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Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
25 days ago

looks like my animal stock is elderly or dying...

I stopped by my Zoo again, a lot that was played only for a few days when created. To my surprise most of the stock I checked are now elderly or dying. I did not expect Grim to come to get any animal this soon. But he did, and it looked like it would be a busy night...

I'm pretty sure that in the past I could check in settings that animals shall not age. Playing on rotation I don't want my goats to die while I play other houses. In my game 1 sim year is 112 simdays, and if the game age non played animals with 1 year per simday, I'm in big trouble... But when I looked under Pack settings I could not find anything for Horse Ranch pack or Cottage living pack. Am I looking in he wrong place?

I suspect that this happened due to the Life & Death pack, but it could also be some of my game settings being reverted. It feels like the game has become obsessed with grim and death, which is fine if playing grim in Ravenwood, but not so fine when playing older households elsewhere, that focus on something else. When stopping by at the Zoo lot (residential lot) for just 1 hour, there were TWO fires! I hardly had a handful fires in my game ever since 2014. Feels like the game is trying a bit too hard to kill of sims in order o create ghosts... but again, it might be a random thing.

Any input would be useful :)

  • This is unfortunately a known bug. It will eventually be fixed in a coming update.

    • Simmerville's avatar
      Simmerville
      Seasoned Ace

      Oh no! So, I must expect all my animals to die by then... I better advice my sims to check their animal stock insurance bill is paid 😮

  • Simmerville wrote:

    But when I looked under Pack settings I could not find anything for Horse Ranch pack or Cottage living pack. Am I looking in he wrong place?

    I think the setting for animals is on the same tab as the setting for sims just lower down the screen, on my laptop I need to scroll down to see it. 

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      Simmerville
      Seasoned Ace

      Ha! I had not scrolled down... ;)

      Anyweay, the "animal aging on" was not checked, but animals are aging anyway. Thanks! So, it's a bug as jpkarlsen said. Hopefully it will be fixed soon enough. I's a tough price to pay for a crow, if that is what caused it.

  • I have animal aging off in my game but haven't had much time to play so don't know as yet if working correctly. I hope to play soon, but whenever I plan to someone irl always needs my help with something. Hoping things slow down so I can play and check to see if this happens in my game. The toggle for animal aging is on the same page as sim aging under gameplay options when in the game. Hoping it still works correctly as I have alot of animals in my saves as well. 

  • Have you gone into Game Options? There is a way to stop animals from aging under gameplay, somewhere. Check all categories. It was there the last time I checked.

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      Simmerville
      Seasoned Ace

      Yupp, and I finally found that I had nort scrolled all the way down when looking or it. It's still there, but bugged, unfortunately.

  • pandacookiesims's avatar
    pandacookiesims
    Rising Adventurer

    I would really like to see animal breeding feature added to the game. Currently, since livestock animals are objects and not household members, there might need to be big changes to how they function. But since livestock lifespans are so short, that would help make farms/ranches more self - sufficient. Sorry general store, you're not taking all the sim's money.