thats a nice looking cheetah habitat, actually does feel like several i have seen
What did you do in Planet Zoo today?
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The grass is the most underrated part of the grasslands dlc, I enjoy it more often than the actual animalsToday I made this Fallow Deer habitat next to the camel habitat.
I love to spamming around with the bison grass
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I can see the appeal for sure, but for me I absolutely hate it. So tedious placing a thousand pieces of grass down to create a convincing lawn. I know that it's technically more trouble than it would be worth to implement, but a new brush set for long grasses would have been phenomenal.
I added grizzly bears 
they enjoy a good swim and I now have a baby bear too.
Thought I'd share some random pics from around my franchise zoo. My builds are still not amazing but there is a definite improvement on what I used to do. I'm really, really enjoying this zoo as I have not restricted myself to certain animals or themes.
they enjoy a good swim and I now have a baby bear too.Thought I'd share some random pics from around my franchise zoo. My builds are still not amazing but there is a definite improvement on what I used to do. I'm really, really enjoying this zoo as I have not restricted myself to certain animals or themes.
Down by the entrance, with a fake play park.
Near the old entrance, which is no longer used. Here is where my first animals were placed, the beloved capybaras (access through the green keeper hut to the left).
One of the staff areas:
I added the butterfly house today also, but it is a download as I was totally uninspired to build my own.
Near the old entrance, which is no longer used. Here is where my first animals were placed, the beloved capybaras (access through the green keeper hut to the left).
One of the staff areas:
I added the butterfly house today also, but it is a download as I was totally uninspired to build my own.
Piece heavy would be arguably 500 or more for a single vehicle, most of the really nice cars from the workshop end up being like 1500 pieces
Yesterday, I had a vision about finally getting chameleons in the summer DLC, so I rushed to the Madagascar area of my Hotspots zoo to build a little exhibit house for them, before I continue advancing with the next enclosures and I forget to save some room for them and I regret it. I would use these bamboo wall so much if they weren't so flat and square, so that each bamboo stick had its own circle shape (at least some of its shape, due to performance?).
After that, I decided to design an Education board about African rhinos, to use it in the third African enclosure, where they will be housed alongside nyalas and warthogs. I simply found a nice infography about their poaching in South Africa, made it some graphical tweaks (mostly due to the image compression), and translated most of the texts to Planco language, as much as the lack of an updated dictionary allowed me (please Frontier, make a new one for PZ!). It can work as a replacement for Poaching or Traditional medicine education boards.
After a couple of productive hours, I called it a day
After that, I decided to design an Education board about African rhinos, to use it in the third African enclosure, where they will be housed alongside nyalas and warthogs. I simply found a nice infography about their poaching in South Africa, made it some graphical tweaks (mostly due to the image compression), and translated most of the texts to Planco language, as much as the lack of an updated dictionary allowed me (please Frontier, make a new one for PZ!). It can work as a replacement for Poaching or Traditional medicine education boards.
After a couple of productive hours, I called it a day
Thanks to the new DLC, I'm finally inspired to work on Stringybark Zoo again! Since the last time I posted here I have made a couple attempts at starting Little Europe, but on both occasions I did not get far before I scrapped everything I had done. However, with the new Tropical Pack bringing a whole host of Indonesian-themed building pieces as well as two new animals from the region, I was immediately inspired to start on the zoo's South-east Asia area, the second subsection of the Jungle Zone after the already completed Floodplains area.
Before I started on South-east Asia itself however, I had to do some additional work in the Floodplains to fence off the area adjoining the new subsection. Whilst doing so, I also created my first fully custom gate, which blocks off the staff area branching off from the main path. It's very simple and nothing to write home about, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
Once that was done, I began work on the entrance to South-east Asia. Like the rest of the zoo this area isn't going to be too heavily themed in regards to buildings, but I still want to integrate some of the new pieces to give it its own unique feel (this is also justified in-universe by this being one of the newer areas of Stringybark Zoo). It starts off with a simple little archway, bordered on the side by two large planters full of Bengal bamboo - I plan for bamboo to feature heavily throughout this area, mainly inspired by the south-east Asia area of the Adelaide Zoo. I also made use of the Kentia palms, which are probably my favourite of the new plants in both the 1.13 update and the Tropical Pack!
