For some reason my keepers won't refill the water troughs in one of my exhibits to the point where my animals are dying of dehydration. I don't know if this is a bug or if there is something about the game's mechanics I just don't understand. I'm posting this on suggestions instead of reporting it as a bug because I think there is a way for Frontier to build a workaround that the game could use regardless of whether or not it is a bug. That is to let players call a keeper to a specific item in an exhibit instead of, or also, to the entire exhibit. Every time I call a keeper urgently, they will examine the exhibit and decide that they need to go clean up a piece of poo in the corner or go refill the food trough, then go "job done", and leave. I've seen people posting on the bug reports that similar things happen for feeding them or refilling enrichment items. You can't call a keeper to an exhibit whilst another is already there either which doesn't make much sense why the player, their "boss", can't tell them what to do specifically. If I could tell my keepers to go refill THAT water trough, all my problems would at least be less severe. Of course, I can just juggle my animals in and out of the quarantine but that kind of isn't a fun way to play a game for very long. I suppose I could build a pond for them, but I have negative money for now and it will be a while before I'm back in the black. I don't know much about coding/programing, but surely it wouldn't be too difficult to add a button that could solve several problems.
Staff don't refill water. Idea for solution.
- Thread starter Halcyon13
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You can also install an automatic waterer. That way, keepers don't have to interact with it.
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I've only made ponds and made automatic waterers.
