Nothing is happening

Work down this list in order. It is sorted by how often each one turns out to be the answer.

1. The mod is switched off

It ships that way. Spawn & Target → Auto-spawn master switch.

This is what OFF looks like. Nothing will ever spawn like this.

Most reports end here.

2. It is not night yet

Home spawn only fires between 23:00 and 04:00, and it checks every half hour of sim time. If you are watching at 9pm, nothing is going to happen.

Public venues are a different window: 19:00 to 08:00, and they have their own master switch, which is off by default.

3. You are testing on the wrong lot

The automatic home spawn happens on residential lots — where your household lives. Standing in a bar with only the home switch on will not produce anything; that needs Public Spawn.

4. There is nobody valid to attack

A Night Visitor who arrives and finds no valid target turns around and leaves. He does not hang about. Reasons a sim is skipped:

• Too young. Teens are excluded by default (there is a switch). Children, toddlers, infants and pets always are.
• They are marked as protected. That mark means nobody ever attacks them.
• They are another predator’s favourite. Claimed sims are off limits to everyone else.
• They already have a visitor tonight. Each Night Visitor gets his own target.
• They have the Night Visitor trait themselves. An NPC predator never attacks another predator — only your playable one can.

That last one catches people out: if you gave the trait to several sims in the house to “have options”, you may have made them all invalid targets.

5. The mod did not load at all

Open Mods/BQ_NightVisitor/visitante_mod.log and look at the end of the file.

• The file does not exist, or it stops at an old date → the mod is not running. Check that script mods are enabled in Game Options, and that the folder is not nested one level too deep.
• You see Vinculadas 13 de 13 SIs → it loaded fine, the problem is elsewhere in this list.
• You see 12 de 13 or fewer → something is conflicting or a file is missing. Reinstall from a clean folder.

6. Something got stuck

If a previous attack ended badly — a sim frozen, a visitor standing around doing nothing — the mod may still think an event is running and refuse to start another.

Actions → Cancel active event. Then try again.

7. You are simply unlucky

If you lowered the spawn chance, you lowered it. At 10% you get roughly one visit every ten nights, and that is working as intended.

To confirm the mod is healthy without waiting, use Actions → Spawn Night Visitor NOW. It skips the clock and the dice.

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Still nothing?

Post on the support topic with:

1. Which of the seven you already ruled out.
2. The last twenty lines of visitante_mod.log.
3. Your game language, so the folder names can be ruled out.

That is almost always enough to name the cause in one reply.