Don't know if its an issue or not but I've been to France and Egypt and in both locations I insert keystones and the chains on doors break but there is no menu option for open door afterwards. I re-downloaded the replacement world files again incase they were updated but still have same issues. So far I've only tried the French winery and Egyptian training tombs as they were the easiest to access and both have same no door menu issue after unlocking. I have all EPs & SPs up to future and patch 1.67. I've been in these tombs before in previous games but cant access after patching world files. Going to reinstall OEM world files and try again


Edit: OK replaced OEM world files still same, don't have patients to filter through CC so going clean install route, will advise afterwards what I find. After all I wanted to get rid of a few EPs and SPs I don't like anyway.

Will be looking into @LonerAoshi report on post#66, soon. Dead GFX card interrupted the schedule.

@martintallon,
have you found the root cause to your issue?
If it is still occurring on new clean User folders with re-downloaded WA worlds, I need you to isolate the issue if it happens on all Tombs that need keystones or specific ones? Especially if this only happens in France and Egypt but not China.

I've noticed the same problem with the Hot Springs lot as LonerAoshi reported. The view of the Hot Springs lot from Map View is fine, but when in Live Mode it's completely broken. No fishing ponds, stairs (and the restrooms) buried under hills. In short, it's a mess. That said though, I'm still enjoying the new, fixed, worlds

Just a quick question. There are updates noted in January 2014 to France and China, but on the download page all the files are dated 2011, except China part 6 which is dated december 2013. Is this just an error on the download page, or should I download the files from your blog?

Thanks for your hard work.

The File tab's Date column shows date when the files were *first* uploaded, i.e. when this thread was originally created.

In order to see when the *updated* upload date was, you'd need to click on the magnifying glass by the filename(s).

First off thank you so much for making these! It makes the game run so much better. I have a few things to report though. I noticed in Egypt and China that a fair number of the lots have these strange steep terrain on the edges of the lot, it's like it doesn't match up or something. Also in certain areas there are these spots on the ground where there are these polygonal swatches of land where the terrain is either lighter or darker then the rest of the ground, especially in china. Lastly I noticed that sims aren't able to enter bodies of water as easily any more. For example, In Egypt my sims used to be able to swim into the Nile from the banks, and now they have to run all the way to the beach by the wreaked ship to swim or boat up the river. I also noticed some areas like that in china.

I too have problem with these 2 lots. It seems that the mountainous terrains are made smooth. The Cross shaped pool in Hot spring lot is curving in a strange way, the path to the dive well is broken, stairs half buried in the hill and paths broken. In the Dragon spring, the dragon fountain is floating above ground level, even the outdoor lightnings on the stone fences are floating above the fence, bushes and trees are all floating.

I have just started to replay sims 3 after a long time, but i have notice the hot spring problem way back when i first started playing (cant be certain if i am using the fixed world at that time) , i remember using zeneport to teleport to the dive well at the hotspring lot, not sure if the dragon spring had problems in the past.

I restart a new game with the original EA China world and save these 2 lot into Library and replace them into my save to fix this. Then set these 2 to no visitors allowed just in case.

Haven't gotten around to test the tomb access issue yet had a HD crash am currently in the process of reinstalling everything now. Hardest part is going through archives removing out-dated files then testing after reinstalling, last time took 3 weeks before I was ready to play without a Crash on loading because of missing updates. Not everybody thinks to add version numbers to their files when updating their postings.

Merci ! merci ! merci !

Hi, Ellacharmed! The same here, I have too used zen-transport on this lot (Hot Springs), because acess-stairs are floating. Both (no tomb acces) buildings there are half submersed in the ground. From map view are both lots perfect (Hot Springs and Dragon springs) and both are showing fish-spawners. Entering there in build mode, all fishspawners are underground. I was able (with zen-transport) to complete Hot Springs mission, but there isn't possible to fishing (the same in Dragon Springs).
Sorry that I'm disturbing after so long time, when all is done and for TS3 there aren't more new EA's releases. But I will not purchase TS4 and I want to play TS3 for many another years.
You have done great work and all my saves for WA destinations (fixed by you) are loading and saving quickly with no crash issues.
It would be (for me) perfect with those 2 lots fixed. But I prefer to use yours fixed world with only 2 lots broken and no whole broken unfixed original WA worlds with some lots untouched.
Thank you again :lovestruc and sorry for my english and for the disturb.

