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grreat85
2 years ago
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How can I/my sim duplicate a fish?

Hi, My sim is trying to complete all collections, he's a spellcaster and knows copypasto, I want him for each fish he collects to have one mounted and have one in a pond or aquarium, so I can displa...
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    grreat85
    2 years ago

    Thank you so much, that got me to figure out the solution  (to whoever else might be reading I'll explain), in the comment you linked I saw you were able to put fish on surfaces, so I tried it again (I tried it before and it showed as if it wouldn't allow it, so I didn't do it, now I ignored it and placed it anyway) and it worked, next I tried to copypasto, there is no option for that, only option is to mount, can't do anything else when clicking on it (of course you can drag it), so I tried placing it in a tiny room, save it to the library, then place the room I saved, and it came with that fish, and still even had the sims name on it as the catcher 🙂.

    Thank you for that missing piece.

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SheriGR
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2 years ago

@grreat85 I'm not sure if anything in the experiments I did for this past post will be of any help to you, but I thought I'd reference it here for your information. It involves fish saved in a room to your library, plus an angelfish in the gallery: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Fish-from-buydebug-mode-can-t-be-selected/m-p/9130518#M131680

Also, the mounted fish in debug may not say your Sim's name on them, but if they are the secondary ones (gotten by 'cheating'), I personally would be fine with the name not being on it. I agree with you, if you caught the first one, you have all of the satisfaction (and credit for accomplishments, etc.) that the Sim needs. I highly doubt there is any manner of copying a fish that would bring the name with it.

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    grreat85
    2 years ago

    Thank you so much, that got me to figure out the solution  (to whoever else might be reading I'll explain), in the comment you linked I saw you were able to put fish on surfaces, so I tried it again (I tried it before and it showed as if it wouldn't allow it, so I didn't do it, now I ignored it and placed it anyway) and it worked, next I tried to copypasto, there is no option for that, only option is to mount, can't do anything else when clicking on it (of course you can drag it), so I tried placing it in a tiny room, save it to the library, then place the room I saved, and it came with that fish, and still even had the sims name on it as the catcher 🙂.

    Thank you for that missing piece.

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      SheriGR
      Hero
      2 years ago

      @grreat85 I'm so glad it was helpful! I just did an experiment right after posting and found I could copy the mounted fish and retain info. I just went into that save and dragged a fish labeled caught by my sim into his inventory and selected, while in his personal inventory, for it to be mounted. Then I dragged the mounted fish onto the wall of a one-tile room, saved the room to the library, and the mounted fish retained the sim's name in it's label/info. 

      I'm so glad to hear your way also retained the name on the fish (not sure why I was stuck on the mounted version!)!  🙌

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