The Rebirth expansion for park management sim Jurassic World Evolution 3 is out now. Accompanying the expansion is a major update that gets the title ready for all of the new content across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, as well as a new trailer, which you can check out below. The Rebirth expansion is priced at $24.99 / €24.99 / £19.99, and features new creatures, like the Distortus Rex and the Mutadon.
Developer Frontier Developments has confirmed that the Distortus Rex is the first creature of its kind to come to Jurassic World Evolution 3, and even features unique kill animations, as well as a high level of aggression. This means that players will want to be careful about the kind of enclosure they build for it.
The Mutadon, on the other hand, has been described as a versatile species that can travel through land and air. It is also equipped with the same hunting abilities as the Velociraptor and the Pterosaur, and the studio has noted that players will have a hard time figuring out how to contain it.
Joining the two are the family units of the Titanosaurus, which also includes a new juvenile variant, and the new Aquilops.
Jurassic World Evolution 3: Rebirth will also feature an entirely new campaign with a story inspired by the events of the film Jurassic World Rebirth. In this campaign, players will get to partake in research and build out a top-secret facility across three locations. Players will also get access to new technology that will help them manage the new predators. Playing through this campaign will offer new facility blueprints and scenery pieces as rewards.
The expansion also ties further into the movie with the addition of a host of new skins for Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus, Mosasaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, Dilophosaurus, and Velociraptor. Vehicles aren’t being left behind either, with new Rebirth-themed skins for the SUV, MVU, ATV, and helicopters.
As for the update, Jurassic World Evolution 3 gets changes to how its Aviaries work. Restrictions on terrain editing have been relaxed. Creatures like the Pterosaurs can now also more freely navigate around, under, and through scenery, which opens up options for players to make their enclosures more visually interesting. To further encourage building out your Aviary, the update also marks the return of the Cearadtylus family unit.
Adding more whimsy to your park, Tyrannosaurus Rex adults can now benefit from water bodies being in their enclosures thanks to their ability to swim through deep water. For more details about the update, check out the full patch notes below.
For more on Jurassic World Evolution 3, check out our review of the base game.
Jurassic World Evolution 3 update 1.3.3 patch notes:
New Family Unit – Cearadactylus.
- Introduced a new family unit to the game – Cearadactylus.
Tyrannosaurus rex Swimming Behaviour
- Tyrannosaurus rex adults can now swim through deep water
Aviary Improvements
- The Cretaceous Cruise can now pass through Aviaries, allowing your guests to observe flying species from the attraction
- Terrain Editing restrictions have been greatly relaxed within Aviaries
Pterosaur Improvements
- Pterosaurs can now navigate more freely under, around or through large scenery blueprints where space allows
- Two new custom perch points can be placed, or added to scenery and blueprints, allowing flying species to perch anywhere
Scenery & Blueprint Menus
- Scenery items can now be favourited for quick access
- A ‘Favourites’ section will appear at the top of each scenery category if favourited scenery items exist there
- The Blueprints menu is now filterable to help find similar items or themes quickly
Handheld Flare for Rangers
- Ranger teams in 4x4s now have access to a handheld flare to lure or repel dinosaurs with
- Carnivores and armoured herbivores will be drawn towards the flare, while herbivores will run from it
Drone Additions
- The land hatchery now has a drone, and a ‘Deep Analyser’ tool has been added to all hatchery drones – land, lagoon, and aviary
- Using the Deep Analyser tool will reward you with cash and genome points when scanning species
New Scenery Items
- A number of existing grid-based scenery walls have had non-grid versions added, alongside some new scenery pieces:
- Biosyn Wall Copper 01
- Biosyn Wall Powdercoat 01
- EU Brick 02
- EU Wall Plaster 01
- EU Wall Stone 01
- Hatchery door
- JW Wall Concrete 01, 02 & 03
- JW Wall Corrugated 01 & 02
- JW Wall Glass 01
- JW Wall Panel 01 & 02
- JW Wall Wooden 01 & 02
- New rock colour for existing rock set
Scenery Daytime Lighting
- An option has been added to allow scenery lights to be turned on during daytime
New Achievements
- Two new public and one new secret achievement have been added to all platforms
