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Frogs can be found in Logs and Water Pumps
In The Sims 4, Frogs can be caught and bred to make new types. Finding these little guys is guaranteed when you search a log or water pump (as in Forgotten Grotto). However, they can also be found in ponds, but this requires you to queue up multiple actions in order to catch the slippery critters. I'd do it with the game speed on at least 2, and continually click to add new Search for Frogs interactions with the Pond.
While Frogs were initially set at a rather low value, a patch changed them to be more valuable, particularly for the rarer breeds. You can easily get a few hundred Simoleons by catching frogs for several hours. In this Guide, I'll teach you all you need to know about collecting Frogs with a little help from Forum Member Kresh, who graciously provided information on Frog Breeding Mechanics.
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Ponds are the best places to find Frogs
Where to find Frogs
Skip the logs. You may have some luck here and there, but overall scouring each neighborhood for logs is just too time consuming. The best way to do it is to use the three ponds in the game. I first hit up the park in Willow Creek and got a good portion of my collection, probably about half. Afteward, a trip to Sylvan Glade provided some new types of Frogs. After several runs, my Frog collection was missing Spotted Heart, Heartsurfer, Dirtwhirl, Whirlyflower, and the Bullseye frog. Since I hadn't been there, I headed to Oasis Springs park and found all the missing ones.
To me, this provided proof that there are frogs common to all ponds, but different types may be found in each. If you are missing a particular frog, you can breed them to complete your collection. Read more on that below the list of Frogs.
There are 25 Types of Frog in The Sims 4
| Frog Name | Value | Rarity |
|---|---|---|
| Striped Leaf Frog | $10 | Common |
| Striped Dirt Frog | $30 | Common |
| Dirt Frog | $10 | Common |
| Leaf Frog | $10 | Common |
| Heart Frog | $10 | Common |
| Spotted Leaf Frog | $10 | Common |
| Spotted Dirt Frog | $30 | Common |
| Eggplant Frog | $10 | Common |
| Surfer Leaf Frog | $10 | Uncommon |
| Tiger Frog | $35 | Uncommon |
| Leopard Frog | $100 | Uncommon |
| Striped Eggplant Frog | $10 | Uncommon |
| Striped Heart Frog | $10 | Uncommon |
| DirtSurfer Frog | $100 | Uncommon |
| DirtWhirl Frog | $120 | Uncommon |
| Spotted Eggplant Frog | $10 | Uncommon |
| Spotted Heart Frog | $30 | Uncommon |
| Sunflower Frog | $30 | Uncommon |
| HypnoFrog | $25 | Uncommon |
| SunSurfer Frog | $125 | Rare |
| Eggplant Whirl Frog | $100 | Rare |
| Bullseye Frog | $100 | Rare |
| Heart Surfer Frog | $25 | Rare |
| Whirlyflower Frog | $160 | Rare |
| Surfer Eggplant Frog | $30 | Rare |
Mechanics of Combining Frogs
As mentioned before, the following information comes from Forum Member Kresh. I'm grateful for this, as it may have taken me some time to figure out myself. As Kresh explained, each Frog has two genes. One type, and one attribute. The table below shows what a frog's type will be when its type has a particular attribute.
Types are like the frog's basic type - they may be Leaf, Dirt, Eggplant, Heart, or Sunflower. An attribute of 'None' produces a frog of that generic type, ("Sunflower Frog", or "Dirt Frog") while spotted, striped, surf, and whirl are other attributes. Since each frog has two variables, you have a 25% chance of getting the desired Frog when combining them. So, take the following example:
A regular Dirt Frog has the 'Type' Dirt and the Attribute 'None'. Combining this with a Spotted Eggplant frog, Eggplant 'Type' and Spotted 'Attribute' may give you either A regular Eggplant Frog, a regular Dirt Frog, a Spotted Dirt Frog or a Spotted Eggplant frog. Gathering numerous frogs and combining intelligently can help you to finish your Frog Collection and get a decorative plaque in the mail. So, if you are missing a Spotted Eggplant Frog, get any kind of Spotted Frog and any type of Eggplant frog and combine them until you get lucky!
To understand this table, A Heart Frog with the Whirl Attribute will be a Bullseye Frog and A Dirt frog with the Surf Attribute will be a Dirtsurfer Frog. The table will not appear correctly on small mobile devices, so visit on your computer!| None | Striped | Spotted | Surf | Whirl | |
| Leaf | Leaf Frog | Striped Leaf | Spotted Leaf | Surfer Leaf | Hypnofrog |
| Dirt | Dirt Frog | Striped Dirt | Spotted Dirt | Dirtsurfer Frog | Dirtwhirl Frog |
| Eggplant | Eggplant Frog | Striped Eggplant | Spotted Eggplant | Surfer Eggplant | Eggplant Whirl |
| Heart | Heart Frog | Striped Heart | Spotted Heart | Heartsurfer | Bullseye Frog |
| Sunflower | Sunflower Frog | Tiger Frog | Leopard Frog | Sunsurfer Frog | Whirlyflower Frog |
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Why not spend time at the pond to catch frogs? Your sim may not catch a frog every time but they can try endlessly as the pond ALWAYS have frogs! I got all but three rare frogs in less than two sim days!
