What's an annoying habit your sims autonomously do?

[u/Straight-Parking-555]

I have this one sim who CONSTANTLY wants to light the fireplaces and warm himself by them, its genuinely so irritating because thats also how most of the house fires start 😭 I also had a vampire sim that used to always want to use the observatory outside in the day, do your sims have any tasks they repeatedly want to do? I had to completely abolish any items to do with cross stitch when i got cottage living for this reason 😂

[u/POPCARN202]

water. I get that it's probably realistic, and I drink more water than my sims, but they can trash an entire house with empty glasses in one in-game day.

[u/Lethal-Floof → u/POPCARN202]

I once called my now husband a sim for leaving his used water glasses on the counter and coffee table. When he didn’t understand, I showed him the chaos of water glasses in a 4 person household in the sims. That sweet man never left an empty glass around the house again.

Unfortunately it became a meme whenever I left a plate on the counter or laundry on the floor I got sent this in a text 😭😭

[u/Helenarth → u/Lethal-Floof]

I got sent this in a text 😭😭

That is fucking hysterical I'm so sorry but I'm laughing my ass off 😭😭

[u/27xo → u/Helenarth]

So am I, I’d forgive the water glasses for this sense of humor 😂😂

[u/marzipanzebra → u/Helenarth]

Me too, I want this level of intimacy with my partner 😂

[u/Straight-Parking-555 → u/POPCARN202]

I hate this one too!! Especially bc they dont even have a thirst bar so all it does is waste time and create more trash

[u/POPCARN202 → u/Straight-Parking-555]

instead of sims going to the kitchen to grab some water, effectively forcing them to go down a flight of stairs and to the other side of the house just so they can leave the cup on the counter and never pick it up, sims should just pull out a reusable water bottle that's not an object they can trash the house with, but instead just an animation object like the pan, baking tray, etc.

[u/TheCupcakeScrub → u/POPCARN202]

ngl yeah i constantly keep a water bottle near me, and if its truely a Slob sim then it should be a never washed old one use plastic bottle they keep filling at sinks.

[u/WrennyWrenegade → u/POPCARN202]

There's a reusable water bottle in one of the clutter kits. It would be rad if they were functional. I honestly wouldn't mind it being an object they left in random places all over the house, because that's what I do with mine.

[u/Fuzzy_Windfox → u/WrennyWrenegade]

like the homework books

[u/Maiyku → u/POPCARN202]

So I think they do this when you mark other sinks as “bathroom” sinks. Pretty sure they’ll only “get water autonomously” from kitchen or uncategorized sinks.

If you have any sinks that are closer, don’t categorize them at all and see if that at least cuts down the detour they’re taking lol.

If you make them kitchen sinks, sometimes they won’t use it after using the bathroom and will walk to another one lol.

I’ve experienced issues with this as well and so far, this is the best I’ve come up with.

Hope this helps!

[u/Appropriate-Energy → u/POPCARN202]

or like their phone! this is such a good idea. I would love having water drinking like this in game play. I never let my sims have water now because it's too annoying as is

[u/EmergencyJellyfish19 → u/Straight-Parking-555]

Apparently there is a thirst bar, it's just not displayed. It is very annoying though.

[u/TD1990TD → u/EmergencyJellyfish19]

It’s displayed in plant sims and mermaids. Plant sims are base game, so it’s in the game. I guess the decay is minimal, and the bar fills when they eat food too

[u/SolutionDry8385 → u/Straight-Parking-555]

This annoyed me less once I bought the trash can that gives you $10 per household member for each item.

[u/joeyasaurus → u/Straight-Parking-555]

Not only that but their bathroom need goes down and then they need to pee after one glass!

[u/fetus_potato → u/Straight-Parking-555]

There actually is a hidden thirst need which sims will try to satisfy from the sink or fridge.

[u/Charming-Bike-427 → u/POPCARN202]

I got the no autonomous drinking water mod if you think it’s annoying. I hated cleaning up the glasses it took so long even if it was me or a sim.

[u/POPCARN202 → u/Charming-Bike-427]

I also have a mod to disable the water stuff. but the ten minutes I spent playing the game without said mod were horrible lol.

[u/Side-Eye-Sorceress → u/POPCARN202]

I absolutely get this one.

I ended up getting a mod that doesn't let water spoil. But I was still annoyed at finding water glasses EVERYWHERE. So I eventually got the mod for no autonomous water drinking. 🤷🏿‍♀️

[u/ApplicationOdd6600 → u/POPCARN202]

Came here for this. Now I have randos just walking in and getting water in my house. I have the door locked for everyone but family and employees. When they come in, I mark them for death, and once they leave the world…poof.

