Let's Build a Zoo news & patch notes

• Fixed the Steam Deck .NET issue that was preventing players from launching the game.

• Fixed the Recycling Centre issue with janitors. Recycling Centre employees will now properly collect trash, and when janitors dump trash at the Centres, it will register correctly. Results are now accurately reflected in the Morality view (granting positive points) and in the end-of-week summary.

• Addressed a Population Hub / Exhibit Control issue where entire pens were being wiped and later cloned to match requirements.

• Hats now display correctly when viewing animals in a selected enclosure.

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• Added Hat Factory and the ability to manufacture hats to sell. Animals can now also wear hats.
• Added a screenshot tool to Camera Mode. You can now save a screenshot of your whole zoo map.
• Added new items including decorations, subways, staff entrances, and floor tiles
• Fixed an issue where animals still die in batteries, even with immortality enabled in Sandbox mode, when they are transferred to the batteries on the day they arrive.
• Fixed potential crash when recycling employees try to access a bin that is blocked from a certain side
• Fixed floating plants, bubble machines, ship floats and driftwood in aquatic pens not being moved with the pen, which would crash if you try to select the empty space they should be in
• Fixed water enclosures not rendering properly when being edited
• Fixed lights of the building being moved rendering over certain UI
• Fixed lighting for Brazier
• Fixed various building not returning to the correct parts of the build menu after quick-hiring an employee
• Fixed crop picker count not updating in farm zone panels when zoning crop pickers
• Fixed missing spacing in zone info panel for exhibition control workers
• Fixed clickthrough in zone employees sub-panel
• Fixed spacebar opening the pause menu when renaming animals
• Fixed being able to rename an animal to empty text
• Added confirm button when renaming animal on keyboard
• Fix for the total visitor count including protestor count twice
• Fixed inconsistent research bonus widths and text overflow in research mouseover
• Fixed abortion preview always showing NEW even when baby is not a new variant
• Fixed park rating panel not closing when opening other top panels after opening animal details
• Fixed CRISPR confirm button not resetting when you change species
• Fixed CO2 text offset and also adjusted base scale for icons
• Added function to screenshot the whole zoo in camera mode
• Fixed baby animals appearing as adults and other rendering inconsistencies in camera mode
• Fixed building and land mouseover being visible in camera mode
• Fixed off-center notification dot when using higher resolution displays
• Fixed several off-center icons in build bar
• Other general bug fixing

Hi all! We've pushed out a small update with some fixes:

• The heat map, world map, and settings button will be hidden when the build bar is active
• Fixed an issue where the correct employee icon was not displayed when individually zoning an employee after using the employee heat map to zone multiple employees
• Fixed a crash that occurred when clicking the 'Morality Bonuses' button in the Morality pop-out menu in Sandbox mode
• Fixed an issue where the heat map would display over the employee zoning map when a heat map was selected, and an employee was individually zoned using the 'Zone' button in the employee panel
• Fixed Ostrich 3 using an incorrect body sprite
• Fixed various features not providing their full upgrade capabilities in Sandbox mode
• Fixed an issue where abattoir workers were not functioning correctly
• The queue panel in the Incinerator panel no longer disappears after cycling to the next building
• Child animals can no longer become pregnant

• You can now rename animals!
• New Deco, Lights, Bins, Signboards inspired by Let's Build a Dungeon
• New Main Zoo Entrance
• Animal-keepers and poop factory-workers improved by making them collect the closest accessible poop they can see in an enclosure
• All animal selection panel now pops out an additional confirmation panel when there are animals selected and the player wants to revert their changes (goes back to the previous menu with B/Esc)
• New notification alert that helps to remind the player to add animals to batteries/barns that are idling
• Animal-keepers (or anyone that uses any gate/door) no longer gets stuck when the enclosure re-shaped while the person is waiting for the door to open
• Fixed selected tabs at the top of various UI panels (e.g. Animal Panel) offseting too much upwards on bigger resolutions
• Fixed mouseover textbox prematurely wrapping its text when hovering over the categories of the build menu
• Fixed font scaling of 'Prerequisite' panel when hovering over a research tile for non-alphanumeric languages
• Fixed close button overlapping mouseover tooltip boxes of menu buttons
• Final Score in the extended Animal Rating panel now reflects the same value as the park rating's animal rating
• Progress bar in task notification now updates to yellow when the progress goes back below 100%
• Animals that is cloned by the animal-management now retain its status after loading from a save-file
• Fixed unable to drag to pan around the zoo at the bottom of the screen when the build bar is open or in delete mode
• Fixed rendering issues for the research grid's points panel and the category filters panel on bigger resolutions
• Fixed animal icons in animal-management 'Pen Summary' and 'Wildlife Reintroduction' panels to not become too small on smaller resolutions
• Fixed animal-management pen summary showing rabbits as the main animal on empty enclosures
• Fixed clipping issues of the buy button and the money box in the 'Order Helper' panel on bigger resolutions
• Fixed overflowing more items label (the "+99" label) in 'Goods to process' frame in various factory panels
• Added a 'carbon-emission' panel to the build panel when a tree is selected in the build menu bar
• Fixed 'Applicant Hiring' panel displays only 6 applicants after hiring one from 8 applicants
• Paragraph texts (e.g. in Critical Choice) now move upwards when thumbstick is pushed down for controllers
• Agriculture panel and its menu-bar now closes completely after selecting a desired plant to cultivate on a plot of farmland
• Influencer's 'Event Report' panel can now be fast-forwarded if clicked on it again the second time (this only works on the second visit of the influencers onwards)
• Research top-bar element no longer reminds players about unspent research points when they have already unlocked everything
• Enabled the pause screen in the research grid
• Added sound when building new land
• Added the ability to track all shops and facilities that has vacancies from the 'Manage Employee' panel
• Fixed rows not aligned in 'Hire Applicant' list when an applicant is confirmed too quickly while other applicants are still animating/moving
• Employees resignation will now be limited to 3 per day
• 'Pooped-Out' Dino achievement no longer miss-fire during mid-flight when transferring between zoos
• Dollar panel at the top bar now flashes the correct colour based on the cash earned/spent
• Category name tooltips now appear on the selected category in build menu bar when using controllers
• Fixed cursor re-appearing in 'View Objects' panel after deleting an item when examining an enclosure using the controller
• Animal names in create/edit job entry will now show '???' if the animal is undiscovered yet
• 'View Objects' build panel now goes back to the correct item after moving the item in the enclosure
• CRISPR Building DNA structure now resumes spinning after moving it
• Fixed 'Inspect' button not working in the animal panel when the animal is selected from the 'Animals' panel when inspecting an enclosure using the controller
• Various customers (e.g. Protestors and Animal-Welfare Person) no longer get stuck and stays in one location
• Fixed a big lag that happens at the start of each day for big zoos regarding animal feeding
• Added 'New' to the animal icon in 'Confirm Abort' panel in nursery
• Fixed Animal management short description panel at the top cuts off prematurely in certain resolution and UI scale
• Enclosure items in 'View Objects' when examining an enclosure is now sorted
• Rotary icons now darkens instead of going semi-transparent when disabled
• Fixed visitors count in the top-bar going negative at the end of the day
• Delete mode now returns back to delete mode after firing employees when deleting a building
• Using delete mode from the rotary icons no longer returns back to the build menu after exiting delete mode
• Using delete mode from the rotary icons no longer loses the cursor after the saving the day
• Zoo gate no longer closes prematurely when the zoo is still open at night
• Reworked facility rating percentage to reflect more based on visitor's satisfaction with zoo's facilities
• Research tab's 'Spent Points Reminder' in the top bar no longer pop-out and blocks the adjacent park rating tab when players are currently viewing it
• Notification pins (e.g. the pins that show enclosures with "low water") no longer flicker when active
• Tiles that are unlocked in critical choices no longer repeatedly be shown as a new thing
• UFOs no longer have a chance to spawn in other zoos after travelling via plane from the classic zoo
• 'Zoo New Zoo' achievements now works when unlocking DLC zoos
• Buy A Bus' quest can now be completed with the purchase of any bus
• Trash picked up by Janitors will now contribute to recycling. Janitors will now go to a recycling centre (if any) to empty their trash
• Red lobsters now have a very small chance of giving birth to blue lobsters
• Population manager now able to perform 'Removing of Excess Animals' where they remove all animals that is not managed by animal management from an enclosure
• Facilities, incinerators and various building panels can now be cycled through its buildings of the same type
• Game no longer crashes at the end of the day if the research hub is built that day but not examined
• Idling population managers now notify players if they have not been assigned any work zones
• Fixed Aztec arch front facing night lights
• Fixed selected highlight for chew toys
• Fixed titles for critical choices not fitting into the panel correctly at high screen resolutions
• Fixed mascots not collecting donations after a day
• Fixed bus routes not being unlocked if you complete multiple Transport Planner quests at the same time
• Fixed incinerator workers idling when there are carcasses to collect from meat processors
• Species info for hybrid animals now show hybrid info
• Fixed dead bodies from animal encounters not moving with pen and crashing on load if it is outside the pen
• Fixed "Report Black Market" good morality points not decreasing as per description
• Allow removal of non-refundable lake tiles during build mode
• Zoning animal management worker view now able to close when using controllers
• Fixed customers on left and right-facing benches drawing in front of other objects
• When zoning employees to pens in the heatmap, highlighted enclosures now only shows the status of the current selected employee (instead of all employees assigned to that enclosure)
• Fixed controller selection issue in the 'Animal' panel in the 'Management Office' panel
• Fixed some buildings having weird offsets in their build animation

