Planet Zoo News

Hayo Zookeepers!

We've been digging around searching for our next location to visit in Planet Zoo, and may have found a few favourites to bring to the roster along the way! This is a mighty continent that we are very excited to make the next stop on our journey together.

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We're very excited to announce the Planet Zoo: Africa Pack, available to purchase and download alongside free Update 1.6 on 22 June, 2021!

Are you ready to hear which animals you will get to meet in this pack? Get ready to welcome the sociable Meerkat, endearing Fennec Fox, amazing African Penguin, striking Southern White Rhinoceros and the remarkable Sacred Scarab Beetle to your Zoo! Each of these unique creatures will present you with a different challenge to look after them, from swimming with the African Penguin to space fit for a Southern White Rhinoceros and a new behaviour introduced by the Meerkat; digging! With new arrivals come new challenges, and we can't wait to see what kind of habitats you create to meet their needs. Don't forget to use the knowledge from the Zoopedia to help you out!



You'll also be able to take on a brand new Timed Scenario set in a stunning Oasis. With limited power and infrastructure, it will be your job to turn this Oasis into a paradise for guests and animals alike. Do you think you've got what it takes to make this zoo into a success? We certainly do! You've got this zookeepers!

As promised for all the builders out there, this pack will contain just over 180 incredible African themed scenery pieces, including some pieces in the iconic African 'Moorish' architectural style! You'll find whole buildings, new paths and more to play with (like this amazing statue below!) and build your dream new habitat's for these new African animals.



Planet Zoo: Africa Pack will be available for purchase for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam from 22 June. Want to be notified when the game is available? You can head over to Steam to wishlist it right now! Please remember that you'll need to own the base game of Planet Zoo to be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Africa Pack.

Which of the animals is your favourite? Will you get to know the Meerkats first or check out the remarkable Sacred Scarab Beetle exhibit? Don't forget to head over to Twitter to vote on which one we'll showcase first!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1647620/Planet_Zoo_Africa_Pack/

Hayo Zookeepers!
Curious to hear what's coming up for Planet Zoo? Then you're in the right place! We're very happy to share that free Update 1.6 will be available to download and enjoy from 22 June!

As always we're reading everything you share with us and working hard to include some of your most requested changes (in case you missed it we shared about changes coming to the Polar Bear a couple of weeks ago that will be in this update!). Free Update 1.6 will also bring custom audio speakers, habitat cameras, some deep swimming additions, vista points, expanded sandbox settings and search options! Read on to find more details about all of these below:

Bear Updates
We've got a few changes to the bears for Update 1.6! We know that the Polar Bear has been a long discussed topic for the PlanZo community, and we've done more research into current holdings of Polar Bears to find a way to make them more viable picks for your Zoo. You can read more about those changes in detail here.

Alongside this, we're also adding Deep Swimming for multiple Bears including the following:

• Polar Bear
• Grizzly Bear
• Formosan Black Bear
• Sun Bear

Be sure to research how you can create even better habitats for these wonderful creatures and get them swimming in June.



Custom Audio Speakers 
Custom Audio for your speakers will arrive in free Update 1.6. You will be able to pick various speakers throughout your zoo and adjust what they play, create the perfect audio-scape for your zoo! We've provided a preset list of Frontier tracks, but you'll also be able to add and select custom tracks and even mark some as favourites to reach them quickly if you know you'll be using them often. When you get your hands on this feature, be sure to experiment with the different types of speaker available to you as there are different types of 'audio feel' that will change how your choice of audio is output accordingly. Are you adding an ambient track for atmosphere, or livening up a guest centric space? See which works for you! The audio formats that will be compatible are:

• .ogg
• .oga
• .flac
• .mp3
• .wav
• .wma
• .aac
• .m4a

Vista Points
The Planet Coaster veterans among you will know this one, we're bringing Vista Points to Planet Zoo! With a Vista Point, you can help guide your guests to recommended locations and directions to view your wonderful habitats and focal points in your zoo! While they will default to the location you point them in, you can also use this to direct your guests to a specific focus as well, such as a piece of scenery you've created. Doing so will leave your guests feeling very appreciative of your efforts and reward them with a small happiness bonus when interacting with it. 