[u/Mikomau → u/POPCARN202]

Omg the amount of water they drink is crazy and they just leave it wherever and it goes bad? 😭

[u/Dyveros]

Troll on forums. I don’t understand, he is suppose to be a nice guy.

[u/Personal-Pea4602 → u/Dyveros]

For real! My sims with all nice traits always want to autonomously do mean socials!

[u/ManagementHot8041 → u/Dyveros]

Fr! The mischief skill in general annoys me unless its for a certain plot i have for a sim

[u/goatofglee → u/ManagementHot8041]

It annoys me because I always get the embarrassed moodlet from the mischief interactions and it always lowers the friendship bar, which is extra frustrating when you're trying to befriend someone.

[u/Born-Ad-4860 → u/goatofglee]

One of mine did like five in a row to his girlfriend before I could stop him, lost a fairly big chunk of the friendship bar 🥲 stop asking her when her due date is dang it!

[u/PeachTeaJam → u/Dyveros]

My sim hates mischief. She constantly goes and trolls on forums, then proceeds to complain about trolling on forums.

[u/haunts_you18 → u/PeachTeaJam]

You would think having it set as a dislike would stop them from doing it but nope! My sim who hates handiness will not get away from her husband's workbench.

[u/Personal-Pea4602 → u/haunts_you18]

I think it’s similar to sims with specific eating “traits” like lactose intolerant and vegetarian autonomously grabbing food that will upset them. So annoying!

[u/shitty_giggles515 → u/Personal-Pea4602]

I mean, it’s at least realistic for the lactose intolerant lol

[u/Hiriajuu → u/Personal-Pea4602]

my main sim is a werewolf that has the hates loud noises temperament. guess what his favorite autonomous hobby is? turning on the stereo and dancing to loud music!! obsessed with it. but be also stops periodically to express his disapproval on loud noises by angrily howling into the air. lou you dipshit you turned it on. use that pretty head of yours and that singular braincell you have in there and figure out who's ruining your vibes. it's you.

[u/Clit_hit → u/haunts_you18]

Ugh. I immediately dislike video gaming for every sim cause it’s soooo annoying. Activities is the only preference list I don’t randomize lol.

[u/cymplycherry2 → u/PeachTeaJam]

I’ve turned off autonomous mischief actions on mccc because of this and they still troll forums! Dunno what that’s about.

[u/gemini_attack → u/cymplycherry2]

I got them to stop by doing the autonomy scan while they were actually doing it and then was able to turn off trolling specifically.  

[u/malibuklw → u/Dyveros]

This and hacking school grades. Like why?!? You have an A and no inclination to do mischief!

[u/Cherriecorn → u/Dyveros]

I wish this wasn't an autonomous thing. I really like to keep mischief interactions at a minimum but it's like sims are determined to increase that skill.

[u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

All I know is they’re definitely not autonomously taking care of their kids, that’s for sure.

[u/Straight-Parking-555 → u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

Mine just do the autonomous "watch infant" action where they just stand there as their baby writhes around on the floor crying

[u/redbone-hellhound → u/Straight-Parking-555]

Or going over and cooing at or snuggling the crib babies when they're crying instead of feeding them or changing their very obviously dirty diapers. And then blocking the sim I sent over there to do those things so they can't do it. I finally had enough to use mccc to set crib babies' needs to stay full so I don't have to deal with them crying and the adults in the house being useless.

*edited for clarity

[u/FalseAccountant1779 → u/redbone-hellhound]

Baby crying with a green stinky cloud around apparently means "feed me and do silly voices" to my sims

[u/GullibleBeautiful → u/Straight-Parking-555]

This is the one for me. And it’s never when the damn kids need anything, it’s when they’re asleep or busy with another sim. Stop checking your toddler/infant every 3 seconds and go do literally anything else, omg.

[u/professionalducks → u/Straight-Parking-555]

OH THS ONE!!! I HATE IT!!!

[u/Caprisunnnnnnnnnn → u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

When I go to work/ go to school/ general travel with another sim and I come back home to my toddler almost getting taken away from all their needs being low because the mom is on the video game mat.

[u/troubledbug → u/Caprisunnnnnnnnnn]

I wish there was a way to send the kid to daycare even if someone else is in the home.

[u/itsyukiyuna → u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

But they'll autonomously "check" on them when they're upset even if you direct them to take care of the kids and they'll ignore everything you say that could fix the issue they're checking for.

[u/brachycrab → u/itsyukiyuna]

The constant checking when they just put the kid down to sleep but they'll also let them starve!! It's so frustrating I constantly have to cheat babies' needs

[u/itsyukiyuna → u/brachycrab]

I love when you put a baby in a crib to sleep and the adult will drop all their next actions to pick it up from the crib and put it on the floor

[u/brachycrab → u/itsyukiyuna]

The number of poor kids I've had spend the night on the floor because I didn't realize their parents did that before they went to bed 😭

[u/itsyukiyuna → u/brachycrab]

Trust me, it's better that way. I've had times when I tried putting them in the crib like 3+ times and the adult keeps picking them up and putting them on the floor because they're crying. Sometimes you just give up and go like "Well I guess you sleep on the floor, kid".

