Creatures 3/Troubleshooting

My eggs won't hatch!
If you have an egg that won't hatch, and you can't put it into the incubator, you may have reached either the creature limit or the breeding limit in your world. In Docking Station, you can increase these limits using the middle side panel. Raising the limit will allow the eggs to hatch, but of course the more creatures you have, the greater a tax the game is on your system resources.

Technical
Sometimes upon starting the game you may get an error message like "Failed to create server thread", after which the game aborts. It may happen a couple of times in a row, and if it doesn't stop, try rebooting. It should not be a permanent problem requiring reinstallation, however.

If you see an agent suddenly disappear, it was probably autokilled. This means there was a problem with the machine. Either the agent is buggy (shouldn't happen with official agents), or in the case of the Egg Layer or the Creator, there's a problem with the agents that can be created (files may be missing, for instance).

If you uninstall Creatures 3, be sure that you delete everything in  (or wherever you installed the game) before reinstalling. If you don't, it's likely the Egg Layer or Creator machines won't work. And of course, be sure to install the version 1.2 patch afterwards. This procedure probably isn't necessary for Docking Station, or if you are running an unpatched version of the game.