Build 26463268

Hayo Zookeepers!

Update 1.0.10 is arriving at 11:00 GMT today (9th November 2026).

Please note: This is not a full list of everything the development team are working on. If your issue has not been addressed in a previous patch you can report any bugs or issues using this link.

Under Investigation

Following the distribution of the update, our team will be continuing to monitor for any raised issues.

You can see our latest high priority targets via the Under Investigation article, which will regularly update as we identify areas for additional support.  Please note that we anticipate the next update to the Under Investigation article to go live soon. 

Ongoing Areas of Focus

These are specific areas which the development team have identified for regular ongoing improvements, due to the complex nature of Planet Zoo 2's simulation.

• Animals climbing, jumping, and pouncing will see ongoing improvements

• Some animals not aligning with their enrichments correctly on occasion

• Animals sometimes erroneously escape from habitats during certain behaviours

• Further enhancements to core creative toolset

• Repeated boxing and unboxing of animals

• Resolving issues impacting saved games

• Improvements to shoal behaviour and motion

Please note: This is not a full list of everything the development team are working on. 

Key Changes

• Deluxe animals now only need Level 1 Accreditation to purchase in Franchise mode. We are also investigating Franchise mode settings to enable players to choose their level of accreditation challenge and animal gating in a future update.

• Fixed an issue causing terrain requirements to get stuck at a set value - View on Issue Tracker

• Fixed an issue with deep water space requirements not calculating correctly. This has notably affected the Eurasian Beaver

• Further improvements to aquatic animal boxing

• Improvements to aquatic animals becoming stuck

• Resolved an issue causing staff and animals to get stuck after moving an animal from quarantine to the trade centre - View on Issue Tracker

• Resolved an issue causing staff to continuously walk with boxed animals

• Improved the frequency that staff replace food in habitats

• Balanced the rate at which food goes rotten

• Improved the frequency with which guests use shops and restaurants

• Shelter blueprints now appear under the "Shelters" sub-category - View on Issue Tracker

• Resolved an issue where avian animals could clip out of their habitat when perching near walls

• PC (Steam, Epic & Winstore)

  • Added support for on-screen keyboard to improve accessibility - View on Issue Tracker

Bug Fixes

Stability & Performance

• Various performance and stability improvements

• Resolved a rare crash on the Scotland reserve career scenario

• Resolved an occasional hardlock after claiming Conservation Project rewards in Career mode - View on Issue Tracker

• A crash has been resolved which would cause some zoos to crash during loading

  • If you have a save which has previously been blocked from opening due to this issue, we recommend giving it a try. If you are still experiencing this issue, please submit an Issue Tracker ticket and include a copy of your save (if possible)

• Fixed a rare crash when attempting to load into career mode, quickly cancelling and then selecting franchise mode from the main menu

• Improvements to animal texture pop-in 

Franchise

• Resolved an issue whereby exhibit animals which had been quick traded could incorrectly still be present in franchise saves following a crash

• Fixed animal storage entries not being removed after they are sold in the market - View on Issue Tracker

• Fixed Community Goal reward information not appearing or appearing incorrectly

• Fixed Community Challenge fanfare triggering before selecting a franchise and occasionally overlapping

Career

Sandbox

• Workshop saves and autosaves now appear in "Saves in this location" section in the save/load menu

Animals & Exhibits

• Fixed an issue causing shoals which were below sexual maturity age to be unable to be sold on the trading market

• Fixed Pufferfish, Lionfish, Eagle Ray and Cownose ray mating animations

• Improvements to Asian Small-Clawed Otter navigation underwater

• Improvements to colour feedback consistency when viewing an animals genetic information

• Animals temperature tooltips now show Fahrenheit when selected in settings

• Temperature and Humidity information is now shown for exhibit-only animals in the zoopedia

• Improvements to Zoopedia navigation

Park Management & Construction

• Fixed an issue where the Custom Brush Editor would not function when viewing the Guest Management menu while it is open

• Conservation projects are now accessible from the HUD when in a zoo

• Added a notification when keepers are tasked to prepare food but no keeper hut is available

• Fixed an issue where pressing the ESC key while in the Nature Brush menu will cause the brushes to disappear

• Resolved an issue where placed Raisin Bushes (4m Strip) moved every time the game was reloaded - View on Issue Tracker

• Guests no longer get stuck on benches with 0% energy

• Caretakers and educators now no longer use benches

• The correct axis icon is now highlighted when opening the Advanced Move option

• Added missing species tags and Overview panel for "Fruit Dish" enrichment item

• Fixed tooltips persisting in the Management menu

• The object browser now makes it clearer when filters are active

• Minimum queue path width is now 2m

• The ESC button will now deselect a selected item before closing a menu

• Muted the notification for flourishing animals

• The Path tool scale slider now works correctly when using feet unit - View on Issue Tracker

Settings

• Added the ability to rebind First Person and Buggy controls

• Added an Autosave Frequency slider to settings menu

• A QR code linking to Update Notes has been added to the main menu

Gamepad

• Fixed the inability to select "Travel to Wildlife Reserve" option in the Planet Hub's Release Group menu

• Added the ability to Quick Adopt animals in the trading menu with Gamepad

• Fixed several gamepad inputs not working on certain menus

• Resolved an incorrect path option being selected when navigating path customisation options

Localisation

• Resolved the "Exit Group Button" text extending off screen in some languages preventing players from exiting Group Edit Mode - View on Issue Tracker

Misc

• Unbound button prompts will no longer appear in game

• Resolved the "Did you know?" achievement not unlocking after meeting the requirements - View on Issue Tracker

Platform Specific

• Steamdeck

  • Fixed a crash when placing a utility while using Proton Experimental branch