Planet Zoo Update 1.8.1 is here!

Eltanin Casciani

Community Manager
Hayo Zookeepers!

Update 1.8.1 is now available for download. Simply update your game before you play! This update includes various bug fixes, and you can read more below:

Planet Zoo - 1.8.1 Update Notes
This update contains many more bug fixes, updates and some new content.

General Bug Fixes and Improvements
  • Animals
    • Fixed the Red Kangaroo research not unlocking the small ball and hanging barrel enrichment items
    • Fixed the Reindeer Male animation deforming when transitioning between standing and running
    • Fixed the Capuchin Monkey's education board from incorrectly displaying the Taiga biome icon
    • Fixed a bug where the leucistic Eurasian Lynx's colour variation description wasn't displayed in its info panel
    • Fixed the American Beaver occasionally displaying water VFX when walking on dry land
    • Fixed the North American Beaver occasionally falling through Beaver Pool as it approaches the water
    • Fixed a bug where the first education boost wasn't unlocked after researching the Fire Salamander
    • Fixed animal visuals occasionally popping when exiting the burrow
    • Fixed European exhibit blueprints. They now all place with new, empty exhibit boxes
    • Fixed the European Badger Juvenile's right cheek twitching and deforming during walking
    • Fixed the Alpine Ibex Juvenile animation clipping when using the scratching tree
    • Fixed the Alpine Ibex not nudging the small barrel feeder correctly
    • Fixed the Alpine Ibex not making any sounds when dying due to predation
    • Fixed the Alpine Ibex floating when using Goat Climbing Mountain enrichment
    • Fixed the Alpine Ibex wound tracks from not appearing
    • Fixed food not coming out of the Skittle Feeder and Dog Ball enrichment when being used by the European Badger
    • Fixed the Eurasian Lynx Juvenile lower jaw clipping into upper jaw when moving from a stand to resting
    • Fixed the musical keyboard not making any sounds while being used by the Bornean Orangutan Juvenile
    • Fixed food not coming out of the Dog Ball enrichment when being used by the Sea Lion Juvenile
    • Fixed the straw bedding textures from flickering inside the Animal Burrow
    • Guests will no longer flee from adult European Fallow Deer, making them viable for walkthrough habitats
    • Removed Dall Sheep tags from the Goat Mountain enrichment, as the species cannot use it
  • Scenery
    • Added 'Grid' tag to the Vertical Wooden Plank Roof Flat Quarter Circle 02
    • Fixed the Ferry Entrance's tags to 'Grid Prop'
    • Added missing 'Small' and 'Large' tags to European Brass Finial Thin and Thick assets
    • Added 'Editable Text' tag to Memorial Plaque Screens
    • Added 'Flexicolour' tags to the Editable Memorial Plaque
    • European Fence Planter Support is now included in the research for the European scenery
    • Fixed Vista Points not saving their names
    • Fixed the non-grid Glass Modern Wall Panel pieces so they are transparent
    • Fixed the White Sage and Diamond Leaf Willow bushes rotated branches
    • Fixed flexicolour changes not applying for glass house wall panel frames
    • Fixed placement sounds on the following:
      • Snow Block Wall Panels
      • Additional Light Strips
      • Bernies Bakes Blueprint
      • European Coach
      • European Mooring Posts
      • New World Decorative Lights Bulb
    • Fixed artefacts on the right leg of the Alpine Ibex rewards statues
    • Fixed the ferry door being visible through the window of ferry guest entrance
  • Game Mode Scenarios
    • Moved and reset the stuck vendors in Al's Pine Zoo
  • Guests
    • Fixed an issue where guests would arrive to stand at an animal talk too early
  • Staff
    • Fixed Vet getting stuck trying to remove a dead animal
    • Fixed the Restaurant Staff in the kitchen not playing their animations while restaurant is open
  • Game Modes
  • UI
    • Updated the animal camera so it will automatically switch inside a burrow when following the animal
    • Added Steam workshop tags for the Europe pack items when uploading blueprints
    • Fixing the 'favourite' status of an animal not being consistently updated across all UI screens
    • Fixing consistency issues with how the exhibit memorial UI was sorted, now making sure favourited entries are displayed properly regardless of which column is used to sort
    • Fixed duplicate strings in some tooltips in barrier browser and terrain browser
    • In the Animal Talk and Restaurant Table linking UI, creating an empty drag selection will no longer enable the "Link/Unlink" button
    • Fixed biome filters not remaining after closing down the Zoopedia
  • Stability
    • Fixed a crash that could happen when manipulating a track station queue, such as moving the station exit
    • Fixed a crash when trying to play custom video on Memorial Plaque Screen after playing the same video on a standard billboard. Webm's can now be played on Memorial Plaques normally
    • Fixed a crash that could happen when the mother of an animal born inside a burrow was sold/died
    • General stability fixes
  • Performance
    • General performance fixes
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
Thank you for great fixes !

