r/Sims4 • • May 12 '26

Troubleshooting thread Troubleshooting Thread — Bugs? Errors? Mod issues? EA app issues? Post about them here! Update 11/04/2025 [PC: 1.124.54.1030 / Mac: 1.124.54.1230 / Console: Version 2.33]

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Please read the entire thread if you’re not familiar with this help section. If you have game issues, mod issues, App or console issues, please post them here via comment to get help instead of making an individual post. We've created this post for all troubleshooting issues, but this specific post is tailored toward the newest patch. If you have not updated the game you can continue to post your issues here, but be aware that most replies may be telling you to update your game. You can also search the comments to find an issue similar to yours. 

When troubleshooting, make sure to delete your localthumbcache.package! Pockets of code from mods and the game can reside in that file, so it's important to go into the game with a clean slate!

If you see individual posts about bugs, report them under rule 12 and direct them here. Thank you!

Current Patch Notes

Previous Troubleshooting Thread...

Here are some F.A.Q.s when it comes to fixing your game:

THIS FORM MUST BE FILLED OUT TO REQUEST HELP. Failure to include this in your comments will result in an automatic removal.

Questions: 

Which platform? (PC/Mac/Steam Deck/PlayStation/Xbox)

Any mods or cc? (Yes/No)

Game version [PC: 1.121.342.1030 / Mac: 1.121.342.1230 / Console: Version 2.28]

*Description:

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For those users who are looking to remove the key legend overlay that was added in a previous patch. Here are the solutions:

  1. Click on the Help Center Icon (In the top righthand bar it's the hand with the ? over it) and unselect the "Show Controls Legend" button.

2. Go to Game Options > Tutorials & Tips > Disable Help Center Icon & Controls Legend.

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r/Sims4 • • 1d ago

Mod recommendations thread Weekly Recommend Mods and CC Thread!

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Welcome to the Weekly Recommended Mods and CC Thread!

This thread is your hub within the sub for various FAQs related to mods: WCIFs, “is there a mod?” posts, mod recommendations, and discourse on creating and managing mods.

If you are new to mods and looking for help getting started, please check out the “Mods and CC resources” section of the sub wiki for helpful general information as well as links to some sources for downloading mods. Link below.

SIMS 4 popular mods and resources

Patreon, Tumblr, Mod the Sims, The Sims Resource, and CurseForge are all popular sources for finding mods in the Sims 4 community.

Always check that you are installing the most recent version of a mod and that it is compatible with your game version. Mods will be disabled automatically after every game update; updates frequently break mods and creators must release new versions that are compatible. Continuing to play with broken mods could lead to game-breaking issues.

Mods go in the C:\Users\...\ Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 folder. By default they can be placed up to one folder deep for script mods and five folders deep for packages, so organize your mods folder however makes sense to you - by type, by creator, etc. A well-organized mods folder will be easier to troubleshoot should something go wrong.

If you need help troubleshooting your mods, you can find useful resources in our Mods and CC Resources wiki. This includes instructions on following the 50/50 method to identify which mod is creating an issue as well as frequently-updated lists of broken and working mods.

For resources related to creating mods/CC, please check out Sims 4 Studio's forums

Looking for other communities on Reddit to share or search for mods and CC? Try r/thesimscc, r/thesims4mods, or r/sim4cc


r/Sims4 • • 8h ago

Funny Cutest Photo bomb

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Ragtime is so proud of himself. And oh, the background human looks ok too i guess...


r/Sims4 • • 6h ago

Storytime The acting career cast my sims sister as her love interest...

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I should probably have seen this coming...

For some context both my sim and her sister are in the acting career, and since the sister is in a different household she sometimes gets assigned in other roles. This is somewhat intentional since I think its kinda sweet for them to work together. It just never occured to me that this could happen.

I did not take any photos of the actual kissing since I intend to pretend that it never happened. But I was so weirded out and had to share. She even had the audacity to be happy when she got home.


r/Sims4 • • 10h ago

Show and Tell Cyclops family for my Monster Save

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Serena Cyclopsica is a stay at home mom, who also does lifestyle reviews as a side hustle, she's very doting and loving on her children, when it comes to her husband Kyree, although she's head over heels for him (for whatever reason) she can go into a jealous rage over seemingly small things. her traits are clumsy, jealous, and cheerful.

