Sim evolves vertical garden plants by talking to them

I don't know if this is by design or a new feature or if I need to file a bug report. It's never happened to me before. I can evolve plants normally except for plants in the A Ok Bloomer vertical planters. For those vertical planters my Sim has to walk over to it and speak to each plant in turn to evolve them, she sounds like she's praising them it's so weird. I usually just click Evolve and my Sim doesn't need to do anything, I often do them as my Sims sleep. But not with the vertical ones. There are plants right next to them in regular planters that evolve the normal way. She was fishing and I was checking the garden and I started evolving plants until I noticed she'd queued the vertical plants. So I stopped her fishing and she ran over to them and started talking to each plant.

I'm on Xbox Series X with all content except for Vampires. I attach an image of it happening.

gameplay issue

CGrant56
2 years ago
@simsplayer818 @GiardiniDiMarzo @crinrict
The way evolution of garden plants works in the vertical planters today is the way it used to work for every plant originally, going all the way back to base game release. A sim had to go to each plant and evolve them individually. Seasons changed it so that we could just evolve them immediately without a sim having to go to each plant. Seasons also changed the number of evolutions required to get to perfect quality from 10 to 5 and also changed weeding to give us the leaf blower weeding to weed multiple plants in a planter simultaneously. Before that, each plant was weeded individually with a sim on their knees like sims with low gardening skill do it still.
Vertical planters came with Eco Lifestyle and plants in them have always required that a sim go to the plant to evolve it so imo, it's by design.  Why the devs did it that way is anybody's guess. It's not consistent with how the plants in the pots and floor planters are evolved but tbh, I don't mind having to send a sim to do the evolution for just those plants. What I do not like about the vertical planters is that evolving a plant in one does not count for the Gardening aspiration milestone to evolve 5 plants. But that's the way it is so you have to manage your garden to meet that milestone.
Hope this helps.

14 Replies

GiardiniDiMarzo
Legend
2 years ago
@simsplayer818 It always happens to me too, I thought it was by design? 🤔
simsplayer818
Hero
2 years ago
@GiardiniDiMarzo Thanks, I wonder if it is by design then? I don't use the vertical planters very often because I always forget about them 🤦. I assumed this was a recent thing.
These ones are at the Science Lab and it was taking so long to evolve them all one by one with a friendly chat I'm thinking I might have to remove them.
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@simsplayer818 There was a bug with evolving plants in vertical planters not working which was fixed in patch 1.72

Evolving has changed over the years but iirc, Sims used to walk to plants to evolve them which was later changed. I wonder if they reverted some of the old code for vertical planters when fixing the bug.

@GiardiniDiMarzo Do you remember since when you have this ?
GiardiniDiMarzo
Legend
2 years ago
@crinrictI don't remember, sorry... I could say it was always like that... I thought it was different precisely because it was vertical gardens, I never thought it was a bug, so I didn't pay particular attention to it...
simsplayer818
Hero
2 years ago
@crinrict I've been testing today just to make sure and it's definitely just the vertical planters but I'm not sure when mine started. She's not fertilising any of them to slow it down but they still become ready to evolve quite regularly and sure enough she runs over to talk to them. It would be quite sweet if it didn't take so long lol.
crinrict
Hero+
2 years ago
@simsplayer818 I have no idea if it's a bug or not.

I'd say, if it bothers you, create a bug report so the devs can look into it and make a call (and other can chime in)
GiardiniDiMarzo
Legend
2 years ago
This is what happens when a plant in a vertical garden needs to evolve ↓
CGrant56
Hero+
2 years ago
@simsplayer818 @GiardiniDiMarzo @crinrict
The way evolution of garden plants works in the vertical planters today is the way it used to work for every plant originally, going all the way back to base game release. A sim had to go to each plant and evolve them individually. Seasons changed it so that we could just evolve them immediately without a sim having to go to each plant. Seasons also changed the number of evolutions required to get to perfect quality from 10 to 5 and also changed weeding to give us the leaf blower weeding to weed multiple plants in a planter simultaneously. Before that, each plant was weeded individually with a sim on their knees like sims with low gardening skill do it still.
Vertical planters came with Eco Lifestyle and plants in them have always required that a sim go to the plant to evolve it so imo, it's by design.  Why the devs did it that way is anybody's guess. It's not consistent with how the plants in the pots and floor planters are evolved but tbh, I don't mind having to send a sim to do the evolution for just those plants. What I do not like about the vertical planters is that evolving a plant in one does not count for the Gardening aspiration milestone to evolve 5 plants. But that's the way it is so you have to manage your garden to meet that milestone.
Hope this helps.
simsplayer818
Hero
2 years ago
@CGrant56 Thanks! I hadn't noticed that before as I don't use them much. I added a wall of them to my redesigned Science Lab. I think I'll need to remove some as it's taking her all day to Evolve them and tending to them doesn't count for the work tasks. Staff aren't looking after them either
I wasn't sure because most of my gardening is currently broken and I didn't know if this was yet another gardening bug. I'm glad it's not! 🥀
@GiardiniDiMarzo and @crinrict thanks for your input on this one.
CGrant56
Hero+
2 years ago
@simsplayer818
I didn't know about them not counting for the Scientist tasks. Thanks for mentioning that. Since the Seasons change where plants only begin to bear fruit at 5 AM, I haven't had any plants at my lab after they all died off. I just ignore the gardening tasks now. So, I never tried a vertical planter there.