Keeper feed them. Not sure how it's fully done because I was busy taking care of nile monitor overpopulation. I just sent the keeper to the exhibit, keeper looked the exhibit condition, and I think keeper went to the hut...
Vivarium animals able to go in normal exhibit or leave vivarium
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I hope they have animations in the full game. Will be so boring if they do nothing.
I think they do have some animations, only not moving.
Yeah I'll be honest I haven't really bought any of them/watched them so I'm not sure about that but I agree would be nice if they moved around in the full game
If I'm remembering correctly, the keeper just goes up and cleans the glass with a sponge, and then the animals' food is suddenly full, so...... a bit of both? xD
They've obviously put a lot of work into this. It's understandable that they would throw in a few simple things. I do have to say that the animals are the best I've ever seen and I really can't wait to play the full game in November.
Here are some things I want to mention here.
1) They do change position, when you're not watching. They mostly stay at one position, lookin around or hidng when you're watching, but they 'move' to another pre-determined point when the exhibit is off-screen.
2) And I see it more reasonable. Vivarium animals are surprisingly static IRL, in my experience. Many animals tend to rest in their comfortable spot, even in vivarium.
3) It's the variety i concern. For now we only have 1x1x2-ish tropical exhibit with a big tree trunk in the middle. More size variety is needed as well as some environment variety such as dry ones or semi to full aquatic ones.
1) They do change position, when you're not watching. They mostly stay at one position, lookin around or hidng when you're watching, but they 'move' to another pre-determined point when the exhibit is off-screen.
2) And I see it more reasonable. Vivarium animals are surprisingly static IRL, in my experience. Many animals tend to rest in their comfortable spot, even in vivarium.
3) It's the variety i concern. For now we only have 1x1x2-ish tropical exhibit with a big tree trunk in the middle. More size variety is needed as well as some environment variety such as dry ones or semi to full aquatic ones.
I'd be happy with that.
Interesting. So essentially they have predetermined spots they move between?
But yeah I agree. I'm going to assume we only have the one because it's beta
I'd like 3 templates for the vivariums: small, medium and large.
The small one could be roughly half of the current size, and it's for the smaller arthropods and amphibians.
The medium one is the current vivarium, perfect for medium-sized herps (reptiles and amphibians)
The large one could be twice the current size, for the larger reptiles like the anaconda and the iguana.
That's my suggestion.
The small one could be roughly half of the current size, and it's for the smaller arthropods and amphibians.
The medium one is the current vivarium, perfect for medium-sized herps (reptiles and amphibians)
The large one could be twice the current size, for the larger reptiles like the anaconda and the iguana.
That's my suggestion.
Yes I like realism as well if you look at the rest of my wishlist, but to me realism means anything that would be able to happen in real life like a lizard doesn’t have to just sit in a cage. Realism should not be defined by what other people have done in real life or what zoos do as that does not mean the be all and end all of realism.
I think this is more what players are wanting. The curves and designs of the terrariums. I personally love the second. It's made up of smaller tanks. Some of the exhibits are really too big for some animals and some are too small. That's why we need a few more options.
Yes but I want my vivarium animals to be in a main enclosure like a lion because they deserved the spotlight just as much like a cobra should be in a big natural exhibit
Good suggestion just I would like my reptiles in my zoo to be in normal enclosures like normal animals with few acceptions such as frogs and smaller critters
Yes but in normal enclosures camera functions are better and I’m not talking about little frogs I’m talking about monitor lizards, snakes, venomous snakes and lizards, and maybe some larger spiders such as the bird eater which in itself is bigger then the baby tortoises it would be a cool option terrarium/vivarium or exhibit
I would really like it. But I think it would be a lot of Work to give them the Animations that are needed for this. I have a Idea for a really beautiful Exhibit for Green Iguanas. The Terrariums are way too small for them. Maybe they could add something like a Terrarium without Walls that make it possible to build a huge Exhibit and then set it in the Enclosure. The Animal would just live like in a smaller Terrarium but there would be way more Options to design their Enclosure. Another Idea I had, would be various Terrarium-Parts like some Edge-Parts, Parts for the middle of the Terrarium and they could be one big Terrarium that would work like the small ones but would be at least a bit more customizable
I just think Planet Zoo needs to maintain Zoo realism and not add features which aren't used in zoos or for people who have those animals as a pet.
