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Aging/Birth/Death/Urn/Gravestone
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] All Sims Die/age up in existing save (Patch 1.110.311/2.03)
- [REVIEWED] Aspiration disappearing when aging up from teen to young adult
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Book Of Life doesn't summon or resurrect
- [REVIEWED] Grim stuck after reaping
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims/Pets age up multiple times in a row
- [NEEDS INFO] Toddlers/Infants don't age up with cake
Animations
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Animation issue when playing cards on a game table
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Children stretching when picking up upgrade parts from ground
- [NEEDS INFO] Music-Loving Children Who "Listen Deeply" Have Stretched Limbs
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims hugging backwards/arm glitches
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims keep holding invisible book after putting it down
Autonomy
- [NEEDS INFO] Autonomous Insulting (Patch 1.108.349)
- [NEEDS INFO] Autonomous sleeping uses wrong side of bed
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims excessively flirt with others
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims get leftovers. Then go talk to someone and don't even eat
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims invading Homes
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims keep stopping/cancelling out their actions to do other things
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims stops writing books
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims will suddenly go 'Out of the World' to infinity
Burglar
- [NEEDS INFO] Burglar alarm disarms and won't rearm
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Burglar: Police won't show up after calling them
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Burglar: Stolen Items loose upgrades after returning
Career: Freelancer
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Freelancer Career: List of gigs empty
Career: Rabbithole
- [REVIEWED] Chef Branch has wrong Job levels
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims don't disappear in rabbithole when going to work/school
Discovery Quest
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Discovery Quests won't go away/Constant Messages popping up
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Discovery Quests: Certain quests have blank text
Household/ Premade Household
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Cant have more than 7 Sims in household
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Household members turning into neighbors/ Can't use doors (1.112.519/2.06)
Infants/Toddlers
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Check baby interrupts all attempts to care for baby
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Infant covered in black cloud after playing in object
- [REVIEWED] Infant keeps producing tears
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Infants spawning outside of home after loading back in
- [NEEDS INFO] Infants Stretching on certain infant interactions
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Newborn/Toddler/Infant sent to Daycare is not working
- [NEEDS INFO] Parents need to introduce themselves to their infants (Patch 1.110.265)
- [NEEDS INFO] Plates/Glasses get stuck on sims hand
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Toddler Ask to read book interaction cancels
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Toddler Doesn't Stay in High Chair (Patch 1.96.386)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Toddlers calling sims to pick them up while talking not fixed
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Toddlers have level 5 Movement skill but walk like level 1 on Certain Conditions
Interactions: Objects
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Activity table: No 'encourage' or 'Call over to see option'
- [REVIEWED] Can't clean dishes cause of missing trash can (there is one) (Patch 1.108.318)
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims Carrying Trash / Plates / Laundry / Infants Reset With Stairs / Platforms
- [REVIEWED] Sims in Romantic Relationship Keep Getting Out of Bed (Patch 1.116.202)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sticky Fingers: Can't swipe anything with Mischief 10
Interactions: Sims
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Action doesn't proceed when trying to woohoo with Grim Reaper
- [REVIEWED] Enemy missing in Relationship menu
- [NEEDS INFO] Female sims now peeing while standing up
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Multiple "More Choices..." options on non-active sim
- [NEEDS INFO] No Romantic Interactions besides 'Offer Massage'
- [REVIEWED] Romance Interactions constantly rejected
- [NEEDS INFO] Sim doesn't interact with others and instead starts dancing
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims can't interact with other Sims if there's a curved pool on the lot
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims dislike mischief
- [NEEDS INFO] Smooth Apology Always Available
Lot Challange
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Effect from Scare Seeker lot challenge doesn't go away after removing it
Lots/Premade Houses
- [REVIEWED] "System Error" when placing lot
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Endless Loading/Crashing when trying to load a certain lot
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Floating furniture and building completely gone
- [NEEDS INFO] Houses/Lots Disappear
Misc Inventories
- [REVIEWED] Can't Drag & Place Items from Sim Inventory
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Furniture is moved to the household inventory on loading
Neighborhood Stories
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Can't disable Neighbourhood Stories
NPCs/ServiceNPCs
- [NEEDS INFO] Firefighters don't do anything
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Gardener will continue to appear after canceling gardening service
- [NEEDS INFO] Guests won't leave!!
