[BUG] NPCs killing dormant plants in Granite Falls

[zetshia]

I made the mistake of going to Granite Falls in the winter which is a complete waste of time since you can't fish and all the unidentified wild plants are dormant. While my sim was bug hunting I noticed that the Ranger was "weeding" the dormant plants after which they would disappear completely. I later saw the hermit doing the same thing. They only targeted the the unidentified plants not the base-game wild plants. Has anyone else seen this? Will  the plants respawn in the spring or are they gone for good? My sims has the outdoor enthusiast aspiration so I need those plants

[reggikko]

Yes, they should respawn. I went in the summer and the NPC gardener was there clearing wild plants. They came back the next day. It seems like any Sim with high gardening skill does it.

[Playalot]

Yep, they will respawn as @reggikko  said but what an annoying bug! I had to race around trying to harvest everything I needed before the NPC's 'weeded' all the plants out as I didn't want to have to hang around for them to respawn! Luckily I harvested everything in the Hermits area before he got around to 'weeding'.

Usually the plants will respawn the next day. I guess we should probably report this as a bug, tbh I completely forgot to when I saw this over a month ago. Oops!