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susansaidso
Seasoned Newcomer
6 months ago

Lots Disappearing since 9.19.2025

When I go to a residential lot that has sims living on it, the lot shows as completely empty, and my sims are just standing on the sidewalk. This started yesterday; it happens on many but not all lots. It happens with mods in or out of the game, and even ***happens with saves that I'd kept sequestered on an external drive.*** 

The house/landscaping shows from map view, but is gone when I load onto the lot with a sim. It happened in multiple worlds and with residences of different ages (some have hours of gameplay in them, some have none). I'm now playing a vanilla game while I wait for this to be fixed.

Here's the link to my save file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_qLywll3WF-IoxXnwEHTKx8fYlZnduCg/view?usp=drive_link

thanks!

7 Comments

  • discordion987's avatar
    discordion987
    New Spectator
    5 months ago

    did you find a solution for this? i am getting the same problem

  • tanubanue's avatar
    tanubanue
    New Spectator
    5 months ago

    Same issue here.  I've seen threads as old as two years stating the same issues that I'm experiencing.  Replaced lots showing as the original ones from another lot, although show as the new lots from the map screen as well as the lots being empty when I load into them either with a sim or in buy/build mode.  Being that it was reported as basically the same issue two years ago can and will this be fixed?  I've tried multiple saves to the point of getting ready to find a new game.  Oh and this happened in a save I have not even played in yet so it wasnt a corrupt save issue.  And I only had about 18 sims placed.

  • av3rys28's avatar
    av3rys28
    New Spectator
    5 months ago

    This has been happening to me too..removed all my mods, repaired the game, etc and it's still happening on every save

  • HookedOnGaming's avatar
    HookedOnGaming
    Rising Traveler
    5 months ago

    This is the most annoying bug I have encountered.  Complete households and lots just keep disappearing off various save files.  It makes the illusion of creating a forever save file absolutely pointless because I am spending DAYS replacing lots and households every time I seem to touch the game.  Absolutely ridiculous for a game I have spent £1000+ on.  STOP bring out new packs indefinitely and FIX all these infuriating bugs.  

  • susansaidso's avatar
    susansaidso
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 months ago

    Sorry I forgot to come back to this. I ended up doing a bunch of things and something fixed it but I couldn't say what (I know you all probably hate hearing that!)

    Thanks for your help! ✌️

  • Laurnarose's avatar
    Laurnarose
    New Scout
    2 months ago

    I have a large save, with 80% lots I built or replaced from the gallery.  If I play on a larger lot, then other lots start to disappear. I then go back to a recovery version of my save before the lots disappeared, Usually losing several hours of Play time. but at least my lots exist. I save the game to a back-up file every week.  I wish there was a way to stop the degradation of lots. 

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