# Cow surround town center? **URL:** \ **Category:** III - Report a Bug\ **Created:** [October 8, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701 "2020-10-08T23:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EarlyInTheMorn](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/earlyinthemorn/32/29366_2.png) [@EarlyInTheMorn](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/EarlyInTheMorn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/1 "2020-10-08T23:01:56Z")
### ▶ GAME INFORMATION - \*\*BUILD #: 201.12.1840.0 - **PLATFORM:** Steam - **OS:** Windows 10 ### ▶ ISSUE EXPERIENCED Cows surround towncenter when I task a villager to kill ### ▶ FREQUENCY OF ISSUE - **100%** of the time / matches I play (ALL THE TIME) ### ▶ REPRODUCTION STEPS Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue: 1. Get a farm full of cows 2. Task a couple of villagers to kill 1 or 2 3. Watch them move ### ▶ EXPECTED RESULT When villagers are tasked to kill, cows shouldn’t be moving. ### ▶ ACTUAL RESULT All cows move to town center. ### ▶ IMAGE & ATTACHMENTS ![Screenshot 2020-10-08 185737](https://cdn.ageofempires.com/aoe-forums/original/3X/9/e/9e212a95ae7dc42eff805ff15b425ea9ce7236e3.png) ---
**Author:** ![Khorix9572](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/khorix9572/32/62949_2.png) [@Khorix9572](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Khorix9572)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/2 "2020-10-09T02:41:32Z")
Here is a video showing more of the cow bug @.@ Please AOE Team fix that I love cows. I’d like to add that Cows were working fine on the BETA as I’ve always used them https://player.twitch.tv/?video=v764863782&parent=forums.ageofempires.com&autoplay=false ---
**Author:** ![Juggernaut8704](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/juggernaut8704/32/203886_2.png) [@Juggernaut8704](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Juggernaut8704)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/3 "2020-10-09T04:40:23Z")
does this happen to specific civilizations? or everyone? what about livestock pen, chinese village and sacred grooves? does it work fine for them? ---
**Author:** ![Secretcodrin](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/secretcodrin/32/26295_2.png) [@Secretcodrin](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Secretcodrin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 4:58am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/4 "2020-10-09T04:58:10Z")
ah yes the cowhacks are back ---
**Author:** ![EarlyInTheMorn](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/earlyinthemorn/32/29366_2.png) [@EarlyInTheMorn](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/EarlyInTheMorn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/5 "2020-10-09T23:25:01Z")
Upon playing more, it seems to happen with all herdable animals. I haven’t tried with any other civ but haudenosaunee and inca. The same problem happens though. ---
**Author:** ![Roreuqnoc](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/roreuqnoc/32/30380_2.png) [@Roreuqnoc](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Roreuqnoc)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/6 "2020-10-10T02:45:16Z")
Me too. Once I kill a sheep, all of them will leave corral and surround town center including lean ones. It’s hard to pick and drive back immature animals among them. ---
**Author:** ![BadgerVII](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/badgervii/32/58043_2.png) [@BadgerVII](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/BadgerVII)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/7 "2020-10-11T07:19:20Z")
Yeah, I noticed this as well when testing out the infinite 7 sheep + homestead wagon. Sheep in AoE2 behave that way. In AoE2 it makes sense, because: a) sheep don’t fatten and b) your villagers have to drop off the food at the tc or a mill. In AoE3 it not only is not useful but harmful, because: c) you do not need to drop resources off at a building, so you place your sheep where you want them to reduce villager-walking time. And d) unfattened sheep walk away from their fattening building, creating a worse situation for you. So I’d like to have the ported “sheep-ai” removed. Just let us control where we want our sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Khorix9572](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/khorix9572/32/62949_2.png) [@Khorix9572](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Khorix9572)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/8 "2020-10-14T02:46:12Z")
Just Got a thought, Maybe they did that thing where your fat cows would go to TC but it then sends unfat cows too. Why don’t just let us have a Rally marker on the Livestock to set a point on where we want to set Fat cows? That would be helpful instead of them going to TC or just going around Livestock when they’re full. By having a rally point of When they get Fat would work wonders. It currently has 1 rally point but only to set to where they go when unfat ---
**Author:** ![EarlyInTheMorn](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/earlyinthemorn/32/29366_2.png) [@EarlyInTheMorn](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/EarlyInTheMorn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/9 "2020-10-15T23:35:48Z")
Just bumping this, it still occurs. ---
**Author:** ![MainAkkount](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/mainakkount/32/60079_2.png) [@MainAkkount](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/MainAkkount)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/10 "2020-10-16T21:16:43Z")
Another Bump, cause it still occurs ---
**Author:** ![JessieKirk](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/jessiekirk/32/60085_2.png) [@JessieKirk](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/JessieKirk)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/11 "2020-10-17T00:33:32Z")
Confirmed, this happened to me when playing as the British on Amazonia to my sheep and cows. ---
**Author:** ![Khorix9572](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/khorix9572/32/62949_2.png) [@Khorix9572](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Khorix9572)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/12 "2020-10-17T04:17:58Z")
AOE team I understand that you guys are focused on performance, however bugs like this are annoying to see whenever you are playing a match. ---
