Hard shelter not registering?

[x Princess Leliana x]

So I spent a good 20 minutes making a lovely rock based shelter for my komodo dragons, finished it, they loved it! 100% coverage. Looked back, 0% coverage. Rebuilt, 100%, then 0% right after. Tried with a bunch of rock based shelters on the workshop, same thing, jumps to 100% then instantly to 0. I placed a tiny tiny wooden shelter from the base game (one grid sqaure big, my one was 2.5-3) and it jumps and stays at 84%, so whats the problem with mine?

[Holyvision]

Yea, there's something weird about hard shelters. I also find certain things register and certain things don't. I've also seen the issue where it shows 100% just to drop down to 50%. Because of this I've just been spamming the larger of the pre-made "planet zoo" shelters as they seem to always work.

I'm not spending a ton of time on stuff to find it doesn't work. I've seen lots of workshop shelters too that this happens to -- looks great and should work but gets a lower % for whatever unknown reason.

[x Princess Leliana x]

I just made a resting rock for them, one rock going up then another flat to perch on. That counts. But no no my shelter doesnt. AAAAAAAAAA

[x Princess Leliana x]

Made my entrance bigger and that seems to have worked?

[Nox]

check the habitat heatmap, for traversable terrain. If they "cannot reach" the entrance due to foliage or rock climbing areas, then it will not count. Even if the animal can just walk through the bush.... it needs clear ground for the pathing system to register it. I had this making my new tiger enclosure, fully tropical, 98% coverage and they just would not register it... cleared a few plants to make a walkway and voila, it registered.

[The Former]

Originally posted by Tiylana:

check the habitat heatmap, for traversable terrain. If they "cannot reach" the entrance due to foliage or rock climbing areas, then it will not count. Even if the animal can just walk through the bush.... it needs clear ground for the pathing system to register it. I had this making my new tiger enclosure, fully tropical, 98% coverage and they just would not register it... cleared a few plants to make a walkway and voila, it registered.

It's probably this. I know when I made a shelter out of rocks for the first time, the traversable area inside was far less than I expected because rocks require a wider berth for pathing than I expected. Make sure the ceiling is plenty tall and there's plenty of room to move around inside.

[Grandmaster of Pwn]

yeah i built this lovely little den for my tortoises but it does not count as hard shelter. i tried to close every nook and cranny (i dunno what it registers) but nothing seems to work. i'll try some of the usggested issues.

[x Princess Leliana x]

Originally posted by Grandmaster of Pwn:

yeah i built this lovely little den for my tortoises but it does not count as hard shelter. i tried to close every nook and cranny (i dunno what it registers) but nothing seems to work. i'll try some of the usggested issues.

What worked for me was making the entrance bigger and raising the roof.

[bLake]

maybe u fixed that issue but try with terrain and make a cave cuz rocks dont count as den

[The Former]

Originally posted by x Princess Leliana x:

Originally posted by Grandmaster of Pwn:

yeah i built this lovely little den for my tortoises but it does not count as hard shelter. i tried to close every nook and cranny (i dunno what it registers) but nothing seems to work. i'll try some of the usggested issues.

What worked for me was making the entrance bigger and raising the roof.

Ah yeah, that'd do it too! The animals need to be able to get into it, so clearance is key; without it, it won't count. Glad you fixed it. :D

Originally posted by YıldızlaraIçelimBuGece:

maybe u fixed that issue but try with terrain and make a cave cuz rocks dont count as den

It does actually! You just have to make sure the opening is wide enough to fit through, the ceiling is high enough to walk under, and it covers enough ground space to count (and has beds in it). Though... Making a cave and adding rocks as accents is certainly much less tedious, I can tell you that.