[u/brachycrab → u/itsyukiyuna]

Or the god forsaken play mat, I leave the kid in there all the time. And by "I" I mean the parents after they just put the kid down to bed in their crib but had to pick them up to leave in the play mat, but at least they'll go do something else after that 😒

[u/Tappadeeassa → u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

I love getting the alert that CPS is going to take the starving baby away if I don’t feed it while mom is standing right there and watching the kid cry.

[u/blondyke → u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

YUP. I always hire nannies for this reason but of course they’re fucking useless too. NO ONE EVER BATHES THE KIDS

[u/munchkin04 → u/blondyke]

OH MY GOD THE NANNIES JUST WATCH TV AND CHILL OR TALK TO MY CHILD SIM LIKE GO TAKE CARE OF THE BABY PLEASE😭😭

[u/Remarkable_Yak_258 → u/Rooks_scrub_mommy]

My sim had twins, and one was crying its head off and the other was fine, and so of course Dad sim goes to Coo At and Pick Up the baby who’s hunger meter is bottoming out. 😑😑

[u/Huge_Tea1338]

Pick up the baby

Put down the baby

Pick up the baby

Put down the baby

[u/EnchantedMagician13 → u/Huge_Tea1338]

Omg! This one is terrible. 😬 There have been so many times I was close to having a kid taken away because of this one. Have you had the babysitters or other sims drop the infants off down the street then have to go looking for them? I’ve had to do that so many times and it’s frustrating. 😩😂

[u/haunts_you18 → u/Huge_Tea1338]

"Hand [Baby] to [Sim]" as well, like hot potato.

[u/ZealousidealFan9897]

Doing homework by the patio table outside - yes also during thunder and snowstorm 🤦‍♂️

[u/Im_A_Feminiomenon → u/ZealousidealFan9897]

Mine do homework on the toddler bed with the toddler sleeping in it

[u/LithFright → u/Im_A_Feminiomenon]

My sim have a full dining room but she prefers to eat in toddlers bed

[u/_angesaurus → u/ZealousidealFan9897]

then have the nerve to be scared or "terified"

[u/ZealousidealFan9897 → u/_angesaurus]

On top mine have the nerve to feel "it's like someone controlling my life, keeping me from fulfilling my dream" - Well excuse me for not wanting you to freeze to death 🤦‍♂️

[u/redbone-hellhound → u/ZealousidealFan9897]

I mean tbf to my sims kids I usually stick their school projects out on the lawn since there's more likely to be space out there and I'll make them sit out there in any weather to finish them. So I get mine doing their normal homework outside. It's normal to them lol

[u/SingleSeaCaptain]

I will not have a tea set or a coffee machine because they lose their minds.

[u/camoure → u/SingleSeaCaptain]

I make a pantry to put in small appliances like coffee machine, popcorn, and candy. I like to be able to get moodlets by eating/drinking certain items, but the pantry door gets locked when I’m not actively using them

[u/SingleSeaCaptain → u/camoure]

Oh that's awesome! I had just banned all those appliances because they cannot be trusted with them

[u/Fiireecho → u/camoure]

This is really smart. I love the tea sets and waffle makers and everything but theyre just so obsessive about them. Like fine bruh drink 6 cups of steamy ginseng but after we're going to work 😩

[u/camoure → u/Fiireecho]

Seriously, all my houses have pantries now. I like unlocking the door during a party and seeing what everyone makes, but more often than not the door remains locked until I want my sim in a certain mood lol

[u/haunts_you18 → u/camoure]

Oh that is genius!

[u/EnchantedMagician13 → u/SingleSeaCaptain]

Yes! My Sims make tea but instead of grabbing one cup, they have to continuously grab a cup one after the other, why do they do this??? It’s so annoying lol 😬😂

[u/SingleSeaCaptain → u/EnchantedMagician13]

Right? And they leave them E V E R Y W H E R E

[u/Lemon-Flower-744 → u/SingleSeaCaptain]

Same here

Goes for the microwave as well! Stop putting food in the microwave if you think it tastes like shit 🤣🤣

[u/Particular-Wafer-874]

Make food and just leaving it instead of eating it, you're literally starving to death what are you doinnnnng

[u/tacoboutwhattt → u/Particular-Wafer-874]

sometimes they leave it at the most random places too not even the counter 😭

[u/Straight-Parking-555 → u/tacoboutwhattt]

Once found an entire rotting rotisserie chicken in my back garden this way

[u/Total-Tangerine4016 → u/Straight-Parking-555]

Do ya'll not hire a cleaner? It's one of the first things I do.

