Can’t get perfect bizarre fruit. By design or a bug?

Oh dear - this would be a problem, since I'm trying to collect a 'perfect' sample of every harvestable! (I'm having no luck with my spliced snapdragon-dragonfruit. It produced one harvest of dragonfruits, and since then, just snapdragons. Bloody snapdragons. I'm starting to hate snapdragons. Not one cow berry.)

I know the trash plant produces a variety of quality, even when it's 'perfect'. But this sounds more like a bug?

"invisiblgirl;c-16977024" wrote:
Oh dear - this would be a problem, since I'm trying to collect a 'perfect' sample of every harvestable! (I'm having no luck with my spliced snapdragon-dragonfruit. It produced one harvest of dragonfruits, and since then, just snapdragons. Bloody snapdragons. I'm starting to hate snapdragons. Not one cow berry.)

I know the trash plant produces a variety of quality, even when it's 'perfect'. But this sounds more like a bug?

That’s caused by pre-seasons gardening overhaul patch I suppose. Seems like harvestables spawning rates for spliced plants are based on their rarities. I am lucky enough to get a 50-ish reserve of perfect cow plant berries before the patch and I think I’ve only got one or two after the patch.

Thx now you give me the idea. I’ll try to splice bizarre plant onto my other perfect plant and see what will happen (tho for the reason above, the rare bizarre fruit may take forever to spawn...... But better to try than not I guess :neutral: )

"invisiblgirl;c-16977024" wrote:
Oh dear - this would be a problem, since I'm trying to collect a 'perfect' sample of every harvestable! (I'm having no luck with my spliced snapdragon-dragonfruit. It produced one harvest of dragonfruits, and since then, just snapdragons. Bloody snapdragons. I'm starting to hate snapdragons. Not one cow berry.)

I know the trash plant produces a variety of quality, even when it's 'perfect'. But this sounds more like a bug?

An update: splice worked:)

"Airakale;c-16980399" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-16977024" wrote:
Oh dear - this would be a problem, since I'm trying to collect a 'perfect' sample of every harvestable! (I'm having no luck with my spliced snapdragon-dragonfruit. It produced one harvest of dragonfruits, and since then, just snapdragons. Bloody snapdragons. I'm starting to hate snapdragons. Not one cow berry.)

I know the trash plant produces a variety of quality, even when it's 'perfect'. But this sounds more like a bug?

An update: splice worked:)

Wonderful! If you mess with those strange plants, do you risk getting your Sims infected with, well, whatever it is that's infecting them? Or, do they have to eat them to get infected? (I don't want to play with the story at the moment.)

"kalaksed;c-16980735" wrote:
they have to eat it. and as a whole fruit. if it's made into fruit salad or the like it becomes perfectly safe

Yeah, it’s like the plasma fruit from Vampires. Unlike TS3, the game doesn’t keep track of what fruit you used when you cook something, so you won’t end up with Plasma Pancakes or Bizarre Fruit Parfait or whatever.

Thanks - it's a good thing they can't get infected from cooking, since we don't have any control over which fruit in their inventories and refrigerator that they will use for certain dishes. I'm still annoyed with the Sim who decided that a 'normal' cow berry (the only one the family had at the time) would make good yoghurt parfait. She had perfect strawberries, but no, she uses the cow berry. (Even the toddler thought it was 'yucky'.)

If i want cowplant berries i normally go to sylvan glade and fish , I have collected loads that way
I hate though that i can make plasmafruit meals in my vampires family but they always make my vampires throw up ( why when plasmafruit is what they eat ) .

Finally got my perfect cow berry. This time, I spliced snapdragon to dragonfruit rather than the other way around, and got cow berries two days in a row. Theoretically, the splice should have worked both ways - both plants were labelled as spliced plants that could produce cow berries - but that snapdragon splice never produced anything but snapdragons. (Did I mention that I hate snapdragons?)

So, on to a new issue. Does the bizarre fruit not produce fruit outside of Strangerville? I sent my Sims to buy the fruit from the curio shop, and now I've got one growing in my greenhouse. It's reached 'nice' quality, but no fruit.

Also, what is the point of taking a picture of the plant? (I mean, it's a nice plant, and would make a lovely picture, but does taking a picture do anything sinistre?)

"invisiblgirl;c-17028382" wrote:
Also, what is the point of taking a picture of the plant? (I mean, it's a nice plant, and would make a lovely picture, but does taking a picture do anything sinistre?)

Taking a picture is one of the ways you can get evidence for the Strangerville mystery. So yeah, nothing you need to worry about.

Hmm, still no fruit. I'm beginning to fear that I might have to start over, and have my Sims camp out for a while in Strangerville. I don't think I can take the existing plant with them, since it won't go into their personal inventory and they can't access the household inventory while travelling. I'll have to wait until my teen ages up, however (and by that time, her mother will probably die of old age, and she's the one with the fishing and gardening skills). We so need home-schooling.

Of course, I could just move them to Strangerville, but Llama, all the crap valuable stuff my Sims have collected! It would take days to sort out the household inventory. (And I suspect that the fish I've stockpiled in underground tanks would end up in the household inventory.)

My Sims have a hoarding problem.