A sincere plea!

"Bearpal64;c-16871868" wrote:
I agree!
In less seriousness I created a leaf burning holiday at the end of fall lol

What a great idea! Do you mind if I poach it from you? ;)

@bshag4lv, you need to do the burn action 3 times on a pile of leaves before it goes away, that's why it seems like it "just goes out" to you.
If you wait too long between burns, you will need to do it more than 3 times because new leaves will be added that take it back to needing 3 burns.
I suggest waiting until the very last day of Autumn to bother burning, or even the very beginning of winter. Piles will just come right back anyway until Autumn is over.

Also, once you install the mod that keeps the piles from rotting, it will stop new piles from going foul, but any piles that existed in that state already stay that way I think....I recall that being what happened when I started using the mod.

Thanks Stormkeep, I'll definitely keep that in mind. I just never noticed them until the green fog and flies became noticeable.


Edit to say, I have the mod from the link LaBlue gave me, so I've noticed there are some newer ones that look normal plus the green stinky ones...and now it's spring.

@Stormkeep I think I just fell in love with you for that info. Thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my cold little simmer heart.

@bshag4lv...the leaves never go away if you don't take care of them. The mod just keeps them from turning stinky (the stinky ones you have probably were stinky before you installed the mod).

If it's spring, you should be able to burn all the leaves present and they won't return until autumn. There's another mod at that same site that lets you get rid of them quickly with 3 clicks rather than having to wait for the burn, if you want to clean them up more quickly than burning. I generally just leave all the piles (using the mod so they don't get stinky), year round..except for areas where I'm going to take screenshots.

And you're welcome, @fallenangel66. :)

"bshag4lv;d-952769" wrote:
Please, please, we need those horrible leaf piles fixed!! There is nothing I can do to get rid of these really nasty piles of green fog and hundreds of flies! A couple of my sims live next to a public area and there are at least 3-4 piles of green nastiness around their houses so that when they go outside, they always have the filthy surroundings moods. Kinda bad when you can't even go swimming in your own pool. Please fix this!

We have a patch coming Tuesday so fingers crossed. The Broken Leaf Woohoo also needs fixing.

I've managed to get rid of some by sending my sims to burn them several days in a row. After about the fourth time, my sim or a random townie will throw away some ashes. It can take up to 8 tries to burn all the leaves to ashes, then another four trips to get rid of the ashes. But yes it would be nice to have a fix so I'm not interrupting my plans or keeping sims up until they're ready to drop walking around their neighborhood to get all the leaves. It takes so long that I only bother with the ones near where my sims live.

Wish I could join in on the "please fix bugs".

Great answers and comments guys, thank you! And I agree!