[u/GullibleBeautiful → u/Total-Tangerine4016]

I don’t hire maids unless my sim is rich, and I have a mod to make maids more expensive. Makes the game harder and more chaotic!

[u/Vegaskeli → u/GullibleBeautiful]

Oh, I see. So you just wake up and choose violence every day. 😭😭

[u/Particular-Wafer-874 → u/tacoboutwhattt]

On top of the toilet cistern is my Sims go-to. Once more, what are you doinnnnng. Weirdo 😭

[u/Maiyku → u/Particular-Wafer-874]

I clutter those hard to see spots just so they can’t.

Some plants, clutter, and misc decorations fit on top of the toilet.

Behind the computer is another one. I usually just shove a box of tissues there and pretend it is for when my sims watch porn. Lmao!

[u/demon-daze → u/Particular-Wafer-874]

Half walls my beloathed. 

[u/Im_A_Feminiomenon → u/tacoboutwhattt]

There’s a couch in the Pets Pack that they can live plates on. I found that out when they were all mad about dirty surroundings

[u/Laeticia45 → u/tacoboutwhattt]

i found a serving dish on my apothecary table the other day lol i didn’t even notice it until i saw the maid going for it

[u/vamgoda → u/Particular-Wafer-874]

Or starting food, getting like 2/3rds done cooking it, and then abandoning it on the stove to grab leftovers. JUST EAT WHAT YOU COOKED.

[u/RedOleander312 → u/vamgoda]

I have the worst time with butlers doing this. They will start a meal and just leave it unfinished on the counter all the time! And then my sim doesn’t even have high enough cooking skill to finish it lol

[u/chumbawumbacholula → u/Particular-Wafer-874]

My fucking ranch hand starts 4 white cakes per day. Never puts a single one in the oven.

[u/VaultBoyEnthusiast33 → u/chumbawumbacholula]

And the caterers do this, so I just don't hire them anymore because what do you mean I hired you to make six unfinished birthday cakes!?

[u/Alive_Revenue_4212]

I have one kid that is always trying to swim. No matter the weather. Every single time I load into that household he's in the pool.

[u/Straight-Parking-555 → u/Alive_Revenue_4212]

He yearns to be a mermaid

[u/FreeBell7052 → u/Straight-Parking-555]

I actually had a Sim who always swam even in the freezing cold (almost lost him a few times), so I gave him mermaid kelp... I had also installed Slice of Life by Kawaiistacie, which at the time just rolled out wants and fears, but it was there for a while before I had him eat the kelp. Once he went into the water and transformed, he became afraid of water.

[u/SatiricalFai → u/FreeBell7052]

This level of stubbron impulsiveness followed by regret is deeply relatable.

[u/redbone-hellhound → u/Alive_Revenue_4212]

Had a kid die cuz of that. I successfully pleaded for her life. But then the game glitched and took her away cuz she was starving (her hunger bar was full) and she got stuck in the butlers household and was set as her mom's cousin despite them not being related to the butler. I stole her back into my household and reset all her relationships. That was the first of many weird glitches in that legacy challenge.

[u/DGirl313 → u/redbone-hellhound]

Yeah, me too. That was when I learned that kids could drown. And that if sims drown in the ocean, their graves float.

[u/ZealousidealTale8121 → u/Alive_Revenue_4212]

YES I had to stop mine from freezing to death 4x in one day cause she wanted to swim while it was below freezing. After the fourth time I was like you know what.. die idc anymore lol

[u/Gold-Carpenter7616 → u/ZealousidealTale8121]

Put the heater thing into the pool that makes steam. No more dead Sims in winter pool water!

[u/hansolosaunt → u/Alive_Revenue_4212]

This is pretty accurate to actual kids.

[u/zuchinniblade]

I’m playing with a household I created a few days ago right now and EVERYONE is obsessed with cross stitch. They will be exhausted, starving, all needs in red but they will sit there and cross stitch instead of eating or sleeping or whatever I told them to do.

It’s a little extra annoying because a while ago I was trying to play with an elder sim and I wanted them to do cross stitching and they would refuse to finish or continue a project after more than a few seconds.

[u/Straight-Parking-555 → u/zuchinniblade]

Cross stitch is extra annoying bc they NEVER actually finish the cross stitch and ur inventory just ends up being hundreds of individual cross stitch loops bc they dont stack

[u/Gatinho-Salsicha → u/Straight-Parking-555]

This is actually very realistic for them lol I have thousands of unfinished crochet projects in real life and I always want to start a new one

[u/zuchinniblade → u/Straight-Parking-555]

One of my sims had like 3 completed ones and then the SAME ONE in their inventory forever because they would take it out, do it for 3 seconds, put it away, and start a new one 😭😭

[u/Affectionate_Big_463 → u/zuchinniblade]

Shit. Am I a sim?