Sophie Cyclopsica is the eldest child of Serena and Kyree, she's a headstrong girl who speaks before she thinks about what's coming out of her mouth, (doesn't help her low popularity, but definitely helps her drama club performance.) she likes dancing and plays the keyboard, albeit badly. she kind of has the personality of a small stoat her traits are creative and clumsy

Kyree Cyclopsica is a Biology professor at Slitthroat University, although he's very smart, he's still overly scared of things, has some insecurity problems and tries to run away from conflict sometimes. aside from that, he loves dancing like his daughter, and tries his best to be a good husband to Serena and a good father to Sophie and Cyrus. (if it sound like i'm being mean to him, it only cause he kept pissing me off the second i made him) his traits are socially awkward, paranoid, and family oriented

Cyrus Cyclopsica is the youngest and the most audacious of his family, he spends his time prowling the town with his litter of friends, being an annoyance to everyone they come across. he has the mean trait


r/Sims4 • • 20h ago

Show and Tell New Vampire based on an icon: Scar

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A few days ago at work, I decided to sketch out an idea for a new vampire to add to my save. As I was doing it, my mind kept going to Scar from the Lion King (one of my favorite Disney villains, only beat by Hades and Facilier). So I decided it would be fun to make a vampire based on him.

Introducing Hadrian Vanderguild. This time I have no deep meaning for his name, I’m sorry. He’s macabre, a snob, and mean. I also like to believe he’s sassy and high maintenance, but alas, three trait slots.

He’s on the gallery for anyone to use. ID: PumpkinRoper.


r/Sims4 • • 1h ago

Show and Tell This game is so beautiful sometimes

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r/Sims4 • • 2h ago

I made a mod/cc! Buckskin Trader Outfit

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I made this piece for a character in my Wild West town, who's half French, and half Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ). Thought I'd share it here. There is a tragic lack of Native American cc, so I'm working on another project now, in addition to this.


r/Sims4 • • 3h ago

Show and Tell Created Freddy Krueger!

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r/Sims4 • • 7h ago

Funny Cats will be cats!

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r/Sims4 • • 7h ago

Discussion First new discovery playing my occult legacy

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I've never been one to dabble into the occults, despite having the packs in my game for years (b/b stuff is incredible, what can I say?).

Took this spooky season as an opportunity to dive deep into them with an occult legacy.

I'm starting with an alien sim who is a Cosmic Outcast. She landed on earth in Strangerville, and now wants to blend in with the locals using a disguise and help solve the Strangerville mystery while working as a scientist.

First new discovery: Sixam holds alien dance parties?! I had no idea!

I guess it's something you unlock at level 10 of the scientist career! Never knew!

Also my sim is stunning. She fits in so beautifully.

I'm high-key excited to see what the other occults' gameplay looks like. This is a whole new arena for me, and I'm honestly here for it.


r/Sims4 • • 7h ago

Show and Tell Miserable pregnancy

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I've never played with pregnancy in this game. I am MCCC set to 42 day pregnancy for a simulated 9 months of the year, 3/4 of a 56 day year.

Pregnancy with RPO, realistic child birth... other mods, come on, you all know what my Karen is into...

It's so easy to play through.

This is all she does. She's been sleeping for over 12 hours now, up twice on bathroom emergencies, about to have the third. She ate a piece of cake and a slice of pizza at 3 am already after one bathroom run. Gameplay, piece of cake, just let them sleep, LOL. It progressively got worse through the trimesters. It's so interesting to watch. She was perfectly fine "yesterday" and functioning. Even happy, confident, good mood. The mood swings are so fun, it's constantly changing. I wish there was more to moods than just stomping around and other superficial actions. I want them to interact with other sims according to their moods, not cracking jokes while they're 'very tense.'

