Ideas

Rising Adventurer

10 months ago

Status:

Verified

Invisible fire/Fire inaccessible

While they could get the left one, the stairs one remains inaccessible which they're trying to reach first. Potential gamebreaker if the fire won't burn itself out Edit By crinrict: Adjusted T...

NeptuneDoragon

Seasoned Newcomer

7 days ago

I encountered a serious soft-lock issue during a fire event in The Sims 4.

A fire started from a microwave placed in a corner of the room. Firefighters arrived, but they were unable to reach the fire due to pathfinding issues. The fire never gets extinguished.

While the fire is active:

I cannot enter Build/Buy mode

I cannot save or exit normally

I cannot move or delete objects

Cheats such as fire.toggle off do not work

The game is completely stuck unless force-closed

Because the firefighters cannot access the object, the fire persists indefinitely and the player has no way to recover the save without losing progress.

This seems to be a soft-lock caused by:

Object placement in tight spaces

Firefighters being blocked by routing

Game restrictions during active fires

This issue makes the save unplayable and needs a failsafe (auto-extinguish, forced object removal, or UI override).