Zookeepers Not Feeding Animals!!!!

Paperchicken

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None of my zookeepers are feeding my animals! They just keep walking in and out and that is it.
I started a sandbox mode so I could play around and I only have two exhibits at the moment, neither of them are getting fed apart from one time they filled an enrichment item but nothing after that.
I have tried placing down multiple zookeepers, they have their own workzone with the keeper huts and such right between the exhibits.
All my animals have died thanks to this.
I love this game but what is the point if all the animals just die from starvation because the zookeepers arent working.

Also another question, why did you make it so that zookeepers prioritise enrichment items wouldnt it make more sense for the other way around? Because its giving alot of people problems.
 

Kinah

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I had this happen to me. The zookeepers were feeding everything then all of the sudden they just stopped. I didnt alter anything but they just quit feeding all of my animals. I watched them just walk in, turn around and walk out. It kinda looked like they were stuck so I tried moving every habitat gate to a different location... it worked. They started feeding everything again. Doesnt make sense but hey whatever it takes.
 

Paperchicken

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Kinah said:
I had this happen to me. The zookeepers were feeding everything then all of the sudden they just stopped. I didnt alter anything but they just quit feeding all of my animals. I watched them just walk in, turn around and walk out. It kinda looked like they were stuck so I tried moving every habitat gate to a different location... it worked. They started feeding everything again. Doesnt make sense but hey whatever it takes.
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I tried doing that but it isnt working :(
Im going to try removing all the food enrichment and see if that helps.
 

Kinah

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Sorry to hear it didnt help. My animals were all starving so I crated them and moved them to quarantine. When they come back their food is full. Was the only way I saved them till I found something that helped
 

Paperchicken

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Kinah said:
Sorry to hear it didnt help. My animals were all starving so I crated them and moved them to quarantine. When they come back their food is full. Was the only way I saved them till I found something that helped
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So i only slightly fixed it! I trained everyone up fully and after that moved all my animals back from being in quarantine.
I put a few of the same food dishes down as I have a africa herbivore enclosure that has multiple different species but now when they put down food its only either for the warthogs one time and then another for a different species but they always wait till they are close to starving...
The system is honestly not very goof, they should have it so that when you click the food tray and click call zookeeper they should instantly go to fill that food bowl instead of the system deciding for you whether it needs it or not (and it always needs it but it ignores that).
I dont mind if there is wastage (how it goes rotten) because that can get cleaned up, its better to have the food there instead of having the animals starve.

I also now cannot have food enrichment because they would rather fill that up instead.
 

Joël

Volunteer Moderator
Joël
Here's a quick overview of how animal feeding is supposed to work:
1) Keeper enters habitat and assess it and the number of animals in it
2) Keeper returns to Keeper Hut to prepare enough food for all the animals in the habitat
3) Keeper returns to Habitat and focuses on refilling enrichment feeders first. If the enrichment feeders can contain enough of the prepared food they won't fill the standard feeders (This is intentional and animals should not starve from this).

If animals are dying of starvation this can indicate that the Keeper cannot access their hut, that the Keeper is too tired to function or it could be they have been assigned to a work zone that does not feature a Hut and Staff Room. It could also be a bug.
 

Agathorn

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I've had them stop feeding several times but usually, or at least sometimes, after quitting the game the reloading it they start feeding again.
 

Helena

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I had one animal almost dying when the others of same species in same habitat eating nicely, I had to box her, and debox, and she went to eat.
 

Agathorn

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Annoyingly it seems animals will just putter around until they are hungry and THEN go seek out food. For some animals they move so slow that they can be starving to death by the time they get to a feeder (especially since the game won't let us control where the food goes). I wish the animals would be more proactive about eating.
 

Paperchicken

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Joël said:
Here's a quick overview of how animal feeding is supposed to work:
1) Keeper enters habitat and assess it and the number of animals in it
2) Keeper returns to Keeper Hut to prepare enough food for all the animals in the habitat
3) Keeper returns to Habitat and focuses on refilling enrichment feeders first. If the enrichment feeders can contain enough of the prepared food they won't fill the standard feeders (This is intentional and animals should not starve from this).

If animals are dying of starvation this can indicate that the Keeper cannot access their hut, that the Keeper is too tired to function or it could be they have been assigned to a work zone that does not feature a Hut and Staff Room. It could also be a bug.
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The two enclosures that I have have a large keeper hut and a small one (just incase) and 6 keepers, they also have a workzone that covers all of it including a staff room and such.
I honestly think it was jsut a bug, they are starting to feed the animals but they honestly do not enough down and now when they do they will only fill one feeder and then put 2 piles on the ground for some reason instead of just putting it into the other 2 feeders.
Ive removed the enrichment feeders because the animals were starving way quicker due to this but I have noticed that the keepers dont really fill enough of the feeders at all, like its never full.
 

Paperchicken

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Agathorn said:
I've had them stop feeding several times but usually, or at least sometimes, after quitting the game the reloading it they start feeding again.
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I think I might have gotten it to work but its still very very sporadic. They need to fix it so they fill it more often because its making me panic that they dont get fed and Ill have protesters and my animals dying.
 

Paperchicken

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Agathorn said:
Annoyingly it seems animals will just putter around until they are hungry and THEN go seek out food. For some animals they move so slow that they can be starving to death by the time they get to a feeder (especially since the game won't let us control where the food goes). I wish the animals would be more proactive about eating.
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Ugh I know right! Like those damn tortoises, crazy slow things. I feel like I should be adding two feeders but then again my keepers wont fill both
 

Sherrie

Sherrie
I've found the feeding issue a lot better after training the keepers, BUT the real issue is the eating issue, where the animals just wander past full dishes of food until they starve to death, I'm losing too many animals this way and it seems to be getting worse the longer I play. The worst ones affected are the babies
 
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