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Seasoned Veteran

2 years ago

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How is the Prairie Grass Challenge Meant to Work?

I'm looking for an explanation of the Wild Prairie Grass Challenge game mechanics and what it does exactly?

I'm currently only playing on one Lot with it turned on (it hasn't spawned any Grass yet but that's another issue) but from what I've seen on some streamers gameplay and read from other players who are using the Challenge, they only seem to get a maximum of 3 piles of Grass spawning which doesn't seem much of a challenge.

How many piles of Grass should be spawning with the Challenge turned on? Should the lot become overrun with it, hence it being called a Challenge? I genuinely would like to know how the Challenge is meant to work.

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flauschtrud
2 years ago
It's bugged... I created a bug report for it: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HR-Wild-Prairie-Grass-Lot-Challenge-does-not-work-if-you-harvest/m-p/12771562#M254838 You can click "me too" to have it get more attention.
From looking at the code I know that it is meant to spawn up to 10 grass objects (which would definitely be more challenging than just three) but the harvesting somehow seems to interfere with that.
And yes, the animals can eat from it which is more like a bonus, but I'm pretty sure it's also meant as a kind of weed challenge, but the way it's working (or not working) at the moment definitely prevents that.
Edit: Lol, I just saw you already answered on the bug report :D

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flauschtrud
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I did. With the instructions I wrote on https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/HR-Wild-Prairie-Grass-Lot-Challenge-does-not-work-if-you-harvest/m-p/12771562/highlight/true#M254838 I can reproduce the issue every time. The grass in the neighborhoods can be harvested almost instantly (you might have to wait a short time for it to spawn or regrow and you will obviously have to look around to find them if you are not familiar with the neighborhood yet). With my instructions I can harvest 13 grass objects (from outside my own lot) on the first day in the save before it's even nighttime for the first time.
I would really appreciate if you stopped gaslighting people that obviously put a lot of effort and their free time into improving and contributing to a product that they paid money for. I'm not stupid. I know how to test and I never reported a bug without checking it on a fresh and unmodded save.
I won't answer on this thread anymore.
jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
2 years ago
@flauschtrud
On the first day in a new save there are never any grasses in the world or on the lot the day I start a new save. Did you perhaps create a new family to move in from Manage world in an existing save? I know that many play rotationally like this. Also how many animals (horses and goats/lamb) do you have on the lot? I ask because I have many on Big Ranch and the number of grasses on that lot increased from 12 to 14 as I had a foal.
I ask these questions not because I'm trying to "gaslight" you but because I want to be sure exactly how you test since I in a new save can not confirm either that there is a limit of 10 grasses on a lot and that there should be wild grasses in the world on the first day. In my tests a few spawns the day after but not the amount you report and they are not immediately harvestable more will spawn in the world in the coming days.
BTW. I will see you answers sooner if you remember to tag me like I do you.