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doctor-blind
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7 days ago
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Moveobjects (Moo) Causing items to disappear

I caved today and bought the Businesses and Hobbies expansion (console user - Xbox Series X). This is my first time buying a pack so close to release. When I went to my current save file to work on a house build I have been working on for weeks, a bunch of items I had previously placed were missing from the build. For example: the stairs, standing mirror, desk, a couple of dressers, many clutter items, etc etc.

I tried restarting the game and restarting the console with no luck in restoring the items. The items are still available in the build/buy mode as far as I can tell - I would have to go through the house and figure out exactly what all is missing and place them back into the build.

The build is actually a replication of my own home so I'm more attached to it than my usual builds. I've spent numerous hours on this build and I am really hoping there's a way of restoring the build as it was pre-installation of this new pack. I have installed many new expansions, game packs, stuff packs, and kits over the past couple of months and have never had this issue up until I installed the Businesses and Hobbies expansion pack today. Everything was so seamless and flawless up until now... I fear that all my hard work is gone forever. 

Is this a known issue with this new pack? Is there anything I can do to restore my build to its previous state? HELP!

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit migrated bug report: [ARCHIVED] Moveobjects (Moo) Causing items to disappear | EA Forums - 11429346 

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9 Comments

  • Did you check the household inventory ?

    Do you have backups or save the house to your library for save keeping ?

  • doctor-blind's avatar
    doctor-blind
    New Spectator
    7 days ago

    I was working on it in free build mode on a lot in Willow Creek - there's no household attached to the build so there is no inventory.

    I am somewhat new to the library/gallery feature so I have not saved/uploaded it there unfortunately... wasn't sure if saving to my library would make it public or what. I didn't want it to upload a partial build to the public gallery. Lesson learned I guess...😞

  • Also meant to add to initial post - I checked for updates and there is nothing available; running the most current version of the game (and no custom content or mods used of course where I'm on console).

    I used to play on PC (Mac OS) years ago but when I got Xbox Series X, I found it performed extremely well so I made the switch. Have never had any issues with the console version up until now. No bugs that I was aware of and hardly any glitches (minor if any at all). Super disappointed that this is happening now... on this build of all builds....

  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
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    7 days ago

    Heya doctor-blind 

    I'm afraid there wouldn't be a way to restore a previous version of your save game, but did you place these items down using the moveobjects on cheat? 

  • doctor-blind's avatar
    doctor-blind
    New Spectator
    7 days ago

    The content should still be within the save I would think? I haven't re-saved it at all. Closed it without save as soon as I realized there was missing content. I had loaded my save, went to the lot and noticed right away that select items were missing. The only cheat I have used is moveobjects, which would have been active when I placed these items and many of the other items that are still present.

    I have been working on this for weeks and have never had anything disappear from the build. The only difference is the addition of the new pack today. Just doesn't make sense to me! I want to make sure that once I sink more time into the game that this won't happen again. I have spent hundreds of dollars on this game since January and it's super disappointing and discouraging to be having issues like this all of a sudden.  

  • Having same exact problem!! This is getting really frustrating and makes me not want to play the game sometimes.

    A couple of objects (mostly lighting & clutter/decor ) keep disappearing between saves and reloads. I'm mostly a builder type of Sims player, so it's incredibly frustrating when I spend a week perfectly curating and making a room full of carefully selected objects/decor, for it to disappear one by one every couple of loads and reopen the game. It's gotten to the point where I have to upload every single room to my library and screenshot all 4 walls of each and every room in case an item gets deleted. Some rooms are perfectly unaffected, while others are missing lots of different items. They seem to go missing when on Live Mode, but I have noticed a couple missing when reloading or reopening into Build Mode.

    As mentioned, the items are mostly decorations such as plants, sculptures, clutter, and art (from what I've noticed). Both content from base game and packs and CC. I noticed this started happening at the beginning of last month, but disregarded it as I thought it could be fixed with the upcoming patches.

  • Camillablluuee's avatar
    Camillablluuee
    Rising Rookie
    2 days ago

    That started to happen to me once I bought For Rent! I wonder if it has to do with the corrupted file bug from FR.

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