Why is my sim missing

[crinrict]

@DiarraHoyte I merged your post with the main thread then

Unfortunately, if you saved in this state, the save is broken. See first post for more information.

[reeseecup420]

A fix for this, we'll not a fix but an alternative is to be a paranoid saver and always save your families and lots to the gallery. That way if your save file screws up and u lose your families all your households/lots will still be there. 

[malle05]

Help, i have this issue in 2022. I've done everything you told the person prior in this thread to do, and it will not let me enter the household. I can create a sim just fine, but i am not allowed to play them and whenever i click play it just stays in manage worlds.

[crinrict]

@malle05 I moved your post over to the current thread on the issue. This is usually mod related but removing the mod doesn't resolve the issue if you save. The save game is usually broken.

Have you been using mods/CC ? Do you have a backup ?

[soft_tooru]

So this is a pretty weird glitch. It only started happening after the most recent updates. I have some cc builds (schools, houses), and I can put them in my world just fine, but the problem comes with editing anything in them. Anytime I change something, the save file will completely glitch out. I will be unable to play ANY household, and if I exit the game and load into it again, every single household is gone, including NPCs. It's super weird and I'm not really sure what to do besides not play with cc builds for now.

[crinrict]

@soft_tooru This is usually caused by an outdated mods. If you saved your game this way then it's permanently corrupted and you can only load a backup.

[PLAYERBRITNEY]

@crinrict Is it possible to name the mod as I just downloaded a bunch without having used them yet and now my Sims have disappeared/the blue box has appeared. I deleted the SNB mods but I had the custom traits mods in there before my Sims disappeared and they were working fine so I haven't removed them

[luthienrising]

@PLAYERBRITNEY There's not only one cause of this. You can test "vanilla" to confirm that removing mods brings Sims back: Drag the Mods folder to the desktop, delete the file called localthumbcache, open the game to test, and exit without saving.

To figure out which mod is currently causing this problem, you can do a 50-50 . I don't know of a recently broken mod that causes this, but you can check the lists in Broken/Updated Mods & CC , especially "Previously Broken"