Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.101.290.1230
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All expansions except Horse Ranch, all game packs, all stuff packs except the new cooking one that isn't actually out yet but will be very soon. Some number of kits.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Plant a garden (the larger the better), wait for the next morning, then harvest your plants.
What happens when the bug occurs? Plants reset, but do not visibly revert to dirt piles.
What do you expect to see? Plants to not reset
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure
This has changed slightly since the new patch, but the main issue has been around for quite a while. It does not occur every Sim day, but it happens often enough to be considered "frequent." The larger the garden, the more likely the issue will occur.
Improvements in this patch:
For these screenshots and description, I removed my mods and my localthumbcache file and started a new save with a fresh Sim. I started the save in the Spring and moved the Sim into one of the starter lots in Willow Creek and planted a bunch of plants from some starter packs, then on day 2 grabbed a bunch of wild plants from the neighborhood and planted those too. In this test save I was planting directly into the ground, but in my current (modded) play save, it is occurring in both vertical and ground planters as well. (I have not played with the CoL dirt patches in either save.)
First morning after planting I encountered the issue, but reloaded the lot before I'd finished documenting it. Prior to this patch the lot reload would visibly revert the plants, but now it fixes the issue instead, so yay for that.
Second morning after planting, this is my pre-harvest garden. Sorry it's so dark; it was early:
After harvesting the carrots, parsley, and mushrooms had reset. I could tell they were reset because the pie menu was missing the "Research" option:
My taro, bluebell, daisy, and strawberry plants were fine, and still had the Research option in the menu:
I kept my Sim on the home lot the rest of the day. The next morning, here's the garden (the new mound is spinach. It's out of season, so it's ok that it's a dirt pile):
The carrots, parsley, and mushrooms are missing their harvestables, but everything else is fine. They're still missing "Research" from the pie menu:
After reloading the lot (went into CAS and back out), "Research" is available in the menu again, but still no harvestables:
The fact that reloading the lot fixes the issue instead of just making it visually apparent really is a huge improvement, since previously fixing the plants required the "Set gardening state" cheat on each individual plant, but if your Sim is a real homebody and never goes anywhere, you still have to click on each one to see if it's reset, or just make a habit of loading CAS once a day. The only way the reset is obvious is if the plants are in a vertical planter: in that case, when the issue occurs, the plant suddenly appears like it would in the ground instead of how it normally looks in the vertical planter.
