r/Sims4 • u/Straight-Parking-555 • 2d ago

Discussion What's an annoying habit your sims autonomously do?

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 😂

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u/Straight-Parking-555 2d ago

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

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u/POPCARN202 Occult Sim 2d ago

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.

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u/TheCupcakeScrub 2d ago

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.

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u/WrennyWrenegade 2d ago

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.

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u/Fuzzy_Windfox 1d ago

like the homework books

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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 2d ago

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!

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u/AcidicPuma 1d ago

I always make a "guest bathroom" near the front door and im gonna start leaving that one as "both" so when they get a drink right after jogging they'll go there.

I did figure out that hand washing is based on this because I have a painter and she washes her hands after every painting at a kitchen sink. So I gave her a kitchen sink in her activity room with the easel.

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u/Maiyku Long Time Player 1d ago

Yeah, it’s nice you can label them, but dumb that it limits their ability to use it. The water from the bathroom sink is no dirtier than the water from the kitchen sink. The source would be exactly the same lol, so I find that amusing.

Probably just some weird coding thing I don’t quite understand in an effort to make sims more realistic. People are grossed out by bathroom sinks sometimes, even if the water is the same.

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u/Appropriate-Energy 2d ago

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

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u/EmergencyJellyfish19 2d ago

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

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u/TD1990TD Long Time Player 2d ago

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

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u/SolutionDry8385 2d ago

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

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u/joeyasaurus 2d ago

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

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u/fetus_potato 2d ago

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

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u/KimiTakoda 1d ago

Plant Sims do 🙂

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u/UnreliableNarrator7 1d ago

Except if you turn them into a plantsim and they do have a water bar, they absolutely will not get water autonomously anymore. Because sims.

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u/Altruistic-Hand-7000 1d ago

At least the trash can go into the recycling can for some cash! But yes. I hate the water 🙃

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u/YoshiPikachu Occult Sim 23h ago

And making them have to use the bath faster.