Butchering animals

[Honor]

The frustration is through the roof right now! No matter what I do, the sims won't butcher the gazelle. I have a butcher area and a storage zone and all the priorities are set to 1 but they still won't butcher the damn gazelle! When I click on the gazelle to butcher it, a message appears that says "Must designate tame animal that belongs to the colony". What the hell does that mean? My colony sim hunted the gazelle and put it in the storage zone. What more are you supposed to do ?

[Velvet]

You may wanna check the details of the butcher order itself on the butcher bench, it may be set wierd. CAuse it SHOULD work.

[Honor]

I checked everything. The butcher spot, the part where you "add bill" all set to allow. Just can't figure out what the problem is.

[Astasia]

Slaughter is the order to kill a tamed animal. It is unrelated to butchering, it just makes an animal dead. Butchering is cooking task, you need a dead animal that isn't rotted within the radius of the butcher bill you create at the butchering table. If your priorities aren't set correctly but the colonist is allowed to cook, you click the colonist and right click the butchering table to force prioritize it.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

you need to click the butcher table to actually force butchering, not a dead/live animal.

You also need to build a butcher table/zone and set a bill to allow butchering.

[Honor]

Originally posted by Havik:

you need to click the butcher table to actually force butchering, not a dead/live animal.

You also need to build a butcher table/zone and set a bill to allow butchering.

As far as I can tell I've done all that. Now they caught a bear and he's rotting in a storage zone while the sims are low food. I just can't seem to figure it out.

Before I call it quits because it's become that mind boggling, I'll try to find a hunting tutorial for beginners. Though some of the other tutorials I've watched already haven't really helped that much.

[Honor]

Originally posted by sunirose4:

Originally posted by Havik:

you need to click the butcher table to actually force butchering, not a dead/live animal.

You also need to build a butcher table/zone and set a bill to allow butchering.

As far as I can tell I've done all that. Now they caught a bear and he's rotting in a storage zone while the sims are low food. I just can't seem to figure it out.

Before I call it quits because it's become that mind boggling, I'll try to find a hunting tutorial for beginners. Though some of the other tutorials I've watched already haven't really helped that much.

Originally posted by sunirose4:

Originally posted by Havik:

you need to click the butcher table to actually force butchering, not a dead/live animal.

You also need to build a butcher table/zone and set a bill to allow butchering.

As far as I can tell I've done all that. Now they caught a bear and he's rotting in a storage zone while the sims are low food. They won't butcher it. Grrrr.....I just can't seem to figure it out.

Before I call it quits because it's become that mind boggling, I'll try to find a hunting tutorial for beginners. Though some of the other tutorials I've watched already haven't really helped that much.

[SievertChaser]

1. Build a butcher spot or table
   
2. Create work bill to bucther creature - unlimited
   
3. Kill something, preferably not a human (although the work bill can be modified to use a human corpse)
   
4. Assign someone to cooking

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by dennis.danilov:

1. Build a butcher spot or table
   
2. Create work bill to bucther creature - unlimited
   
3. Kill something, preferably not a human (although the work bill can be modified to use a human corpse)
   
4. Assign someone to cooking

If all that fails your problem is mods.

[Honor]

Originally posted by dennis.danilov:

1. Build a butcher spot or table
   
2. Create work bill to bucther creature - unlimited
   
3. Kill something, preferably not a human (although the work bill can be modified to use a human corpse)
   
4. Assign someone to cooking

I will double check to make sure this is the active formula. Will let you know later, thanks.

[Jigain]

I don't think The Sims has butchering support. If it did, I may be more inclined to play it.

[Honor]

Originally posted by Jigain:

I don't think The Sims has butchering support. If it did, I may be more inclined to play it.

The devs do all the butchering the sims games need so that takes all the fun away from the players.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by sunirose4:

Originally posted by Jigain:

I don't think The Sims has butchering support. If it did, I may be more inclined to play it.

The devs do all the butchering the sims games need so that takes all the fun away from the players.

Did you ever figure out your issue?

Also, you mentioned the bear rotting.
If it was ACTUALLY rotting, you can’t butcher animals that are rotting. Fresh kills only, and I believe dead corpses last 2 or 3 days before they rot.

If you’re doing everything people have told you to do, as someone else mentioned, it might be a mod problem if you’re using any.

[Re𝕯isia]

Honestly at this stage i would say screenshot the problem and all the items involved.

[Honor]

Sorry, I got sidetracked playing with the dev tools. It's remarkable that the devs would give so much access to the creation tools, whereas most games probably don't do that. It's been fun and interesting checking out the development tools.
But I still don't know why butchering animals was broken. When I get a chance, I'll look into it again.