I think they're doing this and focusing on ambrosia because of the upcoming "life and death" pack. Like they're trying to make sure a majority of players know how to bring sims back to life when the pack causes more "accidental" deaths haha. I for one had never made ambrosia before.
@@KatelynxXxAngelsame here, only chaotic deaths I’ve had is 1) while playing the 100 baby challenge I had a teen come home from school angry but with an A, so I aged her up and she immediately died from anger 😂 and 2) I started a new game and my sim immediately proceeded to set a house on fire while trying to cook their first meal, caught on fire, and died. Fun fact I learned from that experience, you can in fact lose a game of the sims if you have no playable characters in the house (anyone younger than a teen) 😂
I just wish it wasn't forced on me, I'm not logging on until I feel so much more certain, that it won't bug. And that my adhd can not get distracted from the goals for the duration of the event.
I actually was able to play it and I got through the first week rather quickly. I found it fun since I'm more of a Build and Buy mode simmer and find it difficult to get into Live mode for too long. I really, really enjoyed the first week and I'm actually excited for the challenge.
I don't know if it's still available (I downloaded it a few days ago and EA may have since removed them) but multiple users have uploaded all of the Reaper's Rewards (in the Rooms category) onto the Gallery, so you don't have to play the event to get the items!
Twisted Mexi just announced that T.O.O.L and BBB are currently not compatibile with the event and may prevent it from working properly. Turn off organized debug and disable your mods when doing the challenge, everyone.
@@ooOKlaudynkaOoo I was kind of wondering if ea wrote it to purposly be incompatible so we have to play with shopping cart ui. Probably not intentional but I'm still bitter about paying so much for a game with a shopping cart messing up my ui.
Because this house has only one bedroom, I’d like to think that this is her dad’s house. He bought this house and lived alone because his daughter was away in another city. And due to his sudden tragic death now she arrived here to collect something but then met the grim…
And remember to delete the "localthumbcache" package file after removing mods. I could not click on links at first. I deleted UI cheats, T.O.O.L and Better Build Buy and the thumbcache file and it worked. (BBB needs to be turned off before removing).
I love the idea of challenges that you can apply to your current save to add some more chaos to your gameplay. It's the way that scenarios should work. But I think that the items should be just an SDX drop for everybody to enjoy
@@random.comment oh!! I had that issue too! In the end, I tried some of the suggestions on the forums and one of them worked for my game. I repaired the game, started a new game and then to plant the flowers, I placed it on the ground (not a planter) and then planted the flower on the ground for it to work. Just remember to back up before trying it yourself though!! Hope it works out for you too! (Edit: bad spelling)
@@frostiewells Thank you for sharing your experience with the community, it's good of you to lend a hand to your fellow frustrated flower finaglers, saddened seed scatterers, and grumpy gridlocked gardeners!
21:40 its makes sense for them to draw players in, but i just got back into the sims this week for the first time in months and personally i didnt even keep up with sims content while i was gone so i didnt even know that there was a limited time event that i missed!
I do not like that it has a time limit. If they added it as a scenario with rewards I would absolutely love it. Sims is my way to relax. Deadlines (pun intended) makes me stressed.
Umm there is 2 whole months. Each challenge lasts a whole WEEK. If you want to be able to play it without feeling stressed… playing it on a Tuesday and then don’t touch it until a Saturday… besides you can complete them at any time within the 2 months. I think you’ll be okay..
I wish this was a scenario we could do on our own time. I don't like the deadline. Sims is supposed to be something fun that's there when I need it. Now I need to be there for the sims. It might get simmers to log in on short term but this constant pressure will put off players on long term.
I think the sims team kinda forgot how most people play their game: playing it for 12 hrs straight and then not touching it again for a month. I missed out on the last rewards event too because I just don't play that much (and my laptop takes forever to even start). It doesn't help that the ea app sucks and I can't even update my game normally (I either have to "repair" it or uninstall and reinstall the whole thing).
I think they also forget that everyone plays the game differently and has different experiences and preferences and that's kind of the point of the game is to play it your way. I don't bother with occults, I don't care to summon grim reaper, if I have sims die accidental - so be it (or I just don't save), or I just rather spend my days building or just doing normal family gameplay rather than quests and scenarios. I make up my own scenarios.
This feels like they're testing the waters with a "battle pass" system, you even said the layout resembled that. I don't think they'll implement this sort of monetization into the Sims 4, but I think it spells a grim future of where EA is taking the franchise.
I like that it's long term and you can catch up giving you change to actually get it even if you have other things goinf on unlike the first log in event thing
2:36 lmao im so glad i'm not the only one who created a sim that was based on the event (The sim i created resembled Olive Specter from the sims 2 a bit and her name was basically her's but the letters were mixed)
I love the amount of Emo/Punk/Goth sims have been made specifically for this challenge! All week, I've been seeing posts about "Here's my Reaper's Rewards sim!" And they're all dressed specifically like they're in a Grim fan club. I've seen a lot of use of Vampires, Realm of Magic, Werewolves, Crystal Creations, Paranormal Stuff, the Goth Galore kit, some pieces of Get Together. Right now, my sim named Raven Muse, is living on that same lot, though I've made it a Haunted House, she's somehow ended up in a relationship with Caleb Vatore, is besties with Grim, and I'm not entirely sure WHY she's trying to make ambrosia yet, but I'm considering possible storylines for that.
I'm glad the planting flowers objectives worked for her. It didn't for me. 😢 I got all the other objectives fine, but I've planted a bunch of lilies and snapdragons and it just never checks them off for me.
UI cheats wouldn't work with the event for me, but some people had no issues, if you're on PC, get UI cheats and right click those tasks and it'll complete them for you. I don't know if it would break it more or not though
@@chanelkohler9390 right clicking with UI cheats doesn't work on this thing. I tried it when it wasn't completing the task and now I logged out and logged back in and the tasks are gone lmao
I did all of it besides week 6 last night. It was pretty easy which is GREAT. I won't forget the memories of this challenge and I feel a lot closer to my sim who did the challenge. I wouldn't mind more challenges like this when you can do it all in a day at the end. It reminds me of events in other games which is the only reason I log in to them daily. Also it builds anticipation for the new pack.
watching this late... but I agree that it's annoying that you can't access this later. I work full-time, I'm a mom, and I'm getting my MBA (last semester so I'm exhausted and drowning)... so playing sims is an occasional hobby that I don't get to do often right now... I wish I could do it all in December when I'm done with school finally.
