Townies don't age up anymore

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Have you tried toggling the option for ageing for everyone in the game settings from ON to OFF to ON ?

The minimap, though it is set to OFF in the game option, still displays when a saved game is opened (since game version 0.8.0). In such a case, going to settings, toggling the minimap option to ON and back to OFF, apply settings, turns the minimap off only for that active game session

So my thoughts, perhaps the Ageing for Everyone (or whatever the setting is called) setting may be bugged as well. So try toggling it ON to OFF to ON, apply settings and check if the other Zois age.

EDIT: I have been playing with ageing OFF for all since v 0.8 for my current story, so I haven’t come across this situation of other households not ageing.

This has been reported for more than a month now.
You can add your voice to ours in this thread :

Hi artur.itsme!

Thanks for the report. I’ll merge this into an existing thread about non-played Zois not aging up so all reports and updates stay in one place. :slightly_smiling_face:

I have same problem, I have aging on for both my family zoi and the people in town, in the options aging for played zoi’s and the non-played zoi’s is also on. Is there any news on when this will be fixed, in meantime i will manually age them up, My played zoi’s age up fine with birthday cakes or when i click on them if they are infants.

They are strongly believing in being forever young that is certain unless they found the famous fountain of youth which reminds me of sims 3.. didn’t they turn green when they had a sip from León’s fountain of youth ? :thinking: anyway the bug is still lurking

oh I have the same issue :sob:

  • Game Version: 20260527.12759W

  • Platform: Steam Windows

  • Mods: enabled

  • Hardware Specs and Operating System:
    Windows 10
    AMD Ryzen 5800 x
    NVIDIA GeForce 3070
    32GB RAM
    1TB SSD

I tried turning age modes off and on again but it didn’t help

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Is this bug being looked at at all? Would be nice to get a response from an AR here since this is a game breaking bug that prevents people from playing the game! :grimacing:

Also, can the people who have this bug share their save file because so far no one here has done that.

For me it start the moment any NPC family maxes their age normally the Martins or the other family that has kids plus the number on the age goes to - instead of number only the family elder seem to die but no matter how many saves I made

To me it feels all this started with the calendar or cake that seems to confuse the game as if they do not grow up on their day of age it gets skipped and sense well it been skipped they stay that way forever and it been like 5 patches with no word about it which I have a feeling gonna be fix in 9.0 school update or bug gonna carry on with the others like zois disappearing out of nowhere ( i say an yandere is kidnapping them ) which will be disappointing as it been well over a month yet too busy with the ps5 ( yes it got delayed but still wasting resources) and not fixing core problems am starting to question the focus especially sense nothing been said about it.

Not in discord group as seriously what the point of they having a website to directly report but want people on discord.

i am looking forward to the school update and that but if the age bug still in it just gonna put me off from playing the game i can see overcrowded class rooms and not able to get any seats do hopefully this gets fixed.

I did when they asked for it on another topic, the one where I compiled bugs and annoyances plaguing the game.
But more games shared would help, agreed.

And yes, I’m starting to look at other games now. It’s been more than a month since I was able to play my main 2 games because of this bug. Getting quite, quite bored… :laughing:

Same XD even been looking at paralives and modding seems to be strong on that minus the bugs but holding out for fixes and more content like weather but perfer inzoi but the bugs that gamebreaking killing me XD

  • Game Version: latest

  • Platform: Steam via GeForce Now

  • Mods: Never used

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…): N/A (using GeForce Now)

  • Steps to Reproduce: Unknown

  • Please provide the entire save file(s) from the date when the issue occurred.

%MacDocuments%inZOI_SaveGames_20260430-140047_20260430-140047.usvx.zip (6.8 MB)

  • Details:
    Ageing enabled for both active and inactive families. I play multiple families in rotation. When playing family 1, members of family 2 and 3 do not age up.
    I disabled ageing for inactive households for a short period of time. During this time, I noticed that one of the children aged up into an adolescent while their household was not being played.

    Please note: save file was downloaded from the steam cloud save file storage. Please let me know if there are any issues and I will try to rectify them. I hope this helps.

Any news about 9.0 fixing NPCs not aging up been well over a month and nothing been said hope this does not carry over 9.0.