Please use this thread going forward: Plants look dead while being in season/inside and functional | EA Forums - 12338048
Installed Cottage living, now plants appear wilted and brown when they sprout. Cannot select water. Only option allowed is Uproot plant until it is ready to harvest. Get one harvest, maybe two, then it emits green vapors and only option is to dispose of dead plant. Removed all cheats. Same results. Unchecked allow cheats/scripts, Same results. REMOVED cheats/Mods folder removed, same results. Repaired game, same results. Uninstalled game entirely. Deleted all game folders Associated with Sims 4, Reinstalled entire collection, Same results. Plant a seed, plant comes up brown and wilted, can only water it at the initial planting. Turned off seasons, rain, snow, seasons, snowy retreat, Cheat free, Mod free. Game appears to have some sort of Blight on ALL plants, 100 percent except for mushrooms and garlic, mushrooms and garlic grow and are harvestable. Flowers-Dead, Vegetables-Dead, Fruit-Dead, Herbs-dead, Trees-dead. Plants have three phases. Seed, Dying and Dead. Starting to think that the game has a "Global Warming" virus to teach us how the end of true civilization is going to occur, or welcome to the Idiocracy. No fresh Water left-only Brawndo, it has Electrolytes, it's what plants crave. Sims 4 Dust Bowl. so much for the long awaited farming communities in Sims 4, now the death of the series for me. The game is no longer worth playing with this bug.
Solution. I did my own trouble shoot on this since every time someone listed this problem the result was 50 more questions to avoid answering it.
Attempt one. Removed all mods, failed.
Attempt two. Removed all mods, repaired game, failed
Attempt three. Removed all mods, uninstalled entire game, reinstalled with no mods, failed
Attempt four and five. Repeated Attempt three twice in case I didn't remove something, Uninstalled, deleted all folders associated with Sims 4, failed
Attempt Six. Uninstalled entire game, uninstalled ORIGIN entirely, deleted all ORIGIN folders and files, searched computer for virus/corrupt files (None Found) Checked update of
Windows 10, complete update already. Reinstalled ORIGIN. Installed Sims 4 ONE PIECE at a time. I had to fight ORIGIN to control what got downloaded and installed first, who ever heard of installing dust kit and 17 other packs before installing the main game feature? Installed SIMS 4 FIRST then the rest, tested plant growth each and every time, sixteen hours later Complete success, Sims 4 is running like normal, Plant growth is normal. AHEM, ORIGIN REINSTALLED seems to have fixed it, currently reloading Mods, so far, no problems.
I had uninstalled the game 3 separate times, making sure to remove all folders and files to no success. I uninstalled Origin and reinstalled Origin and then the game, one piece at a time, and haven't had a problem since. Oh Yeah, I listed platform and computer specs, I forgot to list the answer you have asked every single person with the problem, I figure you should have caught it however. ENGLISH I am running it in ENGLISH. American ENGLISH. And my retractable cupholder still works.
Hi, Thanks for sharing your detailed response to the dead/winter plant problem. I also have had this problem before cottage living.
I can build a beautiful lush oasis, and as soon as I add a sim, the lot, and the neighborhood look dark, wintered, dead. weird.
Take the sim out, go to main menu, return to lot, and all is well, just cannot add a sim, any sim.
Soooo, thanks to you, it will require a Origin re install,
as I also, have done the intial steps one does before we come to the soul crushing Complete uninstall re install ALL of it.
Thanks for taking the time to explain it all ,
your fellow Idiocracy inmate.
Have you reloaded all expansion packs? Yes to Origin making it extremely difficult to removed single packs. I have recently reinstalled absolutely everything, and this is when my game made plants all winter-looking all year round. Not advancing in growth as fast either. I'm guessing it's Country Living screwing things up? I have also been losing found seeds from my Sim's inventory which is entirely too annoying - a cow plant seed from the Forbidden Glade and a dragon fruit I bought from hidden objects. This totally messed with the rags to riches thing I had going. In the end my question is, did you reinstall all packs and is Country Living or Loft stuff (since things worked prior to my purchase of these two) perhaps the culprit?
I’ve tried different saves and the problem is the same in both. I’m pretty sure the problem is country living which is unfortunate. I’ve “repaired” all the packs in origin but might try the last ditch effort of uninstalling everything and reinstall.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For ALL your hard work! This has been an ongoing problem since July and in about 5 hours it will be the very last day of the year irl and I FINALLY found your solution!! There’s absolutely no reason why EA has not fixed this or even addressed it. Your hard work, perseverance and taking chances with your game has been for all of us!
Isn't it great , when we all get together and share info, thanks to TREPIKE,
we all get to play sims, and No thanks to EA, or their Tech team, who aren't up to date, nor interested in helping.
Hope you enjoy playing, remember to give credit to Trepike on their message, they should be way above novice.
merry xmas.
