Indian Peafowl dehydrated itself to died?????? Won't drink what is going on??!?!??!

[SKY]

The water source is next to it for the last 2 hours and it won't drink or anything. i can't control or force my animals to drink. So what is going on , a bug?? i wait like 7 months after game release hoping that all bug on release would be fix, however this bug seems to be here from release until now. And what going on with game keep crashing every hour?

[13th]

I have moved the animals right next to the water or next to another point of water and that seems to reset them and they drink. It is annoying to have this issue, but this annoying work around works for me.

[SKY]

i actually moved the water source next to it hard shelter in fornt of it where the animal is laying. It just stare at water lol

[Mongjoe ♥Squad]

Have you tried looking at the heatmap? Sometimes the water fountain is not accessable area for the animal

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Did you check out the patch notes?

https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791464470100/announcements/detail/2197135853624259075

[nami]

Check out the patch notes, it's a known issue consisting of doubled thirst and routing issues. I also have this a lot with my animals, I just placed tons of water sources and when my elephants still wouldn't drink I sent them to quarantine for a while, which helped.

It's getting fixed at the moment and has come with the new update. A "fix" to animals standing still is pausing the game and wait for the game so sort the routes out, before saving and press play again. This helped me to an extent.

[SKY]

"We've been getting reports of animals and Staff not moving around in habitats. This is mostly apparent in large habitats. Please load up Planet Zoo and leave it on pause, and allow the navigable area to generate. You'll only need to do this once, the game will remember the navigable area on your next save. The larger the habitats in your zoos, the longer you should leave it. We recommend 30 minutes for any habitat over 50,000m2."



How do i generate the navigable area. Do i just open my Zoo and click pause and wait for it on pause screen?

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Yes

[SKY]

thank you i will try it

[toosad]

So..........how could we know if the navigable area generation is completed after loading and pausing the game?

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Originally posted by toosad:

So..........how could we know if the navigable area generation is completed after loading and pausing the game?

If it works it's complete. Just let the game run for 30mins

[totalwarzone]

Have you the feering table and water on a walkway? That didnt works.