I did some research in sandbox mode on what African penguins are going to require for large habitats, and I found out that their shelter requirements scale unevenly with their space requirements.
It came to a point that a group of 61 adults penguin and 112 babies, which collectively required 528 square meters of land, needed about 300 square meters of shelter (required 19 4x4 meter floors to cover the underground space up, and if a floor collided with the walls, it wasn’t placed)
The calculation is imprecise so it isn’t fully accurate, but it’s still over half the requirement of land.
This also applies to some other animals who can have large groups with additional individuals requiring little land space while also requiring shelter, such as a lot of baby tortoises, but I didn’t calculate it with them.
These shelter requirements make it problematic to have realistic looking habitats for those animals, without having a lot more space than necessary nor having a large portion of that space covered in shelters.
It came to a point that a group of 61 adults penguin and 112 babies, which collectively required 528 square meters of land, needed about 300 square meters of shelter (required 19 4x4 meter floors to cover the underground space up, and if a floor collided with the walls, it wasn’t placed)
The calculation is imprecise so it isn’t fully accurate, but it’s still over half the requirement of land.
This also applies to some other animals who can have large groups with additional individuals requiring little land space while also requiring shelter, such as a lot of baby tortoises, but I didn’t calculate it with them.
These shelter requirements make it problematic to have realistic looking habitats for those animals, without having a lot more space than necessary nor having a large portion of that space covered in shelters.
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