Anyone else having trouble getting the CowPlant to eat a Sim?

Do they get eaten if you give the order to eat the cake ? Mine used to be obsessed with the plant and ate the cake all the time but only if my Sims were hungry. Haven't tried lately.

You have to be eaten twice in order to die. So if you still have the moodlet from the first time, have them eat another cake and then they'll die.

Unless a Sim is hungry they will not take the cake and they must be invited to the lot or live on it.

The cowplant does not kill a sim the first time they get eaten but their essence will be taken and if they get eaten another time before it is restored they will die.

Crinrict, I've only managed to get a Sim o eat the cake once.  I got the CowPlant to eat Moira Fryes since the Garden Gnomes were helping my Sim maintain her large garden and Moira happened to be the one standing closest to the CowPlant so I built a fence around her and the CowPlant leaving one gap in the fence blocked by decorative rocks so as not to get rid of the grass and have the CowPlant be moved to the Family Inventory. 😕  There was no command to direct her to eat cake since she was a guest on my lot.  I never tried this with a Sim I was playing since I was afraid it would kill my Sim and I would accidentally save the game and loose my Sim!  😞

I just tried this again on the next day and the CowPlant died before anyone took the cake 😢 😠!  This didn't happen in TS2!  Sooner or later someone would always take the cake, and the plant wouldn't die! 🤔  Now I have to find another CowPlant berry! 🤒

Thanks for replying! 😇

Thanks for replying, JPKarlsen!   That makes since that a Sim that can't be directed would only take the cake if they were hungry enough.  The problem is that the Cowplant usually dies before anyone takes the cake!   Thanks for explaining that if the Sim who gets eaten doesn't have their essence restored before they get eaten again, they will die the second time! 😮 

 Do you happen do know about how long it takes before a Sim's essence gets restored? 🤔

You can milk the Cowplant and drink it immediately.

I can't remember how long it takes. You can hover the mouse over the debuff they get to see it if it is one of your own sims.

I use the dead cowplant as a decoration so I fence them in so nobody can feed them.

JPKarlsen, thanks for replying! 🙂    Like I have said, I never tried this on one of my Sims before, since I didn't know what the effects were (such as death, sickness, unconsciousness, shortened life span, etc.) so I was not able to hover over the debuff since it wasn't one of my Sims who I managed to have the CowPlant eat!  I guess I will have to experiment with one of my own Sims in that case, since no one remembers exactly.  I did have my Sm drink Moira Fyres essence, but I was wondering on how long I had to wait for Moira to recover from the incident before I could have my CowPlant strike again without killing her!

Now I have to wonder what happens to Plant Sims, Vampires, Ghosts, etc..  Can the CowPlant eat them? 🤔  What if a Vampire drinks from one of my Sims and then a CowPlant eats them?  I'm thinking that even if it is the first time a CowPlant eats them , in this case they are already in a weakened state and it would probably kill them! 😮

Thanks for replying! ❤️

The MySims have eaten the cake without being eaten by the plant and I'm trying to get one of my Sims to be eaten by the plan just to see what goes on and now it works but it's not happening.

Do you have any Mods or CC? If so move your Mods folder to the Desktop and delete localthumbcache.package. Then test the game. 

My botanist has a cow plant at work. At the science lab, I had to fence in the cow plant so people would quit getting eaten. If one of my other scientists went to work and I forgot about the cow plant, another worker would always get eaten. Several died. So it is definitely an issue with it needing to be a visitor on the lot. Try planting one at a venue. Lol. You will get plenty of milk essences!

@stbnchristine, that is a fantastic idea! 🤓  Thanks for your input! ❤️  I have a glitched coworker at one of my Sim's scientist career, so I might use a cowplant in order to get rid of him (he's always in street clothes instead of a lab coat, even when I use the Sim Ray to make him change clothes). I also never thought of planting the cowplant at a public venue!  Time to start planting! 👿