I didn't know that this was a bug until I found the mod to fix this. Now I am curious if it's worth it or safe to manually delete the duplicate one, or better to wait for the official fix?
As I played in Chestnut Ridge for a long time, the damage might be too much already. 😂
You can hit uproot plant (which is completely vanilla) or use the destroy object cheat which I have unlocked via MCCC. I've had no issues doing either, although it is tedious. I find it worth it though as the lag can get really unbearable if it's gone on for a while.
Editing via SFS is much riskier, so if your worried about your save file I would do the former options :) It's up to you ofc.
Thank you so much for the suggestion! I want to use a safer method, like destroying the object. I didn't know that MCCC could unlock this cheat too (I downloaded another mod for this action already, but I will check MCCC too).
What I worry about is if I uproot the plant, will the prairie never grow off-lot again, or not, when the bug is fixed? But seems that it's okay to uproot them, right?
I never mind about a tedious job, I've done many tedious jobs in this game before lol. So, as long as it's safe, I will do this. I never use SFS and won't do so anyway. I stopped playing TS4 during the festival bugs rather than take a risk fixing with SFS.
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I finished uprooting them in the town neighborhood, and found that there are 124 prairies in each spot! In the farmer neighborhood, I just moved in around the week, so it's only 24, not as many as the town area where I lived very long but still a lot.
I didn't have a lagging issue for now, but the never-ending cutting bothers me a lot. I keep the last one in some spots where I want to collect again, but I deleted it completely in most places because I was too lazy to count every spot.
Thanks again for guiding!
No problem! Currently if you remove them they just respawn, so I assume if fixed it would continue the same behavior as other collectibles and harvestable objects (like flowers and trees) in other worlds which follow the same behavior. Of course I can't say what will and won't break in a future patch for sure. But you shouldn't lose it forever and if that did happen then it'd just mean a new bug report haha.
Currently what I do is just remove them all periodically because they will respawn anyways after I load into the lot and stay there for a few moments, as I believe they clone themselves in the neighborhood every time you load into the lot. I've never personally had an issue getting the patches to all come back.
Thanks, so they will respawn anyway, right?
I want to ask one more question: do we have to stay for a while before it respawns again? Because I tried to travel between two neighborhoods many times while pausing the game, but no new prairie.
Currently, I use a mod that prevents spawning, but after trying a new save without it and traveling a few times, I still can't find a new spot on the prairie. So, I want to know your case as a reference when I try again next time.
But I feel better right now after having this workaround. I believe that when it's fixed, prairies should be the same as the plants, not respawn in the same spot over 100 times.
