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Seasoned Ace

1 year ago

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Awaiting Additional Reports

[FR] [CoL] Farm Animals in Rental Neighbours' homes run away

In my current save I have a residental rental that also works as a horse ranch/farm. The family that owns the ranch also owns the the animals and then rent out some rooms to relatives of theirs. Now as ranchers, they are very careful to care for their animals. Every animal on the farm is cleaned, fed and taken care of. They have a ranch hand who also helps with this.

Yet, whenever I switch families to play the one renting rooms at the ranch, all farm animals instantly appear dirty and I get popups saying they're unhappy and will leave unless they are cared for. Switching back those same animals are now clean and happy again. I can only assume this is because the tenant-family has never cleaned the animal themselves, but as they don' t own them they aren't even able to. Which is why I think this is a bug. As the animals are cared for by their owners, they ought to show up as well cared for when I switch to the tenants too.

This is what I see whenever I switch to the tenant family.

What do I see: Dirty, unhappy, neglected animals.
What do I expect to see: Clean, happy, well cared for animals
Reason: Lack of cross-pack combability between Cottage living, horse ranch and for rent.
Possible solutions: Let sims who are not owners clean and care for animals, or make sure the animals stay clean and healthy when families are switched.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title to fit old report.

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14 Comments

Marie_Beets
New Spectator
2 months ago
My Sims have a farm and rent a little cabin to a family member on the same lot. Since I changed the lot to residential rental, it is now impossible to care for the cow. I can't milk it or clean it because i ''do not own it''.

Edit By crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title
crinrict
Hero+
2 months ago
Hi Marie_Beets

Could you please provide the following information

- Are you using mods/cc in your game ? Please remove them and test without them if you do.
crinrict
Hero+
1 month ago
Hi Marie_Beets

~~are you still having issues with this ? Could you provide the info asked in my earlier post ?~~

Merged this with another report.
Pisceskat
New Spectator
16 days ago
This is indeed still an issue. I had the same problem. One of my families bought three chickens, a rooster, and a mini-goat to set up their starter farm on their portion of a rental lot. The coop and goat pen were placed in the public areas of the rental lot. In switching around lots, all but one of the chickens vanished, and the goat would roam into whoever's home I was controlling at the time, but could not be fed, cleaned, or otherwise cared for by that family. When I switched to the owning family, they could not care for the animal either, but they could sell it.