Feeding won't work

[Lurifax]

I see allot of people telling us there "is no feeding bug" okay explain this then. my zoo have ONE SINGLE ANIMAL a lemur. So the staff can't be over exhausted with work the also have a place to rest and they are happy, My worker walks into the habitat just stands there and walks out and do not return with food my animal is at starving mode...I tried the following to solve it:I tried putting a worker hut next to the habitat didn't work the worker dosent even go in there...I tried deletein all feeding bowls and putting out new ones didnt work I tried moving the bowls closer to the worker when at entrence...didnt work, I tried moving stuff in the habitat and moving the walls in case there was no room for her to walk didnt work, Ive assigned work zones multiple times cause the seem to delete themselves...didnt wotrk I tried not having work zones don't work...I tried fire her and hire a new one didn't work, I even I tried moving my animal into a new habitat with a new hut next to but it didn't work, I don't even have enrichment feeders unlocked so no need telling me to delete those. Ive played this game for 24 hours and my worker havent feeded my one animal one single time and I tried allot of things and if this happens to be my own fault some how then the game is really to complex...and needs reworking I do thing there is either a feeding bug or a worker bug of some sort...beacause the worker actually do walk into the habitat some times to pick up poop. but when feeding just walk in 1 meter stands there and walks away and not returning with food. Have checked inside hut not standing there and preparing food either. I just don't want my animal to die can someone please relise there is a bug alredy and not saying that were just bad gamers I tried everything I can think of to fix it

update tried buying enrichments to they wont fill those either

[Gnarkill]

I have the same issue my animals always starve to death

i have tried a new zoo with a single habitat and a single animal ive assigned work zone placed the buildings right next to the habitat door , the zoo keepers come in fill the water , clean the poop but wont feed when i call them to feed the come look around leave and dont come back

The games is broken completely the keepers wont feed anything at all

[HeatherG]

If the keepers do anything other than what I'm about to mention below then please report it to the Issues Tracker at https://issues.frontierstore.net

A keeper should come in look around to see how many animals you have. Then they prepare the correct amount of food for that number of animals. They come in and fill any enrichment food items first and IF you have enough animals they will then fill the food trays in the enclosure.

[Foxhee]

I don't assign work zones and they do their own thing and everything works just fine, when I assigned the work zones, it seems like they stop doing their tasks, not sure. So I just dont touch them and everything works

[Lurifax]

They don't do any of that they : run over to the habitats stand 1 meter inside the door walk out of there calmly and do not go into any kind of building they just walk around looking lost like they don't know where they are sometimes they moonwalk sideways or backwards. Its like they cant find the buldings they food worker just walks over to the entrence then too the vendor stals and turns around and just keeps walking they don't even fill up the water of the animals the ONLY thing they do is scoop poop and Ive tried everything as mentioned.. Now I dont have any money and I took a loan and I dont have money to give them and there is protesters everywhere. THE GAME IS LITTELARY UNPLAYABLE I CANNOT DO ANYTHING the animals are so misrable I dont get money no money no do anything. IVE TRIED LIKE 10 different things to make them feed the animals and they wont

[bigdadyrabbit]

Heck my keepers won't even enter the habitat. All was well the first day but next day with no changes they stopped feeding the animals. Now they are all starving and dying. The mechanics and vets enter the habitat just fine but the keepers don't now for some reason. Like others I have them trained to level 3, have assigned work zones, not sure what else to do. I can't even release the animals into the wild because they are sick. Very frustrating. I am playing franchise mode. Did not have any issue with feeding the the tutorial modes. Have not played other modes yet.

[Gnarkill]

Originally posted by Lurifax:

They don't do any of that they : run over to the habitats stand 1 meter inside the door walk out of there calmly and do not go into any kind of building they just walk around looking lost like they don't know where they are sometimes they moonwalk sideways or backwards. Its like they cant find the buldings they food worker just walks over to the entrence then too the vendor stals and turns around and just keeps walking they don't even fill up the water of the animals the ONLY thing they do is scoop poop and Ive tried everything as mentioned.. Now I dont have any money and I took a loan and I dont have money to give them and there is protesters everywhere. THE GAME IS LITTELARY UNPLAYABLE I CANNOT DO ANYTHING the animals are so misrable I dont get money no money no do anything. IVE TRIED LIKE 10 different things to make them feed the animals and they wont

I have actually stopped playing now i have tried every combination of zoo , buildings and workzones and staff , i cannot get them to reliably feed my animals Sometimes after deleting feed stations and replacing them they will stock them with food once but then never again

They walk into the enclosure 1 meter stand for a second then leave they don't go to the keeper huts to prepare food they just wonder around aimlessly doing nothing and complaining about their low work load .....

Broken

[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.

If you are encountering issues of animals starving to death as keepers won't fill their feeders at all can you please email [e-mail] with the subject line 'Zookeeper Issue' and include a description of what is occurring and attach your saved game file. Please note that the Issue Tracker should be used for all other reports at this time.

[Wargalla]

I also have this bug... Keeper come into enclosure, and leave it...

[meep]

Same here and I only have food and water bowls no enrichment feeders.

[Mozgoth]

Do you buy the correct feeder?
Filter the feeders by species.

[Lurifax]

As I said they leave the enclosure and do not go to any hut I did follow all steps I checked everything. But yesterday after leaving the game paused for serveral hours in magichally worked they now feed them.

[Chewietan]

same to me with giraffe and elephant habitat at first it worked fine but last hour I played they just ran into the habitat stood there for a sec(do definitely nothing)and then go back out.

PS. Im quite sure that giraffe have only one type of feeder so it should not be wrong feeder issue

[SmallFry666]

Same here, is the game even playable? i cant feed my animal's no matter what i do and I've done everything stated above and so fourth.

[River Otter]

Originally posted by SmallFry666:

Same here, is the game even playable? i cant feed my animal's no matter what i do and I've done everything stated above and so fourth.

I'm currently on year 23 Franchise with no issues. You just have to be very, very cautious on your builds I think. Im streaming if you want to see the basic setup.

As for trying to fix -

1. Remove all enrichment.
2. Leave one single food storage in Habitat.
3. One Keeper Hut, One staff room per Habitat.
4. Assign Keeper, Keeper Hut, Staff room to a Work Area.
5. Assign one Keeper to Work Area.
6. Put Keeper Hut as close to Habitat entrance as possible.
7. Do not clutter Habitat. Animals can get stuck and starve themselves without you realizing.
8. Redo all paths, replace all buildings. Restart game, or even PC.

[HeatherG]

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