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JuniperWhimsy
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[ARCHIVED] [HR] Horse/Foals refuse to play with Ball

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Steam-PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.99.264.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? ALL of them EXCEPT Journey to Batuu, Vampires and Werewolves.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Place a horse ball down and have a horse play with it or leave them to autonomously play with it. After a while (possibly a few sims days) the horse will stop autonomously playing with it on its own and if you ask them to play with it they get a thought bubble of the ball and then shake their head and won't play with it.
What happens when the bug occurs? The horse won't play with the ball on their own or if you ask them to. Their fun level ultimately drops. The only way to get them to play with a ball once they start refusing to is to delete the ball and buy a brand new one. Using the eyedropper to get a new ball does not work either, they still won't play with it. It has to be a brand new ball selected from the catalogue.
What do you expect to see? The horses playing with the ball whenever you ask them to without needing to replace it after a while.
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. It came as a new item in the Horse Ranch pack.

I've tested this on both a modded and clean, unmodded vanilla save and the result is the same; the horse stops playing with the ball after a while and won't play with it again unless you completely replace it.

I'm a member of a few Discord servers and other players have mentioned having this issue too.

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