Sim eating whole tree?
Anyone else had this happen? Occasionally, when telling my Sim to eat something while away from home, she'd walk over to a fruit tree (with corresponding eat fruit interaction queued), pick something invisible off the ground and eat it. And should I then save and reload the game afterwards, affected plant (still standing there just prior) has disappeared. In other words, my Sim effectively consumed not just one single piece of fruit but an entire tree.
Edit: I had this happen in Sunset Valley Central Park, no sure why it got moved here
spot where a lime tree used to standkusurusu If you're still wondering about this, technically a fruit tree is a fruit (buried in the ground, as a seed) plus a tree, or at least that's how it looks from a MasterController perspective. If you view a lot's objects with MC, you'll note that each tree/bush/vine has an associated fruit or vegetable separate from any available harvestables. While there's no way to click the fruit directly, it's possible that the game sees it as a valid target for autonomous actions, or for the resolving of a need when you just click the moodlet. And once that harvestable disappears, the tree/bush/vine should as well since it's now built on nothing.
This seems more of an oversight than anything else, although it would be interesting to know whether this happens only with premade trees and bushes or with those your sim plants. At any rate, maybe it would be best in these cases not to tell the sim to auto-solve the hunger need.
