When waiting for Cottage Living to release, I was planning on what to do with farm animals. I wanted to make a petting zoo, a vacation residential with a farm for those of my Sims living in the city, adding some chickens and a cow to the National Park in Granite Falls (kind of like in many Center Parks), spicing up my community gardens with them, adding a lama to the park in Oasis Springs, ...I was sad when I discovered that we can only buy livestock on owned lots, but first thought they might not be working elsewhere.Then I found out that they work flawlessly when enabled on other lots with just minimum changes to the game's tuning files.So I beg you EA, please make these simple tuning changes with an update for Vanilla players to be able to enjoy the endless possibilities farming animals on any lot will offer.Are you with me?Pretty please and thanks in advance!Technical info on how to change the tuning:Spoiler (Highlight to read)Simply remove the line from the following tuning files:purchasePickerInteraction_AnimalObjects_ChickenspurchasePickerInteraction_AnimalObjects_LivestockPensI_AnimalObjects_HarvestFrom_LlamasI_AnimalObjects_HarvestFrom_Llama_YellowsI_AnimalObjects_HarvestFrom_CowSimply remove the line from the following tuning files:purchasePickerInteraction_AnimalObjects_ChickenspurchasePickerInteraction_AnimalObjects_LivestockPensI_AnimalObjects_HarvestFrom_LlamasI_AnimalObjects_HarvestFrom_Llama_YellowsI_AnimalObjects_HarvestFrom_CowDisclaimer:I know there's a workaround for this by buying animals using an otherwise unplayed Sim, putting them in his/her inventory, bringing them to the lot and never touching that Sim again, but that is tedious and will also not allow for milking cows or getting wool from lamas.There is no downside in enabling cows, lamas and chickens on any lot.Players who do not want them will never have to use them.It's hardly any work to change this.

That or allowing sims to purchase and own other venues, as My sims are wealthy enough and it is part of their story that they do essentially own the world.I too was hoping on setting up my sim’s farmlands around their castle and set it to “Park” and have those who reside in the world work the farm. But now made them residential lots had my sims purchase those lots with their money, allocated and additional $100,000 and hired some live in care takers and used club gatherings to tend to the garden and care for animals.

I'd definitely love to add them to the Eco Community Garden Space. Seems like a perfect addition there.

Very creative workaround, @MasonGamer. We shouldn't need one though as this could so easily be changed by EA.You're right, @Calico45, livestock would go really well with the Eco Community Garden Space.

Yes, please. I was the one who posted about the workaround, which so far is the only viable way I've found to have animals on public lots, but it's a real pity we can't clean / shear /milk the animals this way. It would be great to be able to place animals on public lots directly. :)

@TARDISgrade: Yes, I saw your lamas in Selvadorada and was pleased that it was at least somehow possible to get livestock to appear on Community Lots. Cudos for exploring that.Also Lamas are actually perfect for use in Selvadorada - which makes my request even more legit as you cannot have an owned lot in Selvadorada.

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83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
@momelimberham: I had a good laugh when reading your post. God forbid, though, that was not what I'm asking for.
On the contrary, my request is for people who do not want to maintain a farm, but still occassionally enjoy the new livestock features.

@MZsimmer: I like your idea, though it doesn't allow for milking cows or harvesting wool from lamas. Also Sims do get dirty from interacting with animals and sheds very quickly and it is considered inappropriate behaviour to shower as a visitor on a residential lot so there are some downsides.
I'm not requesting this feature for myself. I can just play with my buycottagelivingsanimalsmod. But there are a lot of people who either don't know about mods or for various, legitimate reasons do not want to use them.
AineOfMay
Seasoned Spectator
4 years ago
If the devs added this into the game, they might aswell give us a community lot type that spawns a npc that takes care of the animals. Or even better give us the npc and the ability to customize every lot to spawn whatever npc we want. Oh man that would be great.
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
@pepperjax1230: Foxes only attack chicken when the fox lot challenge is enabled.
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
Exactly, @SilentKitty.

I also think the Gallery would overflow with creative community and vacation lots making use of the animal sheds, while there won't be as many uploading something like that as long as you either have to describe who to get it to actually work without mods or install a mod in order to be able to use it.

The gallery is a very strong source of creativity, so I always welcome changes that affect the use of Gallery items positively. For instance, I was very fond of them changing debug items to be able to be transfered via the Gallery. This was actually a milestone.
logionX
Seasoned Vanguard
4 years ago
I have nothing against us getting the option, but wouldn't that require sims to take care of the animals autonomously? As far as I have seen when I am visiting another farm the sims who lives there never takes care of the animals.

I changed the park in Bramblewood into a residental area from the gallery and they had cows and chickens there already. When I visited that lot to go swimming in the lake and pick mushrooms I got messages that the animals wanted to leave because they were neglected.
pepperjax1230
Rising Novice
4 years ago
When you say unowned lots are you saying like a petting farm type of thing where you can collect the stuff without having them on your sims lot?
83bienchen
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
@logion: Not necessarily. I wouldn't visit these kinds of lots with my Sims without taking care of the animals while I was there.

@pepperjax1230 I'd imagine using them on Community and rental lots and yes, a petting farm type of thing was one of the ideas I had in mind.
pepperjax1230
Rising Novice
4 years ago
"83bienchen;c-17954240" wrote:
@logion: Not necessarily. I wouldn't visit these kinds of lots with my Sims without taking care of the animals while I was there.

@pepperjax1230 I'd imagine using them on Community and rental lots and yes, a petting farm type of thing was one of the ideas I had in mind.

But then if you have chickens how would that work because no one would be there to save the chickens from the foxes.
paigeisin5
New Spectator
4 years ago
Your ideas should have been included in Cottage Living from the beginning. I have no doubt these were discussed while the EP was in the planning stages that were dropped somewhere along the way. But I don't want EA/Maxis to make your vision a reality. Because I don't think they could do it right, in a way that makes sense. However, I believe this could be a collaborative effort with several mod creators involved in the process. And the end result would be far better than anything the teams, with their limited backing from EA, could create. The teams are buried under new projects and might not have the time to add new options to Cottage Living. With input and help from other mod creators and the players, I believe your ideas would be awesome additions to the game as it appears there are many, many Simmers who want the same thing: More control over the stories they want to tell rather than a narrative being controlled by EA/Maxis.

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