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Eddaxar
New Spectator
5 months ago

[BH] Secret Spice Mastery Perk Is Breaking Dishes

Hi

I’ve run into a weird bug in the new Businesses & Hobbies expansion—specifically with the new “Secret Spice” perk. Whenever I use it on a meal that’s already at maximum quality (like “Excellent”), it gets bumped to “Impeccable,” and then my Sim can’t do anything with it. They try to grab a serving, T-pose for a second, and drop the interaction. This also happens if you put away the dish into the fridge. 

I checked my Last Exception logs, and it shows an error about:

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'simoleon_value_multiplier' (I've also attached the full lastexception).

Basically, it seems like the game is trying to give the dish some extra bonus value because it’s “Impeccable,” but that code is missing or broken, or it overflows and the game can't comprehend the mega quality meal, and the value added to it.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Get a Sim to Level 10 cooking, unlock “Secret Spice” mastery perk.
  2. Cook a dish to Excellent quality.
  3. Use “Add Secret Spice,” so it becomes “Impeccable.”
  4. Try grabbing a plate… T-pose city.

There doesn't seem to be any work arounds.

Anyone else seeing this? I’m on Windows 11, fully patched (1.113.291.1020). I don’t have many mods installed, and I even tested in a clean save with only MC Command Center to read my error logs. The same glitch happens, so I think it’s an official bug with the new perk.

Right now, my best “solution” is to avoid using Secret Spice on meals that are already in excellent quality. Dishes that become Impeccable organically (tested from the Stoves and Grills Master reward trait) still work fine. This glitch only shows up when I manually add “Secret Spice” to an already max-quality/excellent meal.

2 Comments

  • juanadark's avatar
    juanadark
    New Traveler
    2 months ago

    True! I discovered it yesterday when my Sim get 10 in Cooking skill. 

  • insectgarbage's avatar
    insectgarbage
    Rising Traveler
    6 days ago

    I'm also having this issue. When I use Secret Spice it also changes to impeccable but my sim cannot do anything with the dish, T-Pose & I get a Last Exception. I've tested with all mods, some mods & no mods. Game V. 1.116.232.1030