What's going on here? I only first heard this super creepy noise and it came and went around my sims lot, then I finally spotted that it was a wild fox making the 'sound'. Then there's this super weird visual effect around the fox: can anyone tell me what is going on?🤔 I've no clue. And the sound is beginning to be very annoying. https://i.imgur.com/6SlkcM8.pngUpdate: so I figured out why this happened and apparently a custom trait I had downloaded got applied to every single fox. Kinda weird, but it was an easy fix.

Foxes sneak into your sims' coops and steal eggs at night or early in the morning. I've even seen them carrying the eggs in the mouth (usually they drop the eggs if challenged or shooed, in my experience). If they enter it, the coop will rock back and forth with feathers flying in their air and the chickens squawking in agitation. Foxes have also been known to attack chickens if there are no eggs to steal. The two times this happened to me, the rooster and the hen were both able to fight them off successfully, luckily; they were "young adult" fowl (who were also very happy, full and contented at the time) so that may have been the reason why. The cloud you're seeing could be a fight with a chicken. I have also found my camera will automatically go over to an elder fox who is dying, which is also annoying.

"CelSims;c-17941577" wrote:Not sure I've heard the noise in game yet but.... have you ever heard the noises real foxes make? If not, go look it up. It's an awful sound lol like a banshee. Very eerie. Oh yeah. The noise the fox makes in the game is terrible, but at least it's brief. The first time I ever heard real foxes mating near my house, I sincerely thought someone was being murdered but very very slowly, over the course of the entire night. It's blood-chilling.

Okay so this is what it looks and sounds like. Does this happen in anyone else's game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksNuQa8-yA

That sounds a lot like some sort of sickness the fox has. Do you have Cats & Dogs installed by any chance? Curious if some sort of illness fell upon that wild fox as a result of owning the EP.

I wonder whether it could have eaten one of the new mushrooms. Maybe Michael Bell gave it some of his mushroom berry mash. :D

Update: mystery solved! Wild fox being super creepy - what is this weird noise? Edit: added video

32 Replies

Simfriend68
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Foxes sneak into your sims' coops and steal eggs at night or early in the morning. I've even seen them carrying the eggs in the mouth (usually they drop the eggs if challenged or shooed, in my experience). If they enter it, the coop will rock back and forth with feathers flying in their air and the chickens squawking in agitation. Foxes have also been known to attack chickens if there are no eggs to steal.

The two times this happened to me, the rooster and the hen were both able to fight them off successfully, luckily; they were "young adult" fowl (who were also very happy, full and contented at the time) so that may have been the reason why.

The cloud you're seeing could be a fight with a chicken. I have also found my camera will automatically go over to an elder fox who is dying, which is also annoying.
amapola76
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

"CelSims;c-17941577" wrote:
Not sure I've heard the noise in game yet but.... have you ever heard the noises real foxes make? If not, go look it up. It's an awful sound lol like a banshee. Very eerie.

Oh yeah. The noise the fox makes in the game is terrible, but at least it's brief. The first time I ever heard real foxes mating near my house, I sincerely thought someone was being murdered but very very slowly, over the course of the entire night. It's blood-chilling.
Daravi
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Foxes are creepy, they can give you rabies. When I was a child, I grew up in Germany, I was forbidden to go even to the near of a fox. I should get out of their way anytime, although they are quite fascinating, when they are watching us.
AineOfMay
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I don't think it's a 'fox' sound - the same sound and vfx happens to sims aswell, and I've no idea what is causing it. It's like a weird sound wave noise that sounds eerie and as I said it happens to sims aswell. I wonder if anyone knows why they've got the weird vfx and have this eerie noise following them? I'm so confused.
AineOfMay
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Okay so this is what it looks and sounds like. Does this happen in anyone else's game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksNuQa8-yA
Trowicia
Seasoned Veteran
5 years ago
That sounds a lot like some sort of sickness the fox has.

Do you have Cats & Dogs installed by any chance? Curious if some sort of illness fell upon that wild fox as a result of owning the EP.
AineOfMay
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Trowicia;c-17942153" wrote:
That sounds a lot like some sort of sickness the fox has.

Do you have Cats & Dogs installed by any chance? Curious if some sort of illness fell upon that wild fox as a result of owning the EP.

@Trowicia Yes I have Cats & Dogs installed - I believe I saw a sim with the same vfx, but it happens so fast I'm not sure tbh. Could it be GTW illness somehow effects foxes in my game? Or something else? I've never seen this before, so that's why I'm so confused.
amapola76
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I wonder whether it could have eaten one of the new mushrooms. Maybe Michael Bell gave it some of his mushroom berry mash. :D
AineOfMay
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Amapola76;c-17942176" wrote:
I wonder whether it could have eaten one of the new mushrooms. Maybe Michael Bell gave it some of his mushroom berry mash. :D

I've no idea - all the foxes running around my sims lot has the same thing. Are they all mashed up :D
GalacticGal
Legend
5 years ago
"Aine;c-17942148" wrote:
Okay so this is what it looks and sounds like. Does this happen in anyone else's game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksNuQa8-yA

It sounds like a warning klaxon of some sort.