When starting a new game with update 1.117.227.1030 (PC) and visiting the worlds of Chestnut Ridge and Brindleton Bay, all households with pets or horses will lose their animals — only Sims will rema...
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I have tested this without mods in a fresh install with a freshly generated Sims 4 folder in the documents folder, and the bug continues to happen when creating a new save in a completely fresh environment.
When starting a new save, all premade pets (Cats, Dogs, Horses) will fail to be added to their respective households. They will still show up in the thumbnails if you immediately enter manage worlds after creating a new save, but they will be missing when you check the household members, and they will vanish from the thumbnail once the household's thumbnail regenerates during live mode.
As seen here the household looks normal at first glance just by looking at the thumbnail.
However, trying to transfer household members reveals that Flapjack is missing.
The same issue affects the Whitaker household which is immediately apparent due to the move in button being disabled with a tooltip indicating the household is empty.
When attempting to transfer household members, this is immediately shown to be true.
Because the Whitaker and Mayor Whiskers households are empty, they will immediately be culled upon saving and reloading the game.
Here I reproduce the bug in a fresh installation with a completely empty Sims 4 folder which will regenerate with default settings once I start the game. OneDrive is paused, so none of my files will be synced to interfere with this test.
I then accepted whatever random sim CAS started with, randomized the traits and name, and moved them into a starter home.
Then I immediately went to check on the Mayor Whiskers household and the bug manifested once again.
All premade households with pets from the Cats and Dogs pack and the Horse Ranch pack were affected.
This is happening to me, too. Completely fresh install, all new folders, no leftover or old files. No mods. Has anyone found a solution? The only results I can find on Google are for a similar bug that happened back in 2021, but I can't find any information other than "it has since been patched". Well...obviously it's still happening, or happening again.
I'm also experiencing this bug. It has been happening in my new saves since the August update.
Started a new save recently due to my old save being corrupted. I started from scratch. No mods yet. Just realized that all the household with pets, had no pets. I went into CAS with Sienna and Flapjack to add a horse from the gallery, but each time the horse would not show up. What is going on? This needs to be fixed ASAP. Is there a status update on this?
Currently happening to me.
This is happening to me too, it is so annoying as I just want to make a new save file
I’m having the exact same problem today.
I wanted to make a fresh save before renovating every lot to include accommodations for every pack, and found this out when I started in Chestnut Ridge.
It’s really unfortunate, because I love the animals that are initially generated, I always interact with them!
I really hope that they address this bug, it’s effecting all new saves, and eliminates half of the gameplay for certain packs!
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