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7 years ago

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Cannot harvest alien plants on sixam (sims 4)

Hello! As you can tell from the way I titled this question, I'm having problems harvesting plants on Sixam. I travelled to the alien planet through the Wormhole Generator installed on my sims' sp...

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lilyinsimland
7 years ago
My problem was not related to plants in the science lab, but in the wild. I noticed that besides the alien ones on Sixam, which I ended up grafting, except one because it's refusing to grow T.T, I also have an issue with the wild bg plants in willow creek, in particular the lilly, pear tree and strawberries in the area of Sage Estates, okay for strawberries and pears, but damn finding those lillies was hard. Disabling and deleting the mods didn't make a difference. Hopefully the fang tree will soon grow back on Sixam and I'll be able to finish the gardening collection. thank you every one for the answers!

SheriGR

Hero

7 years ago

@PugLove888 @lilyinsimland @jpkarlsen Did you try watering the plants/tending the in the lab each time any of your sims are at work in the lab, even if it's not an assigned task? I haven't played my scientist sim for a while, but if you're currently playing one, maybe you could try re-planting the dead one(s) then tending them each time at work? Also, do your sims take cuttings from them? They do die after a certain amount of cuttings. Maybe someday at work you could build an 'earth greenhouse' for them with sprinklers. I have tested and can enter 'build mode' at work. I made a recording of adding the 12x9 'Greenhouse Earth Room' from my gallery. I made a screencast of how to add it. BUT... I did find that it does not allow me to drag the plants from the lab to it. I have a room that has plenty of plants in my gallery, and you can grab them from that - also in screencast. In my home where I use this greenhouse (the earth floor type can allow the addition of sprinklers - if you remove a wall panel while adding the sprinkler, also in screencast) I upgrade the sprinklers so they don't puddle and are unbreakable. Unfortunately I could not do this with the sim in this video since she does not need the handiness level of 5 or up to do the upgrade. You can order the parts on the computer at work, though, and you need 'common' and 'plumbing' upgrades parts to upgrade the sprinklers. Your sim won't need to worry about watering then. I don't think weeds will kill the plants, so you just need to worry about taking too many cuttings or bugs as killing dangers for the plants then. (Sorry the video is a bit clunky... I was in a hurry and not well oriented on the lot. Also, I had to remove the inner wall in the video, as the old version has stairs/foundation. There is no foundation at the lab, though. The 12x9 'Greenhouse Earth Room' room in my gallery has a version with no foundation and no inner wall, though.) Oh, just delete the whole room with the plants (move walls until none are left) in the basement when done.

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lilyinsimland

7 years ago

My problem was not related to plants in the science lab, but in the wild. I noticed that besides the alien ones on Sixam, which I ended up grafting, except one because it's refusing to grow T.T, I also have an issue with the wild bg plants in willow creek, in particular the lilly, pear tree and strawberries in the area of Sage Estates, okay for strawberries and pears, but damn finding those lillies was hard. Disabling and deleting the mods didn't make a difference. Hopefully the fang tree will soon grow back on Sixam and I'll be able to finish the gardening collection. thank you every one for the answers!

PugLove888
Hero
7 years ago
@lilyinsimland, lilies are not that common in the game to begin with! 🤨 Add to the fact that now they only grow during certain season (spring I think?) it makes it even harder to find. ☹️
Sorry to add the lab problem, but I originally thought that they were related. 🤭 It seems they might not be. 😳 I thought I was having the same problem as you on Sixam, but I realsized that only one plant will grow at a time now that there are seasons. Each plant grows in a different season. I think Quill plants grow in Summer and Fang Flowers grow in Spring, but I'm not sure. And one of the Alien plants you can only get by traveling in the rocket ship (the UFO plant) so when that plant is in season, you wont' be able to harvest anything on Sixam!!! 🤨😮😢 I'll have to check back with a list of which Alien plant is harvestable when. 😉
But you could still have a glitch or bug. You could always try to repair your game through Origin. 😉 Also it might be possible to get Alien fruit by buying rare seed packs, but I don't know. The rare seed packs are expensive, and you have no idea what you are getting. 😃
Please update us on anything new in this regard, and I will come back with a list of Alien plant harvest seasons! 🙂
Best of luck! 😉