Croc Still Swimming Through Walls

[sevey13]

The saltwater crocs in my zoos keep swimming right through the walls and escaping. There are not gaps. There are no holes. I've watched them swim literally straight through the wall as though it isn't there.

This is not a new issue. I see threads on this going back to 2019. It continues to happen today. It's been years. Is it ever going to be fixed? That's a whole animal I paid for that I really can't use.

[ZOMBIE 999 TP]

Yes, it happens sometimes.

[Anvilarion]

I noticed that, too and I am lowkey disappointed, that they don't make cartoonish *plop* noises when they squeeze through the barriers.

Joke aside, they can only swim through barriers and not walk through barriers, so you can still have Saltwater Crocodiles if their water is surrounded by a landmass.

[Lisa Mockingbird]

Not just crocs pretty much any swimming animal (all swimming reptiles, beavers, penguins, seals, hippos, otters just to list a few) randomly occasionally swim way out of the water to other water (not necessarily even connected!) or to empty space way up in the empty air! or into other habitats or deep underground, and through solid barrier walls... and game always declares them escaped.

Also sometimes animals in the new den (badger or aardvark) will suddenly wake up from a comfy snooze and glitch out on the other side of my zoo in the middle of nothingness and be declared escaped.

And bears/cats that climb will go up tall trees or get on elevated ride rails some how also be escaped.

Also the climbers will sometimes not be able to climb their setups at all the game stops recognizing their climbing structures entirely until you shift one bit/board even a tiny amount then the game recalculates - so like my jaguars have 1600 sq m of climbing and sometimes I load the game and reads 0 sq m in their welfare (and I get protesters! LOL)

I just accept these bugs pay the 1000 capture wait for the protesters to leave and move on. No amount of tinkering cures these totally but expanding null fences way out around water areas helped reduce it a lot.

[sevey13]

I'm glad I'm not the only one dealing with this.

[PIT_DEFENDER]

Yup its probably unfixable ;p it happens with all animals for me from time to time, you just have to catch them xD

[audiolady]

And tell me if you see Steve McQueen throwing a baseball against the wall while in solitary confinement.
A cookie to the first person to guess where that came from.

[nicole.edwards95]

My crocs are a nightmare. I put multiple walls and rocks and they still just swim through. I have started avoiding putting them in my zoo because of the issues. I don't remember them being this bad before. I had gharials in a water boat ride enclosure and they never escaped. Very frustrating

[Wordi]

Just look at the heatmaps...there is always a whole in the fence.

[grampers62]

Crocks have some very large animations which includes the path for each animation referred to as a spline. If an enclosure is too small these animations do not have enough room to connect one to the next which is one of the big causes of swimming through walls. There have been other causes that resulted in escapes for diving species, some resolved and others not.
So be sure that the water area is large enough, especially the deep water, in length, width and depth to minimize those escapes.

[audiolady]

And armed guards.

[grampers62]

I wonder if whips and chains might keep them in their place?
XD

[Varick]

Originally posted by grampers62:

I wonder if whips and chains might keep them in their place?
XD

May we use those on the guests?? :D

[audiolady]

Just place them in the donation bins for the carnivores!

[bestofintentions_4th]

I had that happen last night with a grizzly. I ended up "planting" rocks all along the barrier underwater and that seemed to fix the issue.

[SqueeziestBee]

Got the latest DLC recently thinking maybe they'd finally fixed this bug. Beavers immediately swam through a brick wall and "escaped". Going to have to go back and make less natural looking enclosures with land next to barriers and hope that fixed things. Does this bug effect underwater viewing zones too? I'm worried I'll spend a whole bunch of time making a lovely viewing bit only to have the seals or something escape onto the guests :S