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Stairs need fixed!
alan650111
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There has been problems with sims not being able to walk up stairs ever since the patch. This is unacceptable bug to keep. Should of had a hotfix by now!!!
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Until there’s a fix check for fencing. I found that where the stairs connect to the floor above if fencing is placed around the opening it will exist at the top step of the stairs but be invisible. So the way to fix it is to move the staircase, this will make the fencing appear across the top. Then sledgehammer out the section where you want the stairs to connect to the next floor and replace your staircase. Until they fix this I recommend not auto placing fencing at the top of stairs but to use the drawing tool to put it only exactly where you want it.
The other issue I have noticed too is that the railing is yet again clipping through walls when stairs are placed against them. I wish we could place left and right side railing separately.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/WORKAROUND-Open-staircase-cause-routing-failures/m-p/9717351#M160498
That is not true, it's not the invisible fence, that actually has nothing to do with it. The stairs work just fine with fence crossing the top (which is needed to make the area around the stairs a selectable room) as long as the floor is still there. Deleting the floor is what makes it not work.
Pets and children can still use the stairs while adults can't. That alone should tell you it has nothing to do with fencing, but actually with rooms, and adult Sims falsely thinking they're too tall for the space the stairs are in when the room has had the floor removed.
To work around it, just delete any part of the fencing (it doesn't have to be the invisible part), and then stretch it back to close the gap (or if you can't select the fence wall to stretch it, use the "Replace fences" option to fill in the gap). Doing it that way keeps the area as not an actual room (each wall is selected separately, rather than as a room). Or just don't have the area open, keep the floor intact.