Update 1.4.2 Out Now! 🦦

[Chante Goodman]

me too? I've never had a single issue with multi select and now my most used feature from the game is gone probably permanently.

Hayo, as we shared at the bottom of the Update 1.4.2 post, we aren’t looking at removing the Multi-select tool permanently! We’re aware that for a majority of our players it was causing issues and they were unhappy with it, so we’re taking some feedback regarding it on-board so that we can improve it and add it back into the game early next year. The company is breaking up for the holidays, and when we return we’ll begin work on Update 1.4.3!

The game still crashes a whole bunch on my big zoo! I’ll be patient though my smaller zoos work better

Yes, I've been building a zoo with at least 15 habitats so far. As soon as I added one diving animal (croc) the whole thing started lagging like crazy. I'll submit this as a bug, but I just thought I'd share in case anyone else was having the same issue.

Hello both, please send your save files to community@frontier.co.uk and we will pass them along to the team. In your email, please tell us your specs and if you have an idea of what could be triggering the lag. It’d help the team look into it faster. Thank you!

 

[Firestar97]

After actually building a functioning habitat ready for deep swimming, I think this whole thing with unrealistic water deph for caimans and otters is even worse with the aquatic animals having only one food enrichment and that is the underwater box feeder. It makes the underwater habitats even more distant from reality, because the feeder wont work even in 4 m deep water. So if you want your animals to be fully happy, you have to have even deeper water that looks kind of off for otters and caimans.

Please Frontier, if the deep swimming is limited by technical reasons, at least give the new animals more food enrichment options, because right now we have to build like 6 m deep water for caimans or otters to be able to use the box feeder, while there is no other option.

I've built a Reptile House yesterday and can confirm that Caimans can also use the frozen Blood Pumpkin

 

[FoxyDee]

I've built a Reptile House yesterday and can confirm that Caimans can also use the frozen Blood Pumpkin

Oh I see. I checked the penguins, seals and otters and the only food enrichment they had was the box feeder, so I assumed it is the same for caimans, thanks for correction.

But my point still stands for the other 3 animals then. Having just one option for them seems...limiting. Would be nice to have at least some land based food enrichment.

 

[Jay Wilton]

Oh I see. I checked the penguins, seals and otters and the only food enrichment they had was the box feeder, so I assumed it is the same for caimans, thanks for correction.

But my point still stands for the other 3 animals then. Having just one option for them seems...limiting. Would be nice to have at least some land based food enrichment.

Thanks for your feedback!

 

[Lea_G]

I haven't been able to play since the update but wanted to say thanks before you guys leave for the holiday break, I'm especially curious to see how the animal talks work out now with the better balancing, because I believe that one reason for the lags in my zoo was the veritable pilgrimage of people towards those points whenever a talk started. But the new DLC really fueled my enthusiasm for the game again (even before it was released), which was a very welcome escapism in a stressfull and somewhat depressing time those past weeks. Thanks for all that effort!

I hope you have wonderful, relaxed and of course healthy holidays!

 

[SanRazo618]

Hayo, as we shared at the bottom of the Update 1.4.2 post, we aren’t looking at removing the Multi-select tool permanently! We’re aware that for a majority of our players it was causing issues and they were unhappy with it, so we’re taking some feedback regarding it on-board so that we can improve it and add it back into the game early next year. The company is breaking up for the holidays, and when we return we’ll begin work on Update 1.4.3!



Hello both, please send your save files to community@frontier.co.uk and we will pass them along to the team. In your email, please tell us your specs and if you have an idea of what could be triggering the lag. It’d help the team look into it faster. Thank you!

How do I find my save file?

 

[Jay Wilton]

How do I find my save file?

