Functional Sheep (Look! A living sheep!) V1.2 by Lyralei - The Sims 3

Social interactions

1. Sims can also befriend sheep by talking to them! Sheep are pretty quick to trust your sims though!

2. If you got Zoe22's knitting mod installed... You can now gather yarn from your sheep! I do hope to make a loom in the future for this.

Checking their needs:

To check a sheep's need, simply click on the sheep and click 'Check info and Mood about this sheep' and you'll see what its needs are (as well as its gender and personality)

Routing to different objects:

I haven't yet been able to make the sheep navigate by walking (EA calls this a 'routing component'), therefore they literally 'jump' to the objects they want to interact with. it might be a bit silly, but it was the best I could do.

In future updates, I hope to have fixed this! But it takes quite a bit of time to get this done.

Sheep and their necessities

While we've talked a bit about what kind of needs they have, what about what they need to stay alive?

Shelters:

Shelters come as bedding (if you made a big indoor barn, for example, this is especially great!) and a regular small house. Each shelter has a total of 4 Spots, so if you got 5 shelters, make sure to have 2!

The shelter will make sure your sheep stays dry (Sheep HATE the rain! and if you were partially made out of wool, you might know why ) and if it's winter, it's THE place to warm up.

KNOWN BUG WITH THE SHELTER:

Sometimes sheep will have a funny way of standing in the shelters. It's pretty meme-worthy though Like this one:

"Got some barley, mate?"

Hitching post:

Just like horses, sheep can eat and drink from the hitching post. The hitching post does have a new thing that isn't too much to see for the regular user, but I made 2 additional slots for the hitching post. So any mod that replaces a hitching post's RSLT resource will conflict with this.

"But why don't they just graze?" You might ask. Well, wild sheep have the ability to travel to different places and therefore get different nutrients. Captive sheep, however, don't. Therefore they also need a mixture of hay and grass to survive. Thus, the need for a hitching post! See it this way: if you were to eat only but an apple, you wouldn't get much nutrition out of it (in fact you might even get sick of the idea of eating just apples)

Grazing patches:

Optional: but can be nice for the players who dedicated a small area for the sheep to stay in, rather than just randomly standing around the front garden.

This patch is invisible in Live mode, but in buy/build mode you can see a green box that is the grazing patch. They do come in 5x5, 10x10, and 15x15. If you ever need a 30x30, just get 3 10x10s next to each other or 2 15x15

Horse ball:

Optional: Because sheep like entertainment too wherever possible! Whenever your sheep get bored they'll start using the horse ball and play with it. That is, as long as a horse isn't using it of course

KNOWN BUG:

Sometimes, when you got multiple sheep, it tends to have this bug where multiple sheep are using the same horse ball. The reason for that is because the script that checks it, tends to get run at the same time and therefore thinks the state of the horseball is that no sheep are using it.

Temporary fix: Place your sheep one by one on the lot, but in such a way that you wait 20 sim minutes and place the second sheep. OR reset your sheep the same way, but resetting Each sheep with some sim minutes between them

Other sheep:

While you could own 1 sheep, it's strongly recommended you don't. Sheep are social creatures and need more sheep to look out for one another (they're prey animals, so the more eyes the better!). You'll notice that their social needs go down quite a bit if you only have 1. Therefore, always get a minimum of 2 sheep!

Social worker

If you don't take care of the sheep or give them any of the items they need, the neighbors might phone up the social worker to have them take a look. This system works the same as abandoning a pet.

Don't be worried though! You'll first get a warning an hour before the neighbors decide to call the social worker.

NOTE: If your sheep had all the items it needs but it simply didn't or doesn't do anything and just stays there, simply reset the sheep through NRAAS > Reset object. There's a slim chance this happens but 99% of it's fine! Also! make sure that if you got a lot of sheep, that you got multiple hitching posts!

Sheep and their personalities

Different sheep will have different personalities! I haven't fully developed the differences yet, but some of them are present!

Different personalities:

Kind

Evil

Playful

Lazy