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A sincere plea!
bshag4lv
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Please, please, we need those horrible leaf piles fixed!! There is nothing I can do to get rid of these really nasty piles of green fog and hundreds of flies! A couple of my sims live next to a public area and there are at least 3-4 piles of green nastiness around their houses so that when they go outside, they always have the filthy surroundings moods. Kinda bad when you can't even go swimming in your own pool. Please fix this!
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It really brings down the entire neighborhood.
It doesn't get rid of the leaf pile, but it does stop them from stinking and ruining the atmosphere. I did try the one that gets rid of the leaf piles, but my game kept throwing errors with that one. Here is a link to the mod I was telling you about.
https://www.deichschafblog.de/s4/mods-fuer-jahreszeiten/
Update, what a lovely site, I've put it in my favs. I grabbed some of her other mods too.
In less seriousness I created a leaf burning holiday at the end of fall lol
Another problem...I've tried burning the piles but they just go out. I had a sim standing outside all day trying to burn leaves, bummer. @Bearpal64, I would love to have that holiday!
My unmodded Del Sol Valley save had leaf piles spawned on day 1 of fall, no tree was losing leaves at that point, and yet.
So many cool features in theory end up being plain annoying in the game because they happen too much / all the time.
It's like for the devs, no one is playing their life simulation more than 5 minutes at a time. Leaf piles have to be spawned right away everywhere so people notice the new gameplay, and obviously no one will play long enough for them to decay, don't be absurd.
What a great idea! Do you mind if I poach it from you?
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If you wait too long between burns, you will need to do it more than 3 times because new leaves will be added that take it back to needing 3 burns.
I suggest waiting until the very last day of Autumn to bother burning, or even the very beginning of winter. Piles will just come right back anyway until Autumn is over.
Also, once you install the mod that keeps the piles from rotting, it will stop new piles from going foul, but any piles that existed in that state already stay that way I think....I recall that being what happened when I started using the mod.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Edit to say, I have the mod from the link LaBlue gave me, so I've noticed there are some newer ones that look normal plus the green stinky ones...and now it's spring.
If it's spring, you should be able to burn all the leaves present and they won't return until autumn. There's another mod at that same site that lets you get rid of them quickly with 3 clicks rather than having to wait for the burn, if you want to clean them up more quickly than burning. I generally just leave all the piles (using the mod so they don't get stinky), year round..except for areas where I'm going to take screenshots.
And you're welcome, @fallenangel66.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
We have a patch coming Tuesday so fingers crossed. The Broken Leaf Woohoo also needs fixing.