Is anyone having trouble finding trash in the cans for sims to rummage for parts? Without fail in Oasis Springs, Bedrock Strait neighborhood you can always find trash in those cans to rummage, regardless of the world and neighborhood your sim lives in.
I am playing Johnny Zest, who lives in that neighborhood and there is no trash in the cans to rummage. Trash is not spawning. Not even in the park which tends to always have trash to rummage.
I do not have Eco Lifestyle.
Anyone else run into this issue?
UPDATE
I entered a bug report. Please Me Too it here:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Unable-to-Rummage-in-World-amp-Community-Lot-trash-cans/m-p/9223296#M141520
Comments
If it's a lot based dumpster you have to actively generate trash some way to have anything to rummage/dive for.
If you are washing dishes or have the Nano trashcan, for example, you won't generate trash from cleaning up dishes. You would generate trash if you have no sink and throw all the plates away in a regular bin.
Yeah, it's a dumpster on a residential lot. What about piles of trash that end up on the ground? My sim picks them up and takes them to a trash can. I assumed that once the regular trash cans fill, the dumpsters would fill. I'm just confused on how it all works.
- I only have a dumpster in the corner of the lot, no trash can in the house
- I stop eating just before they finish or try to stop the clean up action, then I manually move the bowl to the dumpster
- One empty/partial bowl seems to get gets 3-5 dumpsters actions (dive/recycle etc). Multiples create more
- With my freegan on community lots, I intersperse dive for meals/ingredients every now and again so that I’ve always got something to ‘refill’ the dumpster
Hope that helps!
Eta. The non build able parts in the neighborhoods need both the recycle and landfill traits to rummage in the trash bins.
The actual dumpsters. I was able to rummage in one today, but I'm still not sure what triggered it.
Maybe that's why; I do have a trash can, too. It's outdoors, though. It's always full but the dumpster isn't. I'll try removing it and keeping only the dumpster.
You need to empty the trashcans in to the dumpster, they don’t magically jump over there 😅 despite it being the sims.
Oh, really? Lol. I thought that emptying the can just empties it. Now why didn't I think of that? Technically, it does magically jump over there if there are no animations... No wonder I was confused.
Prior to EL patch sims were able to rummage in the trash to get food, parts to upgrade stuff, and voidcritters. Now, after EL that option is broken.
So I guess I won't be able to play this save since her house burned to the ground, she's homeless and will now starve since she can't rummage for food, etc. Makes rags to riches kinda hard.
Doesn't necessarily mean it's broken. They could have deliberately changed it in a patch.
Maybe they changed it when EL came out?
Is there a limit to how many dumpsters a sim can gather from per day?
@sherisim57 nothing was changed. Also, if there was a limit, them my sim would be able to rummage at least once.
@Starfree I do not have EL.
edited to add video
https://youtu.be/iGv6_UZc3kM