My Sims were pretty good, I thought, at taking care of their garden. Gramps (my Founder's live-in ghost) was always out there taking care of it. He was fond of the Cowplant, too, despite it devouring my Gen. 5 Heir's wife. Thursday when I played it was fine. When I powered up Friday, I suddenly saw that it was dead. :open_mouth: Sometimes the dern thing would refuse the food offered, but normally, in the end it would eat. What did I do wrong? Are they always this fragile?I was hoping to keep it around for awhile. Sadness. I got extraordinarily lucky when my Gen.6 Heir apparent, then only a child, managed to snag the seed on his first-ever venture into the realm of fishing.I have to go back into my game to get a picture of its poor, skeletal self. I thought I took one, but who knows where it went? Please share your experiences with the Cowplant.

It says the reason cowplants die is because a sim won't eat the cake it offers through its mouth. After the cake has been in it's mouth and he takes it away, 12 sim hours later, it dies. I've killed 4 cowplants this way because I don't want it to eat my sim. I'm not sure if it'll spit them back out, so I'd rather my cowplant die, than my sim take his/her life.

I love my cowplants. My legacy family has a pair and a guy in my main save have a pair. The only thing is, I keep them locked behind a gate to the garden so no accidents happen with autonomy. And i try to feed them asap when they put out the cake.For man eating killers, they're adorable.. however there was an incident in the main save with the guy's gf getting devoured by the pair.. after that he had to put them in garden in the backyard..Note: cowplant doesn't kill you the first time. First time it spits you out and gives you the drained moodlet. If you take the cake a 2nd time within 2 day (drained moodlet duration), you die.

I can't keep them alive. I feed them twice a day (the package not a sim). They always die. I haven't planted anymore lately.

They can be fed normally with the cake out and keep living, they don't have to eat simsEither way they die too easily and its too hard to get them to kill off random sims

Gosh, never had issues with them dying.. and if one did, I have a plant that can produce cowberries.. Oh, and everyone in my legacy family carries a death flower cause there was the one time I left the gate unlocked and somebody was stupid

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GinaMarieOynohs
9 years ago
It says the reason cowplants die is because a sim won't eat the cake it offers through its mouth. After the cake has been in it's mouth and he takes it away, 12 sim hours later, it dies. I've killed 4 cowplants this way because I don't want it to eat my sim. I'm not sure if it'll spit them back out, so I'd rather my cowplant die, than my sim take his/her life.
Audio5urf
9 years ago
I love my cowplants. My legacy family has a pair and a guy in my main save have a pair. The only thing is, I keep them locked behind a gate to the garden so no accidents happen with autonomy. And i try to feed them asap when they put out the cake.

For man eating killers, they're adorable.. however there was an incident in the main save with the guy's gf getting devoured by the pair.. after that he had to put them in garden in the backyard..

Note: cowplant doesn't kill you the first time. First time it spits you out and gives you the drained moodlet. If you take the cake a 2nd time within 2 day (drained moodlet duration), you die.
Nicwebb82
9 years ago
I can't keep them alive. I feed them twice a day (the package not a sim). They always die. I haven't planted anymore lately.
Pollyrhythm
9 years ago
They can be fed normally with the cake out and keep living, they don't have to eat sims

Either way they die too easily and its too hard to get them to kill off random sims
Audio5urf
9 years ago
Gosh, never had issues with them dying.. and if one did, I have a plant that can produce cowberries..

Oh, and everyone in my legacy family carries a death flower cause there was the one time I left the gate unlocked and somebody was stupid
GinaMarieOynohs
9 years ago
"Audio_5urf;14929545" wrote:
Gosh, never had issues with them dying.. and if one did, I have a plant that can produce cowberries..

Oh, and everyone in my legacy family carries a death flower cause there was the one time I left the gate unlocked and somebody was plum

I have also accidentally had my sim autonomously eat the cake....
runamoksims
9 years ago
"Audio_5urf;14929545" wrote:
Gosh, never had issues with them dying.. and if one did, I have a plant that can produce cowberries..

Oh, and everyone in my legacy family carries a death flower cause there was the one time I left the gate unlocked and somebody was plum

I've never had one die either.

When my household has one it's for a specific purpose....... >:)
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
Well, so glad to know it wasn't something that my Sims (or me) failed to do. Like I said, the dern thing ate my heir's wife. First time, she was spat out again. Second time, she was gone for good. Not only that, but I had to quickly divert my Heir from heading over to it, Phew! He was that close to achieving his Aspiration. Thankfully, he followed my lead and went to write more jokes, instead. His wife, I sacrificed, if you will. I'm playing Pinstar's rules and we get points for each known death. So far too many of mine have been death by old age. I'm lagging behind. LOL

Dumb plant even tried to eat Gramps, who is already a ghost! Spat him out, too.

Then she, we named her Elsa, was dead. Oddly, although she gave me some trepidation, I do miss the monster plant.
Audio5urf
9 years ago
Tucker had them cause they're adorable..

My legacy family has them cause well... every family has a dark secret they don't like to talk about. Hierarchy can cause some cruel actions a long the way. Youngest born son is the heir.. and sacrifices were made to ensure the family name stayed strong for a couple generations.. the family forgot how kind the founder was and would eventually correct their ways..
Long live the king.
MissIcewolf
Seasoned Traveler
9 years ago
I wish that the cowplants were a bit more durable, so to say. Didn't feed your cowplant for one day? Then it's dead the next day, ugh.

Also, sims only die if they have the "Drained" moodlet, when devoured by the cowplant.