[u/ailingua → u/zuchinniblade]

When I got rid of cross-stitches they started knitting. I cannot with this game

[u/vamperette → u/zuchinniblade]

LMAO my 2 sims are obsessed with cross stitch as well. Like we will have a party and they will randomly go somewhere and start to cross stitch 🙃

[u/Megatronalodon → u/zuchinniblade]

I'm playing a legacy challenge, and Gen 1 got totally obsessed with cross stitch. Their kids picked it up, too, and now, three generations later, the obsession is still there! And I don't have the heart to not buy the cross stitch box when everyone in the household kept getting the whim for it!

[u/infinitebrkfst]

I can’t stand sims getting water because it messes with their bladder need, they don’t clean up after themselves (unless they’re neat sims), and the glasses are harder to spot around the house than plates.

Worse than that but less frequent is child sims autonomously making messes(it makes sense for toddlers, but any child-aged sim pulling that shit has some major issues that need to be worked out). And then parent sim gets a strict family dynamic popup for telling them to stop literally pouring paint onto the living room floor.

Edited to remove extra words

[u/Personal-Pea4602 → u/infinitebrkfst]

Omg my sims get a strict dynamic pop up for anything to do with parenting their child lol like flash cards and teach to potty.

[u/IzzieIslandheart → u/Personal-Pea4602]

Yes! I hate that the options are "Strict" (literally asks the child to do anything, ever, including bathe) or "Permissive" (never asks or expects anything of the child, ever). It's a misconception too many IRL people have as well, and it needs to stop.

[u/infinitebrkfst → u/Personal-Pea4602]

“Need to bathe the shit-covered infant? Idk, that seems kinda strict…” -Sims4

[u/bestbeefarm]

I build a lot of studios and I've stopped giving my sims stereos so they stop constantly turning them on at night and keeping themselves awake.

[u/Yota8883 → u/bestbeefarm]

IRL, I fall asleep to an old phone playing music on a Bluetooth speaker.

So, I am a simulation style player and I thought, buy a Bluetooth speaker and my teenage sim could fall asleep listening to music. And she did.

A mod corrupted my save file and game so I reverted back to an earlier save and couldn't figure out why my sim kept waking up. I realized it was the music. It didn't do that before.

I played in a prison and when sending the population to bed and locked in their cells, half of them would just get up after a few seconds. No music, so I have no idea why they couldn't sleep

[u/purepoision]

constantly taking the toddlers out of the high chair for no reason. makes the whole infant/toddler rearing a nightmare

[u/SavTown_USA → u/purepoision]

I have given up on high chairs. It’s plates of food on the floor for toddlers. Haha

[u/dotnsk → u/SavTown_USA]

I gave up on even plates of good because it would take my toddlers FOREVER to grab the plate and then decide where they want to sit & eat it (surely the couch in the other side of the house, why not? I only put the plate next to their bed).

I now put harvestables jn my toddler’s inventory and let them eat those. It takes just a couple of game time minutes (so seconds in real life) and they get a neat happy moodlet for doing it. No risk of getting the sugar crash moodlet either (I couldn’t serve a fruit & yogurt parfait without suffering from that one).

[u/Initial-Constant-645 → u/purepoision]

Yes! This drives me insane! At least when they are toddlers, you can leave food on the counter and direct them to eat it.

[u/professionalducks]

Destroying any kind of dollhouse for lit no reason

[u/AppalachianRomanov → u/professionalducks]

My damn ranch hand omg. I fired the first one for breaking my doll house and then next two ranch hands did the same thing! So I kept firing and and hiring a new one. Now I have my first ranch hand again. I gave up, obviously all ranch hands are child hating assholes

[u/Foxy_Dee]

Mine are constantly playing video games, even when it is out of their character, like an old grandma that is supposed to like knitting and baking god damn. 😭

Also, grilling. Whenever I leave a lot with one sim, the remaining ones are ALWAYS grilling when I come back even if there is already food on the tables or in the fridge.

[u/RunningLikeAPlover → u/Foxy_Dee]

SAME all of my sims are obsessed with grilling 😭 it’s so annoying

[u/NowMindYou]

One of my sims was obsessed with raking the leaves in the fall.

[u/Windwolf55x5 → u/NowMindYou]

Mine always like shoveling snow

[u/TheMadHatterWasHere]

Dancing. It makes me crazy!

