Maybe catch butterflies or fireflies has a percentage chance of getting a bug for the bug collection.

Or maybe iforgot has a mod? I seem to remember they are maybe playing Chris Hatch's EP.

I doubt hatch would have altered that. In any case, we'll have it your ways.

It didn't happen, I'm imagining things, going crazy, or whatever.

I can't be bothered to argue about such a stupid thing.

Oh, I wasn't arguing, apologies if it came across as that! It's just that this is definitely something that happens with bug hunting, and you did mention you have a lot of mods and an unofficial EP. But maybe it's as Charity says and it's a rare thing with butterfly collecting.

Well, I did some digging to clear my name.

To make it fair, I did this with a completely clean objects package - the one from the ultimate collection (The real one, not the fake Mr DJ one) and no third party mods at all.

So! Turns out we're both right.. sort of!

Firstly, let's look into the interaction "catch butterfly":



We can see here, this leads us to run the catch interaction on an object with GUID 0x7216D4E0. Let's look for it!



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Now, we can see below it has an interaction "Interaction - Catch". What does this function do I wonder? Well, it leads us to run a tree called "CT - Hunt Butterfly":


Aha! And now, we can see here:


That this particular function is directly linked to the bug hunting interactions, and will trigger the bug collection actions. Therefore, we can see that this function can and will trigger the notification I had previously shown.

I rest my case.

You could have used a lot less effort if you just checked the wiki lol. https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Bug_collecting

With FreeTime, trying to catch butterflies or fireflies will build nature enthusiasm, as will viewing captured ones. Also, Sims who catch butterflies might occasionally put them in their bug collection.

Very cool, great detective work! I'll make sure to catch more butterflies and fireflies, I've never yet seen this happen (although I have seen the bugs 'escape' from the box).


Good thinking, but my engineering brain trusts the code much more that something someone wrote on a public wiki. Nice to see it's correct though, I'm always happy to be proved wrong, especially when I learn something new about the game!

Same!

It could be argued (without evidence) that the wiki information is inaccurate, or holding misinformation due to wording, interpretation etc. Thus cannot truly resolve the dispute. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they do their very best to be accurate, but the games object file and information given can be verified by anyone easily.