Hi everyone! We've pushed a small update that includes a variety of bug fixes and some new content. Here's what's new!

• New decorations, lights, bins, signboards and a new main zoo entrance - inspired by the upcoming sequel - Let's Build a Dungeon!
• Improved animal keepers and poop factory workers, making them collect the closest accessible poop in an enclosure.
• The Influencer's 'Event Report' panel can now be fast-forwarded by clicking it again on the second visit onwards.
• When assigning animals to batteries/barns, an additional confirmation panel now pops up when players attempt to revert their changes (returns to the previous menu with B/Esc).
• Added a new notification alert to remind players to assign idle animals to batteries/barns.
• Animal keepers (or anyone using gates/doors) no longer get stuck when an enclosure is reshaped while waiting for the door to open.
• Fixed selected tabs at the top of various UI panels (e.g., Animal Panel) being positioned too close to the top of the screen on higher resolutions.
• Fixed mouseover textboxes prematurely wrapping text when hovering over categories in the build menu.
• Adjusted font scaling in the 'Prerequisite' panel when hovering over a research tile for non-alphanumeric languages.
• Fixed close button overlapping with mouseover tooltip boxes in menu buttons.
• The 'Final Score' in the extended Animal Rating panel now reflects the same value as the park's animal rating.
• The progress bar in task notifications now turns yellow when progress drops below 100%.
• Cloned animals managed by the Exhibit Control now retain their status after loading from a save file.
• Fixed an issue where players couldn't drag to pan around the zoo at the bottom of the screen when the build bar is open or in delete mode.
• Fixed rendering issues for the research grid's points panel and the category filters panel at higher resolutions.
• Fixed animal icons in the animal-management 'Pen Summary' and 'Wildlife Reintroduction' panels from becoming too small on lower resolutions.
• Fixed the animal-management pen summary panel showing rabbits as the main animal in empty enclosures.
• Fixed clipping issues with the buy button and the money box in the 'Order Helper' panel at higher resolutions.
• Fixed the "+99" label overflowing in the 'Goods to Process' frame in various factory panels.
• Added a 'carbon-emission' panel to the build menu when selecting a tree in the build menu.
• Fixed the 'Applicant Hiring' panel showing only six applicants after hiring one out of eight.
• Paragraph text (e.g., in Critical Choice) now scrolls upwards when the thumbstick is pushed down on controllers.
• The Agriculture panel and its menu bar now close completely after selecting a plant for cultivation on a plot of farmland.
• The research top-bar element no longer reminds players about unspent points when all research is unlocked.
• Enabled the pause screen in the research grid.
• Added sound effects when building new land.
• Added the ability to track all shops and facilities with vacancies from the 'Manage Employee' panel.
• Fixed alignment issues in the 'Hire Applicant' list when confirming applicants too quickly.
• Employee resignations are now limited to three per day.
• The 'Pooped-Out' Dino achievement no longer misfires during mid-flight when travelling between zoos.
• The dollar panel in the top bar now flashes the correct color based on cash earned or spent.
• Category name tooltips now appear over the selected category in the build menu when using controllers.
• Fixed the cursor reappearing in the 'View Objects' panel after deleting an item while examining an enclosure with a controller.
• Animal names in the create/edit job entry will now display '???' if the animal is undiscovered.
• The 'View Objects' build panel now returns to the correct item after moving an item in the enclosure.
• The CRISPR Building's DNA structure now resumes spinning after being moved.
• Fixed the 'Inspect' button not working when selecting an animal from the 'Animals' panel while inspecting an enclosure with a controller.
• Various customers (e.g., protestors and animal-welfare personnel) no longer get stuck in one location.
• Fixed lag occurring at the start of each day in large zoos due to animal feeding.
• Added a 'New' tag to animal icons in the 'Confirm Abort' panel in the nursery.
• Fixed the animal-management short description panel being cut off at certain resolutions and UI scales.
• Enclosure items in the 'View Objects' panel are now sorted.
• Rotary icons now darken instead of becoming semi-transparent when disabled.
• Fixed the visitor count in the top bar going negative at the end of the day.
• After firing employees, delete mode now returns to delete mode after removing a building.
• Exiting delete mode from rotary icons no longer opens the build menu.
• Exiting delete mode from rotary icons no longer loses the cursor after saving.
• The zoo gate no longer closes prematurely when the zoo is still open at night.
• Reworked facility ratings to more accurately reflect visitor satisfaction with zoo facilities.
• The 'Spent Points Reminder' in the research tab no longer blocks adjacent tabs when the player is viewing them.
• Notification pins (e.g., low water alerts) no longer flicker when active.
• Tiles unlocked via critical choices no longer repeatedly appear as new.
• UFOs no longer spawn in other zoos after traveling via plane from the classic Zoo.
• 'New Zoo' achievements now unlock correctly with DLC zoos.
• The 'Buy A Bus' quest can now be completed by purchasing any bus.
• Trash collected by janitors now contributes to recycling, and janitors will empty trash at recycling centers (if any).
• Red lobsters now have a small chance of giving birth to blue lobsters.
• Population managers can now remove excess animals that are not managed by animal management from enclosures.
• Facilities, incinerator, and building panels can now cycle through buildings of the same type.
• Fixed a crash at the end of the day if the research hub was built but not examined.
• Idle population managers now notify players if they haven't been assigned work zones.
• Fixed Aztec arch front-facing night lights.
• Fixed highlight selection for chew toys.
• Fixed titles in critical choices not fitting correctly at higher resolutions.
• You can now rename animals.
• Fixed mascots not collecting donations after a day.
• Fixed bus routes not unlocking when completing multiple Transport Planner quests simultaneously.
• Fixed incinerator workers idling when there are carcasses to collect from meat processors.
• Species info for hybrid animals now displays correctly.
• Fixed dead bodies from animal encounters not moving with pens and crashing when loaded if outside the pen.
• Fixed 'Report Black Market' morality points not decreasing as described.
• Non-refundable lake tiles can now be removed in build mode.
• The zoning view for animal management workers can now be closed when using controllers.
• Fixed customers on left- and right-facing benches drawing in front of other objects.
• In heatmaps, highlighted enclosures now only show the status of the currently selected employee.
• Fixed controller selection issues in the 'Animal' panel in the 'Management Office' panel.
• Fixed some buildings having misaligned build animations.

