1.14 Update

## Related links

Planet Zoo: Arid Animal Pack and Free Update 1.14 Out Now!

The **1.14 Update** is the fourteenth major update to *Planet Zoo,* was released simultaneously with the Arid Animal Pack on June 20th, 2023.

## Contents

### **New Additions**

* **NEW - Staff Flexi colour**
	+ Staff members' uniform colours can now be customised on an individual or staff type level
	+ Select a staff member to apply flexicolour to all four channels of their uniform to make them stand out from their peers
	+ Go to the new Zoo → Staff → Staff Uniforms tab in the zoo management UI to set and change uniform colours for an entire staff type
* **NEW - New animal behaviour: Spitting at guests**
	+ All camelids, that is, Bactrian Camels, Llamas, and Dromedary Camels, now have a chance to perform a spitting interaction with guests
	+ If guests are visible and near to the animal, the interaction becomes available. Keep barriers high or block the view to keep your guests safe
	+ Guests will not be harmed by this interaction but will leave the habitat to look at something more friendly
* **NEW - Scenic Camera Mode**
	+ A new camera mode is available from the camera modes widget in the bottom right of the HUD
	+ Place the camera location anywhere in the world by clicking. Vertical position can be adjusted holding the standard vertical height key (Default: Shift)
	+ Camera behaviour can be adjusted from the selection panel in the bottom right while in Scenic Camera Mode: select between spin, ellipsis, spiral in, spiral out, and adjust speed to get the perfect view
* **NEW - Cinematic Route Editor**
	+ Create detailed videos with the Cinematic Route Editor, available in the camera modes widget in the bottom right of the HUD
	+ Routes are calculated along keyframes, which are positions you set for your camera to create a route using as many or few as you like
	+ Any keyframe can be individually moved and customised with different settings such as
		- Using the camera target instead of the camera to calculate the route, which create wide curves around the view
		- Jumping to the next keyframe, which creates cinematic cuts between parts of a route
		- Editing the speed of the route on the segments around individual keyframes
	+ Routes are saved for each zoo, meaning they can be shared and viewed with your builds on the steam workshop when uploading a zoo
* **NEW - Foliage**
	+ Nitraria Retusa Bush Dry 01
	+ Nitraria Retusa Bush Dry 02
	+ Nitraria Retusa Bush Dry 03
	+ Nitraria Retusa Bush 04
	+ Nitraria Retusa Bush 05
	+ Nitraria Retusa Bush 06
	+ Creosote Bush Dry 01
	+ Creosote Bush Dry 02
	+ Creosote Bush Dry 03
	+ Creosote Bush 04
	+ Creosote Bush 05
	+ Creosote Bush 06
* **NEW - Music Tracks**
	+ Listen to the soothing sounds of the sands around your zoo with 4 new music tracks accessible through the in game speakers:
		- Saharan Sands
		- Red Sea Hills
		- Tuwaiq Canyons
		- Al-Dahna Caravan

**General Bug Fixes and Improvements**

* + **Animals**
		- Added Taiga Biome icon missing on the [[Polar Bear|Polar Bear

* **NEW - Widget speed controller**
	+ Added an advanced widget speed multiplier control. Which can affect the rate of your movement and rotation widgets for precision or speed

* **General Bug Fixes and Improvements**
	+ **Animals**
		- Added Taiga Biome icon missing on the Polar Bear's TV screen display
		- Added Grassland Biome icon missing on Red River Hog's Education Board
		- Added Aquatic Biome icon missing on Asian Water Monitor's Education Board
		- Fixed Planco and scientific names being inverted on the TV screen display for the Red Deer, Striped Skunk, Egyptian Fruit Bat
		- Fixed incorrect Planco names on the Eurasian Lynx's Education Boards
		- Changed 'North America' to 'Central America' in Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey's Zoopedia page
		- Added Central America tag to California Sea Lion's Zoopedia page
		- Fixed a bug preventing Dall Sheep from escaping while using a Goat Climbing Mountain too close to the habitat barrier
		- Fixed a bug preventing Japanese Macaque from using Hot Water taps in shallow water
		- Fixed a bug preventing Lar Gibbon from sliding for a moment after climbing off from Tangled Liana
		- Added a sound when any member of the Nine-Banded Armadillo family dies due to predation
		- Polished Cougar bite animation
		- Polished Juvenile West African Lion sleeping animation
		- Fixed both Chinese Pangolin male and female animations when using the Artificial Termite Mound
		- Fixed Lar Gibbon Conservation Status on Education Board to match the Conservation Status in Zoopedia
		- Chinese Pangolins and Fennec Foxes can now use the Small Burrow
	+ **Game Modes**
		- Balanced the animal market in Challenge Mode to take into account the amount of DLCs owned by players
		- Updated Desert South America Sculpted opening times to 05.00-23.00 and ticket prices set to 3.00 to match other maps in both Franchise and Challenge modes
	+ **Guests**
		- Fixed a bug where the guests were fleeing from non-escaped animals
	+ **Scenario**
		- Fixed a bug blocking players from completing Career Scenario 'The Ape-renticeship' due to Animal Market being empty
		- In 'Goodwin House' scenario, fixed a bug preventing the Hippopotamus from being stuck while swimming
		- Fixed a rare bug in 'Myers Castle' scenario preventing the 'Keep Crime rate Low' objective being completed due to the wrong inspector type being spawned
		- Fixed a rare bug in the Purmamarca Educational Reserve scenario preventing both the objectives 'Build an Animal trade centre' and 'Build a research centre' from being completed by players
	+ **Habitats**
		- Herb Scent Marker Enrichment is now accessible from multiple sides
	+ **Scenery**
		- Added flexicolour to several base game assets
	+ **Facilities**
		- Fixed Twilight Pack Blueprints being gated by non-Twilight mechanic research
		- Fixed a bug preventing players to place specific habitat blueprints due to a dynamic enrichment being placed too close
	+ **Staff**
		- Fixed a bug preventing Keepers from teleporting outside of the habitat
		- Fixed a bug where staff members end up stuck
	+ **UI**
		- Fixed a bug impacting font sizes in Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
	+ **Stability**
		- Fixed a crash when players select a European Fallow Deer and click on the "Filter Habitat Items by Species" button in the Enrichment tab
		- Fixed a rare crash when players start editing climbable objects in a habitat
		- Fixed various save loading crashes

## Trivia

* The new colormorphs for the Bactrian Camel and widget speed controller were added in the **1.14 Update** but the information was missing from the patch notes. When Update 1.14.1 came out, the information was retroactively added along side the 1.14.1 Update patch notes.

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