Sims 4 Outdoor Enthusiast Bug on PS5

Hi there @Torror-Stricken I think you're having the same issue I've had but there is a workaround. Just keep harvesting them and go through the stacks in your inventory, some of the harvestables in the stacks will be unidentified. It may take a little while for this to happen but it does work.

So for example you have a stack of Noxious Elderberry, I keep harvesting and then go through the stack one by one taking them out or planting them. Eventually I get to 1 or 2 in the stack that are unidentified. Or, I keep them in my inventory for a while and they eventually revert back to unidentified. It's more likely to work with a large stack.

It's easier to sort through them on a home lot as it can involve placing berries everywhere. It's easier to clear them up in build mode instead of grabbing them all up again individually.

I found an open bug report here. If you'd like to go to the first post and click Me Too and add a reply if you'd like to do so.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Unable-to-identify-unidentifiable-plants/m-p/10585822#M195658

I would probably just cheat the milestone if I ran into that problem, after I felt like I had tried hard enough. Of course, I already completed it several times when Outdoor Retreat was released, before Seasons and Cottage Living messed with it.

testingCheats on 

aspirations.CompleteCurrentMilestone 

If I can just add to that point @Sketch793 just to make sure the OP is aware that a cheat requiring testing cheats on will disable console achievements/trophies.

There are some cheats that don't have this effect but unfortunately this is one that does.

Like you I agree mine was fine before Seasons and Cottage Living, it's a shame because I love Outdoor Retreat.

@simsplayer818Okay so I go back to the map pick whatever unidentified plant and have them in my inventory, go back to my home once I have 10-20 of them, and plant all of them and it’ll eventually revert back and work? The large stacks I usually get the most of is the toxic chamomile, I have all of them spliced onto other plants; should that be a problem? Because when I harvest ones that I’ve already done it does show up as still being unidentified still but when I try to attempt to identify it, it works but it doesn’t count towards my aspiration anyways.
Or I should still keep the stack that I identified originally even though it doesn’t work and it’ll eventually go back to unidentified and it’ll work then?

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@simsplayer818 wrote:

If I can just add to that point @Sketch793 just to make sure the OP is aware that a cheat requiring testing cheats on will disable console achievements/trophies.

There are some cheats that don't have this effect but unfortunately this is one that does.

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Oops. I play on PC, so I tend to forget that the cheats will affect trophies and achievements on console.

@Torror-Stricken 

I've had that happen when I mistakenly moved identified fruit from a sim who had identified it already to one that hadn't.  But like @simsplayer818 said, you have to go through the stack to find the one or two that are unidentified.  Or you could just dump them all in a chest or move them to another sim that has identified everything and send the sim that hasn't back out to harvest the unidentified plants again.  Even with sims who have already identified the fruit, they will still show up in the sim inventory as unidentified and the sim will have to identify them again.  You shouldn't have to use a cheat for the milestone.

If you have Cottage Living, I've found that I can buy 9 of the 10 OR plants at the grocery and gardening stalls.  So, by the time I get a household to go to Granite Falls, I have grown the plants in my garden and have a lot of them saved.  I carry them with me when I go on vacation, so I have enough for all the sims in the household to work on the Herbalism skill when they get to the last tier milestone to max Herbalism.  I place a BG storage chest on my rental lot beforehand, so I have a place to keep the fruit I brought with me separate from the unidentified plants and only pull them out once all the sims in the group have gotten through the identify 10 unidentified plants milestone.  Makes life a little easier for me working on the aspiration. So, you can have plants identified beforehand and still complete that milestone.  All you need to do is collect fruit from the unidentified plants out in the GF world zones. 

Hope this helps.

@Torror-Stricken 

No, you don't.  Sorry if I confused you.  All you have to do for your lone sim is to remove all the fruit from the unidentified plants from the sim's inventory.  If you have a BG storage chest on your rental lot, that's a good place to put them so you don't lose them.  Otherwise, you can lay them out on the ground or sell them from the inventory.  Then go out into the Granite Falls zones where the ones you have not identified are and harvest them again.  Since both of the ones you are having a problem with grow in the park zone, just go to that zone before 5 AM when the plants begin to bear (assuming that the plants are already full grown).  After 5:30 AM go to the plants in the zone and pick them.  All the fruit that is in your inventory at that point should say unidentified.  Then use the option to identify them.  The milestone should complete.  The only reason it might not complete is that it's not one of those two plants that the game thinks you haven't identified.  So, if the milestone doesn't complete, then you'll need to go to all 3 zones and pick all the plants and identify the fruit.  If you go through identifying all 10 plants again and it still doesn't complete, then something has probably glitched for that sim and you may never be able to complete it for her without using a cheat.  

What I meant by saying that I grow them at home and bring them with me on vacation is that your sims can know all the plants except the one that you can't buy (Toxic Chamomile) at the grocery or garden stalls in Finchwick before you go to Granite Falls.  I bring them so I have enough for multiple sims to work on the milestone to get Herbalism to level 10 in the last tier of the aspiration if there is time before vacation ends. I don't pull them out of the chest until I get to that milestone though.  I usually play larger households so it seems I can never harvest enough of the Granite Falls plants while I am there to get all the sims in a household through that milestone while in Granite Falls.

But any of the unidentified plants in Granite Falls will always be unidentified regardless of whether you've gotten them earlier from the stalls, raiding another household's garden or an earlier trip to Granite Falls.  The only plants in the Granite Falls zones that are identified are strawberry, basil, sage, tomatoes, carrots, blackberries and maybe one more (onion?).  The 10 plants unique to Granite Falls are always unidentified when you pick them.  But you have already identified them once and have those in your inventory, the unidentified ones will go into the same stack making it a little harder to find them.

Hope this helps.