[OPEN] [CD] Cats can't use the litter boxes

From previous experience with queue interaction bugs, the litter box might be breaking because the cat might be repeatedly trying to queue using it only for it to fail for an unknown reason. The game then begins a very rapid loop until the object breaks. Have seen this happen with regular sims and objects like TVs, sinks and showers.

A sim which is off the active lot and in the surrounding neighbourhood doesn't queue any actions involving objects inside the active lot, and using auto-solve (Clicking on the needs icon in the tab) will result in the sims complaining that there is no object nearby to relieve this need. When a need gets low enough, they may autonomously queue 'Return to Active Lot' and then queue to use an object on the active lot once the sim has reached the lot's gridspace.

One possibility is the cat might be skipping the 'Return to Active Lot' part somehow and trying to route back to an object on the active lot, which confuses the game because routing from off the active lot isn't something the game normally does. Hence the cycle of action queues that inevitably break the litter box.

But that's my theory, I haven't dived into the game's code to see if that's how it works. Could be wholly wrong. :P

Edit: Thinking about it, it may be very loosely related to another bug where sims constantly queue to 'Return to Active lot' when at a party/hospital/social gathering away from the Sim's home.

Edit #2: Seen in the routing issues thread that sims can't interact with cats that are sitting on picnic tables. There might be an issue with cats on table not being able to route interactions to and also from them while on a surface.

Sorry I don't know how to edit my post.

In tonight's game I had the litter box issue after I cooked pet food. One of my cats, I have 2 adult males in this game, couldn't use the litter box after eating his food. I went into build mode, deleted the litter boxes and bought new ones. He still couldn't use the litter box so I quit to desktop and restarted my game. He was able to use the litter box after a few seconds of loading my game. I had both kinds of the self cleaning litter boxes, one of each litter box. Now I only have the non laser self cleaning litter boxes on the lot. I have 2 litter boxes, one inside the bathroom and one outside the bathroom. The self cleaning litter boxes on the lot now are the one that rakes the litter. Sorry I don't know the name of it. I've never used the covered litter box, I'm not sure how to know when it's dirty and needs cleaning. I do the visual ones that you can see when they need cleaning.

No freezes have happened in this game so far.

ETA. In this game my cats haven't left the lot. They go out front to check the mail box that's on the porch but they haven't left the lot. And I'm playing in Windinburg sp? on the 20X20 lot on the island. They sometimes will go down the stairs and check out the cat bush that I have in the front of the stairs. It's a single story house on a foundation.

ETA again.

@crinrictThe one thing that's been constant through all the litter box issue is the cat has been a Tuxedo breed. In my currant game I have a Japanese bobcat and a Tuxedo. It was the tuxedo that had the issue with the litter box. I could be wrong that the Tuxedo breed is the issue but it's been the breed that has had the issue in my games.