Shelter pack

[aim_foliksta]

Recently I started to try to build some different animal shelters for a zoo that I'm planning to start soon. The first one that I created is one inspired by the one used by gemsboks at Berlin Zoo. I didn't wanted to replicate it, just use it as an inspiration, so I created two different versions. It can be used by animals of the size of a gemsbok, gazelle or nyala, for example. Currently I'm developing a bigger one that can be used by bigger species (up to giraffes!)

The animals can access from the two gates located at the rectangular building. The three gates located at the circular building are just decoration, as the animals need much bigger access points. The other version of the building have a funcitional access point on that circular part.

The rear part of the building have some facilities for the staff.

If you want to try it, you can find both versions at the workshop:

Steam Workshop::Oryx Shelter (Big)

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Steam Workshop::Oryx Shelter (Medium)

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[DrAkula87]

Very cool! What did you use for these hanging food-racks on the walls in the first picture?

 

[aim_foliksta]

I can't give you the exact name in English as I have the game in Spanish, but it is made of metal poles from the New World theme.

 

[aim_foliksta]

After solving the issue about saving blueprints, I've been able to upload the next building of the shelter collection. This is a quite big shelter partially based on the Basel Zoo antilopenhaus. The main structure is similar, but the facade and other details are not based on any other building.

Well, let's start with a picture of the main facade:

From outside, you can identify the main parts of the building.On top, there's the access point for the guests. In the central part you can see the public area for guests, from where they can see the animals when they are inside their shelters. At each side there is a shelter suitable for small to medium sized animals. Both shelters have the same structure and have 3 different gates, so depending how you build the habitats you can use each side for more than one animal. And on the bottom there's a big shelter meant for giraffes.

The indoor area have a wooden decoration. Inside, guests can also find two terrariums for exhibit animals.

If you want to take a deeper look at it, you can download from the workshop:

Steam Workshop::Antilopenhaus

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The building has been saved as an habitat, as it exceeded the maximum number of pieces allowed for a building.

 

[wowman]

awesome work!!!

 

[markun]

Really is beautifully done!

 

[Swjosdotschka]

Woah, I'm blown away by the Antilopenhaus. So beautiful! Also, spotted german there

 

[aim_foliksta]

I have published a new shelter for the pack. The antilopenhaus was a big one, but now I'm more focused on small generic shelters that could be used on the same zoo on different animal exhibits. I started with a generic small wooden shelter that can be used for bongos, gazelles, bisons, etc..

You can find it on my workshop:

Steam Workshop::Wooden Shelter (Small)

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[markun]

Thanks for releasing this. Like all your work it looks great.

 

[aim_foliksta]

During the past weeks I've been working on some generic wooden shelters. They are still not published on my workshop, but hope that soon they will be available. I'll show you a preview of them:

 

[Swjosdotschka]

Great job! Love the style

 

[markun]

Yes really great work, I’d definitely use them!

 

[aim_foliksta]

I've uploaded the wooden shelters that I previously showed. There are two main shelters, one with two variants (one with a flat roof and other with an inclined one).

All of them require the Arctic DLC pack.

Here you can download them:

Steam Workshop::Arctic Wooden Shelter

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Steam Workshop::Arctic Wooden Shelter (Small) - Inclined roof

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Steam Workshop::Arctic Wooden Shelter (Small) - Flat roof

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Now I'm working on an elephant house, inspired by the one at Warsaw Zoo. I'm not planning to recreate it, just use it as a base for the main structure:

 

[aim_foliksta]

I've created two new shelters. Those are very basic but they can fit well in some old areas of your zoos. They are based on the shelters located at the children's zoo/farm of my local zoo.

Those shelters are made of recolorable bricks, so you can adapt them better to the colour style of your zoo.

Small version:

You can find them on my workshop:

Steam Workshop::Brick Shelter

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Steam Workshop::Brick Shelter (Small)

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I noticed I forgot to put more pictures of the elephant house It is already finished and published.

This is how it looks from inside:

And from outside:

I decided to do not include any indoor decoration so people can just customise it.

Steam Workshop::Elephant House

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[paul78]

Thanks for sharing your creations. I’m a big fan of your builds both habitat and structures. I enjoy the realistic style you do the habitats with as your zoos are great for inspiration.

 

[aim_foliksta]

Thanks for your nice words!

 

[aim_foliksta]

One new wooden shelter to the collection

You can find it on my workshop:

Steam Workshop::Modern Wooden Shelter

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I'm currently working on different brick shelters with an European looking. I'll show them soon.

 

[aim_foliksta]

I'll show the first shelter for my Central European Pack that for now it will mainly contain brick buildings with a German style. In general, most of the shelters of this pack will be of small to medium size.

This first shelter is inspired by one from Berlin zoo. I decided to do not make exact recreations of real shelters because all we know how "fun" is to find that a reindeer or similar animals need a 4 meters wide gate to get inside the shelter and this makes you to replan most of your facade, ending in something not so close to the real building.

You can find it on my workshop:

Steam Workshop::European Brick Shelter

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[aim_foliksta]

A small preview of some shelters I'm currently working on:

 

[Leaf Productions]

Beautiful job!