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Decided to test out something I planned for an eventual "East Asia" section of my main Challenge Mode zoo, and found it works quite well actually!
See, the plan was to have the section open up with a little Pangolin habitat. They're tiny and interesting animals that don't require much space, and wouldn't detract attention from some of the bigger animals that will find their place in that area of the zoo.
Being a central, opening habitat, I wanted to be able to build the paths around it, but that would be pretty tough to make look nice while also building a shelter for them. Sure, I could build a pagoda or something, but I want to save that for the bigger animals.
So, I thought instead of building UP, let's build DOWN.
TL;DR, I tested out an idea to have a pangolin habitat with a burrow running UNDER the guest path behind it that made use of the null barrier and some rocks on the surface. Very rough and I would beautify it in the real version but VOILA! Hope everyone can maybe take this as a green light to do similar!
Screenshots to show guests are walking over the marked "burrow" area without issue. Also, because I read this somewhere on the forums, make sure your barriers are extended BELOW the bottom of your burrow. Didn't quite test it but having the bottom of the barrier above where the animals go may flag it as an escape. Happy building!
Decided to test out something I planned for an eventual "East Asia" section of my main Challenge Mode zoo, and found it works quite well actually!
See, the plan was to have the section open up with a little Pangolin habitat. They're tiny and interesting animals that don't require much space, and wouldn't detract attention from some of the bigger animals that will find their place in that area of the zoo.
Being a central, opening habitat, I wanted to be able to build the paths around it, but that would be pretty tough to make look nice while also building a shelter for them. Sure, I could build a pagoda or something, but I want to save that for the bigger animals.
So, I thought instead of building UP, let's build DOWN.
TL;DR, I tested out an idea to have a pangolin habitat with a burrow running UNDER the guest path behind it that made use of the null barrier and some rocks on the surface. Very rough and I would beautify it in the real version but VOILA! Hope everyone can maybe take this as a green light to do similar!
Screenshots to show guests are walking over the marked "burrow" area without issue. Also, because I read this somewhere on the forums, make sure your barriers are extended BELOW the bottom of your burrow. Didn't quite test it but having the bottom of the barrier above where the animals go may flag it as an escape. Happy building!