2023+ DLC ideas to fill our rosters...

Gerrit Wehrenberg

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Adjusted DLC ideas after the release of Planet Zoo: Zookeepers Animal Pack

Those fictional packs in their amout are unlikely, but it was officially confirmed, that there will be at least one more Animal Pack after the Zookeepers Animals Pack. So here we go. We got some animals that were included in my formerly presented fictional packs. So, I adjusted my ideas to cover generally highly requested taxa and a higher phylogenetic/biogeographic diversity. Even though I mainly follow the pattern of releasing only Animal Packs lately, I added new features per pack, that makes the gameplay a bit more exiting. Aviaries and marine content might be the selling point for a hypothetical Planet Zoo 2. Feel free to play withthose ideas.

Changes are marked in green.

Animal Packs:
Planet Zoo: Polar Animal Pack
  • (Pacific) Walrus
  • (Alaskan) Sea otter
  • Northern fur seal
  • Musk ox
  • Tundra hare
  • Rockhopper penguin
  • Southern elephant seal
  • Sibirian flying squirrel (walkthrough exhibit)
new food items: shell basket, shells in ice block
new objects: animal signs
new plants: kelp, white dryas, Antarctic hair grass
new features: cold breath of warm-blooded animimal species and humans in cold temperatures; hair movement in the wind (musk ox)

Planet Zoo: Montane Animal Pack
  • Yak
  • Kiang
  • Golden snub-nosed monkey
  • Mountain goat
  • Alpine marmot
  • Gelada
  • Vicuña
  • Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
new objects: animal signs; prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack
new plant: common rhododendron, edelweiss, giant lobelia

Planet Zoo: Island Animal Pack
  • Aye-aye
  • Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  • Celebes crested macaque
  • Japanese giant salamander
  • Nēnē
  • Kagu
  • Lowland anoa
  • Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs; island signs that coveres in-game insular species of the (New Zealand, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Hawaii; Sulawesi, Borneo, Komodo, ...)
new food item: trunk with larvae
new plants: Cook pine, Madagascar ocotillo, Madagascar palm, traveller's palm, vulcan palm

Planet Zoo: Temperate Animal Pack
  • Short-beaked echidna
  • Père David's deer
  • Mandarin duck
  • Southern pudu
  • Patagonian mara
  • Greater rhea
  • Wild turkey
  • Tuatara (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs
new plants: yellow pitcherplant

Planet Zoo: Canopy Animal Pack
  • Red-faced spider monkey
  • South American coati
  • Ocelot
  • Southern tamandua
  • North American porcupine
  • Guereza
  • Roloway monkey
  • Madagascar giant day gecko (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs
new plants: meranti, camphor tree, moabi, mora, tualang, big-leaf mahogany
improvements: smoothing of climing system, new climbing animations for sifaka

Planet Zoo: Equatorial Animal Pack
  • Shoebill
  • Gerenuk
  • Black crowned crane
  • Gaur
  • Nilgai
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Greater bilby
  • Indian cobra (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs
new plants: queen sago, thatch screwpine, welwitschia, kakao
new feature: parental animals carry offspring (anteaters, primates, sloth bear, opossum, sea otter, etc)

Packs:
Planet Zoo: Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  • Secretary bird (Africa)
  • Colombian red howler (South America)
  • Great white pelican (Eurasia)
  • Virginia opossum (North America)
  • Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new objects: animal signs; big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every exiting building theme
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
new features: toggle option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour; 'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors); research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits) etc.

Anniversary animals:
  • Blackbuck
  • Golden pheasant
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here the former DLC ideas from the 29th July 2023:

Adjusted DLC ideas after the announcement of Planet Zoo: Tropical Pack and Planet Zoo: Arid Animal Pack

We got some animals that were included in my fictional packs. The 'Tropical Rainforest Animal Pack' and ‘Desert Animal Pack’ will be redundant. Some others seem very unlikely for Planet Zoo now ... let's see if there might another unexpectedly themed DLC!

Changes are marked in green.

Animal Packs:
Polar Animal Pack
  • Walrus
  • Sea otter
  • Musk ox
  • Wolverine
  • Tundra hare
  • Rockhopper penguin
  • Southern elephant seal
  • Eurasian flying squirrel (walkthrough exhibit)
additional food items: shell basket, shells in ice block
hair movement in the wind (musk ox)

Montane Animal Pack
  • Yak
  • Markhor
  • Pallas's cat
  • Gelada
  • Spectacled bear
  • Vicuña
  • Puna rhea
  • Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
Prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack

Island Animal Pack
  • North Island brown kiwi
  • Antillean manatee
  • Coquerel's sifaka
  • Aye-aye
  • Japanese giant salamander
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  • Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
signs of the covered islands (New Zealand, Carribbean, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea)
additional items/functions: aquatic keepers platform to add a keeper gate in a fully aquatic habitat build.
additional food item: earth worms, trunk with larvae, floating salat

considering the pattern of former packs and the uniqueness of many animal rigs/animations the manatee might be replaced by the Cuban flamingo, which would be easier to develop...

