Please use this thread going forward: [CoL] All animals aging up/dying (aging turned off) | EA Forums - 11853294
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 108.335.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have livestock
What happens when the bug occurs? Notification occurs stating that the animal is getting old despite Animal Aging being off.
What do you expect to see? Animal Aging to be disabled.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. This started to occur around the Lovestuck EP release.
Although the Animal Aging bug was previously patched it seems the bug is back post-Lovestruck EP. I had this bug in the past and it was successfully fixed with a patch update but around the time Lovestuck was released I started getting the notification that my animal is getting old. I have Animal Aging disabled in my settings so this shouldn't be happening. I'm not sure if this bug started with the patch update that came before or after the Lovestruck EP release but I do know that It started during that time. This was not occurring prior to the release though I wasn't playing my game heavily enough to notice. Other players may have other experiences.
This is still happening. My animals are aging up and my elder livestock are going to die soon. Aging is off. This shouldn't be happening.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? September 18th 2024 patch update
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have livestock animals in your household
What happens when the bug occurs? My livestock animals are aging up even though I’m using the animal aging off setting. I keep getting notified that my elder animals might die soon. Animals also seem to get stuck in inventories and the option to place the animal in the shed or on the lot don’t exist anymore.
What do you expect to see? I expect my animals to not age up if animal aging is set to off. I expect animals that are place in your inventory to be able placed back in their appropriate spots.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system?Neutral/Not Sure
My livestock animals are aging up even though my animal aging setting is off. I tried to remedy this by looking for a way to temporarily remove my livestock animals from my current household. I thought that by trying to place them in my inventory (or household inventory) it would “pause” the animal but instead the animal ended up being stuck in my sims inventory instead. There’s no option to assign the animal to my shed or on the lot.
it would be helpful for there to be an option to split the livestock animals from the household for when you can’t accommodate them without them being “active” (your sim moves but still want to keep your animals, need a break, focusing on another aspect of your sims life, etc).
After the last two updates (Love Struck, now Life and Death), my sims are aging even though I have aging, neighborhood stories, and autonomy turned off in the game settings. This bothers me a lot because I post stories and I need my sims to be young adults all the time, otherwise it will mess up my plans. Also, I love them, I don't want them to age and die!
I also have animal dying turned off, yet right now the Grim Reaper is coming to my farms to mass kill my animals (chickens), even the young ones. He is taking my little chick and saying "it's time for a young rooster". It's nonsense. I think it must be some sort of bug related to the new update, which after all was mainly focused on death and the Grim Reaper.
I'm also having this problem. I have aging disabled but rabbits, llamas, cows etc still aging :/
