Zoochosis News

[p]Hey Zookeepers,[/p][p]
GET READY TO MEET NEW ANIMALS! 🐾
[/p][p]We’ve been reworking and improving the game, and we can’t wait to show you all the changes AND welcome the new animals![/p][p][/p][p]Check out the release date in the trailer:[/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU SOON… IN THE ZOO![/p][p][/p][p]Clapperheads team[/p]

New animals are coming to our zoo – a free update coming soon!

Watch our new trailer:
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We hear you - and we're building this together.
Something’s coming… stay tuned🐾

Clapperheads team

Hello Zookeepers!

We’ve finally reached Screamer System 2.0. In addition to the basic “preparatory” screamers, we’ve now added screamers with animals and monsters. Honestly, this probably should’ve made it in before release, but fate had other plans. We're looking forward to your feedback!

Oh, and of course—our classic patch notes. This past week, softlocks and blockers have barely shown up in Trello, which feels like a good sign. The ones that do appear are extremely difficult to reproduce. Here's a short list:

• Blocking during blood collection: It took us two days to track this one down. We've fixed it multiple times, and every time we see it pop up in Trello again, it’s a tragedy. The issue turned out to be in the AI action system architecture—on very rare occasions, it would trigger two actions at once for animals. The same bug was causing issues with petting and parasite vomiting. Fixed.
  
• Parasite screamer fix: It was blocking controls during location transitions. Now resolved.
  
• Giraffe bossfight trigger after tutorial: If you initially shot the wrong giraffe, the bossfight now still starts. This wasn’t exactly a bug, but rather a gap in game design—since all giraffes appear healthy, it's hard to tell which one is infected, as the infected animal only mimics external symptoms.
  
• We’ve also made several minor level design adjustments to fix animal pathing and stuck issues.
  

We hope the upgraded screamer system makes things even scarier. Be careful—monsters in the hallways can kill you too!
Happy playing!

Hello Zookeepers!

Another hotfix with bug fixes from Trello:

• Fixed the Moose monster hypnosis bug where it wouldn’t cancel hypnosis during convulsions and would pull another moose towards it
  https://trello.com/c/3Ljbusnb/624-roselawolfegamingyt-2025-4-8-164322-moose-killing-other-moose
  
  
• Fixed the monster's attack triggering while placing food into the feeder
  https://trello.com/c/woCz4MQJ/633-doctorostrich-2025-4-9-174710-stuck-in-air
  https://trello.com/c/39aHMotE/643-tenoke-2025-4-10-18438-camura
  
  
• Fixed stacking issue when petting the giraffe
  https://trello.com/c/CN6YfKxq/642-jcreatorgamer567-2025-4-10-192724-petting-the-giraffe
  
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed interaction with the biofilter at the animal station, which could result in getting stuck. This was an old bug that only reproduced with old save files
  https://trello.com/c/DQxgAZ8l/647-jennymaus-2025-4-11-124757-stuck
  
  
• Fixed a silly issue with the parasite being spit out during monster treatment. Sometimes regular vomiting would trigger instead and cancel the parasite task
  https://trello.com/c/fnnpMhoG/637-terumaker-2025-4-10-233047-%ED%95%98%EB%A7%88-%EA%B8%B0%EC%83%9D%EC%B6%A9-%EC%82%BC%ED%82%B4-%EB%B2%84%EA%B7%B8
  https://trello.com/c/aPJ5Gwil/631-1walkerr-2025-4-9-215112
  https://trello.com/c/suxjdOyM/636-doctorostrich-2025-4-9-232828-no-parasite
  https://trello.com/c/IoRGCMS8/646-piconino-2025-4-10-205421-wallaby-enclosure
  
  
• Fixed a visual bug where the MFE would remain in hand when opening the PDA
  https://trello.com/c/SDjUFgbe/644-piconino-2025-4-10-20345-penguin-enclosure
  
  
• Fixed an issue where Wallaby and Elephant monsters would move and spin during convulsions
  https://trello.com/c/A0XuHhlW/508-mommy-2025-4-2-01030-elephant-turning-in-circles
  
  
• Optimized the intro and outro animal scenes in the main menu. Should no longer crash for players with low RAM or VRAM
  
  
• Rewrote aggressive behavior logic that was causing major issues with frozen animals, blood collection, and more.
  

Thank you for sending in your reports and staying with us! Wishing everyone the best and good vibes!

Big update with NEW ANIMALS coming soon! 🐼 We will bring this update together with the CONSOLE RELEASE, Steam, and Epic all at once. Stay tuned – it’s on the way! 🚀



[h3]Here are some additional bugs we have fixed:[/h3]

• Giraffes sometimes stood still and didn’t react to anything during the tutorial. This issue had been around for a long time, but it was very difficult to find and pinpoint. Now, it’s fully resolved, and their appetite has been restored.
  
• Infected animals sometimes wouldn’t heal before transforming, or in some cases, they would mutate when shot with the correct medicine. Fixed.
  
• On Xbox controllers, players couldn’t exit the kitchen-factory using (B). This was just an oversight on our part—fixed now.
  
• Fixed a very rare issue where a mutant not only attacked the player but also permanently took away their controls.
  
• Mutants would revert to normal animals after being fed meat, only to transform back again. Fixed.
  
• Some sounds were not affected by the volume settings. Fixed.
  
• The disk insertion animation in the laboratory computer could be triggered an unlimited number of times. Now it can't 🙂
  
• Lily's voice would become loud at the start of the game after listening to the tape recorder. Fixed.
  
• Hidden segments in the ending tracker are now visible during gameplay to make it easier to unlock endings across the entire tree. Hiding the whole tree turned out to be a bad idea.
  
• Removed the bipedal aggressive monkey. It was fun, but it broke IK.
  

We still have some known issues that we will be fixing soon, such as animals and bosses getting stuck in certain places, a couple of conditions for achievements, some areas where you can’t pet animals or draw blood, and a few incorrect subtitles.

There are also some hard-to-reproduce bugs, so please don’t forget to use the bug report feature and provide as much detail as possible. This has proven to be a powerful tool for solving complex issues in the game.

Thanks for your support and belief in us. We couldn't be happier.