Giant purple toads "locked in cage" can't be freed?

[Violent Rainbow]

There's a castle on the map, I think it's the same one where you help Natty free the hippogriffs, and there's some giant purple toads just sitting on the ground croaking but if you try to catch them it says "caged beasts can't be freed" but they aren't even in a cage? There is an empty locked cage behind them, but even when you open that it says the toads are still caged. I feel bad leaving them there :( Is anyone else experiencing this?

[OneHallThatsAll]

Yes me too om ps5 though... except the toads were lo ked in the cage and I unlocked it and they just stay sitting in the cage. Nothing I do will make them move out of the cage and it won't let me rescue them either....smh

[Psyringe]

Same for me (on PC). I remember playing that quest, finding the toads, and opening that cage. The toads did not move. Any attempt to catch them with the nab-sack just produced the error message "caged animals can't be rescued". Which I find highly paradoxical because the fact that someone put those animals in a cage is the whole reason why I _wanted_ to rescue them.

It's either a bug, or an oversight in the design of that level.

[zero.calvin]

yeah, i think that one is bugged... it's not related to any of the quest, so it's not a problem... but it's still weird.

[Violent Rainbow]

Originally posted by zero.calvin:

yeah, i think that one is bugged... it's not related to any of the quest, so it's not a problem... but it's still weird.

I guess they will die there.

[bojovnik]

Ugh, it sucks that this is still bugged. Sucks even more, because it is the first shiny I have found.

[BlackRose94]

Its still bugged as of right now and one of them is shiny for me and they are both male!

[BlackRose94]

And i lef the castle to do a merlin trial and the shint male is gone wtf

[puppiesmakemyhearthappy]

same, one is a regular female and a shiny male. tried to lure them out and nothing's working

[fiddich]

Originally posted by miphat:

same, one is a regular female and a shiny male. tried to lure them out and nothing's working

Yeah I think some of the caged creatures are bugged and won't leave. It's been reported to WB Games but they've shown no interest in fixing it. I know a modder who wrote a mod to teleport them out of the cage but said that even once the creatures were out of the cage they never moved. It's as if they still think they're trapped. Then if you leave the area and return they're back in the cage. It's all rather depressing.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I just ran into these two last night, out of the cage and just sitting there. Still couldnt bag them.

[Alhaddabi]

as of today
the bug still exists.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

There are a couple of situations where even if you open the cage, the beast will not leave. There is one in the South as well where a Fluffer(or whatever they are called) will not leave the opened cage.

Not sure exactly about the toad one since the doors won't remain open. Maybe it was intended to be some kind of puzzle to be solved and they never finished the work.

[LeviathanHugs]

I’m at falbarton castle and I found a regular male toad and shiny female. They won’t leave the cage. Ugh