Vanished NPC's / "blocked" from NPC's

  • Game Version: current Version

  • Platform: Steam windows

  • Mods: never used

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…): Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 18 Kerne 3.00 GHz Turbo, 48GB DDR4 RAM

  • Steps to Reproduce: not able to have a relationship with npcs, not able to send messages or plan a meeting

  • Please provide the entire save file(s) from the date when the issue occurred.
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  • Issue Date: 21 of February - 24th of February

  • Details (to the issue): Whenever it comes to any interaction of Relationship with a NPC, after this incourse my Zoi is getting “blocked” from them, 2 of the NPC’s completely disappeared and their profile is nonexistent, with one of them I am not able to plan any meetings,… so the gameplay is totally bugged since then.
    The current NPC is not showing up in any areas of the “Map”. Neither the other two NPC’s.

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Hey there, welcome to the inZOI forum!

Did you try to contact or invite either NPC on various times of the day? I noticed that sometimes they’re not available when sleeping or being at work.
It’d also be very helpful to check your save file. Please upload the affected one here. If you don’t know how to do it, please check this official guide: How to Send User Files to The inZOI Team (Updated)

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Helloo!

I tried to contact them during the day, like everytime possible but I was never able to plan things with that ZOI, my ZOI had a relationship with. It’s really weird because it was at any time the same thing and it’s been for days in the Game and outside the game. I been having problems with that for 2 days.

I can send them simple messages but any more intercourses are not possible.

Some of the files are too big to upload in here. Is there any way to send it to you per e-mail?

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20260221-181303.zip (30.0 MB)

20260223-233241.zip (6.6 MB)

I am not able to upload every single file since it has more than 30 mb

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Thank you. Both folders work and hold enough info to look into this bug :folded_hands: If the devs need additional info, they will let you know on here =)

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Thank you so much!! (:

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I’m currently checking one of the two save files you shared. I can confirm, just like you mentioned in the report, that the NPC Zoi (Donghoon Seo) can’t be called over AND doesn’t accept any meeting invitations. He seems to be a really busy one -.-

I found a workaround which you might want to try in case you don’t want to “let go” of Donghoon:

  1. buy a business lot
  2. open any kind of business there
  3. employ Donghoon
    → I just tried it in your save file and it works. Once you have employed him, you can easily call him over AND have a meeting with him.

Of course you can sell the business and the lot afterwards. Just “lock him in” the next time you’re meeting him - with nothing but your love of course xD
BTW - your Zoi looks gorgeous. I love her <3

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I’m actually going to try this one!! Sounds kinda fun hehe

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UPDATE!!! I actually could plan a meeting (which is funny) and in the meeting I planned a date again and then we moved in together LMAO!!! <3 So idk what you did but it worked! xDD
and tysm I’m so glad you like my ZOI! :3
Is it actually possible to make the guy Donghoon younger LMAOO he’s about to be a grandpa LMAOOO

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Glad it finally worked out in your favor :slightly_smiling_face:

About your question: There’s no cheat to change Zois’ life stages yet. I think there used to be some kind of glitch to reset it with presets in CAZ, but it might be fixed by now. Does anybody have more info on it?

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Not fully sure if something has changed lately as this is an older guide but @DivineManifest did a very comprehensive guide for such a situation quite some months back:

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There is a way but it would be a clone, take Donghoon to CAZ save him in zois, then go to CAZ set him to young adult then bring him into your world.

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@JoyIsFunner But would the relationships etc. not remain when following the guide by @DivineManifest ?

I thought it would only change the appearance not everything else or is this wrong? Would it then be a brand new Zoi without any relationships from the past?

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is there a return to youth potion in the game?

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I just checked. It is possible. You could even change the gender but also the age of the Zoi with this trick.

This is my current Zoi talking to Oscar Olsen but you also can see the other relationships she has:

I did previously save a copy of her as a child Zoi in the character studio via the same cheats for this test. Now we enter the both cheats “showZoiInfo” to get the number above her head and then “CustomZoi XXXXX” to get into CAZ with her:

Now in CAZ you see the child version of her as preset which I saved previously using the same method and chose to apply it to her:

And I now get the child version of the same Zoi and can chose to complete the procedure:

And I ended up with the same Zoi as a child with all her relationships unchanged. So I think this should work for the purpose of @swiftspeedmode to change Donghoon to a younger Zoi.

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I’m glad this still works. I thought in the v0.6.0 update or the latest one there was a fix mentioned, but obviously I simply misinterpreted some of the patchnotes. Might even try that glitch myself soon. Thanks for digging it up :folded_hands:

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hmm will this work on NPCs and another thing that comes to mind is can we replace existing NPC with our created zois, letting them keep their own traits and relationships but with our creations?

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@JoyIsFunner Yes, both should work exactly the same way as described. If you use the cheat „showZoiInfo true“ you get all the Zoi IDs above their heads which you see around your current area. So for an NPC you would need him/her to be somewhere near your playable Zoi so that you can see the ID. And then you can replace the appearance and age and even gender by overwriting the current Zoi with a preset of your liking using the „CustomZoi xxxxx“ cheat. All the relationships should remain untouched.

I did a lot of adjusting on NPCs that way but did not normally fully overwrite them. But as we see this works as well. I did not post the picture here but I also tested to overwrite the Zoi with an old man from my presets and that worked as well. They also still keep their traits, personality and ambitions.

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Thanks, This is good to know, a wile back I took the librarian in Cahaya to CAZ and I couldn’t color her hair brown because elders must have gray hair in inZOI for whatever reason :roll_eyes: , I made her look good, ultimately if I can just replace the NPCs, they will all look good to me ^.^

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