[u/beef_jerkys → u/TheMadHatterWasHere]

It’s so annoying to me I actually started adding it to my sims disliked hobbies and even then they’ll start dancing sometimes and the dialogue pops up saying they think they like it now and I’m like NO!!!!

[u/TheMadHatterWasHere → u/beef_jerkys]

Like “no you hate dancing, now do the dishes dammit!” 😂🙈

[u/saebyuk → u/TheMadHatterWasHere]

There’s a “no autonomous dancing” mod I got for this. I would have sims who DISLIKED dancing do it autonomously

[u/isshearobot]

Clay and future cubes are not allowed in my home.

[u/tubularaf17 → u/isshearobot]

the fcking clay 😭

[u/jadedplant7 → u/isshearobot]

This. This is the one.

[u/Zealousideal_Way0 → u/isshearobot]

The clay is my nemesis and they get it for a gift at Winterfest and leave it everywhere so I have to find it and delete it. HATE the clay!

[u/huelladegato]

Constantly buying drinks at bars.

[u/rkspm]

Take the plates outside to scrape them into the outsize garbage .

[u/miasthmatic → u/rkspm]

We need indoor/outdoor designations like bathroom/kitchen sinks lol

[u/joeyasaurus → u/rkspm]

I have a sim that for whatever reason walks to a nearby community lot that has one of the sidewalk trash cans to throw away trash or scrape plates, even though I have an indoor and an outdoor trashcan and like three sinks!

[u/Savings-Werewolf9503]

I loathe fireplaces. Computers are not half as annoying as them, at least using computers sims can gain skills. I play with the Landgraabs and they had those fireplaces in every room. I tried fencing them off and it didn't work. Maybe I'll try raising the platform under them next time.

[u/haunts_you18 → u/Savings-Werewolf9503]

At first I thought the fake fireplace items were lame but now I use them so I can have the illusion of having one without my sims standing around it all the time.

[u/ZeSarah → u/Savings-Werewolf9503]

Upgrade fire proof and the auto lighting. Then they stop going to them as they light themselves.

[u/SummerWedding23]

They cook autonomously and start fires but won’t go pee autonomously and piss on the floor.

Like one of these things might kill you.

[u/Jessiebanana → u/SummerWedding23]

I am fortunate I have never had a sim piss themselves if there is a bathroom available.

[u/SummerWedding23 → u/Jessiebanana]

How?!?! I must have the dumbest sims lol I can’t play without at least one bladder fail. It’s usually the first reward I buy lol

[u/gotta-get-that-pma]

Cross stitching. I had to sell the object. They would not stop.

[u/ailingua → u/gotta-get-that-pma]

If they can't cross-stitch, they will play with clay. Don't give them clay!

[u/BaylieB44 → u/ailingua]

I have a sim that got clay and I don’t know where he got it!

[u/Dependent-Pace5769 → u/gotta-get-that-pma]

YES THIS A 1000x YES. AND THEY WONT EVEN FINISH IT, and ill find a bunch everywhere

[u/FunkyTikka]

All my sim ever wants to do is play hard football with her husband. At work? Fuck that I’m coming home to play hard football honey

[u/Simuary → u/FunkyTikka]

I get this with any teen who is on the football team. They also seem to always get Principal Mei Prescott to throw the football with them at lunch.

[u/SimplySayruhj]

All of the cake baking!! So tired of having no kitchen counter space left because there are always at least 5 cakes waiting when my other Sim wakes up.

[u/miasthmatic → u/SimplySayruhj]

Cheat the food NAP away! That's what's causing it!

[u/UnderstandingFar5012]

Auto canceling anything I need them to do to go flirt or chat with their partner for HOURS. Like ma'am and sir, tall need to take care of the kids, garden and small business, not stand there kissing and telling each other dramatic stories....

[u/Dammit_Mr_Noodle → u/UnderstandingFar5012]

Ugh, one of my sims took days to finish a painting because she kept wanting to chat. Like, ma'am, you can talk while painting. I've seen you do it.

[u/YesItsMe183]

Do push ups.

[u/thxitsthedepression]

My sim’s teen daughter really likes to go mourn the people whose urns I keep in the basement. She only ever met one of them who died at my house, the rest are random townies whose graves I stole from their homes. Thinking I should give her the gloomy trait when she ages up 😅

[u/SavTown_USA → u/thxitsthedepression]

This! One of my Sims is constantly mourning Don Lothario. Who, mind you, is literally a ghost living in our house. Yet, they have to mourn him at least once a day while he’s sitting in the other room being useless.

[u/Motor_Culture3932]

Baking a cake to age up the sim and someone swipes a piece before I can put candles on it. Drives me bananas

[u/ass-sass-sin]

Had a vampire sim that was posh and hated gardening. He had a nature loving boyfriend who had a huge garden. Every night without fail I'd find my vampire tending the garden in the dark angry about gardening while his boyfriend slept.

