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Seasoned Newcomer

1 year ago

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[HR] Horse/Foals refuse to play with Ball

As per ttitle the horse ball needs to be rebought after a while of owning as the horses refuse to use it.

It come up with the horse refusing animation, rather than the cant path animation. The horse immediately uses the new ball with no problems.

Edit by crinrict: Adjusted title

Original report

Place a horse ball down and have a horse play with it or leave them to autonomously play with it. After a while (possibly a few sims days) the horse will stop autonomously playing with it on its own and if you ask them to play with it they get a thought bubble of the ball and then shake their head and won't play with it.

21 Comments

EA_Cade
The Sims Team
1 year ago
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Kritterly
Seasoned Newcomer
1 year ago
I sold both of my horses because they were too difficult to keep happy and the ball wasn't working for them. Thank you for the work around! This needs to be fixed, as horses are not fun when they can not fill their fun need bar.
karoschmitz
Seasoned Veteran
1 year ago
I have that also happening quite often! It seems to me that the ball bugs out and is not usable by the horses anymore, which makes them all lose fun very quickly. I do the same workaround as mourningdove -> pull the ball into the Sim's inventory and then place it back. After that the horses can access it again
mourningdove163
Seasoned Rookie
1 year ago
I also frequently experience this issue. In order to get them to play with the ball I've taken to putting it inside my inventory and them pulling it back out to avoid having to constantly repurchase it. It becomes a pain when trying to fix a horse's fun need before a competition as going for a ride will tire them out.
crinrict
Hero+
1 year ago
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