How do I lead an animal with Rope

[FreakishFlapjack]

Can't pick up a male sheep, attached rope and the damn thing won't move. How do I transport this thing because yet again I'm met with another damn roadblock playing this game because the devs deliberately designed it to needlessly piss you off.

[Anna]

1 Take rope in hand (primary works, not sure about secondary)
2 Unequip it to break existing connection
3 Take rope in hand
4 Attach it to the sheep with right click

From now on just use 3-4.

[Anna]

I spent great deal of time parking animal trailer right near the animal to put them inside without a rope before I figured out how exactly this part is bugged.

[ᴶᵃʳ]

if its b42 theres a bug where if your holding a weapon and then try to attach rope to animal the rope will be bugged and wont do anything and you also wont be able to unattach the rope

[intorpere]

Seems glitchy. I kept trying and eventually it worked. If the rope gets stuck you can drop it and pick it up again, then reattach it.

[Xenomorph]

Originally posted by FreakishFlapjack:

... yet again I'm met with another damn roadblock playing this game because the devs deliberately designed it to needlessly piss you off.

This sentiment is starting to grow on me after playing b42 for some 50 hours now. Big difference between what zomboid wants to be and what TIS are turning it into 😒

[yzeass]

There is definitely some sort of glitch related to this. I have had several cases where no matter what I do the animal (in my case a cow) would not move with the rope attached. Disconnecting and reattaching did not help. I eventually just gave up and reloaded a backup.

[Nachoman]

Originally posted by yzeass:

There is definitely some sort of glitch related to this. I have had several cases where no matter what I do the animal (in my case a cow) would not move with the rope attached. Disconnecting and reattaching did not help. I eventually just gave up and reloaded a backup.

Yes I experienced this issue with a cow as well. It was roaming around in the forest after being scared off by zombies. When I found it, it was dying of thirst. I attached a rope to it but could not lead it anywhere. The cow was in the forest so I cut down some trees to make more room. That didn't help. Then I just created a zone with it inside, put a water trough in the zone and the cow eventually drank the water.

After a few more tries it finally worked and I lead it to my barn. I was able to lead all other animals (including 3 other cows fine) so perhaps the issue was pathing (trees) and the animal was dying of thirst?

On other thing. I think I tried to pet it - to make it like me more - but the animation would start and just end immediately.

Can be buggy.

[FreakishFlapjack]

Originally posted by Xenomorph:

Originally posted by FreakishFlapjack:

... yet again I'm met with another damn roadblock playing this game because the devs deliberately designed it to needlessly piss you off.

This sentiment is starting to grow on me after playing b42 for some 50 hours now. Big difference between what zomboid wants to be and what TIS are turning it into 😒

I ended up finally getting the ram into an animal trailer and the trailer hit a corpse in the road and flipped over. Ended up killing the ram in a fit of rage. I've had so many moments where dumb things happen and I want to set fire to my base with my character inside because this game can get my blood boiling in a way thats rare for a video game. Sometimes I want to uninstall it and just play 7 days to die because that game isn't as infuriating.