I did all of week one yesterday and I loved it! I think it's so much better than last time because I missed out on a lot last time and am still soooo frustrated. Here I loved playing the tasks which were quick I thought
in a way, i almost prefer the original way when talking about people’s access. like, if people are busy, it would take a lot more time to actually play and follow tasks rather than just log in to the game. i agree with the idea that it’s really just a way to get people familiarized with the ambrosia process for the new pack, but if we’re talking about ease of access, the last one was WAY easier to get the rewards.
I was honestly so excited to create a story for this event and play it only to have the tasks break repeatedly even after trying the fixes that have worked for others. Now my options are completely change my story for the event so that it doesn't break, which is the whole reason I was excited about it, or just hope for a fix for the issues and potentially miss out on the rewards. Very disappointing
this one actually had my hopes up, not only for the amt of time they've given us (and the doing quests seemed fun), but also bc it'll get saved on my acc instead of my pc but- I had so many issues 💀
I'm only two months into simming, but watching you speed build do seamlessly really made my head spin. it takes me like 2 hours to build a house, and I still struggle with laying foundations. You are awesome. Thank you for your entertaining and helpful videos.
Playing these events is soooo going to cost money in the future. The UI is screaming that feature that all mobile games have now where if you participate in an even you get some lame free awards but if you want the cool things you have to pay $2.99 per event or something
My FOMO is so powerful with this one because I was totally gonna do this event and made a special sim for it and everything and then it just glitched out and stopped showing the steps. 😭😭😭
Been watching you for a year but finally started sims 4 after 15 years of sims 3. Your build videos hel so much but this challenge helped me learn the mechanics quickly and it’s been cool since i only have the base game. :)
For the people who can't get past the gradening part of the quest I repaired the game through the EA app then planted the Lily and Snapdragon and it worked I just finished the entire quest for the week
I made an angel themed sim for the reward event bc i like the contrast of this cheerful and bright sim talking to grim who is morbid and dark. I like this event better bc it takes u through a cool item that some ppl might not have heard about. I heard of ambrosia b4 but never went out of my way to learn how to do it kinda forgetting its an actual thing. I like that its challenged/task based and u can fit it into any kind of storyline ur creating
The event is really fun 😊. I like it as an introduction to the new expansion pack. It makes the waiting time more enjoyable 😅. Also, I really love the house you built for her. It's the perfect mix of dark and cozy 😅.
the soul spritzler drink or something is all ready on the game i found it and made my sim drink it. It turned him into a Ghost and gave a mood Buff and the mood buff says that it lasts for 6 hours.
I can't progress past planting the flowers. I've planted the flowers many times, even made a greenhouse since one of them was out of season, and it just won't count those as finished. Very annoying.
I’ve never played with ambrosia in the sims, I know it’s there, I vaguely know how to do it but never use it. I like it, honestly, I always play with gothic/witchy households so it fits into my story lines so well :) also befriending the grim reaper & having an easier way to summon him is so fun imo
I'm disappointed their idea to fix the issue is to remove the part that is holding or last rewards for logging in. They tried blaming mods on their page too but then like a hundred people came forward that don't use mods who have the same issue as those who do. So now even though I started it in my legacy family I'm going to have to finish it elsewhere which is super friggin annoying because all those kids are already great at gardening because one of hteir mother's was a gardner/botanist/flower arranger.
I had a séance table on my lot while doing this and they gave me a task to ask the departed about ambrosia. I might have gotten a few extra points because of that and honestly it's really thoughtful of them to put extra tasks based on what you got on your lot.
Edit: SOLUTION TO EVENT GLITCH IN THE COMMENTS (It's long I'm not retyping it but it worked for me and I'm very happy) The fact that I immediately went to the comments and everyone's event is also broken 😭 I think I only had 2 quests left, seance table and call grim on the grim phone, but I could be wrong because idk what comes after. I entered cas to dress up my sim then my quests just went completely blank, the progress tab is still there but I can't do the quests I remember still having which sucks. I tried restarting my game then I tried restarting my pc but it did nothing. I just hope the rest of the event works because if I just miss out on the few random items at the end of the xp bar I'll be alright with that but if I miss out on the actual new items I'll be so sad, I really like those eyes
I had the same issue, and this is how I fixed it: I repaired the game (it's under "manage" in the EA app), and then completely removed my "The Sims 4" folder from the Electronics Art folder. I put it on my desktop for now, because I don't want to lose all my saves permanently. Then I opened the game and it generated a new The Sims 4 folder and it worked after that (I did have to make a new Sim). The event is SO glitchy. 😢
@@bungerimpact I've read that verifying your game files in Steam fixes the issue, but I don’t know how to do it and haven't tried it personally since I don't play Sims through Steam. It's worth a shot, though! I hope you can get it to work!
I was able to play through it. Took a bit though. I made a special character just for this too. The gramaphone was kinda expensive but nothing was too difficult. I found I did need to have money plus starter funds to complete parts of this challenge.
I’ve done so many things to try and get it to work but the task “Wait for Ambrosia Society newsletter” refuses to check off for me. I get the newsletter in the mail and read it, but it never completes and I don’t get the points! I deleted all my mods and am repairing my game rn, so hopefully that helps. I want that new lot challenge! I’m playing with paranormal stuff soon for a legacy and that’ll be a HUGE help! EDIT: In the time it took me to watch this video, the removal of mods and repairing of the game helped and got me through it! Woo!
I love you and your videos so much. I’ve been going through alot in past year and your videos, live streams etc has made me so happy. Your videos have been helping me go through so much❤ These are so funny, exciting, relaxing and helpful to watch. You mean alot to me❣️
i love this tbh, i like experiencing parts of the game i dont usually do, and i think it gives frequent players a little more to do.. it took me like 20 min max to do the first week on my legacy so it was cool
I started playing the RR and moved my goth Sim next to the Goths. They came over during the Welcome Wagon and I got to hang out with them. Later on my work task was to gift a crop to someone and I found out Bella died. 😭🤣 Now my Ambrosia quest is just a mission to bring back Bella Goth 🤣🤣
im playing as mortimer’s gothrock parents to do the rewards! its been fun & tomorrow is harvestfest in game so they’ll go over to see the grandkids & fish & all that :) my rewards system has been a little finicky though & im not good at computer files stuff so hopefully no need to mess w anything to fix it..
