What did you do in Planet Zoo today?
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This looks absolutely amazing
I finished my new cougar habitat (they formerly lived in a very small habitat next to my prairie dogs, but I wanted to put them in my new south american section, so I build a new Habitat for them and rehomed them), bought a new bull elephant and made plans to redesign the old cougar habitat into one for alligators.
Don't worry, everything in those pics was saved, but I did a bit of work on some landscaping and the entrance building that might be lost now.
Well, time to play
Some Planet Zoo today
Let's see what I do
Maybe I'll share with you
Some Planet Zoo today
Let's see what I do
Maybe I'll share with you
Thank you! I used Affinity Designer
Booo, my game crashed. My laptop might be giving up the ghost.
Oh no! Glad you could save most of your work. And I hope it was a one time thing. It's so scary when you know the machine is dying anytime soon, but you don't know exactly when ...
I wasn't in building mood today, and I had to relax my eyes a bit. Books and Netflix it was.
That's a cool one!Alligator habitat done
Thank you
Actually, I think the laptop itself is fine, it's just finding it harder these days to run PZ. It gets really hot which caused the crash, I think. So I'll have to play more sporadically and give the computer breaks.
I've already told my partner that when we get into our own house again the first big purchase I want to make is a gaming PC
I did some House Keeping in Murmeldorf. I gave every habitat a numbre in the order you would see them on the big walkaround. I added them to the habitats that are already finished as well, so in first person mode it's easier to follow. I made all that so that I could already place staff facilities and build work zones around aaaall the habitats that yet need to be build.
Speaking of habitat: I started the ASCO habitat in Murmeldorf.
Speaking of habitat: I started the ASCO habitat in Murmeldorf.
Welp, silly me forgot to take pics. But let me tell y'all what I did:
So, Quell's Covert is partly am excuse to use animals low in captivity but also kinda like a personal zoo.
I began by building a little rock formation with some statues on it (panda, pangolin, Tiger)
Anyways, I built a little staff center.
Now onto the good stuff. I built a reptile house with 2 vivariums per animal:
Then, I built a little food court, but we'll skip that.
Next up, I built the Lemur House, which houses 1 pair of each lemurs species, and has a bridge for guests to watch them from up above (I added a vine in 1 part for the lemurs to run above the path to the other side)
After they get out, you reach the pangolins. 2 enclosures for viewing them, 2 more for breeding purposes only.
And finally, half-finished proboscis monkey enclosures. I'll finish tomorrow
So, Quell's Covert is partly am excuse to use animals low in captivity but also kinda like a personal zoo.
I began by building a little rock formation with some statues on it (panda, pangolin, Tiger)
Anyways, I built a little staff center.
Now onto the good stuff. I built a reptile house with 2 vivariums per animal:
- Lehmann's poison frog
- Golden poison frog
- Goliath frog
- Lesser Antillean iguana
Then, I built a little food court, but we'll skip that.
Next up, I built the Lemur House, which houses 1 pair of each lemurs species, and has a bridge for guests to watch them from up above (I added a vine in 1 part for the lemurs to run above the path to the other side)
After they get out, you reach the pangolins. 2 enclosures for viewing them, 2 more for breeding purposes only.
And finally, half-finished proboscis monkey enclosures. I'll finish tomorrow
Oh no, save file corrupted. 
That's alright, I started again again. I've rebuilt the meerkat habitat (no aardvarks this time though, at least not yet) but I won't share anything until I have something new to show. I've got a few basic herbivore paddocks planned extending west from the entrance that I think I'll work on next. They won't be flashy, but that's the idea; very low budget, very basic.
That's alright, I started again again. I've rebuilt the meerkat habitat (no aardvarks this time though, at least not yet) but I won't share anything until I have something new to show. I've got a few basic herbivore paddocks planned extending west from the entrance that I think I'll work on next. They won't be flashy, but that's the idea; very low budget, very basic.
I haven't post here in a while because I'm really busy with an internship at the moment, so I rarely find the time and motivation to play PZ.
But yesterday and the weekend before I did a bit in Biopark. Instead of building a new habitat, I deleted the whole river boat track and changed the river and most of the middle section of my African area. I wasn't really satisfied with this island and I also wanted to have a clear circular route around the area which lead the visitors to all animals. Before it was necessary to either choose the island with the restaurant and flamingos or the hippo house (or you had to go back and use a path twice).