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Maid caught in a loop cleaning appliances (Neat Trait)
- [NEEDS INFO] Maids And Nannies Don't Do Their Jobs/Show Up
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Mixologist behind bar, but not tending it, unavailable for orders
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Multiple ServiceNPCs showing up
- [NEEDS INFO] NPC Sim invades home - inconclusive Cause (Patch 1.110)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Random sims walking through house
- [REVIEWED] ServiceNPCs show up to Vacation Rental
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims Don't Sit Down to Watch Performances & Speeches
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims reset for several interactions while using Lin-Z
- [REVIEWED] Tasks not/rarely done by Butler/Maid
- [NEEDS INFO] Townies generate with unnatural shades of skin/pear bodies
Objects: General
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Cha Cha Tall Sliding Door (Medium & Tall) Missing from BuyBuild
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Classical Genius Antique Piano — Keys the wrong way
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Ice in fridges don't melt after leaving and re-entering the lot
- [REVIEWED] Lights don't turn on or off
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Locked doors not working when a sim leaves the lot
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Monster under bed despite night lamp
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Neighbouring Wall Mailboxes have interactions they shouldn't
- [NEEDS INFO] Objects floating in mid-air
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Pre-Patch Gnomes Jumping around (1.116.223)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims put objects in Box/Chest instead of container (fridge, bookshelf)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] The Convenient Bush not in regular BB Mode, Missing Nap/"Fertilize" Interactions
Outfits/Appearance/Voice
- [NEEDS INFO] Copying applies changes don't apply to Non-CAS Outfits
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Eyelashes don't fit anymore
- [NEEDS INFO] Infants Face Distortions (1.113.288/2.09)
- [NEEDS INFO] Kids & Toddlers bodies disfigured
- [REVIEWED] Leonardo and Alexander Goth always age up bald
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Modded Facial Modifiers cannot be applied to Children
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] no pregnant belly
- [NEEDS INFO] Played Sim creates new outfits
- [NEEDS INFO] Rainbow eyeshadow gets excessively added to NPCs situational/role outfits
- [REVIEWED] Sims don't change out of situational outfit
- [REVIEWED] Sims get narrow shoulders and loses jawline when aging up to teens
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims neck set to wide
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims Only Wear First Outfit Choice
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims wear default underwear when naked
Painting/Woodwork/Fishing/Chess
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Can't play chess with active Time Limited Events
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Color marking on emotional paintings is missing
- [REVIEWED] High level musician can't write or license songs anymore
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Playing emotionally on the Piano is no longer possilble
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Write Song / Book / Lyrics Loses Progress
Photography
- [NEEDS INFO] Photos/Paintings turning black (1.102.190/1.82)
Plant Sims/Ghosts
- [NEEDS INFO] Sim stuck reacting to becoming a ghost
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims children who die don't become ghosts
- [REVIEWED] Sims never turn into Plantsims after eating forbidden fruit/cheats
Pregnancy/Baby
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Age Progress Bar Shows During Pregnancy
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Labor doesn't wake up pregnant sim
- [NEEDS INFO] No Pregnancy test to take
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sim temporarily considered pregnant after birth
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Try for baby option available while sim is already pregnant
Relationships
- [NEEDS INFO] (Group) Conversation leads to inappropriate love interest
- [REVIEWED] Cannot edit pre-existing sims
- [NEEDS INFO] Can't set two mothers/fathers as parents in CAS
- [NEEDS INFO] Partnered Sims turn into siblings
- [NEEDS INFO] Romantic Relationships among close family members
- [REVIEWED] Sims can't become soulmates
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims forget already existing relationships
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims reappear after selecting Hide Relationship
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims who have been best friends/ememies for a while remain as acquaintances
Residential/Community
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Lot Types Change to a different one
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Placing residential over community lot doesn't change lot type properly
Routing
- [REVIEWED] Musical Chairs
- [REVIEWED] Routing/Sit down issue on several interactions
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sim keeps putting infant down before putting them in crib et al.
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims continue canceling actions (Routing Failure)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims getting stuck on top of CounterTops (solid objects)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims will not wash dishes (Patch 1.63)
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims won't use nearest furniture while eating/reading
Skill Class/Mentoring
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Not able to mentor sims
Social Events
- [REVIEWED] Can't set vacation rental lodging as event venue
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Dates ending as soon as it starts
- [NEEDS INFO] Hired roles don't show up
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims date ends due to 'too many mean or mischievous interactions'
Wedding
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Exchange Vows Grayed Out on wedding arch
Willow Creek/Oasis Springs/Newcrest
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Lots randomly revert back to defaults
- [NEEDS INFO] Objects flying in the sky: Now on ground
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Rocks and dig sites not respawning (Patch 1.112.512)
Work/School
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Adults/teens/children at work/school on reload trying to skip work/school
- [NEEDS INFO] Employment Performance Bar Resets to Average
- [NEEDS INFO] No Promotions. Getting Raises instead
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims coming back from school/work after reloading game
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Sims leave job/school after another sim travels
- [NEEDS INFO] Sims not going to work
- [NEEDS INFO] Sudden Career Jump
- [UNDER INVESTIGATION] Vacation time - No option to take time off
Last Updated: 07/15/2025
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