You can also set vista points to be looking at habitats which will function differently than when set to scenery. While with scenery they will look directly at the piece you've selected, instead it will provide a boost to the attractiveness of nearby viewing points, and will tell you in it's info panel if it isn't currently near any for the selected habitat. A Vista Point will help guide and direct your guests, however if they find an easier to reach viewing point that is just as good before they get to the one you want them to use, they are likely to stay where they are (once you've got a good view already, who can blame them!). With this great new tool at your disposal, your guests are sure to see the very best that your zoo has to offer. 



Timed Scenario
Get ready to travel to Central America for our newest free Timed Scenario! This scenario has something a little different planned for you. Take charge of an animal sanctuary where you will receive new animals on a regular schedule in need of your care and attention! Some have even arrived before you, giving you a focus right away. This scenario is all about the animals you save and their welfare, as you'll see reflected in the requirements to complete it. For those who do, there's a Chimpanzee statue waiting for you to claim as your prize. 

Habitat Cameras and camera effects
A new feature we're adding will help you feel a bit closer to your animals in enclosures, thanks to a new camera asset. To find this, go to Facilities> media devices and education> visual media. These cameras can be placed and used however you like, although one of the best places for them is within a habitat. Once there, you'll be able to view the habitat using the camera itself (just like a webcam in a zoo in real life!). Much like in real life as well, Planconians LOVE to see their favourites from home as well as at the zoo, so you'll be able to gain a small marketing bonus for up to 6 Habitat camera's in your zoo (but they will need to be in range of your habitats for this to apply!).

We're also adding camera effects, ranging from vignettes to various levels of warmth/cold and night vision too. You'll find a bespoke button in the UI for accessing this, and it will also provide access to a camera light too (which is especially great for getting those night vision shots looking just right). For the avid photographers here, these filters will also be maintained when using Nvidia Ansel. We can't wait to see what how your screenshots look with these new tools.


 
Animal Trading Changes
In free Update 1.6, we'll be making a few changes to animal trading. This will include an increase in the storage limit from 50 up to 200, as well as updates in the UI that will give you more information about each animal's trade status. We're also including search options! You will be able to search through your animal storage, and use filters for which parameters you want to see. Are you looking for a specific genetic makeup that you know you've got somewhere? You can search for it! These search parameters will be saved per zoo, but can also be easily reset with the click of a button. 
Search will be available in the following places:

• Animal Management
• Animal Market
• Animal Storage
• Exhibit Market
• Exhibit Storage

Staff Management Changes
In a previous update we rolled out the staff management changes a little too fast, and so reverted this so we could work on them a little longer but we're happy to be releasing them soon in Update 1.6. These changes will create categories for each type of staff that you can toggle to be collapsed or not (and this will be remembered in each save) as well as the ability to use multiselect on your staff to adjust wages, set work zones and much more. These changes will help those of you with bigger zoo's have a much easier time managing all of your diligent staff. 

Continue your Zoo in campaign scenarios
Many zookeepers have shared how they would love to continue the zoo's they create in career scenarios, so we've added a small change! Once a player achieves gold in a career scenario, a new fanfare will pop up to inform you that the animal exchange will start to populate with all available animals. This means you can continue to play in your career scenario park that you've built up and love without the set limitations on which species will appear. 