The first two animals I plan to add to this area are the Asian small-clawed otter and the binturong, so hopefully I get a chance to work on those soon! Additional species planned include the sun bear, Indian peafowl, lar gibbon (maybe also the siamang depending on how much space I have), Asian water monitor and Komodo dragon.
Before I started on South-east Asia itself however, I had to do some additional work in the Floodplains to fence off the area adjoining the new subsection. Whilst doing so, I also created my first fully custom gate, which blocks off the staff area branching off from the main path. It's very simple and nothing to write home about, but I'm quite happy with how it turned out.
Once that was done, I began work on the entrance to South-east Asia. Like the rest of the zoo this area isn't going to be too heavily themed in regards to buildings, but I still want to integrate some of the new pieces to give it its own unique feel (this is also justified in-universe by this being one of the newer areas of Stringybark Zoo). It starts off with a simple little archway, bordered on the side by two large planters full of Bengal bamboo - I plan for bamboo to feature heavily throughout this area, mainly inspired by the south-east Asia area of the Adelaide Zoo. I also made use of the Kentia palms, which are probably my favourite of the new plants in both the 1.13 update and the Tropical Pack!
The first two animals I plan to add to this area are the Asian small-clawed otter and the binturong, so hopefully I get a chance to work on those soon! Additional species planned include the sun bear, Indian peafowl, lar gibbon (maybe also the siamang depending on how much space I have), Asian water monitor and Komodo dragon.
Before diving deeper into the tropical pack, I've just finished the elephant house. I've decided to build a new roof and it took a few days to come up with a good idea.
Beside the elephants some meerkats and sacred scarab beetle live in the building. In addition, I've added a lot of signs for education. I found a cool elephant skeleton in the workshop which also perfectly fits here.
bull area
herd area
meerkat
upper area:
Beside the elephants some meerkats and sacred scarab beetle live in the building. In addition, I've added a lot of signs for education. I found a cool elephant skeleton in the workshop which also perfectly fits here.
herd area
meerkat
upper area:
Looks very good! Great work, FiniOver the last few days I build this huge Greenhouse for the Butterflys (I love to build for them)
I could imagine that there are some day ... maybeeeee ... little songbirds in this house aswell
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Started working on a new taiga franchise zoo, Kodiak Park. Still want to do some detailing but pretty happy with it so far. Just have to go in the back now and fix some of the ugly placeholders I put in to make some money to fund building the entrance.
I haven't played in forever. New Pokemon games came out and I got Crusader Kings III for Christmas so I was spamming that for a while, but I got the new DLC yesterday and remembered that the Grasslands Pack had a few animals I really liked in it and thought, man, I want to play Planet Zoo again. Unfortunately I woke up at 3.30am this morning too hungover to find it anything other than overwhelming after such a long absence. I didn't even drink that much! It was my birthday so I allowed myself an extra beer and glass of champagne, and apparently that was enough to give me a pounding headache.
I had a look through some of the new scenery though and I really wish they would just implement a 'blank' wall set that we can apply textures to instead of the construction menu being so bloated. I mean functionally all the wall pieces are identical, they just look different (perhaps the thinner glass, bamboo, and so on sets are a bit different but you get my point). Having just one or two blank sets that come with a dropdown for the themed textures would be a lifesaver at this point.
I had a look through some of the new scenery though and I really wish they would just implement a 'blank' wall set that we can apply textures to instead of the construction menu being so bloated. I mean functionally all the wall pieces are identical, they just look different (perhaps the thinner glass, bamboo, and so on sets are a bit different but you get my point). Having just one or two blank sets that come with a dropdown for the themed textures would be a lifesaver at this point.
I think the texture menu is a good idea.
As for what I did: Started yet another zoo in Franchise. I am still to this day as amazed with the lighting and weather and landscapes of this game as back in 2019. Also, my avatar visited the zoo so I took a picture of her with a Red Deer, Olimpia. b
IRL you should be respectful of large deer (I don't even know if keepers really enter the same space as them) and certainly not wear sandals around them! haha
As for what I did: Started yet another zoo in Franchise. I am still to this day as amazed with the lighting and weather and landscapes of this game as back in 2019. Also, my avatar visited the zoo so I took a picture of her with a Red Deer, Olimpia. b
IRL you should be respectful of large deer (I don't even know if keepers really enter the same space as them) and certainly not wear sandals around them! haha
I have to say that overall I am finding the Tropical DLC and latest update pretty underwhelming.
