Just for fun: New biome packs?

[yoav_r]

Just for fun, make a 4+1 pack for a new biome (becayse new biome requires new plant scenery).

Some ideas for inspiration:

• Alpine
• Coastal
• Coral reef
• Grassland (temperate)
• Mangrove forest
• Scrubland
• Wetlands

 

[Antimony96]

I don't see them outright adding a new biome to PZ; the existing ones cover everything necessary (e.g. "wetlands" as a mix of aquatic, temperate, tropical, and maybe grassland). I would like to see some foliage gaps filled, though.

Wetlands Pack (bayou/Southern US building theme):
Capybara
Asian small-clawed otter
Barasingha
Roseate spoonbill
Common snapping turtle (exhibit)

Coastal Pack (large expansion of the existing Aquatic theme):
Crab-eating macaque
Sea otter
Little blue penguin
Brown pelican
Coconut crab (exhibit)

Alpine Pack (mining theme):
Gelada
Pallas's cat
Sichuan takin
Demoiselle crane
Alpine newt (exhibit)

Scrubland Pack (???):
Caracal
White-nosed coatimundi
Markhor
Rock hyrax
Veiled chameleon (exhibit)

Grassland Pack (gardening/zoo props):
Rocky mountain elk
Blackbuck
Przewalski's horse
Great bustard
European adder (exhibit)

A lot of these hypothetical packs suffer from the "no star animal" disease. The solution would probably be to mash two similar-ish themes together (e.g. a "waterways" pack combining wetland and coastal animals, a "drylands pack" that includes both true deserts and scrubland)

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

Mediterranean Scrub Pack (includes the Mediterranean Basin, Californian chaparral, Western Cape in South Africa and Southwest Australia)
1. Persian leopard
2. Greater roadrunner
3. Quokka
4. Bontebok
Exhibit. Mediterranean chameleon

Swamp Pack
1. Asian small clawed otter
2. Kafue lechwe
3. Capybara
4. Roseate spoonbill
Exhibit. Halloween crab

Montane Forest Pack
1. Spectacled bear
2. Golden takin
3. L'Hoest's monkey
4. Himalayan monal pheasant
Exhibit. Olimpia's ground beetle

Alpine Grassland Pack
1. Gelada
2. Bar headed goose
3. Common wombat
4. Guanaco
Exhibit. Southern corroboree frog

Tropical Dry Forest Pack
1. Banteng
2. Chacoan peccary
3. Fossa
4. Black howler monkey
Exhibit. King cobra

 

[premierfong]

• Alpine
  1. Yak
  2. Mountain Goat
  3. Snowshoe rabbit
  4. Alpaca
  5. Rocky Mountain apollo (Butterfly)
• Coastal (pinniped pack) lol
  1. Walrus
  2. Leopard Seal
  3. Elephant Seal
  4. Australian Fur Seal
  5. Shrimp tank
• Grassland (temperate)
  1. Black Rhinos
  2. Swift Fox
  3. Secretary Bird
  4. Przewalski's horse
  5. Desert grassland whiptail lizard
• Mangrove forest
  1. Dugong (Surprise us Frontier)
  2. Roseate Spoonbill
  3. Fishing Cat
  4. Crowned Sifakas
  5. Mudskippers

 

[nutrit]

Alpine:
Takin
Spectacled bear
Gelada
Wombat

Coastal:
Walrus
Rockhopper penguin
Manatee
Small clawed otter

Temperate grassland:
Przewalski horse
Blackbuck
Wapiti
Iberian lynx

Scrubland:
Maned wolf
Serval
Giant eland
Stripped hyena

Wetland:
Père David’s deer
Capybara
Waterbuck
Fishing cat