For a long time ponds were bugged and you couldn't catch frogs in them, only fish
With the addition of ponds that can be placed on your lot, you can try to catch frogs there with no cool down. :)
I have gotten some random frogs from combinations that should not have produced them (leopard frog with sunsurfer frog made a spotted eggplant frog, for example)
That is a correct breeding though as the leopard frog is one of the 'spootted' variety.
So breeding a Striped Leaf and a Heart will result in a Striped Heart, but can also result in another Stripped leaf and another Heart.
More info there in the last table on this guide page under the heading frog Types and Attributes. Just read across and down. Note that breeding 2 frogs together can result in the same as both types or the desired result so it is a bit of RNG luck which type you'll get. This means that it can take multiple breedings to get the missing frog you need.
So breeding a Striped Leaf and a Heart will result in a Striped Heart, but can also result in another Stripped leaf and another Heart.
If you use mods and or cc make sure they are not outdated and I'd also delete the localthumbcache.package file from your The Sims 4 folder even if you do not use mods/cc.
You can only fish in ponds not search frogs
Sorry if I sound panicky! I'm at a loss!
Once you have one type of heart frog you can just keep breeding it with the other variants to get the specific heart type you're missing. i.e. heart frog + striped leaf =(eventually) striped heart frog. If you have City Living you will sometimes see frogs for sale from various NPC's manning the market table stalls.
How do you catch frogs from ponds? Is there are trick to it? I rarely, if ever, get a frog when searching a pond so I have given up on it.
You really have to spend the entire day at a pond and constantly and continuously spam queue the action. It seems to go better if your sim is focused so 'Study Moves' on a chess table for a quick way to get focused. Different parks seem to give different frogs too, so move between Oasis Creek and Willow Creek parks as the day progresses. Don't be surprised if it takes you 2-3 days of constant frog catching spam-grind to complete collection. And remember you can also breed frogs together as you do this to try to get the types you are missing.
I just got a Sunflower Frog from a Dirt and Whirlyflower so something is missing
Whirly are a sunflower type so the result of a sunflower basic is normal.
From what I have discovered, that sounds about right. But your pairing might be different if your Dirt was the Breed frog with Whirlyflower versus your Whirlyflower being the Breed frog with Dirt. Not all the time, many times the breeding order does matter.
This does not help me to find out which frogs to use so I can breed other frogs. I would recommend adding this information if you know it. Thanks!
By reading the table across and along it shows you what the two x/y axis frog will make. All the information you need to target a missing frog breed is there in the table at the bottom of the guide.
The targeted frog is the 'most likely' outcome of breeding two frogs together but not the only outcome as you may also get one of the 'parent' frogs.
It helps to think of each combination as a "color" and "pattern," which you can visually confirm if you put the frog on the ground and zoom in for a closer look.
For colors, dirt is brown with yellow markings, leaf is green with black markings, sunflower is yellow with purple markings, heart is red with yellow markings, and eggplant is purple with blue markings. For patterns, "none" means the frog's back is the main color and it's legs are the marking color, striped is straight stripes along the body, spotted is spots, surf is wavy stripes meeting in the middle of the back to make a violin pattern, and whirl is one big spiral in the middle of the back.
Newly bred frogs inherit the color and pattern of one of their parents, so if you're looking for a specific color and pattern that you don't have, you need to breed a frog with the color you want with a frog with the pattern you want, and at best you have only a 25% chance of getting the combination you're seeking.
UPDATE: Sorry, for the "none" pattern, it turns out the legs aren't actually the marking color (leaf frogs have black markings, but their legs are always blue). No markings means just that, the frog's body is just the basic color, just this basic color is often a different color for the legs than for the rest of the body.
Anyhow, it's much easier to pay attention to frog color and pattern than to try to identify them by their pop culture reference names.
Great info. Well done!
Your information never lets me down! Thank you so much!
The info in frog breeding is incomplete as you can get any any frog along the Species line and Attribute column. I was getting Sunflower frogs when breeding Striped Dirt and Heart Frogs and while trying for Striped Leaf and Spotted Dirt I got a Dirt Whirl.
I know this article is old so I prob won’t get any responses… but I need the leaf frog and I need help figuring out how to get it.
I always found mass spamming of frog ponds in parks to be successful but you can breed them by following this guide Frog Collecting