Unable to modify terrain

Arrakai

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I'm working on my arctic area atm, and next to the Polar bears i want a little rest area for the visitors. However, I can't get the road to look good (cus how can you in this game), so I planed to ajust the terrain a bit to make it easier. The problem is, I can't ajust the terrain!

I marked the area where it's impossible to smooth out the terrain in the pic below. Removing the nearby roads doesn't work, have tried that. I also removed all enrichement items and such and my animals are nowhere near it. I don't get what is causing it?? Any suggestions?
Terrain modd impossible.jpg
 

Jaggid Edje

Jaggid Edje
Arrakai said:
I figured it out! I have null barriers in that area :p
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If you go into options you can set it so the game will let you edit terrain even around barriers. The risk is that you edit the terrain such that the barrier is no longer effective. IMO, it's worth setting that option and taking the risk.

The option, iirc, is "Disable Terrain Collision" under Settings-Game.

Once the option is set, you can adjust terrain regardless of what is nearby except for near paths and bodies of water (gotta drain those first).
 

Moosegun

Moosegun
Interesting, see I DONT take that risk, I actually play on default and remove / replace barriers if I want to work in paths in that area, just to avoid any potential escape points. The key takeout is, paths dont really play nice with barriers, barriers can stop paths even if they are on the wrong side of the path. Again it is another big 'bug' that people complain about. When actually it is a pretty straight forward set of rules.
 

Arrakai

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Since I work with natural fences and nullbarriers about 80% of the time, I usually check the animals regurarly when working on a habitat to check for potential escape spots. One ting I learned the hard way though, is that If I want to make a natural barrier I have to wait for my animals to have babys, cus they are damn escapeartists! I can have a nice habitat withc 100% natural fences and no escape spots (like my komodo dragon cave) but as soon as they have babys, there are many escape spots! Damn those tiny little critters! :p
 

Jaggid Edje

Jaggid Edje
Hahaha, glad I'm not the only one who has that baby animal escape artist thing going on. I always try to remind myself to check the heat map as soon as babies are born....and I always forget. Yesterday I had 5 chimpanzee births and the babies were so sneaky that they waited until all of them were born before they all made a break for it.
 

Arrakai

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Haha, sounds like fun :p I have forgot it a few times too, but usually I have the game on pause mode for about 95% of the time (have been working on my zoo for about 300 hours and are only on year 7) so things tend to happen very slowly in my zoo :)
 

Moosegun

Moosegun
100% this, babies are the best way to test your defences!!!! Pretty much every enclosure I have made this zoo (also use very few barriers) has been breached by some die hard infant.
GatorEscape.jpg

Pesky croc bay highlighting my poor wall / rock placement
BabyBongo.jpg

Baby Bongo sneaking out after dark
SnowLeopardEscape.jpg

Shhhh I am not here......
 

Arrakai

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Haha ye :p when this started happening to me I started to place all my animals in temporary habitats (where all their needs are met of course, don't want unhappy animals) and then i just wait for them to have babys befor making their "real" habitat :)
 
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