Update 14 is coming next month on April 24! An early version of this release will be available on the Public Testing Branch starting April 2, allowing the team to gather bug reports while we polish Update 14 and add the last few assets. Baby Animals & Seamless Growth
The headline features for Update 14 are the brand new baby animals and their seamless growth systems, allowing players to watch their animals morph and change in real time! It was important to us that babies weren’t simply scaled down adults. Throughout their life, they’ll adjust their size, proportions, colors, sounds and even behavior over time. We’ve been working hard to create a new set of animations and sounds exclusively for use by the babies.Seamless growth will be available for all of our current and future species, excluding any Mini-Exhibit or Terrarium bound creatures like the tiny Archaeopteryx and Microraptor. - INCUBATION
From the Animal Nursery, players can choose to incubate their animals from any age, easily allowing them to create babies, adults or anything in between.You can also pick the maximum maturity of an animal, too! This means that as an animal grows up, it can continue to look young despite its age increasing. - BABY BEHAVIORS
Depending on the species, babies will instinctively seek out a parent to adopt them! They’ll try to stick close to their guardian, or if unable to find one, stay with other unadopted babies as a clutch.At the end of Early Access, we would like to include breeding as a mechanic that adult animals can use to create natural offspring.
First Person Mode allows players to experience their park from a whole new perspective, dropping down to the eye level of a human. In this mode, players can run, jump and crouch like you’d expect from any other first person game. We even added a few interactions like sitting in benches, opening/closing habitat gates and looking through binoculars to see what your guests see! The full patch notes will be available once the update goes live. See you soon, park managers!