Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? Unsure. But last updated as of 2021/04/19
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Base game, City Living, University, Get Famous, Get to Work, Get Together, Island Living. Seasons, Realm of Magic, Vampires, Fitness, Romantic Garden, Tiny Living. Please note I do NOT have ECO living installed.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Have a garden and do gardening.
What happens when the bug occurs? After reading through everyone's comments, I can see this is a major bug that is still ongoing. But I think I've encountered something different regarding the bug. My garden is a bunch of planter boxes in a city living apartment. All plants were sheltered. The whole thing took place in spring. I play the game with a very long life, so this was all in same season.
Garden consisted of: *And yes, this does matter*
First planting (all done in set of queued actions):
1x Apple tree, 2x cherry tree, 1x Pear tree, 2x strawberries, 1x Rose
Second planting (done immediately after first planting)
1x Banana tree.
Third/fourth planting(done same day as previous two, but not sure if it was one queued set of actions or separate)
2x parsley and 2x carrots
Fifth planting (a couple days later)
1x Pomegranate.
Sixth planting (several days later)
2x plasma fruit, 1x wolfsbane, 1x Mosquito trap.
When bug occurred, They were all in bush and tree form. But not all the plants reverted to dirt pile. Only the stuff planted in the first planting, (1x Apple tree, 2x cherry tree, 1x Pear tree, 2x strawberries, 1x Rose) as well as the two carrots when to dirt. The rest of the plants remained.in different states. The parsley shrank back to small budding plant, the Banana tree didn't change at all and is still harvestable, everything from the fifth and sixth planting was still in the same form, but none of those plants had hit maturity yet.
This happened when my character was gardening, and oddly enough the actions that I was doing of spraying for bugs was still queued when it happened and my character still went over to the dirt mound and carried out the action.
So in some cases, it just reverses some of the growth and not always all of it, and somehow seems to be related to stuff planted at the same time?? It affected only stuff that was fully matured, but banana tree was untouched and parsley only regressed by a stage of growth.
What do you expect to see? Plants to continue growing and not revert to dirt pile.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? No. Game is buggy enough as is I don't want to make it worse.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? I haven't played Sims 4 in over a year because of random glitches and bugs. But just recently came back within the last week. The game was fully updated at that time.
If this bug first appeared in a November patch.. it's now mid April, 5 months later... come on EA.. get your act together.
