Ok, so, I don't know for how long this is happening, but my cowplant can't be placed in my household inventory. A few weeks ago I started putting cowplants in the house of my sims and waiting for them to grow, not minding so much and taking care of my game as I usually do. The cowplant still didn't grow, but I want my sims to have a new house and, since I enjoy attempting to build, I start putting everything that I want to keep in the household inventory. The problem starts when everything is there, but my cowplant, and when I re-do everything to see what happened, I can see that my cowplant was sold.I keep trying to place it, even stopping to use the key that I usually do but there is no options of putting in the inventory, just to sell or leave it.It still doesn't work, so I build the house with my cowplant in the lot thinking that it might be because it's not grown. Then the cowplant is grown, but I don't check if the problem is over and only remember I have it in my lot when it shrank. I saw another simmer (lilsimsie) saying that if you put in the household inventory and back in the lot, it comes back fine. Still. It's being deleted every single time. I try giving a name? Still getting sold.I don't know what to do, can someone help me?

@myrdsiexy It's absolutely no bother. It's hard to say if it's only happening to you, as sometimes there are other factors that come into play on any particular lot, and perhaps they just didn't happen on mine... and maybe if I tested longer than 2 Sim days it may have begun to happen. That's why I asked some friends also, in case it's happening to them. Obviously something is happening in your game. Is your game updated? Can you include a screenshot of the area your Cowplant is in? I added a paragraph to my last post not thinking you already read it (oops) about the space requirements for a Cowplant, in case that is a factor? Please read the last part I added to that post also, just in case.Do you have any Mods or CC?

@SheriGR I have some mods, but not CC. I'll try to remove them next time I open my game and see in all the current saves if still happens (also create a new one for better perspective). and yes, my game is updatedI can't open my game right now because it's very late and I have a migraine, but tomorrow (my time zone is not the same as that of usa) I'll check all of the help you provided me and see if it happens to change- sometimes I can end up not doing what you told me to do but thought that I did, I'm kinda clumsy when it's about helping myself

@myrdsiexy You could test in a vanilla game save if you want, just in case the game save/lot/etc. may have gotten bugged. In that case you may also want to download the room I mentioned that I added to the gallery with a Cowplant and a Cowplant seed, in case your Cowplant or the seed is possibly bugging out. Aside from that, I'm sorry, but I'm out of ideas. ☹️

@myrdsiexy Is this a Cowplant that you grew from a seed that you obtained in the game via game play or one you got from debug? Items gotten from debug (like fruit trees, if I remember correctly) can have behavior limits that they would not normally. I don't think your Cowplant, or any other plant for that matter, will advance at all in quality, condition, or growth while in inventory. Plants have also got a certain time of day that any advances kick in, and your Sim/you need to be on the lot live playing for this to happen.You could try to debug/reset the Cowplant and see what happens?When you try to add the Cowplant to the household inventory do you drag it there? Another method is to grab it with the hand/selector tool then hit delete to get it into the household inventory. If you haven't tried both of those methods you may want to try the method you haven't tried yet. I'm not a huge fan of Cowplants (long, slightly funny story), but I did save mine in the gallery (under the username SheriGR, I think the room is called something like 'Unwanted Cowplant'), so if you want to try experimenting with it you are welcome to download it from the gallery. I have done some amount of adding and removing my Cowplants from inventory in the past, but it almost sounds like your Cowplant has become bugged or something. I also believe I have a Cowplant seed in a room in the gallery that I obtained in gameplay, so if this happens to be the issue either of those items may work better for you?

Maybe this is a new bug, because the same happened to me. I had two cowplants that I grew from seed, no debug or nothing like that. I put them in my inventory and they disappeared.

My cowplant can't be placed in my household inventory

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SheriGR
Hero
4 years ago
@myrdsiexy
Is this a Cowplant that you grew from a seed that you obtained in the game via game play or one you got from debug? Items gotten from debug (like fruit trees, if I remember correctly) can have behavior limits that they would not normally.
I don't think your Cowplant, or any other plant for that matter, will advance at all in quality, condition, or growth while in inventory. Plants have also got a certain time of day that any advances kick in, and your Sim/you need to be on the lot live playing for this to happen.
You could try to debug/reset the Cowplant and see what happens?
When you try to add the Cowplant to the household inventory do you drag it there? Another method is to grab it with the hand/selector tool then hit delete to get it into the household inventory. If you haven't tried both of those methods you may want to try the method you haven't tried yet.
I'm not a huge fan of Cowplants (long, slightly funny story), but I did save mine in the gallery (under the username SheriGR, I think the room is called something like 'Unwanted Cowplant'), so if you want to try experimenting with it you are welcome to download it from the gallery. I have done some amount of adding and removing my Cowplants from inventory in the past, but it almost sounds like your Cowplant has become bugged or something. I also believe I have a Cowplant seed in a room in the gallery that I obtained in gameplay, so if this happens to be the issue either of those items may work better for you?
Angelyne22
4 years ago
Maybe this is a new bug, because the same happened to me. I had two cowplants that I grew from seed, no debug or nothing like that. I put them in my inventory and they disappeared.
myrdsiexy
4 years ago
@SheriGR I got it from normal fishing. Multiples of them, btw. But they keep getting deleted, and I get the money that I would have if I sold it. Also, everytime you pick an item in build mode you have the bottom options of putting in inventory, selling or leaving it be, but when I try doing the same with the cowplant berries just appear sell or leave it.

I as well tried your two tips, but will check if something changes when I open my game. I will also try reseting the object to see if it changes.

I tried this thing of putting my cowplant in the gallery, but I think it's too much work just to have something. I don't actually care about having, but creating a topic to ask about that seemed a great idea for when other people find themselves with the same situation.
myrdsiexy
4 years ago
@Angelyne22 It's not a new bug because if I'm correc, I have been trying/having since like 5/6 patches ago and only decided doing something about it now
Angelyne22
4 years ago
It used to work, and I have been playing less than a year
SheriGR
Hero
4 years ago
@myrdsiexy @Angelyne22 Interesting. I just tested from a different room I had that also had a Cowplant seed, and I tried over a two Sim-day period to reproduce the issue and couldn't. I was able to move both the full-grown Cowplant and the young Cowplant that sprouted from the seed into my Household Inventory by dragging or by the select-and-delete method both on the 1st and 2nd day after I planted them. I was then able to drag them each back into the lot. I will ask a few friends if they have seen the issue in their game also.

Do you, by any chance, have as much space around the Cowplant (with no items on the ground, walls, etc) as it's green footprint requires? And do you have it in a large planter or directly in the ground? I only ask this as I have had Cowplants &/or their seeds disappear before if their didn't have the required space.
Angelyne22
4 years ago
I only had the two cowberries, so I couldn't try it again
myrdsiexy
4 years ago
@Angelyne22 maybe it's just happening to me?? I play since march if I'm correct, but don't know when it started and I didn't anyone with the same issue.

sorry if I end up bothering, but when you have the time, can you open your game and see if it occurs to you?
myrdsiexy
4 years ago
@SheriGR oh my gosh, this really seems to just happen to me
Angelyne22
4 years ago
I don't have any cowberries to try again