Updated Feb 2010- I remade this with WA and HELS, latest patch. It works with this configuration, I do not know if it works with any other. There is only one version now, no hygeine loss and a small fun gain. The mood tweaks affect all sims.
This Mod I did for myself, but I thought others might like it.
Updated: Fertilizing now works, as does omniplant. Updated motive version. Please redownload. You'll have to manually delete the old version, the file names have changed.
Updated again: Added seed collection and live plant disposal as suggested in my thread at MTS2.
What it does:
Children can plant, and plant many. They can water, fertilize, talk to, harvest and dispose of dead plants. They can also cash in money bags harvested from money trees, and feed and harvest OmniPlants. They will gain gardening skills while gardening, as adults do. In response to a comment below, I state this to clarify that children will get skills while performing gardeing tasks, just as adults do.
Other stuff:
The graphics are wonky. I can't change that. When children plant and weed, they become really tall during the action, then go back to normal after. When watering they don't stretch out, but they lack a watering can. I find the temporary graphical glitches worth it to be able to have children grow their own veggies.
The two versions are now:
ChildGarden.package - basic children can garden mod
ChildGardenPlusMotives.package - as above plus less hygiene decay and slightly more fun (ala JoshiJacks lowest fun gain setting). The Hygiene decay is pretty drastically changed (hardly any decay) and the fun gain is only mildy improved, which is how I want it in my game. So thats whatcha get!
Other modders are free to use my changes with other modders/their own changes if they would like something else in their game.
I've tested this pretty extensively, but please let me know if you find any problems not mentioned above.
As far as I know this does not conflict with AwesomeMod in any way, I've been using both together without problems. Should also be compatible with Black Spirits harvest mod since he alters a file I don't use for this mod. Enjoy!
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