Packs:
Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  • Secretary bird (Africa)
  • Takin (Eurasia)
  • American white pelican (North America)
  • South American coati (South America)
  • Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
toggle option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour
'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors)
items: big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every exiting building theme
research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits)
etc.

Expansion Packs:
Aviary Expansion Pack
Marine Expansion Pack
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
here the former DLC ideas from the 12th of April 2023:

Adjusted DLC ideas after the announcement of Planet Zoo: Tropical Pack

We got some animals that were included in my 'Tropical Rainforest Animal Pack' and even the Fossa which I put in the 'Island Animal Pack'. Some others seem very unlikely for Planet Zoo now ... let's see if there might another unexpectedly themed DLC! But we got seemingly amazing Southeast Asian-themed scenery items!

Changes are marked in green.

Animal Packs:
Polar Animal Pack
  • Walrus
  • Sea otter
  • Musk ox
  • Wolverine
  • Tundra hare
  • Rockhopper penguin
  • Southern elephant seal
  • Eurasian flying squirrel (walkthrough exhibit)
additional food items: shell basket, shells in ice block
hair movement in the wind (musk ox)

Montane Animal Pack
  • Yak
  • Markhor
  • Pallas's cat
  • Gelada
  • Spectacled bear
  • Vicuña
  • Puna rhea
  • Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
Prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack

Desert Animal Pack
  • Dromedary
  • Addax
  • African spurred tortoise
  • Secretary bird
  • Collared peccary
  • Short-beaked echidna
  • Bilby
  • Frilled lizard (exhibit animal)
toggle option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour

Island Animal Pack
  • North Island brown kiwi
  • Antillean manatee
  • Coquerel's sifaka
  • Aye-aye
  • Japanese giant salamander
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  • Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
signs of the covered islands (New Zealand, Carribbean, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea)
additional items/functions: aquatic keepers platform to add a keeper gate in a fully aquatic habitat build.
additional food item: earth worms, trunk with larvae, floating salat

Packs:
Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  • Black rhinoceros (Africa)
  • Indian crested porcupine (Eurasia)
  • American white pelican (North America)
  • South American coati (South America)
  • Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors)
items: big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every exiting building theme
research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits)
etc.

Expansion Packs:
Aviary Expansion Pack
Marine Expansion Pack
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
here the former DLC ideas from the 12th of January 2023:
Animal Packs:
Polar Animal Pack
  1. Walrus
  2. Sea otter
  3. Musk ox
  4. Wolverine
  5. Tundra hare
  6. Rockhopper penguin
  7. Southern elephant seal
  8. Atlantic puffin (walkthrough exhibit with addable cliffs, wind turbines, kelp, underwater toys and tanks (maybe into ground or/and underwater tunnel option))
additional food items: shell basket, shells in ice block

Tropical Rainforest Animal Pack
  1. Two-toed sloth
  2. Southern tamandua
  3. Ocelot
  4. Red howler monkey
  5. Mantled guereza
  6. Red river hog
  7. Shoebill
  8. Flying dragon (walkthrough exhibit, with addable tree trunks)
additional brachiation for sloth, tamandua, orang-utan and howler monkey also at thin building pieces (not at planks etc. and not only at brachiation frames)

Montane Animal Pack
  1. Yak
  2. Markhor
  3. Pallas's cat
  4. Gelada
  5. Spectacled bear
  6. Vicuña
  7. Puna rhea
  8. Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
Prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack

Desert Animal Pack
  1. Dromedary
  2. Addax
  3. African spurred tortoise
  4. Secretary bird
  5. Persian onager
  6. Collared peccary
  7. Bilby
  8. Frilled lizard (exhibit animal)
option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour

Island Animal Pack
  1. North Island brown kiwi
  2. Fossa
  3. Coquerel's sifaka
  4. Aye-aye
  5. Japanese giant salamander
  6. Tasmanian devil
  7. Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  8. Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
signs of the covered islands (New Zealand, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea)
additional food item: earth worms

Packs:
Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  1. Black rhinoceros (Africa)
  2. Indian crested porcupine (Eurasia)
  3. American white pelican (North America)
  4. South American coati (South America)
  5. Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors)
items: big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every building theme
research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits)
etc.

