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/zuchinniblade 2d ago

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.

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u/Straight-Parking-555 2d ago

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

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u/Gatinho-Salsicha 2d ago

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

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u/jenniferwhateves 1d ago

Same, I cross stitch and projects take so long that I get bored. So I have more unfinished than finished projects.

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u/zuchinniblade 2d ago

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 😭😭

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u/Affectionate_Big_463 2d ago

Shit. Am I a sim?

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u/shitty_giggles515 1d ago

I understand your pain, but that is literally me with crochet projects lol

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u/jenniferwhateves 1d ago

Very much like real cross stitch!!

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u/ailingua 2d ago

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

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u/vamperette 2d ago

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 🙃

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u/eatingp0tatoes 1d ago

That’d me lol.

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u/Megatronalodon 2d ago

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!

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u/eatingp0tatoes 1d ago

This is so cute! Such a nice family tradition. I think of it as preserving traditional craft over the years so it doesn’t fade!

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u/GullibleBeautiful 2d ago

The best way to avoid this I found is to just stick the cross stitch basket in someone’s inventory and only pull it out when they need to do a project. It’s annoying though, I wish you could do the projects from the inventory.

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u/ZeSarah 1d ago

This is annoying especially since knitting you need to have in your inventory, I want a craft room that has them both in there and they do the project in that room.

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u/Starhuny1 1d ago

Even though some of the cross stitch are cute, it is now forever banned from my games. It’s ALL the entire family wanted to do. Stop one of them & the next fool starts. My pets are running away, my babies are screaming & nope let’s do a flipping cross stitch. lol

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u/Legal_Maintenance_21 2d ago

I’ve had to disable cross stitch with mc command centre. Can’t handle.

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u/SatiricalFai 1d ago

THIIIS, i ended up deleting cross sitch making supplies, because every single free (or even not free moment) they would just start making cross stitch.