I love the storyline you made with this challenge. I would totally watch a video of you just making a mini series of videos based on a self made storyline.
i did like reapers a bit more just bc there's actual gameplay involved, but im not sure how to feel about reward events in general. i do hope the reapers rewards will be per account rather than per save file, since i had the issue of concert tee shirts only unlocking in one save that got overwritten years ago
When I first saw the event I was kinda scared that I couldn't finish it in time, especially since my first two steps were to build a house, which took me 5 hours, and make a sim, which took me another 3 hours. But seeing how quickly you completed week one took that pressure off of me a bit. I just hope that some (not all) of the other weeks will take a tiny bit longer
I'm glad this time the rewards are connected to your account. I nearly missed the last one because my daughter had a heart attack so I had to spend time on the UK mainland& didn't have use of my pc.
I hadn’t opened the sims since the last login event. This gave me a reason to open it and play again and I must say.. I actually had fun.. ended up playing for like 5 hours straight lol. I hope the issues a lot of people are experiencing do get resolved quickly for them! I didn’t personally have any issues I couldn’t fix by travelling in game or reloading but I’ve seen a number of issues for others rendering the event unplayable.
I tried making a fresh save to do these rewards but it crashed my game twice. I don't know if they have plans fixing it but right now I can even get pass the cas menu without it crashing my game.
I accidentally got the boney collectable in a save other than the one I made for this event and now I feel obligated to play that save for this... IDK how I feel about that. Also the fact that MCCC, BBB, and UI cheats all break the UI and cause other issues, which I get, but I feel like it means playing MOD free for two months ☠
so annoying that the reaper's reword are broken. I hope they fix it soon, this way you can't even get the rewords, they should have tested it better before it went online, this is really annoying
Do what she said at the end and get the stuff from a gallery room . It has been fun watching my sims ride around on the reapers bike lol . I only have the base game so that's new for me . There are a few things coded into the game that you cant get with the base game but you can get them in the gallery , like food carts , tents and market tables .
@@katkasenkova7929i don't have mods instold i just to have than but it was not voor me because it aways breaks after update and stil it brokken but thanks for trying to help
I love the sims purely because of how different every sim is. Im playing through this event, too, and we went down very different styles! My girl is living off of her savings/inheiritance while going through her final year of college (not really because I do not want to deal with the college gameplay while doing this.) She's living in her late grandmother's house over in Brindleton Bay, and everything is very neutral and light in the house. She also has a giant green house for all of the plants. She's an author who writes stories about grief, death, and moving on. She's besties with grim, and I'm contemplating her having a kid with grim, for old times sake.
I have been playing with vampires and during this event. Until you needed to use the sèance table. Vampires can't use it. So, I had to use another save. And this weeks rewards are done. Roll on Monday week 2.
I think its so funny that the house doesn't have a room for the dad lol I also desperately wish that this challenge worked for me. I can't get it to register that the flowers have been planted.
I have never made ambrosia and had no clue how to do it, so I appreciate this gameplay. I think they should do more things like this to get players to explore the game more. I have so much content from all of the DLC, that I've probably never touched or experienced like 75% of the game. (I generally build rather than play.)
So far I’m really enjoying the event. Fun fact if you have the Paranormal stuff pack one of the quests will be to use the seance table to ask the spirits about ambrosia. I think that’s pretty neat
Simsie, could you please make a video explaining the ins and outs of TS4 folder?? I have an external drive for backup/to save storage space on my computer but I’m scared I’m gonna break my game ☹️
I like this event much better than the last event. The last one was so lame. I hope they do more events like this especially when it makes sense for a dlc release. It goes along with the Life and Death expansion coming soon. I really like that.
I’m playing this through with a version of the Goth’s based on TS2, except Cassandra is still a teen (and a spellcaster) and Bella hasn’t vanished. I also moved a teenage version of Darren Dreamer in with them, he’s been orphaned and his bff Cassandra is helping him bring his parents back to life through this event.
I missed the first event because I was really sick. Like, sick for the first half of the year. I really do appreciate that with this event you don’t have to log in daily or log in weekly. I can do multiple weeks in one day later on… which is going to be ideal since I can’t get to my computer right now.
part of the quest says nurture your garden, so fishing leads to fertilizing your garden .... I made my girl a botanist and had her dressed in explorer clothes from Jungle Adventure; which is one of my fav. packs. Yes, must do the gourmet cooking skill
am i the only one that had it work in my game? and i had so much fun making a sim amd building a house and playing the entire thing. ive never made ambrosia before and always wondered how to do it, so im so excited! ive also wanted to do a plantsim, so i hope they do something with that too sometime
It's just confirmation bias in that the ones complaining in the comments are going to be those who unfortunately it's not working for. I had no issues completing and didn't even have to disable mods.
@@spiritedsamph Me too . I have a tone of mods and it was fine . I didn't think to do it on another save though . My save was meant to be Disposable but I kind of like it now . I did have the mail sim stuck at my mailbox but that might have been where I placed it .I might have had a better chance for it to work as I only have the base game and there is less to go wrong .
I actually found your account because I wanted to learn how you make ambrosia and you had just made a video on it. Many years later and a full on sims addiction.. I'm still here! 🖤
I played through the tasks last night in my 100 Baby Challenge save. It was kind of fun doing something besides taking care of the kids for once. Only one part of the tasks didn’t check off for me but that’s apparently related to a mod issue that I should be able to correct tonight. Unlocked everything but the last item for this week. There are apparently a lot of mods that cause issues with the event and the event’s UI menu.
I really agree with your idea for your preference for how the event should work because the best I can hope for is being able to do everything to finish the event within 1 at most 2 days once everything is unlocked because I do not have the space for Sims on my pc right now and it's very unlikely that I could fix that before this event is gone forever and borrowing another pc for the whole event is just not possible :'(
For anyone (non-console) finding that the plant a lily/snapdragon task are not getting ticked off; check to see if you have UI Cheats Extension installed in your Mods, if so temporarily remove it, reload the save and plant the flowers, then you can reinstall the mod; if you don't have UI Cheats, try running a repair on your game *after* taking a safety save of your save files.
