Lost... My Precious Axe

[RockinRobin]

Unfortunately, I've tried the cheat to get the axe as well, (wanted to have two of them in my family...one for each sim) but it doesn't work. It does disappear every time you try to buy it and then go back into live mode. I'm not sure why other than it's just a special item that you can ONLY get by doing the adventure. I even created my own tomb once and tried to put the axe in there and it won't work that way either.

[Metropolis Man]

If this special axe is something you just hang on your wall where anyone in the house would then have access to, there's no need to have multiple axes. I've never done the quest to get the axe, but am I right? You just hang it on a wall and then the entire house can put it in their individual Inventories to use it?

[Pam]

I imagine that's correct, Metro.  The Axe can be moved to the inventory of any family member.  The hard part would be to remember to put it in the traveling Sim's inventory before leaving home.  However, the initial problem is that someone lost the Axe somehow and the cheat isn't letting it be purchased.  Or something. 

[RockinRobin]

Yeah Metro, there can only be ONE axe per family. So if your whole family goes on vacation, and two sims are doing adventures, it's kinda difficult to keep changing it from one to the other's inventory. It would be nice if you could just have two of them. I had a situation not long ago where I had two sims adventuring and the guy didn't have the axe and so he couldn't complete his adventure until he got back to base camp and get the axe from his wife.

[ik]

You could try to reset your foreign countries. That way, you would have to do all tombs again, but the boulder adventure should come up again in China, and the axe would be back in its cave. I am afraid I do not have the link right now where I saw the explanation how to reset the countries, but i have seen it on different forums, so it should not be hard to find with google.

[Pam]

Yeah Metro, there can only be ONE axe per family. So if your whole family goes on vacation, and two sims are doing adventures, it's kinda difficult to keep changing it from one to the other's inventory. It would be nice if you could just have two of them. I had a situation not long ago where I had two sims adventuring and the guy didn't have the axe and so he couldn't complete his adventure until he got back to base camp and get the axe from his wife.

Why couldn't you just drag the axe from the wife's inventory over to the husband picture on the left of the screen?

[seekhunt]

To IK. I have tried to delete the China files in my save folder and the tomb was then "not explored" but then I could not complete the tomb because i needed the special keys along the way to unlock the doors. Anyway with a little editing I finally came to the place where the axe should hang. But then yet again it was not there... go into buy mode and it hangs there.  

So its a mouse and cat run about this axe i feel.

PS: but maybe i should delete the files again and see if the adventure for the axe comes up??

[RockinRobin]

Why couldn't you just drag the axe from the wife's inventory over to the husband picture on the left of the screen?

I don't know....never tried that. Is that how you transfer something from one inventory to another? I always pull it out of one inventory and lay it on the ground and then drag it to the other inventory.

[Pam]

Why couldn't you just drag the axe from the wife's inventory over to the husband picture on the left of the screen?

I don't know....never tried that. Is that how you transfer something from one inventory to another? I always pull it out of one inventory and lay it on the ground and then drag it to the other inventory.

Ah!  Yes, that's how I did it at first, too.  But you can just drag the item from one inventory over to the left side of the screen and drop it on the picture of the Sim who needs it.  It will transfer to the new inventory just like that! 

[Swede1992]

Ok, I can confirm that at least that buy cheat worked for me early (before I ever went on a vacation) to get the Pangu's axe. When I had just gotten WA I played around with all the cheats to see what it had in store for me, at least then I was fully able to cheat me a Pangu's axe.

Haven't tried that since I got my Pangu's axe the honest way, so maybe you just can't have two of them and that's why it's not working? Maybe I still can cheat to get it, I''ll try when I get the time.

[RockinRobin]

Well that's awesome Pam! <learn something new every day>   

[seekhunt]

Well I have in a way solved my problem for the moment. As someone wrote that it would seem like we can only have one axe per family. So I created a new sim, did the cheat, hang the thing on the wall. And sure enough my new sim could pick it off the wall as if it was the normal thing ever

Now the next part is to get that sim to deliver it to my "normal play sim" but since the axe "vanish" again even if i put the axe in the other sims inventory its just not there if the 1. sim moves out.

So i deleted my baby sim and created a new "young age" sim and took him in as my own / adopted baby hehe.
And well this work. now i only need to go on a vacation with my main sim and see if the axe follows along.

[Nataruma]

Out of curiosity, do you use any mods with your game? Sometimes that could affect the behaviour of objects and even sims, and I do know a good chunk of people use mods and don't take into account the fact that there could be conflicts.

[seekhunt]

When the first problem was happening with my axe. I can only think of using the "more opp." mod.

Apart from that, I don't use them, and I could with easy buying get a "new" sim to just take the axe down off the wall and give it to my main sim as it was the most normal thing to do. So I just think that it's going with that fact that it's "one family, one axe."

But fingers crossed, I have my axe back at the moment and I have been to china with it and smashed a boulder, too. But this is only working if you keep the "extra" sim in your household.

[Lark]

I just used the buydebug cheat, placed the axe on a random wall, took it with my main sim and now it is in my family inventory and nothing happened to it. I've used it twice with my main sim though.