Feel that, i had only one thankfully
It sometimes feels like people got a bunch of packs ready to copy paste into every thread remotly similar to it
How would I do the next 5 packs?
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It sometimes feels like people got a bunch of packs ready to copy paste into every thread remotly similar to it
These are really strong packs overall, and the only thing thing that gives me pause is including both the gelada and Hamadryas baboon at this point. I know they're both fairly popular for different reasons, but I'd personally find it a bit difficult to justify including both assuming limited remaining packs. The Hamadryas is by far my preference, but with this setup I think I'd actually keep the gelada to open up a spot for the patagonian mara in the shrublands pack.
A few less drastic preferences I have: greater kudu over eland, greater rhea over secretary bird, Matschie's over Goodfellow's, two-toed sloth as the Latin American exhibit species.
The banded mongoose is a really exciting anniversary idea that I hadn't considered before. I'd love to see it. Overall though I'd really love to see our remaining DLC play out very similarly to this as this lineup makes really great use of its space.
A few less drastic preferences I have: greater kudu over eland, greater rhea over secretary bird, Matschie's over Goodfellow's, two-toed sloth as the Latin American exhibit species.
The banded mongoose is a really exciting anniversary idea that I hadn't considered before. I'd love to see it. Overall though I'd really love to see our remaining DLC play out very similarly to this as this lineup makes really great use of its space.
The mountains and Latin American rosters are extremely plausible, though I'm not convinced that that's how they'll specifically approach Latin America. Scrublands feels like a bit of a stretch
I think overall a great list, really solid choices! The pallas cat, though not really my animal, I could see it coming. The rock hyrax, meh, I would replace it with a Darwin Rhea, but that's personal opinion. Also, switch the exhibit toad with either a Chinese or Japanese giant salamander, but again, personal
I would, I just don’t know if they can fit in the exhibit boxes.Also, switch the exhibit toad with either a Chinese or Japanese giant salamander, but again, personal
In that case, perhaps the Cave olm?
Overall great picks, very varied. I find this one of the hardest packs to make, since there are so many SA animals to choose from. I mean, you could replace all the choices with solid species, like the Southern Tamandua and the replace the viper with a sloth? Though the viper is a really great choice. Also it's either the howler monkey or spider monkey, they both have they're own traits that make them cool.Update 1.17 & Latin America Pack arriving April 2nd!
Winter is wrapping up and it’s getting a bit hot around here! We’re heading into one of the most tropical places in the world, Latin America! Travel through the vibrant villages of Brazil as well as meeting some lovely faces!
5 new animals
Meet 5 tropical friends all from the kingdom that is Latin America!
Black Howler Monkey
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A unique species amongst the tropical forest, Black Howler Monkeys are one of the very few primates that have altering skin colours, depending on their genders.
Ocelot
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While often referred to as a mini Jaguar, the Ocelots main difference from the Jaguar is its size and weight, as well as the difference in patterns.
Collared Peccary
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Despite how close they look, peccaries aren’t actually real swines. The animals name comes from the white “collar” around its neck!
White Nosed Coati
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The master of the trees, coatis use every part of the forest to their best abilities. They sleep the nights away in the trees, and spend the day grooming and foraging for food.
Eyelash Viper (E)
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A very dangerous species, the Eyelash Viper is a species to approach with caution, however they aren’t that aggressive, they rather use their abilities to catch their prey.
180+ New Pieces
Along with these new animals you will also be glad to hear that a variety of architecture pieces from the colourful enchanted Brazil will be included! This new set includes new tropical palms, new flags and fabric pieces, and new flexi colour shingle roof pieces!
Let me know what you think of my idea.
So still! good pack! I would definitely buy it
And at last the Scrubland and Arboreal pack. Scrubland animal pack I would definitely get, I mean; Echidna? Secretary bird? YES!
The arboreal pack well...I would change the American Black Bear with a Southern Tamandua. Why? Cause I think the pack should focus on animals really living a lot in the tree tops. The Black bear, though a very good climber, doesn't spend entire days in trees. perhaps I could be wrong, but I would add the Tamandua, as that animal really spends quite a lot of time in the trees and is more unique. I would save the American black bear for anniversary or a woodland animal pack, it does grow on me more.
The arboreal pack well...I would change the American Black Bear with a Southern Tamandua. Why? Cause I think the pack should focus on animals really living a lot in the tree tops. The Black bear, though a very good climber, doesn't spend entire days in trees. perhaps I could be wrong, but I would add the Tamandua, as that animal really spends quite a lot of time in the trees and is more unique. I would save the American black bear for anniversary or a woodland animal pack, it does grow on me more.
ALL OF THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FAN-MADE AND NOT REAL (also says Not official in art)
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arrving 9 April
It's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Oh wow and look below us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arrving 9 AprilIt's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Oh wow and look below us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?
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Gimme it nowALL OF THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FAN-MADE AND NOT REAL (also says Not official in art)
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
It's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
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Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Whats that noise? Oh wow look above us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
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Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
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The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?
Fantastic set, which I think you posted elsewhere a bit ago that I liked at that point. It is possible this could be the Spring pack - if only because it's probably going to be a scenery pack, and they've revisited all continents but North America and South America, the second of which should be an animal pack. Last of the really iconic North American animals with a couple that further bolster Europe's roster.ALL OF THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FAN-MADE AND NOT REAL (also says Not official in art)
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
It's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
View attachment 378546
Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Oh wow and look below us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
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Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
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The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?
Bad: NA Pack 4ALL OF THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FAN-MADE AND NOT REAL (also says Not official in art)
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
It's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
View attachment 378546
Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Oh wow and look below us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
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Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
View attachment 378548
The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?
