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6th Jan 2022 at 8:19 AM
Last edited by chitownriverscum : 6th Jan 2022 at
8:44 PM.
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Native simming, part 4: The 18th Century Cup O' Noodles?
Hello again. Does anyone know what would cause all food options to disappear, except for the lousy, stupid, disgusting Instant Meal? Ahem - I should preface this - for those who haven't read my previous posts - by telling you that my lot is a mostly outdoors Illinois Native village, circa 1745, with a few lodges around a central "cooking area", or at least that's the ideal that I'm aiming for. I've finally got everything
looking passably cool, so now it's time to serve dinner... Dad has defended the village from marauding predators, so there's plenty of dead bears. Unfortunately, I'm missing some vital step in the Sun & Moon Hunting mod from Plumbob, and my Sims just shrug when I point them at the skinning rack, but never mind - I can always use the meat as food stocks, right? And, cramming the giant, hairy beasts into the (carefully hidden) Shiny Time fridge gives the youngsters something to do in the evenings. Below: Nowatuwa casts a spear at a bear outside the stockade.
But what can I make out of all this delicious bear meat, not to mention all the harvested corn, pumpkin, peppers, chestnuts -- oh yeah, I've even got a persimmon tree that drops fruit periodically. My Sims are ROLLING in foodstocks. But sadly, as it turns out, absolutely zilch to be done with them. When I click the fridge, the only option for dinner is the [expletive] motherbleeping Instant Meal. Sorry kids, the fridge is full of food, but looks like it's... RAMEN again tonight. (Collective groan.)
So what gives? After trying every outdoor, primitive-looking cooking device that's been created, I gave up on that plan of action, and settled on just using a regular stove, and keeping it out of sight so as not to offend my living-history sensibilities. But still, all I can cook is the instant meal. I have a real, full-sized fridge. I've artificially jacked up everyone's cooking skills, so it's not that. I moved my stove into a lodge... is it because my houses have no doors, and the game thinks everything is outside? Would that even make a difference? I swear that I had a sim make some blackened catfish a while back, and then I did a big cleanup and trashed a bunch of giant downloads (possibly including the cooker used to fry the fish). But still, I have all the usual Maxis-made stoves to choose from. Mostly, what my Sims do when they're hungry is let the Medieval Food-Spawning Platter (which I installed, in desperation, rather than let them starve) generate a random shepherd's pie or gooseberry tart. But I'd rather have them cook their own meals - I spent enough time acquiring all the above-mentioned goodies for them. The platter is visible atop the barrel outside the lodge.
SO... I'm going to try buying ALL the cooktops in my catalog, and ALL the fridges, and see if any of them work better than others (I feel like I'm on America's Test Kitchen) but what I'm asking is: what's the logic here? Do some stoves work differently than others, given that their "hunger stats" are the same? Is it an indoor/outdoor thing? Should I put invisible doors on the lodges? Does that even make sense? I mean, if nothing else works, I can always go back and re-install the Russian Stove, or whatever one I had before, but I like to understand what's going on. I know, I know... could be I have some other funky CC installed, like a post office mod that somehow is affecting things totally unrelated to it, right? But before I go sifting through everything AGAIN, I thought I'd see if there's a more obvious issue at play here that someone could clue me into.
Below: The nicely deco, but otherwise totally useless kettle, bubbling on the fire; while inside the big lodge, we see the Highland Hearth stove, taking up lots of living space while looking cute, but performing no other useful function.
Thanks for letting me rant.