Jurassic World Evolution 3’s Rebirth Expansion is Out Now, New Patch Brings Fixes, Improvements

The Rebirth expansion for Jurassic World Evolution 3 is now available! A big update has also been released for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S to prepare the game for all the new content. You can watch the new trailer below. The Rebirth expansion costs $24.99, €24.99, or £19.99 and introduces creatures like the Distortus Rex and the Mutadon.

Frontier Developments announced that the Distortus Rex is a brand new dinosaur in Jurassic World Evolution 3. It’s particularly dangerous, with unique attack animations and a very aggressive nature, so players will need to design its enclosure carefully.

The Mutadon is a highly adaptable creature capable of moving both on land and in the air. It hunts with skills similar to those of Velociraptors and Pterosaurs, and the developers warn that it will be very difficult for players to capture.

Alongside these discoveries are several Titanosaur families, including a young one, plus the newly identified Aquilops.

I’m really excited about Jurassic World Evolution 3: Rebirth! They’re adding a whole new campaign that’s based on the story from the Jurassic World Rebirth movie. Basically, I’ll get to dive into research and build this secret facility across three different locations. Plus, there’s new tech to help me handle all the new dinosaurs. And the best part? Completing the campaign unlocks cool new blueprints and scenery to decorate my park with!

Okay, so the new expansion is really leaning into the movie’s vibe! They’re adding a ton of awesome skins – I’m talking for the T-Rex, Spinosaurus, Mosasaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, Dilophosaurus, and even the Velociraptor. And it’s not just the dinos getting a makeover! My vehicles are getting some love too, with these cool Rebirth-themed skins for the SUV, MVU, ATV, and all the helicopters. It’s gonna look epic!

The latest update to Jurassic World Evolution 3 improves how Aviaries function. Players now have more freedom when shaping the terrain, and flying creatures like Pterosaurs can move around environments more naturally – allowing for more creative and visually appealing enclosures. The update also brings back the Cearadtylus family unit, giving players even more options for building out their Aviaries.

We’ve added a fun new feature to the park: adult Tyrannosaurus Rexes can now swim! This means you can include deeper water features in their enclosures. You can find a complete list of changes in the 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

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
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

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

2026-06-16 18:19

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