With how this event in particular is set up, I think it would be really great if they would make these replayable as a quest/challenge kind of thing, since it's honestly a fun and helpful way to explore more about the game. They could just have events like this as a limited time thing leading up to the expansion pack release, and then x amount of months after the pack comes out, the challenge gets released as a repeatable quest thing that anyone can do whenever if they want to earn the rewards. I think that could honestly add a really great new element to the game. I personally love challenges like this in particular, so I wish I could play sims like this all the time.
I get the idea behind the event to build up hype for the upcoming pack and teach the players about ambrosia but something about having a season pass in the Sims 4 doesn't sit right with me.
Can they go back and give everyone the first event rewards to make up for their botched release and not having it tied to your account? I saved and copied over my file for it and it still didn't work :/
Right? It was free stuff anyway! I really do not care if people can get the items who missed out in the first place, heck, I'm all for it. It hurts nobody for them to just give it to everyone as an sdx or something, and given the issues with the .ini getting deleted by repairing, or console players just having no way to restore things at all, it sucks the way it is now.
@@TiaKatt I've seen some people complain that 'if they gave it to everyone, it wouldn't be fair to the people who put the effort into logging on every week!' but I really think the majority of people don't care at all and would be glad for other players to also get free content
@@wow2926 Their argument is extra silly in light of the fact that dozens of items that used to be $$pack-exclusive$$ are now base game (vending machines, industrial loft windows, and hot tubs to name a few). So why would anyone care about players getting a handful of free items? Logging in is not effort lol
@@VS-kf5qw Exactly. Considering how many CAS items people paid for only to have EA make them free for everyone, I don't think people have any room to complain about a free reward being given to everyone.
I think they're doing this and focusing on ambrosia because of the upcoming "life and death" pack. Like they're trying to make sure a majority of players know how to bring sims back to life when the pack causes more "accidental" deaths haha. I for one had never made ambrosia before.
Agreed. I’ve never made it myself either.
Me either. I've played sims since sims 1 and i've never been 'chaotic'. My sims were always happy and died of old age 😂
I always download ambrosia from the gallery when needed. Never actually made it.
@@KatelynxXxAngelsame here, only chaotic deaths I’ve had is 1) while playing the 100 baby challenge I had a teen come home from school angry but with an A, so I aged her up and she immediately died from anger 😂 and 2) I started a new game and my sim immediately proceeded to set a house on fire while trying to cook their first meal, caught on fire, and died. Fun fact I learned from that experience, you can in fact lose a game of the sims if you have no playable characters in the house (anyone younger than a teen) 😂
@KatelynxXxAngel mate I'm even worse...I play with aging off 😂😂😂😂🙈 never killed a sim in sims 4 yet
I have the Paranormal stuff pack and it asked me to use the séance table as one of the tasks 👏🏽
Oh good, so I didn't imagine that xD wonder why Kayla didn't get that task, she has every pack after all?
Me too, I got some points extra for that. It was nice to ask the ghosts.
Same here
Same I had to use the table as well.
Me too!!
i actually like it, it made me go outside my comfort box when it comes to my average sims game
same!! and i haven't made ambrosia in a very long time so I'm kind of excited to just follow the little story they're giving us
I totally agree. I have never actually made Ambrosia before 😊
I just wish it wasn't forced on me, I'm not logging on until I feel so much more certain, that it won't bug. And that my adhd can not get distracted from the goals for the duration of the event.
same, it's fun and the prizes are cool
@@zoeexrenee same !! I NEVER made ambrosia before so thus is gonna be fun for me
I actually was able to play it and I got through the first week rather quickly. I found it fun since I'm more of a Build and Buy mode simmer and find it difficult to get into Live mode for too long. I really, really enjoyed the first week and I'm actually excited for the challenge.
Me too!
Me too! I even made a new sim to play through this event. I really liked the simple but fun gameplay :>
It's a pity the reaper rewards quests immediately broke for me.
I don't know if it's still available (I downloaded it a few days ago and EA may have since removed them) but multiple users have uploaded all of the Reaper's Rewards (in the Rooms category) onto the Gallery, so you don't have to play the event to get the items!
Same
Same
it broke my game during the update whilst i was out at a work event. had to restart everything.
Same for me.
Twisted Mexi just announced that T.O.O.L and BBB are currently not compatibile with the event and may prevent it from working properly. Turn off organized debug and disable your mods when doing the challenge, everyone.
@@ooOKlaudynkaOoo I was kind of wondering if ea wrote it to purposly be incompatible so we have to play with shopping cart ui. Probably not intentional but I'm still bitter about paying so much for a game with a shopping cart messing up my ui.
I took TOOL out, but BBB seems to be working fine for me
Thank you!
BBB is fine UNTIL you get the "plant a lily/snapflower" and then it can mess it up if anyone is wondering^^
@@headachefromgod ohhh thats why it didn’t work!
Because this house has only one bedroom, I’d like to think that this is her dad’s house. He bought this house and lived alone because his daughter was away in another city. And due to his sudden tragic death now she arrived here to collect something but then met the grim…
i was literally looking for a comment like this 😂 i love the idea of her having lived with her dad, but where did she sleep?? 😭😭
@@hearteyedhobi yeah that's why I came up with this bc it doesn't make sense if she was originally living with her dad lolll 😭🤣
@@hearteyedhobimaybe they were broke and could only afford 1b, so she slept on the couch 😂
Sleeping bag in the living room :(
I honestly like using sleeping bags to pretend people are yet to really move in.
The reaper's rewards event is literally broken for me and many people. Sad because I want to play it but I can't :(
Did you disable mods? I had to disable mine and restart the game for it to work
Google sims 4 reaper rewards bugged, a user posted some ways to fix it
@@erinveara1373 there are about a hundred people who don't play ith mods having the same issue.
@erinveara1373 My mods have been disabled since the swatch update and it didn't work for me either. My flowers aren't checking off complete. 🥲
And remember to delete the "localthumbcache" package file after removing mods. I could not click on links at first. I deleted UI cheats, T.O.O.L and Better Build Buy and the thumbcache file and it worked. (BBB needs to be turned off before removing).
I love the idea of challenges that you can apply to your current save to add some more chaos to your gameplay. It's the way that scenarios should work. But I think that the items should be just an SDX drop for everybody to enjoy
Yeah, agreed on the SDX drops. The event is broken for SO MANY of us!
