Just got the new DLC and enjoying it a lot, but something grabbed my attention. I'm not exactly an expert on the topic but I find it a little odd for caracals to be one of the highest climbing space demanding animals in the game. Is this a bug or there is actually some truth to it?
Do Caracals really need as much Climbing Space as Clouded Leopards?
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Alright I'll answer this one aswell
'Caracals spend virtually all their time on the ground, but are also adept at climbing trees and masses of broken rock when they need to' - urban Caracal project
Similar to most medium sized cats, Caracal mainly lives on the ground but has the ability to climb when it needs to. Clouded leopards however love trees with body features designed to swiftly hunt from them. I would personally add it to the big list of wrong animal requirements
However the caracals I have in my zoo don't actually spend most of their time climbing like clouded leopards do. Mostly a mix of sleeping, walking around the ground and occasionally jumping up on top of my rock wall I built for them. They have a nice climbing frame but don't use it that much
'Caracals spend virtually all their time on the ground, but are also adept at climbing trees and masses of broken rock when they need to' - urban Caracal project
Similar to most medium sized cats, Caracal mainly lives on the ground but has the ability to climb when it needs to. Clouded leopards however love trees with body features designed to swiftly hunt from them. I would personally add it to the big list of wrong animal requirements
However the caracals I have in my zoo don't actually spend most of their time climbing like clouded leopards do. Mostly a mix of sleeping, walking around the ground and occasionally jumping up on top of my rock wall I built for them. They have a nice climbing frame but don't use it that much
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Pretty much like lynxes then?
Yeah treat them like lynxes
They're even called Persian lynxes too.
That is a little difficult to do as I don't play sandbox... My caracals in the game are demanding as much climbing area as my clouded leopards. Right now their habitat looks like an ape or leopard habitat more than a lynx or caracal... I hope Frontier sees this thread and takes note for a future update.
I generally use climbable trees aswell to boost climbing area rather than having absolutely tons of climbing frames in a desert like habitat. It is weird though why a medium cat in a desert needs as much climbing area as a jungle cat
A family of caracals demand around 2500 square feet of climbing space (200-250 square meters?), so that makes it a little difficult to "hide" the climbing requirement with trees. Especially with them also demanding little coverage, which makes sense because they are dryland animals but not helping the climbing area situation. I think the only way this can be fixed is if Frontier addresses the caracal climbing requirement.
I hope it is a bug and not intended. Even the additional animal climbing requirement is identical to the clouded leopard, so maybe they forgot to change the figures when making the caracal profile from a clouded leopard file. I don't know how it works with game development, but it feels like this is the case here.
I think this also supports my theory. Like you I've noticed they don't use the climbing frames as much. It is obvious they aren't coded to be on top of climbing frames all the time. They use them only as much as my lynxes do. So maybe that requirement is really some sort of oversight.
Yes. you should mention this in the most recent update notes and maybe raise a bug report. A caracal wouldn't and shouldn't climb nearly as much as a clouded leopard or a lynx.