Sim not responding immediately task/action

I have a teenage sim building a school project and he's got to level 3 art so far but the project box is still unopened in front of him and he's just sitting there staring at it.

His twin brother is making apple jam and he's got to level 3 cooking but the ingredients on the chopping board are untouched and he's just standing there staring at them.

Their mother is fishing, and she's catching fish, and their other teen brother is playing violin with emotion and I think he's acting normally, but these two are not. They're not completely frozen in that they are sort of swaying in place, but that project box isn't going to get him performance at school just sitting there unopened!

It looks like the same bug that sometimes when you tell a child sim to make a drawing at the craft table, they just sit there at the table gaining creative skill but not actually progressing their drawing at all. I can't find that bug report now but I've seen that happen in my games a few times now. I know that the immediate fix is to leave the lot and come back, but that's really annoying when it means that every sim who was doing what they were meant to be doing - including the sleeping infant - will be somewhere else doing something else when I get back.

I would like this bug to not happen, please. When I tell a sim to do something, I expect them to do that thing.

Never modded or cc, on PC, lots of dlc but not the most recent stuff.

Same thing on Xbox only one character freezes all the sudden. It does it worse in my opinion when you have too many actions in the queue.

I recently made a new household to interact with my main household in my game. It consisted of seven teen spellcasters and one child spellcaster, but whenever the teens from my own household try to interact with them, they just freeze and would not respond to any commands. I mostly observed this from one teen that my other teens met through school

It's only other spellcasters I've seen it with, the teen spellcaster in my household keep getting an interaction labelled 'See What's happening' with the other spellcaster teen when I invited her over and they wouldn't preform the social interactions I was commanding, when I tried to get him to have a friendly duel with her, it wouldn't happen, I also noticed that she kept standing up and sitting back down on the couch in different spots. No matter how many times I reset her, or my own spellcaster, they would not interact properly, I managed to get them to have friendly interactions, but it wasn't consistent and also they would not have a friendly duel, no matter what I did

I initially also had this problem with the other teen in my household, who's just a normal sim, but then I noticed she could interact with the spellcaster teens perfectly fine, if they're the only spellcaster in the same room. I believe she also had the 'See What's happening' interaction with the first spellcaster teen I had invited to invited to my house, she also managed to meet more of the other spellcasters in school, and when I had her invite them over, I noticed she could interact with them fine, but my own spellcaster had trouble introducing himself to them. It took a lot of effort for him to meet the other spellcasters and then to get him out of the room so they'd stop freezing

What I found weird is that my spellcaster teen kept getting the privacy violation embarrassed moodlet when he was around the spellcaster I had invited over and when I had switched control to her household, trying to troubleshoot, I noticed all eight sims in the household all had the privacy violation embarrassed moodlets, even though none of them had bathed or use the toilet. Some had both the 'Privacy invaded' and 'Cannot unsee' moodlets, while others had just one of them. No matter what I did, I could not get them to move from their starting positions when starting the household, resetting them would just make them preform an animation in regard to their low motives, before they'd freeze again once it was done. Whenever I gave them a command, it would appear on their queue, but it would just stay there and they would not preform it

My young Adult sims, none of which are spellcasters themselves, can interact with the teen spellcasters just fine, unlike the normal teen in my household, they never had any problems interacting with the spellcasters, as long as there wasn't any other spellcasters in the room

I don't know know how this problem started as my whole household had gone to the magical realm before where I got my spellcaster a wand and a broomstick and there wasn't any problem, though I haven't visited it again since I made the new household full of spellcasters

I don't know if it has something to do with my spellcaster reaching the top level of spellcaster while still a teen, as I play with auto age turned off, so he was able to level completely up without aging into a young adult. I also don't know if it has to do with the household having no young adults or older sims, since I have the Parenthood game pack and that means the teens and child have no adults to ask advice from

I think I can make due with playing without my spellcasters interacting, but I was hoping to use my new household for my spellcaster to have duels with and I was hoping at one point to get all the new spellcasters wands of their own

The only other detail I'll provide, in case it has any significance, is that I originally made the household with all of the spellcasters being teens, but later I decided it would be more fitting for one of them to be a child instead, so I use full CAS edit to de-age him into a child

like woohoo or feeding an infant

Please test your issue on a vanilla game

To verify on a vanilla game, move your mods folder to the desktop and delete the following files from your user folder.

-  localthumbcache
-  Any lastException Files
-  Any LastCrash files.

Test a backup of your save as you will loose all cc on the save and see if the same error occurs, then report back.

I had this happening prior to the last 2 updates, haven't played in live mode since. It would affect every sim in the household, they would have actions queued up but just stand there. Resetting them didn't work, cancelling and re-queueing the actions also didn't help. Opening the save menu and closing again did fix it and everyone would immediately start their actions.

I'm playing on PC with no mods.

I have the same issue I’m on ps5. Though didn’t play on live mode for well over a week and there where 2 updates so I’m hoping one of them fixed it.

I have the same issues!! I give my sim and action, and they just stand still for about 30seconds without moving… it’s really annoying and speeding up time doesn’t help. 
+ My elders can’t even start a career anymore 

I'm having the same issue and I play on Xbox.