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JackOnYourBack
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3 months ago
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[CoL] Befriended Bunnies disappear

My sims unlocked the bunny hideout and the bird tree and made really good friend with two of the (5?) bunnies that lived in the stump I placed on their home lot. 

Now first, very strange that I only got two colours for them, half one colour and the other half another. Normally I would get a mixed of colours (easier to tell them apart as well).

Anyway. I filled the green bar with two of them and asked them to help with the garden and exchanged gifts with them etc.

Now after a while I noticed that some bunnies would get replaced randomly. I only had bunnies of two colours at first as mentioned, but now I had a brown one for example. It didn't bother me that much since the ones getting replaced was the ones my sim didn't interact with. 

However, after a while one of those did. Now, is this intended? Because I questioned what the point it to make friends with them and spend time gifting etc if they just randomly get replaced?
I can understand bunnies you aren't friends with and/ or don't interact with getting replaced (I do question why replace a bunny with another one to begin with though?). But the ones you have maxed the green bar with?

I don't play with aging on so they didn't die and I didn't get a notification of them moving or something, they just got replaced with bunnies my sim didn't know for no reason. 

(I also got them stuck on the lot after a while so I deleted the stump to see if that helped, it didn't. This is a separate bug though and I have voted on that bug report.)

I play on PC with no mods or cc.

Note from EA_Solaire:

Hello all,

If any of you are still encountering this on the latest game version (without mods), would you be willing to share your save file(s)?

If so, please send me a private message with a link to the file. Instructions can be found here: https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/information-how-to-send-user-files-to-the-sims-4-team/5048472

Thanks!

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  • Speedy1236's avatar
    Speedy1236
    Seasoned Adventurer
    22 days ago

    I also have this issue. It's much more frequent than the random bunny death, too. If a bunny dies, you get a notification and your sims get sad moodlets, in the case of random bunny disappearance, it's like the bunny never existed. The game then spawns you a new bunny, until your bunny home is full with its max 5 bunnies again. Then you get to keep your bunnies for a random amount of time, until one or two get deleted again and you start over.

    I am pretty sure there was a bug report about bunnies randomly being deleted on here a while ago, but I can't find it now. I think in that thread the theory was that the game deletes bunnies if they are out of lot boundaries when you travel or go to the map. My main household lives on a 50x50, so lots of space for the bunnies to hop around on lot, but I have observed them off lot in the surrounding area, and they do occasionally just disappear/get deleted. Bunny loss is a lot more frequent on smaller lots (presumably because the bunnies are more likely to hop off lot and are then lost if you travel, which would support the theory they get deleted off lot). Bunnies aren't kept in by fences, they dig under them, so there's no way for the player to keep the bunnies on lot. If being off lot is indeed what causes this problem, maybe a fix could be attempted by forcing bunnies to not leave the lot? 

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