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I actually really like how you presented it, nice flavor to have it written like those bloopers for the announcement or steam store page, very pleasent to read!
Also while focusing on NA for a pretty basic scenery pack would be pretty boring especally with such a rather basic line up of NA Red Deer, bear, another frog, the most mid on its own lagomorph and the actually pretty cool musk ox, i really would love the scenery set.
Imo while animal wise NA for me but im quite sure most non NA players is quite abundant, scenery wise im really missing both an indigenous inspired and a wild west/gold rush theme, as both styles are very often used in themed areas and sound like they would bring lots of usefull pieces in general, so im quite down for a boreal and desert scenery pack covering those pieces.
For how i would have also brought the animals up to snuff, imo splitting the pack between north america and siberia would have been the call, giving north america the filler slots of bear and deer and siberia the yellow throated marten and mandarin duck to widen the actual use case of the pack by along shot and making it with the duck usefull for everyone, not just NA players. Also gets rid of the 2 actual interesting animals in your suggestion, but thats just how it is sometimes.
Alternativly just swapping out any of the 4 habitat animals for the wood duck would also do fine on that
This is a full NA pack, snow show hare is NA, Musk ox in europes are introduced, might be as part of a reintroduction Programm but they havent been living here since the last ice age.
The Wapiti being switched for a duck was something I considered and almost did, but idk I just think the elk is more likely.
On the point about it being fully NA I purposely made it like that because the last 3 packs have focused on one continent at a time, the 2 most recent being named synonyms of their first pack based on that region (Oceania following Australia, Eurasia following Europe and SEA) North America doesn’t really have anything that catchy, it could be Canadá Pack but that feels too specific, then there’s the idea of doing an Americas Animal Pack which I’m not a fan of because SA is deserving of its own pack (foreshadowing my next pack prediction).
On the point about it being fully NA I purposely made it like that because the last 3 packs have focused on one continent at a time, the 2 most recent being named synonyms of their first pack based on that region (Oceania following Australia, Eurasia following Europe and SEA) North America doesn’t really have anything that catchy, it could be Canadá Pack but that feels too specific, then there’s the idea of doing an Americas Animal Pack which I’m not a fan of because SA is deserving of its own pack (foreshadowing my next pack prediction).
Btw its wild how a duck can completly flip my perception of a pack from near useless to me to gods gift of heaven where everything else isnt as important.
The things extremly usefull new additions do to you
The things extremly usefull new additions do to you
Good point on the Muskox, and I was thinking the Elk was in Europe but I was wrong - was so confident I didn't even double check.
It's interesting then that it's in North America and Asia but not Europe.Elk taxonomy is weird.Good point on the Muskox, and I was thinking the Elk was in Europe but I was wrong - was so confident I didn't even double check.
Till 20 years ago, elk or wapiti was just a funky way to say non european red deer, as it was assumed it was one big species with many subspecies, but genetic evidence shows that red deer and wapiti are more distant then assumed, with the also similar looking sika deer being for example seemingly being more closely related to the wapiti then it is to the red deer.
Thats also why im not their biggesr fan, covering asias and north americas needs for a basic deer with just one sounds just great till you realise just how messy they are and how close to the red deer they really look.
Id personally much prefer each area getting a dedicated deer thats a bit more distinct, with my two favored choices being the white tailed deer as its found across all of the americas and being taxonomically different, and the peres david for being semi aquatic and looking pretty weird.
I still get why people want them though and its honestly kinda surprising that they wernt in the base game as they would have fit perfectly with those NA animals
I feel like the Wapiti would be pretty unique in appearance to anything we have in game.
ALL OF THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FAN-MADE AND NOT REAL (also says Not official in art)
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
It's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
View attachment 378546
Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Oh wow and look below us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
View attachment 378547
Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
View attachment 378548
The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?
Honestly is a solid packALL OF THE IMAGES BELOW ARE FAN-MADE AND NOT REAL (also says Not official in art)
Changing my two predictions from before I've put a bit more thought into these 2 next ideas. Here we go!
It's time to go further into the forests and discover Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack arriving on the 9 of April alongside Free Update 1.17!
View attachment 378546
Travel through the forests and valleys of one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, North America!
On your hike you might stumble across a couple of the adorable Snowshoe Hares as they traverse the forest floor scavenging for food, or look up there! It's the striking American Black Bear sleeping in a tree. Keep travelling through the dense forest until you'll find an iconic ungulate of the north, the majestic Wapiti rubbing its antlers against tree bark! Finally, we've came out of the forests onto the prairie lands, oh and look its a herd of formidable Musk Ox as they progress along the slopes and scrublands of the prairie! Oh wow and look below us, its the spectacular Northern Leopard Frog, our exhibit animal for this pack!
View attachment 378547
Alongside these amazing animals you will also be welcomed with a new set of over 200 new Native American scenery pieces! Decorate your zoos with intricately carved Totem poles, large historical tipis as well as a new wall and roof set themed after wooden native american style houses! And your foliage won't be left out either, explore North America with a whole plethera of new shrubs like Myrica Gale and Bush Honeysuckle, or grow even larger with new trees like the Spruce Tree or the Red Pine!
View attachment 378548
The Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack will be available for purchase on the 9 of April for £7.99 ($9.99, 9.99€) on Steam. This will be out alongside Free Update 1.17 which is available for all players. Please remember that you'll only be able to enjoy the Planet Zoo: Boreal Pack if you already own the base game of Planet Zoo.
Thoughts?