Expansion Packs:
Aviary Expansion Pack
Marine Expansion Pack
 
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Fallax

Fallax
Something cool could be a "pole to pole" pack which could have animals from different latitudes:

  1. Arctic Circle
  2. Northern Temperate
  3. Northern Subtropics
  4. Equatorial Tropics
  5. Southern Subtropics
  6. Southern Temperate
  7. Antarctica
  8. Exhibit: A passerine walkthrough featuring a bird from each latitude perhaps?
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

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Animal Packs:
Polar Animal Pack
  1. Walrus
  2. Sea otter
  3. Musk ox
  4. Wolverine
  5. Tundra hare
  6. Rockhopper penguin
  7. Southern elephant seal
  8. Atlantic puffin (walkthrough exhibit with addable cliffs, wind turbines, kelp, underwater toys and tanks (maybe into ground or/and underwater tunnel option))
additional food items: shell basket, shells in ice block
Click to expand...

A cool and maybe easier to implement alternative to the Atlantic puffin would be the Eurasian flying squirrel as a walkthrough exhibit animal. It got quite popular through social media due to it's cute look.
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
Adjusted DLC ideas after the announcement of Planet Zoo: Tropical Pack

We got some animals that were included in my 'Tropical Rainforest Animal Pack' and even the Fossa which I put in the 'Island Animal Pack'. Some others seem very unlikely for Planet Zoo now ... let's see if there might another unexpectedly themed DLC! But we got seemingly amazing Southeast Asian-themed scenery items!

Changes are marked in green.

Animal Packs:
Polar Animal Pack
  • Walrus
  • Sea otter
  • Musk ox
  • Wolverine
  • Tundra hare
  • Rockhopper penguin
  • Southern elephant seal
  • Eurasian flying squirrel (walkthrough exhibit)
additional food items: shell basket, shells in ice block

Montane Animal Pack
  • Yak
  • Markhor
  • Pallas's cat
  • Gelada
  • Spectacled bear
  • Vicuña
  • Puna rhea
  • Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
Prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack

Desert Animal Pack
  • Dromedary
  • Addax
  • African spurred tortoise
  • Secretary bird
  • Collared peccary
  • Short-beaked echidna
  • Bilby
  • Frilled lizard (exhibit animal)
toggle option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour

Island Animal Pack
  • North Island brown kiwi
  • Antillean manatee
  • Coquerel's sifaka
  • Aye-aye
  • Japanese giant salamander
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  • Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
signs of the covered islands (New Zealand, Carribbean, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea)
additional items/functions: aquatic keepers platform to add a keeper gate in a fully aquatic habitat build.
additional food item: earth worms, trunk with larvae, floating salat

Packs:
Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  • Black rhinoceros (Africa)
  • Indian crested porcupine (Eurasia)
  • American white pelican (North America)
  • South American coati (South America)
  • Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors)
items: big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every exiting building theme
research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits)
etc.

Expansion Packs:
Aviary Expansion Pack
Marine Expansion Pack
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
Adjusted DLC ideas after the announcement of Planet Zoo: Tropical Pack and Planet Zoo: Arid Animal Pack

We got some animals that were included in my fictional packs. The 'Tropical Rainforest Animal Pack' and ‘Desert Animal Pack’ will be redundant. Some others seem very unlikely for Planet Zoo now ... let's see if there might another unexpectedly themed DLC!

Changes are marked in green.

Animal Packs:
Polar Animal Pack
  • Walrus
  • Sea otter
  • Musk ox
  • Wolverine
  • Tundra hare
  • Rockhopper penguin
  • Southern elephant seal
  • Eurasian flying squirrel (walkthrough exhibit)
additional food items: shell basket, shells in ice block
hair movement in the wind (musk ox)

Montane Animal Pack
  • Yak
  • Markhor
  • Pallas's cat
  • Gelada
  • Spectacled bear
  • Vicuña
  • Puna rhea
  • Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
Prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack

Island Animal Pack
  • North Island brown kiwi
  • Antillean manatee
  • Coquerel's sifaka
  • Aye-aye
  • Japanese giant salamander
  • Tasmanian devil
  • Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  • Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
signs of the covered islands (New Zealand, Carribbean, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea)
additional items/functions: aquatic keepers platform to add a keeper gate in a fully aquatic habitat build.
additional food item: earth worms, trunk with larvae, floating salat

considering the pattern of former packs and the uniqueness of many animal rigs/animations the manatee might be replaced by the Cuban flamingo, which would be easier to develop...

