When Sims die & other noob questions

"Rhiannon58;c-16594149" wrote:

"igazor;c-16592654" wrote:

I can't actually remember if a pre-made building comes with the set, sorry not in-game at the moment. But it's not that difficult to build one once we get used to its special walls and ceiling parts. There may be pre-built lots out there, but then that would be a community use greenhouse as opposed to one we build on an existing residential lot.

So I found the ceiling and special windows in the building section special collection. I don’t see the special walls. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Also, if I get it built correctly, will my plants grow in the winter?

I called them "walls," but I guess they are really windows and they are I believe really just cosmetic (who ever heard of a greenhouse with solid concrete walls). And yes, part of the entire point of the greenhouse is that plants will continue to grow in the winter and through any kind of weather.

I'll have to defer to the other experts on this thread for further building tips, though. :)

@Rhiannon58 When I briefly described how to make a greenhouse with the set, I should have explained a bit better. Karritz posted her explanation as well.

• The walls are built with the same walls you use to build a normal lot. When you have the walls built, you will need to remove the normal roof on top of the walls/room you just built.
  
• Floor tile, ceiling tile, and the flat roof will all work. You need to cover the top with either tile or flat roof if you want to prevent plants from going dormant in the winter.
  
• I forgot about the greenhouse windows but those can be found with the other windows.
  
• The greenhouse glass top pieces can be found via Decorations - Roof Decorations
  

You can watch this person build a greenhouse starting at 5:34 in the video. She skips the part where you cover the top with tile or flat roof to prevent winter. Go ahead and do this to prevent plants from going dormant in the winter.
https://youtu.be/rkwZa2DE2Jc?t=5m34s

"Nabril;c-16593196" wrote:

It should be noted that you cannot build the store bought greenhouse and plant seeds inside it- you have to have at least one section of wall missing in order to plant. Once you're done planting, you can rebuild that section.

As a fairly new gardener who is planting something new every day, this is a royal pain. As soon as I take out the wall section, the rest of the walls are in the way. But it's totally worth it to have a functioning greenhouse on the home property (like in TS2). Eventually as the family funds grow, I hope to expand it to look as amazing as the actual "Stone Throw Greenhouse", or a proximity thereof.

Thanks everyone for the tips and videos. Apparently creating this lovely little building has pissed off the zombies and deer but at least the plants are safe! And last weekend, my first gardener reached her lifetime wish of having 8 perfect plants! She will be a senior in a few days and I expect she will spend the rest of her life puttering around in her little garden.

I usually just plant outside the greenhouse and then use moveobjects on with build/buy and move them all where I want them within the greenhouse. I'm not sure if you can plant outside in the winter though.

I usually use planter pots in my sims' greenhouses, but for the greenhouse I made as a community lot, I used move objects on to put the auto soil plants in it. When I have had a sim plant in a greenhouse without pots, I've either had them plant outside and used move objects on to move them into the greenhouse, or turned move objects on and had them plant directly into the greenhouse, then turned move objects off.

For my greenhouses, I place the rugs from Into the Future that let you plant inside. I recolor them brown so they look like soil. You can plant just like you would outside with no issues.

For some reason, I had thought the MOO cheat wasn't needed. I obviously remembered it wrong. Guess I'm so used to using that cheat. :p

@ Rhiannon glad you were able to figure it out.

"RedShoe7;c-16601205" wrote:
For my greenhouses, I place the rugs from Into the Future that let you plant inside. I recolor them brown so they look like soil. You can plant just like you would outside with no issues.

Oh yeah, those ITF rugs are very useful.