Update Notes

Hayo Zookeepers!

Update 1.14.0 is now available for download. Simply update your game before you play! This update includes bug fixes, updates and some new content, and you can read more below:

New Content - Planet Zoo: Arid Animal Pack

• NEW - Animals
  • New animals in the Planet Zoo: Arid Animal Pack:
    • Dromedary Camel
    • Addax
    • Dama Gazelle
    • African Crested Porcupine
    • Sand Cat
    • Black Rhinoceros
    • Somali Wild Ass
    • Desert Horned Viper
• NEW - Career Scenario
  • Tiffany's paradise park is a new, up and coming, tourist destination; proudly showcasing Saudi Arabia’s beauty and wildlife through the use of modern education, retail and dining.... That is, if you and Tiffany are up to the challenge!
• NEW - Scenery Pieces
  • Arid Animal Sign Addax
  • Arid Animal Sign Crested Porcupine
  • Arid Animal Sign Black Rhinoceros
  • Arid Animal Sign Dromedary Camel
  • Arid Animal Sign Dama Gazelle 01
  • Arid Animal Sign Dama Gazelle 02
  • Arid Animal Sign Sand Cat
  • Arid Animal Sign Somali Wild Ass
  • Reward Statue Dromedary Camel Stone
  • Reward Statue Dromedary Camel Bronze
  • Reward Statue Dromedary Camel Silver
  • Reward Statue Dromedary Camel Gold
• NEW - Avatar Costume
  • Dromedary Camel Hat and Avatar costume

New Content - Free Update 1.14.0

• NEW - Staff Flexi colour
  • Staff members' uniform colours can now be customised on an individual or staff type level
  • Select a staff member to apply flexicolour to all four channels of their uniform to make them stand out from their peers
  • Go to the new Zoo → Staff → Staff Uniforms tab in the zoo management UI to set and change uniform colours for an entire staff type
• NEW - New animal behaviour: Spitting at guests
  • All camelids, that is, Bactrian Camels, Llamas, and Dromedary Camels, now have a chance to perform a spitting interaction with guests
  • If guests are visible and near to the animal, the interaction becomes available. Keep barriers high or block the view to keep your guests safe
  • Guests will not be harmed by this interaction but will leave the habitat to look at something more friendly
• NEW - Scenic Camera Mode
  • A new camera mode is available from the camera modes widget in the bottom right of the HUD
  • Place the camera location anywhere in the world by clicking. Vertical position can be adjusted holding the standard vertical height key (Default: Shift)
  • Camera behaviour can be adjusted from the selection panel in the bottom right while in Scenic Camera Mode: select between spin, ellipsis, spiral in, spiral out, and adjust speed to get the perfect view
• NEW - Cinematic Route Editor
  • Create detailed videos with the Cinematic Route Editor, available in the camera modes widget in the bottom right of the HUD
  • Routes are calculated along keyframes, which are positions you set for your camera to create a route using as many or few as you like
  • Any keyframe can be individually moved and customised with different settings such as
    • Using the camera target instead of the camera to calculate the route, which create wide curves around the view
    • Jumping to the next keyframe, which creates cinematic cuts between parts of a route
    • Editing the speed of the route on the segments around individual keyframes
  • Routes are saved for each zoo, meaning they can be shared and viewed with your builds on the steam workshop when uploading a zoo
• NEW - Foliage
  • Nitraria Retusa Bush Dry 01
  • Nitraria Retusa Bush Dry 02
  • Nitraria Retusa Bush Dry 03
  • Nitraria Retusa Bush 04
  • Nitraria Retusa Bush 05
  • Nitraria Retusa Bush 06
  • Creosote Bush Dry 01
  • Creosote Bush Dry 02
  • Creosote Bush Dry 03
  • Creosote Bush 04
  • Creosote Bush 05
  • Creosote Bush 06
• NEW - Music Tracks
  • Listen to the soothing sounds of the sands around your zoo with 4 new music tracks accessible through the in game speakers:
    • Saharan Sands
    • Red Sea Hills
    • Tuwaiq Canyons
    • Al-Dahna Caravan

General Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Animals
  • Added Taiga Biome icon missing on the Polar Bear's TV screen display
  • Added Grassland Biome icon missing on Red River Hog's Education Board
  • Added Aquatic Biome icon missing on Asian Water Monitor's Education Board
  • Fixed Planco and scientific names being inverted on the TV screen display for the Red Deer, Striped Skunk, Egyptian Fruit Bat
  • Fixed incorrect Planco names on the Eurasian Lynx's Education Boards
  • Changed 'North America' to 'Central America' in Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey's Zoopedia page
  • Added Central America tag to California Sea Lion's Zoopedia page
  • Fixed a bug preventing Dall Sheep from escaping while using a Goat Climbing Mountain too close to the habitat barrier
  • Fixed a bug preventing Japanese Macaque from using Hot Water taps in shallow water
  • Fixed a bug preventing Lar Gibbon from sliding for a moment after climbing off from Tangled Liana
  • Added a sound when any member of the Nine-Banded Armadillo family dies due to predation
  • Polished Cougar bite animation
  • Polished Juvenile West African Lion sleeping animation
  • Fixed both Chinese Pangolin male and female animations when using the Artificial Termite Mound
  • Fixed Lar Gibbon Conservation Status on Education Board to match the Conservation Status in Zoopedia
  • Chinese Pangolins and Fennec Foxes can now use the Small Burrow
• Game Modes
  • Balanced the animal market in Challenge Mode to take into account the amount of DLCs owned by players
  • Updated Desert South America Sculpted opening times to 05.00-23.00 and ticket prices set to 3.00 to match other maps in both Franchise and Challenge modes
• Guests
  • Fixed a bug where the guests were fleeing from non-escaped animals
• Scenario
  • Fixed a bug blocking players from completing Career Scenario 'The Ape-renticeship' due to Animal Market being empty
  • In 'Goodwin House' scenario, fixed a bug preventing the Hippopotamus from being stuck while swimming
  • Fixed a rare bug in 'Myers Castle' scenario preventing the 'Keep Crime rate Low' objective being completed due to the wrong inspector type being spawned
  • Fixed a rare bug in the Purmamarca Educational Reserve scenario preventing both the objectives 'Build an Animal trade centre' and 'Build a research centre' from being completed by players
• Habitats
  • Herb Scent Marker Enrichment is now accessible from multiple sides
• Scenery
  • Added flexicolour tag to several base game assets
• Facilities
  • Fixed Twilight Pack Blueprints being gated by non-Twilight mechanic research
  • Fixed a bug preventing players to place specific habitat blueprints due to a dynamic enrichment being placed too close
• Staff
  • Fixed a bug preventing Keepers from teleporting outside of the habitat
  • Fixed a bug where staff members end up stuck
• UI
  • Fixed a bug impacting font sizes in Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
• Stability
  • Fixed a crash when players select a European Fallow Deer and click on the "Filter Habitat Items by Species" button in the Enrichment tab
  • Fixed a rare crash when players start editing climbable objects in a habitat
  • Fixed various save loading crashes