#Sims 3 cats and dogs how to#
#Sims 3 cats and dogs install#

Strays usually appear at night, although they can appear at any time. The Feline Stray Gnome increases the chance of stray cats appearing on your lot. Make sure to use the method at the top of this post for fixing the lack of strays or these methods wonвЂ™t really help. (The wildlife gnome attracts horses, deer, and raccoons.) Choose a canine, feline, or wildlife stray gnome.

Find the stray gnomes in the buy mode catalog under Pets > Misc. Strays are also attracted to a warm place to sleep. Place a pet house somewhere on your lot.Place a pet food bowl somewhere on your lot and fill it with food.If you want to increase the chances of a stray showing up on your lot, there are ways you can attract them: TheyвЂ™re also attracted to fishing spots and beaches. If youвЂ™re looking for a horse to tame, hang out around these and theyвЂ™ll show up soon. Tip: Stray Horses are attracted to the watering troughs placed around town in Appaloosa Plains. A group of wild horses gather around the watering trough. If youвЂ™re looking for a dog or cat, it may take longer to find one. Stray horses always seem to be the easiest to find out in the world and they seem to travel in groups. Here are the best places to find them on community lots: TheyвЂ™re simply named вЂњstray dog,вЂќ вЂњstray cat,вЂќ or вЂњwild horse.вЂќД®ach stray species is more likely to appear at their respective lot assignment. Unlike in previous games, strays do not have specific names. Strays appear on both residential and community lots (if you use the method above to fix lack of strays). If you hover over an animal and it has a name, it is owned by another household in the world. When I started a new game in Appaloosa Plains, the game immediately created five stray dogs, five stray cats, and four wild horses. Instead, several stray dogs, cats, and horses are generated randomly. Same goes for the minimum and maximum visit lengths. Tip: If youвЂ™re seeing too many or too few strays, adjust the numbers until you reach a level youвЂ™re happy with. I tried to play the vanilla game but no stray cats or dogs ever appeared. kVisitLengthMin = 360 (Changes the minimum time the stray will stay at your home to 6 hours if you have a low relationship.)ДЄs soon as I made these changes, a stray dog appeared at my lot the very first night! The only way to get strays showing up in my world was to use these mods.kVisitLengthMax = 600 (Changes the maximum time the stray will stay at your home to 10 hours if you have a low relationship.).

kVisitLengthHighLTRMin = 720 (Changes the minimum time the stray stays on your lot to 12 hours if you have a high relationship.).kVisitLengthHighLTRMax = 1440 (Changes the maximum time the stray stays on your lot to 24 hours if you have a high relationship.).ItвЂ™s far too low by default and strays almost never show up on random lots.) kRandomLotVisitChance = 0.25 (The chance a stray will visit another lot beside the active household.kActiveHosueholdVisitBaseChance = 0.25 (The base chance a stray will visit the active household when the stray pet alarm fires.Set it lower if you want strays to show up more often.) kActiveHouseholdMaxTimeBetweenVisits = 24 (The maximum number of sim-hours that pass before a stray is forced to visit.Now load your game, click on City Hall and choose: Nraas > Retuner > Settings > General > By Tunable XML > StrayPets The Retuner menu that allows you to fix the lack of strays. Retuner вЂ“ Allows you to adjust the amount of time between stray visits and other relevant settings.GoHere вЂ“ Fixes a bug that prevents strays from spawning.

#Sims 3 cats and dogs install#

HereвЂ™s exactly what I did to finally get strays showing up in my game.ДЇirst, install these two mods if you donвЂ™t have them already: There are two mods that fix this problem (when used together). The EA default settings make it very difficult to ever see stray cats and dogs in the game. Players can use the pet adoption interaction on the phone, or befriend and adopt wild horses. The Sims 3 is the only game in the franchise to include horses (at the time of this writing). In addition to dogs and cats, you can also adopt stray horses.

#Sims 3 cats and dogs how to#

In this guide, weвЂ™ll cover all aspects of how to find and adopt strays in The Sims 3. Just like in the previous games, you can adopt strays by building up a relationship with them. Strays returned in The Sims 3: Pets expansion.