Dinos all happy, but still try to destroy the fence?

[Venny]

All the bars are full, hunger, space, privacy even their happiness overall but they still whack at the fence like they're annoyed. I've placed tall grass everywhere but they still strike at the fence.

I see the "happy face" bubble pop up while hitting the fence, is this a bug or are they just pure born Sadists? Help plz.

[I'm a rock!]

Dinos attacking fences

Even though my dinos are quite happy, they randomly attack fences, that are close to pathways (that includes herbivores).
Is that intended, am I doing something wrong or have I come across a bug?

[I'm a rock!]

Same issue here - have not found a solution yet

[Venny]

I've encountered exact same problem, I hope it's a bug :/

[Parcival]

Going to merge these two. Sounds potentially bug-like

[AnnaBanana]

Yeah i got that too i'm assuming its a bug lucky it hasn't caused problems so it doesn't bother me

[cerealfruitcake]

I got annoyed with this too so I just built moats all around the fence line (except one tile for the door). Works great and I like the look of it. Some biomes you are limited to how big the moat can be cus they don't like a lot of water.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1523498238

[Sam]

First thread I see and its exactly my issue; I just finished the tutorial and my first dinosaur wrecked the fence on day 4 or 5. Felt a bit unfair as hey - I did the exhibit as the tutorial wanted, made it twice the size to add a second dinosaur and they immediately ragequit?

It was also hard to keep track of the damages on the fence as the red "health bar" disappeared really soon and I didn't find where to check the "exhibit health".

@CerealFruitcakes thanks for the moat idea, will try! :D

[Parcival]

Thanks for all this input. I'll put it on the radar of the devs

[lucyrocketdog]

I figured all the tail-lashing and fence-whacking was just "dinos being dinos"--of course they whack the fence. I saw it as a feature, not a bug, lol

[Venny]

Originally posted by CerealFruitcakes:

I got annoyed with this too so I just built moats all around the fence line (except one tile for the door). Works great and I like the look of it. Some biomes you are limited to how big the moat can be cus they don't like a lot of water.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1523498238

Cheeky idea, I love it haha!

[Venny]

Originally posted by lucyrocketdog:

I figured all the tail-lashing and fence-whacking was just "dinos being dinos"--of course they whack the fence. I saw it as a feature, not a bug, lol

Hmm, that would be a lot of micro-managing when you have a huge park. No thanks.

[Skirlasvoud]

Originally posted by Vaniglia:

First thread I see and its exactly my issue; I just finished the tutorial and my first dinosaur wrecked the fence on day 4 or 5. Felt a bit unfair as hey - I did the exhibit as the tutorial wanted, made it twice the size to add a second dinosaur and they immediately ragequit?

It was also hard to keep track of the damages on the fence as the red "health bar" disappeared really soon and I didn't find where to check the "exhibit health".

@CerealFruitcakes thanks for the moat idea, will try! :D

I've had the exact same issue. Finished the tutorial, put another dino in to make absolutely sure you need 600 area size per dino, saw that they became unhappy indeed and doubled their exibit. Both were happy.

Then they started smashing the fences.


It'd be interested to know what exactly caused the issue in my case. Did they start smashing because the game forgot I made them happy again? Will they always smash the fences, regardless of happiness? Was it because I suddenly changed the size?

Interesting...

[LizardKing]

I was having this problem. then i removed the lights from my park and it stopped happening as much.

[Meymun]

I assumed it was a feature, but it is improved with the mini-moat idea above, and by putting privacy grass around their feeder.

[lucyrocketdog]

The janitors fix the fences automatically so I don't ever micromanage. The fence damage from relatively happy dinos isn't so bad to handle with enough janitors.