There is so much that I want to do but the incredibly limited biome texture and map options are just stifling my creativity. And we really, really need a decent mesh building set.
Anyway, I made a gibbon island but the gibbons were so tiny they just seemed completely lost. So I tried to find a 100% sized individual and literally went through over a hundred without finding one.
On a positive note, I have set myself a challenge of completing a zoo by the next DLC and am pretty confident of being able to do this.
There is so much that I want to do but the incredibly limited biome texture and map options are just stifling my creativity. And we really, really need a decent mesh building set.
Anyway, I made a gibbon island but the gibbons were so tiny they just seemed completely lost. So I tried to find a 100% sized individual and literally went through over a hundred without finding one.
On a positive note, I have set myself a challenge of completing a zoo by the next DLC and am pretty confident of being able to do this.
Well, I managed to start something. Here's all I've been able to accomplish on the entrance;
Now I have the dreaded task of making a roof that looks good. I'm not too bothered on the interior (worrying about that isn't my style) but I hate building roofs. Plus I want to fit in the sign with the zoo name above the doors, which in my experience complicates adding a roof even further.
I always find the starting part kind of tedious. Entrance, staff area, vet clinic, restrooms, some food and drink or a restaurant, gift shops, etc. Boring. I always look forward to the habitat building. I'm going for my 'plain but functional' style, since it means I can add a lot quickly and focus on making complex habitats for complex species such as primates, elephants, and aquatic species.
I think I'm going to start with a little "backyard critters" area. Red foxes, badgers, skunks, raccoons. This is a British zoo and they don't tend to focus on those species but I've never used the fox or raccoon before (I mean...I've never particularly wanted to, to be fair) so I figure I would. A little plain climbing frame for the raccoons might be fun to try, and I want to experiment with creating small but workable nest boxes that I can use later for lemurs and capuchins and the like.
I also really want to build the classic Australia walkthrough habitat with the wallabies and emus. Makes me wish we had rainbow lorikeets in the WE, though, that would really tie such a section together super nicely and they are among the most ubiquitous birds in captivity. I also wish we had an Australian monitor instead of the AWM; the lace monitor would be ideal. I hate trying to build small while including water, which is why I always try and avoid the platypus and dwarf caiman (I do want to add a koala house, with the wombats, so maybe I'll have a crack at a tiny platypus enclosure like I have before, we'll see how long my motivation lasts).
Now I have the dreaded task of making a roof that looks good. I'm not too bothered on the interior (worrying about that isn't my style) but I hate building roofs. Plus I want to fit in the sign with the zoo name above the doors, which in my experience complicates adding a roof even further.
I always find the starting part kind of tedious. Entrance, staff area, vet clinic, restrooms, some food and drink or a restaurant, gift shops, etc. Boring. I always look forward to the habitat building. I'm going for my 'plain but functional' style, since it means I can add a lot quickly and focus on making complex habitats for complex species such as primates, elephants, and aquatic species.
I think I'm going to start with a little "backyard critters" area. Red foxes, badgers, skunks, raccoons. This is a British zoo and they don't tend to focus on those species but I've never used the fox or raccoon before (I mean...I've never particularly wanted to, to be fair) so I figure I would. A little plain climbing frame for the raccoons might be fun to try, and I want to experiment with creating small but workable nest boxes that I can use later for lemurs and capuchins and the like.
I also really want to build the classic Australia walkthrough habitat with the wallabies and emus. Makes me wish we had rainbow lorikeets in the WE, though, that would really tie such a section together super nicely and they are among the most ubiquitous birds in captivity. I also wish we had an Australian monitor instead of the AWM; the lace monitor would be ideal. I hate trying to build small while including water, which is why I always try and avoid the platypus and dwarf caiman (I do want to add a koala house, with the wombats, so maybe I'll have a crack at a tiny platypus enclosure like I have before, we'll see how long my motivation lasts).
Finally tried the new stuff, not impressed by the animals mostly, but the foliage is awesome and came just in time for me decorating my tropical house.
Also i know have to make the hard decision who is allowed to stay with the okapis, does anyone here have opinions on that?
