Please make animal hitboxes smaller

[Nioell]

Like the title says: please make the hitboxes fit the actual size of the animals. As you can see in the screens below it's really frustrating when you wanna build a somewhat realistic zoo with backstage areas and shelters only to realize later that the animals can't walk through arches and doors/gates that are almost or more than twice their own width/height...

I know that this was way better in the early days right after release and it was changed in an update later on for whatever reason. That makes me think it should be possible to change it back and give us the opportunity to actually build realistic indoor areas which the animals can use without us having to resort to ridiculously large doors, gates and/or archways.

As it is now my animals can't reach those places in their habitats, I had to put them there for the screens 'cause I refused to add unrealistically big gates to my buildings which would've looked terrible :/

 

[Dienstbier]

Oh yes these hit boxes really annoy!
Even if you have to rework some of the enclosures afterwards because of the risk of breakouts, but it should be worth it.


Was it really better in beta?

 

[DrBurrito]

This is also what I've wished for since day one. I do enjoy building realistic backstage areas and it becomes really problematic with oversized hitboxes. Oversized hitboxes also waste a lot of shelter space, especially with larger animals reducing the shelter area to a quarter of the entire building/shelter; giving as much shelter as an overhanging enrichment item.

 

[Nioell]

Was it really better in beta?

Yes, it was. I had to rework almost all my shelters in my first franchise zoo (which was built in November) after the first or second big update, don't know which it was anymore, because suddenly the animals were trapped inside their houses and coudn't get out anymore even though they could easily get there before. The size of their habitats wasn't big enough anymore either of course since the traversable area became much smaller than it actually was in the beginning...so yeah, it was better and it's a shame they changed it to this and I still have no clue why they did it in the first place.

 

[Firestar97]

I also wish they would change it back. My Rhinos can't go outside even if I delete both Archways that are next to each other. My Giraffes also can't go into their Boxes in the new Giraffe-House even though they should be big enough (I also can't place Bedding in them without Terrain going trough the Floor)

 

[PeppyPepp]

Yes please! My bongos couldn't enter their shelter even though there was clearly more than enough space.

 

[random goat]

Please make this happen. It's quite frustrating to build realistic enclosures that animals are not able to use fully due to their limited traversable area caused by these big hitboxes. It's particularly unrealistic in the case of primates and other animals such as the red pandas, cats, bears, etc. whose natural agility and dynamism are reduced considerably by this problem.

 

[ReptoMin]

Yesss! That would be amazing

 

[NoukuNouku]

As far as I remember it was working better in the beta, but the clipping of the animals was more. so I think they enlarged it to avoid the clipping of the animals. lets hope that they can improve that soon

 

[Barje]

Please make trees hitboxes smaller too*

 

[Grayyy]

Agreed, hitboxes are waaaay too big

 

[felinora99]

I definitely agree, especially if it was better in the beta !

 

[FunGaming]

Yes please change it back to how it was

 

[KimoKat]

Can confirm, it was much better before, now you place any decoration like rocks, walls, pillars. And you get the equivalent of the 6 feet avoidance rule we got going on with Corona, it's silly. I understand it may be to avoid animals clipping parts of their body through stuff but this is to much, I miss watching my wolves and bears climb up and ontop of my rocks that I would set up for them, but now they won't and instead avoid it entirely. It also kills enclosure size, I made a enclosure 2176 m2 for my arctic wolves but the decor alone (despite only being rock walls along the rim of the enclosure knocked out over 400 m2-500 m2 of space, space that previously would have been just fine for them to walk on.

 

[Firestar97]

I understand it may be to avoid animals clipping parts of their body through stuff but this is to much,

They need a better fix. My Orangutans and Bear Cubs are climbing trough Walls
At least the Orangutans climb back into the Enclosure after some Time

 

[Nioell]

Can confirm, it was much better before, now you place any decoration like rocks, walls, pillars. And you get the equivalent of the 6 feet avoidance rule we got going on with Corona, it's silly. I understand it may be to avoid animals clipping parts of their body through stuff but this is to much, I miss watching my wolves and bears climb up and ontop of my rocks that I would set up for them, but now they won't and instead avoid it entirely. It also kills enclosure size, I made a enclosure 2176 m2 for my arctic wolves but the decor alone (despite only being rock walls along the rim of the enclosure knocked out over 400 m2-500 m2 of space, space that previously would have been just fine for them to walk on.

God yes! I noticed that again just yesterday when I build a habitat for Timber Wolfs. They live in forests and the game won't even allow them to go through the trees and bushes I placed for them, that's just not right. I'd gladly take all the clipping if it meant my animals can actally walk between all those plants they so desperately want in ther habitats.

 

[ShadowLilly]

They need a better fix. My Orangutans and Bear Cubs are climbing trough Walls
At least the Orangutans climb back into the Enclosure after some Time

You probably have climable items on your walls

 

[Firestar97]

You probably have climable items on your walls

Yes, but it shouldn't be possible for Animals to climb trough Objects. But I won't change it. It doesn't happen very often with the Orangutans and the adult Bears don't climb trough the Walls at the Entrance. Only the small ones

 

[ShadowLilly]

true that it shouldn't be possible.. i had the same with my panda cabin, they kept climbing through the wall/glass windows because of those items.. after i changed it to non climable items it stopt happening

 

[KimoKat]

In general, the hitboxes are being very silly. Either you get climbing animals got through objects that they shouldn't be able to, or you got animals who can't walk through spaces they obviously should be able to due to decor hitbox constraints. It wasn't like this in Beta, it wasn't like this prior to the Arctic Pack launch. Idk when this got so silly with the changes but this needs to be relooked at and fixed, rn it's making the game very hard to enjoy and tempting me to just drop decorating enclosures all together.