8 Horses DEAD

[GooseDog]

We were in a pretty long session of cheese and sausage making, took a quick break to check on the critters and 8 out of our 14 horses had died. Food and water were full. Thats total crap to spend $30,000 - $40,000 on a couple pairs of breeding horses, and then they die off before you can auction the offspring. As the 'top end' investment in this game, horses should not have a glitch like this. Its not fun to work up to that level of horse breeding and have it all wiped out.

[M4S0N13]

No animals should have that problem.
Reported numerous times, basically no feedback from Dev's.
Very sad...

[OpaLoopy]

yes, apparently they just don't want to talk to us, they already have our money, nobody can take it away from them... really a disgrace

[Boochies]

i cant comment on the lack of response from the developers, or the loss of horses to be honest, but i can relate in the loss of multiple animals (cows, goats, pigs, chickens) while caught up in sausage/cheese production.
because thats a time consuming process, i will make time to stop what im doing and go out and visit all animal enclosures to make sure their hunger/thirst bars arent too low.
ive read a developer response on another similar post where it said saving/exiting the game then coming back on will trigger the animals to eat/drink.
i'd be upset to lose horses, i get that, since i go for the highest stats possible and spend quite a bit on them.

[OpaLoopy]

Why aren't the horses set up in such a way that they can't die on their own? They should only die if they are shot. The horses are a commodity and should not be treated like simple livestock.

[James Clements]

Originally posted by GooseDog:

We were in a pretty long session of cheese and sausage making, took a quick break to check on the critters and 8 out of our 14 horses had died. Food and water were full. Thats total crap to spend $30,000 - $40,000 on a couple pairs of breeding horses, and then they die off before you can auction the offspring. As the 'top end' investment in this game, horses should not have a glitch like this. Its not fun to work up to that level of horse breeding and have it all wiped out.

We recommend sleeping often in-game, approximately once every couple of in-game days. This should help avoid this issue.

[M4S0N13]

Originally posted by James Clements:

Originally posted by GooseDog:

We were in a pretty long session of cheese and sausage making, took a quick break to check on the critters and 8 out of our 14 horses had died. Food and water were full. Thats total crap to spend $30,000 - $40,000 on a couple pairs of breeding horses, and then they die off before you can auction the offspring. As the 'top end' investment in this game, horses should not have a glitch like this. Its not fun to work up to that level of horse breeding and have it all wiped out.

We recommend sleeping often in-game, approximately once every couple of in-game days. This should help avoid this issue.

No, this doesn't. I have tried to make this issue known, without any positive feedback.
I have reported that I slept every night at around 20:00, and still animals died.
I have stayed up until 22:00 checking the animals, most of which were feeding and drinking at that time. So no, sleeping doesn't seem to be the issue here, as with sleeping every night, full water and food, animals still randomly die.
Would appreciate if this issue can be really looked into, instead of just hearing every time to sleep through the night.
Thanx in advance

[OpaLoopy]

Originally posted by M4S0N13:

Originally posted by James Clements:

We recommend sleeping often in-game, approximately once every couple of in-game days. This should help avoid this issue.

No, this doesn't. I have tried to make this issue known, without any positive feedback.
I have reported that I slept every night at around 20:00, and still animals died.
I have stayed up until 22:00 checking the animals, most of which were feeding and drinking at that time. So no, sleeping doesn't seem to be the issue here, as with sleeping every night, full water and food, animals still randomly die.
Would appreciate if this issue can be really looked into, instead of just hearing every time to sleep through the night.
Thanx in advance

well, that's how it's always been, if you find an error in the program then it's always the user's fault because the program doesn't make any errors --- conversely: if the user doesn't make any errors and the program can't make any errors, then obviously the programmer is making a mistake

[GooseDog]

Originally posted by James Clements:

Originally posted by GooseDog:

We were in a pretty long session of cheese and sausage making, took a quick break to check on the critters and 8 out of our 14 horses had died. Food and water were full. Thats total crap to spend $30,000 - $40,000 on a couple pairs of breeding horses, and then they die off before you can auction the offspring. As the 'top end' investment in this game, horses should not have a glitch like this. Its not fun to work up to that level of horse breeding and have it all wiped out.

We recommend sleeping often in-game, approximately once every couple of in-game days. This should help avoid this issue.

I feel like we do sleep often because of the effect on egg and milk production, but I will pay closer attention to this. I know we sometimes pull the UTV in the garage and crank the radio while we do cheese and sausage making and time can get lost pretty quickly.

[M4S0N13]

Mr. Clements, any update of feedback on this topic?

[James Clements]

Originally posted by M4S0N13:

Mr. Clements, any update of feedback on this topic?

No update yet. The devs are aware of the issue, however.

[M4S0N13]

Originally posted by James Clements:

Originally posted by M4S0N13:

Mr. Clements, any update of feedback on this topic?

No update yet. The devs are aware of the issue, however.

Thank you for your reply.

[Nomercy^]

I thought I was immune to this, I made it to day 100 before I had a dead horse. I sleep every in game day. I bought a almost fully stat horse for breeding put it in my fence and went to bed. (in game). Woke up the next morning to start training the horse and found it was dead.

[Nymbil]

Animals will die if you are not in range for too long. They only eat and drink if you are close to them, so every day cycle visit all your animals for a bit. The range is pitifully short. I had a bunch of animals die when I was less than 16 fence sections from them. I built everything much closer together and smaller, and now no longer have animals die, even if I don't sleep.

[M4S0N13]

Originally posted by Nymbil:

Animals will die if you are not in range for too long. They only eat and drink if you are close to them, so every day cycle visit all your animals for a bit. The range is pitifully short. I had a bunch of animals die when I was less than 16 fence sections from them. I built everything much closer together and smaller, and now no longer have animals die, even if I don't sleep.

Thank you, will try and test this. Although this is also not supposed to happen.
Thanx

[Nomercy^]

I put mine in the fence at about 10 PM went to sleep in game and at 8:00 am it was dead. After seeing all this in here, I have been sleeping every in game day and making a pass through my pens every morning. Up until day 100 nothing had died until this horse.