Problem with the new metal climbing frames

Chris1983

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Hi guys, I wonder if anyone can help me out with some advices. Today I spent HOURS building me first Siamang exhibit. Of course I used the new metal climbing frames to see them bracchiate in the end. Besides I used the thin and thick bamboo beams and also the Planet Zoo round beams. In the end I gave them some wooden planks as sitting opportunities, I build the indoor exhibit and when I got the Siamangs in, all the metal climbing frame pieces where blocked. First I thought that I had maybe built to much other stuff next to them, so I deleted piece by piece of what I had build within the last 5 to 6 hours. But the status of the climbing pieces did not change. At some point when I paused the game, suddenly two of the nine pieces where labeled as "available" instead of "ubstructed". But after playing and pausing they again where blocked for the Siamangs. In the end I deleted everything else in the exhibit, but most of the climbing frames where still not useable. It was so frustrating. I lost my whole motivation to build and try again.

Does anyone know, how the system really works? Is it a bug or is the hitbox of the animals a reason that it is not possible to build anything close to the climbing structures?
First I covered the climbing structures with small bamboo and wooden beams to make them look nice, because I read somewhere in this forum, that they still work, but even after I deleted these, it was only one climbing frame that became useable.

I am really desperate. Hope someone can help me out...Thanks!
 

Chris1983

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I mean, they do on single frames. But last night I found out, as soon as I connect the frames to each other, they get blocked. Is there something I need to be aware of? Some hidden trick? :)
 

XT

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While I don't know for sure, I know that Frontier sometimes has ... ridiculous space requirements for animals to succesfully use items (see: the aquatic platform). I'd suggest creating a huge test habitat with nothing but the frames and see if giving them ridiculous space allows them to work. If that works, then it's possibly not a bug but rather something about how they've set up the space requirements around the frame itself.
 

Chris1983

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I didn't try moving the barriers. The thing is that one of the pieces worked in the exact same space where it did not work before, just when I lowered it down. So the barrieres and the water that surronds the island should be even more obstruct it actually, than when it was in a raised position, but it didn`t. Also the bamboo beams where still in the same position.
Maybe it does not work when other metal climbing frame structures are to close?
 

shirandhak

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I didn't use those pieces yet, but I saw in some youtube videos, that they are a little frickly to be "snapped" to each other and don't work correctly, if they are just "joined" (instead of "snapped") to each other. Maybe you didn't "snap" them correctly, but just eyeballed with the advanced building tool?
 

Chris1983

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shirandhak said:
I didn't use those pieces yet, but I saw in some youtube videos, that they are a little frickly to be "snapped" to each other and don't work correctly, if they are just "joined" (instead of "snapped") to each other. Maybe you didn't "snap" them correctly, but just eyeballed with the advanced building tool?
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Thank you shirandhak: I tried again and it really seems like this was the mistake I made. I shifted the pieces a bit to much into each other. Now everything is accessable and the Siamangs swing in my zoo :)
 
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