HELP: not enough shelters

[CrazyMonkey]

Hi there,I have a question about the shelter for the seychelles giant tortoise. (I hope I'm spelling that correctly in English )
I have now 5 giant tortoises. But they keep saying there is not enough shelter. in the pictures below you see some shelters I made for them.
I also make bigger ones. I even made like 5 different shelters,spread over the entire habitate. But they still say its not enough.
I used small,medium,big hay to sleep on. It just dont work. What am I doing wrong?
I hope someone can help me out.


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[Chris Simon]

Hi there,I have a question about the shelter for the seychelles giant tortoise. (I hope I'm spelling that correctly in English )
I have now 5 giant tortoises. But they keep saying there is not enough shelter. in the pictures below you see some shelters I made for them.
I also make bigger ones. I even made like 5 different shelters,spread over the entire habitate. But they still say its not enough.
I used small,medium,big hay to sleep on. It just dont work. What am I doing wrong?
I hope someone can help me out.


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First off - those are some amazingly inventive shelters.
Somebody advised me yesterday to filter the heatmap to "show shelters" to see if a thing you made really counts as a shelter. (If there's a hole in the roof or people can see inside the shelter, it sometimes doesn't)
From the looks of it, the shelters you mad are big enough, so room shouldn't be the case, but you can try boxing two tortoises away for a moment to see if something happens.

 

[Kazehira]

I have no proof of this, but from my different experiments, it seems that something counts as a shelter if it's high enough to insert an "animal box". If not, it is not a shelter. I had this issue also with tortoise, with a shelter made of stones. It was high enough for them to go in, compared to the size of a tortoise, but the game didn't think so.

Also, the game tends to ask for too much shelter zone if you ask me ^^

 

[CrazyMonkey]

First off - those are some amazingly inventive shelters.
Somebody advised me yesterday to filter the heatmap to "show shelters" to see if a thing you made really counts as a shelter. (If there's a hole in the roof or people can see inside the shelter, it sometimes doesn't)
From the looks of it, the shelters you mad are big enough, so room shouldn't be the case, but you can try boxing two tortoises away for a moment to see if something happens.

Thanks!
Nice, I didnt know there was an heatmap to "show shelters", thats great! I checked it out but every shelter counts like a shelter.
But people can look inside. So I changed every shelter, so nobody can look inside.(see picture below) I think thats the solution!
I still get sometimes a notification from one of the tortoise, that well-being is low. Most of the time the tortoise is walking past the people. And the notification will be gone like in a couple of seconds. Maybe its beter that te people cant go inside the habitate.... ☹

I have no proof of this, but from my different experiments, it seems that something counts as a shelter if it's high enough to insert an "animal box". If not, it is not a shelter. I had this issue also with tortoise, with a shelter made of stones. It was high enough for them to go in, compared to the size of a tortoise, but the game didn't think so.

Also, the game tends to ask for too much shelter zone if you ask me ^^

Also thanks for your help! Its good to know that de shelter cant be to low.
And I agree with you that most of the animals need too much shelter

 

[Chris Simon]

I still get sometimes a notification from one of the tortoise, that well-being is low. Most of the time the tortoise is walking past the people. And the notification will be gone like in a couple of seconds. Maybe its beter that te people cant go inside the habitate

I found out pretty early on that tortoises in particular (and some other animals as well) are pretty shy and don't like people at all.
I finally solved all problems by installing the one-way glass. Now the tortoises can't see people at all and are perfectly happy all the time.

 

[Aurust]

I'm having the same issue with a few of my exhibits too. I've tried making the really big shelters for some animals but had issues with not enough shelter being available. I think what was the problem is that the public could see in. It would be great if this was made a bit more obvious as a requirement when looking at the need for shelter.