@Renaissance_Sim Hi! I completely agree with you. In another recent thread someone else asked about the recipe options for OTG lots. It is rather frustrating. Sims have the option to add ice to a fridge. There should be an option to add wood to the stove. It seems so simple really. I also like the idea of using a fireplace to cook. As you mentioned, people were cooking and baking long before the discovery of electricity. lol
Yes, simple cooking recipes for fireplaces and camping fires IS A MUST HAVE. But not even outdoor retreat offers them. Only marshmallows and even that is so bad that my sims got kinda addicted to it. Despite half a dozen prepared food plates on the dining table.
You can roast fish over the campfire. I used that in the earliest days of my Legacy challenge. She had a tent, a cooler, a camping shower, a pee bush, and a campfire and would go fishing in between looking for collectables and her gardening job. You can also roast Outdoor Retreat bugs over the campfire, and I think my friend said you could also cook and eat frogs but I'm not sure if that was a campfire thing or not.
But I digress. Yes, there are things that you can cook on the campfire other than marshmallows... two of them, at least. Not overwhelming. It would be nice if you could add those recipes to the fireplace, though!
"You can roast fish over the campfire."
Just tested with fish in the sims pocket. No option to do that. Maybe its tied to specific fish?
@Zasz_Zerg Really? I know I've done it. Are you sure you're using the Outdoor Retreat campfire and not the Get Together bonfire? The OR campfire has more options.
[edited to add] Okay, I just tried it. You need the Outdoor Retreat campfires. There are a couple of almost identical-looking-in-BuildBuy items that are much larger from Get Together (bonfires) that offer, alas, squat in the way of cooking. However, both the campfire options from Outdoor Retreat do let you roast things. (Fish and beetles are grayed out because she doesn't have either.)
My camping-obsessed Sim loves to roast fish over campfires in Granite Falls, and roasting beetles is required for the Outdoor Enthusiast aspiration so I've done it (ew).
[Edited again to add, since I kept thinking...]
Aha. Ahahahaha. Ahahahahahahahahaha.
It's the Simple Living lot trait.
With Simple Living:
Without Simple Living:
I'm going to go open a bug report now... Click "Me, too" here. https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Can-t-cook-on-campfire-when-simple-living-applied/m-p/10579177#M195362
The fire in question on my lot is from outdoor retreat.
I have the simple living trait but none of those extra options.
Me too'ed.