Packs:
Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  • Secretary bird (Africa)
  • Takin (Eurasia)
  • American white pelican (North America)
  • South American coati (South America)
  • Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
toggle option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour
'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors)
items: big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every exiting building theme
research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits)
etc.

Expansion Packs:
Aviary Expansion Pack
Marine Expansion Pack
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
Adjusted DLC ideas after the release of Planet Zoo: Zookeepers Animal Pack

Those fictional packs in their amout are unlikely, but it was officially confirmed, that there will be at least one more Animal Pack after the Zookeepers Animals Pack. So here we go. We got some animals that were included in my formerly presented fictional packs. So, I adjusted my ideas to cover generally highly requested taxa and a higher phylogenetic/biogeographic diversity. Even though I mainly follow the pattern of releasing only Animal Packs lately, I added new features per pack, that makes the gameplay a bit more exiting. Aviaries and marine content might be the selling point for a hypothetical Planet Zoo 2. Feel free to play withthose ideas.

Changes are marked in green.

Animal Packs:
Planet Zoo: Polar Animal Pack
  • (Pacific) Walrus
  • (Alaskan) Sea otter
  • Northern fur seal
  • Musk ox
  • Tundra hare
  • Rockhopper penguin
  • Southern elephant seal
  • Sibirian flying squirrel (walkthrough exhibit)
new food items: shell basket, shells in ice block
new objects: animal signs
new plants: kelp, white dryas, Antarctic hair grass
new features: cold breath of warm-blooded animimal species and humans in cold temperatures; hair movement in the wind (musk ox)

Planet Zoo: Montane Animal Pack
  • Yak
  • Kiang
  • Golden snub-nosed monkey
  • Mountain goat
  • Alpine marmot
  • Gelada
  • Vicuña
  • Sparkling violetear (walkthrough exhibit, with addable hummingbird feeder, flowers etc.)
new objects: animal signs; prayer flags with symbolised animal species of the pack
new plant: common rhododendron, edelweiss, giant lobelia

Planet Zoo: Island Animal Pack
  • Aye-aye
  • Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo
  • Celebes crested macaque
  • Japanese giant salamander
  • Nēnē
  • Kagu
  • Lowland anoa
  • Panther chameleon (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs; island signs that coveres in-game insular species of the (New Zealand, Madagascar, Japan, Tasmania, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Hawaii; Sulawesi, Borneo, Komodo, ...)
new food item: trunk with larvae
new plants: Cook pine, Madagascar ocotillo, Madagascar palm, traveller's palm, vulcan palm

Planet Zoo: Temperate Animal Pack
  • Short-beaked echidna
  • Père David's deer
  • Mandarin duck
  • Southern pudu
  • Patagonian mara
  • Greater rhea
  • Wild turkey
  • Tuatara (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs
new plants: yellow pitcherplant

Planet Zoo: Canopy Animal Pack
  • Red-faced spider monkey
  • South American coati
  • Ocelot
  • Southern tamandua
  • North American porcupine
  • Guereza
  • Roloway monkey
  • Madagascar giant day gecko (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs
new plants: meranti, camphor tree, moabi, mora, tualang, big-leaf mahogany
improvements: smoothing of climing system, new climbing animations for sifaka

Planet Zoo: Equatorial Animal Pack
  • Shoebill
  • Gerenuk
  • Black crowned crane
  • Gaur
  • Nilgai
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Greater bilby
  • Indian cobra (exhibit animal)
new objects: animal signs
new plants: queen sago, thatch screwpine, welwitschia, kakao
new feature: parental animals carry offspring (anteaters, primates, sloth bear, opossum, sea otter, etc)

Packs:
Planet Zoo: Around the World Pack
5 species from each continent:
  • Secretary bird (Africa)
  • Colombian red howler (South America)
  • Great white pelican (Eurasia)
  • Virginia opossum (North America)
  • Rainbow lorikeet (Oceania; walkthrough exhibit, with addable nectar feeder, trees, hanging toys etc.)
new objects: animal signs; big spinning globe, panoramic binocular, usable playground items (slides, swing etc.), new additions too every exiting building theme
new tour: little train (without tracks e.g. on visitor paths)
new features: toggle option for invisible tracks for the 4x4 Adventure Tour; 'animal runways' that are enabling to connect habitats for the animals (e.g. in enfenced pathways over visitors); research at the zoo that is enhancing in situ conservation (brings conservation credits) etc.

Anniversary animals:
  • Blackbuck
  • Golden pheasant
 
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