Hi everyone, we've just pushed a small update with a bunch of bug fixes!

• Fixed a crash when a completed animal-management cloning chamber tries to automatically summon a drone for delivery, but the CRISPR building is currently being moved
• Fixed deleting of enclosures leaves tile rotational data, which crashes the game when factory workers paths to new structures that are placed on these un-erased rotational data
• Fixed Aquarium Zoo crashing at the end of day 2 if the Research Hub is not built
• Lake tiles can now be deleted in Build mode even though they are non-refundable
• Opening the CRISPR panel no longer hangs the game on ultrawide monitors
• Enclosures no longer build a "bridge" across lake tiles when using the "Change Type" feature
• Fixed an issue where having too many trees in a big zoo slows the overall game performance
• Fixed buildings and crop rendering sometimes disappearing when using the "Change Type" feature for enclosures
• Fixed no longer able to change the time scale when the build bar is active on the controller
• Reduced save file size regarding storeroom storing too many poop stock entries
• Animal poop no longer spawns inside enclosure items causing them to be unreachable by default after loading from a save file
• Fixed corrupted enclosure tile (that generates on moving of enclosures) on save file loading
• Made gate placement more responsive for enclosures when using controllers
• Added an 'All' option to the end of the variant collection in the create/edit job entry panel to quickly add pairs of animals for each unlocked variant onto the job list
• Fixed D-pad navigation speed when scrolling animal management's job list and create/edit job entry panel elements
• Animal names now display when hovering over animal entries in the create/edit job entry panel in animal management
• Animal and variant selection in the create/edit job entry panel now returns to its last selected element every time the panel opens
• Cursor now focuses on the 'Add' button after selecting an animal variant in create/edit job entry panel, and focuses on the 'Add New' button after creating/editing a job entry after returning back to the animal management job list when using controller
• Added a 'flag' icon to manage the employee panel to indicate if an employee has been zoned to a pen. Added a 'flag' icon to the animal management pen summary panel to indicate if a pen is zoned to at least one employee
• ‘Requires workers to deliver job' in the animal management job list panel now flashes as red to indicate that there are no workers available to go to the specified pen
• Added animal-management icon when zoning exhibit control worker to display whether an enclosure pen has any animal-management jobs
• Added 'Apply to All' feature to nursery settings
• Fixed zoning panels from the previous zoo loaded in the animal-management employees zoning screen, only if you were zoning employees individually (not zoning employees using the heatmap) in the previous zoo
• ‘Add Employee' icon no longer renders behind the employee zone panel in the employee zoning screen
• Added tick to entries in the create/edit job entry panel where a job is already assigned to the current animal and variant type for the current enclosure
• Fixed a collision issue when upgrading to a methane water pump
• Fixed 'random-rotate' message appearing when enclosure or lake tile is selected after selecting a randomly-rotatable item in the build menu
• Added a tutorial pop-up for building enclosures in the classic Zoo
• Fixed an issue where recycling workers would sometimes crash the game after travelling to another zoo using the plane

• Fixed a crash where a completed animal-management cloning chamber tries to automatically summon a drone for delivery while the CRISPR building is being moved
• Fixed a crash when factory workers path to new structures that are placed on un-erased rotational data from previously deleted enclosures
• Fixed Aquarium Zoo crashing at the end of day 2 if the Research Hub is not built
• Lake tiles can now be deleted in Build mode (however, they are non-refundable)
• Opening the CRISPR panel no longer freezes the game on ultrawide monitors
• Enclosures no longer build a "bridge" across lake tiles when using the "Change Type" feature
• Fixed having too many trees in a big zoo slowing the overall game performance
• Fixed buildings and crop rendering sometimes disappear when using the "Change Type" feature for enclosures
• Using the controller will no longer change the time scale when the build bar is active
• Reduced save file size regarding storeroom storing too many poop stock entries
• Animal-poop no longer spawns inside enclosure items causing them to be unreachable by default after loading from a save file
• Fixed corrupted enclosure tile (that generates on moving of enclosures) on save file load

Hey everyone! THE DAY IS FINALLY HERE! Let's Build a Zoo's latest DLC, Aquarium Odyssey, is OUT NOW! You can get it for 10% OFF, so grab it now while you can!

Discover a world of seafaring beasts and marine life, and give your guests the ULTIMATE aquatic experience!

Here's what you can expect from Aquarium Odyssey:

A Whole New Campaign! Your adventures on this unexplored Aquarium Island will be full of brand new quests, moral choices and news articles. Build a successful Zoo in this springwater, squeaky fresh setting, and make meaningful choices to shape it! 50+ New Animals With incredible sea discoveries, over 50 new fish and mammal species are now ready for you to adopt and showcase to your visitors! From Dolphins to Manta Rays, Whales and Starfish to Lobster and Eels, there are so many favourites available to take in, care for and splice with others! By adding sea animals to your zoo, you will have the ability to create more than 10 million animal variants in the sandbox mode - are you ready to make the world's first Chickale or Eeloose!? 7 New Enclosure Types Learn all about your new charges and build environments perfect for their needs, from dense aquatic landscapes to coral reefs bursting with colour, all the way to the barren sea floor aesthetics. Allow your guests to get up close and personal with all-glass panels. 110 New Shops, Decorations, Facilities and More! Let your guests step into a brand new world with new themed shops, decorations, signs and pathways to bring this new breed of zoo to life! Take inspiration from your new critters and show off their wild environments throughout your zoo, from ship decks and mosaic floors, to giant corals and seaweed!

We want to thank you all so much for your support on all the lovely content and updates we've managed to put out for Let's Build a Zoo so far, we cannot wait for you to get your hands (or fins) on Aquarium Odyssey!

SEA YOU IN-GAME! - Springloaded & No More Robots

A Whole New Campaign!

50+ New Animals

7 New Enclosure Types

110 New Shops, Decorations, Facilities and More!

🦖 To set you off on your journey to building the world’s greenest (or most horrifying!) Zoo, we’re currently ON SALE - you can also grab the Dinosaur Island DLC at a nice discount too!

Don’t forget, we also just announced our newest DLC, Aquarium Odyssey, which is coming later this year! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40409106/e26a76292c8c6ab0c0cbf821ea3fbe384042e78e.gif 🐳 You can expect a TON of new content in this expansion, including:

• A whole new campaign
• 50+ NEW animals
• 7 new enclosure types
• 110 new shops, decorations, facilities and MORE!

And that’s not all, we also recently released the 🦥 FREE Sloths & Spas Update!

🖥️ On top of it all, tomorrow, April 18th around 2 PM BST we are streaming our playthrough on Steam!