Expanded Sandbox Settings
Last but not least, we're introducing a whole new host of sandbox options! These options will give you even more control over your sandbox zoo's as well as let you organise which zoo has which options enabled. Sandbox will now be receiving new preset selections for you to either emulate another mode, or save your favourite custom settings. These will be available in Default preset, Creative preset, Challenge preset and Saved Custom preset. The settings you use for each sandbox zoo will be saved to that specific zoo, meaning you can have a different set up for every zoo if you would like to! If you've found your dream sandbox settings however, you can use the Saved Custom preset option to save those and apply them to any other zoo you build as well. So that you can prepare your sandbox zoo's for these new options, check out the list of what we'll be adding below:
Social Welfare

• Enable Social Groups
• Enable Overcrowding
• Enable Animal Stress
• Enable Animal Fights
• Enable Animal Predation and Fear

Habitat Welfare

• Enable Water Cleanliness 
• Enable Animal Defecation 
• Enable Animals Temperature Needs
• Enable Animal Terrain Needs
• Enable Animals Plant Needs
• Enable Hard Shelter
• Enable Food Spoiling

General Welfare

• Enable Escapes

Guest Settings

• Enable Guests Fleeing
• Enable negative effect of facilities on guest happiness
• enable Pickpockets

We hope you're looking forward to these new changes! This update will come with other tweaks and bug fixes, which we'll have a full list of patch notes to share with you when we release it.
We'll have more to share with you very soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

EDIT: We have now released Update 1.5.4.

General Bug Fixes

• Temporarily reverting the collapsible staff type headers in the staff management UI as they have introduced a number of issues. The headers will be restored in a future update once all issues are addressed. Apologies for any inconvenience.
  
• Removed blank property tags in the main scenery browser.
  
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Stability

• General Crash Fixes.
  

Hayo Zookeepers!

We hope you've been enjoying getting to know our wonderful new roster of amazing creatures from the Southeast Asia Animal Pack. Thank you all for sharing your feedback with us, as always it helps us make Planet Zoo the best it can be. This update addresses several bug fixes and crash issues that have been reported. Take a look at the Update Notes below:

• General Bug Fixes
  • Fixed not being able to delete or modify a guest spawner and Zoo Entrance after reloading Franchise Save.
  • Fixed being able to delete zoo entrances and ticket barriers outside the boundaries to gain extra cash. 
  • Fixed the cash and Conservation Credit filters not working in the Animal Market in non-Franchise modes.
  • Fixed wrong size tags on large and small common water lily.
    
  • Fixed Incorrect size symbol for 1m x 1m and 2m x 2m screen panels.
  • Fixed settings menu closing itself while in Franchise mode. 
  • Fixed an issue with the water tool status not being disabled in Scenario tutorials.
  • Fixed not being able to place the large herbivore habitat blueprint.
  • Fixed an issue where the genetics rating filter would sometimes show in Franchise Mode, despite being unsupported. 
  • Added Dhole model and animation tweaks.
  • Added small ball enrichment tags for the Arctic Wolf.
    
  • Added Flexicolour tags that were missing from concrete construction pieces.
  • Added missing Flexicolour tag to special effect scenery pieces.
    
  • Removed incorrect tags from some scenery.
  • Updated the conservation status of the African Elephant from VU to EN.
    
  • Adjusted crowd pull for educational talks.
    
  • Added collapsible headers for staff management page.

• Stability
  • General Crash Fixes.

Please continue to share your feedback with us over on the issue tracker.

UPDATE: We have now also released Patch 1.5.2:

Stability

• General Crash Fixes
  

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Update 1.5.1 patch notes below:

Hayo Zookeepers!

Thank you all for sharing your feedback since the launch of Update 1.5 and the Southeast Asia Animal Pack. It's been wonderful to see everyone get to know these incredible new creatures! The team has been busy addressing various bugs and issues to make your experience even better, which leads to today's news: Update 1.5.1 is now available.

Take a look at the Update Notes below:

Planet Zoo - 1.5.1 Update Notes This update contains many more bug fixes, updates and some new content.