The way that i RAN over here to see if the event was broken for anyone else 😅😅😅
I've planted 50 different lilies and snapdragons over 5 different saves and it never works 😢😢😢
had the same issue and while trying to fix it, the event pop-up disappeared completely-
@@random.comment oh!! I had that issue too! In the end, I tried some of the suggestions on the forums and one of them worked for my game. I repaired the game, started a new game and then to plant the flowers, I placed it on the ground (not a planter) and then planted the flower on the ground for it to work. Just remember to back up before trying it yourself though!! Hope it works out for you too! (Edit: bad spelling)
@@frostiewells did you have mods in or no?
@@frostiewells Thank you for sharing your experience with the community, it's good of you to lend a hand to your fellow frustrated flower finaglers, saddened seed scatterers, and grumpy gridlocked gardeners!
The fact that for several people this event has been broken…
@@sinistorm101 it is!! I don’t get any rewards after completing the tasks
disable mods
@@camilacontrerasvaldes6677 At least you get tasks, my event Ui is just blank.
@@n0m3ss I did. I went so far i removed the whole mods folder and switched back to DX 9, still broken. 🤷♂
@@Kaneanite oh i’m not sure it was my mods i took them out and then it worked for me. i’m hoping it fixes
21:40 its makes sense for them to draw players in, but i just got back into the sims this week for the first time in months and personally i didnt even keep up with sims content while i was gone so i didnt even know that there was a limited time event that i missed!
I do not like that it has a time limit. If they added it as a scenario with rewards I would absolutely love it. Sims is my way to relax. Deadlines (pun intended) makes me stressed.
That would be perfect!
Or at least leave it up until Life and Death is set to drop. If it has to be a limited time, give us a reasonable amount of time.
@@pkmntrainerlilly5 it's 8 weeks. I think that's more than reasonable. IT's going to be up PAST life and death's release
Umm there is 2 whole months. Each challenge lasts a whole WEEK. If you want to be able to play it without feeling stressed… playing it on a Tuesday and then don’t touch it until a Saturday… besides you can complete them at any time within the 2 months. I think you’ll be okay..
The last login rewards turned me off the Sims in a big way. I have enough deadlines at work, I don't want to worry about time limits with my games.
I wish this was a scenario we could do on our own time. I don't like the deadline. Sims is supposed to be something fun that's there when I need it. Now I need to be there for the sims. It might get simmers to log in on short term but this constant pressure will put off players on long term.
I think the sims team kinda forgot how most people play their game: playing it for 12 hrs straight and then not touching it again for a month. I missed out on the last rewards event too because I just don't play that much (and my laptop takes forever to even start). It doesn't help that the ea app sucks and I can't even update my game normally (I either have to "repair" it or uninstall and reinstall the whole thing).
I think they also forget that everyone plays the game differently and has different experiences and preferences and that's kind of the point of the game is to play it your way. I don't bother with occults, I don't care to summon grim reaper, if I have sims die accidental - so be it (or I just don't save), or I just rather spend my days building or just doing normal family gameplay rather than quests and scenarios. I make up my own scenarios.
Then just.... dont? No one is forcing you. @@aaries416
I think the point of this is to encourage more regular gameplay
this is right inline with something a TON of people have been asking for soooo....
@@nataliemoore1276 also isn't repair just ea's fancy word for update? That's what I assumed
It's kinda unfortunate that this new weekly rewards are broken 😭😭 I REALLY REALLY wanted to play it...
This feels like they're testing the waters with a "battle pass" system, you even said the layout resembled that. I don't think they'll implement this sort of monetization into the Sims 4, but I think it spells a grim future of where EA is taking the franchise.
I like that it's long term and you can catch up giving you change to actually get it even if you have other things goinf on unlike the first log in event thing
2:36 lmao im so glad i'm not the only one who created a sim that was based on the event (The sim i created resembled Olive Specter from the sims 2 a bit and her name was basically her's but the letters were mixed)
If you really want the previous rewards itmes, people have made rooms on the gallery with the items in them. You can just get them off the gallery.
@@Housewarmin unfortunately that doesn't work for the cas items :/
Was waiting for this video bc my Quest is completely broken!
Do you ahe any mods? I had to remove MCCC and UI cheats. I have a ton of other mods and cc but i didn't have to delete thoae
I love the amount of Emo/Punk/Goth sims have been made specifically for this challenge! All week, I've been seeing posts about "Here's my Reaper's Rewards sim!" And they're all dressed specifically like they're in a Grim fan club. I've seen a lot of use of Vampires, Realm of Magic, Werewolves, Crystal Creations, Paranormal Stuff, the Goth Galore kit, some pieces of Get Together. Right now, my sim named Raven Muse, is living on that same lot, though I've made it a Haunted House, she's somehow ended up in a relationship with Caleb Vatore, is besties with Grim, and I'm not entirely sure WHY she's trying to make ambrosia yet, but I'm considering possible storylines for that.
I'm glad the planting flowers objectives worked for her. It didn't for me. 😢 I got all the other objectives fine, but I've planted a bunch of lilies and snapdragons and it just never checks them off for me.
Same!
UI cheats wouldn't work with the event for me, but some people had no issues, if you're on PC, get UI cheats and right click those tasks and it'll complete them for you. I don't know if it would break it more or not though
@@chanelkohler9390 right clicking with UI cheats doesn't work on this thing. I tried it when it wasn't completing the task and now I logged out and logged back in and the tasks are gone lmao
@@chanelkohler9390 UI Cheats didn't work on the event for me oddly enough
do you have better build buy?
I did all of it besides week 6 last night. It was pretty easy which is GREAT. I won't forget the memories of this challenge and I feel a lot closer to my sim who did the challenge. I wouldn't mind more challenges like this when you can do it all in a day at the end. It reminds me of events in other games which is the only reason I log in to them daily. Also it builds anticipation for the new pack.
the rewards from the last event disappeared after the update, i play on console (xbox) so i don’t think there’s a way to fix it
My rewards disappeared too. I play on a PC
Same happened to me on play station 5
they did for me to when my tray file broke during a back up😢, I hope we get to keep theese.
It's a known bug the sims team has acknowledged and is working on
@@RubyMadigan i hope they fix it coz half my sims are bald
watching this late... but I agree that it's annoying that you can't access this later. I work full-time, I'm a mom, and I'm getting my MBA (last semester so I'm exhausted and drowning)... so playing sims is an occasional hobby that I don't get to do often right now... I wish I could do it all in December when I'm done with school finally.
