How do you save a sandbox zoo as a blueprint?

[This Game Where]

I may be being a bit dense, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to save an entire sandbox zoo as a blueprint, but I keep seeing things on the internet that suggest it can be done. Can anybody tell me how?

Many thanks.

 

[NZFanatic]

Are you planning on uploading to the workshop? If so, you don't save the zoo as a blueprint, you literally upload the save file.

 

[This Game Where]

Ah right!
Eventually I'll be uploading it to the workshop, but I was after shifting the entire zoo to a new plot so I could adjust the position at which it sits without losing all the pathing and barriers. Any way to do that?

When I couldn't figure out how to export the zoo, I tried ringing the entire thing with a barriery and attempting to save that as a blueprint. It would start the process but crash midway through.

Edit: Thank you by the way. Much appreciated.

 

[NZFanatic]

Ah right!
Eventually I'll be uploading it to the workshop, but I was after shifting the entire zoo to a new plot so I could adjust the position at which it sits without losing all the pathing and barriers. Any way to do that?

When I couldn't figure out how to export the zoo, I tried ringing the entire thing with a barriery and attempting to save that as a blueprint. It would start the process but crash midway through.

Edit: Thank you by the way. Much appreciated.

Yeah I don't think it's possible to do what you want to do. For one thing, paths aren't saved on blueprints, as the pathing system is entirely separate from anything else (you can't save paths in building groups either).

The only thing I can suggest would be to save each and every building and habitat as separate blueprints and then place them down again in a new zoo in the positions you want them, but you'll still need to redo the paths, unfortunately.

 

[This Game Where]

Yep, that's what I was trying to avoid. Ah well, can't always get what you want. Thank you again.

 

[onk]

When I couldn't figure out how to export the zoo, I tried ringing the entire thing with a barriery and attempting to save that as a blueprint. It would start the process but crash midway through.

That’s a good attempt. In your case it seems to much stuff, I had the same problem.
Split your project in multiple parts and try to use markers in the sky like a pyramid, that are included in each part.
When you replace your stuff, just align those pyramids.

Backup your save, place those markers in the sky.
Delete BCD, but not the markers, build a barrier, make a blueprint. undo undo undo, the same with ACD and so on

EDIT:
This way you can also work around the problem, that you get different stuff saved with habitat-blueprints and regular blueprints. simply use both with this method