Bug Fixes
Campaign
- The objective to move Stegosaurus within the Katsuyama Campaign level can now be completed with a Ranger Teams ‘send’ command
- Territory now forms as expected on returning to the Nevada Campaign level after repairing fences and returning species to their enclosures
- Fanfare for achieving five stars in the Badlands Campaign level, and subsequent Velociraptor statue unlock, now correctly triggers
- It is now much clearer as to which species are required to complete the five star objective in the Sichuan Basin Campaign map
- Species that are no longer needed for objectives can now be rewilded in Campaign
- Resolved a blocker when re-playing the Hawaii Campaign level if the ‘Egg Mountain’ digsite had already been fully depleted
- Lokiceratops is now translated in all instances within the first Campaign level
- The Riverside Laboratory opening cut-scene now uses the correct Tyrannosaurus rex model variant
Sandbox
- Weather events can now be toggled off in sandbox maps
- The water slider no longer affects the shape of generated mountains when using the Island Generator
- ‘Task Time’ Sandbox option now affects the duration of breeding programmes, nest egg incubation and nest cooldowns
- ‘Target Income’ Sandbox setting has been removed, and other sandbox settings reworded to make it clearer on what settings affect Park Metrics
- Capture mode camera can now be positioned lower than sea level on Malta Sandbox and Island Generator maps
- ‘Dinosaur Lifespan’ Sandbox setting description has been updated to more accurately reflect its affects in game
- Staff Centre build limit can now be exceeded with the ‘Operations Building Limits’ Sandbox setting turned off
- Expedition map now automatically closes after sending out an expedition when the ‘Scientists’ Sandbox setting is set to off
Challenge
- Updated the Challenge pause menu settings to reflect that time-of-day options are exclusive to Sandbox levels only
Park Management
- Resolved an issue causing the Visitor Centres second upgrade slot to not function as intended
- Transporting and placing a flying species directly over an Aviary Dome will now send them to the closest hatchery attached to that Aviary Dome
- Scientists can now be rested directly from the task assignment screen
- Text has been added to explain why the ‘Rewild’ option is greyed out for Hybrids when selecting them for transport
- Vehicles can now be manually repaired at the facility which they belong to
- The research option for ‘Park Team Upgrades’ now only requires three operations buildings with vehicles present to unlock
- Updated the ‘Private Egg Offer!’ narrative event sabotage risk amount
- Additional information has been added to the Dinosaur Marketplace help screen explaining that the stock available is based on park rating and thus grows with more appealing entries as your park rating does
- If the ‘Operations Building Limit’ Sandbox setting is set to off, operations buildings will now show a functional limit instead of an operational building limit
- Resolved an issue where the Activity Centre blueprint variants were not showing accurate guest information when previewing the building before placement
- The cost of moving and detaching a building from a fence is now accurately displayed before the buildings placement
- The Dinosaur Encounter attraction now closes if there is a storm or terrorising dinosaurs within the park
- Guests on benches and chairs now disappear when Shelters are open, and when threatening dinosaurs and storms are present
Dinosaurs
- Increased the frequency with which flying species are able to break out of Aviary Domes
- Resolved some animation issues when Atrociraptor fights Pachycephalosaurus
- Dinosaur charges and attacks against vehicles have been re-balanced to improve chase frequency and the damage dealt to vehicles if an attack is successful
- Protoceratops and Chasmosaurus now appear in the correct size categories within the hatchery
- Improved a number of Majungasaurus fighting animations that were misaligned or not triggering correctly
- Shortened the distance between the Cryolophosaurus and goat carcasses when eating
- Cryolophosaurus now aligns more accurately with the fence when performing a fence attack
- Resolved an animation issue where the Giganotosaurus was misaligned when hunting Corythosaurus
- Yutyrannus and Parasaurolophus male patterns are no longer set to blank by default
- Resolved multiple animation issues where Deinocheirus’ fight finisher did not resolve correctly
- Dinosaurs no longer occasionally use land based attacks on the Cretaceous Cruise while swimming in water
- Resolved issue where a species’ territory would be removed and reformed when entering the Dinosaur Encounter attraction
