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crinrict's avatar
1 year ago
Status:
Fixed

Infants/Toddler spawning outside of home after loading back in

Repost from AHQ (c/p)

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.96.365.1230
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Leave a lot with twin infants inside of their home and go to a different lot or the world screen. When returning back to the home one or both infants will be outside of the house--almost always very far away
What happens when the bug occurs? One or both infants spawns outside of the home
What do you expect to see? When I load back into my household with twin infants, one or both of the infants have spawned outside of the house and far away
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. Happened after the infant patch

Image of infant outside of home after player loads back into household 

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  • Infants leave the lot when an a child, teen or adult leaves the lot, even if there is a nanny, adult, or teen that remains in the household. This occurs whether there are multiple infants or just one infant. When there are multiple infants on the lot, at least one infant will be found away from the lot.

    UPDATE: 2025 Oct 13 - This bug seems to reappear whenever there's an active event. During the current event infants only spawn away from the home if other Sim household members are in the home. If all Sims leave the lot infants go to daycare and spawn back in the home when Sims return. If a teen or older is on the lot with an infant and any Sim leaves the lot the infant will spawn far away from the lot when the active Sim returns. Playing base-game without mods. DLC: Get Together, Get Famous, Snowy Escape, Dine Out, Romantic Garden, Toddler, & Holiday.

  • Mine don't spawn outside, but they spawn outside of their crib every time I load into the lot or into the game.

  • Lexie_DK's avatar
    Lexie_DK
    Seasoned Novice
    9 months ago

    Lately the infants has started to get teleported to random locations when caregivers return from job or other activities away from the home. This has been a bug before, and it have been a long while since I experienced it, but then both yesterday and today I had it happen in two different save. In one save the baby was high in the sky, in the save today the baby was a bit away from the home and teleported at the second my caregiver was tasked to feed.

    PoV from the first Runaway baby when I finally was able to right click on the portrait and locate the baby, Luckily I run MCC so I was able to teleport the baby back.

    Second runaway baby (happened just as I am writing this), got teleported away from the home as soon as my caregiver returned home and was tasked to feed.

  • This is so frustrating and happens pretty much every time I return to the house. Please fix this bug. I'm sick of having to use the "Teleport here" cheat to keep my infant from freezing to death in a snowbank somewhere across town. 

  • Every time I leave my lot and come back home my infant is always on the other side of the map. It's every single time and only with infants. I don't know why this is happening but it's a huge hassle since it's always as far as the infant can physically go in the map.

  • The issue started after the latest patch; since then, toddlers appear outside when my sims return from traveling, sometimes with older sims, sometimes alone. Once everything loads and my sims can move, the toddlers vanish.

     

  • Still an issue in my game on every reload with families who have an infant.

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