1.4.3 Update

The **1.4.3 Update** was the second minor update following the 1.4 Update to *Planet Zoo.*

## Contents

### **Bug Fixes**

* **Animals**
	+ Addressed a number of issues with animals getting stuck while deep swimming.
	+ Addressed a number of issues causing swimming animals to escape the habitat.
	+ Tweaked animal deep swim navigation splines to have more variation.
	+ Fixed an issue where frame performance slowly decreases during run time as an animal keeps taking an infinite navigation path.
	+ Updated the following five animals' biome preferences on their education boards.
		- Desert was added to:
			* African Wild Dog
			* Cheetah
			* Common Ostrich
		- Taiga was added to:
			* Giant Panda
			* Formosan Black Bear
	+ Updated the Capuchin Monkey education board image to reflect the IUCN change on the conservation status from Least Concern to Vulnerable.
	+ Fixed multiple aquatic plant items not being available in the nature menu when the Aquatic Theme filter is applied:
		- Giant Rhubarb Plant
		- Lipstick Palm Tree
		- Ponytail Palm Tree
		- Titan Arum
		- Underwater Hydrilla Plant
		- Water Hyacinth Large/Medium/Small
	+ Fixed the Giant Otter not being tagged on the Mud Bath Enrichment, despite being suitable via the Zoopedia.
	+ Fixed an issue where the Frozen Blood Pumpkins and Fruit In Ice don't render when placed while the game is paused.
	+ Adjusted animal AI on using jetty bedding options.
	+ Animals no longer count as obstructions to lake placement, they will just be boxed on water being placed on top, hence improving the placement of water.
	+ Tweaked deep swimming animals scenery collision avoidance, will require existing lakes to be updated to cause the update to happen.
	+ Fixed issues with animal box buoyancy.
	+ Tweak path vs water hit checks to allow closer placement of path to waters edge (including water against glass barrier).
	+ Fixed the Giant Otter female's eyes turning completely white on certain animations.
	+ Fixed an issue where animals can float up walking to the side of a water filled glass barrier.
	+ Increased resolution on underwater feeder particles.
	+ Fixed issue causing animals to get stuck in place at the edge of water/land boundaries.
	+ Removed the word 'bear' from the Koala description in the Zoopedia.

* **Staff**
	+ Animal Talks will now end if an escaped animal comes nearby.
	+ Guests now break out of viewing Animal Talks if the zoo closes.

* **Scenery**
	+ Added height tags to Aquatic Waterfall Cliff assets.
	+ Fixed small gap between Climbable Branch 4m Irregular Shape and the surfaces its being placed on.
	+ Fixed the Spatial Data on the Painted Slate Roof Corner 2m Eave as it was not covering the whole asset.
	+ Aquatic Assets - Fixed painted Slate Roof Corner 1m Eave missing the Painted Wood colour flexicolour option.
	+ Fixed the Aquatic Habitat Large Blueprint requiring the Australia DLC.
	+ Fixed an issue where a scenery piece had a corrupted transform in a save, causing heavy performance issues when the game is un-paused.

* **Facilities**
	+ Linked up the Water Temperature Regulator dial on the asset with the generated temperature.
	+ Fixed Caretaker and Educator sharing the same icon on staff room info panel while inside a staff building.
	+ Fixed staff room UI to correctly differentiate running costs and power costs.

* **UI**
	+ Fixed Habitat Barrier widgets from overlapping in the vertical axis.
	+ Fixed access to group flexi colour UI after opening edit group UI.
	+ Fixed an issue where the Guest Happiness Rating doesn't dynamically update on the Guest tab in the Zoo Overview menu.
	+ Fixed issue an issue of giving frequent alerts that educators are spending a lot of time walking.
	+ Fixed an issue where the staff info panel would not open after using the workzone manager.
	+ Fixed an issue where locked buildings would be removed from workzones upon accessing the workzone editor.
	+ Fixed an issue with transport ride management price stepper not increasing at the same rate as the info panel.
	+ Fixed re-doing a deletion of a transport ride while ride info panel is open from causing an error.
	+ Renaming an animal in the management page now instantly updates the animal's info panel.

* **Localisation**
	+ Various localisation fixes.

* **Stability**
	+ Further crash and stability fixes.
	+ Performance tweaks and optimisations.