• General Bug Fixes and Improvements
  • Animals
    • Fixed a small number of animation issues where the Binturong would become misshapen.
    • Fixed a dark visual issue on the side of the Binturong nose.
    • Fixed an issue when animals jump into water where they would teleport to water surface.
    • Fixed an issue where the female Binturong would not interact with the Tree Forager food enrichment.
    • Fixed the Dhole tongue being detached from mouth before fight animation begins.
    • Fixed a small number of animation issues when the Clouded Leopard used the Hammock.
    • Increased the Gharial deep swimming speed slightly.
    • Fixed an animation issue where animals can jerk when jumping.
    • Fixed an issue where animals would rotate in the air while jumping.
    • Fixed an issue where the Malayan Tapir, Proboscis Monkey and Babirusa could spawn without proper textures.
  •  Scenery 
    • Four new billboard assets were added for more customisability in your zoos:
      • Screen Panel 1m x 1m (+ a Lit version)
      • Screen Panel 2m x 2m (+ a Lit version)
    • Added new Babirusa animal sign for Southeast Asia pack owners.
    • Fixed the education speaker showing an override texture option.
  • Game Modes
    • Sandbox
      • Fixed an issue where animals were still becoming pregnant if the ageing and birth was disabled in the sandbox settings. 
    • Scenario
      • Fixed a small number of geometry issues in the following scenario reward statues:
        • Bornean Orangutan
        • Giant Panda
        • Indian Rhinoceros
        • Japanese Macaque
        • Lion
        • Siberian Tiger
  • Staff
    • Fixed the Keeper not accessing the Underwater Feeder in certain circumstances.
    • Fixed an issue when an Animal Talk point gives out a notification saying it is not accessible when it actually is.
  • UI
    • Help Topics
      • Added guest spawner to the help submenu.
        
    • Misc
      • Replaced the old Binturong icons with new updated version.
      • Added new icons for maturation and conception in timeline.
        
      • Fixed Flexicolour palette resetting to red when selecting any shade of pure grey.
      • Fixed Information boards custom tab having very little space when adding custom media due to the requirement text window below.
  • Stability
    • General Crash Fixes.
  • Performance
    • General performance tweaks and optimisations.

Please continue to share your feedback with us both on the forums and on the issue tracker, and we can't wait to see more of your creations!

Hayo Zookeepers!

It's time for our next adventure to begin! We're excited to announce that the Southeast Asia Animal Pack and free Update 1.5 have just arrived in Planet Zoo! Update your game now to start playing this fantastic new content!

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Update 1.5 is free for everyone and includes brilliant new features that will have you exploring new ways to get the most out of Planet Zoo. In this update, you can expect Custom Billboards, which we announced a couple of weeks ago and we know many of you are looking forward to! Custom Billboards will allow you to upload custom images and video to display around your zoos, meaning you create your own maps, signs and more for your Guests to enjoy!

We are also adding Multiple Zoo Entrances, a highly-requested addition that will allow you to place multiple entrances in every gameplay mode, meaning you'll have complete freedom with the spawn locations. These entrances do not come cheap, but with a number of them, you will be able to increase the efficiency of your zoo and have your Guests arriving at the hotspots in no time.

Another feature we've been really looking forward to you all getting your hands on is the new Water Visual Setting UI. Water volumes are now fully interactable and selectable objects, with their own information panel. Via the water's UI, you'll find some trivia statistics, connection details for what cleaning and temperature facilities are affecting the lake, and, best of all, customisation options! These options will allow you to change the colour of the body of water via flexicolour and change the 'fogging' distance, which will allow you to make it more or less clear in visibility. This was something we've heard a lot of feedback and suggestions on, and we can't wait to see what you do with this new feature.

You can read about what else is arriving in Update 1.5, which also includes a free timed scenario at Goodwin House, Scenario Rewards and the ability to save Franchise Zoos as Sandbox, through this link here.



The Planet Zoo: Southeast Asia Animal Pack is adding eight iconic creatures, including one exhibit and seven habitat animals! Get ready to meet the Clouded Leopard, Sun Bear, Proboscis Monkey, Binturong, Malayan Tapir, Ussuri Dhole, North Sulawesi Babirusa and Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect! These incredible creatures will all arrive with their own requirements, meaning you'll need to visit their UI and the Zoopedia to learn how best to care for them so they thrive in your zoos.

