I posted a similar query once before, and got zero replies, so hopefully someone will be able to help me this time. When my Sims sit down to a meal, they sit and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat, belching frequently if it's something spicy... but their hunger continues to slide down into the red zone, causing a hunger desperation, and I'm assuming, eventual death by starvation. Also, the food never disappears from their plate, and so they'll continue to chow down, getting nothing out of it, and keep munching long after the food has started to rot and turn green. What would cause this? I would guess, off the top of my head, some sort of refrigerator-related download. Has anyone seen this before? When they grab some ready-to-eat food, like cookies from the fridge, or snacks from a vending or popcorn machine, they'll actually consume and digest it, although of course that's not very much nutrition, and is only enough to save them from immediate death. I believe honey from the beehive also works. Just not anything that's prepared and cooked. This appears to be true whether the Sim makes a meal autonomously, or is directed to, and also at community lot eateries... here's Susan Mayfield, having lunch at Starcourt Mall, and as you can see, the hunger bar is headed in a negative direction while she eats.


I was able to get her safely home by having her wolf down some popcorn and Doritos, but this is not a feasible long-term solution. Is it likely a fridge mod?

No, it's something that modifies food. Food code is not related to the fridge.

...like Cyjon's "noeatcrap", perhaps? My Sims, since nothing ever disappears form their plates, do in fact end up eventually eating rotten food, which means the mod is useless anyway. That's an easy one to let go of. Aside from that, the only food mod I really have is "EatCivilized" (plus a bunch of Sun & Moon "hunting" mods). I don't think either one of those would be causing a problem. I'm ditching the Cyjon... probably didn't read the description thorughly.

Noeatcrap doesn't cause this. You'll have to do a binary search.

More likely you have 2 mods clashing. So perhaps "noeatcrap" and EatCivilized are both trying to modify the same code. Try running one of the hack conflicts programs around and seeing what shows up.

I stuck a Christianlov "Power Fridge" in a new home, and tadaaa... my Sims can now derive nourishment from their food. Something else will probably go wrong now, but at least I don't have to do quite as much babysitting.

Edit: It's not a 100% fix, apparently. Sometimes the Sims' hunger will diminish while eating, sometimes it won't. Haven't quite figured out the pattern. If they make food autonomously, it doesn't seem to work, but also maybe if they make things which their cooking skill level isn't up to? Some of the fridge/cooking mods allow for a full range of food options regardless of Sims' skills, so that might have a bearing on this... need to do more field research. The food that they can "grill" works fine, that I know for certain, even when served ready-to-eat from the power fridge.

An update on this weirdness, with some additional info; maybe it will spark a glimmer of an "AHA!" moment in one of you experts.

No idea what the cause is. All I can tell you is what I've observed over the intervening months since this thread was started, narrowing down the possible factors:

When my Sims eat anything that requires SILVERWARE, they sit down at the table, fork or spoon in hand, chewing away at nothing, because the utensil never approaches the plate, the food never disappears, and the hunger bar continues to slide downward towards the starvation level, and they'll just continue to sit there in a masticating trance, pretending to chew, while the food slowly rots. If others are present at the table, they'll have conversations like they normally would, but they won't eat.

When my Sims eat with their FINGERS, they get full, and the food disappears as it should from their plate.

I have a video of two of my people at a table, one eating finger food, and one failing to eat silverware food. I could try posting it here, but I don't know if that's a thing.

SO...

Filet mignon, lobster thermidor, cereal, chili, salad, blackened salmon: BAD
Doritos, cookies, sandwiches, burgers, toaster things, dogs & pizza: GOOD

That is the twisted world that my Sims live in. Next step, I guess, is to remove any mod that even remotely has to do with food, and see what's what.

The first thing you should have done was take out all your mods and see if it still happens in a vanilla game. Then if it doesn't put the mods back in bit by bit and see what happens. If it happens in vanilla then you might have to repair your game (or reinstall if you aren't on the UC).

Do you have the HCDU? https://lazyduchess.tumblr.com/post...ty-for-ultimate

Also, don't eat your dogs. :P

Also this might help:
Game Help:Finding Problem Custom Content^wiki

Haha, no worries on that front - I don't have Pets. And as much as I would LOVE to use the HCDU, I have a Mac. It sounds like a tiny miracle of simming.

I'm going to try JUST removing the "Mods" subfolder from my downloads and see if that makes any difference. If not, I'll move on to the Buys and Builds subfolders, but... no way am I taking out the Bodyshop stuff again. It takes so long for the game to re-load all that schwack back in that it's really not worth it; on the slim offchance that there MIGHT be something hidden amongst the clothing and CAS downloads... then I'd quite honestly rather just live with the problem. I'll babysit my Sims for the rest of their lives and make sure they don't try to eat anything remotely fancy, where they'd need a spoon or something... you know, like Cheerios.

But first, of course, I'll back up the Sims folder.

Mods folder is more likely to be the problem than Bodyshop, hopefully.

HCDU really is a sanity saver. I'll tell you what. zip up your mods folder and send it to me and I'll run it through HCDU and give you the results.

Scroll down the page I linked you to- there's the 50% method which is what I was trying to direct you to. It's the method to find problem custom content for any OS.
https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?ti...he_50.25_Method

Sounds good, thank you so much. The zip is about 14 MB.