I did all of week one yesterday and I loved it! I think it's so much better than last time because I missed out on a lot last time and am still soooo frustrated. Here I loved playing the tasks which were quick I thought
in a way, i almost prefer the original way when talking about people’s access. like, if people are busy, it would take a lot more time to actually play and follow tasks rather than just log in to the game. i agree with the idea that it’s really just a way to get people familiarized with the ambrosia process for the new pack, but if we’re talking about ease of access, the last one was WAY easier to get the rewards.
The sim is giving Lydia Deetz from beetlejuice (specifically the musical) and i'm living for it
I was honestly so excited to create a story for this event and play it only to have the tasks break repeatedly even after trying the fixes that have worked for others. Now my options are completely change my story for the event so that it doesn't break, which is the whole reason I was excited about it, or just hope for a fix for the issues and potentially miss out on the rewards. Very disappointing
this one actually had my hopes up, not only for the amt of time they've given us (and the doing quests seemed fun), but also bc it'll get saved on my acc instead of my pc
but- I had so many issues 💀
I'm only two months into simming, but watching you speed build do seamlessly really made my head spin. it takes me like 2 hours to build a house, and I still struggle with laying foundations. You are awesome. Thank you for your entertaining and helpful videos.
Playing these events is soooo going to cost money in the future. The UI is screaming that feature that all mobile games have now where if you participate in an even you get some lame free awards but if you want the cool things you have to pay $2.99 per event or something
My FOMO is so powerful with this one because I was totally gonna do this event and made a special sim for it and everything and then it just glitched out and stopped showing the steps. 😭😭😭
I love Morgan, Morgue for short 😂❤
Been watching you for a year but finally started sims 4 after 15 years of sims 3. Your build videos hel so much but this challenge helped me learn the mechanics quickly and it’s been cool since i only have the base game. :)
For the people who can't get past the gradening part of the quest
I repaired the game through the EA app then planted the Lily and Snapdragon and it worked
I just finished the entire quest for the week
I made an angel themed sim for the reward event bc i like the contrast of this cheerful and bright sim talking to grim who is morbid and dark. I like this event better bc it takes u through a cool item that some ppl might not have heard about. I heard of ambrosia b4 but never went out of my way to learn how to do it kinda forgetting its an actual thing. I like that its challenged/task based and u can fit it into any kind of storyline ur creating
I'm a console player and after the update the Daily rewards disappeared. My legacy house still has to trash can but I can't put it in any other house
The event is really fun 😊. I like it as an introduction to the new expansion pack. It makes the waiting time more enjoyable 😅.
Also, I really love the house you built for her. It's the perfect mix of dark and cozy 😅.
Damn, I cant believe mine isn’t broken for once (my game is literally always broken/glitching in the weirdest ways)
Give it time 😭😭
literally 😭😭 i was like mine isn’t going to work but nope it did and i beat it in 2 hours ( week 1)
the soul spritzler drink or something is all ready on the game i found it and made my sim drink it. It turned him into a Ghost and gave a mood Buff and the mood buff says that it lasts for 6 hours.
I can't progress past planting the flowers. I've planted the flowers many times, even made a greenhouse since one of them was out of season, and it just won't count those as finished. Very annoying.
Can you cheat the seasons?
do you have better build buy? it's causing this bug. disable organized debug and then restart your game.
I’ve never played with ambrosia in the sims, I know it’s there, I vaguely know how to do it but never use it. I like it, honestly, I always play with gothic/witchy households so it fits into my story lines so well :) also befriending the grim reaper & having an easier way to summon him is so fun imo
I'm disappointed their idea to fix the issue is to remove the part that is holding or last rewards for logging in. They tried blaming mods on their page too but then like a hundred people came forward that don't use mods who have the same issue as those who do. So now even though I started it in my legacy family I'm going to have to finish it elsewhere which is super friggin annoying because all those kids are already great at gardening because one of hteir mother's was a gardner/botanist/flower arranger.
I did that and it made the grim reaper event start for me, but now I have lost my items from the last reward event for logging in 😢
@@amandalomax8211 you have to put what was removed back in BUT you can also find rooms
With the rewards on the gallery and download them .
My rewards from last event were taken as well and I'm on a ps5 so no mods at all. Or cc or anything extra other than normal cheats.
@@stephanieward6581 they are working on that for console players. I know it doesn’t help but they are aware and working on a fix
I had a séance table on my lot while doing this and they gave me a task to ask the departed about ambrosia. I might have gotten a few extra points because of that and honestly it's really thoughtful of them to put extra tasks based on what you got on your lot.
Edit: SOLUTION TO EVENT GLITCH IN THE COMMENTS (It's long I'm not retyping it but it worked for me and I'm very happy)
The fact that I immediately went to the comments and everyone's event is also broken 😭
I think I only had 2 quests left, seance table and call grim on the grim phone, but I could be wrong because idk what comes after. I entered cas to dress up my sim then my quests just went completely blank, the progress tab is still there but I can't do the quests I remember still having which sucks. I tried restarting my game then I tried restarting my pc but it did nothing. I just hope the rest of the event works because if I just miss out on the few random items at the end of the xp bar I'll be alright with that but if I miss out on the actual new items I'll be so sad, I really like those eyes
I'm surprised ppl even got into it even a little bit bc my just showed up broken lmaoo
@@godzeven Duuude that sucks even more, I hope they fix it I really really do because this could be such a fun little thing
I had the same issue, and this is how I fixed it: I repaired the game (it's under "manage" in the EA app), and then completely removed my "The Sims 4" folder from the Electronics Art folder. I put it on my desktop for now, because I don't want to lose all my saves permanently. Then I opened the game and it generated a new The Sims 4 folder and it worked after that (I did have to make a new Sim). The event is SO glitchy. 😢
@@SusieQ_1994 Interesting, I play through Steam but I might try that if I can figure out a way to reliably store my legacy save
@@bungerimpact I've read that verifying your game files in Steam fixes the issue, but I don’t know how to do it and haven't tried it personally since I don't play Sims through Steam. It's worth a shot, though! I hope you can get it to work!