There will also be a new paid timed scenario, that will have you jetting off to Perak, Malaysia to tackle the challenge of bringing a struggling tropical zoo back to life. To revitalise this zoo, you'll need to bring all your determination, creativity and great management skills to overcome the difficult obstacles that lie ahead. We've no doubt you can do it!

The Planet Zoo: Southeast Asia Animal Pack is available to purchase for £7.99 ($9.99, €9.99) on Steam right now. You must have the Planet Zoo base game to download and play this extra content. Update 1.5 is free and is available for all players right now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1567110/Planet_Zoo_Southeast_Asia_Animal_Pack/

We'd like to give a big thank you to our amazing PlanZo Fam for all of the support and feedback you've provided us! We hope you enjoy Update 1.5 and the Planet Zoo: Southeast Asia Animal Pack as much as we've loved creating them for you all. Please keep an eye on our forums and social media channels for all news and announcements, and make sure to tune into our Planet Zoo: Southeast Asia Animal Pack showcase stream at 12PM BST today!

Now get back out there and have some fun!



[h2]Planet Zoo - 1.5.0 Update Notes[/h2]

This update contains many more bug fixes, updates and some new content.

New Content

• NEW - Animals
  • Deep Swimming behaviours have been added to the Gharial. This change is available for free for all users, regardless of DLC ownership. We're looking to add deep swimming to other animals in future updates where suitable.
    
  • Two brand new enrichment items are included with the Southeast Asia Animal Pack:
    • Toy enrichment: Hammock
    • Food enrichment: Forage Wall
  • Three free enrichment items have been added to the base game:
    • Toy enrichments: Tamarind Scratching Tree and Scots Pine Scratching Tree
    • Food enrichment: Block of Frozen Fish
  NEW - Billboards
  • Billboards have now been added to the game along with three new mounts for attaching billboard to your creations. These are available for free to all players, regardless of DLC ownership
  • These billboards also have the ability to set advertised destinations, allowing you to encourage guests to visit different habitats, exhibits, shops and facilities around your zoo
    
    • New items: Projection Screens (4m, 8m, 16m, 32m, Lit/Unlit),  TV Screen (1m, 2m, 4m), Screen Panel 4x4 (Lit/Unlit) and Screen Mount (Ceiling, Wall, Pole)
  • We have also added the ability to override the images shown on Education and Conservation boards (Educational Content will still need to be set in the UI as usual in order to function correctly)
  • We are providing images and videos as well as templates for these screens and allowing you to enter your own custom ones by adding them to 'Documents\Frontier Developments\Planet Zoo\UserMedia'
    • Images must be in either .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .tiff or .tga formats
    • Video must be in the .webm format
  NEW - Multiple Zoo Entrances
  • Added the ability to purchase Guest Spawners in all game modes to give players the ability to improve guest distribution around zoos
  • Added the ability to turn off guest spawners to prevent guests spawning from a specific location
    • Guests will still use the closest accessible spawner to leave the zoo regardless of being set to on or off 
  • Added new blueprints with guest spawners and entrance gates for all game modes
    • African, Classic, East Asian, Indian and New World themed (free)
    • Aquatic themed (Aquatic Pack)
    • Arctic themed (Arctic Pack)
    • Australia themed (Australia Pack)
    • South American themed (South America Pack)
• NEW - Scenario Rewards 
  • Scenarios and Timed Scenarios now reward you with the associated animal pin on the globe as a scenery statue to place in your zoos
    
    • Statues come in 4 varieties: Stone, Bronze, Silver and Gold. All of which are individual items in the scenery browser
    • Unlocking a scenario will award that scenarios statues stone version
    • Completing a scenario to each medal will award that scenarios statues colour variant 
    • If you have already completed a scenario prior to this update, you will already have unlocked the statues! They will be waiting for you in the scenery browser the next time you load in to a zoo
• NEW - Free Timed Scenario 
  • Go back to the beginning, to before Bernie created his first ever zoo, Goodwin House. Take over the renovation of Scholey Manor, the grounds of Bernie's first zoo, and build it into a thriving attraction. See if you can beat Bernie's record for a successful lion breeding program in this new free timed scenario available to all players regardless of DLC ownership.
• NEW - Timed Scenarios front end update 
  • Added a panel on the front end to make it easier to jump straight into the timed scenarios menu
    
