Zois Getting Married Autonomously or Running Away From Home

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I don’t know if this has happened to anyone else, or if anyone has already written a post about this, but my zois keep getting married autonomously. I mean, yes, he proposed to her, and now they’re engaged. But they were supposed (according to my story) to be taking some time to decide when the wedding would be. Also, I like to decide when and where my zois will get married in, or what clothes they will wear, but two times now my zois have married on their own.

The first time, they exchanged rings and everything, but they didn’t change into formal clothes or anything, and I received a game notification that they had gotten married. The second time, there wasn’t even a wedding interaction, rings or whatever, my zoi was just coming home from work, when I received the notification that he and his girlfriend had already gotten married.

What’s going on? Is this some kind of story progression, a new feature, or is there simply a possibility that two Zois will decide to get married on their own? Is it something similar to zois suddenly leaving their family home, a.k.a. running away, when I’m not playing that house? That happened to me days ago as well while I was playing another family. As a result, I lost a very dear zoi I was playing with.

I have nothing against story progression, but I would like it to be an option that we can decide whether or not to activate. Is there any way to turn off this “story progression thingy” to avoid unexpected/unwanted results, at least with the families we’re playing with?

Again, I apologize if someone has already written about this, but I thought I’d report this, not sure if it is a bug, maybe it’s just a new feature, but it has happened to me twice in a row in less that 24 hours. I’ve had to quit both times without saving because I didn’t want my zois to get married yet, much less without a proper wedding celebration. Having to quit and lose all my progress is starting to get annoying, tbh. Same with the zoi running away from home. I mean, are they even coming back, or do we lose them forever? I’d like to know :pleading_face:

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Hey there, thanks for reporting this bug. I’m very sorry this has happened to you. All of us storytellers understand the trouble with such an issue. This is the first time someone has reported it though, so we’ll have to be really cautious about it because this could ruin save files, especially if noticed way too late.
Would you kindly fill out all of the report form? I’m gonna post it down here again so you can simply copy it and fill in your setup info:

  • Game Version:

  • Platform: (Steam windows / Steam Mac / Mac)

  • Mods: (Choose one: never used / removed / active)
    :round_pushpin:If you have used mods before, please list them:

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

  • Issue Date:

  • Error Message:

  • Details:

P.S. - Please provide the save file in which the bug occured if possible :folded_hands:

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Hello! Thank you for your quick response. Yes, this was indeed going to ruin my save file sooner or later, cause from what I saw, it would keep repeating itself over and over again, so I decided to hurry and marry my zois myself to avoid struggling with that bug. It was frustrating, though, because I really wanted to organize a nice wedding for them. Anyway, if this is a bug and it gets fixed, I can always go back to an earlier save. :blush:

Now, I’ll try to file my report properly below, thank you for providing the form!

  • Game Version: Windows PC Steam : 20260108.9692.W. Don’t know if this is correct. Steam says the latest Hotfix was v0.5.3

  • Platform: (Steam/ Windows)

  • Mods: (Removed the few I had cause they have not been updated yet, apparently)
    If you have used mods before, please list them: I can’t remember all the names but they’re disabled now anyway. Again, they were too few, probably ten of them, only clothes and hair. If necessary I can look for the names in game and post them in an earlier post.

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…): Windows 11, i7 - 11 gen; Nvidia RTX GeForce 3060 Laptop GPU, 16 GB RAM, 32.5 GB storage.

  • Issue Date: January 8, 2026

  • Error Message: No error message, just a pop up notification saying my zoi couple just got married.

  • Details: My zois keep on getting married autonomously. (Also another zoi ran away from home, a premade by the way, very important in my save. That is probably a separate bug/issue, but still it ruined that particular save and I had to go back to a previous save).

  • I hope this is enough. Thank you again! :hugs:

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  • Game Version:

  • Platform: (Steam windows / Steam Mac / Mac)

  • Mods: (Choose one: never used / removed / active)
    :round_pushpin:If you have used mods before, please list them:

  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…):

  • Steps to Reproduce:

Game version: Latest

Platform: Mac

Mods: Never Used

Hardware: Apple MacBook Air M4 chip 512GB SSD 28GB unified memory

Steps to reproduce:

  • have 2 Zois in the full level of romantic relationship
  • Select plan wedding interaction
  • Go through all the steps to set up and schedule wedding event
    • Wedding event stays in the schedule but Zois get married there and then
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Hi @ezziebird ! :smiling_face:

Thanks for sharing! Since this is the same issue with Married Bug, I’ve merged your post into the existing known-issue thread to keep everything together. :heart:

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