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dbmcgrew
Seasoned Hotshot
30 days ago
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Sims washing hands in sink in different bathroom (Patch 1.117.288)

I realize that there isn't much to go on yet. I'll update this report if I catch it happening. But I've noticed that occasionally, my Sim will use a toilet in one restroom, and will then go to a sink in a different restroom (at home, this is usually on a different floor) to wash her hands.

Usually, she'll use the sink in the same restroom where the toilet is. And the sink in the original restroom seems fine, and I can make her use it to wash her hands after she's autonomously gone to the other restroom to wash her hands. It's weird that occasionally she goes to a different restroom to wash her hands.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit old fixed bug report

15 Comments

  • aem0044's avatar
    aem0044
    Seasoned Rookie
    20 days ago

    I'm having an issue where my sims keep preferring the sink and trash bin in their business instead of the sink and trash can in their home. Their business is on floor 1, their residential kitchen is on floor 2. A sim will eat their dinner and then do their dishes all the way downstairs instead of using the kitchen sink that's in the same room that they are in. It's the same with the trash can. They will never use the kitchen trash can, only the one in the small business downstairs.

    I've assigned the sinks as kitchen vs bathroom to ensure appropriate use. This didn't work though.

    I use MCCC and UI Cheats Extension, both are updated to their most current form and my game is fully updated.

  • pbryan0712's avatar
    pbryan0712
    Rising Spectator
    16 days ago

    I'm having similar issues. My sims have definitely used the toilet in one bathroom and gone to another to wash their hands. They are also completely by passing the bathroom closest to them and routing to the one in their home business, which is often the option farthest away. Also, when I cancel the action to stop them from going to the bathroom farthest away, the interaction quite literally doesn't stop them until they've made it there anyway. So, I'm basically trying to stop them for nothing. 

  • Same. Will walk across the house to wash hands ignoring every sink on the way.  No mods used. On PC. Started after patch update 

  • dbmcgrew's avatar
    dbmcgrew
    Seasoned Hotshot
    13 days ago

    FWIW, I've been trying to reproduce this behavior since the latest update, but I haven't seen it happen again.

  • dbmcgrew's avatar
    dbmcgrew
    Seasoned Hotshot
    11 days ago

    This may be a symptom of a more general bug with routing when moving between related tasks.

    After hosting a house party, I had my Sim clean up (click on a dirty dish and select Clean Up). She wandered around picking up dirty dishes, but she wasn't at all efficient about it. Pick up a glass in one room, pick up a dish from a table in another room, pick up a glass in a third room, pick up a dish from a different table in the second room, pick up another dish from the first table in the second room, pick up another glass in the first room, and so on. I would expect her to pick up all the dirty dishes from one table, or in one room, before moving on to the rest of the house.

    I'll try to capture this behavior if I see it again. I haven't seen the original behavior (using toilet, going to a sink in another room to wash hands) for a while though.