An autosave slider might be the least glamorous thing in a zoo game, but it’s one of my favorite additions in Planet Zoo 2 update 1.0.10. Frontier released the patch on November 9, 2026, with fixes for animal care, building tools, and a crash that kept some zoos from opening. Here are the changes I’d check first before getting back to a build.
Deep water counts correctly for beaver habitats
The patch fixes how the game calculates deep water space, an issue Frontier says notably affected the Eurasian beaver. If a habitat’s numbers seemed stuck, there’s a separate fix for terrain requirements that could stop updating. I’d check those readouts again before reworking the whole enclosure.
Frontier also addressed cases where aquatic animals got stuck, improved underwater navigation for Asian small-clawed otters, and fixed mating animations for several fish and rays. Birds should stay within their habitats when perching near walls in cases where they previously clipped through.
Deluxe animals are easier to adopt in Franchise
Deluxe animals now require only Level 1 Accreditation to acquire in Franchise mode. That gives players who own those animals more room to plan a zoo around them early on. Frontier is exploring more control over accreditation and animal unlocks for a future update.
There are fixes for staff who kept walking with boxed animals and for cases where staff and animals got stuck after a transfer from quarantine to the trade center. Keepers replace habitat food more often, and the game now tells you when a keeper needs to prepare food but has no keeper hut available. Guest visits to shops and restaurants have also been adjusted.
Shelters are easier to find and paths scale correctly in feet
Shelter blueprints now show up under Shelters, and the path scale slider works correctly when measurements are set to feet. Frontier also fixed a bug that made four meter strips of raisin bushes shift on reload. That last one is the sort of detail I appreciate most. If I’ve taken the time to line up the landscaping, I want it to be there when I come back.
An autosave slider and a fix for zoos that crashed on load
The new Autosave Frequency slider in Settings lets you choose how often the game saves automatically. Workshop saves and autosaves in Sandbox also show up with the other saves for the current location.
Frontier fixed a crash that stopped some zoos from loading and suggests retrying a save that was affected. The team is still working on animal movement, repeated boxing, and other save issues. Read Frontier’s full 1.0.10 patch notes on Steam.
If you’d shelved a zoo because it wouldn’t open, I hope you can pick it back up. For my next build, the first thing I’d do is set the autosave interval before getting lost in the landscaping. Browse more cozy gaming posts on SIXAMcc.
