Horse not eating then being taken away
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Mac Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Occasionally (10% - 49%) What is your current game version number? Whatever the ...
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I've just had a foal which constantly had to be told to eat and wouldn't go to his mother to be fed. In the socialising category for mothers I'd like to see an option to "Encourage to feed foal", I tried to just get her to socialise hoping she'd feed him but she didn't. They're all Friendly horses too. He was becoming Dazed (I assume with hunger) even when trained to eat hay and he seemed to reach that point about 3 times a day. I had my Sim sleeping next to the stables to keep feeding him. He's gone to his mother once in about 6 hours (real time) and that was only after he was already on solid food. I've switched households as my Sim was just constantly complaining and the other animals were unhappy at a lack of attention. So I maxed their needs and moved on. I was concerned if it continued they'd be taken away.
It's odd though as my adopted foal in a previous household went to an unrelated mare to be fed and was absolutely fine.
@ChaosTheories I've found that my horses get stuck sleeping too if I use CAS, Build Mode or travel while a horse is asleep. When I return to the lot/live mode the horse is stuck until needs deplete completely. I can't wake them up so I get my Sim to travel to a different lot with the sleeping horse, I take them to Duke's Hall Park because it has feeders and fun activities to quickly fill their needs again.
I figured this out after standing at the feeders yelling for them as they starved in their sleep.
So I avoid going into any other modes to avoid it happening again.
@simsplayer818 Foals born in game rather than purchased/rescued/created in CAS have a dazed moodlet for the first few days. It won’t show them as dazed the entire time, as it seems happy moodlets can temporarily overpower it, but it’s still there and so keeps coming back whenever the extra happy/scared/sad moodlets wear off. Are you sure that’s not the dazed effect you’re seeing?
@PipMenaceI thought that so I tracked it as he got steadier on his legs and started to run, etc.
So, at a few days old and on steady legs he'd still have hunger level at Good and I'd feed him something by hand (once he was weaned) to stop his hunger dropping. But his hunger would still drop soon after and he'd be Dazed until he ate, then he'd immediately lose the Dazed feeling. So as I say I assumed the Dazed feeling was linked to the hunger as arrived with hunger and then it went away after a full meal of prairie grass I'd stocked in the hay feeder.
I've switched households now so I'm going to test when I next add a foal as this didn't happen with a purchased foal and the purchased foal also went to a mare for food very regularly but the foal born in game only did that once, which is one thing I'm certain can't be right. The rest I'll test as I go.This next horse I'm adding will be created as Flapjack's foal in CAS as I'm adding a daughter for Sienna. So I've tested purchased, bred and next will be a foal that will be created using CAS genetics method.
- @simsplayer818 I did notice that when all needs were full the dazed moodlet was more likely to go away - I assumed because of some sort of content happy moodlet for full needs that helped override the dazed.
They are still supposed to be able to nurse though, as long as the mare is nearby and not kept busy. At least until temperament is high enough for them to eat hay themselves. I don’t believe my foals nurse much once they can eat prairie grass or use the feeder - but they do feed themselves.- @PipMenace Yeah I think that's where I've definitely got an issue. He wouldn't nurse at all even when first born, whereas I didn't have that with the purchased foal and unrelated mare. As soon as the purchased foal met the mare he went to her to be fed but the newborn foal didn't do that with his birth mother. He just kept getting so hungry my Sim was constantly bottle feeding him, even during the night. He then nursed once after he'd already started eating hay/grass etc. I was so worried he'd be taken away, although I run a backup so I could get him back at least.
So maybe the Dazed feeling goes away with full needs and isn't linked to starvation 🤔 that's a good point.
