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My zoi got married. Her spouse moved in, but he was standing in the street; he didn’t go home. I made him go home, which was fine. But he went to the bathroom and just stood there. He was frozen in time. He remained dazzled, having just got married. All of his needs were met and did not change. He could not interact with anything, and my zoi could not interact with him. He was always busy. Once in the bathroom, I couldn’t get him to move either. Not by making him go or using the map.
Even though my zoi still used the bathroom as normal, he was annoying me. Smiling and swinging his arms. I got him out of the bathroom by using build mode to put the toilet on him. When I came out of build mode, he seemed to be under the house. This is better, but now, when my zoi sleeps, I can only speed up time by 8x. He won’t even die because his needs don’t deteriorate. He doesn’t go to work either.
I have the same problem after I asked a cop NPC to move in with me and my toddler. She appears in the family, but I can’t interact with her, she just… stands here. When I try to play her, she appears alone with no family and no home. When I try to interact with her, it says she’s busy or at work, so I tried to resign from the cop career, but she’s still standing there doing nothing… I tried the emergency button but it doesn’t work either. Don’t know what to do with her now XD
After getting the zoi out of the house with the toilet, my zoi got a new boyfriend and moved the husband out. They’re still married, but it’s only on paper, as it were.
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My zoi married an npc who I now cannot interact with. I can’t get her to do anything apart from walk with wasd. Her needs don’t deplete either. I got her a job, but when she leaves the house, she walks the streets aimlessly. Other zois can’t interact with her either. At the moment, she is standing on the beach in Cahaya by the Christmas tree. She’s been there for a day.
One of the problems with this is that when the other zois in the house are asleep, I can only speed time up 8x. I was considering drowning her (if I can), but I don’t want my zoi to grieve.
Thanks for sharing! Since this is the same issue with Zois became NPC, I’ve merged your post into the existing known-issue thread to keep everything together.
IMHO, it doesn’t sound like actually becoming a full fledged NPC. E.g., if I have a one-zoi family and an NPC in the house (e.g., the usual invited friend who forgets to leave) and I go to sleep, time does go to 30x. Because NPCs don’t matter for that. It sounds like what happens here is more like a Dante Alighieri style limbo, where the poor guy is stuck in the middle, neither fully one, nor the other.
I didn’t realise that I’d posted about this twice.
Anyway, mine isn’t a full npc as she’s a member of the household, and when the others sleep, time does not speed up. She’s partly frozen as her needs don’t deplete.
This isn’t getting any better, my zoi’s life is going on, but his wife-to-be is frozen. I thought I’d kill her off by drowning, but she just walked on the water. Oh, and the water is invisible again.
I checked your save file in my setup. I don’t have the “Zoi walks underwater / water texture is gone” bug, but the rest is exactly like you explained:
It’s a 3-Zoi household (guy, sister, guy’s love interest). The love interest stands in front of the xmas tree at the beach, not doing any interaction or movement on her own. We can walk her home via WASD, but there she remains unresponsive, others can’t interact with her, etc.
Her needs are stuck at 100% each too. I tried deactivating numerous cheats like immortalzoi, freezeneeds and so on, but nothing changed.
These two screenshots show that all of her phone conversations with any Zoi contacts are also bugged. It seems they’re stuck in the middle of the ordinary texting process (Question - reply - confirmation ==> stuck on reply). No time-skip can change it:
This looks a lot like the in limbo state which @Moraelin talked about. The stuck Zoi is obviously listed as part of the household, customizable in CAZ and everything, but all of her systems are stuck in an NPC-like state. It’s totally save file related too.
Only solution:
Save your Zois via Canvas (delisted or private), save their outfits in your outfit presets, make a screenshot / take a pic with your mobile phone of each Zoi’s preferences and anything else you think is important → then start a completely fresh, new save. Unfortunately, I don’t think you’ll get that bug out of the file, not even with any future fixes, tbh.
I think you could “remove” her from the world with the “removezoi [ZOI ID]” cheat but that’s a rather harsh way, especially if you wanted to keep her around for story purposes. Tried to tell her to leave the house but she is really stubborn xD
BTW, additional info for the devs:
I performed an emergency rescue on the stuck NPC-like Zoi, which clipped her into an unusable building nearby. Was able to use the “gohome” cheat to free her again though. I assume, she is responding to any kind of teleport cheat too, just like NPCs should.
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