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2 years ago

Ranch Hand Manure/Chore Issues

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? 1.104.58.1030
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All to date (2/11/2024)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have at least 2 horses that dump a bunch of manure on the lot. In the morning, have the Ranch Hand pick up manure. Eliminate 1 or more chores. Wait until the next day @7am and look at the assigned chores.
What happens when the bug occurs? One has to repeatedly send the Ranch Hand back to pick up manure until it has all been picked up. He wanders off. Assigned chores gets reset back to all chores.
What do you expect to see? I expect the Ranch Hand to keep picking up manure and not have another Sim intervene. I expect for the chores to be the same as the previous day.
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? Neutral/Not Sure 

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  • Same problem here. I set the ranch hand to just feed/care for the animals, next day all chores are selected. It's quite annoying to change it to the ones I want every sims day.

  • @KingRayVeteran 

    I think this is a poor design choice, rather than a bug. You have to ask the Ranch Hand to collect manure every time you want them to do it, as it is not under the chore category, and instead is under the 'Ask to...' one. 

    What that means is that anything under the chores tab will be remembered by the ranch hand to do, but anything under the ask to category will need to be manually done if you want them to do it. 

    It works the same as the Butler's responsibilities. They will only make a meal if you ask them to, and since collecting the horse poo doesn't fall within the Livestock and horse care responsibility, you need to ask them to do it every time you want it picked up. Annoying but I think thats by design.

    Because of how this works, if the ranch hand gets distracted or another sim intervenes, they won't pick up any more manure unless you ask them to do it again.  

    You also mentioned that the Ranch hand forgets the assigned chores. I wasn't able to replicate this, as each day the ranch hand returns whatever arrangement of chores i have set are remembered. - Chores should be remembered, ask to ones wont be. 

     

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