I haven't played around too much with Cottage Living, but I did buy a chicken coop and bought 2 hens and a rooster. I hatched a rooster chick, who I got a notification saying he aged into an adult, but then he disappeared. From the relationship panel, from the coop, from the world. Same thing happened to another chick that hatched in my sim's hands. Except that chick didn't even leave the coop after hatching, it just stopped existing. I still have the 3 chickens I started with, but those 2 chicks I hatched just don't exist anymore. Has anybody else had this problem? It's possible it's just a bug that needs fixing, but I haven't seen other people reporting this.

@jpkarlsenbut how can that happen to a chick that just had hatched without any notification? just - hatch - gone ☹️ i was so sad bc to me it was a golden egg that hatched ☹️NEVERMIND! I've found my chick - somehow it got dropped into the house-inventory (i dunno why, but at least it's there)

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16 Replies

jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
4 years ago
@k0ffinkitten
Move your Mods folder to the Desktop and delete localthumbcache.package. Then test the game
If it works now check for updates to your Mods and CC. Add it back a little at a time while testing until you have found all that are broken.
CallMeSuperboy
4 years ago
This has also happened with me and also the Youtuber James Turner (on his early access livestream-- so definitely no mods or other packs).
I'm on mac and have no mods, and a lot of packs. My original rooster just completely disappeared one day and never returned. I had to buy a new rooster and so far he's stuck around.
coiler119
4 years ago
Same issue here, and I never use mods or even custom content, so that can't be a factor. I bought some clothes from the creature keeper, and then one of my hens disappeared from everything
jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
4 years ago
@coiler119 @CallMeSuperboy
If you neglect a chickens needs for too long they will leave. You get a notification that they feel neglected. After that you have about two sim hours to remedy the situation or they are gone.
delrouval
4 years ago
@jpkarlsenbut how can that happen to a chick that just had hatched without any notification? just - hatch - gone ☹️ i was so sad bc to me it was a golden egg that hatched ☹️

NEVERMIND! I've found my chick - somehow it got dropped into the house-inventory (i dunno why, but at least it's there)
jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
4 years ago
@delrouval
That is a separate matter read my answer to the OP about that.
CallMeSuperboy
4 years ago
@jpkarlsen

That’s not the problem, though, my rooster disappeared with NO notification. He was being taken care of as well as the rest of the chickens. There was no notification in the panel at all.

If he decided to leave, or a fox got him, then the bug is not that a chicken left, but that the notifications aren’t showing up for why they’re leaving. (I know this isn’t a bug thread but it should be.)
jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
4 years ago
@CallMeSuperboy
I have noticed that if it died there are no notification. I just happened to notice the grim reaper by one of my coops when one of my Roosters croaked.
k0ffinkitten
4 years ago
omg thank you! that's where my rooster and chick were too! how strange!
CallMeSuperboy
4 years ago
@jpkarlsen
Sure, but there are notifications leading up to that. I had other chickens die of old age and there were three or four notifications about old age approaching, and the rooster was the same age as the other chickens, and none of them died of old age until later. And like I said before, there’s no reason why this 1 rooster should have died of neglect when all the others were fine.

And I saw a YouTuber’s bunny have a fight with a fox and they were notified about the bunny losing the fight and dying. So there should be, should it be a fox attack, notifications about losing the fight.

There is some sort of bug here, and your slightly patronizing messages about it are not really helpful.