I would like to give my feedback regarding some things I stumbled across with the European Pack:

- Female Alpine Ibexes are not using the goat mountain enrichment item. Not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but if it is intentional, I find it quite a bad decision, because from the number of animals in one enclosure, we can have only one male, so out of x animals, only one using it is really not efficient, since the object takes alot of space (I also do not see a reason on why it should be male ibexes exclusive).

- European badger is advertised on the Steam page to be able to use the new Bark rubbing pad, that is not reflected in game as the badgers do not use this object, will this be fixed? European badgers do not have alot of enrichment options so any extra would help.
 

Izzi

Izzi
Thank you for being so responsive and fast to act on feedback! it’s what makes planet zoo such an amazing game

I was just curious as to if the bug around animals just not moving was fixed in this update? or is it a more complex issue that’s just taking a little more time? :)
 

random goat

random goat
Thank you for the update. Fallow deer being walkthrough now is great news!

On the other hand, I wholeheartedly agree with @Mjmannella and @FoxyDee here. Dall sheep are caprids just like the ibex, so they should be able to use the mountain enrichment item too. Same goes for the female or even juvenile ibexes. Not sure if this was because of male ibexes' more dominant and aggresive behaviour compared to females but female ibexes can and do perform similar animations and postures too. I hope this is addressed in future updates!
 

Antmar97

Antmar97
One critic about these new enrichment items introduced with the latest dlc packs, i can understand the beaver pool being exclusive to the beaver, but the foraging wall from SEA dlc is exclusive to sun bear, the climbing mountain used only by the male ibex, not even the female...and the natural termite mound is used only by the giant anteater since 2020, when there should be the compatibility with all the animals who use the artificial one..

I like the introduction of new enrichment items in the dlcs but we need more compatibility of these new items with the other species already in the game..

Edit: Even the new scarecrow, used only by the Fallow Deer and the Ibex, when a lot of other herbivores should be able to use that..🤷‍♂️
 
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Moonfox

Moonfox
Thank you team! I know of a lot of people will be very happy to have walkthrough fallow deer enclosures!

It’s so great to know that when we submit our bug reports, they are read and work is always going on to fix and improve our favourite game ❤️
 

Aramar

Aramar
Thanks for the update!

Eltanin Casciani said:
Fixed a crash that could happen when manipulating a track station queue, such as moving the station exit
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This is great. My game froze everytime I modified the monorail, and I had to modify it because the temporary station was blocking the expansion area. Now I don't need to panic everytime I edit the monorail.

Eltanin Casciani said:
Removed Dall Sheep tags from the Goat Mountain enrichment, as the species cannot use it
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FoxyDee said:
- Female Alpine Ibexes are not using the goat mountain enrichment item. Not sure if this is a bug or intentional, but if it is intentional, I find it quite a bad decision, because from the number of animals in one enclosure, we can have only one male, so out of x animals, only one using it is really not efficient, since the object takes alot of space (I also do not see a reason on why it should be male ibexes exclusive).
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random goat said:
On the other hand, I wholeheartedly agree with @Mjmannella and @FoxyDee here. Dall sheep are caprids just like the ibex, so they should be able to use the mountain enrichment item too. Same goes for the female or even juvenile ibexes. Not sure if this was because of male ibexes' more dominant and aggresive behaviour compared to females but female ibexes can and do perform similar animations and postures too. I hope this is addressed in future updates!
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I don't understand why Frontier remains silent about if female and juveniles ibex can use the rock item or not. Is it a bug and will they be also able to use it soon? Otherwise, such a huge item (which destroys all the landscaping when you place it in the habitat) is a waste if only one single animal can use it.

On other things, the European badger is still missing the Asia tag despite the zoopedia clearly showing that it lives in Asia.
 

iloveyourzoos

I
Hurray for the walkthrough deer! I'll definitely be using this.

Also happy to see that we have leucistic lynx. I hadn't discovered any yet (although maybe the description was why), so I now have a new animal to seek out and play with. Given the way I play and try to collect all the different morphs, this is like getting an extra species in an update! Hurray!
 
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