How to feed animals!

[Alphakuh]

Many of you have problems with, just try following things:

1. make sure u have working workarea with enclosure, Staffroom and keeperroom

2. make sure u have enough keepers for clean and refill.

3. youre keepers will only refill what’s needed. If u have pure water, they will never refill waterstation.
If u have enough enrichments to feed them, they won’t.

4 make sure they can pass all the ways. Otherwise they won’t reach there.

5. one room isn’t enough for more enclosures to prepare feed.


I will tell u, it’s no bug, it’s a failure in your working process in your zoo. Just try to find out where the problem is and solve this.

[Pheace]

I've made a topic about this on release day I think. I'm hoping at some point they change it so keepers fill up whatever bowls/enrichment I place regardless of whether it's too much or not.

Let me deal with the consequences and balancing of overfeeding/spoilage rather than seeing items go unused.

[Alphakuh]

Originally posted by Pheace:

I've made a topic about this on release day I think. I'm hoping at some point they change it so keepers fill up whatever bowls/enrichment I place regardless of whether it's too much or not.

Let me deal with the consequences and balancing of overfeeding/spoilage rather than seeing items go unused.

It’s just like in reallife. Why refill something unused???
Just don’t place too much

[Saurbaum]

Good advice but there are issues with the keepers.

If they feed the enrichment and not the main feeding station animals can take too long to feed because they have to share the enrichment device to get food.

If a keeper goes on break another one won't take their job and feed the animal.

Sometimes keepers are walking into an enclosure to feed the animals and then just leaving without doing anything.

[Alphakuh]

Originally posted by Saurbaum:

Good advice but there are issues with the keepers.

If they feed the enrichment and not the main feeding station animals can take too long to feed because they have to share the enrichment device to get food.

If a keeper goes on break another one won't take their job and feed the animal.

Sometimes keepers are walking into an enclosure to feed the animals and then just leaving without doing anything.

No. Ure not Right. And yes. If they go on break they do nothing.

So enrichment are enough for your animals

[Saurbaum]

Enrichment can be enough for your animals. But if a keeper arrives and they are starving to fill an enrichment device only one can eat at a time from it. This takes time which can cause your animals to start dying from starvation as they wait their turn for the enrichment food.

If the keeper were to detect that the animals as desperate he should feed the faster feeding station first.

Also if a keeper goes on break another should take over the feeding task.

[Liam Demingosh]

Lol. I got some animal in water dying of dehydratation. It's probably due to my fault .
https://postimg.cc/TLHHZpyh

[Liam Demingosh]

The only thing i found was to send them into quarantine

[Pheace]

Originally posted by fr Guts Demingosh:

Lol. I got some animal in water dying of dehydratation. It's probably due to my fault .
https://postimg.cc/TLHHZpyh

It doesn't look like that's the problem but are you sure the water was properly filtered?

[Liam Demingosh]

AS you can see in the picture. Sanity of the last drink is at 99%, and if it is not, they drink it, but can get disease.

[Cyril Figgis]

I found the issue - the staff will not enter the prepare station to make food.
They do the moonwalk one meter away from the door to the station - but never enter it.
Removing the walls around the building wont help - I will send the link of the video to Frontier - hopefully they can fix it easily.

https://youtu.be/IV718Dx714k

[Liam Demingosh]

https://postimg.cc/ZWDM0wF0

[Liam Demingosh]

Originally posted by Der Hausmeister:

I found the issue - the staff will not enter the prepare station to make food.
They do the moonwalk one meter away from the door to the station - but never enter it.
Removing the walls around the building wont help - I will send the link of the video to Frontier - hopefully they can fix it easily.

https://youtu.be/IV718Dx714k

xD, it's nice to notice he can find the way to the coffe room without any trouble :D

[Cyril Figgis]

Originally posted by fr Guts Demingosh:

xD, it's nice to notice he can find the way to the coffe room without any trouble :D

Yeah, it must have something to do with the buildung itself - but I don't get it.

[hleyomac]

so i looking up with what happen with my problem with the keepers,
apparently, they arenot filing the bowl quickly enough
(and i think its not the overfilling , because all my 3 adult warthog dies of hunger, leaving the babies alone)

i got my staffroom (2) 1 keeper hut with 4 keeper.
what i dont uderstand is, my hut keeps getting inefficient status with the distance to the habitat is 17 km (is that even possible?) eventhough the hut and the gate is close
i managed to built a new hut even closer to the gate, atleast getting efficient status:
https://imgur.com/0jvLznO
but still, 9km??
ane still, the keeper not filling fast enough.
also, eventhough theres workspace, do i need to call the staff manually? because my barrier wearing down to 50% with mechanic doing nothing no until i call him manually.

[hleyomac]

another thing, when i call keepers manually from the food bowl, one of them will rush to the inside of habitat first, then walk out and run to the keeper instead of directly picking up food from the hut.