  • This panel is in addition to the old location within the Career menu
• NEW - Water Visual Settings 
  • Water volumes are now set up as fully interactable and selectable objects and can have their colour and visibility levels set using flexicolour and the new transparency slider
  • There are several ways to select a body of water. If there are no other selectable elements under your cursor you can click water in the normal mode or you can use the new selection tool in the terrain water menu
  • Water visual cleanliness is locked when you customise water, however, actual cleanliness will still change over time and all the usual steps still need to be taken to keep bodies of water, and animals, healthy and disease free.
• NEW - Franchise mode improvements 
  • We have switched the Franchise Animal Trading UI from using the webpage to using the same UI as our offline modes to improve UI responsiveness
    
  • Multi-Select has been restored to animal storage in a new form. Just like the Animal Management UI, multi-select animals by selecting the checkboxes next to the animals, and individually select by clicking the animal itself
    
  • Added ability to open Franchise Zoos as a new Sandbox from "My Zoos" in the front end menu (duplicating the franchise zoo as a sandbox)
• NEW - Staff Traversable Area Map 
  • Added a new heat map view that allows players to see all the areas in habitats that staff can reach from the habitat gate
  • The heat map also highlights objects that keepers need to reach such as feeders and water stations
  • This new heat map can be found in Habitat Heat Maps under the drop down menu as "Staff traversable area"

• General Bug Fixes and Improvements
  • Animals
    • General climbing bug fixes
    • Updated swim height on the juvenile wolf
    • Fixed sleeping animations on the Jaguar so that the tail no longer clips into the ground
    • Adjusted the Diamondback terrapin species range on the zoopedia map and description. Updated the animal's temperature range, previous temperatures only took recommended basking temperatures into account; we have adjusted the temperature range to include recommended base temperatures for water and air as well
    • Adjusted exploration behaviours for Saltwater Crocodile, Gharial, Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman, Polar Bear, King Penguin and Grey Seal slightly. These animals will now tend to stay closer to bodies of water in their enclosure while not swimming
    • The Pronghorn's biome suitability was expanded to include Taiga on both the Habitat Education Board and Zoopedia, which brings it more in line with its natural habitat
    • Fixed an issue where the Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman did not sleep in the water. It can now choose to sleep while swimming, as all the other crocodiles do
      
    • Fixed an issue where an animal that dies while boxed cannot be removed from zoo
    • Made adjustments to upper/lower temperature limits where necessary to fit into native biomes for:
      
      • Dingo
        
      • Koala
        
      • Kangaroo
        
      • Grey Seal
        
      • Caiman
        
    • Fixed an issue where various animals from grassland, rain forest and desert biomes were not able to cope with the upper/lower temperatures in zoos located in their native biomes.
  •  Scenery 
    • Added flexicolour to water VFX
      • Special Effect Fountain Jet Large
      • Special Effect Fountain Jet Medium
      • Special Effect Fountain Jet Small
      • Special Effect Underwater Bubbles Large
      • Special Effect Underwater Bubbles Medium
      • Special Effect Underwater Bubbles Small
      • Special Effect Water Jet Large
      • Special Effect Water Jet Medium
      • Special Effect Water Jet Small
      • Special Effect Water Jet Splash Large
      • Special Effect Water Jet Splash Medium
      • Special Effect Water Jet Splash Small
      • Special Effect Water Rapids Foam
      • Special Effect Water Rapids Splash
      • Special Effect Waterfall Bottom 10m
      • Special Effect Waterfall Bottom 5m
      • Special Effect Waterfall Mid Section 10m
      • Special Effect Waterfall Mid Section 5m
      • Special Effect Waterfall Top 10m
      • Special Effect Waterfall Top 5m
      • Waterfall Cliff Formation 4m x 4m x 4m
      • Waterfall Cliff Formation 4m x 8m x 4m
      • Waterfall Cliff Formation 8m x 4m x 4m
    • Added continent tags to all rock assets. It should now be easier to swap between plant and rock menus in the nature browser as you will no longer need to remove continent filters for rocks to show up
      
