Planet Zoo’s first paid DLC,Arctic Pack, launched today alongside the free Update 1.1.0. A look at its patch notes reveals the addition of slow animal aging, pack structures for canines and more.
While Planet Zoo’s Arctic Pack’s content includes something for all its players, the more architecturally-minded have more than 200 new building, scenery, and foliage pieces to play around with.
Planet Zoo Arctic Pack Update 1.1.0 Patch Notes
Alongside the Arctic Pack’s 200 new items, which let you build winter wonderlands for both visitors and animals, players can also look forward to two new scenarios and four new animals.
The new scenarios take place in Norway, where you’ll learn to take care of the new arctic animals, and Mexico, where you’ll make sure they have a proper home in a place with a climate that’s not quite their favorite.
As for the animals themselves, the Arctic Pack adds the Polar Bear, Reindeer, Dall Sheep and Arctic Wolf to Planet Zoo. As expected, they each have their own needs and preferences when it comes to habitats.
Below you’ll find all the changes and additions introduced in Update 1.1.0, as per its full patch notes, as well as a trailer for Planet Zoo’s Arctic Pack:
Animals
- Slow animal aging - We have added a slider in the Gameplay section of the Options menu, where you are able to alter the rate at which your animals age; you can use this to age them up to 5 times slower. This will also affect the rate at which they mature, how long they gestate for, the amount of time between mating attempts, and how long it takes for their star rating to increase. Animals will still display all of their other behaviours at the same rate as they do now. Slowing down everything to do with the animals should also reduce the rate at which things happen in your zoo, giving you fewer animal births and deaths to deal with. This setting will be available in all modes: Career, Sandbox, Franchise and Challenge. Upon using the slider, the aging of your animals will become disconnected from the in-game years that pass. This is deliberate, not a bug. This can be set on the front end, which will become the default for any new zoo you start after that point. Any existing zoos will require you to load the save and go into the options to alter it for that zoo.
- We have introduced pack structures specific to canines - this applies to Timber Wolves and African Wild Dogs. Alphas are stable within a pack structure, and members won't normally fight unless they are overcrowded. All juveniles will be added to the pack structures. All pack members will be listed in the animal UI.
- Added new social interactions to the red ruffed and ring tailed lemurs.
- Fixed issue which could lead to animals ignoring feeding and watering stations until they are replaced.
- Further fixes for animals jumping through barriers.
- Further improvements to climbing.
- The Indian Peafowl will now display it's tail feathers again.
New Content
- Aurora effect for tundra biome - requires graphic settings to high or above.
- Festive spruce foliage assets.
- Ice and Snow rock sets.
- Ice statues and icicle scenery assets.
- Wooden & frosted ice path.
- Enrichment items:
- Large Snow Ball
- Small Ice Ball
- Snowman Skittle
- Gift Box
- Avatar ice cream costume
Management
- A new crime management page has been added to the Zoo Overview management screen - this tab will display and locate vandalised items in your zoo.
- Refunds have been modified, and now have a breakdown of costs in the Zoo finance screen. If a guest has spent less than half of their allotted time in the zoo before going home due to low happiness, they will receive a refund. If an animal escapes and the guest flees, they will receive a refund that's proportional to the time they've spent in the zoo. Innocent guests ejected from the park will receive a full refund. Additionally, unhappy guests will not donate as much money to your zoo.
Staff
- Fixed bug causing staff to teleport to the origin of the zoo.
- Fixed staff getting stuck on path intersections.
- Animal bones will now be cleared from water if the keeper can't reach them.
- Fixed mechanics not using alternative workshops when queuing
Guests
- Fixed guests walking on staff paths.
- Fixed bug with guest visibility calculations when on transport rides.
- Added a visibility override to the following scenery items Classic Fence Copper 01 and Classic Fence Copper 02. Guests will now be able to see through them to view animals
- Fixed issue where guests wouldn't use bins when "Going Home".
UI
- News Feed Carousel -We are introducing a News Feed to the Planet Zoo home page, which will update you on any announcements you should be aware of! These will include maintenance information, latest change log notes and news updates.
- New notifications to help with bad keeper setup.
- Added a new "Important Alert Requires Attention" notification pop-out that appears in the middle of the screen that notifies players when something tremendously negative is affecting their zoo. This can be turned off in the interface menu.
- Added a notification that displays when more than one mechanic is attempting to use the workshop, others that cannot fit will queue outside.
- Added bad education notification.
- Added option to Disable Alerts on a per category basis in the Settings>Interface menu.
- New heat maps
- Staff happiness
- Crime
- Animal breeding
- Habitat cleanliness
- Improved the guest negative impact heat map.
- Immediate family in the zoo info added to animal info panel.
- The radius of effect is now shown when placing heaters and coolers.
- Added additional information about keeper feeding to the help menu.
- Added new function to allow avatar visitors to be set to Friends Only or disabled entirely via a new drop down entry in the Settings>Game menu.
- Added a re-hire staff button to the staff info panel in the way of a "+" button at the top. We will look to develop the UI further in future.
- Clicking on the Guest Happiness at the bottom of the main HUD will now open the Guest Happiness Heat Map.
- Added a "Remove this plant" button for all unsuitable plant types to the animal info panel.
- Improved feedback when adding water.
Career Mode
- Scenario 3 - Improvements made to placing the Vet Surgery and the Shop; now place a building instead of adding a facility to a shell.
- Opening hours can be changed in Scenarios 3 through 12.
Challenge & Franchise Mode
- Opening hours can now be changed in Challenge and Franchise Mode.
- Added new "No Protesters" challenge.
Sandbox Mode
- When turning off illness in the settings, any illness already present in the zoo will also now be removed.
- Added Sandbox toggles for enabling Cash/Conservation Credits (no longer unlimited) and setting Cash/Conservation Credit amount (applies when unlimited Cash/Conservation Credits are turned off).
- Add Sandbox toggle option to turn off Vandalism.
Misc
- Fixed issue with lights not turning on when "Power Everything" option is turned on in Sandbox Mode.
Animation
- Various bug fixes and polish.
Audio
- Various bug fixes and polish.
Stability
- Further crash and stability fixes.
Localisation
- Various localisation fixes.
Planet Zoo’s Arctic Pack is now available for purchase for the price of 9,99€ or your regional equivalent.
