Is there any way to restore lost tombstones, e.g. disappearing or accidentally-deleted ones? Mainly like the tombstones in Goths as they can't be revived via Resurrect-O-Nomitron, Genie, or Witch Spell.

If there is an easy way, I'd like to know too, because I've lost my legacy tombstones already. I remember reading a tutorial on how to get them back, but it was really complicated. Also, I was able to recover the tomb of my legacy founder, but not her husband's, probably because he was originally a maid NPC.

An explanation on why they disappear at all would be welcome, too, as I don't fully understand why right now. It's just so annoying. I like having a resting place for my sims, dammit. As if mourning wasn't hard enough already.

If a sim is unable to be revived, I don't think there's an easy way to restore their tombstones (as it means their character files are missing and/or corrupt).

I'm not sure how 'easy' this method is, but it goes through step-by-step, with pictures, as well as links to the needed mods: Restoring Lost Tombstones (Pets Inclusive).

Oh my goodness, thank you for the link!!! I'll try it right away!

No, the character files aren't corrupted. The tombstones were just missing. Actually, most premade deceased Sims, especially from base game, cannot be resurrected.

Hmmm, I seem unable to find it now. But there used to be a tombstone on this site that would allow you to spawn any tombstone in the neighborhood. Might still be on here, I might've just been entering the wrong phrases to try and find it.

The batbox will allow you to do that in the right circumstances.

Agreed. The default game behavior is to destroy the user data. If your character data was shredded, then you will not be able to get the tombstone back without restoring the character data. What's more important, your neighborhood is now corrupt.

However, if you installed the nounlinkondelete mod at MATY before you deleted the tombstones, then there is a possibility that the user data is intact and you can use a mod to regenerate the tombstone.

Don't those circumstances require the dead sim to be on the lot and selected?

This hack let you do it for any dead sim with enough character data. Just have a living sim click on it, set death type and aspiration if it's a platinum death, select the name of the dead sim, and then spawn a tombstone. I used it to regenerate a bunch of vanished tombstones in Veronaville once.. Why can't I find it now? I know it was on this site.

Edit: Found it http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=236885 My problem was I was searching for tombstone, grave, respawn and ghost, not urnstone or even urn. I never had a problem with the respawned tombstones disappearing, and I used it while I had store edition with no problem. I no longer have store edition though. I decided not to reinstall that when I got my new hard-drive.

Good question since I'm uneasy at times when leaving certain gravestones on a community lot when angry sims might be around to break them before i've had the chance to go into and edit so the gravestones are out of reach.

I can't remember to be honest, it's so long since I did it. I seem to remember the tombstone wasn't too much of a problem but I had to do some jiggery pokery to get the sim on lot and stay there long enough to resurrect them (which is what I was doing. It involved a lot of quick pausing). Mootilda (I think), a while back, suggested an easier method for that but I'm afraid I've forgotten that too. I tend to remember stuff I've actually done only (and then only relatively recently it seems).

Ah ok, what ever works. I just always prefer the easiest way I can find.

What? But I already have nounlinkondelete, and my game still corrupts? All I know is that the tombstones were gone after I added some more minor mods.

And I've already followed instructions from katya_stevens. It actually works!

No. That's not what I said. You need to read the entire post.

Well, I actually did read the rest... hopefully my hood isn't corrupted.

I've only just started to allow my sims to age & to die, how common is this problem (tombstone disappearing)? At some point I would like to start playing the premade 'hoods, & I have it in my head that I would like to resurrect the ansesters from the family trees, but if it is going to corrupt my game, I'd like to know WELL in advance

I don't know if it's that common for missing tombstones to corrupt an entire neighborhood, but you can check the status of your characters through SimPE if you have it.
The listing in SimPE for families and sims will list if they're full character files or not-if they don't have a large number such as '245' or something like that, it usually means that the character is incomplete and thus cannot be resurrected.
The most well-known ones are Skip Broke, Lyla Grunt, various Goths, and Darleen Dreamer.
They're not at all resurrectable, and if you try the effort will be futile.

If I remember correctly, only the Veronaville ancestors are able to be resurrected. The other neighborhoods don't have complete user data for them.

I read on Sim Wikkia that the only pre-dead Veronaville characters that have personality points are Contessa Capp, Claudio Monty and Olivia Monty. Because I wanted to see what their personalities were, I cheated to get the bone phone and had Patrizio Monty raise Claudio Monty, and then had to have Claudio raise Olivia because she didn't show up for Patrizio.

Claudio has personality points, skill points and a job and Olivia has personality points, no skill points and no job. She's glitched though (she starved to death while pregnant, and she's glitched in that she comes back pregnant with a dead baby and the only way to reset her is to get her pregnant with a living baby) and my game kept glitching after I raised them so I wouldn't recommend it.

Edit to add: Pictures


Claudio's Personality, which I was kind of surprised to see.

I thought I took a picture of Olivia's, but couldn't find it. Instead I'll show you a picture of Romeo's. His personality is a clone of Olivia's except he is a little less out going and a little more active and playful.



His neat points and nice points are exactly the same as hers. All I have to say is Juliette is lucky that his personality is a clone of Olivia's and not Claudio's.

Well, in my game, it happens randomly. But recently it happened because I added some mods, which is strangely unrelated to tombstone thingy.


Gulp. I wouldn't bother waking the dead anyway. Oh, I also found that most premade ancestors in Belladonna Cove can be resurrected.

Gods this happened to me now (Lost the gravestone of Mortimer Goth and Caliente's former husband) and I discovered that the link to the pet and sim tomb restore tool no longer works. It was otherwise a really great guide.

Anyone here who knows an alternative link to this tool? I'd really appreciate the help!

Urnstone spawner linked in post #8