🌍 Happy Earth Day, Everyone! 🌍

A massive SECOND PAID DLC announcement and a FREE FOR ALL adorable update to brighten the spring blues!

LET'S GET SPLASHING!

WHAT TO EXPECT IN YOUR NEW AQUARIUMS:

A Whole New Campaign!

50+ New Animals

7 New Enclosure Types

Over 110 New Shops and Decorations

To sweeten your wait on our lovely, lovely dolphins, whales and whatnot, we're releasing a HUGE, FREE UPDATE filled with BRAND NEW CONTENT and quality of life features.

Sloths!

Attractions and Attraction Meter

• Fixed zooming the player's camera while an animal sound is playing caused the sound to fire rapidly
• Added bus sound to the background of the title screen
• Added sounds when navigating the menu in the 'Quick Select Shortcuts' when using controller
• Added building sound when editing enclosures
• Fixed 'Inspect' button in the 'Employee'/'Visitor' panel not making a clicking sound when selected using the controller
• Fixed 'OK' button in the 'New-Thing!'/'Employee Level-Up!' panel not making a clicking sound when using a controller
• Fixed bus sounds in-game being too soft
• Fixed 'Profit Overview' not displaying the correct values
• Minimized background music when the player is in the pause menu in game
• Fixed controller mouse disappearing after selecting any option in the black market dealer whilst in the alert menu
• Build sounds now plays when an enclosure fully completed its build/re-build or destroyed
• Fixed the rendering of progress bars where the bar sometimes renders outside of its frame (as well as its mouseover highlights) outside

🐳 Thanks everyone, and see you soon! 🐳

Brand new ANIMALS to love (and splice)

• Koalas
• Emus

Aaaand:

• A new Eucalyptus Tea Shop for your lovely guests
• Eucalyptus Tree crops
• Kangaroo Bin
• Wood Bin
• A host of new decorative rocks/stones
• Koala Statue
• Kangaroo Statue
• Some lovely Gum Trees (Kookaburras not included)
• Cassia Trees
• A mix of grasses and plants
• Some colourful floors (and an animated one too!)
• Eucalyptus Bench
• Eucalyptus Chair
• Eucalyptus Lamppost

We recently had a patch with a whole host of fixes in, but we've still managed to get a few into this one! This update fixes:

• Fixed a rare bug causing invisible collision to be left behind from building pens.
• Fixed trash not moving away after building a pen on it.
• Fixed elephant gift shop having a wrong collision tile in one of its rotation, causing customers to not visit it.
• In research grid mouseover info, fixed missing display of current bonus text if the set contains more items beyond the last bonus.
• Fixed some UI text overflows.

• Fixed a bug where animals are pooping in the old pens after being moved, resulting in zookeeper blocked popups appearing.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if you build extremely large pens (across many many sectors!) and tried to place items.
• Fixed abattoir employee crashing if target animal was donated through critical choice.
• Fixed controller occasionally not responding in the quest task list menu.
• Fixed game not responding when using the controller to access certain panels.
• Improved controller navigation when moving gate around corners in an enclosure.
• Improved controller navigation in the Nursery's main menu.
• Added winter animals to the conservation list that were missing.
• Winter shops were missing their light layers, these have been fixed.
• In research grid info, removed additional segments of the bar if they do not contribute to a bonus.
• Using the controller's right stick on panels that require it to navigate will no longer affect the camera's zoom.
• Fixed welfare report stamp positioning that was wrong in some resolutions
• Fixed some localization text errors causing * to appear instead.

We are SO excited to announce that Let's Build a Zoo will be STAMPEDING onto Xboxes, PlayStations and Nintendo Switches THIS SEPTEMBER! So many people have been asking about us bringing Let's Build a Zoo to consoles since we first announced it, and we're so happy that it's ALMOST HERE! With lots of hard work, this has become a Zoo we're all very proud of! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40409106/407081c11a4b818200b693f00bd0b2f4a4184940.png It gets EVEN BETTER, thanks to the folks at Merge Games - you'll also be able to bag yourself a PHYSICAL VERSION from most good game retailers!! Soon, you'll be able to:

• Crossbreed your animals from the couch
• Dress dogs like lions at the park
• Breed an army of rabbits from your bed
• Build the ultimate zoo, on whichever platform you love best <3

We couldn't have done this without all of your support, thank you so much to everyone who has bought, reviewed and told a friend about Let's Build a Zoo! Lots of love, Springloaded & No More Robots xoxox

• Fixed crash (introduced in last update) when moving a pen and dragging outside of the playable area.
• Recopied over old Morailty points to new system, that were reset inadvertently in the last update (This was related to the fixes for Euthanize / donate animals & Report Black Market & Critical Choice Scores). Note if you had done any work on these three morality stats over the last few days then this will have no effect on your game (we only reset values, where the newly created variable had a value of zero)
• Fixed an issue where changing the shape of an empty pen would result in the top layer of the world no longer rendering. (it was fun because you could see all the employees standing at their jobs, in the empty shops! - but yes - it was a bug!!)
• Fixed crash when selecting a Staff Gate and moving it outside of the playable area.
• Made it not crash if the news feed failed to delete cache.
• Morality from donating animals previously maxed out at 9.99 instead of 10.
• Fixed being able to access the research grid from a locked item on the build menu, in Sandbox mode.

• Fixed a bug where editing a pen with water inside could leave some collision behind.
• Changed the delete tool so it will delete deco inside pens, as well as outside.
• Fixed a bug where using the delete tool on water items inside pens would remove the collision from the water.
• Adding water to a pen wasn't instantly reflecting the multiplier it was applying to the enrichment (it would only be applied at the start of the next day). This has now been fixed.
• Using the delete shortcut action on items on water, would also delete the collision for the water (allowing people to walk on water!). This has been fixed.
• Garbage trucks were not coming on the first day after loading the game, this would have a negative impact on progress for people who would exit the game more often.
• Added a render cap to Garbage bins at the front of the zoo, so you can see all of your trash being collected by the trucks.
• Made donation quests clearer in the management office, they now have a blue arrow button letting you know you "might" be able to complete them. They are also sorted to the top of the quest list with all the other completable tasks.
• Changed the design so that Animal Welfare Officers and Animal Painters can use staff gates.
• When using a controller and viewing the lighting heat map, it would not refresh unless you cycled it to another option and back again. This was annoying when placing lights and trying to get the perfect lighting score.
• When using controller and scrolling a very long "Arrivals" list of animals, the scroll position would go out of synch with the selection meaning you could no longer see what you had selected.
• Certain actions would not refresh the cleanliness bar on your pen - this is now fixed.
• Previously it was not possible to place a buildings entrance on top of a floor light. This has been addressed.
• Added a habitat icon in Dinosaur Island World Map, when an animal is ready to collect.
• Fixed morality display rounding inaccuracy causing confusion for the Criminal Mastermind achievement.
• Protestor demands - added text to clarify that it will recalculate enrichment only on the next day, after enrichment has been added.
• Protestor demands - fixed text going out of the frame slightly.
• Upgrade panel for water pump - fixed text positioning.
• Added Lycopod Tree into pen deco build menu in Dino DLC.
• Fixed Lycopod Tree showing up twice on research grid in Dino DLC.

