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babajayne
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
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[FIXED] [S] Plant reverts to dirt pile (Sim on different lot on season change)

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? 1.76.81.1020 What...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    2 years ago
    Plants no longer revert to dirt piles in dormant phases, and instead will simply stop growing. They should also now only become dormant when entering their off seasons, at the appropriate time.

    Fixed in Patch 1.103.250/1.84

    I'm closing this thread as this is the one mentioned in the Laundry List. The changes might be bigger though so please continue to report here (positive or negative) how it's going: [CURRENT ISSUE] Plants reverting to Dirt Piles

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crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago

@babajayne Thanks for the new thread. I do think this is a specific scenario,

I haven't played on so one question: Does the plant start growing again or does it stay this way ?

Please everyone only click me too on this thread if the dirt piles reproducibly in the scenario described by OP (season change while on a different lot).

If you have dirt piles for any other reasons, use this thread: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Plants-reverting-to-dirt-pile-after-fertilizing-Patch-1-76/td-p/10475991  or this for the cow plant: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Cow-Plant-Resets-to-previous-growing-stage/td-p/9782272

babajayne's avatar
babajayne
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

@crinrict The plant sprouts again sometime before Sunday at 4pm so it seems to be developing as expected. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @babajayne I did some further testing on your save and found something interesting.

    I played on for another week so season changes from Fall to winter. At this point, you have another plant that gets from out-of-seaons to in seasons.

    If I'm on another lot when the season changes, the exact same thing happens, now that plant turns to dirt piles.

    There seem to be three season status a plant can have

    - Dormant
    - Out of season
    - In Season.

    So far from what I can tell, plants have the following status (need to verify further)

    - In Seasons Plants: In Season
    - Out of Season trees: Out of Season
    - Out of Seasons non-tree plants: Dormant.

    This makes sense as outside trees don't become dirt piles while plants do when they are not in season. There must be another check that checks if a plant is sheltered or not, to decide what you actually visually see.

    Now, the interesting part is, that if I set that plant from dormant to out-of-seasons, then travel and stay on another lot for the season change and then come back, it doesn't revert to a dirt pile.

    So, is the status for dormant actually a bug and it should always be out-of-season ?

    (@littleMsSam made a mod that let you check the status)

    EDIT: changed some details.

    • yuk75's avatar
      yuk75
      5 years ago

      It does happen to trees in pots for me sometimes....but I feel this is because they're too close together and perhaps resetting.....doesn't often happen in game though, I notice it on load or after placement from household inventory sometimes. I don't play with MOO but I suspect if I did it would help.

    • babuchas01's avatar
      babuchas01
      5 years ago

      I have seen the same but without traveling to another lot. I don't have a "before" save but if you tell the name of the mod I could check plant status.

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