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? 1.59.73.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Sims 4 Deluxe version with Get to Work and Island Living
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Pause game then queue 'fertilize' of multiple plants (above normal quality?) with excellent quality Dragonfruit then un-pause game to execute the queue... (I have not tested with other grades or other fertilizers) (please notice that handling of queue seem to execute more items if added on the fly rather than in pause mode) Also The Sims 4 camera does not record the menu that opens so I can not record the bug using the built in in-game camera..
What happens when the bug occurs? The Sim appear to spread fertilizer on all plants but only the first plant in queue reports as having been fertilized ( fertilize option greyed out) all the other plants in queue appear to have not been fertilized as they keep the option to fertilize after the Sim have spread the fertilizer (in this case Dragonfruit of excellent quality).....
What do you expect to see? That all the plants in queue reports as having been fertilized (Gets to have the fertilize option greyed out)
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? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. (platform PC)(game version 'Update: 12/12/2019 - PC: 1.59.73.1020')
After updating the game (platform PC)(game version 'Update: 12/12/2019 - PC: 1.59.73.1020') then when fertilizing my plants above normal quality (haven't tried normal quality) then when *using pause mode* queuing fertilize of multiple plants then when un-pause then though the Sim appear to spread fertilizer on all plants then only the first plant in queue reports as having been fertilized ( fertilize option greyed out) all the other plants in queue appear to have not been fertilized as they keep the option to fertilize after the Sim have spread the fertilizer (in this case Dragonfruit of excellent quality).....
@crinrict wrote:
@DanishLighthouseSorry but reading your full post, I think you might actually have this older issue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Fertilize-several-plants-with-the-same-item-doesn-t/td-p/6932848/ ?
I'm a bit tired so it might be different though.
You are right that it appear to be 'same issue' , only that is an old report and *I didn't have the issue earlier today before updating the game to newest update' .
Also - as far as I could see - I might have missed something - I am a bit tired too - then it appears as if the person does not report the use of pause game as I did and also I do not know if quality of involved fertilizer matters.
The other persons report and mine is sort of complementary to each other I think ...
But I will leave it for you to decide how to handle it - I only care about getting the bug fixed since it makes fertilization a pain in the butt if one has to fertilize each plant one at a time.. as the other person states then it appears as if the game must have 'taken' fertilizer to the first plant in order for player to successfully get executed next order of fertilization !
(e.g. if setting queue in un-pause mode (running live) then if I order plant two before Sim reach plant one but do not order plant three until the Sim is *already* handling plant one then both plant number one and three will actually be fertilized though plant two will show the animation of Sim fertilizing but not actually getting fertilized...
It seems that if you have a "stack" of fish or plants in inventory and you queue up fertilizing the animation for fertilizing plays but not all the plants in the queue are being fertilized. Some are fertilized and some are skipped. However, the items in inventory disappear as if they've been used. That is if you have 10 goldfish in a stack and you fertilize 10 plants not all the plants will be fertilized, but all the goldfish will be used.
If you have 10 different fish or plants (not in stacks) in inventory to fertilize 10 plants with, all the plants get fertilized.
I don't know if this is intended or a new bug, but it makes fertilizing a large garden challenging.
I haven't run through the above scenarios enough times - or tried them out in a vanilla save - to be really certain, so maybe someone else could test it.
Adding: Switched households. Five in queue. (The three plants on the porch the two next to the Flower Arranging table.) Five Growfruit in stack. First plant and fifth plant were fertilized - or first and last. One Growfruit was used.
@crinrict wrote:
@DizzyDee-KSo if you use high quality ingredients they get used up and normal and below they don't ? Cause for me on normal only one got used.
After running through multiple scenarios on multiple lots, I am really still not sure if quality is an issue. It could be, but I couldn't really decide.
It seems like a "stack" issue. You can't use items in a "stack" to fertilize plants. Or rather, if you use "stacked" items some plants are "fertilized" while some are skipped even though the animation plays.
Adding: I've been buying fish from the Fish of the Day stand in BB and noticed that the type of fish once again effects how often you need to fertilize. This was the case long ago, but seemed to be less so after the big gardening update around Seasons. Not sure when this changed.
Still, a "stack" of fish fertilizes some plants and not others.
My workaround is to buy multiples of all the fish, queue up a 8 different fish, wait until the queue finishes and then start again with a new queue. Repeat.