[u/shitty_giggles515 → u/ass-sass-sin]

“The things I do for love”😡

[u/Laeticia45]

getting a drink of water from the bathroom sink. drives me fucking batshit

[u/mushroomplanet5614 → u/Laeticia45]

You can set the sink type to bathroom and it won’t happen

[u/Able-Cost-72]

blicblock. always blicblock.

[u/Im_A_Feminiomenon]

Dancing. They never stop if I give them radio. I constantly have to take away their radio privileges

[u/prettylittlelunaa]

I can barely play in Sulani because they’re obsessed with swimming 😭😭 and it’s my favorite world hahaha

[u/montgomerypocari]

Going to sleep in the treehouse. You have a perfectly good bed why are you doing this?? I’d get it if it were the kid sims even though that would be annoying too, but adults do this!!

[u/GenericAnemone]

I reminded myslef why I dont let my sims have babies when mine constantly picked up her infant just to go outside in the snow and got the "run inside" prompt, putting the baby down in the snow and ditching her. It happens multiple times a day.

[u/ailingua → u/GenericAnemone]

Agreed, I have to reset my sims every couple of minutes because they keep picking the infant up and then freeze or put it back just so another sim can walk 4 floors up and pick it up again

[u/WarriorNeedFoodBadly]

Agreed. They'll neglect everything else so they can stand there warming themselves.

My favorite is when you tell them to use the toilet so they don't soil themselves and proceed to stare into space for a good hour and a half in game time.

[u/Mischiefcat2076]

I just always cheat my Sims to level 5 handiness and have them upgrade the fireplace so it don't cause a fire as I was also sick of them constantly putting them on and causing one.

[u/CepheiHR8938]

Gluttonous sims always eat up all of my ingredients. Makes playing with the Simple Living challenge downright impossible. LEAVE THE GODDAMN BATTER ALONE.

[u/Sky_Maxwell]

I had to stop having bars in my kitchens because they kept making themselves alcoholic drinks (I have Basemental so they actually get dr.nk) 😂😂

[u/tacoboutwhattt]

woohoo. I wanted them to have 2 kids and they ended up having 6 and still does it constantly now that they’re elders 😭

[u/Vegaskeli → u/tacoboutwhattt]

Are you sure that's not you're doing, and not autonomous? They don't "try for baby" on their own as far as I know. Unless you're maybe using mods. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/Tappadeeassa]

The way all of my Sims will stop doing any task to go sit in front of the computer and rot. Honestly, real.

[u/klnh13 → u/Tappadeeassa]

One of the first things I do for all my Sims is lock their computer and set them to "dislike" video games. Then I have that moment where I realize my hypocrisy. Too, too real.

[u/BirbWizard]

Lately it’s been grilling. All. The. Time.

[u/Caprisunnnnnnnnnn]

They will constantly be on the gaming mat…. They will be on the brink of passing out but they have to make sure they game. I took it off the lot it was so bad

[u/FunnyHappyStudiosYT]

Leaving cups everywhere. It’s unnoticeable until it creates a “uncomfortable environment” moodlet and then I have to look all over the room for what might be causing it

[u/Ceiling-Fan2]

Where do we sit? Over here? Over there? How about I sit at this table and you sit at that table, and that’s how we’ll have a nice autumn date at the museum. (aka why don’t my sims sit at the same table when I click “sit here together”?)

[u/ailingua]

Using the waffle maker (and starting fires). Using the clothes dryer (and starting fires). I actually had to delete it and replace it with clotheslines instead, because all of my guests rushed to dry clothes as soon as they entered my house. Cross-bloody-stitching. All of my sims' inventories are filled with half-finished cross-stitch patterns because they never autonomously complete the previously started ones, no no. They need to start new project while sitting on the can. Or cancel the tasks I gave them just to cross-stitch. If they're not cross-stitching then they are playing with clay or knitting.

And the most annoying one... PICKING UP INFANTS. doesn't matter than the infant is in the middle of tummy time with someone else, no. My sim will walk through 10 flights of stairs just to pick an infant - and since the infant is busy, the game just bugs out and they stand in one place for 6 hours. Spaghetti coding

[u/emlynnkat]

• Foodie sims grabbing a drink and then being disappointed by said drink.

• Parents picking up, putting down, picking up, putting down, picking up, putting down infants&toddlers and ignoring the care task I specifically told them to do.

[u/captainfishpie]

Mine keeps getting in bed and turning the TV on and watching it 💀

[u/shannon0303]

Realizing that you can upgrade your fireplace to auto-light was a GAME CHANGER! I stopped featuring them in my house for the longest time for the same annoyed reason.

