In the magical realm they do not. Nothing respawns there. Spent two game days no rocks or logs and the pump only produces one frog. The trees and things over in the garden area only produce one harvestable In regular worlds, the pump things only produce one frog, then nothing and there are two in my home area. A log respawned so I do not know what was up with that before my first post I tried a full reinstall last night and it did not help the issue. Then, insult to injury, I discovered my fruits and veggies are vanishing from my inventory whenever I leave the lot or save and exit AND if I dare leave the lot without completing a whim I have locked in, I might as well just delete it, because it will never complete, just sits there for all eternity. So disappointing. I certainly hope these are fixed soon as I really was enjoying the game again. Gardening and collecting is an aspect of the game I always go to and lord knows how I am supposed to bring home anything from one of the vacation destinations if everything I own is going to vanish every time I stick my foot out the door.. All this happened after Realm so I think magic broke the game somehow.
Another update. Apparently after I did my uninstall and reinstall, frogs have made a comeback in my regular worlds. Not sure about magical one, as I am more concerned with the gardening bug. I had hoped to post a work around, by putting my flowers in a chest and then storing that in household inventory, but the gardening items vanished from the chest in household inventory. The wand i also stored in the chest remained, I did also place one excellent rose and one excellent dragon fruit on a table before i left, and they did not vanish. if that helps at all for anyone trying to fix this. The rose and dragon fruit in my sims inventory and the ones in the chest in household storage vanished.
I am adding a 'me too' and a comment. I have been noticing instances where collectables are not respawning.
Especially obvious are the logs and pumps for frogs. At first I assumed I had not been in the area long enough.
That is not always the case. For example my current household is in Oasis Springs. They live across from Pebble Burrow which is near several fishing spots and a couple of the frog pumps. They do not travel from the area very often but there have been many days that I check for frogs and get a message "There are no signs of amphibians at this time".
Edit to Add:
Child has option to look for toys at least on the first time I checked.
- EQ Avid Sims Player
I do not work for EA
All packs installed and patches are current.
PC / Win 10
Never used CC or mods.
@EuphorialQueenYes I am seeing that "There are no signs of amphibians at this time" in Oasis Springs in my game too, but I was thinking that is just "Sims 4 being Sims 4" (i.e. very buggy lately) until I read your post. My current Sim lives in Willow Creek and she is still finding plenty of frogs there & they always respawn. I do not have RoM though.