EA better patch this soon. It's broken for SO many people
I was able to play through it. Took a bit though. I made a special character just for this too. The gramaphone was kinda expensive but nothing was too difficult. I found I did need to have money plus starter funds to complete parts of this challenge.
I’ve done so many things to try and get it to work but the task “Wait for Ambrosia Society newsletter” refuses to check off for me. I get the newsletter in the mail and read it, but it never completes and I don’t get the points! I deleted all my mods and am repairing my game rn, so hopefully that helps. I want that new lot challenge! I’m playing with paranormal stuff soon for a legacy and that’ll be a HUGE help!
EDIT: In the time it took me to watch this video, the removal of mods and repairing of the game helped and got me through it! Woo!
How do I repair my game? 🤔
Unfortunate I have no clue how to fix the same issue for myself I don’t got mods and repaired and reset my pc still doesn’t work..
I had to do it three times for it to finally work, honestly.
I love you and your videos so much. I’ve been going through alot in past year and your videos, live streams etc has made me so happy. Your videos have been helping me go through so much❤ These are so funny, exciting, relaxing and helpful to watch. You mean alot to me❣️
My sim was dumpster diving and got the event gramophone before the event came out haha, whoops
I’m so thankful that everything went smoothly for me with the rewards so far. I missed out on the rewards from a few months ago so I’m super excited.
I already finished week 1 yesterday. That being said, it’s a shame that it’s not working for many people.
i love this tbh, i like experiencing parts of the game i dont usually do, and i think it gives frequent players a little more to do.. it took me like 20 min max to do the first week on my legacy so it was cool
I wish that there was an option to bring back the Jasmin Holiday reward events in your game. Like a setting or a scenario specifically for her.
I honestly like this, and never even thought about making ambrosia. I love your sim and the home is beautiful.
I started playing the RR and moved my goth Sim next to the Goths. They came over during the Welcome Wagon and I got to hang out with them. Later on my work task was to gift a crop to someone and I found out Bella died. 😭🤣 Now my Ambrosia quest is just a mission to bring back Bella Goth 🤣🤣
@@PsychoWolfePuppy I moved in across the street from the Goths too. Am super good friends with Mortimer.
im playing as mortimer’s gothrock parents to do the rewards! its been fun & tomorrow is harvestfest in game so they’ll go over to see the grandkids & fish & all that :) my rewards system has been a little finicky though & im not good at computer files stuff so hopefully no need to mess w anything to fix it..
I love the storyline you made with this challenge. I would totally watch a video of you just making a mini series of videos based on a self made storyline.
i did like reapers a bit more just bc there's actual gameplay involved, but im not sure how to feel about reward events in general. i do hope the reapers rewards will be per account rather than per save file, since i had the issue of concert tee shirts only unlocking in one save that got overwritten years ago
It's for the account. If you logged in on a whole different pc it'd still be there
When I first saw the event I was kinda scared that I couldn't finish it in time, especially since my first two steps were to build a house, which took me 5 hours, and make a sim, which took me another 3 hours. But seeing how quickly you completed week one took that pressure off of me a bit. I just hope that some (not all) of the other weeks will take a tiny bit longer
I legit spent 2+ hours last night creating my Sim and decorating her house to do the Reaper’s Rewards challenge. Didn’t even get to the gameplay. 🙃
this is why u need to test it out beforehand
I'm glad this time the rewards are connected to your account. I nearly missed the last one because my daughter had a heart attack so I had to spend time on the UK mainland& didn't have use of my pc.
I hadn’t opened the sims since the last login event. This gave me a reason to open it and play again and I must say.. I actually had fun.. ended up playing for like 5 hours straight lol.
I hope the issues a lot of people are experiencing do get resolved quickly for them! I didn’t personally have any issues I couldn’t fix by travelling in game or reloading but I’ve seen a number of issues for others rendering the event unplayable.
I think the little icon in the left corner is cute! It's really easy to ignore stuff like that, especially if you're hyperfocused in your game.
I tried making a fresh save to do these rewards but it crashed my game twice. I don't know if they have plans fixing it but right now I can even get pass the cas menu without it crashing my game.
I accidentally got the boney collectable in a save other than the one I made for this event and now I feel obligated to play that save for this... IDK how I feel about that. Also the fact that MCCC, BBB, and UI cheats all break the UI and cause other issues, which I get, but I feel like it means playing MOD free for two months ☠
so annoying that the reaper's reword are broken. I hope they fix it soon, this way you can't even get the rewords, they should have tested it better before it went online, this is really annoying
Do what she said at the end and get the stuff from a gallery room . It has been fun watching my sims ride around on the reapers bike lol . I only have the base game so that's new for me . There are a few things coded into the game that you cant get with the base game but you can get them in the gallery , like food carts , tents and market tables .
I've read that it can be broken for the people who have mods installed
@@katkasenkova7929i don't have mods instold i just to have than but it was not voor me because it aways breaks after update and stil it brokken but thanks for trying to help
I love the sims purely because of how different every sim is. Im playing through this event, too, and we went down very different styles! My girl is living off of her savings/inheiritance while going through her final year of college (not really because I do not want to deal with the college gameplay while doing this.) She's living in her late grandmother's house over in Brindleton Bay, and everything is very neutral and light in the house. She also has a giant green house for all of the plants. She's an author who writes stories about grief, death, and moving on. She's besties with grim, and I'm contemplating her having a kid with grim, for old times sake.
I have been playing with vampires and during this event. Until you needed to use the sèance table. Vampires can't use it. So, I had to use another save. And this weeks rewards are done. Roll on Monday week 2.
huh? since when vampires can't use it? i've seen youtubers play through paranormal with vampires without issue x_x" is it a bug?
i got same thing even tho it has worked in past for my vamps
I love how she pull off a house that fast also 15:54 when the trends go viral
I think its so funny that the house doesn't have a room for the dad lol
I also desperately wish that this challenge worked for me. I can't get it to register that the flowers have been planted.
I have never made ambrosia and had no clue how to do it, so I appreciate this gameplay. I think they should do more things like this to get players to explore the game more. I have so much content from all of the DLC, that I've probably never touched or experienced like 75% of the game. (I generally build rather than play.)
18:46 I play on console and my Sims game updated and ,,, I lost ALL my login rewards ):
So far I’m really enjoying the event. Fun fact if you have the Paranormal stuff pack one of the quests will be to use the seance table to ask the spirits about ambrosia. I think that’s pretty neat
Simsie, could you please make a video explaining the ins and outs of TS4 folder??
