Have you sufficiently advanced the story part with Ek ? What is your current stage with him ?For a couple reasons that kind of dovetail. Having never needed to use the cheats before, I routinely forget they're available. I know where they are, I just forget they're there.
It bothers me a bit that I do finally have to use it, because I can't see any other way to raise that fucking bug's affection over 10.
Have you learned "How to Build" ? Have you build a workbench in front of your garden ?
These are -some of?- the conditions which are needed to advance to the next part of the story with the Pixie (i.e. you must create a Bee House Scroll, AFAIR).