Can you tell me how to delete this so the worlds go back to normal? I backed up china, deleted this one, renamed the old one back to what is should be, deleted all cache files, when that didn't work I also went back and deleted the China World Cache. i want to remove your changes and get my old world back. What am I doing wrong??

Hello Ellacharmed, Thank you for all your work on these worlds. IP was my favorite world and your fixes help a lot. Even knowing which houses are broken, so you can fix them if you use them in a different world is great. I too will not buy Sims4 and continue buying and downloading Sims 3 worlds.

I see the Hot Springs problem and will replace Dragon Springs and Hot Springs as suggested above. By putting non-routable paint along the banks of the rivers in Egypt and France, it makes it hard to fish. Some of the adventures (France frogs, Egypt crocodiles) require fishing and my Sims can't get to the fish. If you rebuild these worlds, I hope you will remove the non-routing paint at the fish and maybe smooth the banks there. I will still use the WA fixed worlds because they are better than getting stuck by the EA routing.

Thanks again!

I'm having the same issues in China with Hot Springs and Dragon Springs. The lot looks normal from aerial view but when you zoom in they've been flattened with stairs floating in mid-air and objects stuck underground. It's a pity as I have to resort to EA's own broken version.

I'm also having issues with China's Hot Springs and Dragon Springs I sent my sim into the uneven pool and took a picture http://36.media.tumblr.com/f61e05bc...a7oso1_1280.jpg

Hi Folks,
I'm just getting back into the Sims 3 after a long hiatus and I was wondering if the 2 China lots had been repaired yet. Well I didn't see anything so I tried my best to repair Shang Simla Hot Springs. It's now mission completable and I enhanced some of it's natural aesthetics. It's not perfect though, 2 staircases are buggy and I can't seem to fix this. Maybe someone more knowledgable than me could take a crack at this? just click on the link to go to the Exchange
Shang Simla Hot Springs Fixed (Sorta)
I will fix the other lot as soon as I can. Sorry I don't have much free time.

Hi Folks,
Ok so here's the deal. I uploaded the lot Shang Simla Hot Springs to the exchange and for some reason it cannot be found using the website's search engine. Not only that but, after returning from Hiatus, all my creations are gone. The lot is still in my studio but I'm not sure anyone can find it. I will eventually upload it here with the other broken lot when I have completed it. In the meantime, my Exchange name is MorpheusKajiir. hopefully that with be enough to find the lot until it's uploaded here.
And yeah, the link above doesn't work anymore, go figure.

I sure do appreciate all the work you do to fix these. Thanks a lot for all your time and effort.

Even if way too late, I want to thank you for this fixed map, along with all the fixed maps out there. It is so great to play a game without Nraas consantly telling me that I have unroutable sims.

Considering by now no fix has been made for the Hot Springs and Dragon Springs I too chose to load the original China map and take these two lots and replace them. I am uploading them for anyone like me that was looking for them, but could not find anything so he/she had to make them. All three links are the same file, just different providers.

https://mega.nz/#!yg5DGSzC!H1WeMHOc...pK_gwmiKejrY-0g
http://www.mediafire.com/download/s..._Hot_Springs.7z
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.ph...534908601870988

I have not altered them or fixed these in no way. They are just the vanilla map lots, so you can replace the broken ones found on this map.

Thank you for going out of your way to upload those lots. I wish those were included in the original file.

I tried installing Weltall's files the normal way (dumped them in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods\Packages), but they don't seem to show up in the Edit Town community lot list and they don't change the lots in-game magically either. So, I did the same thing as they did and reverted to the original world and extracted the lots from there. Here's my extracted lots as .Sims3Pack files, in case weltall's files don't work for you either:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pb...iew?usp=sharing

Thanks for posting your lots! They worked for me.

Direct links to the worlds for those of you who don't wanna bother downloading multiple parts:

France
Egypt
China (The Hot Springs and Dragon Springs lots are bugged, download the fixed lots provided by weltall2 here)
Source: ellacharmed's blog.

I do highly recommend backing up the original worlds before you replace them.

Are there any issues so far besides the China world with these fixes? Further, if I use the China fix and the the lots, will everything work properly? I've heard that some issues are still present.