8 years ago

[NEEDS INPUT] Issues with reviving plants

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? 1.44.88
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Seasons, Get to Work, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Jungle Adventure, Vampires, Kid's Room Stuff Pack, Vintage Glamour Stuff Pack
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Raise your gardening skill high enough to gain to ability to Revive dead plants. Plant and harvest many plants. Trim and shape many Bonsai trees.
What happens when the bug occurs? No matter how many plants you havest, or how many Bonsai you shape, you won't find the Twigs you need to revive dead plants.
What do you expect to see? You should, at least occasionally, find Twigs when harvesting plants or shaping Bonsai trees, so you can have some at the ready to revive a plant should it die.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure

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My gardens added together have a great many plants.

And of course, I've harvested from them a lot, as well.

If you are supposed to earn twigs through harvesting plants or shaping Bonsai trees, then I should have found at least one by now, I should think.

Of course, if their drop rate is just abysmally low, then it wouldn't be a bug, but it's hard to test it any more than I have. (via harvesting a TON of plants and trimming a LOT of Bonsai trees)

On the off chance it's not just a ridiculously low rate of finding Twigs, I'm submitting this report and saying that there's a bug going on with them.

As an aside, I'm not sure if plant reviving has always been a thing, or was added with Seasons.

I didn't know it was a thing at all until a Sim of mine suddenly got a Whim to revive a dead plant, using Twigs which I had never seen before.

Here's the Whim, too:

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crinrict
Hero+
8 years ago
I found this old thread: http://forums.thesims.com/en_uS/discussion/897577/reviving-dead-plants on this. Not really sure how it's supposed to work.
Iyasenu
8 years ago
@crinrict
Oh, so at least it's a safe bet to say that it's not a new bug introduced in Seasons.
But I wonder if Twigs are supposed to just be so rare as to be nearly useless.
Would this fit more in your compiled list of Whim Issues instead?
crinrict
Hero+
8 years ago
I think it's a whim issue. Something they planned to do but never pulled through but forgot to take the whim out ?

Going to leave it separate for now and I'll try to get more info.
EuphorialQueen
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago
The ability to revive dead plants has been in the game for as long as I can remember. I do not recall twigs actually being required.
Level 8 gardening skill is needed to “Revive” plants for §100 Simoleons.
MapleSimmer
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
As @EuphorialQueen mentioned, I've never needed a twig to revive a plant, just high enough gardening skill and 100 simoleons. I was able to revive a plant in one of my saves just the other day and that's all they needed.
Best regards,
Jennifer
crinrict
Hero+
8 years ago
So it might come down to a wrong text on the whim.

Could you try cheating up your gardening skill to see if you can fulfill the whim with that @Iyasenu
Iyasenu
8 years ago
I'll try to keep this in mind.
I don't actually know why my Sim got this Whim anyways, since none of their plants are dead.
I didn't even know they COULD die until this whim popped up.
Their gardening skill was already maxed out by the time the whim appeared, and they even had the Super Green Thumb reward trait.
But if a plant somehow dies, I'll see if reviving it works and also completes the whim. If twigs aren't actually needed, then it'd just be a minor text error.
simvasion
Hero
8 years ago
@Iyasenu wrote:

But if a plant somehow dies, I'll see if reviving it works and also completes the whim. If twigs aren't actually needed, then it'd just be a minor text error.

I saw someone kill a plant by taking too many cuttings from it repeatedly for grafting purposes.
SimGuruIcarus
EA Staff
8 years ago
Thanks your report @Iyasenu

Please do let us know how that went!

Cheers!
Iyasenu
8 years ago
@SimGuruIcarus
Sorry for the late reply on this.
Using the recommendation of taking cuttings that @simvasion gave, I was able to get a dead plant to test this on.
But I ran into another issue.
My Sims don't have the option to revive dead plants unless...
... they're in an Inspired-type mood. (pardon the room being dark, I had to go stand in a different room that had inspiring decor)
I also tried a few other moods, like Happy or Confident, but they also didn't give the Sim the option to Revive Dead Plants.
The option was available only when my Sim was Inspired, which is strange, because according to what I've heard, it should be tied to the Sim's Gardening skill, which is 10 in this case.
What's additionally weird is that Gardening is supposed to benefit from Focus, so even ignoring that the option should always be available once your skill level allows it, why would it be Inspired-specific rather than Focus-specific?
Anyways, aside from that bit of weirdness, choosing the option to revive the dead plant did indeed revive the plant.
And, sorry for the inconvenience, but I no longer had the Whim to revive plants, so I wasn't able to test if reviving plants did indeed fulfill it, and my Sims didn't seem to want to roll the Whim again. I'll keep trying for a while, but I don't know how I originally got the Whim in the first place anyways, since I didn't even have dead plants back then.