Geeker Goes Gardener
Feb. 28th, 2015 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickPlayed a few more days of Geeker McTest's life, as the title indicates. Not only has he gotten into gardening, he also:
--> made his first real friend with a girl he met on vacation, Leslie
--> got into gourmet cooking (which is a separate skill from ordinary cooking!)
--> got promoted at his job (now an Ace Engineer)
--> fulfilled another milestone in his aspiration (they have those now, they're mini-goals toward a bigger reward, usually a new trait)
--> and found some new uncommon collectibles, like a couple of MySims statues and a Sunflower frog.
I also learned that fish apparently can go bad in your inventory, so I mounted a bunch of his catches. These apparently make Sims Confident when nearby, so now his house is a den of confidence. XD I should probably rearrange things so he has better-themed decorations for all the areas of his home. . . I'm looking up guides now to help with this. Sims 4 is complicated, yo~
Right now, though, I shall share with you pictures of his little plot of earth:
Geeker starting his garden, which was harder that anticipated because I'm used to it working the Sims 2 way (you click on the plot of earth to choose what you want to plant). Here, you buy seeds through the plot of earth, which can be opened in your inventory and yield starter plants, like spinach and basil. What you do then is drag one of those starter plants to the planter box, and THEN you can direct your Sim to plant it. I honestly think you should just be able to click on "plant" straight from the inventory, but whatever. I figured it out and had him plant one of the potatoes and one of the carrots he harvested in Granite Falls, along with the basil he got there and some parsley he got from the starter seed packet.
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And here's the garden in bloom, as Geeker weeds! The plants require weeding and watering, like in Sims 2, and their health is indicated by a flower pop-up that gets greener and happier the better the plant is doing. Unlike Sims 2, the plants are persistent after harvests, and you can "evolve" them to improve your produce -- Geeker's already evolved his potato plant. Fun!
So yeah, he's set with raw materials for food for a while. :P
In non-Sims news, visit to the dentist went fine this morning, despite some utility work blocking the entrance I was going to use. Got there in plenty of time, got teeth cleaned, scheduled next appointment, and all is well with the world. Gave the house a thorough cleaning once I got home, then caught up with a bunch of stuff (mostly Linkara's ROMtrospective), played Sims 4, did 40 minutes on the elliptical (working on getting back into the exercise habit), and did a page on "Remembering You." So I guess it's been a pretty productive day. Currently I'm catching up on all my RP replies (no surprise there), so I probably should get back to that. Later!
--> made his first real friend with a girl he met on vacation, Leslie
--> got into gourmet cooking (which is a separate skill from ordinary cooking!)
--> got promoted at his job (now an Ace Engineer)
--> fulfilled another milestone in his aspiration (they have those now, they're mini-goals toward a bigger reward, usually a new trait)
--> and found some new uncommon collectibles, like a couple of MySims statues and a Sunflower frog.
I also learned that fish apparently can go bad in your inventory, so I mounted a bunch of his catches. These apparently make Sims Confident when nearby, so now his house is a den of confidence. XD I should probably rearrange things so he has better-themed decorations for all the areas of his home. . . I'm looking up guides now to help with this. Sims 4 is complicated, yo~
Right now, though, I shall share with you pictures of his little plot of earth:
Geeker starting his garden, which was harder that anticipated because I'm used to it working the Sims 2 way (you click on the plot of earth to choose what you want to plant). Here, you buy seeds through the plot of earth, which can be opened in your inventory and yield starter plants, like spinach and basil. What you do then is drag one of those starter plants to the planter box, and THEN you can direct your Sim to plant it. I honestly think you should just be able to click on "plant" straight from the inventory, but whatever. I figured it out and had him plant one of the potatoes and one of the carrots he harvested in Granite Falls, along with the basil he got there and some parsley he got from the starter seed packet.
upload images
And here's the garden in bloom, as Geeker weeds! The plants require weeding and watering, like in Sims 2, and their health is indicated by a flower pop-up that gets greener and happier the better the plant is doing. Unlike Sims 2, the plants are persistent after harvests, and you can "evolve" them to improve your produce -- Geeker's already evolved his potato plant. Fun!
So yeah, he's set with raw materials for food for a while. :P
In non-Sims news, visit to the dentist went fine this morning, despite some utility work blocking the entrance I was going to use. Got there in plenty of time, got teeth cleaned, scheduled next appointment, and all is well with the world. Gave the house a thorough cleaning once I got home, then caught up with a bunch of stuff (mostly Linkara's ROMtrospective), played Sims 4, did 40 minutes on the elliptical (working on getting back into the exercise habit), and did a page on "Remembering You." So I guess it's been a pretty productive day. Currently I'm catching up on all my RP replies (no surprise there), so I probably should get back to that. Later!
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Date: 2015-03-01 04:47 pm (UTC)Besides, I'm trying to get in the mindset to write the AL-and-Data fics I've been trying to figure out (been on a Trek kick for a while). :) The spirit is willing, the body...not so much. :/
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Date: 2015-03-02 01:54 am (UTC)Ahhh, I see. That's always the worst -- when you have the ideas but either they're not coming out right or you're too tired or busy to do them justice. Or all three. >.< *patpat*