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Functional Duck Pond [DESCRIPTION]
🕑 Added 2022-05-11 11:00:00 +0000 UTCFarm your own ducks, collect eggs, feathers, befriend them, while teaching your kids resposibility and duties!
THIS MOD IS BASE GAME COMPATIBLE
How does it work?
1. To begin farming ducks, first you need to buy the Functional Duck Pond from build/buy mode, it can be found under Outdoor Activities category and it costs 250 simoleons.
2. Once placed, you can click on the pond to purchase ducks to inhabit it. You can choose between two types of ducks (white or mallard). Once purchased a duck vfx of the respective ducks will show up in the water.
Taking care of your ducks
The pond needs to be cleaned regularly. You can see your pond’s status by hovering over it with your cursor. Usually you'll see three statistics constantly - activity level (indicates you own ducks), hygine level and hunger levels. And two other statistics will show up on certain occasions - eggs level and feathers level (shows up only when they are ready to be collected, usually once a day).
When the pond is dirty, make sure you clean it so your ducks will stay healthy. Sims must also click on the pond to feed the ducks, to feed them is required 5 barley grains (so make sure to download the harvestable). Make sure to remember to do this every 12-15 hours to keep your ducks well fed, if you leave your duck hungry for too long they can die from starvation. Hovering over the pond will show you whether your ducks are hungry or fed.
The pond has custom states and animations! When it's dirty has the stinky vfx from the chicken coop and the back container gets full with dirt.
When your ducks lay eggs, the nests fill with eggs.
NOTE: If at the same time the pond is dirty and the eggs are ready, it won't show both states, only one of the two!
You can find a golden egg!
When collecting eggs your Sim has the chance to find a golden egg, which they can then exchange for money or they can find 6 regular eggs that can be used in cooking, they are SCCO tagged. They can also collect duck feathers, which can be sold for profit or used to make pillows on the Loom. The interaction for eggs and feathers show up only when there are items to collect, otherwise they are not visible.
NOTE: If you keep your ducks hungry for too long, there won't be a warning notification, they will directly die from starvation (I tried to add notice, but no matter what I tried it didn't want to show up)! So, make sure to feed them frequently.
Socializing with your ducks
Your Sim can socialize with the ducks, which will increase their relationship. Any sim from child to elder can take care of the ducks. Children and teens develop their responsibility when taking care of the ducks. Sims can also hug ducks and ducklings. Toddlers can talk to the ducks and observe them.
Exchange for meat
This interaction will send your ducks to the meat store and in return your Sim will find in their inventory 5 packages of duck meat. No need to worry for pressing the option by mistake, because you'll have a pop up window asking you if you are sure you want to perform this interaction. If the relationship with the ducks is over 60%, the whole household will recieve a sad moodlet.
If the ducks die from stravation, a generic sad moodlet from the game will be added to each household member, no matter of the relationship value with the pond.
UNSOLVED PROBLEMS:
For now there is still no sound effect for the pond, I tried everything I managed to find online, I even managed to make the sound work until the latest update and then it gone again. I'll see in the future if I can update this.
When you exchange the ducks for meat the generic moodlet which shows up when the ducks die shows up as well, for now I couldn't avoid this either.
DOWNLOAD (Early Access)
Release to Official Patrons: 22nd of May
Release to Public: 1st of June
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Comments
Pied Piper
Do you try to search it in the search bar? When you write duck pond doesn't it show up? It should be under outdoor activities.
Laura Martinez Barca
no se porqué no me aparece en el juego alguna idea??
Dovelette
Adorable and so needed, especially as Arnie's no longer modding I will miss Farmland greatly so this is a nice option, thank you as always!
