One of the EPs (I think it was AL) introduced the 'Huggle' interaction for toddlers, but I haven't seen this happen in my game since I installed BV. Could BV have disabled 'huggle' somehow, or is the problem something simple like the relationship being too low? Does anyone else have an issue like this?

you have to select the toddlers and make them do it

mine never do it autonomously

a few huggles and/or some play at the activity table = BEST FRIENDS FOREVERRRRR

Freetime introduced it.

I have every EP except Pets, and I've seen toddlers "huggle". They don't do very often though.

Mine do it, but some of the Capp offspring are rather mean and reject huggles .

The hug came with al i have ft and they cant i think its on the sims wiki that its in apartment life but not sure.

Some of my toddlers do it autonomously, while others, I direct for a photo. If you have two toddlers in house, either twins or not, you can make them huggle.

miss.pink - It came with FreeTime, I remember from the dev's walkthrough and from not having AL for a while after it was released (I got AL in 2010).

My toddlers huggle autonomously, and I have all EPs and SPs.

I'm almost positive that the huggle interaction came with AL. My toddlers started autonomously huggling each other right after I installed AL (I don't have FT).
But regardless of what EP the interaction came with, it's still adorable. :3

I've seen autonomous toddler hugging plenty of times in my game. I do force them to sometimes, since it's so blurdy cute.

Sometimes EA took small things from older EPs and added them to the new ones too.

I have a daycare and on the first day, one toddler autonomously tried to huggle almost every other toddler. Sometimes it was accepted and sometimes he struck out. Since he didn't know any of them very well, their reaction was probably based on their personalities.

I know for a fact that it came with AL, because I don't have FT.

Which doesn't mean it didn't originally come with FT.

I suspect that like most interactions between sims, whether or not Huggle is accepted has more to do with relationship level than personality, although I think nice toddlers tend to be more likely to initiate it.

Really? I always thought it came with Apartment Life because some reviews on Amazon (where I order my games) say stuff like, "Oh and the new huggle is so cute!" and so on.

But then again you may be right, because I have a pool table and coffee bar even though I don't have University. (Well I do, just currently am having installation issues)

I don't actually have any idea which EP Huggle came with. I was just challenging the assumption that it must have originally come with AL in light of the fact that, as omglo pointed out, "Sometimes EA took small things from older EPs and added them to the new ones too." So they may very well have put it in FT and AL.

So the option to huggle is also based on personality? Because whenever I select another toddler there isn't a huggle option to be seen

Not saying that, no. I'm saying that I think nice toddlers are more likely to initiate a Huggle, just as a nice adult sim is more likely to initiate a friendly hug with another sim.

The option to Huggle should be there for all your toddlers. The fact that it's not indicates that something is awry, but I don't believe it's due to having BV installed. At least not directly. Something may have gone wonky when you installed BV, but removing the Huggle interaction is not a "normal" expected thing for BV to do.

Have you backed up and tested with all your Downloads removed? Because that seems more likely to be the source of the problem.

Thanks for your advice. I am actually having crashing problems too. I'll check this out.

It's from AL. When in doubt, try it with the Newson toddlers.

It definitely came with AL. I played for years with FT as my latest EP because I feared that the AL game engine would screw up my carefully-crafted cocktail of mods. (And it did, but it wasn't too hard to fix. ) During all that time, there was no huggling. Once I installed AL, there were huggles. Lots and lots of huggles. Lots of autonomous huggles, too. And I don't think whether or not they'll do it is personality or relationship-based. My toddlers free will all the time, and even the meanest ones will attempt to huggle with pretty much any other toddler on a lot, even if they don't know them well. Or at all. (Huggling happens often at "family reunion" parties, where I teleport in everyone in a family to one lot and have them all hang out together all day. Cousin toddlers who don't know each other will autonomously huggle at such parties. They will also maul any of the "host" household's pets.) Of course, huggles aren't always accepted, but at least in my game, pretty much any toddler will autonomously attempt it, so long as there's at least one other toddler around.

But yeah, I agree that having BV or not shouldn't affect anything. I got BV as my last EP, and after I installed it, there was still plenty of huggling going on. I'm betting you've got a mod conflict somewhere, Ella.