Hey, fellow Simmers:I've noticed since the most recent patch of (March 23, 2021), when hungry, my sims cook food but won't eat what they made during game play. Instead, they go on to cook more and more food with dishes of food everywhere, lol. Sometimes they move on to something else and then, appear to starve. When I don't play and come back to visit a household, there are now dishes everywhere. The sims could have at least put them away.... :D As far as the plants go, my sims plants now always look dried out and will only occasionally still harvest as normal. However, they still look awful even at harvest. Like beige-y or ashy olive color to the leaves. It doesn't seem to matter if my sims water them or not. They just look bad. Whereas, they never did that before this recent patch. Has anyone else noticed these issues?? I don't have any mods, btw.

Yes, I have had that for a while in my game. The food bug is reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-cook-but-don-t-autonomously-eat-cook-more-eat-quick/td-p/9724949 littlemssam have made a mod called prefer leftovers that could maybe help.When it comes to the plants I'm not sure what exactly the bug is, my plants revert to dirt piles https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-In-Season-Plants-revert-to-dirt-piles-Patch-1-68/td-p/9726151 but I have seen them turn into green clouds as well https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Plants-playing-dead-emitting-green-cloud/td-p/9751998

Yes, I did notice this about the plants. They are also, sometimes, sinking back from fully grown trees, to mounds in the grass. As for the cooking thing. In my TEST save this is happening a lot. I saw the mom cooking, noticed she was hungry, but never saw her eat anything. Sometimes the food will be left on the island counter, but I found another place they were stashing all of that food. :open_mouth: As you can see, some of it has gone bad.https://i.imgur.com/M4ZZDAL.jpg

My sims will go out of their way to make a family meal and then go and eat chips. I have a family of 8 adults, so you can imagine how much food gets cooked. And the caldron is the worst. My sims are constantly making Mac and cheese. I had to get rid of the their grill because one of them would be using the grill, the other the stove and the next one on the caldron, all at the same time. I have one that loves to make drinks all day lol.

I've actually been considering getting rid of the stove, fridge and grill in my larger house holds and just keeping a cauldron. They can make mac & cheese for breakfast and it will sit there all day. It's there whenever they're hungry and I don't think it ever goes bad sitting in the cauldron. At least till they fix this darn bug.

I always try to add a pantry to lock up the ice cream and popcorn makers. Now I'm doing the same for my kitchens that aren't open concept. I add a door and only the cooking sims have access. I really don't like to micromanage this much so I hope we get a fix soon...and I hope that fix involves sims going for leftovers first before cooking a new meal.

Since March 23 Patch Sims keep cooking food but not eating it. Plants growing and looking weird too.

25 Replies

logionX
Legend
5 years ago
Yes, I have had that for a while in my game.

The food bug is reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-cook-but-don-t-autonomously-eat-cook-more-eat-quick/td-p/9724949 littlemssam have made a mod called prefer leftovers that could maybe help.

When it comes to the plants I'm not sure what exactly the bug is, my plants revert to dirt piles https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-In-Season-Plants-revert-to-dirt-piles-Patch-1-68/td-p/9726151 but I have seen them turn into green clouds as well https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Plants-playing-dead-emitting-green-cloud/td-p/9751998
GalacticGal
Legend
5 years ago
Yes, I did notice this about the plants. They are also, sometimes, sinking back from fully grown trees, to mounds in the grass. As for the cooking thing. In my TEST save this is happening a lot. I saw the mom cooking, noticed she was hungry, but never saw her eat anything. Sometimes the food will be left on the island counter, but I found another place they were stashing all of that food. :open_mouth:

As you can see, some of it has gone bad.

https://i.imgur.com/M4ZZDAL.jpg
Zmias1
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-17850243" wrote:
Yes, I did notice this about the plants. They are also, sometimes, sinking back from fully grown trees, to mounds in the grass. As for the cooking thing. In my TEST save this is happening a lot. I saw the mom cooking, noticed she was hungry, but never saw her eat anything. Sometimes the food will be left on the island counter, but I found another place they were stashing all of that food. :open_mouth:

As you can see, some of it has gone bad.

https://i.imgur.com/M4ZZDAL.jpg

Yep, that's exactly what I'm seeing along with the plant mounds. I will make a complaint about it on EA help board and maybe if enough people make them aware of it, it will promptly fixed. At least, I hope. Because I'm getting tired of my Sims spending all their time cleaning up those dishes instead of going off on some adventure, lol.
Zmias1
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"logion;c-17850040" wrote:
Yes, I have had that for a while in my game.

The food bug is reported here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Sims-cook-but-don-t-autonomously-eat-cook-more-eat-quick/td-p/9724949 littlemssam have made a mod called prefer leftovers that could maybe help.

When it comes to the plants I'm not sure what exactly the bug is, my plants revert to dirt piles https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-In-Season-Plants-revert-to-dirt-piles-Patch-1-68/td-p/9726151 but I have seen them turn into green clouds as well https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Plants-playing-dead-emitting-green-cloud/td-p/9751998

Thanks for the board links so I don't have to fill out a whole new complaint. Guess we'll have to wait til the next patch to see if they fix this. Here's to crossing my fingers they do.
SimmerMars
5 years ago
My sims will go out of their way to make a family meal and then go and eat chips. I have a family of 8 adults, so you can imagine how much food gets cooked. And the caldron is the worst. My sims are constantly making Mac and cheese. I had to get rid of the their grill because one of them would be using the grill, the other the stove and the next one on the caldron, all at the same time. I have one that loves to make drinks all day lol.
Tellimini
5 years ago
I've actually been considering getting rid of the stove, fridge and grill in my larger house holds and just keeping a cauldron. They can make mac & cheese for breakfast and it will sit there all day. It's there whenever they're hungry and I don't think it ever goes bad sitting in the cauldron. At least till they fix this darn bug.
Reaganbogan
New Ace
5 years ago
I always try to add a pantry to lock up the ice cream and popcorn makers. Now I'm doing the same for my kitchens that aren't open concept. I add a door and only the cooking sims have access. I really don't like to micromanage this much so I hope we get a fix soon...and I hope that fix involves sims going for leftovers first before cooking a new meal.
WaytoomanyUIDs
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
LittleMsSam has a mod I think in Random Bug fixes, that makes sims prefer leftovers which avoids this issue
with cooking stuff and not eating it
And I've also noticed the plant issues, some disappearing, others looking dry and dead when in season in 2 different saves in different worlds
mightyspritesims
Legend
5 years ago
@MsKatieRose for the plants, try moving them into household inventory and then back into the ground again. That solves the dirt pile and other plant glitches for me most of the time.
Zmias1
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Reaganbogan;c-17850853" wrote:
I always try to add a pantry to lock up the ice cream and popcorn makers. Now I'm doing the same for my kitchens that aren't open concept. I add a door and only the cooking sims have access. I really don't like to micromanage this much so I hope we get a fix soon...and I hope that fix involves sims going for leftovers first before cooking a new meal.

Not a bad idea for those ice cream machines and popcorn! Because it is irritating when sims keep making sorbet or bowls of popcorn when they're hungry and you want them to eat a regular meal.

As for the kitchen, that could be a little tricky for the builds that don't feature the open concept as you said. But it could help with the ones where a door won't mess up the look of the decor. At least, until EA fix this bug. Thx