🐾Update 1.6 and Africa Pack Out Now! 🐾

FunGaming · Jun 23, 2021

Tim Smith said:
Good morning everyone!

It's so wonderful to see everyone enjoying Update 1.6 and the Africa Pack

Thanks for everyone in this thread who flagged the free bits that are tagged as Africa Pack, we're going to get that sorted out

Hopefully the bugs will also be fixed like animals escaping like crazy even with the new no escape option, and the minor spelling error on educational speakers that now says nge instead of range

Also animals getting boxed up for no reason and stay boxed up

PaulaM · Jun 23, 2021

paul78 said:
I did notice one annoying bug my warthogs kept jumping their rock formations and jumping on the buildings next to their enclosure. While comical it wasn’t doing that before the update. I understand tho this kind of thing happens after a big update but hopefully it can be resolved soon.

All of my flamingos were escaping even though the fence was above the height requirement. I had to make them quite a bit taller for it to stop. One of my otters escaped too and I had no idea how. There weren't any escape points showing.

Hugo98 · Jun 23, 2021

I really love the Africa Pack and update 1.6, thank you Frontier!
I haven't used that much yet but it looks great. And oh my god, the digging animations of the meerkats are so cool!
I've also got the problem of animals escaping (only a few flamingos though), other than that I didn't have any other bugs yet.

Bearcat9948 · Jun 23, 2021

Has anyone been successful in getting their African penguins to dive? I updated my pool depth to 4.67 and they still rarely will. A colony of 20 individuals and I've only seen one dive once. Might be a bug?

KönigDerKaffeebohnen · Jun 23, 2021

The new mesh pieces are a blessing, thank you! I allready spend about 5 hours since the dlc hit ingame and havent touched any of the new pieces or animals even though i bought it because i had a blast building with the mesh pieces and completly restarting my jaguar habitat in the process. Now its finished and i love it, thank you so much!

Chuditch · Jun 23, 2021

Bearcat9948 said:
Has anyone been successful in getting their African penguins to dive? I updated my pool depth to 4.67 and they still rarely will. A colony of 20 individuals and I've only seen one dive once. Might be a bug?

My African penguins dive fine, I have a colony of 24 and they all spend most of their time underwater. They've got a very spacious pool that's about 6 metres deep I think (haven't measured it precisely). Wish I could help more with your issue, but that's all I can provide.

Bearcat9948 · Jun 23, 2021

Chuditch said:
My African penguins dive fine, I have a colony of 24 and they all spend most of their time underwater. They've got a very spacious pool that's about 6 metres deep I think (haven't measured it precisely). Wish I could help more with your issue, but that's all I can provide.

I guess I'll just have to keep messing with it, but an official answer on what their diving depth requirements are would be very helpful. At over 4.5m, I feel like I shouldn't be having this issue

Also, I've definitely noticed way more stuttering, freezing and crashes. First time this has happened to me after a major update, which I'm assuming is the cause.

FunGaming · Jun 23, 2021

Bearcat9948 said:
I guess I'll just have to keep messing with it, but an official answer on what their diving depth requirements are would be very helpful. At over 4.5m, I feel like I shouldn't be having this issue

Also, I've definitely noticed way more stuttering, freezing and crashes. First time this has happened to me after a major update, which I'm assuming is the cause.

I thought it was just me with freezing, stuttering and crashes. Specially the freezing happens a lot, its even worse when it autosaves now it freezes for about 1 minute.

Firestar97 · Jun 23, 2021

Bearcat9948 said:
Has anyone been successful in getting their African penguins to dive? I updated my pool depth to 4.67 and they still rarely will. A colony of 20 individuals and I've only seen one dive once. Might be a bug?

How long are they in the Zoo already? I have a similar Problem with my Polar Bear but I was told that it should dive properly after some Time. Maybe you'll just need to wait some Time

Bearcat9948 · Jun 23, 2021

Urufu1997 said:
How long are they in the Zoo already? I have a similar Problem with my Polar Bear but I was told that it should dive properly after some Time. Maybe you'll just need to wait some Time

I don't know, like an hour or so? I play on pause a lot but I left it running for a while

Firestar97 · Jun 23, 2021

Bearcat9948 said:
I don't know, like an hour or so? I play on pause a lot but I left it running for a while

Let me know if it helps

Waiting for New DLCs · Jun 23, 2021

Eltanin Casciani said:
I certainly can! Hi there

Our team used the EAZA guidelines to decide what species were suitable enrichment species for the White Rhinoceros. While Warthogs were not included, you can still put them in an enclosure together, they just won't specifically enrich each other. Hope that helps!

In Tulsa Zoo, Southern White Rhinoceroses and Common Warthogs can live together. I hope they enrich each other in Planet Zoo as there is a real life example found in a zoo.

HeatherG · Jun 23, 2021

Hugo98 said:
I really love the Africa Pack and update 1.6, thank you Frontier!
I haven't used that much yet but it looks great. And oh my god, the digging animations of the meerkats are so cool!

Welcome to the forums! Glad you’re enjoying it

RabidOkapi · Jun 23, 2021

Bearcat9948 said:
Has anyone been successful in getting their African penguins to dive? I updated my pool depth to 4.67 and they still rarely will. A colony of 20 individuals and I've only seen one dive once. Might be a bug?

I’ve had limited diving(not as common as one might think for penguins), but my penguins are getting stuck in the water. When they dive, they cannot move anymore and simply flap in place with no momentum.

Same happens for my foxes in the water. Poor little guys get stuck paddling. It’s adorable, but they’ll die if I don’t move them all out of the water.

Leaf Productions · Jun 23, 2021

I didn't get the chance to thank you guys on the Forums yet - this is easily my favorite pack so far. Amazing work to all of you from Devs to CM's to every single person who helped to put this thing together. You all are superstars!

Bearcat9948 · Jun 23, 2021

Bearcat9948 said:
I don't know, like an hour or so? I play on pause a lot but I left it running for a while

@Urufu1997 After a while it started working. Not sure why it wasn't for so long. I added about 20 more as well so hopefully it happens more frequently.

hudsonbear · Jun 23, 2021

FunGaming said:
Bug in the update, Infinite Guest Cash keeps turning on automaticly, you turn it off and apply, you go back and look and its turned on again.

Just made a issue ticket for it https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/39352

I've got this too but I can't get mine to stay on! Keeps switching itself off. Hopefully will be patched soon.

Britches · Jun 23, 2021

More issues:

When in build mode and copying groups or more pieces than one, the pieces disappear or rotate on their own.

FunGaming · Jun 23, 2021

hudsonbear said:
I've got this too but I can't get mine to stay on! Keeps switching itself off. Hopefully will be patched soon.

I hope so too

Firestar97 · Jun 23, 2021

There is a Polar Bear Bug that I've already experienced 2 times since the Update. It can happen that Polar Bears stay in one Place and are just twitching while trying to move. Moving them to another Place in the Enclosure won't solve it but moving them to the Quarantine (most likely also Trade Center) will fix it