• Factory boss achievement was not counting the Goat Battery and Wool Battery buildings.
• Fixed keeper blocked popup occasionally popping up incorrectly after players have edited their pens and placed lakes.
• Fixed a bug causing morality to be capped at a lower value (making it to be impossible to get 200 good points)
• Pausing the game during edit pen - would force the game into a soft lock. This is now fixed.
• World Map - Moved Bavaria to the correct place on the map in Dinosaur Island DLC.
• After moving a gate, the feeding location in the pen now updates correctly.
• Fixed a bug causing employees to be unable to navigate to and enter the Mink Fur factory & Turkey Leg factory.
• Fixed being able to "lose" the factory boss achievement in the collection page, if you destroyed your factories.
• Fixed a bug causing bribe morality points to not decrease properly after the stated number of days. Balance has been changed to 35 days of no bribing before it starts returning to neutral.
• Fixed bar display for the morality dropdown info to reflect the appropriate maximum caps depending on whether you are good or evil, so it is less confusing when trying to aim for max morality.
• Fixed slightly misaligned text positioning in the resignation popup.
• The Progress bar in the CRISPR building during DNA selection was broken and only showed a blank bar. This has been fixed.
• Fixed shops using wrong amounts of factory-produced stock from the store room if the slider was at the left.
• Set the default store room settings for bio-waste storage in Dino DLC to keep poop in the bio-waste storage (only applies to new saves).
• Fixed money sprite placement in Animal Welfare report after bribing.
• Added missing storeroom-warehouse settings in Turkey Leg Factory UI.
• Corrected the warehouse display list including/excluding a few wrong items.
• Fixed factory worker (evil) not showing up correctly in the collection screen after hiring one.

HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN DINOSAUR ISLAND:

A Whole New Campaign!

50+ New Animals

7 New Enclosure Types

Over 110 New Shops and Decorations

• New larger fonts!

  These new fonts should make everything a lot easier to read. This has been highly requested and we're so excited to bring this into the game fully tested and easy to reach in the settings menu! We've upped the size of the text by default, but you'll be able to size it down as well as up in the settings menu!

• Controller support!

  Another really big feature! The team are SO proud that you'll now be able to play with a controller for MAXIMUM COMFORT! We've done extensive testing to make sure this feels just right, so we hope you can really kick back and enjoy building up your definitely evil zoo empire!

• Staff Gates!

  Now you can block your customers from accessing certain parts of your zoo while letting staff walk around freely. We all know you've been looking to hide your bacon factories and horrible culling pens, so we've made it a reality! You'll now be able to unlock specific gates and hide away your shame without fear of nosy guests, and keep them on track to seeing your noise fluffy animals!

• Trees!

  We have added the ability to grow and harvest trees to the game! We loved crops so much, that we needed to give you more options to apply your green thumb to. We've added Bananas, Coconuts and Apples for you to try your hand at growing!

• New Floor types!

  We wanted to give you more building options, so now there are 10 more brand new floor types to pick from! You've got more options for your themes, so make sure you share your screenshots with us once you've used them all!!

• Biowaste Storage/Dung Diary!

  Keepers and the bio-waste workers will now collect your animal waste, use it as a resource or you can view your collection in a brand new building. Perhaps you never even noticed that we had a unique sprite for every animal’s droppings - now's your chance to check them all out!!

• Underpainting!

  Holding Left Alt while painting a floor, will result in it being applied to the bottom layer (underneath the edged floors) This "Underpaint" system only works with non "Edged Floors"! We noticed you all like layering your flooring, so now we've made that much easier for you all!

• Carbon Neutrality!

  While not a new feature, the Improbable meat/carbon footprint was not tracked correctly, and could not be seen in-game. After a lot of work, you can now become carbon neutral - good luck out there eco-warriors!

• Commodities Stock View (Store Room)

  This displays all stock of products you have across your zoo - we've centralised this and made it much, much easier to see where you're at with all your stock and what needs your attention!

• Commodities Record View (Store Room)

  This displays the usage of products, and the percentage used that was self-sustaining and meat-free, so you can plan better towards your goals and highlights where you need to make changes to become fully self-sustainable!

• Fixed camera panning when placing a gate during the editing of a large pen.
• Readjusted balance of commerce pricing and shops in the zoo. (Previously, it would be more profitable to sell produce in the warehouse rather than using your produce in shops)
• Employees now walk in a line to enter your zoo at the start of a game load.
• Added - Text to indicate that the player has insufficient money while building a pen.
• Added - Convert to lab meat Research into Morality Bonuses.
• Further reduced flashing effects when the option to do so is turned on in advanced settings
• Fixed water bar showing red pixels after selecting a new enclosure.
• Fixed estimated crop value showing $0 for most crops.
• Fixed farmers' number of potatoes delivered not reflecting decimal places.
• Fixed farm plots not being able to be destroyed until an ongoing helicopter animal delivery is finished.
• Heatmap has been improved to find unassigned pens easily.
• Player is now notified when a new transport route has opened up.
• Players are now able to click out of the menu after clicking on add object or move objects in the pen menu.
• Players are now able to enter into destroy mode after selecting an item.
• Overflowing and overlapping text at the right side of the Vegetable Processing has been fixed.
• When people come out of the subway, people's sprites seem to 'pop'. This has been visually fixed.
• Improved player's experience by maintaining the Build Bar page they were on before building.
• In the Research menu, players are now notified of the pre-requisite lake packs to purchase before purchasing other packs that require water.
• Improved the camera after exiting Build mode such that it lerps back to the zoo if players moved the camera far away during Build Mode.
• When selecting the appearance for buildings, the mouse position was slightly offset, this has been fixed.
• Maxing out evil morality for electricity algorithm score was adjusted to make it slightly easier, but it is still an intentionally slow stat to max. 700 points = (allshops/2 + allATMs /2 + allToilets/2 + 10*factory buildings + 12*meatprocessor + 5 for architect office and 25*CRISPR)
• Sometimes, trying to send protestors to an animal encounter would result in the option remaining available to those protestors which was confusing.
• Morality for death, was being reset every day, making it difficult to earn enough points to max out the morality stat.
• Cocoa plant gave an unnaturally low yield, we have increased this substantially.
• Most crops used by shops, were giving too low a yield to make it possible to become a self-sustaining Zoo, these have been adjusted.
• Convert To Lab Meat - research upgrade was having no visible effect. Now that the commodities can be tracked using the new UI, we discovered the issue and adjusted the balance.
• In the heatmap view for animal keepers, it was unclear whether an employee was assigned or not unless you zoomed in far enough to see the numbers. We have changed this so that it is clear even when zoomed out.
• When using the modify pen menu, pressing back from multiple sub-menus would fully exit, rather than going back to a previous menu. This was kind of frustrating!
• Added small icon "V" to differentiate floors with different properties (Edges floors vs Standard floors)
• Improved UI feedback when you do not have enough money to bribe a VIP.
• Improved UI for zoning heat map, making it easier to view the zones and edit them.
• Changed description text for floor tiles to clarify which ones increase the speed of customers.
• Added the ability to destroy the main zoo.
• Optimised save file size for some data.
• Added mouseover feedback for pause menu sliders.
• Changed title screen text button colours to better fit the game's colour scheme.
• Modified balance for products used in shops from the storeroom.

• Fixed issues to do with tile list optimization, where editing pen results in people being able to walk through pens.
• Fixed lag when building a new item on a huge zoo.
• Fixed lag when big brush size for floor painting.
• Experimental Feature Tile List Optimization moved into the main game.

