Keepers are dumb

[MasterKroket]

They are dumb.
As it is i cant afford a lot of em at the moment so i have one for 2 2 animal habitats. Close by the keeper hut should be doable. They are however just incredibly dumb.
I have seen this several times before. I get the 'habitat cleanliness is a disease risk' so i call for a keeper. First he finishes his work in the other habitat. Next he walks in the habitat/. First thing i get is 'Why hasnt xxx been cleaned?! Yeah thats YOUR job dude!
Next he proceeds to go prepare FOOD for the animals that arent even hungry FIRST no doubt once again leading to disease.

In previous mission i had a lot of money and had a lot of peafowls. I kept getting the habitat cleanliness is a disease risk. So i assigned TWO of em to the habitat, one of em only had the task to clean the habitat! And it still kept becoming a disease risk at a regular basis for whatever reason.... You had one job?!

[Varick]

" so i have one for 2 2 animal habitats" He is not dumb; he is exhausted. LOL

[MasterKroket]

have you read the entire post? I said i had 2 for one exhibit the other day and it was still getting dirty. They are simply not prioritizing properly. If he has the red face whatever its related to should take precedence over food / water...
Its very annoying to see em complain that the exhibit should be cleaned even though they should be doing it and then proceed to walk away to make food. Like how is that effective?

[Moving Target]

I am assuming that 'one for 22 animal habitats' means you have one keeper caring for one habitat containing 22 animals and not one keeper caring for 22 habitats, although reading further into your post it looks as though it might even be one keeper caring for 2 habitats.

A keeper will only prepare food if he registers there is at least ONE hungry animal in the habitat:
1 - You say he does it when animals aren't hungry, have you checked EVERY animal in the habitat
2 - Do you have enough feeding stations/food enrichment items for all of the animals

Preparing food is the more important task so will always be carried out before cleaning

If there is only one keeper he will usually feed animals first then clean poop before he leaves

Calling a keeper will not stop him completing his current task, the next task will just be added to his queue

You say the keeper hut is close by but what about a staff room? You seem to be oblivious to the fact staff need to REST, the further away the staff room the longer he will take to get there and the walk back to the habitats will start draining his energy before he even gets to his next task.
1 keeper for 2 habitats means downtime on tasks being performed while he rests, even with TWO keepers for 2 habitats you could have them both resting at the same time especially if one is only cleaning poop.

Try having 2 keepers per habitat or at least 3 to cover two habitats with a staff room nearby

Need more help? Try the post linked below

https://steamcommunity.com/app/703080/discussions/0/1637549649105382403/

[Nioell]

I usually have 2 keepers for 3 habitats and never had any problems like this when a keeper hut and staff room was nearby. Granted I didn't play after the latest patch was released and that might have caused new-old bugs again from what I saw, so it could be that as well.

Something else you might wan't to check is if the habitat is actually a desease risk because of poop or if the water in it is dirty. If it's the water you need a watertreatment unit close by since keepers can't clean the water. Also make sure the keepers can reach every part of the habitat the animals can reach as well or they might not be able to clean it.

[Varick]

Yes, I read the entire post. My apologies for the subtlety.

[MasterKroket]

Well its still very odd game mechanic. Its not like the animals are going to starve anytime soon or anything. If he signals 'red face: why hasnt this been cleaned' the normal action would be to do that first before walking to the keeper hut for food. That takes time and is less efficient.
Probably the problems do happen during break. That seems to make sense.
i read training them up means they have less down time so that might help. Still weird you cant have 2 keepers for one habitat. One devoted to food/drink + cleaning. The other just cleaning. You d think they d be able to like roster it properly but clearly not quite intelligent enough for that... So for habitats with more animals its important to have hut and staff room close by and traiend up as high as possible. How well this may be possible practically in all situations can be the question.

[Kayeia]

I had kinda the same problem. Except my keepers would not feed. My Japanese Macaque's where starving to death but the keepers where only cleaning them. I had 3 keepers in there cleaning at the same time, called a 4th and he started cleaning too. It's not like I have a large troop, maybe 6 to 8 tops. Everyone in the troop said starving too, so not sure why they refused to feed them.