- Quetzalcoatlus no longer clips into the ground as it takes off
- Protoceratops is now classed as ‘small’ when filtering by size within a land Hatchery
- Lokiceratops is now classed as ‘medium’ when filtering by size within a land Hatchery
- Indoraptor now requires Indominus rex DNA to become available for synthesis
- Resolved a rare issue where dinosaurs could lose all of their territory and be unable to regain it, causing their comfort level to drop
- Dilophosaurus female Rana pattern has been updated to visually align it with its other patterns
- Resolved a rare issue where dinosaurs would sometimes stop forming territory
- Archaeornithomimus hatchery release animation no longer clips into the ground when releasing a large clutch
- Adult Deinocheirus now loose comfort if their juveniles are missing from their enclosure
- Irritator’s tongue no longer clips into its lower mouth when roaring
- Carnivore feeders can now be placed inside aviary domes
- Compatibility and fertility traits have been removed for Hybrid species as they could not use them
- Semi-aquatic species now attack the Cretaceous Cruise when swimming deep water
- Resolved issue causing Caiuajara and Tapepjara fights to be offset
- Mutadon can now be tranquilized when attacking a helicopter
- Resolved an issue with the Mutadons jump attack that would see it thrown off of prey unnaturally
- Fixed an occasional issue where the Mutadon may appear to walk into the ground when attempting to evade being tranquilized by an ACU team
- Resolved an issue where Pachycephalosaurus would appear floating above ground, or get stuck within the hatchery, when being released from a hatchery
- Spinosaurus Rebirth model variant no longer distorts when during it’s fight finish animation
- Resolved an occasional issue where some species would stop forming territory, or reacting to changes within their territory, when loading a save made on a previous version of the game
Park Construction
- The sorting of various building blueprint menus has been improved
- Improved ability to select scenery within an aviary
- If a scenery piece is selected with the scenery build menu open, then deselects the scenery piece, the player is now returned to the scenery build menu
- Terrain modification fidelity is greatly improved when placing a Cretaceous Cruise to prevent parts of the building from being placed in water
- Scenery pieces within a group can now be duplicated if another scenery piece was previously selected from the same group
- Environment brushes can now paint the edges of aviary domes
- The Carnotaurus statue now has teeth
- Fixed an issue where trying to place a building with guest connections to another building would decouple the mouse from the building on placement failure
- The path ‘Adjust Terrain’ setting no longer allows for terrain manipulation beneath dinosaurs, which would cause them to deform
- Fixed an issue where moving and then undoing the movement of a substation would not reconnect the power
- Flying species will no longer use Custom Perch Points if placed in water
- Floor heights around buildings and fences now correctly set the terrain height to match when placed
Controls & Accessibility
- Scenery category menus no longer reset the scroll to the top when reentering the menu after placing a scenery item or blueprint with a gamepad
- Resolved a gamepad issue where time controls would be temporarily unusable when opening them after placing scenery
- The ‘N’ key can now be rebound in the Mouse and Keyboard Settings
- First time user screen setup has been improved on some platforms
- HDR brightness can now be adjusted within the ‘Screen Setup’ settings
- When a facility is selected through a shortcut, on selecting a vehicle and then backing out, the facility will now be selected without the camera focusing on it
- Resolved an issue where the research node selector was unresponsive when initially using a d-pad to navigate the research screen
- Using a d-pad to navigate the building blueprint menu no longer snaps back to the previously selected blueprint
- Site map icon scaling has been improved for ultra-wide monitor configurations
- Minimum zoom levels are now consistent across both the Standard and Placement cameras
- Build menu filters for some build menus has been replaced in favour of a more useful search bar when using a gamepad
- Resolved an issue where placing a blueprint with ‘Advanced Move’ that does not contain any grid objects could cause the camera to quickly move across the map when the blueprint is placed
UI
- Species no longer appear as elderly when their lifespan is set to unlimited in sandbox
- Biosyn Capture Team and MVU skins now show the correct preview images when selected
- Tooltips for required modules no longer block placement when constructing custom buildings
