Hello Everyone:

I've been playing a new game I started early last month, and all has been okay until last week. First thing, My Sims won't walk through doors. They go to the door and stand out side of it but won't walk in the room. I have rotated the door several times and tried to get them to walk through it, but they still won't walk through the door. Second thing, the Chef's in my kitchens won't cook in the kitchens, they are cooking outside of the kitchens, wherever they happen to be standing. Today, at one of my Bistros, the Chefs was cooking outside, and when I sent my Sims to place an order at the tables, they were popping in and out of their seats. The Tube elevators have been acting crazy, recently a Sim got stuck in one, but lately some Sims won't use the tube elevator. If I tell them to go to bed, they will go to the elevator and appear to be sleeping right at the elevator or just pop upstairs to the bedroom into bed. If I send them downstairs to have breakfast, they will have breakfast or dinner wherever they are standing, could be their bedroom, and won't use the elevators to go downstairs. I've gotten to the point now where I've had to remove some of these tube elevators and place stairs. What in the world is going on??

Remove any abandoned jigs from this lot.

First Method: On the lot in question, NRaas > MC > Object Stats > Non-Inventory and select to Flush anything with the word "jig" in the name. If the doors and elevators are then still not usable, do an MC Reset on the entire lot.

Second (older) Method: Retreat to Edit Town, evict the entire household to the side of the screen, copy the uninhabited lot down to the bin, bulldoze the lot, replace with a fresh copy, and move everyone back in without having left the screen. Note that sims this way will lose their promised wishes and any opportunities that may have been in progress. If this somehow makes things worse, then quit without saving.

mahoganywood28 post_id=73082 time=1586048726 user_id=19635 wrote: The Tube elevators have been acting crazy, recently a Sim got stuck in one, but lately some Sims won't use the tube elevator.

I know this from placing tube elevators while "moveobjects on" was active and they didn't sit exactly in the right place, even though it looked okay. Same thing with doors you place in that way. Just touch them again with "moveobjects off", if possible, or be very careful. As to the elevators, rebuilding them may be necessary, sometimes starting from the ground floor.

Of course, if igazor's suggestions work, even better.

I'm having an issue with evicting My Sims again. I have been trying to save them to the Library Bin, but every time I try to save them, the game crashes to my desk top. This has happened several times before. Can I reset a Community lot? I tried resetting a lot before from Map view by using MC, but it only allows me to reset objects in the whole town, not lots.I'm going to try what you both have suggested now, and I hope it works. But what do I do about not being able to save mt family, or even their home to the Library Bin to stop the game from crashing. Does anyone have any idea why the Chefs are behaving so oddly?

Hey Igazor and Trujan:

So I did get the elevator issue fixed, but my Sims still won't walk through certain doors. They will walk through the door to enter the house, walk out the back door, but they wont walk into any other door in the house. They also wouldn't walk through the restaurant door. The NPC who plays the piano popped through the door, but My Sims just stand outside the door. The Chef is cooking in the kitchen again, so that's good. I've never had any issue with this lot, so I just don't know what's occurred. I did find one Jig file Igazor, which I flushed, it didn't resolve the issue, so I reset the lot, but the Sims still won't walk through the door??

Are you sure you haven't accidentally locked them? Have you tried deleting and replacing the doors?

"Accidentally locking doors" reminds me of the one time, where I had locked doors in the house to prevent the inhabitants from playing their instruments in their family members' bedrooms. A long time later, I switched up beds for everyone and then wondered, why some of them always failed to use their beds. That took me a while until I remembered what I had done.

On community lots, you can also have NPC doors btw.

No, they're not locked. I just placed the doors, and tell the Sim to walk into the room, and they just stand at the door.

What are the NPC doors?

I've had this door issue. Go into build/buy for the lot, turn on testing cheats enabled and buydebug and get rid of any hidden room or level skip markers. You can also do this with MC by flushing them.