With the new route you will come to the new boat station first, then to the island and afterwards to the hippo house. Unfortunately it was therefore also necessary to rotate the hippo house around 180°, so I have to rebuild some things there as well. But I like the new layout of this area which is the main thing.
This was the layout before:
And this is the layout now:
I've also done the new boat station, though the surrounding areas still have to be done.
Lastly, I worked on the African restaurant which is a bit like the center of the section. You are able to see the elephant habitat and the future savannah area from the terrace. It's not completely finished though.
But yesterday and the weekend before I did a bit in Biopark. Instead of building a new habitat, I deleted the whole river boat track and changed the river and most of the middle section of my African area. I wasn't really satisfied with this island and I also wanted to have a clear circular route around the area which lead the visitors to all animals. Before it was necessary to either choose the island with the restaurant and flamingos or the hippo house (or you had to go back and use a path twice).
With the new route you will come to the new boat station first, then to the island and afterwards to the hippo house. Unfortunately it was therefore also necessary to rotate the hippo house around 180°, so I have to rebuild some things there as well. But I like the new layout of this area which is the main thing.
This was the layout before:
And this is the layout now:
I've also done the new boat station, though the surrounding areas still have to be done.
Lastly, I worked on the African restaurant which is a bit like the center of the section. You are able to see the elephant habitat and the future savannah area from the terrace. It's not completely finished though.
Heaven - soooo pretty - thanks for this photos - bliss!I made some WIP shots (in the rain bc idk):
This is where the old giraffe building was. I gave the garden a little do-over and added the outlook post in the background:
Right, take two.
Here we have McLaren Park Zoo, set in a fictional location near the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
So aside from needing to pretty things up a bit here and there it's going well. I'm planning on redoing the otter enclosure from my last attempt over by the Kopje again (I'll make it smaller this time, too). For the rest, we'll see how it goes. I think it will be mostly simplistic enclosures (lots of chain-link fencing, basic viewing areas, etc.) with a few fancier ones thrown in (such as potentially a chimpanzee house, and probably giant pandas because I can't resist including them). I'm still working out where to include my giraffes, too, but I'm thinking I'll stick them behind a moat next to the lechwe and such.
Here we have McLaren Park Zoo, set in a fictional location near the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
Here's the basic entrance. I might still make it taller, or at least use a different roof, but at the time I wanted to throw it together. On the left are bike racks.
This is a 3-in-1 facility with the information centre, some drinks stands, and at the back unseen are the toilets. As you can obviously see there is a lot of open space around that will eventually be beautified with some landscaping.
The zoo is low budget but recently received some funding for a new vet clinic. Now the animals can be cared for in-house instead of needing to go off-site. The vet is also open to guest viewing for those curious to see animal checkups and the like. As you might have noticed, the blue-red-green-yellow colour scheme is going to be prevalent throughout the zoo's signage and decoration.
Heading to the right from the entrance is the Kopje, home to the aardvarks and meerkats. The meerkats started as a pair but recently the female had four offspring (legitimately the most I've had from any animal since I started playing this game, discounting reptiles), and all the babies are girls. Once they grow up I'll retire their dad and put in a new male to breed with all of them. The aardvarks both have relatively low fertility (stupid Sandbox Market is stupid) so I don't know how successful they'll be.
Heading to the left of the entrance you'll reach what will be known as "Hoofstock Row", home to various hoofed animals, starting here with the zebras. I realised I hadn't actually gotten far enough in a zoo recently to use the zebras, and I absolutely adore them, so I picked them first. I'm planning three more virtually identical habitats heading along the front of the zoo here, for the bongo, American bison, and sable antelope. All going well, the next edge of the zoo will have a river running through it and will be home to the new lechwe, water buffalo, rhinos (haven't decided what species yet...I'm feeling Indian for this zoo though), and probably the Thomson's gazelle. Because the zoo is low budget mixed-species habitats will be kept to a minimum for ease of management.
This is a 3-in-1 facility with the information centre, some drinks stands, and at the back unseen are the toilets. As you can obviously see there is a lot of open space around that will eventually be beautified with some landscaping.
The zoo is low budget but recently received some funding for a new vet clinic. Now the animals can be cared for in-house instead of needing to go off-site. The vet is also open to guest viewing for those curious to see animal checkups and the like. As you might have noticed, the blue-red-green-yellow colour scheme is going to be prevalent throughout the zoo's signage and decoration.
