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AngeliccBoy
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4 months ago
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Sims continue canceling actions (Routing Failure)

No matter what I do, painting, bathing the babies, simply bringing them over to bathe, picking them up, walking inside a house, they cancel it or complain that they can’t walk there when they absolutely can. I have to manually click on different areas of the floor and make them walk into a house or go up the stairs or else they complain that they can’t get there. 

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  • Same issue. My adult Sims keep saying they can't get there when I try to interact with the toddler (put to bed, place in high chair, give a bath…). Restarting the game seems to fix it temporarily, but the problem comes back after a while.

  • I had this problem earlier on my PC. My sims were on vacation and they stuck in the upstairs bedroom and the ensuite bathroom. They would not walk out of the bedroom, and refused to use any items outside of that room and bathroom, also saying they could not get there. Nothing was blocking them, and I reset them multiple times. they had no problem using the items they were already using, like the shower and the bed, but they would not leave that room. Once I switched lots it was fixed for the time being. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 months ago

    Routing failures are very individual, could be the lamp, could be something on the wall.

    Is vacuum happening in the same space or a separate issue ? There's an older thread here: [OPEN] [BDK] My sim won’t vacuum | EA Forums - 11479515 doesn't have a new one yet.

    Best is if you upload your house to the gallery and post the name here. Maybe someone can check it.

  • SeaFoamSim9's avatar
    SeaFoamSim9
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 months ago

    This is not an infrequent issue I have where there's plenty of room but my sim refuses to walk. I wanted to make my sim go to the dresser on the other side of the bed, but they kept insisting the bed was in the way. I moved the clothing wrack and then it was the ottoman that was in the way--all of this despite there being a one full square of space all around the bed. Once I took the clothing wrack and ottoman, the sim went to the designated spot but refused to interact with the houseplant that was perfectly within reach so I moved it.  

    I included this as EbN as well as BG because I'm not sure if these items could be the cause or something else. I'm sure a lot of other folks have routing issues that are similar with different builds, backs, and BG so I hope this can be looked into.

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    Edit By Crinrict: Removed tags. There's no need to put a tag for Base.