(Fasten your seatbelts, this is a biggun)

• Localization and text fixes for overflowing text, overlapping strings, and missing text in some languages has been thoroughly addressed, across hundreds of small fixes.
• Sort animals by variant small bug fixed which would cause them to sort out of order on rare occasions.
• Things manufactured in records had a rounding error, this has been fixed to render the correct value.
• Bug with Tile optimization blocking collision incorrectly has been fixed.
• Night-Time Lighting was broken on multiple objects(Ornate Lamp, Gas Lamp, Flamingo Light, Seal Light, Lanterns, Pretzel Store, All Vending Machines) and has now been fixed.
• Fixed lighting issue - when in Build mode at night, the grass below the zoo did not render in the correct colours.
• The total collection values did not reflect the newly added items to the research tree, the values now align.
• Fixed wrong texture displaying for Ice Castle.
• When selecting Hire or Dismiss with the checkboxes, it would sometimes inadvertently return the wrong employee, resulting in hiring the wrong person.
• Using Q & E to replace the mouse wheel did not work on multiple UI screens (for example the animal collection screen)
• Farmer Blocked Notifications were firing due to items being inadvertently linked to the wrong enclosures. This has been fixed (however you might need to save and reload your game for this to take effect)
• When turning on Contraception, an abortion notification would appear invalidly if an animal had died while pregnant. This has been fixed.
• When using the journal. transitioning between pages of each entry would have a brief black flash. This has been removed.
• When reducing the price in a store to "Break Even" and then adjusting the bar further, the text would move up and down unexpectedly.
• Morality Score for salary was incorrectly capped, meaning you could get more positive and negative morality for the way you treat your staff than we originally intended.
• Sometimes, when an animal grew up, the sprite would still look like a baby. This has been addressed, and all animals visually grow up at the same time that they mature.
• When using the vegetable processor, products by type would draw the incorrect frames for seeds and dye.
• Super Heavy class animals were being processed with an incorrect timer when a processor building only had one employee.
• Animal Diet screen had a "How much food remaining" bar that would sometimes extend beyond the limits of the UI.
• The eyes and tails ingredient inside the hotdog stand was incorrectly tagged as vegetarian.
• Growing Wheat was not being recorded correctly in the financial history.
• Zoning abattoir employees, would incorrectly show the number of zoned employees as X0, rather than the correct value. This was also the case for the Population Hub employees.
• Blocking a zoo keeper's path while the simulation speed was set to zero, could sometimes result in a sound effect playing once per frame.
• If you loaded a map that was measuring your pollution, and then quit and switched to another save slot, the pollution tracking would automatically start (even if the player had not unlocked this feature yet on the newly loaded map)
• When entering camera mode, sometimes the UI would not be removed (for example the build menu)
• On a fresh load of the game, opening the build menu straight away, would result in some of the build buttons becoming unresponsive, until you closed and opened the menu again.
• Fixed garbage trucks not coming due to traffic.
• Fixed wrong display of colour of + and - buttons in storeroom settings, wherein in some cases it will display both green.
• Fixed issue after editing pen where all visitors going up to the edited pen will show the bored icon.
• Fixed wrong previews for enrichment items when building it (some enrichment items show its preview one tile off in specific rotations).
• Fixed triggering of the "edit item" build bar UI when clicking on a gate on an empty pen.
• Fixed text overlaps in the animal diet page in the storeroom menu.
• Fixed animals' thirst being satisfied upon building lakes in pen. (Lakes are not supposed to provide drinking water to animals)
• Fixed hygiene of the pens. Previously, hygiene will sometimes not be full even if there are no poop or dead animals in the pen.
• Fixed some bugs regarding the "Blocked zookeeper" notification popping up even if they aren't blocked.
• Fixed "Blocked zookeeper" notification not going away even after the player has already cleared their path.
• Fixed some bugs regarding animals' thirst being full even after deleting all linking water pumps.
• Fixed Utilities + pollution panel text overflows in ultra-wide screens.
• Fixed some bugs regarding employees not teleporting away when players build a pen around them, resulting in the employee being stuck in the pen.
• Fixed zoning of farmers and crop pickers. Previously, that feature was not working.
• Fixed Nursery births where sometimes if a baby was scheduled to be born in the Nursery during the transition from end of day to the morning, it will not be born.
• Fixed building UI being out of position in 1920 x 1200 resolution.
• Fixed issue of not being able to assign a zone when clicking on a water trough while editing an employee zone.
• Fixed 'Converting All Shops to use Improbable Meat' research feature. (Previously, items were not being converted even if research upgrade was unlocked and players were producing Improbable Meat)
• Fixed issue when building objects, camera clamp expands such that top of the map will show a black strip.
• Heatmap - Fixed Counter for Farmer zones
• Sandbox - Fixed Player is unable to place Lake tile onto the starting concrete pen
• Vet - Fixed Vet's Counter for Assigned Zones
• Sandbox - Fixed Botswana zoo overlapping in the world map panel
• Manage Shop - Fixed Hydration in Shop Building Description
• Enrichment - Fixed 2-tile trough duplication
• Edit pen - Fixed loss of money while editing pen halfway
• Manage Shop - Fixed Pricing calculation
• FloorLamp - Fixed being able to place Floor Lamps into Animal Enclosures
• Edit Items - Fixed deleting last enrichment object bug menu bug
• Journal - Fixed being able to spam click Journal Button in Tutorial
• EOW - Fixed Build Menu displaying while the EOW summary appears
• Crispr - Fixed Displaying Critical Choice when the Cripsr slots are full
• Fixed a flicker on the park trash bin UI
• Fixed store man walking in and out of the meat processor repeatedly
• Fixed not being able to delete water tile when clicking on it with the water object selected in build mode
• Fixed customers still showing the drink/caffeine emote even with the emotes disabled in advanced settings
• Fixed animal SFX still playing when all animals of that type are killed/donated
• Fixed the UI for other buildable categories in build menu becoming unresponsive after an enclosure is built
• Fixed pen objects menu arrow drawing at the wrong spot for a frame
• Fixed view objects list UI exiting after trying to move an object instead of returning to that UI
• Fixed camera mode still displaying build mode UI
• Fixed anima SFX not refreshing on quit and start a new game
• Fixed protestors messing up visitor count at the end of the day save summary
• Fixed the red close button in the animal encounter select pen UI not responding to clicks
• Fixed being able to be stuck in the alerts menu if there are too many alerts
• Fixed protestors protesting against lack of enrichment even in the sandbox with immortal animals turned on
• Fixed outer tiles of 3x3 tile brush not painting over existing tiles
• Fixed visitors holding a balloon and not playing walking animation
• Fixed protestors taking a long time before starting animal encounters
• Fixed employee zoning mode not registering clicks properly on some deco tiles
• Fixed zoom not working in pen edit shape mode
• Fixed nutrition hut giving out notifications for 0 food purchased for $0 at the start of the day
• Fixed icons flashing when enrichment tracking enabled.
• Fixed drone position during animation.
• Fixed protestors protesting enrichment when all animals are actually dead.
• Fixed employers doing a random walk upon loading in.
• Fixed visitors stopping at the edges of your original pen after editing your pen.
• Fixed staff not being placed correctly into the store during a helicopter ride.
• Fixed characters clipping when walking into the zoo entrance.
• Fixed farmer teleporting with pens when moved.
• Fixed painters getting stuck in gates if you move the pen.
• Fixed storemen entering and exiting the lab nonstop.
• Added lerps to UI when it appears and disappears.
• Optimised menu flow for build and add objects menu.
• Research points no longer flash when a player attempts to unlock something on the research grid without having unlocked the icons next to it.
• Customers no longer stand in front of where a pen was after it has been moved.
• Fixed the entry arrow alignment for Igloo Shelter.
• Having dead CRISPR animals no longer prompts players to a ticket price increase.
• Trash burned in the furnace is now displayed at the end of the week summary report.
• Tweaks were made for methane collection from water pumps.
• Fuel from methane prints has been implemented into the game.
• Fuel now costs money and will be shown in the end of week summary report.
• Keyboard is now supported for Zoo naming.