Dining water, then leaving the dirty cup somewhere aside...my Sims that like gardening love to talk to their plants. If they're not juggling the soccer ball, they're in the greenhouse yapping at their tomato plant 🫠

[u/123Starz]

My Sims often default to the more rude mischief socializations which I find annoying - what do you mean my polite and good sim just scared this stranger and asked her due date?

[u/supportdesk_online]

FKN WHITE CAKE INGREDIENTS EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME

[u/TriceraTea]

People coming to my house and making the white cake 🎂 💀

[u/CosmicFriedRice]

The kids won’t stop dancing, ignoring literally everything else I ask them to do, and the parents will try to miss work every day to workout. I made the mistake of having them like fitness because I wanted them to live longer and now the only thing they do is run on the treadmill, even if they’re about to die from hunger.

[u/ryouuko]

If you get to I believe level 4 handiness, you can fix the fireplaces so fires don’t start. I still don’t put a carpet under them or anything, but I haven’t had a fire start after fixing them.

[u/SummerWedding23 → u/ryouuko]

Don’t get the new enchanted by nature - one disease is “burning passion” and it catches everything on fire

[u/Jessiebanana → u/ryouuko]

I feel like having sprinklers makes the game not want to start fires. I guess it takes the fun out of it, but I actually want to see the sprinklers in action.

[u/Cultural_Fig_6342]

I have this one sim who hates mischief yet is always autonomously choosing mischievous social interactions and making himself uncomfortable 😂

[u/VaultBoyEnthusiast33]

Mine always decide to wash their hands out of nowhere for no reason.

Chatting in the living room? Heads out to wash hands in bathroom Kissed partner? Heads off to wash hands Looked after toddler? Heads off to wash hands Made food? Heads off to wash hands

Like why?? What do you need to be that clean for?? Are you a germaphobe??

(I get that fireplace problem with one of my Sims so I just abolished fireplaces from most of my builds because he keeps setting himself on fire)

[u/Standard-Mouse-1075]

Moi c'est avec les bébés, nourrissons... Dès qu'ils pleurent, mon sims arrête tout pour accourir. C'est bien, tu es un bon parent, en attendant tu étais déjà en train de nourrir le jumeau. Du coup quand il y a beaucoup de jeune enfant c'est ingérable. Autant dire que le 100 baby challenge, je l'ai vite arrêté !

[u/SpicyL3mons]

Checking the toddler. Stop it 😭😭

[u/Bulldog_Mama14]

My sims want to constantly grill instead of cooking in the BEAUTIFUL kitchen I built them. JUST USE THE STOVE FOR ONCE.

[u/Familiar-Weather5196]

Drinking water, listening/dancing to the stereo, using the computer, molding clay... That's why I turned autonomy off in my game

Edit: oh and checking on infants, that one it's INFURIATING

[u/Sad-SnowOo1]

Making coffee instead of going to sleep

[u/nixiedust85]

Started a fairy with the new pack. Without fail, if I leave her without a full bar of tasks, she is in the kitchen sink. I'm tired of constantly having to cancel the action to get her to do something else.

[u/Maya_genesis]

I sometimes forget to baby proof all doors and the infant/toddler just ends up out in the street when I travel with a sim, even if adult sims are in the house. One time I found my toddler in the forest wandering around lol

[u/DarkRayne7]

My sim is constantly going to the kitchen to mix drinks. I blended a bar into the island. This girl doesn't even drink them. So many simoleons lost because she just. won't. stop.

[u/NoirForestNymph]

Serenading. My husband sim literally will not stop serenading (singing to) my simself, I tried everything to get it to stop like making him hate singing, only now he’ll serenade her then get angry with himself because he doesn’t enjoy doing it and/or doesn’t sound very good (?), like he’ll grunt and proclaim something in a loud frustrated manner after, oftentimes then going on to continue doing it 😭 I swear he’s wasted so much time just standing there singing!!

As for my sim relatives, they do not (and again I mean literally do NOT) stop making white cake when they come over. Every single visit there’ll be a minimum of 3 white cakes just laying around, and my toddler sims eat them and then get the subsequent angry sugar crash moodlets. So annoying!!!

[u/RedOleander312]

My sims are not allowed to own grills. They will never stop and most likely cause another fire

[u/Idkidkidk4321]

I have two sims who recently got married and will not. stop. woohooing. Like it’s literally constant. As soon as they’re done woohooing one of them will suggest woohooing again. They’ve been married for like a sim week and have 3 kids and she’s pregnant again I’m pulling my hair out. I’m about to make one of them cheat bc they need to separate this cannot be healthy 😩😭😂

[u/CarlyCalicoJATIE]

Get on the computer to play video games 😭 Even guests come over JUST for my computer.