**Author:** ![Cundarg](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/cundarg/32/29946_2.png) [@Cundarg](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Cundarg)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/13 "2020-10-11T02:39:36Z")
### ▶ GAME INFORMATION - **BUILD #:** 201.12.1840.0 - **PLATFORM:** Steam - **OS:** Windows 10 ### ▶ ISSUE EXPERIENCED In the mission “Help from a pirate” I can’t kill the sheep. When I give the order to a villager to kill them, they move from one point to another. When they stand still, the villager does too. Try as I might, this repeats itself. It’s a minor bug but it has happened to me twice already. ### ▶ REPRODUCTION STEPS Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue: 1. Order a villager to kill the sheep. ### ▶ IMAGE & ATTACHMENTS ![20201009192325_1](https://cdn.ageofempires.com/aoe-forums/original/3X/3/7/3789d520164c63defdec3b284da0cf4daa5f97fa.jpeg) ![20201009192345_1](https://cdn.ageofempires.com/aoe-forums/original/3X/b/6/b6861418592d63b50b57a89d38349c98dc97dc5a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![darkdestruck](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/darkdestruck/32/90893_2.png) [@darkdestruck](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/darkdestruck)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/14 "2020-10-12T02:09:02Z")
on multiplayer happens the same but the sheeps or the cows go to the town when the villagers will kill them, just when the cows arrives to the town you can get the meet i lost a lot of time!!! ---
**Author:** ![Cundarg](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/cundarg/32/29946_2.png) [@Cundarg](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Cundarg)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/15 "2020-10-12T14:56:59Z")
It just happened to me today in multiplayer! It is too annoying!! ---
**Author:** ![JumpinTacos](https://forums.ageofempires.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@JumpinTacos](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/JumpinTacos)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/16 "2020-10-12T17:03:55Z")
I experienced this same bug in skirmish mode. My cows felt the need to walk all the way to the TC before I could harvest them. Even then right clicking on them with vills didn’t always work. ---
**Author:** ![RobbieDPL](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/robbiedpl/32/79970_2.png) [@RobbieDPL](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/RobbieDPL)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 10:53am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/17 "2020-10-18T10:53:30Z")
I have the same bug. Sheep tend to move between livestock pen & TC. Right clicking the sheep has to be done multiple times for sheep to be harvested for food. ---
**Author:** ![BrazilianHtr](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/brazilianhtr/32/29236_2.png) [@BrazilianHtr](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/BrazilianHtr)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 12:00am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/18 "2020-10-14T00:00:08Z")
The Cows and Sheep are going to the urban center. When you try to collect an animal, all the animals end up going to the urban center. The ones that are full and empty of food. In the classic Age of Empires III, when animals are euthanized, everyone stands in the same spot, in the corral. It is insurpotable to collect animals. ---
**Author:** ![Harchah](https://forums.ageofempires.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Harchah](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Harchah)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/19 "2020-10-14T08:49:36Z")
Needs to be fixed, right now it is impossible to play Brits, China and Iroquois well in treaty. [![](https://static.ageofempires.com/aoe-forums/original/3X/c/6/c66e70c9a5cdc60dcc3bf75d86e27c1ff7de0e32.jpeg "AoE 3 DE: Pathing and livestock complaint") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phCa5oQsWGo) ---
**Author:** ![FlaccidJackal](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/flaccidjackal/32/30331_2.png) [@FlaccidJackal](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/FlaccidJackal)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701/20 "2020-10-18T03:15:45Z")
### ▶ GAME INFORMATION - **BUILD #:** ###### - **PLATFORM:** Steam / Microsoft Store - **OS:** Windows 10 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux ### ▶ ISSUE EXPERIENCED ❓ _DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). Limit to ONE issue per thread._ This is an odd one… Playing as the British using the livestock boom strategy. Whenever I send a villager to begin gathering from cows, the villager approaches the cow, and then all of the cows - fattened or unfattened - run to the town center. Once I actually manage to get a villager gathering, this issue does not persist unless the villagers run out of fattened cows to gather. If they have to start over, the same thing happens - cows run away to the town center. Very frustrating. ### ▶ FREQUENCY OF ISSUE ❓ _How often does the issue occur? CHOSE ONE; DELETE THE REST._ - Less than **25%** of the time / matches I play (RARELY) - **25%** of the time / matches I play (SOMETIMES) - **50%** of the time / matches I play (FREQUENTLY) - **100%** of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS) ### ▶ REPRODUCTION STEPS ❓ _List the DETAILED STEPS we can take to reproduce the issue… Be descriptive!_ Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue: 1. 2. 3. ### ▶ EXPECTED RESULT ❓ _What was supposed to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?_ ### ▶ ACTUAL RESULT ❓ _What actually happened (what went wrong) because of the issue you’re reporting?_ ### ▶ GAME FILES ❓ _Include a [OneDrive or Google Drive link](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/how-to-find-and-share-save-game-and-recorded-game-files/102084) to a SAVE GAME or REPLAY FILE (.aoe2record) of the match where you encountered the issue._ - ### ▶ IMAGE & ATTACHMENTS ❓ _Attach a relevant PICTURE (.jpg, .png, .gif), VIDEO (.mp4, YouTube), DXDIAG FILE (.txt), or [CRASH/GAME LOGS (.aoe2record, .txt)](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/how-to-find-and-share-save-game-and-recorded-game-files/102084) below._ - [Next page](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cow-surround-town-center/102701.md?page=2)