• Dead animal corpses are now highlighted on mouseover.
• Path selection cursor has been fixed.
• Camera lerping issues have been fixed.
• Fixed a bug where farmers and crop pickers stop planting and harvesting crops.
• Fixed a bug where a welfare officer thinks that there are carcasses despite being on a completely new game with none and gave an F on the labrador.
• Fixed a bug where the game crashes while rearranging zoo on paused.
• Fixed a bug where the player is unable to exit the research screen after assigning research points during tutorial.
• Fixed a bug where the ticket entrance becomes unclickable when there is a queue at the entrance
• Fixed a bug where management offices were duplicatable.
• Fixed a bug where the delete mode on a water object clears both objects and water tile or clears water objects first before the tiles.
• Fixed a bug where some things seem to be getting in the way of the mouse while editing pen shape.
• Fixed a bug where auto pins allow pin count to go beyond maximum amount.
• Fixed a bug where the player is unable to click out to another pen while in the submenu for destroying a pen.
• Fixed a bug where the cost box does not update when items are added into the pen.
• Fixed a bug where the text displays the wrong pen number under the Zookeeper text.
• Route 5 in the bus management screen no longer sticks out.
• Fixed a bug where a ghost panel appears such that animals appearing at the bottom of the screen are unclickable.
• Audio setting has been fixed to ensure that it does not become louder after being set.
• Fixed multiple SFX from replaying over the top of each other.
• When in "Cell Select" mode, players were not able to scroll into the forest area. This is now fixed.
• "Apply To All" checkbox has been fixed after aborting existing babies. The abortion pop-up no longer appears.
• Fixed a bug where farming zones in the heatmap disappear when the player deletes one of the zoned farms.
• In the Collection menu, fixed the bug where display for Rabbits was not shown.
• Fixed the issue where zoning farmers do not update the zone counter in real-time.
• Occasionally, the zoo does not auto-save at the end of the day. This has been fixed.
• Fixed the bug where linking during the creation and editing of an enclosure is affected by Subways.
• Fixed the visual bug where zoning keeper panels were big enough to block the whole pen.
• Using the sort button for animals in some menus occasionally does not sort properly. This has been fixed.
• There was an issue with the "current cash" at the end-of-day popup where it seems to have been capped at a 'weird' number. The visual cap has been fixed to $9,999,999.
• Fixed several visual bugs related to zoning employees, such as overlapping of staff icons with the pinned tasks and overlapping of a pen's boundary with the top bar.
• Removed visual bugs such as seams on pen floors.
• Fixed the bug with the Profit Today in Snack Vendor where the increment was not shown correctly.
• Fixed a visual bug in the Ticket Office menu where some of the displays overlap with each other.
• Stopped overworld SFX when you are on the research screen.
• Fixed being able to paint floor tiles over the pen floor after placing a lake tile.
• Default salary now reads the right values if you had the 'Apply to all' checkbox ticked
• Fixed a bug causing the zookeeper blocked popup to wrongly appear when the storeroom entry tile overlaps the pen entry tile.
• Improved janitor behaviour to pick up trash more efficiently.
• Fixed a bug where the animal welfare officer occasionally will not rate any pens after being interrupted
• Fixed text error when clicking on the Geneticist if he failed to find available slots to give you free CRISPR genomes.
• Fixed a rare bug after switching zoos that caused the zoo to render in night mode during the day.
• Stopped animals in the breeding nursery from breeding when there is no employee detected at the start of a new day.
• Fixed a rare bug where the animal welfare officer would not rate a pen after an animal encounter.
• Fixed a rare bug causing the animal welfare officer to enter the zoo later than he should, causing him to produce a report saying he has seen no animals.
• Stopped factory processing when there are no employees.
• Prevent employees from resigning if they are at max salary.
• Prevent trash from being dropped at subways spots that the janitor cannot reach.
• When paying staff severance fees, a loan panel now pops up to give players a choice to proceed with a loan or not.
• Stopped the ticket notification from firing a warning if you had intentionally set the ticket price to free.
• Improved enclosure building to reduce odd and indirect paths.
• Fixed "For Sale" sign leaving behind its collision if players had placed them rotated sideways on their land and deleted them.
• Fixed icon sprite that was slightly off for Large Blue Ball in the research grid.
• Fixed a rare bug causing Geneticist to appear twice in a day with the wrong quests.
• Stopped camera from moving during zone editing if you are following an animal/employee.
• Fixed a rare bug causing farmers to harvest crops instead of the crop pickers even if you have a processing plant.
• Fixed background flicker in journal view.
• Fixed a bug that could cause items in the improbable factory to be sent to the warehouse, instead of the storeroom.
• Fixed lights not moving with buildings when building at night time.
• Fixed a bug with inaccurate UI slider collision detection.
• Sandbox - Fixed Sandbox Softlock from going into a new game tutorial
• Fixed crash regarding Park Staff UI. (Previously, sometimes entering that screen will crash the game)
• Fixed crash when clicking on a pen after zoning abattoir employee right after building an abattoir.
• Fixed crash that occurs sometimes when players build and delete pens in small successions.
• Fixed 'Not enough food' pop up appearing the day after even if player has already built a Nutrition building with auto-order enabled.
• Fixed a crash when sending the welfare officer to an animal encounter
• Fixed game crashing upon clicking morality bonuses on the top bar.
• Fixed game crashing upon clicking on the farmer's heatmap.
• Fixed game crashing upon animal being clicked in CRISPR, and then right-clicking to return.
• Fixed game crashing upon pressing the ticketing button in shop UI.
• Fixed game crashing upon clicking the zone button on the population hub.
• Fixed game crashing after the player places an animal into an empty pen.
• Fixed the rare crash that occurs when players click on the park staff at the ticket office at the start of a brand new game.
• Fixed the rare crash that occurs when players press the WorldMap in a Sandbox Zoo.
• Fixed the occasional crash that happens when switching the language back to English.
• When an insane amount of subways have been created, the game will occasionally crash. This has been fixed.
• When moving or destroying subways after building 4-6 in a row, the game will crash. This has been fixed.
• There was a bug where a completed quest will still show up as a notification. Fixed the crash that occurs when players click on that notification.
• Fixed a rare crash that happens when you place a specific Lake enrichment item in a pen in Sandbox.
• When moving a pen with protestors inside during an animal encounter, the game crashes. This has been fixed.
• Fixed the crash that occurs when players destroy buildings that can hold more than one staff.
• Fixed a rare crash that occurs upon loading a normal zoo.
• The daily records were being stored indefinitely, we have trimmed this list size, which will reduce save file size, and lessen crashes during the save operation.
• Fixed a crash where the shop UI could crash in some rare cases.
• Fixed a crash where adding a goat to the dairy building could crash the game.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to crash the game when destroying a farm or enclosure if the game was in a very specific state.
• When building a lake, it was possible to crash the game by lining the build button up with an invalid area of land.
• In Sandbox mode, if the player pressed right on the build category arrow when they are already at the end of the list, the game would on very rare occasions crash.
• A discord user shared a save file, where moving a CRISPR building would crash the game. This was due to an offset issue with the collision that has now been fixed.
• The utilities panel could crash, when starting a new game if the order of the players actions did not follow our anticipated flow.
• The critical choice that demanded you to donate chickens, was not actually taking the chickens from your zoo.
• Slushie stands had a bug, after destroying a store, customers would still queue at the original location.
• With Tile Optimization, the corners of pens would be missing collision until you build something else. This could result in customers and employees walking across blocked areas of the zoo.
• Employees were using doors and entries of backwards buildings incorrectly - this resulted in the them walking the wrong way, and in some cases would result in "ZooKeeperBlocked" messages
• Garbage was piling up in the zoo, due to a traffic issue related to the garbage trucks not being forced to the front of the vehicle queue

Hey everyone! Can you believe the keys to your very own Dinosaur Island will be yours in 3 DAYS TIME?