Heading to the right from the entrance is the Kopje, home to the aardvarks and meerkats. The meerkats started as a pair but recently the female had four offspring (legitimately the most I've had from any animal since I started playing this game, discounting reptiles), and all the babies are girls. Once they grow up I'll retire their dad and put in a new male to breed with all of them. The aardvarks both have relatively low fertility (stupid Sandbox Market is stupid) so I don't know how successful they'll be.
Heading to the left of the entrance you'll reach what will be known as "Hoofstock Row", home to various hoofed animals, starting here with the zebras. I realised I hadn't actually gotten far enough in a zoo recently to use the zebras, and I absolutely adore them, so I picked them first. I'm planning three more virtually identical habitats heading along the front of the zoo here, for the bongo, American bison, and sable antelope. All going well, the next edge of the zoo will have a river running through it and will be home to the new lechwe, water buffalo, rhinos (haven't decided what species yet...I'm feeling Indian for this zoo though), and probably the Thomson's gazelle. Because the zoo is low budget mixed-species habitats will be kept to a minimum for ease of management.
So aside from needing to pretty things up a bit here and there it's going well. I'm planning on redoing the otter enclosure from my last attempt over by the Kopje again (I'll make it smaller this time, too). For the rest, we'll see how it goes. I think it will be mostly simplistic enclosures (lots of chain-link fencing, basic viewing areas, etc.) with a few fancier ones thrown in (such as potentially a chimpanzee house, and probably giant pandas because I can't resist including them). I'm still working out where to include my giraffes, too, but I'm thinking I'll stick them behind a moat next to the lechwe and such.
So it's time for the proboscis monkey enclosure. Didn't have much time to play the last 2 days (but today!).
Yesterday I went to the cinema with friends for the first time since the pandemic began. It was madness...as if nothing had ever happened. We felt like we were the only ones who watched the whole film with a mask
But back to PZ.
I really wanted the proboscis monkeys to have a waterfall that flows into a pool and then continues through the zoo with a river.
The climbing frame isn't mine (I just don't like building these things). I adapted it a bit for myself with bamboo poles. At this point I would like to say that I find it a great pity that the ropes are not flexicolour.
So ladies and gentlemen.
It's time to throw the dice!
I'll stay in the tropical biome for now (not diced, I don't think tundra or something like that is so cool now)
and I roll a...
...
...
15
and the 15 is...
...
...
the bengal tiger
cool!
alright, see you later
Yesterday I went to the cinema with friends for the first time since the pandemic began. It was madness...as if nothing had ever happened. We felt like we were the only ones who watched the whole film with a mask
But back to PZ.
I really wanted the proboscis monkeys to have a waterfall that flows into a pool and then continues through the zoo with a river.
The climbing frame isn't mine (I just don't like building these things). I adapted it a bit for myself with bamboo poles. At this point I would like to say that I find it a great pity that the ropes are not flexicolour.
So ladies and gentlemen.
It's time to throw the dice!
I'll stay in the tropical biome for now (not diced, I don't think tundra or something like that is so cool now)
and I roll a...
...
...
15
and the 15 is...
...
...
the bengal tiger
cool!
alright, see you later
I haven't post here in a while because I'm really busy with an internship at the moment, so I rarely find the time and motivation to play PZ.
But yesterday and the weekend before I did a bit in Biopark. Instead of building a new habitat, I deleted the whole river boat track and changed the river and most of the middle section of my African area. I wasn't really satisfied with this island and I also wanted to have a clear circular route around the area which lead the visitors to all animals. Before it was necessary to either choose the island with the restaurant and flamingos or the hippo house (or you had to go back and use a path twice).
With the new route you will come to the new boat station first, then to the island and afterwards to the hippo house. Unfortunately it was therefore also necessary to rotate the hippo house around 180°, so I have to rebuild some things there as well. But I like the new layout of this area which is the main thing.
This was the layout before:
And this is the layout now:
I've also done the new boat station, though the surrounding areas still have to be done.
Lastly, I worked on the African restaurant which is a bit like the center of the section. You are able to see the elephant habitat and the future savannah area from the terrace. It's not completely finished though.
What's this building? It looks interesting.
Wow. All of a sudden PZ is infected with Durante-Monkey Fever