I build a barn for my cow, then an invisible animal shed LOL (retired)

I have done my best to keep all of my cc and mods updated after new packs and patches. Unfortunately I am no longer able to do that, due to personal reasons I am leaving the big sims community. I will still be playing sims now and again if time and health permit, but I can no longer actively keep up. I am officially resigning from my mods, others are welcome to test them and let others know if they still work or not, but I can no longer do that. So far my mods has never needed updating so all is good, but you never know with future packs so please just be aware of that 🙃

I have enjoyed all the requests I had over the last few years and I have loved spending time and helping other simmers here on the forums, I will miss you all and also thank you from the deepest part of my heart for all of your support these years, You are all the best ❤️

Link to invisible animal shed
https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/build-buy/invisible-animal-shed

Just a test lot, thought I would try building a barn type building to house my llama and cow together after I saw a tutorial on you tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RB40daWa8A&t=196s

But I don't use the tool mod thingy, so I just used the same principle and did it by hiding the little barn sheds under enlarged hay bales LOL
https://i.imgur.com/BmDr2z1.png

Edit to add the new version by the very talented KyriaT_sim <3

Oh my gosh Simmers, you are going to love this post <3

I was contacted by the very talented KyriaT

https://i.imgur.com/1Hz1xBM.png

She is going to change our lives forever :) She has made some changes to our invisible shed that is going to make simming with it so much easier. You now can place it and then use the colour swatch to make it invisible, no more guessing on where you want to place it ;) Here it is when I tested it out in my game, How cool is this !!!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/hhC1RxL.png
https://i.imgur.com/dNGmmkq.png

She has very kindly shared her package with me to share with you all. I have uploaded it to my media fire (no changes all credit to KyriaT) and will share it on the first post and the other cow farm thread as well, Its amazing work <3

Here it is for us all, its truly very talented work she did here ;)
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3fkxs4qmbnmwyqp/McRudds_completely_invisible_animal_shed_slightly_changedB.package/file

build and buy

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atreya33
Legend
5 years ago
Your barn looks great.

Do the cow and Llama walk around after shrinking the sheds or does their walking space shrink as well.
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
"Atreya33;c-17950915" wrote:
Your barn looks great.

Do the cow and Llama walk around after shrinking the sheds or does their walking space shrink as well.

Its just as if they have the big sheds. Only thing is when you sent them in then they disappear once they inside. I have a teensy piece of each shed sticking out of the haybales at the back so I can call them out again, they walk right through the haybales. This is just a test game, so I will test it more and more, but so far no issues, just had my cow disappear once when milking, but that happens in my normal shed games as well, so think its a bug already.
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
I might just restart and look at my spacing of the animals, they are a bit to close for comfort LOL
https://i.imgur.com/xEgeQ7M.png

Its a trial and error thing, hence a test game, but I am super happy it actually works :D
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
Moving the building out 1 square each side easily solved the space issue, and they walk in and out by themselves, went to bed at night time, I just had to get rid of my doors, which is a pity. But I will look at different ways to build the barn to make it look ok without doors ;)

https://i.imgur.com/FlHPWSc.png

Atleast we know its possible if we wanted to make our own, I am even thinking of removing the barriers and adding the coop in there since the chickens do walk all over the yard. Mmm gonna try that now LOL
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
Oh my gosh it works, and it looks so cool :) <3
Sorry its night time, I will fast forward to day time to show you guys :D

https://i.imgur.com/Qd5kmOo.png
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
Yip it all works, so much possibilities now <3 Hope it helps if you would like to try and build your own barn. Feel free to show pics here if you want too. Happy simming all :)

https://i.imgur.com/mJRF3KG.png
Chicklet45368
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Wonderful! Thanks for all of the testing! I haven't played in HoB yet as I'm still setting up my other worlds for my story but that barn/shed thingy does not fit in with my aesthetics and wanted it too look more traditional, so this is great! I actually modeled a new mesh barn to replace the original but I haven't created the package yet to test it, but if I can do something similar in game to appease my style, then this is even better!
Simmingal
Hero
5 years ago
nice! I was thinking of doing something similar myself eventually
but i had not thought of genius idea of hiding the shed in hay :open_mouth:
GalacticGal
Legend
5 years ago
Great work, but I fear it's beyond my Pay Grade. Thanks for sharing!
mcrudd
Legend
5 years ago
Oh no all, I ran into a little snag with the minimized barn. You can't clean it. The sim says they can't get to it. You can use testingcheats true and then shiftclick clean, but if you are a simmer that prefer to not use testingcheats then I am sorry this is not going to work. I will go back ingame and see if I can find a way around this little problem ;)