Known issues
Problems Frontier is looking into in Planet Zoo 2, the fixes that came with Update 1.0.8 and Frontier's workarounds.
Status of 29 Oct 2026
Version 1.0.8
Last status
29 Oct 2026
Fixed in 1.0.8
11
Being looked into
7
Current version
1.0.8
Being looked into for later updates
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| Animals are boxed more often than usual. | |
| Badly wrong animal animations, such as moves that should not be possible and stiff rigs. | |
| Managing exhibit populations automatically. | Exhibit animals |
| More control over the seasons in Sandbox. | Sandbox presets and settings |
| Guest behaviour, such as how guests use restaurants. | |
| Seasonal clothing for guests and staff. | |
| More Sandbox maps, starting with North American Grasslands. | Sandbox presets and settings |
Fixed in Update 1.0.8
Frontier listed these on 23 October 2026 as in testing. Update 1.0.8 fixed them on 29 October.
Stability and performance
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| A number of crashes. | |
| Several stability and performance problems. |
Saves
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| Clearer save screens that show which saves are in each location, so progress is less likely to be overwritten. |
Franchise, Sandbox and Career
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| Sumatra Reserve: the player could get stuck when receiving the gifted group of Asian Small-Clawed Otters. | Mine Your Business |
| The Sandbox setting that stops injuries from fights will also stop animals from arriving injured from Trading. | Sandbox presets and settings |
Park management and construction
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| Downloaded Workshop habitat blueprints with research-locked items show in the Franchise blueprints tab, marked as needing research. | |
| Items placed earlier no longer line up wrongly when they are in different groups. |
Animals and exhibits
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| Some species get stuck spinning on the spot. | |
| Male animals are sometimes shown as pregnant. | Breeding and Lifespan |
| A notification when an animal has finished quarantine. | |
| Some animals, mostly birds, set off escape notifications while still inside their habitat. |
Not named as fixed in Update 1.0.8
Frontier listed these on 23 October 2026 as in testing. The 1.0.8 notes do not name them as fixed, and Frontier's status of 29 October does not list them.
| Change | Page |
|---|---|
| Exhibit species can reproduce straight away. | Exhibit animals |
| More changes to exhibit breeding so that it happens less often. | Exhibit animals |
| The Play Soundtrack in Pause Mode Only setting. | |
| ESC first deselects items before it closes menus. |
Until the fix
| Problem | What Frontier says |
|---|---|
| Resume on a Franchise save shows a connection error | Install Hotfix 1.0.7. Without it, restart the game and start the mode with its own button on the main menu instead of Resume. |
| Connection errors in Franchise mode | A VPN can cause connection problems, most of all in Franchise mode. |
| Username blocked by the name filter | Frontier emailed the affected players on 22 October 2026 from [email protected]. |
| Any other bug | Report it on Frontier's issue tracker. |
Ongoing work
Areas Frontier keeps improving because the simulation is complex, as named in Update 1.0.8.
| Change |
|---|
| Animal climbing, jumping and pouncing. |
| Animals that do not line up with their enrichment. |
| Animals escaping from habitats during some behaviours. |
| The core creative tools. |
| Guest behaviour. |
| Animals that are boxed and unboxed again and again. |
| Problems that affect saved games. |