What did you do in Planet Zoo today?

[Ounze]

Well, did some in depth poking around on my big franchise zoo. If I sell all spare animals, instead of releasing to wild, I can still turn a profit, flipping a deficit of 50k a year to a net gain of 11k. The negative in the year just prior is because I accidentally unpaused on the 31st of Dec before selling the spare animals collected over the year. Only new stuff I have added since whenever I last worked on this were Old world swallowtail, European peacock butterfly, Danube crested newt, and Fire Salamander. I found that the Monarch and Cloudless sulphur population had some how collapsed, so I restarted them, and hopefully with them, and the exhibit animals, along with catching up on animal research, might help get me back in the black without selling every spare animal. I might have a decent stock of anniversary event animals, and cc credits, but I can't pay staff with those.
Barring that, I'll need to continue expanding my India and Central/South America sections since I have extra entrances in those areas, as well as finish North Africa, and my Europe sections. Still leaves SE Asia, Oceania, the Serengeti and Central Africa sections to eventually plan if I can get the zoo to turn a profit again consistently. Barring that, I may have to in depth go over every single food and gift stand and every item within to raise prices where I can.

For an interesting comparison, my IRL local zoo, Oregon Zoo, is about 259,014. So I'm at about half that in size, and much less in species diversity and animal count, but most of those aren't on display anyways.

 

[Marvinb]

One thing i noticed is that i think ive never been to a zoo that didnt have an active construction site somewhere in the park, be it building something new or renovating something old.
Real zoos are ever changing and ever improving, so i thought it would be a nice touch to incorporate an intentionally unfinished enclosure into my zoo. What said infinished enclosure will end up being im not sure yet, so i settled for a new african savanna yard as a placeholder for now.

 

[Hugo98]

On the other site of the camel stable, I've built a habitat for a small group of alpacas.

 

[bkfireshark]

Lots of busy work. Trying to control the Mute Swan and King Penguin populations. Constantly telling keepers to clean the Peafowl and Gemsbok exhibits. Refreshing the shop for a new male Dromedary Camel. Only new thing I built was the Reindeer habitat in my new Arctic Floes region, planning for Polar Bears is gonna be a nightmare.

 

[Hugo98]

Today I started something that I wanted to do for a while: a classical ibex mountain, inspired by the ibex mountain in Zoo Berlin.

Spoiler: Ibex Mountain Zoo Berlin

source: https://beutelwolf-blog.de/zoo-berlin-4/steinbockfelsen-zooberlin

As you can see, they can use the whole mountain to the top Definitely one of the animals with the best traversable area in the game!

 

[PlanetJameson]

I’ve been hard at work on the new South America section of Alden Woods Zoo. The area is home to habitats for Llama, Jaguar, Maned Wolf, a huge walk through habitat for Capuchin Monkeys, Giant Anteaters, and Capybara and a walk through exhibit trail featuring 1 indoor and 1 outdoor butterfly exhibit as well as one for the Sloths. I did also include free range peafowl even though they’re not the right continent. They just make the area a little extra special. The walkthrough habitat is quite large so I’ll give it its own post when it’s complete.

Entrance into the area with a Capuchin Canopy Cafe and CapuchINFO guest services

The main plaza and Llama habitat

Jaguar habitat with underwater viewing and animal talk

This building is 3 things:
Jaguar Jargon animal talk, free range peafowl shelter and tunnel as well as food and drinks for when guests exit the humidity of the sloth and butterfly houses.

 

[Hugo98]

I've finished the ibex mountain and did some planting around. Just have to work on the elevated viewing area on the backsite which will be also a viewing area into the markhor habitat which I will build next.
Anyways, I really really like the outcome so far.

