The Cowplant can be a great addition to a Sim’s home in The Sims 4, but only if players remember to feed it.
The Cowplant in The Sims 4 is one of the most unique plants in the entire game. When fully grown, it becomes a sentient creature that requires daily nourishment in order for it to thrive. Unlike other plants, the Cowplant will become aggressive if not fed every twelve hours and will sometimes attempt to eat Sims if it’s hungry.
Before players can grow a Cowplant in The Sims 4, they must first find a Cowplant Berry and plant it. After a few days, the Cowplant Berry will grow into a Cowplant, and players will need to start caring for it immediately. There are five ways to acquire Cowplant Berries, but some methods are easier than others.
Updated on October 26, 2025, by Ashely Claudino: The Life & Death expansion pack turned ghost Sims into proper Occult Sims by greatly improve their unique mechanics, giving them a mastery tree, and more interactions. It also added the Undead Cowplant, which is a ghost version of the well-know base game Cowplant. This guide has been updated with information on how to get an Undead Cowplant in The Sims 4.
How To Get A Cowplant Berry In The Sims 4
Players can acquire Cowplant Berries through Digging, Space Exploration, Fishing, Ordering Seeds, and Grafting. Each activity, when done in a certain way or at a specific location, has a chance of rewarding players with the berry they seek, but not all methods are as reliable as others.
Players hoping to create an endless source of Cowplant Berries can do so through the Gardening Skill, but this method requires a pretty hefty amount of work. First, a Sim must reach Level 5 in the Gardening Skill, after which they will gain the option to cut and graft plants.
Players will then need to grow a Strawberry bush and a Snapdragon flower, the seeds of which can be found in the garden behind the bungalow in the bottom right corner of Willow Creek’s map. Once each plant is fully grown, they can be cut and grafted onto each other. Doing this will cause each plant to produce Dragonfruit for Sims to harvest.
After planting the Dragonfruit and waiting until it’s fully grown, players can graft it with a Snapdragon flower, which will cause the resulting plant to produce Cowplant Berries.
The chance of obtaining a Cowplant Berry by exploring space is pretty random. To make matters worse, pursuing the Astronaut career is also quite time-consuming, so players may wish to avoid seeking out a Cowplant Berry with this method.
That said, those who already have access to a Rocket should at least consider acquiring a Cowplant Berry by exploring space, as the venture can reward them with other unique items as well.
