Need Help With Animals Escaping

[noslo012]

So I built a customized railing on my paths, and I have it about 1 foot away from the barriers in which my animals are located. My animals seem to walk RIGHT through their previously fully-functional barrier and are able to climb over my railing and thus escape. Anyone else having this issue? What can be done to fix it? I spent a long time making the new railing with my game paused. Now that I have unpaused the game, my animals are escaping left and right.
My barriers were working just fine for many game-years until I built my railing.
Here is a photo of my bear cub caught in the act.

https://imgur.com/xb0JCQL

Source: https://imgur.com/xb0JCQL

https://imgur.com/DAyeHy7

Source: https://imgur.com/DAyeHy7


I tried moving the railing outwards from the barrier just to test it, and now I'm not getting the issue anymore. So it seems that there is an issue with climbable items being placed too close to barriers that cause the animals to ignore said barriers and walk right through them.

https://imgur.com/DXuuWRM

Source: https://imgur.com/DXuuWRM

This is not a solution, though, because now the railing sits in the middle of my walkway and looks ridiculous. I worked hard making this railing and really hate to have to delete it. But my zoo is basically unplayable until it is fixed because animals constantly escape.
Wish one of the devs would read this and point me in the right direction.
Thank you.

 

[noslo012]

Note that it is a glass barrier, not a null barrier. I know how those work.

 

[Vayman]

I've not seen that before. I know it's possible to put down a barrier and set it so it doesn't act as an animal barrier (such as a simple wall for people to walk around). Maybe it's accidentally set as such? (I also note the donation box pushed slightly through the wall. I don't know if that's normal with an animal barrier or not, but it jumps out at me as a potential clue.)

I'm sure you tried different things already, but the only other thought I had was just to try either rerunning the barrier OR replacing it with a different material for a time and see if they react the same to it. In fact, I'd try the latter of those ideas first.

 

[noslo012]

I've not seen that before. I know it's possible to put down a barrier and set it so it doesn't act as an animal barrier (such as a simple wall for people to walk around). Maybe it's accidentally set as such? (I also note the donation box pushed slightly through the wall. I don't know if that's normal with an animal barrier or not, but it jumps out at me as a potential clue.)

I'm sure you tried different things already, but the only other thought I had was just to try either rerunning the barrier OR replacing it with a different material for a time and see if they react the same to it. In fact, I'd try the latter of those ideas first.

Thank you for the reply. I'm certain that the donation box isn't the issue because it's been there long before the railing was set up, and the barriers were functioning properly. I just got sloppy with placing it lol, but it's not causing any issues. Also, I did try using other objects to make the railing with the same results. It seems to be anything that the animal can climb on, can be glitched in this way. Which pretty much includes every building piece in the game, haha. For the time being, I have highlighted every piece of the barrier and merged it all as one object so that it retains its shape, then moved it to an empty, unused place in my zoo so that I can move it back to where it should be once this bug has been fixed.
Don't think I have many other options.

 

[Dae]

I don't know if it will work in your case, but after modifying a habitat with part of the barrier as a one-way glass barrier, my animals kept going right through the glass barrier as if it didn't exist. I just changed the glass part to a brick barrier and the escaping stopped. I changed again to a glass barrier and the animals didn't escape anymore. Must have been some sort of bug where the game considered the habitat as complete but with barriers not considered as habitat barrier (I checked the habitat status)... resetting the barrier type solved the issue. Maybe you can try that?

 

[Agathorn]

Most likely what is happening is the bounding box of the fence you made is poking into the habitat through the barriers and messing the game up. Shouldn't happen but lots of things shouldn't happen but still are. All you can probably do is just keep inching the fence out a tiny bit at a time until you find the point where it no longer interferes with the barrier.

 

[noslo012]

Most likely what is happening is the bounding box of the fence you made is poking into the habitat through the barriers and messing the game up. Shouldn't happen but lots of things shouldn't happen but still are. All you can probably do is just keep inching the fence out a tiny bit at a time until you find the point where it no longer interferes with the barrier.

Yeah, that's pretty much my thought exactly. Hopefully the developers find and correct this issue. It's surprising how few people are experiencing it. I thought that custom railings and fences were something a lot of people made.

 

[Agathorn]

Yeah, that's pretty much my thought exactly. Hopefully the developers find and correct this issue. It's surprising how few people are experiencing it. I thought that custom railings and fences were something a lot of people made.

I don't think many people put them by barriers though.