This is now the first view when you enter the zoo:

From the site of the camels you see this:

And from the other site towards the city:

Overview of the zoo so far (alpaca habitat in the upper left corner is cut off though)

 

[KoenZoo]

Big thanks to Marvinb his parking collection! Second time using it now and it keeps adding so much realism to the entrance, that it is way more fun to build it. I've put the guest barriers under the ground, so the guests are using the crosswalk and enter the zoo via the entrance (other lane is for the exit)

 

[Cooper_yang]

Today is a special day, because the mod of one of my favorite cats, the Asian Golden Cat, is officially completed. This cat with the most fur colors is definitely one of the rarest zoo collections. I built a habitat for them, but accidentally built it too big, which makes this habitat suitable for many cats, such as clouded leopards, leopards, etc. But no matter what, today is a happy day.

 

[Cooper_yang]

I will officially reserve this exhibit for the leopards, and the Asian golden cats will get a more suitable habitat for them. Today I completed the indoor habitat, the animal enclosure, and the backstage that visitors cannot see.

 

[KoenZoo]

Hereby a preview of the entrance of my zoo or should I say the preview to the showcase of all projects Marvinb has put on the Steam workshop? The shed is filled with items from his backstage storage and construction site pack and also used his parking lot pack.

Though I also let my own creativity roam freely. I used a lot of the staff buildings to add realistic windows to the entrance and the gates are possible to move open or closed. For the staff gate there is a key pad next to it, making the gate open. There is also a small garden for vegetables. And when I saw the B or M from the Arctic pack, the name of the zoo quickly became Beesten Boel (meaning something as a bunch of animals).

 

[Aramar]

I'm crazy and started a new zoo when there's a new DLC on the horizon...

 

[Cooper_yang]

I continued to expand the backstage area and added three habitats of about 200 square meters, which are all connected by elevated passages (of course, its functions in the game are not as complete as in reality). These are invisible to visitors, and sensitive felines can get "rotation breaks."

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

history time: last saturday i was working in my zoo when the game crashed, no worries, my old laptop isn't exactly the best machine out there so i always expect crashes, however this time the save simply would keep crashing whenever i tried to open it, so i spend the rest of weekend trying to open the zoo without success, eventually i give up and "accepted" that the game was either corrupted or in a state where my pc can't load it and then i decided to do something else.

Yesterday however i decided to try to "fix" the problem and so i open my steam manager to see if i could potentially un-corrupt the file, just to steam tell me everything was fine, i them try and load the save again, even with me repeating Vaas insanity speech... just to the game open normally, which really make me doubt about my sanity, lol.

Anyway, heres a WIP for the new Great plains area

(The tropicalia area isn't complete btw, but because hippos + primates are the remaining species and they are quite expensive (plus the hipo habitat being humoungous), alongside with the Dier zoo currently being low on money i decided to tackle this area to bring more money)

 

[Frowerssx]

I finally managed to build the spectacled bear enclosure in Kelbrook Zoo, here is the outside part:

This is their shelter/cafe which I have named Bear House (I am so creative with names ):

Afterward, I got inspired and after roughly two weeks of work, I finished this blank area today:

This is in another direction, but this is what the blank area looks like now (if you would like to see a certain enclosure let me know):

 

[Frowerssx]

If anyone is wondering, this is what Kelbrook Zoo currently looks like in its entirety. The area I have circled blue is where future me will rebuild something I haven't planned yet, while the area I circled red will soon be rebuilt into a petting farm. While, the orange area is where I still need to refurbish:

So, the plan is to do the petting farm first (red area) to see how big that will be and if it cuts into the blue area. Then, I'll refurbish the orange area and then plan the blue area (idk if that made any sense)

 

[Cooper_yang]

I made an entrance. As a Chinese, this is actually my first time to build a Chinese garden style entrance building.

 

[KoenZoo]

The part outside of the zoo is starting to get ready... On the right you can see some houses with private parking places and a public park in front of it.

 

[TheYeti]

I've made quite some progress the past week. Though I had little time yesterday, I put together a simple toilet building that I think may get some adjustments later on:

 

[Aramar]

I'm trying to better plan my zoo this time, so I started doing the tedious parts first, like the parking lot and bus arrival so that I don't have problems with the lack of space in the future.