Tortoises keep escaping since I put the 4x4 Adventure Tour in

[misscrazycat]

I'm not sure what I've done wrong ... hoping someone can help. I was trying to put an adventure tour track through all my existing exhibits (man that was some work) and I have been semi-successful except for these darn tortoise! The second I put the track and doors through this enclosure I had a pop up message that all my tortoises had escaped. I thought it was odd because none of the other animals did this and I did have the game paused. Now that it is unpaused it wont even let me put the tortoises back - keeps saying invalid destination

I THINK that the walls are ok. I have looked and they seem to be to me? Has anyone had this issue? Maybe I am just overtired and missed a wall gap ... I dont know :( Seems a shame to create a new area and leave this one empty

[Moosegun]

Sounds like you have missed a piece of the wall. Selected the barriers and drag the arrow to select wall pieces. Keep going until you hit a gap.

[misscrazycat]

Oh my god, nevermind. It was all because the keeper gate got deleted in the process. How this leads to all the animals ESCAPING I have no idea - maybe you need to re-work that a little Animal Planet :)

All walls were still intact. I added a gate and problem solved

[Psyringe]

Usually, to find out how animals can escape, you'd go to Heatmaps -> Habitats and click on the smallest animal in the habitat. That will then show you the traversable area for this animal and potential escape points. Then you look closer at the escape points and fix them. If there's just one escape point in the habitat, the animals can leave through any barrier, they don't have to go through the specific location of the escape point.

That said, it sounds like this isn't the problem in your case. From your description, it seems that your habitat isn't registered as a habitat any more. If you click on the barrier, does the game still select all the barriers around the habitat?

A screenshot of the habitat, with the focus on your adventure tour, might help.

[Psyringe]

Glad you got it fixed. :)

Originally posted by misscrazycat:

It was all because the keeper gate got deleted in the process. How this leads to all the animals ESCAPING I have no idea

It's actually pretty logical. ;) By removing the gate, you removed the "habitat" status from the area. It's now just an undesignated area with some walls around. The animals are no longer in the habitat (since there is no habitat), they are in an undesignated area, so they have escaped. That's what the game tells you.

An animal that is not in a habitat, box, or specific building, will always count as escaped, because animals are always supposed to be in those designated areas. It doesn't matter if it can reach the guests or not.

[Moosegun]

Yep, you basically deleted the habitat, so all the animals inside it counted as escaped. You were lucky it wasnt your lions enclosure, would have cleared out your zoo lol