Zoo keepers are still not feeding any animals

[Quisanne]

Reproduced in Franchise, Challenge and Sandbox Mode.
Zoo keepers will not fill any feeders on their own or when called to enclosures. They will enter the enclosure and walk back out and start wandering the zoo.
Game is not playable this way.
I tried it with 4 different species so far, all in completely new zoos. I also encountered this bug while playing the beta via the deluxe edition access.
Keepers did not feed the animals regardless of how close the keeper hut was (I tried changing the position), regardless of them being assigned to work zones (didn't work with or without those) and regardless of regular and/or enrichment feeders being there (both are not being filled).
The keepers are not tired, they just started their job. But none of the keepers huts are being used despite them being close and connected with paths.

 

[Bobble2017]

I have had the issue as well , I had 5 animals die before the keepers finally decided to make food for them

And they couldn't say there was nowhere to make food as the first thing i did was research the large keeper huts and put 2 of them down for only 4 habitats currently

 

[monsterparty]

Same with me, I lost a few lemurs because die from lack of food with the keeper would not fill their food tray.

 

[Fortunanovesia]

thing is: First Feeders are filling food enrichment. So when there's enough food enrichment, they wont fill up the normal food-placements.

They start filling them too, when they recognize that just filling the enrichment isnt enough for the amount of animals in the exhibit.

So animals have always to go to the enrichment items to get their food. Lots of times another animal starts eaten from the items before and the animal starves while searching for an full enrichment item thats not blocked.

 

[Agathorn]

thing is: First Feeders are filling food enrichment. So when there's enough food enrichment, they wont fill up the normal food-placements.

They start filling them too, when they recognize that just filling the enrichment isnt enough for the amount of animals in the exhibit.

So animals have always to go to the enrichment items to get their food. Lots of times another animal starts eaten from the items before and the animal starves while searching for an full enrichment item thats not blocked.

Or they just don't fill anything, including food enrichment, which is the bug many people have. All this effort and bugs just to make zookeepers "smart" about filling up "just the right amount" of food instead of just making them fill up whatever items are placed down.

 

[Yukari1885]

I only have the problem with "arboreal feeders" and I noticed that they are not listed in the "habitat contents"

 

[Broken Omega]

I only have the problem with "arboreal feeders" and I noticed that they are not listed in the "habitat contents"

At the moment my issue too is with the arboreal feeders.
All others are filled, trying to work out if it's because they should be elevated or something

 

[Mctittles]

With feeding only "just enough" you can't do things like put food in multiple places so they always have somewhere to go. Just like in Beta animals don't go find food when hungry but wait until near death and sometimes just crossing the habitat they die on the way.

Also enrichment feeders might be a one animal per feeder situation.

 

[Agathorn]

With feeding only "just enough" you can't do things like put food in multiple places so they always have somewhere to go. Just like in Beta animals don't go find food when hungry but wait until near death and sometimes just crossing the habitat they die on the way.

Also enrichment feeders might be a one animal per feeder situation.

Yeah that is part of the reasons for this suggestion I posted:

Please, just have have the keepers fill up whatever we place in the habitat

This attempt to make keepers "intelligently determine the proper amount of food for a habitat based on the number of animals" is just causing nothing but confusion, bugs, and grief and what is the upside? What is the benefit to having it this way? Just make it simple, and just have the keepers...

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