How to Care for Llamas in The Sims 4
Having happy livestock is so important so you must understand all the ways you can care for llamas in The Sims 4!
With The Sims 4: Cottage Living we got our first instance of real llamas being in The Sims ever, even though they’re referenced all the time in past games.
How to Care for Llamas in The Sims 4
There are a few different areas you must pay attention to if you want your llamas to be happy and well cared for. The categories are their attention, their hunger and their hygiene.
Paying attention to these things will increase their overall happiness. You can hover over your llama at any point and see how they are doing!
Keeping Them Fed
The first category we’ll discuss is keeping them fed and making sure they are never hungry. There are two ways you can go about this, the first way is to click on their animal house and refill their feed.
This costs 10 simoleons and you’ll need to do it every few days. The way this works is that every time your llama goes into their house, their hunger need will go up. If they are hungry you can click on them and send them into their home and they’ll eat before coming back out.
If you get your hands on livestock upgrade parts through running errands for sims you can install an auto-feeder on the animal house so you’ll stop needing to refill the feed at all!
The other option you have is to click on the llama and choose to feed them by hand for a few simoleons. This is nice because it helps to build a relationship with your llama and feels more adorable!
Keeping Them Socialized
A well socialized llama is a happy llama! You can see how they’re doing when you hover over them with the attention category. When you haven’t paid attention to your llama in days this can go down and they may even want to leave.
All you need to do for this is make sure you’re doing positive social interactions with your llamas every day. There will always be one in the initial menu when you click on the llama but you can find more options under the social menu.
You also have the option to feed a llama an animal party treat to fill up their attention need.
Keeping Them Clean
Hygiene is the final factor to keeping your llama happy and there are two ways you can help to keep your llama clean. The first way is keeping the animal house clean by clicking on it and choosing to clean it.
You can also click on your llama and choose to clean them and your sim will give them a little brush and they will stop being dirty.
How to Make Llamas Live Longer
If you want your llama to stay alive a little bit longer you can! There are two things you can do to make this happen. The first thing you can do is feed your llama a healthy treat which you can get from doing errands or buying them from the garden stall.
Your second option is to upgrade their animal house. You’ll need to do errands for sims in the world to get livestock upgrade parts to do these upgrades though.
You’ll install the comfort care life extender upgrade to do this and your llama will live longer!
Getting Wool From Llamas
Each day you are able to click on your llama and choose to shear their wool and you’ll get wool in your sim’s inventory. This can be used in cross-stitch projects or you can sell it for simoleons as an easy way to make an income!
The quality of the wool you get is impacted by your llama’s happiness, so keeping them well cared for is how you can get excellent quality product from your animals.
Getting Colourful Wool
If you want cooler wool, you can change the colour of your llama temporarily and then shear them. This is done by feed them animal treats that you can get in the following ways:
- Buying them from the garden stall
- Trading livestock for animal treats
- Finishing errands for sims in the world
Once you’ve fed a specific animal treat to an animal for the first time your sim will learn the recipe and you can actually create them on the fridge if you have the right ingredients.
The colour of wool you get changes depending on what kind of treat you give your animal. Here’s a list of the treats and their results:
| Treat Type | Wool Colour |
|---|---|
| Veggie Treat | Green Wool |
| Spicy Treat | Red Wool |
| Rainbow Treat | Rainbow Wool |
| Pumpkin Treat | Orange Wool |
| Midnight Treat | Black Wool |
| Golden Treat | Gold Wool |
| Fruity Treat | Blue Wool |
| Flirty Treat | Pink Wool |
| Chocolatey Treat | Brown Wool |
When you feed these treats to the llamas they’ll actually change colour which is hilarious. All the different coloured llamas look so cute and if you don’t shear them they’ll just stay coloured for a while!
End of Life for Llamas
Eventually your llama will become an elder and during that time you’ll get a notification that says “Your llama is getting on in years. The poor, ole fella. Hope there’s a few more pets left till the reaper comes for a visit.”
A few days later you’ll get a notification telling you that their time has come and you’ll see The Grim Reaper coming for them. It’s time to say goodbye, this will make sims in your household sad too.
