Fake animal escapes and hard cover issues

[Dad Cheadle]

I spent a fairly long while digging out a hole in a hill for my ardvarks. I placed bedding in it, and built up a rock structure around it and over it. The first problem i had was that the game didn't recognise it as hard cover, so I had too ugly up my enclosure a bit by placing one of those premade hardcovers(which are not ugly in themselves, just didn't fit well with what I had going on). I bit the bullet, and just left it. Then I discovered that whenever the ardvarks wander into the hole, which is well within their enclosure, an alarm sounds and it says an animal has escaped. It is very frustrating that something I spend alot of time making look nice not only doesn't work as intended, it is a flat out annoyance when it is used at all.

[Tirathi]

Haven't stumbled on problems like you are having here but;
1 When you put the heat map view on, and then press habitat mode, do you see any red spots?
Those would point out the exact point of breach if it is not just the game being buggy.
https://i.imgur.com/ZGMqNH4.png
2 You dug out a hole in a hill and then put bedding in it.
This often leaves tiny open or tin spots in the cave wall.
A approach with no fault for me is placing the bedding first and then the round shape over it.
You can see if things are covered well before hand and the bedding makes its own cave.
Just need to make an entrance and then soften and shape a bit around to make it not too
unnatural :)
https://i.imgur.com/ItXN1ne.jpg

[Dad Cheadle]

Thanks for your input, i'll try your suggestions.

[Jackie]

I had a false alarm black bear escape when it climbed off its climbing structure and suddenly wound up underground for a minute. So many screaming people, and it never left the enclosure

[Double Drick]

I have fake escapes all the dang time. Sometimes when you just adjust the barriers while on pause. Soon as you unpause, it says all the animals from that habitat escaped! Lots of guests start running for the exits while the animals look up from grazing safely in their pen to see what the heck is happening. Learned NOT to hit emergency capture for $1000 right away as most of the time the game will adjust and turn off the alarm

[Artrelli]

this is a pain i get fake escapes all the time and get fined for it while the inspector is there
and the animal is just swimming in its swim hole inside his pen