November 2018
My sims had a pet rat, and he never needed to be fed. Everyday I would try to give him food, but the option was greyed out and it said that food bowl was full. However after a few days, I got a notification that he starved to death, and my sims are now sad. Except I can still see the wheel spinning in the cage, and hear the rat running around. He's supposed to be dead, but now he's invisible! I tried selling the cage, and buying a new one. As soon as I press play, my game freezes but I can still hear sound just my sims are stuck, and I can't click anything. Even if I try to exit to the main menu, I get an endless loading screen so I have to force quit the game. I've already tried removing my entire mods folder, and the same thing still happens. Someone please help!
December 2018
I have had a similar issue where the rodent's needs, especially hunger, get to very low levels but the option to fill their dish is never available and then the pet starves to death. I have not had any freezing issues.
December 2018
Do you have any mods or custom content (CC) in your game? Could you test without?
You can just move the folder to a location outside the Electronic Arts folder.
If the game works without your CC and mods in, your issue is probably caused by a broken mod or CC.
You can find a full list of broken/incompatible CC and mods since game updated on November 13th over here:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/950909/broken-updated-mods-python-terrain-update-get-fam...
This update, updated the coding for mods so most mods need updating.
If it still doesn't work I suggest taking out half of your mods and CC and testing the game. Then keep splitting until you find all that is broken.
Either update or remove the broken CC/mods.
December 2018
All of my mods were updated after the patch. Also I already said that I took out all of my mods. Even without my mods, my game is completely broken after the rat has died. I can't do anything except force quit the game because it's frozen and when I try to quit I get an endless loading screen. I think the rat dying has corrupted my save.
I'm going to try rolling back my save to before the rat died and see if I can either sell him or try to save him from dying.
December 2018
I think the playable pets mod is the one that messed up my game. I rolled back my save and first played with no mods, and I was able to feed my rat. Then I put back in everything except playable pets because that's the only pet related mod I have (even though it shouldn't have anything to do with rodents), and again I was able to feed my rat so he won't die.