[OPEN] [CD] Cats can't use the litter boxes
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC 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? n/a What expansio...
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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.
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EDIT: Moved your freezing post here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Sim-s-Queue-Freezing/m-p/6411883#M50116
I'd like to keep separate issues separate. Thanks.
Does it count if you go to a general area and call your pet over there or do they have to go there own their complete own ?
Do they break right away after you did the repro steps ? All has been working fine for me so far.
@crinrict wrote:Does it count if you go to a general area and call your pet over there or do they have to go there own their complete own ?
Do they break right away after you did the repro steps ? All has been working fine for me so far.
The pets have to go there on their own without any input from your sim. The pet goes on their complete own choice.
In my last game where the litter box broke, it happened right after the cat was finished eating the pet food my sim cooked for him. It was Mayor whiskers who I had adopted in a prior game and saved him to my library with my sim. I changed his traits and his name to Whiskers.
I don't know what you mean about repro steps. I just now put the lot on the gallery, but the camera dosen't show low enough to see the cat bushes in front of the stairs. I also changed one litter box to match the litter box in the bathroom after having the litter box issue.
In my game I'm playing now I don't have pets because I want to play the vet career and I read on the forums that it causes issues if you take your pets to the vet clinic. I don't want to leave my pets at home when I go to work.
The link for the house I'm playing where the litter box issue happened is here.
ETA. I didn't use the MOO cheat on my build. I hardly ever use the moo cheat when I'm building and if I use it, I mention it when I upload the lot.
OK.
By repro steps I mean the description what you did above.
The second cat I made did go away all on her own but the litter box didn't break.
I've seen quite a few posts about it on the officials though. Not sure what's going on.
I'll add this to the list of inconclusive atm.
I had a thought that maybe litter boxes on other lots in the neighborhood could be causing the home lot litter boxes to fail.
In my BB game, I had bulldozed the 20X20 lot and built my own house. There were neighbors living on the big lot and I think they had a cat. The neighborhood symbol was the seashell.
In the Newcrest game I had my cat park with litter boxes on the lot. I use the park lot to harvest the plants growing there. I had built on one of the 20X30 lots. The neighbor hood has a 30X40 lot, 3 = 20X30 lots, and 2 = 20X15 lots.
In Windenburg, I built on the 20X20 lot and bulldozed the residental empty lot and made a vet clinic there with litter boxes, food bowls, and scratching posts. It was on the island with my house I built.
