Well this week is going to be a difficult one, I thought let's build a quick otter habitat in my calgary zoo build to speed things along and then progress on my very challenging aquarium build for the houston zoo.... yeah no. This north american otter habitat is currently one of my longest builds yet, with very complex building in the log cabin theme with an extensive interior aswell and building an overhead tunnel for otters (which cant climb) between 2 habitats also including underwater viewing of course. The work in progress result however is becoming one of my best north american themed builds just at a painfully slow rate. Plus I also found a nice use for the 3d printed walls as a riverbed theme.
What did you do in Planet Zoo today?
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Looks really nice. I wish I could properly build currently. Struggling so much with placing Plants in the Frog Room of my Pet Sanctuary because a few Days ago, I couldn't properly move my Mouse anymore and it's annoying to use the Touchpad for Movements.
Just looked at the Underside though and noticed how dusty it is. Maybe it works after cleaning
But I'm not sure if that's really the Reason because it didn't get worse gradually.
Would definitely love to see more of your Zoo. It looks really good
Frog yeah!!! Let's go. That was the Problem
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Work in Progress Pictures of my Pet Sanctuary:
Outdoor Area:
Aviary:
Snake Room:
Lizard Room (need to make that one bigger because I didn't think of the Monitor Lizards earlier today):
Frog Room:
Aquarium/Paludarium Room:
There's also a Invertebrate Room but that one's not that impressive. Maybe the Sanctuary will get its own Thread once it's finished
Outdoor Area:
Aviary:
Snake Room:
Lizard Room (need to make that one bigger because I didn't think of the Monitor Lizards earlier today):
Frog Room:
Aquarium/Paludarium Room:
There's also a Invertebrate Room but that one's not that impressive. Maybe the Sanctuary will get its own Thread once it's finished
So after a looong break due to uni stress and an injured hand im finally playing again the last few days.
I looked at the new animals but i havent really changed anything in the petting zoo yet. I also have a strong desire to build a red panda habitat, but i also havent started that yet.
Instead ive been overcome with a large desire to finish and rework some old stuff first and culprit Number 1 that bugs me for a while is this charming fellow:
My tropical house
Things that i dont like about this guy:
So i got to work.
At first and whats allready visisble in the picture is that i started to modify the hull by adding an extra recangular room and roof in the center to hold a backstage area and some air conditioning.
This is directily inspired by the captain and his houston zoo build and while i havent used anything from his amazing air conditioning pack as i try to strictly use only blueprints i created myself, i will look at their pictures for research purposes to build an entire air conditioning room for my own purposes to copy and paste from in the future, but for now the simple ac pieces in the game will have to do the trick atleast for the outside.
Next up the not tropical hall room. I hate it. It took up about a third of the house and was just a mess of paths, an ugly implied aviary and the indoor viewing of the pigmy hippos.
No theme, no direction, no idears for decorations, not even airlocks or doors, this room was just a mess. A big big mess that i couldnt get myself to work on.
So i completly reworked it from the ground up. First i scrapped the ugly aviary and started building a backstage part. My zoo is a sandbox zoo through and through and keeper areas are often either implied or just not existing as building them myself is more fun and fitting a 4x4x4 cube or worse can be quite the struggle, but this places was the perfect opportuinity to add a staff room, a keeper hut and a trade center. Above the gray beton line is a second floor where most of the ac units will be build in.
Overall by cutting away ~a third of the space it became a much more manageable task to decorate it so i will propaply continue with that soon.
Lastly i also started to continue work on the area behind the house. I allways knew what i wanted here, a rock garden filled with flowers, scrubs and free roaming peafowl aswell as a restaurant and some seating surrounded by a water moat with the view on the outdoor sections of the lemures and the mixed fallow deer gibbon habitat.
