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Ada_puerta
Seasoned Novice
2 years ago
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Under Investigation

[VGSP] Tasks not/rarely done by Butler/Maid

Buttlers and cleaners won't put dirty clothes into the washing machine from the hampers, won't clean the lint tray and only sometimes will they put the clothes to dry from the washing machine. They also only sometimes take out the trash from vacuum robots.

Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title


Collection thread for tasks not or inconsistently being done by Maid/Butler

Summary

  • Put Laundry from Hamper into Washing machine
  • Clean Lint Tray
  • Put Laundry from Washing machine into dryer
  • Take trash out of vacuum robots
  • (Family) Meals
  • Vacuum (Puddles)
  • Take out garbage
  • Feed baby/infants

9 Comments

  • bewitching1's avatar
    bewitching1
    Seasoned Adventurer
    12 months ago

    Will happily add they inconsistently vacuum, leave dirty dishes, not taking out the garbage.

    Seems they do an hour of work and then just stand there until the end of shift. Tried resetting sim, but did nothing.  Tried shooing her out of the bathroom (sim had to use it) and she didn't respond until the end of shift.

    Listen, they can't just hide out in the bathroom all day and Still get paid! (Or not, since I have free services perk)

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    12 months ago

    For the dishes, if you direct your Sims to do it, do they do it ? There's issues if you have dirty dishes on unreachable places.

  • I have deleted all mods and CC, and no matter what, the butler no longer cooks meals on their own. They used to cook a meal at each "mealtime" of the day. If I direct them to cook, they say not enough space or unable to carry out action. 

  • notsza's avatar
    notsza
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    My butler doesn’t even have the option to cook anymore. And the options they have occasionally change throughout the day, like sometimes it will say “water plants, go to sleep, fix an object, etc…” but sometimes only the go to sleep option will be there. And there’s never the option to cook a meal.

  • I have a large kitchen, I ask my butler to cook, they say they can't because there is no counters to cook on. There at six counters available

  • Now in my case it is specifically about feeding, but I image other might have other issues with butlers "caring" for sim kids, so I wanted to leave the bug report open for more "info on butler behaviour" that cause issues with kids care.

    I understand the idea behind butlers not being perfect, just like staff at a retail store or restaurant even though it can be frustrating, but I've had butlers not feeding babies or infants so they get taken away. 

    They block my sims from feeding babies/ infants because they are standing in front of the crib or holding them. And they do every interaction except feeding them. So all other needs for the child can be green, but the hunger is deep red. 

    I wanted to just not play with the babies/ infants in one of my saves and I wanted to see if I can spend simoleons having someone else doing (all of) it for me, so I hired a butler and and let her care for them.

     When I noticed I got "will get taken away" notifications I would lock the door for to the kid room and cared for them myself. When I got tired of that I saved the game and unlocked it for the butler to see if they for once would feed them now.

    And like I mentioned, I lost the kids. I quit without saving and then fired the butler, but I just want to illustrate that the butler never fed any of the kids my sims had. Even though kid care was their only thing to do for a long time (so they had time to care for themselves and sleep etc), and I even had a single baby or infant/ toddler most of the time. So it wasn't like they had several.

    I can also mentioned that I though maybe this is an issue with just this one butler, so I hired another after firing the first, but it was the same thing, she also didn't feed them. 

    I play on pc with no cc or mods

  • Vintage glamour butlers only care for one of the twins. Since the game doesn't provide maternity leave the sim has to work. When the sim returns home one twin is neglected.

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