Free-Range
About Free-Range
Let your farm friends roam free-i-e-i-o with Free-Range! Cows and Llamas are finally separated from their Animal Shelter and can roam around like Chickens and Rabbits.
Special thanks to Ravasheen for creating a new UFO object. Plus thanks to thepancake1 and PandaSama for helping with animations.
Included in this mod are two invisible markers to designate your own shelter like a barn or pen, and a grazing area for grass feed to grow. During the day your farm friends will roam outside and feed on the grass. Once the sun goes down they'll hang out together near the shelter marker. If you have Seasons installed, they will also huddle inside during severe rain or snow.
Installation Notes Script and Package Mod
Unzip and place the package and ts4script in your Mods folder. Make sure you only have ONE copy at a time.
Double check that your unzipped script does not end with a number in the case your destination folder had an existing file with the name — otherwise the script will not load.
If you organize your CC, make sure scripts are not placed more than one folder deep.
Get Mod Support with Bot 51
You can can now get automated mod support directly online!
Open Bot 51 in the lower right corner of your screen then ask a question or upload a Last Exception file or Lot 51 log file like lot51_core.log.
If you need human support you will need to Join the Discord community.
You can upload 5 files and ask 20 questions per day.
Free-Range Documentation
Getting Started with Free-Range
Look for the Livestock Shelter Marker and the Grazing Marker in the Outdoor Activities category to designate the two hang out areas for your animals. Once you go back into Live mode the markers will disappear.
Caretaking
Cows and Llamas require the same care they required before, however they’ll start to make a big mess. Cow pies, trash piles, mud puddles (Seasons required) will need to be raked up daily, and will multiply more rapidly if the animals themselves stay dirty. Use the Clean Livestock Shelter option by clicking on the ground to have your Sim cleanup everything they can find. You may find your Cows to be a bit gassy. If you have Eco Lifestyle, the daily dose of methane will push your lot towards an Industrial footprint.
Stay Vigilant
There have been stories of strange phenomena occurring near dairy farms in the Appaloosa Plains for decades, even theories of genetic testing to gain control of the Sim’s mind! Is it just a myth, or is the Ministry of Central Intelligence hiding something? Get to Work Required
Custom Animals
TheKalino has a Farm Animal Set that works with Free-Range! Including highland cows, alpacas, ducks,and more! Download from Curseforge:
Free-Range 1.8.2
Updated weights of ages in the Appaloosa Ranch & Stables market
Fixed exception that could occur randomly.
Free-Range 1.8.1
- Officially Officially fixed the issue with the Brown cow teleporting to the Household Inventory.
- You can also move them around in build mode now.
- Added an interaction to the Home Marker area to easily liberate any animals stuck in the household inventory.
Free-Range 1.8
I have finally found the source of animals being placed in the Household Inventory and it's technically not a bug, but a feature so don't count on EA changing this, tho they should have a way to get animals out of the household inventory.
The Problem:
This can actually be triggered by two different reasons:
A Lost and Found service is triggered when you put an animal in your Sim's inventory then take them out on a lot you don't own. If you travel, the animal will attempt to return to the Sim's inventory, but will fallback to the Household inventory.
This issue also occurs with EA animals and is most likely the main culprit for those Cows and Llamas getting stuck. Free-Range animals are purchased and placed directly on the ground so they bypass this system triggering on the initial purchase too.
When an animal is outside the lot bounds even by a single atom they are considered part of the "Open Street". These objects are saved and spawn on any lot within the same street, so it will also attempt to return objects to the owner inventory and fallback to the Household Inventory to prevent them from being stuck on other lots if they wander out of the Open Street.
This issue doesn't happen much with EA Cows and Llamas as they are locked to the animal sheds, but is most likely the issue for Free-Range animals.
Solution:
The Lost and Found service has been removed from Free-Range Cows and Llamas. You should be able to purchase animals for Hotels for example, and be able to leave them there. Just note that if they do end up wandering outside the lot bounds they will spawn when you travel to other lots within the street and possibly get stuck on the wrong lot if they wander onto it.
For EA Animals, I don't apply any overrides to them however the free_range.inv_fix cheat will now free them from the Household Inventory.
Additional Changes:
- Fixed animal routing exceptions when the Shelter Marker is placed in the same room/outside with a Pool.
Free-Range 1.7.1
- Additional compatibility fixes for 1.116+
Free-Range 1.7
Added compatibility for 1.116.202 patch.
Added integration for Suite Life 1.0
Free-Range 1.6
You can now feed free-range animals with Prairie Grass Hay if you have the Horse Ranch pack.
Ranch Hands should now autonomously feed free-range animals.
Guests will pet and hug free-range animals during a Ranch Animal Day event.
Improved tests on feeding and cleaning interactions.
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free_range.inv_fix
Return any free-range animals stuck in the Household inventory into the current Sim's inventory.
purchase_picker.refresh 10510752052178073266
Rotates the available stock in the Appaloosa Ranch & Stables Market that normally only rotates every 24 hours.