- Search terms are now retained after closing and reopening the scenery menu
- Searching the build menu now returns more accurate results when searching partial terms
- Storm warnings and notifications now clear much sooner once a storm ends
- Various sub-menus have been cleaned up of redundant scroll bars where not needed
- Icons directing you to photograph sick dinosaurs are now removed when disabling the ‘Research’ setting in Sandbox
- Paleoecology text within all species biography tab is no longer cut off when using the ‘capitalise all’ option
- Improved clarity of how reputation gains are displayed within the nest menu
- Hover tool tips are no longer triggered through terrain
- Hatcheries now retain your previous species selection when re-entering a hatchery after selecting a species for synthesis
- Dinosaur tooltip is no longer empty in the Site Map if visible before the Site Map is opened
- Resting scientists are no longer sorted to the top of the scientist management screen
- Sorting functionality has been improved when assigning scientists to a task
- The information presented when assigning scientists to expedition and fossil extraction tasks is now much clearer
- Resolved an issue where clearing a search filter allowed decorative items to be selected behind the filter menu
- The fossil icon for the Guanlong now has its tail facing the correct way
- Gates no longer have the option to be closed during a sabotage event
- A pop-up now notifies player how much they will be charged for replacing a contract
- Resolved an issue on gamepad where the carnivore feeder preview persisted when switching to the water or painting environment brush tabs
Audio
- Improved timing of Majungasaurus Juvenile foot placement audio
- Audio is now clearer when Majungasaurus is tranquilized
- Sirens now sound out when Emergency Shelters are opened in Sandbox levels
Workshop
- The ‘Create Frontier Account’ button no longer becomes disabled immediately after a failed password creation attempt
- Backing out of a creators list of creations through a featured creation now loads back into the creators profile without issue
- Workshop filters which are shared between categories will be retained when switching tabs
- Resolved an issue where workshop creator tags were missing from tiles in the browse menu after a second interaction with the search bar
- Fixed downloaded workshop substations not appearing in the building menu
- Fixed an issue with workshop items only retaining 255 characters when re-uploading a creation
Stability & Performance
- Resolved an issue where input responsiveness could be affected when placing down a community creation
- Resolved an issue that prevented path connections to the arrival point from being recognized when loading a park
- Fixed an issue where storm VFX and SFX would be missing when loading a save taken as the storm begins
- Fixed an issue with a “moire/interference” pattern like issue showing on the ground in the distance for some graphics settings
- Fixed an infrequent crash when confirming dinosaur marketplace deliveries near park infrastructure buildings
- Frame Rate no longer drops when previewing the placement of a blueprint after previewing the placement a scenery piece
- Resolved a crash when the timer would run out in the Hawaii Challenge level on Jurassic difficulty without completing all objectives.
- General performance and stability improvements
Localisation & Text
- Added translation for Iguanodontian in the species cohabitation menu
- Scenery options for casting light being ‘on, off, or dynamic’ are now worded more clearly
- ‘Rewild Fee’ header is no longer truncated within the dinosaur information panel
- ‘Contraceptives Applied’ no longer overlaps with other UI elements in the dinosaur information panel
- Guest desire icons no longer overlap text in the guest attractions menu
- Resolved an issue with overflowing text in the environment panel when viewing a feeder
- Removed repeated text from the ‘Park Tours’ overview text
- The ‘Intelligent Trait’ help screen now more accurately reflects how the trait works in game
- The text for the ‘Storm Defence’ building upgrade now more accurately reflects the upgrade itself
- The word ‘Fountain’ is now usable in all languages when searching for scenery
- Added default name for ‘Scenery Path Seating 3’ blueprint
- Missing text has been added when hovering over plant foliage within the environment brush menu
- The ‘Unable to Research’ text is no longer truncated in multiple places when the ‘Capitalize All’ accessibility setting is enabled
- Fixed some scientist descriptions overrunning the UI when ‘Capitalize All’ accessibility setting is enabled
- Biography text for some dinosaurs is no longer cut off at the bottom in some languages