I know some species of tarantula are burrowers and spend their entire life on just 1-2 square meters (male during the season tend to wander a bit more). In a terrarium/vivarium you will able to see them, in a normal enclosure you'll basically have an empty enclosure..
A former colleague used have a Bearded Dragon as pet, which requires special lamps. Proper lighting and temparature are very important. Same goes for the high humidity requirements for them. I'm guessing the same apllies to (green) Iguanuas. They are actually really sensitive. In a Vivarium/terrarium you can regulate this.
I understand the whole 'normal enclosure' point but to me it doesn't make any sense. I'm pretty sure you upset a lot of pet owners/zoo keepers, when you add such a feature. IRL, that would mean a death sentence for some animals.
More creativity with a vivarium, yes... I'd love to see that.
Thanks for your input the only thing I’d like to say is that do you think the coolers and heaters have any realism value, no... they would be physically impossible to replicate in real life and zoos do not have such equipment it is serverly unrealistic as a cooler cooling a full exhibit in the open air is impossible iguanas are huge lizards and should have a big exhibits like Nile monitors. It should be choice. And also I think all snakes and medium to large reptiles in general should be allowed in exhibits.
Plus how would reptiles such as basilisk lizards get spotlight if they cant do their signature Jesus Christ run in a normal exhibit along the water in my mind it is the only and best way for it to be implemented and I’m sure it annoys a lot of wildlife experts when you have a snow leopard in Africa just because of 2 coolers so yeah it is not impossible or out of the depths of planet zoos realism.
I'm going to write off the first part.. Zoos have cooler/cooling mist/cooling rocks/cooling equipment for their housing. Same goes for heating.
Maybe not the tools as their are ingame, but still a different variety and just to cool it instead of freezing.
A lot of bigger animals are able to adapt to the weather pretty good. Don't know about Africa but in Europe they do.
Same goes for the second one, really missing your point. Vivariums can have water too and do their walk.. And googled 'snow leopard Africa', they used to have at least 1 in South Africa. Considering there are only several hundred in captivity all over the world, not weird. A lot of zoos/countries don't have those...
We can discuss this further, but they are not going to implement something that no zoo in the world does in normal exhibits. Maybe the tropical dome idea is something to add, but doesn't apply to a lot of animals (like spiders/insects/snakes/certain sensitive lizards).
Next thing will be vegans/vegetarians asking/demanding greens for their carnivores because they want their choice (a vegetarian zoo)..
Maybe not the tools as their are ingame, but still a different variety and just to cool it instead of freezing.
A lot of bigger animals are able to adapt to the weather pretty good. Don't know about Africa but in Europe they do.
Same goes for the second one, really missing your point. Vivariums can have water too and do their walk.. And googled 'snow leopard Africa', they used to have at least 1 in South Africa. Considering there are only several hundred in captivity all over the world, not weird. A lot of zoos/countries don't have those...
We can discuss this further, but they are not going to implement something that no zoo in the world does in normal exhibits. Maybe the tropical dome idea is something to add, but doesn't apply to a lot of animals (like spiders/insects/snakes/certain sensitive lizards).
Next thing will be vegans/vegetarians asking/demanding greens for their carnivores because they want their choice (a vegetarian zoo)..
I love this idea, and have said something similar in different posts! I think the large ones could be 3 times the current size, honestly to really make it work for some of those bigger critters. I think it would be cool too if we could stack the small and medium ones the way they sometimes do in real zoos.
snakes don't like large enclosures they need to be in a little box to be happy