I started the conservationist career and I can't find any anywhere. I get the task to clean up three pieces in the top right neighborhood, yet there's nothing. None on the ground, none in the water, the each is pristine, but I haven't even had a chance to clean anything yet. I know you can click on the beach and have your sim search for trash, but where is all of it that's supposed to be lying around everywhere for me to make the beach beautiful again? I've scoured this beach multiple times now and nothing, every time.

I'm lucky if I find a single pile of trash every 3 or 4 days. Never saw any ash piles. No sulfur piles. Nothing in the water. No one littering. This is maddening. I'm repairing my game right now to see if it improves. My island is still at the beginning stage, so it's definitely not too clean or pristine or anything right now.

"kalaksed;c-17128889" wrote:i just had the next step pop up without even actually trying to do anything, since i'm currently not playing a conservationist sorti did have my mermaid clean up one of each type of thing i saw, just to see how they worked, so one ash pile, one...whatever it is by the sulfur pool, one pile of trash on the ground, one pile of trash in the water. and they did dig up some trash while beachcombing, since sims seem to swap between hunting for shells and garbage on their own therebut the most surprising part was when the pop-up about reaching the next conservation stage popped up. my sim was busy fishing and had just caught a pile of seaweed (the stuff they throw back) when it happened. and considering it was just my sim and another mermaid on the whole island at the time, it had to be the seaweed that triggered it, since the other mermaid was doing the typical frolick up near the 'hidden' passage behind the volcanoThat bolded part is what have always confused me. Why throw it back in? Its really not helping the environment on the island, and nobody I know who does any fishing at all would do it. Also, I haven't noticed that fishing up the wooden trunk gives that effect. It would make sense if that also contributed to the island clean-up.

So I’ve discovered that if you want to actually enjoy cleaning up Sulani, you have to have your sims live on Mua Pel’am. I’ve played several weeks with my conservationist sim who lives in Ohan’ali Town and was very frustrated that I could never find anything to clean up when visiting Mua Pel’am. I’d get the work task to clean up 3 things on Mua and I’d never find anything. I’d have to actually have my sim comb the beach for trash. That’s no fun. I want the trash piles sitting on the beach, floating in the ocean. I wanted the sulfur piles. The ash mounds by the volcano. Several weeks and nothing. I’d be lucky if I found one piece of trash without combing for it myself. I moved my sim to Mua to see how that would work. Instantly every day there’s at least 3 piles of trash on the beach, 2 in the water, 2 sulfur piles, 3 ash mounds. I’m so annoyed. Why doesn’t this stuff show up if you don’t live there? I don’t want to have to live on that specific island just to enjoy the career and cleaning up the island.

"SparklyBecca;c-17131147" wrote:I'm doing the conservationist career. I found it easy to clean up the trash. You just keep beachcombing for trash until you find a piece. Also I didn't see any wrongdoers at first, but then I've seen a couple of fish poachers now. They have a red exclamation mark over their head. My Sim has been doing the career less than one Sim month and has already advanced about halfway through the career. I also get his wife who is a diver to dive for treasure and trash and they've already had a notice to say the island has improved. Where does your sim live? Because none of this happens for me when I spend the entire day visiting their with my sim and he's already level 5 in the career. And you shouldn't need to beachcomb just to find the trash piles. If you live on Mua, they spawn like crazy and you never have to beachcomb for them.

I haven't done the career yet, but I've been spending a lot of time on Mua Pel'am. First time I got there, I was expecting a lot of trash and stuff to clean up. Didn't even see wrong-doers every day. It took a full sim-year to finish cleaning up the place, because there were so little to actually do for the island environment.I usually found 1-3 piles of trash on the beaches, and maybe 2 in the water. Might be more that I missed. There should be stuff to clean up by the pool of sulphur (?) too, you have to click them several times. Also piles of ashes (at least I think its ashes) near the top of the vulcano, there's a path behind Calder Camp. If there are Litterbugs (at least I saw those on stage 2) they drop trash as well.

Where is the dang trash to clean up?

SparklyB
6 years ago
I'm doing the conservationist career. I found it easy to clean up the trash. You just keep beachcombing for trash until you find a piece. Also I didn't see any wrongdoers at first, but then I've seen a couple of fish poachers now. They have a red exclamation mark over their head. My Sim has been doing the career less than one Sim month and has already advanced about halfway through the career. I also get his wife who is a diver to dive for treasure and trash and they've already had a notice to say the island has improved.
Cher151
6 years ago
I'm not finding any junk on the beach either & just yesterday one of my Sims began the conservationist career.

Is anyone having problems with their Sims getting tan? My Sims laid in the sun and it said they should come in or they will burn. I didn't bring them in and it said they burned & they acted in pain, but they were very pale still. No tan or red at all.
SimAlexandria
6 years ago
Im not having issues finding trash and my sim doesn't live there. Only level 3 or 4 so far though. In the career so maybe that's why.
RhiannonAR
6 years ago
"SimCher;c-17131740" wrote:
I'm not finding any junk on the beach either & just yesterday one of my Sims began the conservationist career.

Is anyone having problems with their Sims getting tan? My Sims laid in the sun and it said they should come in or they will burn. I didn't bring them in and it said they burned & they acted in pain, but they were very pale still. No tan or red at all.

You may have a custom skin override. I had one and my tans didn't show before I removed it.
keekee53
Seasoned Newcomer
6 years ago
"Wilderwolf;c-17129915" wrote:
So I’ve discovered that if you want to actually enjoy cleaning up Sulani, you have to have your sims live on Mua Pel’am.

I’ve played several weeks with my conservationist sim who lives in Ohan’ali Town and was very frustrated that I could never find anything to clean up when visiting Mua Pel’am. I’d get the work task to clean up 3 things on Mua and I’d never find anything. I’d have to actually have my sim comb the beach for trash. That’s no fun. I want the trash piles sitting on the beach, floating in the ocean. I wanted the sulfur piles. The ash mounds by the volcano. Several weeks and nothing. I’d be lucky if I found one piece of trash without combing for it myself.

I moved my sim to Mua to see how that would work. Instantly every day there’s at least 3 piles of trash on the beach, 2 in the water, 2 sulfur piles, 3 ash mounds.

I’m so annoyed. Why doesn’t this stuff show up if you don’t live there? I don’t want to have to live on that specific island just to enjoy the career and cleaning up the island.

wow interesting. who knew there were even sulfur piles or ash mounds :( I missed out.

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