    • Adjusted the bounding box physics for the Mech-A-Roo to more closely match where the asset sits to allow more accurate placement 
    • Added missing Flexicolour tag added to several Concrete Wall and Indian Pillar assets
    • Improved and tightened the bounding boxes for 2D Font Boogaloo assets for more accurate selection
    • Fixed the Indian Street Light 01 & New World Decorative Lights Bracket so they wouldn't add to the power cost, as they do not produce light
  • Game Modes
    • Sandbox
      • Added toggle option to enable/disable litter in sandbox mode under gameplay settings. Disabling will stop guests throwing litter and also remove all current litter 
    • Scenario
      • Updated completion times for Cophaga Park (Timed Scenario) in order to better balance the difficulty of the scenario
  • Staff
    • Fixed staff flickering if you try to place them while the camera's moving
    • Toilets are now cleaned on a schedule, can't be vandalised, and no longer need repairing by mechanics
      
    • Fixed Caretaker taking too long when cleaning toilets
    • Fixed Keeper's vacuum playing strange animations
    • Fixed an issue where binding any controls to the Y key would not work
  • Zoo Construction
    • Fixed an issue where connecting a barrier wall to a post with curved barriers on, would tell you the barrier is too long to place, even though it is below the 20m limit since it has snapped to being a straight line.
    • Fixed custom edited names for Trade Centres not being retained over a save and load, on reload building would switch name back to "Animal Trade Centre"
  • UI
    • Main Browser
      • Conservation boards, habitat info boards, exhibit info boards, education speakers and the animal talk point now have an "Educational" tag by which you can filter the 'Media Devices and Education' facilities browser
    • Info panels
      • Animals
        • Exhibit animal info pop-ups now remember which tab was last open, and remembering tabs is now consistent across habitat/exhibit animals
      • Scenery
        • Fixed Titan Arum appearing as an Umbrella Thorn Acacia in info panels, and using the same stats
      • Facilities
        • Added a status message on renewable power sources to say when they are not working because they are in shelter
      • Water
        • Updated references of "Lakes" to "Bodies of water" to unify our terminology
      • Habitat
        • Keeper huts in the 'Maintenance' section now correctly display how often the hut has been used to collect food in the past year
        • Fix "Habitats served in the last year" stat on keeper hut, also adding "exhibit served" data similar to "habitats served"
        • "Habitats have become merged and invalid" and "A habitat has become invalid" notification are now sent when they happen rather than up to 30s later
    • Help Topics
      • In-game help articles can be accessed with F1 and have been updated with the following topics:
        
        • New topics for Water Customisation and Billboards have been added to the 'Basics' and 'Build a Zoo' sections, respectively.
          
        • The following topics have been updated to include information about the features added in free update 1.5.0: Game Modes, Water Cleanliness, Zoo Entrances, and Education Items.
          
    • Misc
      • Selecting the continent and biome buttons in the animal info popup environment tab will now pull up the scenery browser, filtered to show plants from those categories.
        
      • Pressing the esc key can now also close the weather and time pop up UI if it's open, it will be affected after the settings menu and heatmaps in terms of priority
        
    • Expanded Indonesian animal name language List
  • Stability
    • General Fixes
  • Performance
    • Fixed an issue where having every animal placed in your zoo would result in blurry textures on high end graphic cards
    • General performance tweaks and optimisations
      
• Known Issues
  • Babirusa sign is missing from the SouthEast Asia Animal Pack and will be added in the next update release
  • When animals are traded in the Franchise market, they will sometimes arrive in the buyer's storage appearing as currently up for auction, despite not actually being for sale. This will be fixed in the next update release. In the mean time, selecting 'Cancel' will fix the issue and show the expected options for the animal