Cottage Living Fixes Collection

Don’t you just get so aggravated when you try to give one of your chickens a treat and then they won’t eat it? Well, that’s because they can’t find it if your Sim throws it too far away from them. This mod increases the distance that chickens will look for thrown treats. It’s not 100% effective (some Sims really don’t know where to throw those treats!) but is does greatly increase the likelihood of the chicken finding and eating the given treat. I tested this five times. Only one of those times did the chicken not eat the treat.

Both the animal shed and the chicken coop require special upgrade parts in order to install valuable upgrades to these objects. Trouble is, you have to do a great number of “errands” to get all those parts and that often means having to repeat errands you’ve already accomplished. Annoying. So, I reduced the number of upgrade parts needed on each upgrade to a value of 1. That means, you only need one upgrade part to build each upgrade. 

One of my favorite chickens was killed by a fox recently. Rather than completely remove the fox lot trait, I decided to keep things interesting by only disabling the foxes’ ability to kill chickens. They can still steal eggs and scare the crap out of chickens though.

If one of your animals (cow, llama, or chicken) dies, your Sim will be very sad for a very long time. Same happens if you sell an animal. With this mod, I have reduced the severity of the sadness and the amount of time that your Sim will be sad. For instance, if you sell any animal, your Sim will only be a little sad for about an hour. 

It seems like it takes forever to make any livestock happy and then nearly impossible to keep them happy while your Sim tries to take care of them while living their own life. What this mod does is greatly increase the number of social points gained for doing friendly actions and then decreases the rate at which social points decay. Now your livestock should be easier to keep happy and will stay happy much longer.

Does it hurt to see your beloved chickens, cows, and llamas die of old age? What about those cute rabbits and sly foxes? This mod will stop all of them from dying of old age! Real life is too fleeting no reason why our digital lives should be the same.