I did do many baby steps for that, with the surrounding stone walls being done in like 4-5 different sessions spanning over atleast 1,5 years, the lemures outdoor section only being added a few months ago and the small restaurant also being renovated a little just around the release of eurasia, but today i finally finished the rock walls and decoration on the lemure side, going from the right path of waterplants to behind the restaurant and i got to say its by far the best part of this area, meaning ill propaply gonna replant the other side aswell, but its really worth it. You shouldnt be afraid of destroying what youve done if you know you can and will put something better in its place and ill surly will do so here.
I especally loved the new butterlfy plants we got with the barnyard pack and i even doted some of them around the other side aswell allready. Now all that needs to be done is decorate the center, some more details on the restaurants interior and some touch ups on the planting of the other side and then this visitor area is finally done and most likly the best and most beautiful in my entire zoo. Gonna keep ya all updated when that happens
I looked at the new animals but i havent really changed anything in the petting zoo yet. I also have a strong desire to build a red panda habitat, but i also havent started that yet.
Instead ive been overcome with a large desire to finish and rework some old stuff first and culprit Number 1 that bugs me for a while is this charming fellow:
My tropical house
Things that i dont like about this guy:
- one of my oldest buildings with the most boring shell still in my zoo
- space inefficent
- walkthrough exhibit
- Giant building but next to no backstage
- ugly hub room
- bad wellfare for half the animals
- unfinished outdoor section behind it for ages, atleast for a year where i know what i want to build but just havent
- ugly outdoor gibbon climbing frame
- not even an implied connection between the shelter areas of the crocs and otters on the left and the rest of the house for keepers, making them walk quite the journey across a third of the zoo to get into the rest of the building
- many old flaws from being among the oldest builds in my zoo that i havent touched up yet
So i got to work.
At first and whats allready visisble in the picture is that i started to modify the hull by adding an extra recangular room and roof in the center to hold a backstage area and some air conditioning.
This is directily inspired by the captain and his houston zoo build and while i havent used anything from his amazing air conditioning pack as i try to strictly use only blueprints i created myself, i will look at their pictures for research purposes to build an entire air conditioning room for my own purposes to copy and paste from in the future, but for now the simple ac pieces in the game will have to do the trick atleast for the outside.
Next up the not tropical hall room. I hate it. It took up about a third of the house and was just a mess of paths, an ugly implied aviary and the indoor viewing of the pigmy hippos.
No theme, no direction, no idears for decorations, not even airlocks or doors, this room was just a mess. A big big mess that i couldnt get myself to work on.
So i completly reworked it from the ground up. First i scrapped the ugly aviary and started building a backstage part. My zoo is a sandbox zoo through and through and keeper areas are often either implied or just not existing as building them myself is more fun and fitting a 4x4x4 cube or worse can be quite the struggle, but this places was the perfect opportuinity to add a staff room, a keeper hut and a trade center. Above the gray beton line is a second floor where most of the ac units will be build in.
Overall by cutting away ~a third of the space it became a much more manageable task to decorate it so i will propaply continue with that soon.
Lastly i also started to continue work on the area behind the house. I allways knew what i wanted here, a rock garden filled with flowers, scrubs and free roaming peafowl aswell as a restaurant and some seating surrounded by a water moat with the view on the outdoor sections of the lemures and the mixed fallow deer gibbon habitat.
I did do many baby steps for that, with the surrounding stone walls being done in like 4-5 different sessions spanning over atleast 1,5 years, the lemures outdoor section only being added a few months ago and the small restaurant also being renovated a little just around the release of eurasia, but today i finally finished the rock walls and decoration on the lemure side, going from the right path of waterplants to behind the restaurant and i got to say its by far the best part of this area, meaning ill propaply gonna replant the other side aswell, but its really worth it. You shouldnt be afraid of destroying what youve done if you know you can and will put something better in its place and ill surly will do so here.
I especally loved the new butterlfy plants we got with the barnyard pack and i even doted some of them around the other side aswell allready. Now all that needs to be done is decorate the center, some more details on the restaurants interior and some touch ups on the planting of the other side and then this visitor area is finally done and most likly the best and most beautiful in my entire zoo. Gonna keep ya all updated when that happens
Currently continuing my new Zoo which is located in northern Texas.
