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Can't crack open lava rocks
EIisabetta
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I've had several fall on my sim's lot. She can't crack any of them open. The interaction is avaiable and she'll walk a little way toward them and then do the "I can't get there" wave like there's a routing problem. Opening the lot to edit it, I can't move them unless she makes them decorative (tried that with one and was able to move it, the break open interaction was still there but she still couldn't do it) and there's absolutely nothing surrounding them and no reason she shouldn't be able to reach the rocks to break them open.
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As someone who has played since TS1, that should have been the first thing I checked. So, naturally, it wasn't.
Time to track down which mod is causing it. Fortunately, I hadn't put all my mods back in so it shouldn't take long. LOL
figured i'd add a few screenshots in:
sim cracking one (of four) lava boulders open:
I tried that for mine and it ended up deleting the rocks when they returned home lol. I updated all my mods, so I don't think it could be mod related for me as well. I will try to reload my game when it happens again like what Elisabetta said worked for her.
i'd always been doing that and then going into build mode to move them (some indoors, some as a sort of fence along one lot wall) waiting for them to get fixed, then i noticed after my sim went to dinner at a restaurant that the rocks were breakable like they're supposed to be from the start
also, it's absolutely not mod-related. i really do think it has something to do with the 'on fire' period, possibly when it cools off it doesn't actually flag itself as cooled off, so the break interaction thinks it's still too hot or something
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I did not because I wasn't sure if you would be able to still break them open or not. I'm restarting my game up because my sim is also not wanting to pick up the trash along the beach, getting that same issue as if they can't get over there. I have the volcano lot trait so I just need to wait till I get another eruption that brings them to try again.
also, it seems the sulani elementals can cause lava boulders, too. that really caught me offguard. had one of my sims with the child of the islands trait summon the elementals then offer them and the rest of the household kava, that got him judged favorably, had both him and the elemental that judged him go playful. then the elemental summoned fire between its hands, shot it up into the sky and a boulder dropped into the yard outside. was absolutely not expecting that
This is many times caused by npc conservationists wanting to take samples from the sulfur piles. Apparently they constantly do this with those piles and the waterfall, as I saw when I started playing the Kealoha house in one of my saves. Makoa had 99+ samples in his inventory
They have a chance to fall on lots with the Volcanic Activity lot trait
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