I have an external drive for backup/to save storage space on my computer but I’m scared I’m gonna break my game ☹️
She does have a video explaining all the folders and how to back them up. It might take a while to find, I think I remember it being over a year ago
That scenario idea is a really good concept, genuinely! I get what they're going for, but that would be a perfect way to keep everything in the game.
I like this event much better than the last event. The last one was so lame. I hope they do more events like this especially when it makes sense for a dlc release. It goes along with the Life and Death expansion coming soon. I really like that.
I’m playing this through with a version of the Goth’s based on TS2, except Cassandra is still a teen (and a spellcaster) and Bella hasn’t vanished. I also moved a teenage version of Darren Dreamer in with them, he’s been orphaned and his bff Cassandra is helping him bring his parents back to life through this event.
The last special event was bugged for me and I got exactly nothing out of it. Thank you for wasting my time, EA.
they said you’re welcome !
@@oxysanrioo :D
I missed the first event because I was really sick. Like, sick for the first half of the year. I really do appreciate that with this event you don’t have to log in daily or log in weekly. I can do multiple weeks in one day later on… which is going to be ideal since I can’t get to my computer right now.
The event it broken for me. It's really disappointing.
i really like it, i love having new stuff to work towards and it's kinda fun for its storyline possibilities
Genuinely F them. Event is broken, previous rewards are missing for a lot of people and they still refuse to cancel this FOMO bs.
part of the quest says nurture your garden, so fishing leads to fertilizing your garden .... I made my girl a botanist and had her dressed in explorer clothes from Jungle Adventure; which is one of my fav. packs. Yes, must do the gourmet cooking skill
am i the only one that had it work in my game? and i had so much fun making a sim amd building a house and playing the entire thing. ive never made ambrosia before and always wondered how to do it, so im so excited! ive also wanted to do a plantsim, so i hope they do something with that too sometime
It worked for me! Did the two quests yesterday!
It worked without a hitch for me. Didn't take long to finish this week's rewards
It's just confirmation bias in that the ones complaining in the comments are going to be those who unfortunately it's not working for. I had no issues completing and didn't even have to disable mods.
My quests worked, too. I know about Ambrosia but I've never made it myself so I am enjoying the process.
@@spiritedsamph Me too . I have a tone of mods and it was fine . I didn't think to do it on another save though . My save was meant to be Disposable but I kind of like it now . I did have the mail sim stuck at my mailbox but that might have been where I placed it .I might have had a better chance for it to work as I only have the base game and there is less to go wrong .
Been playing the event tasks today and its really fun, especially coming in spooky October, its making me play out of my comfort zone!
I love this but I love Halloween/spooky game play I think this would be INFURIATING if it was any other theme lol
I actually found your account because I wanted to learn how you make ambrosia and you had just made a video on it. Many years later and a full on sims addiction.. I'm still here! 🖤
also.. when they updated recently.. we lost our rewards from the last one.... so. there's that...
We what? I thought I still had mine.
From what I am seeing and hearing, a LOT of ppl lost them in the latest update.. myself included..
I played through the tasks last night in my 100 Baby Challenge save. It was kind of fun doing something besides taking care of the kids for once. Only one part of the tasks didn’t check off for me but that’s apparently related to a mod issue that I should be able to correct tonight. Unlocked everything but the last item for this week. There are apparently a lot of mods that cause issues with the event and the event’s UI menu.
super early to a simsie video!!!!!
I really agree with your idea for your preference for how the event should work because the best I can hope for is being able to do everything to finish the event within 1 at most 2 days once everything is unlocked because I do not have the space for Sims on my pc right now and it's very unlikely that I could fix that before this event is gone forever and borrowing another pc for the whole event is just not possible :'(
I spent longer making the sim and house to play this than i did playing the gameplay lol 😅
For anyone (non-console) finding that the plant a lily/snapdragon task are not getting ticked off; check to see if you have UI Cheats Extension installed in your Mods, if so temporarily remove it, reload the save and plant the flowers, then you can reinstall the mod; if you don't have UI Cheats, try running a repair on your game *after* taking a safety save of your save files.
Surprise surprise it doesn’t work 😂
It worked for me, I just deleted MCCC and UI cheats temporarily
With how this event in particular is set up, I think it would be really great if they would make these replayable as a quest/challenge kind of thing, since it's honestly a fun and helpful way to explore more about the game. They could just have events like this as a limited time thing leading up to the expansion pack release, and then x amount of months after the pack comes out, the challenge gets released as a repeatable quest thing that anyone can do whenever if they want to earn the rewards. I think that could honestly add a really great new element to the game. I personally love challenges like this in particular, so I wish I could play sims like this all the time.
Does anyone know how to OPT OUT of this?? I don't want to play and the windows keep popping open in the corner, especially when I travel to a new lot.
I think you have to be online to partake, so if you turn off your wifi maybe you won't have deal with it 😊
go offline
I get the idea behind the event to build up hype for the upcoming pack and teach the players about ambrosia but something about having a season pass in the Sims 4 doesn't sit right with me.
Can they go back and give everyone the first event rewards to make up for their botched release and not having it tied to your account? I saved and copied over my file for it and it still didn't work :/
Right? It was free stuff anyway! I really do not care if people can get the items who missed out in the first place, heck, I'm all for it. It hurts nobody for them to just give it to everyone as an sdx or something, and given the issues with the .ini getting deleted by repairing, or console players just having no way to restore things at all, it sucks the way it is now.
@@TiaKatt I've seen some people complain that 'if they gave it to everyone, it wouldn't be fair to the people who put the effort into logging on every week!' but I really think the majority of people don't care at all and would be glad for other players to also get free content
@@wow2926 what effort? I literally loaded the game while feeding my cats and logged back off as soon as I claimed the rewards. People are ridiculous.
@@wow2926 Their argument is extra silly in light of the fact that dozens of items that used to be $$pack-exclusive$$ are now base game (vending machines, industrial loft windows, and hot tubs to name a few). So why would anyone care about players getting a handful of free items? Logging in is not effort lol
@@VS-kf5qw Exactly. Considering how many CAS items people paid for only to have EA make them free for everyone, I don't think people have any room to complain about a free reward being given to everyone.