I recently made this African Elephant habitat, which as you can see is nearly 70% covered in Elephant Grass. I didn't realize until after I had copied and pasted over 750 individual pieces that the African Elephants couldn't move around in the habitat at all because of it. I understand why some types of foliage have hitboxes to prevent animals from walking though them, but this is grass after all. Any animal should be able to walk through it, but instead none of them can. This is a really annoying issue, especially if you want to make lush, grassy African habitats, and I honestly don't see a reason why this can't be changed.
Make Elephant Grass Traversable
- Thread starter AlexSea
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I find a mix of buffalo and underwater grass works as a passable grass. It is really annoying though about the elephant grass, although I do use it's ability to make natural barriers
Please don't change this. A lot of us have used Elephant Grass to prevent animals from escaping. If this feature is now removed a lot of our habitats will no longer function. There are plenty of grasses now that one can use instead of the Elephant Grass. Prettier ones too.
I NEVER considered Elephant Grass as a good barrier! This changes EVERYTHING for me!
It's so funny seeing the old PZ community and the new PZ community, as short as the game's timeline is, because back in the day that elephant grass was the #1 way to keep animals in a single place. I would absolutely love a new alternative though, especially with how awesome the plants have been looking in recent packs!
I'm not even a new player, I've been playing since August 2020, I just think that Elephant Grass not being traversable is a royal pain. I never thought to use it as a barrier though.
I’ve never used the elephant grass as a barrier simply because it’s unrealistic. If a hippo, rhino, or elephant want through nothing is going to stop them. Elephants wonder through high grass all the time as well as many other lesser animals. Botswana comes to mind at different points throughout the year where grass gets pretty high. Usually hippos help with a trail a little bit but still. Asian elephants and Indian rhinos go through grass much taller then them all the time.
People don't use it for that purpose of blocking though. The point is that you can hid it underground and it still makes an invisible wall.
One habitat I saw using it (I can't remeber who made it) created a walkthrough peacock habitat in franchise where the peacicks would stay in their habitat cause it was surrounded by underground elephant grass. What people are saying is that a lot of habitats that were made with this in mind would completely break with no viable replacements to fix them if they made elephant grass traversable.
In sandbox this is already possible by turning off escapes. But yes, that would be useful as a standalone thing.
In the end, I believe more people are going to find the grass usable as traversable than not. So I don't think we should hold back because a smaller group of players might risk some destroyed habitats.