Neighboring Houses show as Default/Empty

Something similar happened to me just two days ago!

I was building a new forever save completely from scratch — no mods or CC — and guess what? It got corrupted once the save reached around 50 MB. I only noticed the corruption because all the neighboring buildings started reverting to their default versions.

What’s interesting this time is that the corrupted lots weren’t in Willow Creek, but in Gibbi Point and Tomarang instead.

In Gibbi Point, I couldn’t access the 40x40 playground lot at all — it would just get stuck in an infinite loading screen.

But when I visited the surrounding lots, they were all showing up as default, even though I had already replaced them. Strangely enough, after I deleted the nearby 64x64 lot, I was finally able to access the 40x40 playground lot again.

But then, whenever I changed any other lot in Gibbi Point — even something small like building a single wall — the playground lot got corrupted again and became inaccessible. The only way I managed to fix it was by deleting all the lots in Gibbi Point (even in different neighborhoods). After doing that, the 40x40 lot became accessible again.

As for Tomarang, it’s basically at a point of no return. I can’t fix it at all — not even with Sims4Studio. Just like Gibbi Point, there’s one 20x15 lot there that I simply can’t access anymore.

And the same thing that happened in Gibbi Point also happened in Tomarang. Deleting all the lots in Tomarang made the broken one accessible again, but as soon as I started building on any other lot in that world, it became inaccessible once more.

At this point, I’m starting to believe this issue is actually linked to the maximum capacity of items per world — not just the residential rental cap, but the total number of items in general. It might even relate to the complexity of each lot, depending on how many different object types are used.

So now I’m stuck with two options: either start a brand-new save from scratch or just play something else. It’s really unfortunate, because I spent weeks building this new save file only to lose it during the process. The saddest part is that you never know when a save is about to break — it only becomes clear once the surrounding buildings start reverting to their default versions.

I still have the save file available if any dev wants to take a look at it. :(