zoos employes just dont do their job?! .... and more (help)

[Freddy Flag]

How do I make those deam employes work?! the mechanics never fix the fences, the zookeepers never feed the animals... why? I have 9 inhabitats and 7 zookeepers 6 mechanics and even though they wont do much, they are all 3 stars, all asigned to the inhabitats and stuff... what am i doing wrong?

By the way, some times you have an inhabitat where suddenly all animals get stressed, then you check their preferences and everything else is great.... litteraly. They just get "stressed" and the game just dont tell me what it is, so... what is it?

[Razamanaz]

For the workers you can change the interval of time so they check more often. Say every 3 months rather than every 6 months or a year.

For the animals stressing you can add Do Not Disturb signs and ambient speakers. Plenty of hiding places in the habitat and 1 -way glass can also be helpful.

[Freddy Flag]

I dont even know how to change that!

are the ambient speakers the educational ones? what about the hiding places? like bushes and shelters?

[Shadow Delta]

Originally posted by Freddy Flag:

I dont even know how to change that!

are the ambient speakers the educational ones? what about the hiding places? like bushes and shelters?

One way glass viewing helps with some animals. Make sure that the glass tint is one the appropriate side. (It should look dark for the animals looking out towards the viewers.)

[Razamanaz]

Click on a habitat and at the bottom of the screen it shows time intervals for workers.

Ambient speakers are shown in Facilities/Speakers(or something like that) You put them in the enclosure and choose a sound that matches something they might hear in nature.(nature sounds)

[Jaggid Edje]

Ambient speakers do not help with animal stress, this is a myth which was started by a popular streamer/you-tuber when the game first came out and which keeps getting further spread by the community.
Frontier themselves has debunked it, but unfortunately a lot of the community doesn't read the official forums where they did this, apparently, so the myth continues to be spread.

Do not disturb signs, one-way glass, and anything at all that breaks visitor line of site help animals with stress. So simply having more "cover" in a habitat that animals can duck behind can mitigate stress, that could be shelters, or just larger flora and rocks, or even just hilly terrain.

[Nioell]

As Jaggid said: the speakers do not have any effect whatsoever on animal stress, it's nothing but a myth.

The best way to avoid animals getting stressed is to locate their habitat far away from crowded areas, because even 1-way glass, shelters and shut up signs don't do much if anything anymore once a certain number of guests crowds around the habitat. So making sure easily stressed animals are housed away from large crowds is the best way to go. Then combine that with all the other stuff and you shouldn't have any issues with it anymore.

As for your staff: make sure they have the needed staff rooms and other facilities close by and that everything is powered. Otherwise they'll spend all their time walking around and get tired before they even start working. Keepers will also only feed when the animals are really hungry, nto everytime the check the habitat. Also make sure they can actually walk in the habitat by checking the traversable area heatmap for staff. For mechanics make sure they're not also assigned to research because they tend to forget all their other jobs when that's the case.

When you got all that and it still doesn't work try resetting the habitats by deleting and rebuilding the gate or placing some new enrichment item in it. That forces the game to recalculate the navigation insade the habitat which fixes these issues most of the time.

[Lailantie]

You mention having zookeepers and mechanics. I hope you also have those who actually feed the animals (in German their name is animal keeper)?

[Nioell]

Originally posted by Lailantie:

You mention having zookeepers and mechanics. I hope you also have those who actually feed the animals (in German their name is animal keeper)?

Keepers (Tierpfleger in German) are the ones who feed the animals. Care takers are the cleaning staff.