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PugLove888
Hero (Retired)
2 years ago

Re: Cowplants Should Make Plant Milk

@simsplayer818 , No problem! I hope your friends' sons liked the information! 😊

Another Cowplant tip they might like, is that (IIRC) a Cowplant skeleton can still be used by a PlantSim to absorb energy from!  It used to be this way when PlantSims were first introduced, but perhaps an update chanted it.  I haven't tried it in a couple of years, so hopefully it still works.🤞  The great thing about this was that absorbing the energy from an already dead Cowplant can't harm the Cowplant! 😅


Update: Apparently you can't do this with a dead Cowplant anymore.😥 🤭 Sorry for the confusion. 😳

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  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @PugLove888 Hellooo 😁! Thanks for that I didn't know any of it. I'm becoming more interested in cowplants since finally adding werewolves and seeing them mentioned in Greg's Diary as being arch enemies in Werewolf/Mooncaster lore. I found the cowplant skull pieces to put together with the other Moonwood Mill relics. So there's a lot more to them than I thought!
  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    2 years ago

    @simsplayer818 Glad you are having fun with the Cowplants! 💖 My favorite version of them was with The Sims 2!  I had a lot of fun with them in that game, and one of them featured heavily in one of my stories! 
    I enjoy these goofy and surreal elements of the Sims!🤪
    And I have to say that the Werewolves pack is so much fun! 🥳🐺

  • LadyAofPineapple's avatar
    LadyAofPineapple
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago
    @PugLove888 This I do know: there isn't any interaction like that once the cowplant dies. It is quite useless once it does (I am terrible about caring for them unfortunately and wish they were part of the "tend garden" interaction, lol. Or that employees would care for them, if they were hired to do gardening activities (butler/gardener/ranch hand).
  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago

    @LadyAofPineapple I've added a screenshot with photos of where to find him incase you need to know. All you do is click on the bunch of old signposts outside his house and he appears.

    When fishing in Moonwood Mill you can find his diary and learn why he hates Cowplants and a few other things about his desperately tragic tale. You have to read it a few times to get different details. I fished up all the Moonwood Mill relics too as I mentioned earlier including the teeny Cowplant skull, but my Sims are just mortal explorers so don't have the skills to decipher what the relics mean. I'll save that for an occult Sim later.

    It's really surprised me actually because I didn't think I'd like the gameplay. But the lore is what makes it.

  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    2 years ago

    @LadyAofPineapple Thanks for verifying that this doesn't work anymore.😇  It used to work when we first got Cowplants and Plantsims, so I'm sad to see it isn't possible anymore. 😥

    @simsplayer818 Most of my Science Lab experience happened before we got the Cowplants, Magic Bean Stalk, and Mother Plant! I used to play with the Science Lab quite a lot before then!  So your Science Lab garden is much better than mine was! 😅😎🌱🌿

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    2 years ago
    @PugLove888 I love the science lab. I found that the University pack also takes it up to a whole new level. I added a robotics lab, bots and Servos there along with the Get Famous drones.
    I add the Granite Falls bugs too, along with the frogs and aliens (but I keep the dead pickled alien jars in a different room or that would just be inhumane 😂).
    I just wish my Sims could stay there all night, even the extended work day isn't long enough. But I always need to add the Professional Slacker trait because my Sims are busy doing tasks I've set instead of the jobs list they are actually supposed to be carrying out.
  • PugLove888's avatar
    PugLove888
    Hero (Retired)
    2 years ago

    @simsplayer818 What fantastic ideas!!!!🥳 💖 I haven't played that career as much ever since the gardening bugs (the glitch type, not the insect type) started happening! They might have fixed it , but I stopped playing when the garden wouldn't progress because you Sim wasn't on the lot at 5:00 AM, but it was impossible for you to be there at that time due to the lot being tied only to the hours of the job!  (Plants used to progress even without you being on that lot at 5 in the morning) .  

    I need to get some Servos and drones there, since I quit long before Discover University came out!  (I probably played some after Get Famous came out, but never thought to use the drones there!)  And I never thought to take the bugs and plants from Outdoor Retreat there either, but I did plant some stuff from Sixam at the lab! 

    It sounds like you play at the lab  the way I like to play --- stay as long as possible, and experiment with whatever I feel like, instead of what my assigned tasks are! 🥳🤣🤓🤣

    Thanks for the ideas!!! 🥰

  • OzSimsFamily's avatar
    OzSimsFamily
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    Does anyone know if the cowplant still dances to music from an outdoor stereo?  I might have to do an experimental save and grow a cowplant again just to see if this still happens and to discover any new stuff for cowplants especially with regards to occults.  I love the idea of milking a cowplant for plantmilk after befriending it.

  • simsplayer818's avatar
    simsplayer818
    Hero
    1 year ago
    @OzSimsFamily Do let us know if that happens and add many pictures! I've never seen it but a music loving cowplant sounds both awesome and hilarious. 🤣
  • OzSimsFamily's avatar
    OzSimsFamily
    Seasoned Ace
    1 year ago

    @rosemow   Thankyou 💐 for letting us know that the cowplants still dance.  Finally home, over the travel… and I almost have the new computer set up and ready to go.  Just waiting for a few last things to download (speedlimited ☹️).  Then, once I am finished, there will be lots of new sessions of gameplay and I will be adding lots of screenshots of Sims 2, 3 and 4.  Looking forward to playing some of my planned comparison scenarios and watching gameplay and interaction differences between the different iterations (cowplants being just one of the things I want to explore).

  • rosemow's avatar
    rosemow
    Hero
    1 year ago

    I am glad that you have your new computer almost set up and have nearly finished the downloading @OzSimsFamily   Happy simming on your new computer! I will look forward to seeing your screenshots 🙂

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