With the completion and success of the air conditioning megapack, I'm pleased to announce the next megapack of blueprints! While the AC megapack covered the large amount of possible items for everything related to air conditioning, the backstage pack looks to fill in the gaps of basically everything else. While not strictly limited to backstage areas, the general scope of this megapack is themed on what kind of items you might find in a backstage area of a real zoo. For this megapack, I increased the range of references using 50 real life zoos and aquariums from north america, europe, and australia. Obviously the pack will be north american leaning because the best google earth textures are north american and my needs of north american items over say european. I will include several dedicated european packs and will include them when I can into general packs.
I'll list the planned blueprints here in a spoiler, if anyone can think of any specific blueprints let me know and I may include them.
Starting off with the power series of blueprints first:
Power Series - Generators
The first blueprint of the megapack is external generators. External generators are backup power sources for critical buildings and processes throughout your zoo in a power outage. Every single real zoo I have researched included at least one generator of sorts, often placed near large buildings like aquariums, tropical houses, , large backstage staff buildings, elephant houses etc. Even smaller staff buildings may have a small generator, they are not just limited to large buildings. However, buildings like animal shelters for animals who don't need temperature regulation will not need a generator near the shelter since little power is needed for these kind of buildings.
The generators pack contains:
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I'll list the planned blueprints here in a spoiler, if anyone can think of any specific blueprints let me know and I may include them.
Power SeriesGeneratorsTransformersElectric BoxesSolar Panels
Water SeriesWater Storage TanksWater Filtration
- Clutter Series
- Containers
- Dumpsters
- General Clutter
- Building Series
- Greenhouses
- Staff Buildings
- Storage Buildings
- Gates and Fences
- Building Accessories
- Skylights
- Rooftop Accessories
- Rooftop Access
- Construction Series
- Construction Clutter
- Construction Vehicles
- Vehicles Series
- American Trucks
- European Trucks
- American Trailers
- European Trailers
- Delivery Vehicles
- Zoo Vehicles
- Tractors
- Emergency Vehicles
Starting off with the power series of blueprints first:
Power Series - Generators
The first blueprint of the megapack is external generators. External generators are backup power sources for critical buildings and processes throughout your zoo in a power outage. Every single real zoo I have researched included at least one generator of sorts, often placed near large buildings like aquariums, tropical houses, , large backstage staff buildings, elephant houses etc. Even smaller staff buildings may have a small generator, they are not just limited to large buildings. However, buildings like animal shelters for animals who don't need temperature regulation will not need a generator near the shelter since little power is needed for these kind of buildings.
The generators pack contains:
- 13 exterior generators to choose from
- All generators are from the 4 most common north american generator companies however these are global brands so most of these generators are realistic for almost any zoo.
- Large generators have a transformer inside them which means they can function as a power source, however if you are wanting realism, these generators are extremely rare to find in zoos as these are heavy duty industrial generators. Out of all zoos and aquariums I researched ONLY 2 featured large generators. San diego zoo and the vancouver aquarium were the only ones to feature these.
- For realism, the medium and small generators should be used as non-functioning scenery items.
Steam Workshop::Generators - Backstage Megapack
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