Forum Discussion

aliasilver's avatar
aliasilver
2 years ago

[OPEN] [HR] Horses will not autonomously enter or sleep in stalls

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? 1.99.264.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All Expansions. All Game Packs except: Batu and Wedding stories. All Stuff Packs, except: Moschino, fitness, bowling night, backyard and movie hangout. Owned and installed Kits: Book Nook, Grunge Revival, Greenhouse, Bathroom Clutter, Simtimates, Everyday Clutter, Pastel Pop, Desert Luxe, First Fits, Blooming Rooms, Modern Menswear, and Country Kitchen.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a horse outside the horse ranch world, make a stall for them of an appropriate size, they won't go in autonomously, can be called in, but will refuse to sleep. They will leave after a time. If this doesn't happen immediately, play a few days to a week and it will be omnipresent and permanent.
What happens when the bug occurs? Horses wont autonomously go into stall, but can be called in. They will not sleep in the stall no matter what.
What do you expect to see? The horses sleeping in the stall, autonomously going into the stall, etc.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Horse Ranch, since its a horse issue

‌

I have a horse and a foal who refuse to autonomously enter a stall, even when they're comically large. They can be called in, but will simply stand there for about one game hour before leaving - usually to sleep outside. I have also not seen them enter the building autonomously. I have my front door of an entirely different building set to disallow horses in (and have tested it allowing with no change), but that shouldn't be affecting this entirely separate building. I changed my build to have the walls be the 2nd tier high to use the door that allows a horse and rider to enter and they still refuse to autonomously enter. I cannot change anything regarding building restrictions to the barn door as its considered an archway, so I have no idea if its an issue. I placed a new door down and the door had no restrictions so I assume the building doesn't. 

The stalls I'm using are now 9x7 since making stalls larger was the recommended fix in another post, previously they were 5x6, I can confidently say this is not a stall size issue. I have repaired my game twice now, and in a different game this wasn't an issue (5x6 worked perfectly fine). I'm also not playing in the new world, whereas the previous game I was; I'm playing on Country Living's 2 Olde Mill Lane (the 50x40 lot). 

All CC is purely CAS and there was no change when disabling it, except for a headache as I needed to remake all my characters with the missing CC.

Update: a new game didn't have this issue at first but after a few days to a week I noticed my horse wasn't using the stall again (even in the expansion world), so its not an immediate bug and isnt world related.

[CM Edit: Title update]

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

17 Replies

Replies have been turned off for this discussion
  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @aliasilver When you’re testing without cc, you can just make a test copy of your save (load the save, then immediately choose “save as”) - that way you still have the old copy with all cc in place and only need to go through the headache of remaking characters if their cc actually proves to be the issue. I’m sorry you went through all that work without solving the problem!
  • JuniperWhimsy's avatar
    JuniperWhimsy
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago

    I'm having this issue as well. I'm playing with 2 foals in a new save in a Chestnut Ridge pre-made lot shipped with the pack. I've played 3 full sim days and neither foal will sleep in the stalls on the hay beds. The beds are still pristine and haven't needed cleaning once.

    I've assigned the beds to them but they don't go into the stall autonomously, only if I tell them to, but never sleep there. It's horrible watching them sleep outside in the middle of thunderstorms!

  • TheSpaark's avatar
    TheSpaark
    2 years ago

    My horses 50/50 sleeping in stalls and choosing to sleep elsewhere. When I lived in the smaller open lot at start of game by one of the horse jumps for whatever reason my horse constantly would go sleep over there in the field. 

  • GeminiAngel619's avatar
    GeminiAngel619
    2 years ago

    PS4, No mods, horse will not sleep in assigned bed. This horse was created in CAS as part of my household. In a previous save, the horse I bought through the exchange did sleep in the stall. 

  • cozybunnyxo's avatar
    cozybunnyxo
    Seasoned Hotshot
    2 years ago

    Same thing on Xbox. Watching some people streaming as well, same thing happening. 

  • JuniperWhimsy's avatar
    JuniperWhimsy
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago

    Product: The Sims 4
    Platform:Steam-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? 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? Make a horse in CAS a horse and place a horse bed, surrounding it with either walls and fences with a gate.  The horse won't sleep in the bed.
    What happens when the bug occurs? The horse will go in and out of the stable ok, but it never goes to sleep on the horse bed, it always sleeps outside in the lot or the neighbourhood.
    What do you expect to see? The horse to actually sleep in the horse bed assigned to them
    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 un-modded play and the result is the same.  My horses have never slept in the horse beds.  

  • yasblackgirl's avatar
    yasblackgirl
    Rising Traveler
    2 years ago
    I've been having this problem consistently. My horses will have low energy and sleep outside. They will stand there if called, but never rest.
  • TheSimsDirect's avatar
    TheSimsDirect
    Icon for The Sims Team rankThe Sims Team
    2 years ago

    Hello All,

    If anyone of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?

    If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file.

    Instructions here: http://x.ea.com/74420

    Thanks!

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago

    I'm on Xbox Series X so can't share saves but I'm currently tracking this in my game. It's only happened with 1 mare that I adopted from the exchange, in my second household with horses. The others, created in CAS have been fine but I do have to call them to their beds. I'm moving on to the third household with horses so I'll keep an eye on it.

    This particular horse has the Free Spirit trait. She's sad she's "cooped up" on a 64x64 lot in a field so I wasn't sure if she didn't want to go into the stable because of her nature. She keeps dozing while standing up outside.

About The Sims 4 Bug Reports - Archive

This is a read-only archive of bugs previously reported on Answers HQ. Click "The Sims 4 Bug Reports" in the right-rail to browse and create new bugs.14,625 PostsLatest Activity: 4 years ago