Cannot Tend Garden [ Edited ]

[candiecoatediv]

@crinrict update : I looked at the in season plants and there is an option to water and harvest. It’s greyed out as it’s not necessary but I just wanted to let you know. 

[Heautontimoru]

Me too!

That's probably not intendeed to work like that. As you can see, if you have a "repaired"/"covered" (?) (in Italian it is riparata) and try to "Take care of the garden" (available for the high level of the garden ability), the sim stucks trying to remove the weeds from a repaired/covered plant (if there are other plant out-of-season in the garden) and he is not able to complete the operation.

From 09:51 to 10:16 he keeps trying to remove the same weed (animation completed and restarted again and again). During summer he was able to take care of garden without any kind of matters.

[RandomBuzziness]

This has happened twice in my game since installing the last game patch (Dec. 5, 2023). Both were out-of-season trees: a cherry tree that grew weeds, and an apple tree that had insects. On both occasions, it happened as my game was exiting a loading screen (I'm pretty sure that both were from loading a save rather than a travel related loading screen). It was not something that happened at 5 a.m. during regular overnight game-play.

As a workaround, I used the shift + click cheat "Set Gardening State" to alter their state.

The "Weed Free" option worked for me, but I think the "Mulched" option should also work. I realize that using the Shift + Click cheat is less than ideal, but it's something to consider until this bug gets fixed.

[candiecoatediv]

@RandomBuzziness Thank you for the work around. I’ll be glad when it’s fixed.

[RandomBuzziness]

@candiecoatediv Do you remember in your game if the weeds sprouted overnight or if it happened after the game exited a loading screen, like it did in mine. For me, the weeds/ insects were not there on the last time I had played. They only randomly appeared on the next time I started the game and loaded a save. For this last one, it wasn't even morning in the game, it was late afternoon. It hasn't happened very often for me, like once last week and a second time earlier today. I don't even know if this detail is important, but it might help the devs recreate the bug, or to help them fix it.

[candiecoatediv]

@RandomBuzziness Honestly I can’t recall I think it was daytime when I noticed it and the gardener had just been there. But what I have noticed is when my sim returns to the lot the weeds and insects are not there then after a few seconds they appear.

[Angel_xboxlive]

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Sony Playstation 4
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.84
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All add ons except home chef hustle, poolside splash, modern luxe, horse ranch, grunge revival, growing together, basement treasures, greenhouse, high school, blooming room kits, and bust the dust.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? The bug happens with certain plants like Quill and Orb Stalk, and Cherry Tree.
What happens when the bug occurs? Unable to evolve or tend to plants.
What do you expect to see? Evolve the plants, water them, harvest them.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No

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Plants not evolving or allowing them to be catered to 

[LunaticVariant]

That's not a bug per se. Those plants are out of season, meaning they are on pause until their season is up again. Before last patch they would just revert to piles until then. They intentionally changed this. You can put them indoors, if you still wanna grow them out of season.

However, those plants should not be growing weeds and this is a bug I've encountered as well. 

[Francoisf30]

@LunaticVariant To precise, only plant out seasons and outside should turn to dirt pile, if they are sheltered, they should not and continu to grow weed as per normal plant irl. But the bug is that you can't weed them, as the animation seems to not complete and go in bucles again and again. I had that yesterday and the day before while playing, for sheltered plants. Although I though it had to see with their placement, diagonal againts a fence, as it would not work usually without move objects... So I changed it yesterday, now I need more testing, because before I did anything, some of them actually got weeds removed, with the proper animation... That is weird. I need to observe also which do not, if in season etc...

[2hCreations]

I'm having this problem too, since the december 2023 patch. I'm on PC.

I don't agree that all these plants should return to dirt pile when they're off season, well at least not the trees. I have an apple tree that is ready to evolve. It is even "twinkling".  Usually, the Sims should be able to evolve it, even when it's off season, but the option isn't there. (The evolve option is available for the plants that are in season.)