We wanted a game pack, and we got an update instead. Granted, this Sims 4 update comes with a little bit more flavor. Dubbed ‘Spring Challenge,’ the patch, as previously reported , includes an Easter egg hunt and a growfruit challenge. Alongside a bit of holiday fun, The Sims team fixed a few longstanding issues.
The highlights from the update allow you to move wall hanging items a bit easier. There are also aesthetic changes to the gallery, and quite a few skillbuilding fixes: the Cupcake machine counts toward food prep, the ‘Perform Routine In Space’ comedy set counts toward routine practice, the yoga mat counts as workout equipment and your Sims will actually finish reading a book.
We also have a few more details about both the Growfruit Challenge and Easter Egg Hunt.
Characterized by a distinctive glow, growfruit is a tasty treat, a great fertilizer and a superb ingredient. To start growing growfruit, you first must find Jasmine Holiday in the Community Gardens of Willow Creek or Oasis Springs. She’ll stick out like a sore thumb in her pink blazer with a picture of a bright green growfruit plastered on her back. She interacts five different ways:
Ask for Growfruit Starter Pack
Ask for Fertilizer
Ask About Growfruit Challenge
Ask About Egg Hunt
Give Growfruit
Your goal is to harvest 20 growfruit and put them in your inventory. Treat growfruit just like any other plant: make sure you water and weed daily. Once the tree grows, harvest your new fruits. Once you have 20, find Jasmine again to receive your special growfruit challenge garden pot. However, Jasmine will also grant you another chance to grow the perfect growfruit for an additional planter pot. To achieve this, you’ll have to take special care of you growfruit tree until it glows. Then, you’ll want to tell it to evolve. Use fertilizers or fish to speed up this process.
The Easter Egg challenge is much more simple. Find the 10 decorative eggs by searching for fallen logs in your neighborhood. Interact with the log and you’ll be prompted to search for frogs. You’ll end up with an Easter egg, frog, or both. You may also come across an egg while harvesting a plant or digging under a rock for treasure. Once you’ve collected 10, look in your mailbox for a big stuffed bunny.
SimGuruPanda included an outline of additional patch features in the Sims forums :
Gallery lots that have been bulldozed will no longer maintain the pre-bulldozed "original by" information when uploaded to the Gallery.
Gallery uploads that are using custom thumbnails will now be marked as custom content.
Sims will now finish reading a book!
Using moo, to moove wall objects that have a "preferred" height (wall book shelves, mirrors), will no longer reset their position when picking them up from their new moo position.
Ok…how many of you read that as “new moo poo-sition”?
Mooving a room that has moo'd objects within it, will no longer incorrectly reset or place in inventory, the moo’d moved objects.
"Using the cupcake machine (OF DOOM*) will now count towards your daily requirement to prepare food in the culinary career (OF DOOM*).
* OF DOOM references are for enhanced reading experience only, and are not present in game. Sound fx have not been added post editing. AA batteries sold separately. Batteries however are not required for your text reading experience, unless you are reading on an ancient hand held device that actually runs on AA batteries. In which case I apologize for the “ancient” reference.
Ownership of an activity table, in regards to the completion of the "Have an Activity Table" aspirational goal of the Artistic Prodigy aspiration, no longer fails if the ownership occurred prior or post to the goals presence.
“Perform Routine in Space” will now properly count towards the “Perform 3 Comedy Routines” aspirational goal for Joke Star aspiration.
… pigs in space…
For no reason except to date myself…
The whim “Send Happy Text” will now properly complete if the interaction is initiated from the phone menu.
Becoming friends with siblings (who are of the child age) will now properly track against the "Become Friends with 3 Other Children" goal of the Social Butterfly aspiration.
Outdoor Retreat
Ultra or Super (fanatical, rabid, outlandish, drastic, ludicrous,…. )… Ludicrous speed (also known as Super Speed) should now properly work when Sims sleep or nap in a tent.
Dragging a stack of inventory items from one Sim to another Sim, should now properly drag the stack.
Interesting data point… knowledge that dragging from one Sims inventory to another Sim inventory was possible in The Sims 4 - less than 0.5% of players.
Spa Day
After a small debate, yoga has emerged victorious - and the Yoga Mat now counts as a piece of workout equipment when attempting to complete the Bodybuilder Aspiration.
On an unrelated side note, the original engineer would like to know the number of a good chiropractor.
Get Together
The “Light a Bonfire” whim should no longer appear if there is no bonfire near.
The whim "Dance to Stereo Music" will now properly complete if the Sim dances to music from the DJ booth.