This is all the more she's gotten for energy from over 12 hours sleeping. Oh how I love to keep her miserable in her life right now. Punishment for how she's living her life, you all know. LOL I am actually having a lot of difficulties with what she needs to be doing on a daily basis. She sleeps most of the day. I can only send her out for short periods of time. Laundry at the laundomat takes too long, she can't come out of bed fully rested and get laundry done before passing out. I'm loving it. I do hope I can eventually fix her for when she's living a normal life in the future.


r/Sims4 • • 1d ago

Sharing my build Willow Creek Bed & Breakfast. Includes an owners' floor with 2 bedrooms, guest floor with 3 suites & staff floor with 2 bedrooms.

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r/Sims4 • • 20h ago

TIL that if you put a Cowplant indoors, the pot will appear

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I've always liked the iconic look from previous games, and was trying to figure out how to replicate it. It never even occurred to me that you can just simply put it indoors without a planter.


r/Sims4 • • 1d ago

Funny My sim found a whole man while dumpster diving and I'm scared

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r/Sims4 • • 1h ago

Show and Tell A sentiment I’ve never gotten before

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I thought that this was absolutely adorable both moms are best friends and they’ve been friends since they were infants this is my first time seeing this🥺


r/Sims4 • • 1d ago

Sharing my build My new favorite thing is building the debug-object houses as livable, playable lots

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Some of the "fake" debug houses are so pretty, and I wished my Sims could live in them. Now they can! Some of these can't be replicated 100% due to certain limitations or unavailable assets. What do you think?

I've posted some of these to the gallery under pennyfarthing42 !


r/Sims4 • • 7h ago

Show and Tell Spellcaster cultural study

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I like to implement "rules" especially for occult societies - here are some for my spellcasters!!

- Spellcasters move fairly fast in courting, often families or mentors play matchmaker. Usually marriages occur between family friends. In this rare instance, a half non-caster was able to marry up (lol Sage's daughter) Large families are preferred and as soon as an education for the woman is gained its usually time.

-In this Matriarchal society, more pressure is put on men to be fit for marriage (provide a home and cooking skills also MAGIC SKILLS HAVE TO BE HIGHER TO MARRY UP )

- Traditionally hats are worn (yes big witch hats lol) and casters who are more traditional still wear hats, head adornments a given for formal events ( more modern casters and those who live farther from Glimmerbrook are way less likely to wear adornments or hats)

-larger noses, chins, and nearly neon eyes are the beauty standard (yes Ms. Josephine is considered plain)

My other occults are also subjected to a rich culture :3


r/Sims4 • • 3h ago

Funny glitch Did anyone else's sims randomly become unmarried? 😂

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I was playing with my two married Sims when the option to propose popped up. I was really confused considering I have their marriage certificate and the arch that they got married at. I guess they got divorced while I wasn't looking 😂


r/Sims4 • • 21h ago

Funny Fear of Cowplants. Paints a Cowplant. Makes sense.

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Also got jumpscared switching back to this household after ripping out my CC--all the members had secondary Everyday outfits with CC, and I guess my kid was wearing one to school. I'd be embarrassed, too.

And I'd installed the Lumpinou Curious Inquiries mod. It's fun to ask my offspring about their relatives and see how massive it is.


r/Sims4 • • 6h ago

Show and Tell Bedtime's done

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r/Sims4 • • 1h ago

Xbox Brightness

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I can’t figure out why my sims are so bright all of a sudden? Tried messing with my settings but nothing I’ve tried so far has worked, please help


r/Sims4 • • 12h ago

Funny Before I forget, have this gif that I made

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Do what you will with it, have fun :3


r/Sims4 • • 11h ago

Funny I just love it when my sims have to active slender mode, just to take their medicine.

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Upon walking in her memaw’s house, I had her take some paracetamol. We can’t have a sad toddler ruin family game night.


r/Sims4 • • 8h ago

Challenge Adam and Eve start talking (Part 4)

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Hey everyone!
In this video, Adam and Eve finally start interacting. She gives him a tour of the island, and in return, he tells her all about the modern world he used to live in. It definitely looks like some feelings are starting to spark between them!

I changed the style of the subtitles for this video!
Someone pointed out in the comments that the previous ones were a bit hard to read, so I really hope this version is much clearer. If not, please let me know!