We can't wait for you to start digging up your fossils and bringing history back to life on May 26th - If you haven't read all about our new adventure as well as some sneak peeks at the decorations, shops and cuddly dinos you can expect, you can check out the store page here -

In the meantime, we thought we'd share some of the amazing creatures your zoo will soon be calling home - which are your favourites?

Patch Notes for 1.1.9_4

• Made a new water system – Animals will need as much as 90% less enrichment if they have access to lakes! (Some animals like water more than others do, but you get to figure that out)
• Made animals jump in and out of water (enjoy!!)
• Fixed a broken quest line for Kathleen and added the unlockable Final End News to the Newspaper Journal
• Fixed the number not updating for the population manager building UI when a pen is destroyed
• Fixed visitors using several subway teleports in a row
• Tweaked pathfinding to give better pathing
• Fixed a pathfinding memory leak (this time for good!)
• Fixed the pen builder trying to build through subways
• Added a nice forest below the zoo
• Added a ‘back’ button to the character select/ zoo naming screen
• Fixed the prices changing for pens – no more weird profits!
• Added zoning for Farmers and Crop Pickers
• Added a red/blue outline in Animal Selection to easily show gender
• Added arrows to cycle through CRISPR and Breeding buildings
• Added a highlight around variants being bred in the Breeding Management screen to highlight different variants easier
• Added a Pen Summary View showing ALL your pens – Access it by hitting the Y key!
• Added a checkbox to apply salary changes and bonuses to all employees of that type
• Added a gender icon to animals in the Pen > Animals list
• Changed text when moving farms – it no longer calls them pens
• Fixed the population manager showing a pen not in your lists – it now also does partial donations if you’re missing the money to donate them all!
• Lowered the time it takes to hire a geneticist, and converted the time into days if over 24 hours
• Added sorting in the Animal Selection menu – you can now sort by Age, Gender and Variant
• Cleared up the quest stamps
• Set the nutrition building to auto-order food as soon as the first one is built
• Fixed a crash where moving a farm would put trash out of bounds
• Added a small info panel on zoning maps for pens {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40409106/2af2bffeadf3c09c5e02fd897246bb1460f945a7.gif
• Fixed the Sewage Recirculators – these were not counting properly
• Edited the utilities panel to make Sewage Recirculators and Electricity Siphon’s use more clear
• Fixed the ‘apply to all’ checkbox that wasn’t applying extra ingredients across shops. Also fixed it not applying settings to new shops built.
• Fixed the water heat map – it was getting confused when moving water troughs and then cancelling the move again
• Cancelled heat maps if you’re building – this should make placing bins much easier!
• Fixed the undertakers not picking up corpses from edited pens
• Fixed an issue where the abattoir worker would get stuck and wouldn’t know which direction to go in
• Fixed up the light calculations (hopefully no more silly numbers - e.g. if item 1 is 40% and item 2 is 10%, item 2 would have counted as 50%, making the total 90% instead of 50%!)
• Fixed a bug where ratings (light, deco and facility) were one step behind after destroying items
• Fixed the Choco Vending Machine not giving facility points
• Removed frame saying ‘+0 animals space’ when converting pen to robot animals
• Added Lake category to the research tree
• Fixed an inconsistency in going backwards through the enrichment menus
• Added notifications on the left for battery and nursery animals that have stopped production
• Fixed item descriptions when building through the pen menus
• Added a Water Decorations category when building pens
• Updated the building counter in the collection summary
• Improved logic for choosing breeding pairs in the nursery – we’ll be avoiding pregnant animals and prioritising lifespan from here on out!
• Fixed where ‘Arctic’ is misspelt as “Artic”
• Made night-time slightly less dark (and have banished the terrors)
• Allowed click out of building mode for pens more easily
• Fixed the French translation sometimes showing * in places
• Fixed transport sometimes not unlocking properly
• Clamped ‘cash held’ display in the save summary
• Changed the building code for rotations – offset snap/jump is now fixed!
• Changed the way the pen builder blocks the mouse when trying to build over a pen or farm
• Fixed an end of week camera lock bug

• Fixed Keeper blocked issue when trying to internal navigate in some pen situations (there may still be issues, however we are trying to fix them as we find them)
• Fixed unlocking all enrichment when using the sandbox cheat (existing saves using the cheat will be updated)
• Made animal selection UI less clunky (now requires less clicks)
• Fix crash when trying to rotate and place For Sale sign
• Changed work ethic to no longer be reliant on the hidden stat combination of determination * frustration, now all employee stats are visible to the player, and work ethic directly shows "determination" and no longer changes over time.
• Fixed bug where seasoning value would reset to 0 when moving a shop
• Fixed a rare bug where factory processing times would sometimes go to extremely high values
• Fixed crash if you destroyed a CRISPR building and tried to clicked track on the CRISPR notification that points to a non-existent animal.
• Fixed bug where floor volumes could still be painted while critical choice notifications are still on screen.
• Added additional code to the breeding building system, to try and stop a hard to replicate crash reported by the community

Hey everyone! It's time for the Let's Build a Zoo ZOO OF THE YEAR 2021 results

THE CHRISTMAS TURKEY UPDATE!

Sandbox mode

A brand new way to play! Access a second zoo by unlocking a different island on the world map screen. Try out some new layouts and build some fancy buildings, your zoo is your oyster!
• Two new buildings in sandbox mode
To go with Sandbox Zoos, there are two buildings to provide you with infinite money and immortal animals!

New wintery animals!

Goat, Turkey, Sheep and Mink can all be traded in the new Greenland Zoo - head there to grab yourself some new wintery friends! These animals all have genomes to collect and can be sent to the CRISPR building!

Population management

The team have added a staff member and building to the research tree to help manage your populations better! This, we hope, will be especially useful to those of you with big zoos!

Nutritionist Staff

Also new to the research tree is the Nutritionist, who will automatically order your animals' food supplies for you! Another win for very big zoos!

New factories for you naughty evil players

These are all to do with our new animals! We have the fur factory, turkey factory, wool battery and goat battery.

New farms for good players too!

To support farmers grabbing our new animals, we've got a wool farm and goat dairy

New Shops

Looking at our new animals and wintery theme, we've got the turkey stand, cocoa cafe and bakery, winter wear shop and goat cheese deli.

Christmas tree pack

(it wouldn't be Christmas without them!)

A New Advanced Settings Screen

This will allow you to fiddle with some of our more experimental settings for an easier playing experience! It includes: disabling flashing effects, blocking character emotes, unlocking the framerate. It also has some experimental features: disable layer sorting and tile list optimization.

Welcome to ZOO OF THE YEAR 2021!

Since Let's Build a Zoo's launch we've been OVERWHELMED by some truly amazing zoos that the community have been building! From one of my local zoos to Middle Earth, we've seen some incredible designs - it's been wild watching them fill up our Discord!