How to make the game randomly generate certain types of townies/household?
Is there a certain way to make the game generate certain types of townies? For example a married couple with or without children, single father, family with female child, family with male teen, etc. I only have base game, and currently playing with auto age off for unplayed household. I noticed that when the game generates a family, it always a family of single mother with female teen and a male child. And only one randomly generated family that consist of a married couple with male child, and I don’t know what the trigger for it. I tried to go to park or playgrounds a few times, erasing the household that I do not want, to make the game to generate new family with kids, but it always generate a household of single mother, female teen, and male child. I have never seen the opposite type nor any new family of married couple with children again. I am playing on a new save and trying a new gameplay ideas where I mostly control one family and only age up other premade/randomly generated family when I decided to marry a sim from those household. I’m not sure if this is another known issue, but my sims has been giving birth to male babies only for around 5 generations, and I wanted to have a story where my heir marry their BFF from childhood but could not as I could not make the game randomly generate a family with female child, so I just wait until they age up to teen to choose their lifetime partner. I know that there are mods that help to create various type of household but I don’t want to rely on mods. So I would like to know if there a ways to trigger the game to generate certain types of townies. Below are what I noticed from my own observations on how to trigger certain types of sims. Going to park or playgrounds: generate family of single mother with female teen and male child. Going to bar in Oasis Springs: generate female young adults bar regulars. Going to lot with Teen neighborhood trait: Generate single teen (male or female) household (no parents) But I noticed my game have a few single males and females unemployed young adult sims, so I would like to know if there are other triggers to generate those, especially household of married couples, single father and household with female child. Please advise. Thank you.
Which traits are so disappointing that it's not worth using them?
I mean traits that just don't do what reasonably should be expected of them to do. For example the lazy trait. It just gives sims a negative moodlet while they actively do things, but does not prevent them from doing those things on their own. It gives an occasional want related to it, but nothing more. It's not making your sim sleep longer either, do a lazy spin when changing clothes like in sims 2, or anything else really. So there simply is no point to ever giving that trait to a sim, since it will not make them behave lazily as it should. Any other traits like that you can think of that might as well be avoided in favour of traits that do what they should be doing?
Frozen hot tub effect not on hot tub
I have no idea how this happened, I'm playing on a residential rental lot and not sure if that has anything to do with it. The area the hot tub is in is in one unit and the frozen top effect is just between a different unit's area and a non-enclosed space with no label. I can move it with tool mod but can't click on it otherwise. It's a base game hot tub and I have cc hot tubs but no mods that I think would effect it. I can't shift click on it either to reset it, any ideas on how to get rid of it? Probably unrelated but I also get a 5 second long musical sting about every 5 seconds that is driving me crazy. It started happening after I got back from a jungle adventure vacation in selvadorada. I've seen some other people saying they get it too, its a dramatic sort of scary noise. I have some jungle adventure items placed but moved them all to the inventory and the noise kept going so I'm not sure what's causing it.
Broken and Updated Sims 4 Mods and CC: patch 1.118, Sept 18, 2025
About This Thread This thread tracks Sims 4 mods and CC that have been "broken" or made obsolete by game update 1.118, September 18, 2025, and the October 2 hotfix, or declared unsupported by their creators. It also tracks updated game mods and important updates to custom content. SORT THE THREAD FOR WHAT YOU NEED: For the COMPILED LISTS, sort by Oldest For the MOST RECENT INFO, sort by Newest … or follow the topic to receive notifications of new posts. See the bell symbol, top right. Notifications can even be sent right to your email! Some things are NOT covered here: Early-access content and anything else behind a paywall Content outside the T (for Teen) game rating (no adult mods! including alcohol, violence) Creators/mods outside the EA and EA Answers HQ rules, and the Maxis guidelines for Sims 4 content creators Separate translation files Loading screens, CAS backdrops, main menu backgrounds, and poses unless the creator says an error is fixed Sims 4 Multiplayer Mod updates that don’t change the version number CAS and Build/Buy CC unless the creator says they're fixing an error or catching up pack content Mods and CC hosted on sites that are mostly adult content or that require joining an 18+ site Creators who update active creators' CC/mods or who upload folders of other people's mods and CC. In addition, news for mods/CC hosted only on Mod the Sims may be selective and/or delayed. In the end, YOU are responsible for your mod use. Because not all content and creators are covered on this official forum, many of you should be following creators directly for news. The pinned topic How to Use Mods and CC includes advice about game updates, mod management, finding broken mods, and how to avoid downloading broken and malicious content. And remember… Back up your Saves folder! Index for This Topic Newly Broken/Obsolete Game Mods and Tools Updated Game Mods and Tools, sorted by creator: list 1: core mods + A-P, list 2: S-Z Newly Broken/Obsolete CAS and Build/Buy Updated CAS and Build/Buy Cleared by Creator for This Patch: gameplay mods reported by the creator or their testers to be compatible with the game update Core, Injector, Testing and Protection Mods Status: what you should be on for mods like ModGuard, Better Exceptions, venue lists, Lot51 Core, and XML Injector Creator News New Bugfix Mods Start of Ongoing Reports - scroll down or sort replies by NEWEST Other Resources Previously Broken/Obsolete Mods and CC: selective; up to patch 1.117 [MASTER POST] Current and Common Mod/CC Issues, including links to earlier Broken/Updated Mods threads. Start here to find out if your symptom has a known cause. The previous Broken/Updated Mods thread, for patch 1.117 - NOTE: This patch saw a LOT of issues with household loading Patch Notes for this game update How to use Mods and CC: including how to test for broken mods/CC ("vanilla" testing and the "50-50" method) Malicious Scripts and Malware Need to tell me something? If you need support or have a broken mod to report, post in the forum. My DMs are open for creators only.
Calendar All Messed UP
Hi, moderators, this may be in the wrong section, I don't quite know for sure. Please move it, if so. Just yesterday when I was checking my game calendar, I noticed something a bit off. I have Get Famous and am used to the Starlight Accolades Show showing up on each Sunday. I'm on Saturday of the game, and the next day it shows, but the rest of the Sundays don't have the event flagged. To be honest, I have not played an earlier save to see if the show goes on, as usual, but I am very bothered by the fact it isn't listed for the rest of the game-year. True enough, to save a bit of time after a needed rollback, I switched to a 7-day Season, but once I got to the next week I returned to the 14-day season. If something happened during the switch over, I surely didn't notice it right away. I have searched through several of the earlier saves (I always do a Save As at the beginning of game play) and all of the most recent ones are missing the event flag for the Starlight Accolades. Is there a way to fix this, please? It is my hope to solve this problem before the Jumbo Patch hits tomorrow, if possible. Otherwise, I will have to return to a much earlier save wherein I have no identifiable problems with the save. But that takes the teen twins back to their toddlerhood. Before I can share anymore updates, I'll have to play a lot, in order to catch up, lest the updates mess with the current timeline of events. Oi. Any and all help is appreciated. Please, and thank you, in advance. ~GalacticGal
Game play will not load
Hello! So the sims 4 is not letting me play the game. I am able to make a sim no problem but everytime I go to load a plot to actually start playing with a sim I create the load screen will appear but it won't go past it, it's like it frozen or something. Also when I restart the game it deletes the sim I created. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
