Gharials floating in the water dying of thirst.
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I had the same thing happen to a hippo. 75% of the exhibit was water. Even added a water dish on shore for good measure. Hippo dies of dehydration while in the middle of the exhibit pond. Very irritating.
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Not an excuse, but a probable explanation: “Drinking” as an animation and effect might only trigger, if animals stand near a water source. They don’t do that while swimming => dying of thirst.
I think, “Swimming” should automatically fulfill drinking needs.
I think, “Swimming” should automatically fulfill drinking needs.
That is indeed weired.
Open water ponds are the main watersource for all my habitats.
Even more weired is that neither me hippos nor my gharials ever had that issue (i have them both since several ingame years).
- also my crocodiles, just checked it, they don't even had any water station
Even if the water would have a cleaniless issue you should get warnings about it, long before dehydration gets mortal.
edit: what Deggial wrote would be an explanation.
While you still need dry land anyway, if you built it in a way that they can't do the physical drinking, thats maybe the problem.
My habitats are all plain and simple.
It shouldn't be that way ofc, i agree that "swimming" should auto-fulfill drinking needs.
Open water ponds are the main watersource for all my habitats.
Even more weired is that neither me hippos nor my gharials ever had that issue (i have them both since several ingame years).
- also my crocodiles, just checked it, they don't even had any water station
Even if the water would have a cleaniless issue you should get warnings about it, long before dehydration gets mortal.
edit: what Deggial wrote would be an explanation.
While you still need dry land anyway, if you built it in a way that they can't do the physical drinking, thats maybe the problem.
My habitats are all plain and simple.
It shouldn't be that way ofc, i agree that "swimming" should auto-fulfill drinking needs.
When you got such a thing with single animal (works for food, too), box them and move them around
a little in their habitat.
If that still not works, put them in the quarantine.
Not only do they get auto-fed there, it also makes them think twice if they really want to get fed with a tube in hospital or better
start to eat and drink again in their habitat.
Most of the time i could solve the problem simply by boxing them.
You're 1000% right my tone was bad. It was late, I was tired, and it just annoyed me as it stacked up against all the running around my zoo trying to keep things from exploding for 5 minutes tasks.
I apologize.
All good friend <3
Thanks for the tips! Unfortunately it wasn't just a single animal and putting them in quarantine fixes it some of the time but unfortunately not always.
I currently have a problem with not just my peafowls but also a bunch of other animals (bison, grizzly bears, to name a few) that are suddenly starving / dehydrated even though they were fine before. I even put at least one water pipe in each of their habitats in case at some point they refused to drink from the (abundance of) available (clean) water in their habitat. Everything seemed to work fine for about 10 in-game years and now suddenly I'm having this same problem all over again. Note that this is in a new zoo that I started out of frustration because in my main/old zoo at least 50 animals suddenly got the same problem even though they have food / water nearby and things had been going well for 35+ in-game years. And now the same thing seems to happen in this zoo.
my komodos were dieing of dehydration. I even picked them up and dropped them in the water well but they just walked away. I googled it and took the advice of just restarting the game. Soon as i was back in again, they both ran over straight away and problem went away. Seems like a bug.
This has happened to me too in Franchise and Career modes. My Red Panda died of dehydration right next to the water feeder and I keep having to move babies to water and food as they can die before they get there.