Cannot harvest alien plants on sixam (sims 4)

I'm sorry, I do have Seasons and I supposed it all was happening because of it, guess not. Hopefully the next patch will fix the issue.

@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! 😉

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@ariannaneal wrote:
@SheriGR

Since the patch I have had a lot of problems in different areas. The one most related to the plants seems to be in all areas of collecting things.

It's much more difficult to find crystals and fossils in the world now, and the plants in the neighborhoods do take longer to be able to harvest.

The actual problem on Sixam, and in the science lab, is that the plants are dying constantly. So I cannot even take a cutting from the ones on Sixam, because they are dead, I get an option to dispose of them.

At the science lab I sometimes get an option to revive the dying plant, but then they just die soon after anyway. And I don't get many options for caring for them, like I don't even have the option to water them.

I am going to try the fix that was mentioned here, to tear down that room and get rid of those pots and try again. That would be great for the science lab, but I don't know what's going on on Sixam.

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@ariannaneal Yes, I think it sounds like a good idea for you to try a game repair and try removing any mods or CC, as both @PugLove888 and I don't have either mods or CC (I'm not sure if @jpkarlsen does), and some of the things you're mentioning are different from what we're experiencing (inability to water lab plants, lab plants dying - and I haven't been to Sixam but @PugLove888 and @jpkarlsen have and say they can harvest &/or take a cutting, plus neither has mentioned the plants there all being dead.) I have noticed myself when at Granite Falls that if I took a cutting too many times from a plant that the plant permanently gives off green fumes and the only option is to dispose of it (not revive). This is intended, to my understanding, in that you can only take cuttings a limited number of times with some variables including the quality level of the plant. This was in place before the patch or seasons.

Also, a factor to mention is I believe both @PugLove888 and I have seasons, and I'm not sure if @jpkarlsen does, but I think maybe so. These particular dynamics in this post shouldn't matter in that regard, but with some of your previous comments that may be good to know.

Update; Sorry if some of this is irrelevant or repeating others... I didn't see the next page of posts! Wow, lots of them tonight! 🙂

@SheriGR

Yes I have all packs there are including seasons.

I'm not done testing but I found another workaround. Advance in science career to the point where you can boss the others around and tell one of them to garden this seems to fix the bugged plants.

@PugLove888 Hahaha... I've got to get one of those kiddie pools! Looks like they like it better than a regular pool. Though my two little dogs in one game were so delighted when I added a pool in the basement they kept jumping and and out and swimming. Most fun I've had with a pool.

Speaking of Seasons EP... I had a first for me today... I've been building a restaurant and started testing it today. It was raining, and a customer randomly gets up in the restaurant and strips off (yes, pixilated thank goodness) this clothes, and walks outside to 'shower in the rain'. First time I noticed that was a thing. :eahigh_file: 😃 😬🙂

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@jpkarlsen wrote:

@SheriGR

Yes I have all packs there are including seasons.

I'm not done testing but I found another workaround. Advance in science career to the point where you can boss the others around and tell one of them to garden this seems to fix the bugged plants.

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@jpkarlsen  Awesome catch! Good to know, too!

@jpkarlsen, fantastic! :eahigh_file:  I will do that next time my Sims go to the lab.  

@ariannaneal, @jpkarlsen, @lilyinsimland, & @SheriGR, I tried playing another Save Game where my Sim could easily go to Sixam.  I found the same thing as in my other save on Sixam -- no dead plants, and only the one in season is harvestable. 

Here is the list of Alien Plants and their seasons of harvest:

Tentacle Tree (Fang Flower) = Spring

Quill Plant = Summer

Orb Stalk = Winter

UFO (Unidentified Fruit Object) = Fall {this is the one that you have to travel by rocket to obtain, so its not on Sixam}!

At the lab on this save my plants remained alive for the Sim week I played (no dead or dying plants) and the watering option is always available and the Sim usually alternates between the plant you clicked on to water and one of the ones right next to it.  To water the others you have to click on them.  I was able to fertilxize them and the option was grayed out once I did that, so that seems to be working normally! 🤨  One of them also was able to be evolved, which really surprised me! 😃 But not harvest so far, and watering them is messed up, so I will try jpkarlsen's suggestion to command a coworker to care for them! 😇