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Tree of emotion question
mcrudd
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Hi there, so I am busy updating all my collection rooms. The last room that needs updating is the garden rooms and ofcourse once that is done the full collection. I am however stuck with the tree of emotion berries. I have planted each individual one because if you get a tree to perfect stage only one berry is perfect the rest are not, so now I am trying to get each tree to perfect and then graft each tree onto each other to hopefully get a tree full of perfect berries, my poor sim is gardening 24 hours a simday LOL. Am I wasting my time and all berries remain normal stage or will I somehow someday get my perfect berries 
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Berries do improve on the black bean splice, but I haven't tried with just the trees. I think with the trees, only the berry which was planted improves and the others are normal. So I'm not sure splicing would get around that. You'd probably end up with a mix of normal and perfect berries.
Excellent berry from its own berry type grown tree,
Others normal from other trees but they are excellent state.
However, I'm not sure what would happen if you planted a perfect berry -- whether all the berries would be perfect in that case or still just the type of berry that was planted.
I am thinking of planting the 7 perfect berries and then grafting their trees, but hey maybe I am lucky and like you said perhaps one perfect berry planted will make them all perfect, will just play it out and see
and really, @mcrudd, you should use the herbs! basil, parsley, sage. those things spawn their harvestables so fast and are so easy to hit perfect with that i graft everything else to them to get perfect quality harvestables. did seven different ones for the emotional berries. it's such a quick and cheaty way to get perfect plants...and entirely too many harvestables. i'm swimming in avacados and black beans just from the herbs i grafted those two onto while waiting on the trees to grow
Had to graft them all together.
Grafting is when you take cuttings from one plant and graft it onto another to make a multiple fruit plant on one tree/bush. Or you can graft tree fruits on smaller bushes so you can have them indoors or on balconies in the game.
I should have, but it took me a while to figure out that the one tree is actually 7 seperate trees in one LOL, I am not a smart cookie when it comes to grafting. I have my perfect berries for my collections now, so all good
also, wanted to say thank you for uploading your perfect collections. i usually work to get all my own on my own, but was very, very happy for yours when i was working on putting households back to how they were before a save file corruption
I usually go the long way with getting plants to perfect especially ones I don't want spliced, I have a good collection of growfruit for that though LOL. I took a bit longer than usual to start updating my collection rooms just because it was not as easy this time round, my sim had to go and quite a few adventures and she authenticated what felt like millions of artifacts before she got the true collection hahahaha. But otherwise I try to get them updated as soon as I can. Glad to hear they came in handy for you, I use them because I don't want every single new gameplay to have to redo the collections everytime.
Artifacts don't keep their authentication when you save the lot and place it in a new game. You have to authenticate them again and if you sell them without doing so, they're only worth around 20 simoleins. I found that out when I placed a lot with artifacts worth 400 simoleins in a new game because I wanted to vampire proof the house and put the cat mailbox on the lot.
Yip I noticed that too so warned simmers in my upload, its sad cause they look so pretty once authenticated, but what I did was upload them with their clay look, I always test things before uploading it to make sure its all there as I know the game sometimes does not upload items or like this it took away the authentication. Thanks for the heads up too
as for nonspliced plants, as soon as i get a perfect fruit or veggie off one of the spliced herbs, i'll plant it and get a perfect plant of that type, so quick route to that, too (for some of the plants, i like nonspliced. partially because they just look better)
but i also have an ever-changing botanical gardens lot that has all the plants (both build mode and harvestable) in some attempt at trying to mimic the san francisco botanical gardens and also use all the available plants in ts4, several museums that split all the collections between them, and some other things. i...kind of like collecting, and have a hard time not trying to get my sims to complete a collection as soon as they find one thing from it
But for the purpose of completing a collection, and for saving space, would it be possible to graft all types of the tree of emotions onto one tree?
as for the tree of emotions, if it's that tree itself, it will grow all seven berries, no matter which berry you plant. just splicing onto other plants needs a cutting from each of the 7 versions of the tree. you could put them all on one plant yeah, but it'd be a plant that now has a chance to produce 8 different harvestables, so unlikely you'd get all 7 berries and whatever the base plant was per harvest
They patched it so that artifacts keep their authentication when you save the lot and place it in a new game. I haven't tested to see if that patch still works though.
And for sure you can no longer get 10 harvestables per plant with the recent patches. ETA If they were spliced.