Cake and birthday cake disappeared

Bug Reports
1

  • Game Version: 20260114.9803.W

  • Platform: (Steam windows / Steam Mac / Mac)

  • Mods: (Choose one: never used / removed / active)
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  • Hardware Specifications & Operating System (OS version, CPU, GPU, RAM, storage…): 12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-12700H (2.30 GHz), RAM 16,0 GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU

  • Steps to Reproduce: food preparation

One of my Zois needs to celebrate a birthday.

When clicking on the refrigerator, “Prepare food” action, the Birthday Cake and Cake dishes disappeared.

I tried in different families and also in different saves, but it’s not there.

In the birthday event, however, the cake is required to complete some actions

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2

There’s a birthday event implemented? I haven’t seen that in 700 hours of gameplay :face_with_crossed_out_eyes:

The cakes were deliberately patched out of the game quite a while ago, if I remember correctly. I assume, the “real bug” is the event still triggering :thinking:

3

Wait, they patched out the . . . CAKES?

Why? :sob:

4

You create the birthday event from programming > create event > party. Choose location, time and guests

The cake was removed recently, I had used it for a birthday a short time ago.

The photo is from December 18th. The birthday person had forgotten about it and cooked it directly at Cherry Park (my modified Liberty plaza).

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5

Only the birthday cake. But you need that one to blow out the candles and make a wish :sob:

6

Guys, we were mistaken! The devs re-categorized both cakes. They’re now listed as baking goods and you can find them when baking at any oven.

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7

Oh, thank you! I always cook from the refrigerator and had no idea there were products that can only be cooked in the oven