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Can't make a potion
kati77
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I know this is a bug, so I wish someone has some idea, what I could do. I already tried resetting my spellcaster, but it didn't help.
The problem is, that my sims knows the recipe for the curse cleansing potion, and I'd like her to make it, to have in stock for her students. Also she has all the ingredients. But, when I click the option for her to brew it, nothing happens. It doesn't even show up on her task list. Any other potion she knows and has ingredients for works.
I think it may have something to do with the fact that I had her making it, when I saved a game, which left her standing around the next time I opened to game. In which point I decided the household should move, so the pot where she had been brewing it was left (or sold with the furniture) in the old house. I don't think there's way to get her to resume that potion anymore, so is there anything I can do, or do I just have to accept that she can no longer make it?
A mod free solution would be welcome.
The problem is, that my sims knows the recipe for the curse cleansing potion, and I'd like her to make it, to have in stock for her students. Also she has all the ingredients. But, when I click the option for her to brew it, nothing happens. It doesn't even show up on her task list. Any other potion she knows and has ingredients for works.
I think it may have something to do with the fact that I had her making it, when I saved a game, which left her standing around the next time I opened to game. In which point I decided the household should move, so the pot where she had been brewing it was left (or sold with the furniture) in the old house. I don't think there's way to get her to resume that potion anymore, so is there anything I can do, or do I just have to accept that she can no longer make it?
A mod free solution would be welcome.
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A drastic fix may be for her to take the Rite of Dissolution, wait out the cooldown (of however many Sim days it is) and re-become a Spellcaster from scratch.
Thanks, I think I'll just leave her without that potion, because I don't want to go to an earlier save anymore. Also, she's close to the highest level of spellcaster, so I don't want to start over with her again.
But did the potion on the list show as if your sim had all the ingredients? Because I checked my sim's inventory, and she had all of them, well I'd put the fish in a fish tank, and it showed she didn't have it, but after I took it back into her inventory, she did. And it still didn't work.
Well, I actually decided to go back to the save, where the household hadn't moved yet, and now she finished making the potion, and is able to make it in her new house, too. Luckily I didn't lose much game play, since the one day I'd played since the move, I'd just spent trying to get her to make the potion in different locations.
Yes, it was on the list like my sim had all the ingredients. Luckily, this bug went no further and I was able to brew a potion after purchasing some apples.
Restarting the game and opening the neighborhood editor is very glitchy in TS4. Better not saving while your sims are in the middle of something.
I think I learned that now.
How do you copypaste it?
It's one of the Practical spells! You learn it at Adept level. You can use Repario (Practical spell, Apprentice level) to boost the quality of the free sample you get, then use Copypasto to duplicate it. Definitely save beforehand in case it backfires, though, which can destroy the sample.
Anyway, this is what worked for me. I removed the ingredients from the sim's inventory and put them in a chest, then clicked 'Brew Potion' again just to look at the list (no brew option since no ingredients). Then I 'Experimented' on the cauldron for a few seconds to see if that worked (it did). Then I made some Chili in it, because why not? Then I retrieved my potion ingredients from the chest and the Brewing action worked correctly after all that. The action was added to the queue, and my sim successfully created the potion. I don't know what actually fixed it, so I listed everything I did.
I know this is an older thread, but it was at the top of the Google search so I think it's important that helpful info goes into it. Best of luck.