Habitat area confusion

[MrHappy]

Hi everybody.

So when you're looking in Zoopedia at any given animals habitat space requirement. Let's say that's 500m2 ..... That area becomes reduced once you added plants rocks, walls. Eg the traversable area will never end up as big as the 500m.

Question 1: Do I then need to make the habitat itself larger so the traversable area is 500m? Or is the Zoopedia info all accurate regardless of how much traversable area there is and the total habitat size is fine at 500m??

Question 2: When adding the water which also has a specified size in metres. Does this have to be in addition to the 500m habitat size or can it be included within the 500m?

Thanks

 

[Aramar]

Hi everybody.

So when you're looking in Zoopedia at any given animals habitat space requirement. Let's say that's 500m2 ..... That area becomes reduced once you added plants rocks, walls. Eg the traversable area will never end up as big as the 500m.

Question 1: Do I then need to make the habitat itself larger so the traversable area is 500m? Or is the Zoopedia info all accurate regardless of how much traversable area there is and the total habitat size is fine at 500m??

Question 2: When adding the water which also has a specied size in metres. Does this have to be in addition to the 500m habitat size or can it be included within the 500m?

Thanks

Yes, the requirements listed on the zoopedia refer to traversable area. So if your animal needs 500 m of land and 200 meter of water, your habitat must be larger than 700 m, because plants, rocks, enrichment items and even the barriers will block part of the traversable area.

 

[Marvinb]

Heyo
You would need to make the habitat bigger if you want to fulfill the animals space requirements. Since rock, plants and most other objects have a hitbox that cuts from the existing traversable area you kinda have to plan ahead and start with a bigger space than the 500 squaremeters for example. Or you just play sandbox and turn of animal wellfare
Yeah the given water requirement is in addition to the land space

 

[MrHappy]

Thank you both. Much appreciated. That is quite obvious and intuitive with the water I guess. Maybe not so much with the scenery items though. I mean, I don't know if its me or if it's a common thing but I don't exactly know what the scenery will look like when I am putting barriers down. As you said MarvinB..... Planning ahead seems to be the only way. But that's OK as long as I know. Thanks again.

 

[Marvinb]

Your welcome. And keep i mind that the given space is just for one animals. If you wanna keep a group the requirement goes up

 

[MrHappy]

Thanks again. That's OK though, I do tend to use the Adult/Juvenille calculator in each Zoopedia animal and this seems to work really good.

 

[jcp011c]

This is something that sometimes tripped me up earlier in the game's lifetime, with the rocks/trees etc taking away too much of the traversable area. As a general now, I tend to make most habitats at least around 20% larger than needed for the number of adults I'm putting in (usually two, but there are some exceptions). I don't do this so much on deserts and tundra, and tend to just make tropical enclosures about twice as large as they need to be.

 

[MrHappy]

This is something that sometimes tripped me up earlier in the game's lifetime, with the rocks/trees etc taking away too much of the traversable area. As a general now, I tend to make most habitats at least around 20% larger than needed for the number of adults I'm putting in (usually two, but there are some exceptions). I don't do this so much on deserts and tundra, and tend to just make tropical enclosures about twice as large as they need to be.

Great info, thanks JCP. I will give that formula a try.

 

[jcp011c]

Great info, thanks JCP. I will give that formula a try.

You're welcome! It's just a guideline of course and the extra room isn't like..exact..but the general idea of it tends to work well for me. Tropical enclosures tend to have a lot more plant life to make them look more authentic, which is why I give them so much extra space to start out with.