Question on gates inside the house

[Rahnee]

So ... my house is fully and completely expanded, including nook, large corner room, attic, etc. The issue is that my first kid just left the crib, and now I need to search the whole house to find him for the hug of the day.

Do husband and/or kid walk through closed gates? I'd like to "toddler-gate" the house so that at least the kid isn't crawling around the attic . I could try it and see but it's a bit hard to tell sometimes if they're actually being contained or if they're just ending up on the right side of the gate by happenstance (for several in-game years I suffered from the mistaken idea that I had fenced off a spot inside my barn from the animals, only to one day go in and find a goat stuck in there).

 

[Terdin]

I think the rugrat, and later the toddler, just poofs from their crib/bed to somewhere in the house each morning, then start their exploration from there. There's no other way they'd be able to be some of the places where I've found them at 6 am, unless you want to ascribe them to have their day starting at something like 4 am.

 

[Rahnee]

Okay gotcha. Bummer. Sometimes the rugrat is hard to find!

 

[Terdin]

Okay gotcha. Bummer. Sometimes the rugrat is hard to find!

One way of making it easier would be to avoid putting down too much furniture until the child/children are at max friendship. I guess that would be the game version of child-proofing the home.

 

[Rahnee]

Indeed! Good idea. I was in the middle of a full decoration-fest but I think I'll take your advice and put a pause on that for now.

 

[Jayamos]

I’d been wondering that myself, thanks for the questions and the answer.

 

[Cuddlebug]

Children and spouses don't visit the cellar, that much is a fact. But in the morning you'll find them usually in the kitchen. And I'm not sure if inside fences or gates would work, can you even build them inside the Farmhouse? Spouses can only pass the door, but gates?

 

[Rahnee]

You can definitely build them inside (I checked before I posted), though they are quite unsightly. I suspect that a fence might keep a spouse from wandering to a particular place once they're out of bed if all they're going to do that day is wander around the house... maybe (totally untested, could be completely wrong). But having thought about it some more, the fence/gate probably wouldn't keep them from "starting" the day where they usually do (the kitchen, the front porch, or the outside spouse area, etc) nor keep them from leaving the house if that's their routine.

Therefore children probably operate similarly, so I think Terdin is right and they probably "spawn" somewhere random in the house when the character wakes up, like animals do when you enter a barn/coop.