Expand usage of enrichment items usable by 1 animal species

Aramar

Aramar
Currently we have 4 enrichment items that can be only used by one animal in the game:

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While the koala tree feeder makes sense to be only usable by koalas, the other 3 should be able to be used by more animals.

The mountain for goats should be added to the Dall Sheep at least. Hopefully we will get sometime a markhor, takin or Barbary sheep to use it too. Maybe a baboon too!

The termite mount should be added to the aardvark at least, maybe also to some of the primates.

The foraging wall for sun bears shoud be added to other bears, maybe also for the raccoon and red pandas.
 

Veah

Veah
Aramar said:
Currently we have 4 enrichment items that can be only used by one animal in the game:

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While the koala tree feeder makes sense to be only usable by koalas, the other 3 should be able to be used by more animals.

The mountain for goats should be added to the Dall Sheep at least. Hopefully we will get sometime a markhor, takin or Barbary sheep to use it too. Maybe a baboon too!

The termite mount should be added to the aardvark at least, maybe also to some of the primates.

The foraging wall for sun bears shoud be added to other bears, maybe also for the raccoon and red pandas.
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Those 3 are the most blatant examples as they can be used by just 1 animal, but let's not forget there are other enrichment items that should be suitable for lots of species as they are very versatile and currently there is a very small number of species that can use them (melon feeder, tree forager, chew toy, tug rope, SEA hammock, dingo water pool...)
 

Firestar97

Firestar97
Veah said:
SEA hammock
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Just thought about that one too. Other Bears should be able to use those too (Grizzly Bears seem to really enjoy it) and all the Primates

Veah said:
dingo water pool
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This one would be so great for Reptiles. It would be nice if the Elephants would actually use it and I mean not only the juveniles. The Adult Elephants would definitely enjoy too to spray the Water on their Back

The Underwater Plant Feeder should be usable by the Moose, the Hippo, the Pygmy Hippo and probably also the Tapir
 
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Firestar97

Firestar97
NZFanatic said:
Realistically, this thing should be useabe by basically all the bears, big cats, and primates. I'd love for it to be expanded to at least the cougar, snow leopard, and Japanese macaque though.
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That Thing in the Middle of a Hot Spring would be amazing. I'd love to see the Macaques using it.
A smaller Version for Meerkats would also be great because normally one is always guarding the others by standing on a elevated Place and looking for Danger. Not completely sure but I think Prairie Dogs might do the same.
Would also love to see my Apes Rock climbing. This looks like it should work pretty well as Part of a Climbing Structure for those. I think when I build my next Zoo I'll try sticking some Climbing Logs in there. Just wish we would have Climbing Animations where they are actually grabbing them
 
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biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
At the bare minimum, it feels crazy that only anteaters can use the natural termite mound. I'd so much prefer to use it over the artificial one, and I still do use it for decoration at times.

Dall sheep not being able to use the goat rocks is a really weird omission, though. The fact that it was even included in the original patch notes implies that it was intended to be used by them at one point, and it still hasn't been revisited a year later. At this point I'm just hoping for, as you said, a markhor, takin, or aoudad to show up and hopefully while revisiting the rock for them Frontier will also add it for the Dall sheep.
 

Firestar97

Firestar97
yoav_r said:
Also add the brachiation system to the orangutans. It's considered enrichment ingame.
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Chimpanzees and Bonobos too. Don't know if Gorillas could use that one too. I've seen them using Ropes in Zoos before but not as much as the other Species. 🤔 Maybe also most of the other Primate Species? Don't think Lemurs do brachiate but it would be a welcome Addition if they should do it as well in real life

biggest_dreamer said:
At the bare minimum, it feels crazy that only anteaters can use the natural termite mound. I'd so much prefer to use it over the artificial one, and I still do use it for decoration at times.
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They should make a great Chimp Update that updates Chimpanzees and Bonobos to use the natural Termite Mound and the Brachiation Frame
 

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
Aramar said:
Well, well, well! Of the 4 enrichment items that were only used by 1 animal we are now down to just 2! Hopefully next update makes the other bears use the foraging wall :)

Frontier, thanks for listening!
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What was the other one? I only saw the rock climbing enrichment
 

Veah

Veah
Aramar said:
It was in the grasslands pack, the natural termite mount was added to the armadillo in addition to the giant anteater.
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Well, then it's still in the list of enrichment items that could be used by more species, because aardvarks should be able to use them. And I'm not going to talk again about the hammock and the pool...
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
Yeah, I have suggested before that the pool should be used by a large variety of animals, like Anteaters, Capybaras, Tigers and Jaguars. Even if they just lay down in the water and chill, would not even need new animations.
 

Aramar

Aramar
I hope that either the anniversary or the winter dlc brings a new bear that can use the foraging wall so that we can keep updating this thread 🙏
 
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