I am having trouble with my plants too, I had trees fully grown and when I went to play the game two of the trees had gone to just planted stage, some plants disappeared after being planted by my sim and later on turned up on the ground as in pre planting stage, please sort this, gardening is very important in my game play. I don't think I will be playing sims 4 if not fixed.
Very unhappy player!
I’m having the same problem with sage and basil, in particular, they keep flipping back and forth between bush and plant.
All plants are also reverting from fully grown to just-planted stage a lot of the time, usually overnight, but I can’t at the moment find anything that triggers it. It’s a mess, basically.
@jpkarlsen wrote:A workaround for this is to buy a vertical garden and drag the affected plants there. They will regain correct size and stay that way.
Interesting, thanks. I just tried it - I’m on the first gen. of a Differences in the Family Tree challenge so gardening is crucial! It worked for the plants I put back into an ordinary garden planter but not for those I put back into the open ground. I foresee hours at the woodworking bench for my Sims...
That particular bug doesn’t seem to affect trees as obvs they don’t fit vertical planters so that wouldn’t help, but they suffer regularly from the other bug I mentioned of reverting to the newly-planted state, often overnight and at season changes. Haven’t found a workaround for that, it affects them whether they’re in planters or in open ground.
It makes making a living for a first generation that isn’t allowed to get a career a real challenge!
@jpkarlsen wrote:A workaround for this is to buy a vertical garden and drag the affected plants there. They will regain correct size and stay that way.
Unfortunately, there's also a bug with the vertical garden in that the plants won't evolve when planted there. ☹️
There is also a problem with the vertical garden. For some reason plants keep reverting to seeds. Randomly, and my sheltered plants just dissappear randomly. As sheltered plants that makes no sense, and it does it when there is no season change. The gardening part of this was RUINED. They need to patch this ASAP.
Actually they do evolve. The bug is that the evolve option do not disappear as it should. You can see that the glimmer around the plant do disappear.
I only have MCCC by Deaderpool and the folder was out of the game when I had this issue. So with or without the Mods the issue is there. Also, I have noticed that my sim has lost all record of Collections, it shows as he has not found anything despite the fact that he had collected all Artifacts from Selvadorada exploration also frogs, fish etc, well, all is blank now.
What is going on? I am so not pleased about this!
@jpkarlsen wrote:I have not seen any trees be affected by this bug. Do you have any Mods installed? Especially mods related to gardening. Or is the affected tree spliced with a normal plant?
My only mod is MC, which at least allows me to cheat the plants back to fully grown state so they can be harvested.
I played a test game without MC. It made no difference, some plants still reverted to pre-planted state once harvested and sometimes all plants reverted to just-planted. Both happened when the plants we’re outside and when they were sheltered.
I only have pear, plantain and cherry trees in my current game, none spliced - they revert to the just-planted state with everything else but don’t seem affected by the pre-planted effect.
I think the reverting to just-planted happens after coming out of build/buy but not every time, so I’m not sure.
the losing of collection happens 2 me all the time now when i move any sim into an existing household, the whole house resets with sims on front sidewalk and collections blank, i have to manually put all fish from tanks, items on shelves back into any sim's inventory, unfortunately, if a sim learned a fish like treefish thru conversation it no longer appears so they lose out
when did this problem start... back in oct 2019 when ea customer service told me to reinstall all packs when the seasons calendar was having that disappearing holiday glitch, which the reinstall didnt fix the glitch,they later released a patch in nov fixing the glitch. since 2014 never had problem merging,then reinstalled now have to live with it.
But back to your lost collection, if you did reinstall recently and moved a new sim into an existing household and it happened, then you probably have the same problem as me and have to put the items back in any sims inventory
Thank you for your reply, my sim did adopt two girls recently, so it might have been that and I had not noticed it before, it really annoys me a lot, not so much the frogs, fish and fosil rocks but the Selvadorada relics, he is an Archeologist and I was mighty proud that he had found all the so called "artifacts". Now he has to wait till his daughters grow to teenagers so they can all go together, oh well, same old story eh? bugs and things getting broken at every update.
The plants being messed are due to last update for Eco Living.
I'm not sure who is replying to what in this thread by this point, but I wanted to state that wild plants used to sparkle for me when they were ready to harvest; they now sparkle without that. I have never before seen them sparkle without being ready to harvest. I have no mods of any kind installed and never have, so I am positive that is not at the root of any of these issues. I have not had trees revert, but I do have trees evolve by themselves to a perfect state.
I think that's all the questions that might conceivably have been addressed at me. Oh, and thanks for the info from whoever it was that this might actually be from the *patch* not the *expansion*. That's useful. (Well, it could be useful to EA. For me it just means that I'd be in this situation even if I hadn't bought the expansion.)
I can't decide whether I'm happy that I'm not the only one having these problems or sad that so many other people are having problems... At least I know I'm not crazy, so thanks y'all for that!
I've just had a pomegranate tree turn to soil over night ☹️
I found if I harvest the plants first then I can evolve them, but I have all plants reverting back to plant stage each time the eco stage changes
I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to play a decade challenge and found out about it. I also discovered that the cow plate does the same thing but it will still be fully grown just look like it's in the non-grown stage. It needed a feeding and I had sent my sim to feed it and while he was walking over to it the plant reverted to the beginning stage of growth but I still had the option to feed, play and pet it. I don't know why there are soooo may bugs with this new expansion. It makes the game just about unplayable. I actually think I am done playing it until they fix the bugs. With the gardening bugs, toddler bugs, and the sim eating bug I have had enough for now. I have plenty of other game I have been neglecting while I play this that I guess will have to do for now.
Am also having all these issues with plants. Can't evolve on the vertical planters, plants glitch at random instances and "devolve" when i haven't had the chance to harvest or sell yet, plants get to perfect condition without me evolving them, as well items in the inventory seem to disappear after dumpster diving for them or moving from one lot to another - mainly the harvestables (for me). I'm only using MCCC and removed it and experienced the same problems.
