When selecting or placing items in build mode the item disappears and unselects. Ocassionally with repeated trying I am able to place an item but with many times selecting it and clicking it down quickly. I uninstalled all mods and am still having this issue. My game is up to date with the most recent 5/12/26 update.
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Occasionally when I am in build mode I lose items. This time I was dragging books out of inventory to the world. If I place them on the floor, they disappear. If I put them on a table or counter, it works as intended.
(Just a note when you move house, it brings all the bookshelf items even the default ones. So the sold house has an empty bookshelf and the new house has duplicates [more than one copy of some if you had more than one bookshelf that came with some books already loaded]. While I can sell books, I can sell them only as a stack--I can't sell 3 of the 4 duplicates, only 0 or 4.)
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Could you please provide the following information
Items disappear when placed in build mode | EA Forums - 13408792 ?
-> I have tested without mods and was able to recreate the issue.
-> It's dragging/placing from the household inventory (which I believe is available only in build mode) that has the issue for me.
-> Placed books disappear from the floor under conditions (I'll get to that shortly)
-> Dragged books do appear to be the same problem you linked: they unselect and do not make a green outline but nonetheless disappear from house inventory. (I missed that they became unselected in my old game because I set the lights to auto and assumed the dark room was why I couldn't see the green outline, and initially assumed that was why I could not see them sitting around on the floor... however I first realized something was wrong in the old game when the floor did not have filled up areas the next book couldn't be set onto.)
Here are the steps I took to reproduce the issue:
1. Make one new sim, put in empty lot, and build house. Buy a bookshelf or two and place in world. I applied homey to the lot (as I always do) and also fox challenge from cottage living, which I have (I don't normally do that), and additionally tiny home (I frequently do that especially on starter sims). Play the game a little, pick a job. When a book is left on a table, have the sim put it in personal inventory in play mode. Also drag others left out to house inventory in build mode. Since they've gotten better at picking up books, it might be needed to interrupt them in order to get books left on surfaces.
2. Try to drag the book from housing inventory to the floor. It doesn't stay selected but doesn't leave inventory. Try to drag the book from sim inventory to the floor. It works. Placing works from both types of inventories.
3. Make a second sim and build a tiny house on another lot. Add bookshelves. Pick homey and whatever else. Play the game a bit, get a couple promotions at work and start working on skill aquisition.
4. Have the two sims meet up, get acquainted, and become partners. Move one (put any work rewards or other items wanted after the move into housing inventory) and combine households.
5. Try to drag or place book from housing inventory to world. The drag fails with deselect bug you mentioned. The place fails even though it made a green indicator that the book would go there: the book immediately disappears. Drag/place from personal inventory, however, does result in a book on the floor.
PS, it is unlikely to be related to tiny home because I had this bug at 3 Olde Mill Lane. I did change/add some furnishings and interior walls but I left the flooring and the shell alone, except to put a rug in storage.
I'll put this on review for now but it might get merged with the other thread.
don't use Mods
Hi Dfletch61
Merged your post.
There’s something wrong with my game where whenever I attempt to place any furniture, it immediately deletes. I also cant change wallpaper or save the game, and I have to force quit the app any time I want to leave it. I have quite a few mods/cc, but I’ve updated all of them, removed them and tried to get it to work without them, deleted the cache… I don’t know why this is happening or what I can do to fix it. I am also a relatively newer player, so sorry if the fix is something obvious that I didn't think of. Is anyone else experiencing this/have any ideas on how to fix it?
After updating my game, I went to make changes to on my lot. I started to sell some bathroom items and copy some others, build walls and place doors. Well, all of the sudden, those items started to disappear or just won't place where I want them (of course the spot is green, so I know it can be placed there). I have restarted the game, even restarting my computer, but to no avail. This issue just keeps happening. This issue will now make it harder playing certain game packs if I can't decorate or build.
Please help and fix the issue soon 🙏
so when i’m in build mode if i click on almost anything to place it, it just resets and sends me back to the catalog?? i’m building a kid’s room and everything i tried to click and drag from the catalog just acted like i never clicked anything. like sometimes it takes 1 millisecond for it to disappear. i actually can’t play build mode at all thanks to this so YAY another update ruining my thousand dollar game! 🙃