My Headcannon for this Enclosure is that the Animals were rescued from a nearby Hunting Ranch
My Headcannon for this Enclosure is that the Animals were rescued from a nearby Hunting Ranch
I thought they've added a dark Springbok Morph which would've been nice for that Enclosure. But it was just a Piebald Springbok. They really need to fix some of the IconsCreated a really nice Armadillo Enclosure
Today in Planet Zoo I cried. I cried big big tears. I kept getting auto-save failure notices on the screen so I tried a manual save. Another error message. I start panicking. I tried to open one of the auto saves. Another error message. So I load up my other zoo to see if it’s the whole game and the other zoo loads up just fine. So, I reloaded the previous zoo to see if it was functioning again. When it loaded, my entire tropical biome zoo I had been working on for 2 months and had JUST completed the layout for a boat ride through 8 different rainforest habitats had been replaced by an empty grasslands map. Y'all my entire zoo is GONE. 
Ouch. Feel for you mate.Today in Planet Zoo I cried. I cried big big tears. I kept getting auto-save failure notices on the screen so I tried a manual save. Another error message. I start panicking. I tried to open one of the auto saves. Another error message. So I load up my other zoo to see if it’s the whole game and the other zoo loads up just fine. So, I reloaded the previous zoo to see if it was functioning again. When it loaded, my entire tropical biome zoo I had been working on for 2 months and had JUST completed the layout for a boat ride through 8 different rainforest habitats had been replaced by an empty grasslands map. Y'all my entire zoo is GONE.
Today in Planet Zoo I cried. I cried big big tears. I kept getting auto-save failure notices on the screen so I tried a manual save. Another error message. I start panicking. I tried to open one of the auto saves. Another error message. So I load up my other zoo to see if it’s the whole game and the other zoo loads up just fine. So, I reloaded the previous zoo to see if it was functioning again. When it loaded, my entire tropical biome zoo I had been working on for 2 months and had JUST completed the layout for a boat ride through 8 different rainforest habitats had been replaced by an empty grasslands map. Y'all my entire zoo is GONE.
Sounds terrible. I hope, you can get it back somehow started the Construction of a Gorilla House 
Not sure yet though what it should look like on the Outside.
Might paint the Walls green
Looks great. I love the concrete look.
Not sure yet though what it should look like on the Outside.
Might paint the Walls green
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Aw man that sucks.Today in Planet Zoo I cried. I cried big big tears. I kept getting auto-save failure notices on the screen so I tried a manual save. Another error message. I start panicking. I tried to open one of the auto saves. Another error message. So I load up my other zoo to see if it’s the whole game and the other zoo loads up just fine. So, I reloaded the previous zoo to see if it was functioning again. When it loaded, my entire tropical biome zoo I had been working on for 2 months and had JUST completed the layout for a boat ride through 8 different rainforest habitats had been replaced by an empty grasslands map. Y'all my entire zoo is GONE.
Happend to me in the past aswell. File got corrupted while saving and was just gone.
Since then i religiously make a new safe file after every building session, would recommend you to something similar so you dont lose any zoos ever again
Yeah, I’m definitely gonna have to be more systematic about it now because if I lose my new zoo I will be crushed.Aw man that sucks.
Happend to me in the past aswell. File got corrupted while saving and was just gone.
Since then i religiously make a new safe file after every building session, would recommend you to something similar so you dont lose any zoos ever again
Built a wolf habitat I am proud of
Here's a happy little wolf
and probably my favorite part is this fence I made.
Here's a happy little wolf
and probably my favorite part is this fence I made.
Love the fence.
THX, made it for a separate wolf habitat a while ago and while I have always loved the fence, the habitat I made using it did not work out so I just waited to use it until I had some inspiration, then I made this. I am not sure if the wolf statues can have their color changed, but if they can, I definitely will.
I just which the chain link was not a 2d object because it makes it a pain to build with.
Pretty sure you can change the colour. I’m going to try and make a fence like that myself.