Like werewolves, plant sims are a bit more difficult to make, but they can prove rewarding during gameplay. Aside from their outward appearance with bright, leafy-green coloration of their skin, the golden eyes, and the change from mammalian hair to a crown of leaves, plant sims are fundamentally different from other Sims 2 creatures at multiple levels. Starting with the basics, their needs are markedly different from normal a normal sim’s.
What Do Plant Sims Need?
Plant sims have only three basic need as compared with the whopping eight needs of any normal sim. Note that vampires, werewolves, and witches all possess the standard eight needs of any normal sim. Plant sims stand alone in this respect. Having only three needs can make plant sims easy to play because there is a lot less micro-managing for the player. Simultaneously these three needs can be difficult to come by if a player is inexperienced and doesn’t know where to look to get what the plant sim needs.
The three basic needs are:
- Sunlight
- Water
- Love
Of these needs the most difficult to fulfill is sunlight. During the nighttime hours, and even in the daylight while indoors, a plant sim’s sunlight bar will drop. To keep the sunlight bar full indoors and during the nighttime, players should install greenhouse lights. These can be found under Build Mode in the Garden Center tab, not in Buy Mode under Lighting. Take note of this distinction as it is easy to forget and then become frustrated when the greenhouse lights are nowhere to be found.
Water and love are mostly self-explanatory. Having the plant sim eat or have a drink of any kind will fill this need, but so will taking a bath or washing their hands, thus making it an easily fulfilled need. Players should imagine the love need as being like any other sim’s social bar. Interact with other sims to keep this one high, and if the plant sim is alone on the lot, talk to the trees. With orchard trees it’s interesting to note that their health improves very quickly when there is a plant sim on the lot talking to them.
Plant Sim Aging and Reproduction
As with normal sims, plant sims age. They are not immortal like vampires. Also, plant sims have a unique ability to reproduce in old age in both males and females by clicking on the plant sim and selecting Grow Plantbaby. These are the only supernatural creatures in the Sims 2 universe that reproduce in this way. However, plant sims can also reproduce normally with another sim and produce normal offspring.
All of this has a negative side though. Plantbabies don’t need to be taught to walk, talk, or be potty trained and they never need to be put to bed. When their birthday comes they skip the child and teenager stage and head straight into adulthood. There’s no college for a plantbaby and only three stages of life for any plant sim: Toddler, Adult, and Elder.
Plant Sim Social Interactions
A few fun options players will find with their plant sims:
- Click on the sim and select Spores of Happiness. This will lower the plant sim’s needs slightly, but it will boost the motives of other sims around them as they inhale them.
- Grow Plantbaby as already mentioned spawns a toddler plant sim that will share all of the parent’s skills but will not be identical in appearance.
- Under the Prank option players will find the option to Pollen Cloud. The plant sim will blow pollen into another sim’s face.
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