Hey! It will be dependant on where you save your Steam games on your own PC, though it's most commonly found:

C:\Users\[username]\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo

 

[PeppyPepp]

I am thoroughly enjoying the Aquatic Pack, but I seem to have a small problem. A message keeps appearing that the underwater feeder in my otter habitat is unreachable by the keeper even though it works and it is actually in use. It is placed deep enough to work so that shouldn't be the reason for the message. I have even moved it closer to the edge of the pool and the message still persists. I haven't actually seen the keeper throw the food in the water to fill it, but he obviously does because it feeds my otters.

Just making sure if anyone else has the message pop up or I am doing anything wrong? I don't want to open a ticket on the issue tracker if it's something fixable.

Wishing everyone at Frontier happy, healthy, and safe holidays. You didn't lie when you said you wanted to end the year on a high note!

 

[FoxyDee]

Could it be because it is sunken to terrain? Maybe it would help if it would not.

 

[Firestar97]

Could it be because it is sunken to terrain? Maybe it would help if it would not.

I have it like this in my Seal Enclosure (all Openings of it are still above the Ground) and I don't have such a Problem, so I think this isn't the Reason or maybe it needs just to be a little bit higher

Edit: just remembered that it can sometimes help to delete a Object and then reverse the Action

 

[Fortunanovesia]

Does somebody know if it's fixed, that animals walk or swim through barriers?

Still happens in my caiman habitat too.

 

[aim_foliksta]

Still happens in my caiman habitat too.

My penguins keep escaping from my penguin house. I don't know how one managed to get to the roof of the building. Another one is "flying" outside... and I've seen one walking over the water and later trespassing the glass. I think that my penguins have superpowers

 

[Firestar97]

My penguins keep escaping from my penguin house. I don't know how one managed to get to the roof of the building. Another one is "flying" outside... and I've seen one walking over the water and later trespassing the glass. I think that my penguins have superpowers
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This reminds me of this

Source: https://youtu.be/N7VcEyuEEGk

 

[PeppyPepp]

Could it be because it is sunken to terrain? Maybe it would help if it would not.

If I don't sink it in, it says it's not deep enough to be in use (my first "deep diving" habitat and I didn't account for the appropriate depth for the feeder to work). But it is something I will definitely keep in mind while building my other habitats.

I have it like this in my Seal Enclosure (all Openings of it are still above the Ground) and I don't have such a Problem, so I think this isn't the Reason or maybe it needs just to be a little bit higher

Edit: just remembered that it can sometimes help to delete a Object and then reverse the Action

Thank you Urufu, will try your suggestion.

 

[PeppyPepp]

Oh, and yes, my otters had a mass escape yesterday, just swimming through the rocks.

 

[random goat]

My penguins keep escaping from my penguin house. I don't know how one managed to get to the roof of the building. Another one is "flying" outside... and I've seen one walking over the water and later trespassing the glass. I think that my penguins have superpowers
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Flying birds confirmed imo!

Jokes aside, I also wish Frontier some surely needed rest and happy holidays. I hope 2021 will bring us exciting and abundant stuff in PZ!

 

[DrBurrito]

But my point still stands for the other 3 animals then. Having just one option for them seems...limiting. Would be nice to have at least some land based food enrichment.

That and perhaps some type of surface feeder.

 

[Cool Cats and Kittens]

I know I am nitpicky, but seal pups and pinguin chicks can't even theoretically use the underwater feeder, because they cant swim. They still need the underwater feeder to fill their welfare requirement, so having another option for food enrichment would be much appreciated.

 

[Boldson]

Haven't played this for a while so after all updates i am playing campaign and on second level. Well my
Orangutans
when climbing through frames climb down ones that don't exist and go though floors. Also when lions, bears swimming part of there bodies vanished into the rock in the water. I am sure this did not happen before. Another set of bugs no doubt.

 

[Firestar97]

Also when lions, bears swimming part of there bodies vanished into the rock in the water.

How deep is the Water? My Tigers clipped trough the Ground while swimming in Water where they should be able to walk. Don't know if it's still like this because I've started a new Zoo. I've never experienced this Orangutan Bug before