the actual front door as the front door multiple times, but everytime I reopen the save the back door is back to being set as the front door.