Cahaya Harmony High School Broken: Locked Doors, Routing Failures, No Teachers & Students Leaving Before Class to Walk on Water Like Jesus

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Platform: Steam/Windows

Mods: No Live Mode gameplay mods installed. Only CAZ and Build Mode CC installed.

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Steps to Reproduce: Send your teen Zois to the Cahaya Harmony High School.

Details: The main issue happened on June 11, 2026, two days after the [v0.9.4] Hotfix. It was my first time experiencing High School classroom gameplay because I waited until all of my preexisting teen Zois could attend before trying it. After the patch, I was able to transfer them to Cahaya Harmony High School.

I only experienced Prom before the [v0.9.4] Hotfix update, but that was before any high school classroom gameplay began because one of my Zois aged up to a teen immediately after the new high school was added in June. Fortunately, she was automatically enrolled in the Cahaya Harmony High School. The day she aged up was a Saturday in game, so Prom started that same night. There were no problems during Prom, and she even won Prom Queen. However, during the prom after-party, she and her date were unable to complete the scripted “kiss on the desk” action due to a routing issue, seemingly caused by locked doors.

After the [v0.9.4] Hotfix, I was able to send all of my teen Zois to school (across four households) In total, 8 playable teens were enrolled. On the first day of school, all of the students attending the Cahaya Harmony High School were plentiful and socialized before class (my playable Zois and NPCs of various types). However, the doors to the computer rooms and various parts of the main building were locked, preventing students from routing correctly when they tried to attend classes, use the computers, and move throughout the school.

When my Zois attended class, no teachers showed up for either of the two classrooms, only the principal. The principal served double duty as the teacher for one classroom, but my Zoi was unable to ask her any questions because she kept leaving and returning to her principal office, and her title would change each time. When she finally clocked in as “Teacher,” she went to an empty classroom. One classroom was completely empty, while the other contained mostly my own Zois and only a few NPC students. It also took a long time for the principal to find the correct classroom so my Zoi could ask her a question. She walked from one classroom to the next and then back to her office multiple times. She was elderly and walked slowly as well, but I appreciate her stepping in to fill the role because of the apparent teacher strike. :rofl:

The reason why the school was so empty appears to be that, when classes started, more than half of the students left the school and started walking on water like Jesus, including one of my playable Zois. The accompanying photos show what that looked like. I had to use Emergency Rescue on my Zoi so he could attend class, but the other students remained stuck on the water. A few other playable Zois started walking away from campus and I had to send them back to school, make them sit in the teacherless classroom and force them to attend class. Then wait for the principal to clock in as teacher so they could ask her a question and complete their morning assignment.

Please look into why the Cahaya Harmony High School is so bugged and consider modifying the doors/routing so they don’t lock people out. I had to use the editallsite cheat to replace the doors just so students who remained could attend class. Also, the students who managed to attend glitched through the walls sometimes.

I really want to enjoy the high school gameplay, but with no teachers, an empty classroom, and most of the students glitched out and stuck on the ocean, I can’t enjoy it. :sob: Thank you. :folded_hands:

Empty classroom and no teachers. Half the school left and started walking on water like Jesus.

Before they had to attend classes, the Cahaya Harmony High School was full of interesting, cool looking NPC teens like the ones above. Unfortunately, they left when classes started and got stuck on the water.

How did you manage that? :face_with_crossed_out_eyes: :laughing:

I have no idea what happened! :sob: This was literally my first time having a Zoi attend high school for actual classes. Before the recent Hotfix, my Zoi had only experienced Prom, where she won Prom Queen (and naturally, her date won Prom King too because apparently, they were the power couple of the school :joy:).

So, I was really excited to finally see the classroom gameplay. I decided to wait until the Hotfix to enroll her sister, who was a preexisting teen, along with a couple of other teens who couldn’t enroll previously.

Anyway, here are the teens who won. At least I got something out of the experience! :joy:

Example of the locked doors at the Cahaya Harmony High School. After clearing cache and restarting my game, the locked doors reappeared, despite me replacing them earlier.

After clearing cache, the teens are still stuck on the water. There were also random students walking around on the sidewalk near the flower shop, and I tried to Emergency Rescue them. I also tried to interact with various NPCs and none of them were clickable.

Here is the elderly Principal/Substitute Teacher. She was forced to fill in because the teachers weren’t there.

At lunchtime, it looks like the game spawned a new Principal, and the School Lunch Attendant decided to sit down and chat with students instead of manning their station. :rofl:

The old Principal is now just a Teacher.

It does seem like a few more students returned for lunch, but they skipped first period. However, many of the other students from earlier are still gone (especially the cool looking kids my Zois had crushes on).

During second period, there’s just one teacher, wearing a lab coat, moving from the science lab to the art class to the crafting class, teaching all three by herself.

Still wearing her lab coat, the lone teacher went downstairs to an empty classroom to start teaching. All of the students are upstairs in the crafting, art and science labs with no supervision. :woman_facepalming:

Is this an initiation ritual or is it the new jacquemus catwalk?:shaking_face:

I sent my Zoi’s dad to search for stuck teens so he could Emergency Rescue them. Here is one he found stuck over shark infested waters. I hope the others didn’t fall in and get eaten. :sob: :shark:

Another teen he rescued. Why does this feel like a twisted Baywatch episode? :sob:

Update: On the second day of class, the game added another teacher and more students. Now there are two teachers and one principal. At lunch on Day Two, all but four of the original lunchroom seats were filled. I noticed none of the kids from the first day were there. It seems like the game generated a fresh batch of kids.

The NPC Cahaya Harmony High School students from Day One hung out in the athletic field all night and somehow the game reassigned them to the rabbit hole school overnight. After looking into it more, it turns out a lot of the teens who leave before class in the morning are from the rabbit hole school. It seems like they just show up early to hang out, then take off before classes begin. I watched them through the night since one of my teen Zois lives right across from the school. Some of these rabbit hole school teens seem to spend all night playing ball, then mingle with students from the Cahaya Harmony School during free time before classes start.

At 9 a.m. on the second day, they crossed the street and disappeared into a car to head to the rabbit hole. Thankfully, none of my Zois tried to wander off, and none of the rabbit hole teens glitched. They moved in single file and vanished into the rabbit hole normally. Day Two went much more smoothly than Day One.

I’m not sure what happened on the first day of school, but I suspect this bug is tied to the v0.9.4 Hotfix, which let all existing teens attend the new high school while moving certain NPCs to the rabbit hole school. With a cap on how many students can be in the active high school, the hotfix might have messed up student allocation. I think there may have been a pathfinding issue sending teens to the rabbit hole when school starts, which also affected teachers and enrolled students trying to leave campus. The game seems to be fixing itself, but I’ll keep an eye on it in case it happens again.

By the way, my Zoi has a new boyfriend, but sadly, he goes to a rabbit hole school. It would be great if we could have more students and teachers, like in TS4’s “More High School Classmates” mod by Aramiteus.

Anyway, I’ll report back if anything weird happens, but so far, things seem to be trying to correct itself. :folded_hands: