Plant sims

[Ricalynn]

There is a list of seeds that can't be used in the science research station in the coding.   Unfortunately I don't have access to that list but it's all the mushrooms & plants that came with Supernatural, and any fairly large harvestable.  Pumpkins, wonderpetals (huge! flowers) are among the few.  So the seeds to be could be any of these and it won't accept it as you can't use those items at all in the station.


edit: Found coding --

 <kIngredientBlacklist value="Pumpkin, Pumpkin Vine, Pomelo, Cherries, VampireFruit, Glow Orbs, Spotlight Mushrooms, Red Toadstools, Mycenas, Mandrake, Red Valerian, Wolfsbane, Ginseng, Wonderpetal, Buzzberry, Pomelo Tree, Cherry Tree, Vampire Plant, Ginseng Plant, Wonderpetal Plant, Buzzberry Plant">
      <!--Description:  Array of Ingredient names that are blocked from being cloned or experimented on.-->

[RunAmokSims]

That could be the difference between my tests and yours.  Thanks RunAmok!  I never even thought of that.    So yeah planting forbidden fruit has a 100% rate of being a baby unless you live in a full house or with a full house of roommates .

Yes, you also need to have room for a baby Plant Sim in your home town household.

I have another thing to test further also. During her first term my Sim was abducted by an alien. I used testing cheats to add the alien to her UL household. I maxed out the alien's gardening skills but when she tried to harvest the FF plant she got the fruit instead of a baby Sim. I don't know if it was just because she was an alien or not.

[Shirin]

I'm guessing that the state of the plant itself when time to harvest has an effect on traits.

After completing my Life States Dynasty, I had Hél plant some forbidden seeds. Then I sent Amaterasu out to do Bloom on them. On one of them, the Bloom backfired, dropping quality from Very Nice to Horrifying. However, this one was harvestable and the fruit could be picked - the others, while saying Harvest, weren't. So my very first plantsim is a little girl who loves the Hot Pink color, but...is Evil and Grumpy.

[RunAmokSims]

I'm guessing that the state of the plant itself when time to harvest has an effect on traits.

After completing my Life States Dynasty, I had Hél plant some forbidden seeds. Then I sent Amaterasu out to do Bloom on them. On one of them, the Bloom backfired, dropping quality from Very Nice to Horrifying. However, this one was harvestable and the fruit could be picked - the others, while saying Harvest, weren't. So my very first plantsim is a little girl who loves the Hot Pink color, but...is Evil and Grumpy.

I'm not positive that the quality of the plant has anything to do with the traits. My Sim has been growing perfect quality plants and the plant babies haven't been coming with what I would call the best traits.  So far she's harvested six of them.

[Ricalynn]

Here's the coding for HarvestingForbiddenFruit.


    <kChanceToHavePlantSimBaby value="1">
      <!--Chance to have a Plant Sim baby-->
    </kChanceToHavePlantSimBaby>
    <kGoodTraits value="GreenThumb, LovesTheOutdoors, Athletic, Good">
      <!--Good Traits-->
    </kGoodTraits>
    <kNormalTraits value="CouchPotato, Brave, Friendly">
      <!--Normal Traits-->
    </kNormalTraits>
    <kEvilTraits value="Evil, DislikesChildren, Grumpy">
      <!--Evil Traits-->
    </kEvilTraits>

I think these are the only traits the plantSim babies will have upon harvesting.  It also shows how harvesting is always a 100% chance for a baby.

[sims96fan]

<kIngredientBlacklist value="Pumpkin, Pumpkin Vine, Pomelo, Cherries, VampireFruit, Glow Orbs, Spotlight Mushrooms, Red Toadstools, Mycenas, Mandrake, Red Valerian, Wolfsbane, Ginseng, Wonderpetal, Buzzberry, Pomelo Tree, Cherry Tree, Vampire Plant, Ginseng Plant, Wonderpetal Plant, Buzzberry Plant">
      <!--Description:  Array of Ingredient names that are blocked from being cloned or experimented on.-->

That's interesting, but I was able to analyze for samples and clone pumpkin, spotlight mushrooms, red toadstools, mycenas, mandrake, red valerian, wolfsbane, ginseng, wonderpetal, buzzberry at least.  Maybe you just can't experiment with those with gene-splicing.

[Ricalynn]

That's interesting, but I was able to analyze for samples and clone pumpkin, spotlight mushrooms, red toadstools, mycenas, mandrake, red valerian, wolfsbane, ginseng, wonderpetal, buzzberry at least.  Maybe you just can't experiment with those with gene-splicing.

Are you absolutely certain?  I can't gene splice, I can't experiment on any of them using the machine.  I can take samples all I want while they are on the ground or wherever.   I cannot use their seeds or anything when it comes to the machine.


Do you use mods?

[Catarra Nightshade]

I have planted numerous FF seeds and actual pieces of fruit, and I have not gotten a single plant sim baby. Is there something I'm missing...that I'm not doing?

[Ricalynn]

I have planted numerous FF seeds and actual pieces of fruit, and I have not gotten a single plant sim baby. Is there something I'm missing...that I'm not doing?

Do you have a full household with roommates?  Roommates count towards the household total.   Do you use a mod that might have change the percentage?

[Taeillie]

My Sim has maxed out science and gardening. She also has the collection helper LTR. So far I haven't found any forbidden fruit seeds laying around the UL town, and I've really looked.  She's gotten all her seeds from gene splicing experiments.

I happened to come across a forbidden fruit lying on the ground while my Sim was walking around the Senior Lake Park area in UL town. When I clicked on the fruit, it only had the option to plant it but the option was shaded. The fruit can't be picked up at all. My Sim was able to analyze it though(she was at a Science skill level 5 at that time), when she got to Science skill level 9 she was able to clone the forbidden fruit sample and produce a fruit from it.  She was able to get a lot of forbidden fruits from analyzing and then cloning the samples. All thanks to that one fruit found on the ground.

[Shirin]

I have planted numerous FF seeds and actual pieces of fruit, and I have not gotten a single plant sim baby. Is there something I'm missing...that I'm not doing?

Also, make sure you aren't using Harvest/Tend Garden, nor the Harvester. Those will pull just the fruit (I lost the first plantsim baby to the Harvester). The option, I believe, is Pick Forbidden Fruit.

[gmyers2486]

I have figured out how to get a Plantbaby, now I want to try to turn my Adult sim into one... Any suggestions?  I thought I would be able to eat a forbidden fruit but since I got a Plantbaby instead that won't work...

[Ricalynn]

Use one of the above suggestions for getting an actual fruit and that will turn your Sim or have them be a science test subject while at Uni and that has the low chance of turning them into one.

[sims96fan]

Are you absolutely certain?  I can't gene splice, I can't experiment on any of them using the machine.  I can take samples all I want while they are on the ground or wherever.   I cannot use their seeds or anything when it comes to the machine.


Do you use mods?

I don't use any mods.  I haven't tried experimenting with any of those, but for all of those I was able to analyze the plant to get a sample, and then clone the sample to get a copy of the original plant back.

[addisoncat]

I had a half alien who tried to get a plant sim baby. He got two but after he picked them they turned into regular alien babies. I guess aliens can't have plant sim babies?

I had a human woman try next and she got two plant sim babies on her first try.