Foraging in Bramblewood & wildlife spotting

I've found chocoberries, raspberries and blueberries growing in the Bramblewood ruins. I've been able to harvest them, except not raspberries. They aren't in season.
I've had trouble finding the.nightly mushrooms. When I visited the ruins for the first time I saw the mushrooms, but they were on early stage of growth. That was the last time I saw them. They disappeared completely from the place I saw them. I tried to go there during the night few times, but there were no mushrooms anywhere. I gave up.
I've met rabbits near the Creature Keeper's house.

I agree, the ruins would be your best bet. There's a patch of mushrooms inside, and another patch near the gazebo. It's currently spring in my game, and I was able to find two bushes of chocoberries at the ruins. I think you can also do a trade with the creature keeper for berries.
The only one I can't manage to forage is the nightly mushroom, but I read in one of the posts here that they only grow in winter? If that's the case, I have a long time to wait.
The birds I've managed to spot near the water, on the trail going up to the falls. There's one rabbit den by the creature keeper's home, and they are also constantly visiting my sims who live by the waterfall. I haven't explored the other areas as much.

I've found strange mushrooms around the waterfall. They tend to be verdant lovely ect....its a random choice. I've met birds and rabbits I find by slowing down and looking from my sims perspective I see and notice a lot more.

The chocoberries grow in winter. I sent my Sims exploring Bramblewood the first time in winter, and found plenty of chocoberries in teh area around the ruins.

Plants spawn fruit at 5 am daily, so if you don't live in that neighborhood you need to show up before 5am hits.

"mikamakimon;c-17943251" wrote:
I agree, the ruins would be your best bet. There's a patch of mushrooms inside, and another patch near the gazebo. It's currently spring in my game, and I was able to find two bushes of chocoberries at the ruins. I think you can also do a trade with the creature keeper for berries.
The only one I can't manage to forage is the nightly mushroom, but I read in one of the posts here that they only grow in winter? If that's the case, I have a long time to wait.
The birds I've managed to spot near the water, on the trail going up to the falls. There's one rabbit den by the creature keeper's home, and they are also constantly visiting my sims who live by the waterfall. I haven't explored the other areas as much.

I haven't been able to pick the nightly mushrooms at all, and I sent my Sim to the ruins before 5 am. The only season I haven't tried yet is autumn. I'll have to look around the waterfall for the other mushrooms. I got a few on fair day buying the 'special' items only available on fair day.

I managed to harvest chocoberries in Autumn, just before the winter started for my Save but saw a lot of foxes around the rental property, especially a white one first of all and a rabbit. Both of which my Sim managed to make friends with. I used Plopsy to buy and gift them some woolly jackets.

So there is a way to do it easily, but it’s cheating. If you put in the cheats bb.showhiddenobjects and bb.showliveeditobjects and go into build mode in the Bramblewood, and sort the build mode items by Cottage Living and scroll for a bit, all the mushrooms and berries are there. I placed quite a few all around and had my Sim plant them, now there’s tons growing all around.

That's weird - I go to the ruins just about everyday but rarely see foxes & although I go to the Creature Keeper's house each day as well, I've never once seen a rabbit. I'll check up around the waterfall though - can't recall what I've seen around there.

"TARDISgrade;c-17943356" wrote:
The chocoberries grow in winter. I sent my Sims exploring Bramblewood the first time in winter, and found plenty of chocoberries in teh area around the ruins.

Hmm, just found this thread where it actually says chocoberries should grow in every season.


EDITED TO ADD:
visited Bramblewood again in the summer, and my Sims managed to harvest chocoberries again.