Looks a great start, I would maybe look at building a nice enough garden area in the entrance. Badger could be part of like a woodland entrance
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Great idea. I thought a fountain, but I've never made a good one, so maybe a garden and some statues? Hmm, there's a storm in my brain and it needs to get out and greet the world
Its a really good start mr Quell, no shame in that!
The first step to try it out is the most important part, improving the looks of the custom fences will come from alone.
For some improvements, decorations outside of the enclosures with some foliage allready goes a long way to make the zoo feel more alive and well.
For example imagine youd brown the earth around your local fauna enclosures, plant some red woods or other trees, some bramble bushes and nettles and im sure it will look great!
The first step to try it out is the most important part, improving the looks of the custom fences will come from alone.
For some improvements, decorations outside of the enclosures with some foliage allready goes a long way to make the zoo feel more alive and well.
For example imagine youd brown the earth around your local fauna enclosures, plant some red woods or other trees, some bramble bushes and nettles and im sure it will look great!
Will do, yes, especially after doing The Swamps, so that it sits a bit more flush
Yeah a garden with some statues sounds great. If I was building this I would:
- Stick to a north American temperate themed woodland garden
- Place down your statues with some nearby wooden benches (conservation ones would work great)
- Place down your trees of choosing, birch, ash and beech would work for a general forest without being too big to work with
- Custards trees half sunken into the ground for large bushes especially to block view of those staff buildings
- Small Taiga rocks near the statues for some character
- A mix of tall grass paint, bracken, lady fern, and buffalo grass/meadow grass to finish
- Obviously a flower garden replaces the above plants with more suitable colorful plants if wanting
Those will be great. I also need pine trees, but I'm not sure what kind we have up in Longview. Guess I'll research
Custard trees? Which are those?
The custard apple tree, 3 sizes of small bush like trees. This is the most useful landscaping tool ingame (imo) as it's a tree that functions as the perfect green bush to make forests look really dense when they are not. Alot of my San Diego zoo build pictures feature custard trees in the dense foliage. The key to the custard apple trees is sinking them half way down so they turn into a bush and we can't really see the trunk when sunken
Lots of rocks, uphill climbs and giant lemur signs - this is the madagascar habitat in the africa rocks area. This weeks addition sees 2 lemur habitats, a caracal habitat and a badger habitat added to the zoo. Yes the caracal and badger are stand-in animals for now. All the barriers here reminds me of how much i hate mesh barriers irl
Welcome to another Longview Zoo update, y'all.
The northeast Texas zoo is really growing now. Check out our new section: The Swamps
When you go right to head into The Swamps...
You find yourself at out new food court. Tacos, burgers and cold drinks, oh my...
Going further, you're greeted by our rascally raccoons. Say hello to them
Right in front are some American bullfrogs, safe from chefs worldwide...
Further down, meet our North American beavers. Lovely little builders, aren't they?
Next to them we have our American alligator enclosure, but it's still being built. We'll offer a sneak peek of our gator family, though:
After passing the future gator enclosure, you're met up by some diamondback terrapins...
Here is the general layout. Y'all can see the progress on our gator pond. Hopefully we will have it done by next update.
Thank y'all for y'all's support and donations. And don't forget to come and see the wild life of the wildlife here at the zoo...
The northeast Texas zoo is really growing now. Check out our new section: The Swamps
When you go right to head into The Swamps...
You find yourself at out new food court. Tacos, burgers and cold drinks, oh my...
Going further, you're greeted by our rascally raccoons. Say hello to them
Right in front are some American bullfrogs, safe from chefs worldwide...
Further down, meet our North American beavers. Lovely little builders, aren't they?
Next to them we have our American alligator enclosure, but it's still being built. We'll offer a sneak peek of our gator family, though:
After passing the future gator enclosure, you're met up by some diamondback terrapins...
Here is the general layout. Y'all can see the progress on our gator pond. Hopefully we will have it done by next update.
Thank y'all for y'all's support and donations. And don't forget to come and see the wild life of the wildlife here at the zoo...
Hopefully, this weekend I'll have time to finish the gators and also add some decor and plants to spruce up the place (no pun intended).
Rockwork, maybe some statues. I also need some benches and trash cans. Covered viewing areas?
Edit: I never realized how useful the buffalo grass is. Dang
Rockwork, maybe some statues. I also need some benches and trash cans. Covered viewing areas?
Edit: I never realized how useful the buffalo grass is. Dang
walkthrough gator habitat
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Got some really good work in, fixing up stuff around my zoo but something i really pushed the turbo button for was fencing and finally finish some of the unfinished custom fences around the zoo, with the gemsbock only needing the water barrier, the aardwarks being completly done for fencing and the emu and wallaby as well.
Starting of at the insect hotels, as you can allready see a good bit changed, most importantly me finishing up the fences and the new education center and indoor viewing for the emus and wallabys. Ceiling looks a bit scuffed but im allready proud enough to have build something in an oval shape in general.
Another shot for one of the 2 entry points for the Outback Outpost.
While its currently australia themed, the idear is that the theming of the building isnt strong so that it can just be swapped out if the inhabitants of the habitats ever have to be, for example for capybaras and rheas so you could just change the signs and make it south american "themed".
You can also see the gate that connects the habitats of the emus and wallabys. Rn its open, but this ay they can be seperated or even be circled through the enclosures to better use the space.
View from the inside on the wallaby side.
And a bit of greenery seperating the main path from the emu viewing area so that they are a bit more protected from the stress of being next to a main path.
And lastly, the promised piece reveal from the fridge, kitchen work space thing and the knife from last time!
As you can see i used the 1Meter Metal frames from the australia pack to align them into a box without the holes being visible, the work area was made by staff signs that have the same color for both slots, the handels are the europe packs window thing and the blade of the knife is a shovel.
Hope you like it!
Starting of at the insect hotels, as you can allready see a good bit changed, most importantly me finishing up the fences and the new education center and indoor viewing for the emus and wallabys. Ceiling looks a bit scuffed but im allready proud enough to have build something in an oval shape in general.
While its currently australia themed, the idear is that the theming of the building isnt strong so that it can just be swapped out if the inhabitants of the habitats ever have to be, for example for capybaras and rheas so you could just change the signs and make it south american "themed".
You can also see the gate that connects the habitats of the emus and wallabys. Rn its open, but this ay they can be seperated or even be circled through the enclosures to better use the space.
View from the inside on the wallaby side.
And a bit of greenery seperating the main path from the emu viewing area so that they are a bit more protected from the stress of being next to a main path.
And lastly, the promised piece reveal from the fridge, kitchen work space thing and the knife from last time!
As you can see i used the 1Meter Metal frames from the australia pack to align them into a box without the holes being visible, the work area was made by staff signs that have the same color for both slots, the handels are the europe packs window thing and the blade of the knife is a shovel.
Hope you like it!
After a hectic Christmas, I finally had some time to sit down this evening and work on Stringybark Zoo some more, making a start on the first section of the zoo beyond the entrance area, the Jungle Zone. Most of the other build showcases I've shown for this zoo have been largely complete (with both the inside and outside of enclosures being finished), but this area is very much a WIP so it isn't particularly pretty for now.
Before I got onto the new section itself, I built a small food truck area just across from the capuchins. The area behind the food trucks is planned to look out into one of the first habitats in the floodplains subsection of the Jungle Zone, most likely the saltwater crocodile.
For the first habitat in the Jungle Zone, I decided to go with the southern cassowary. As I just hinted at, the Jungle Zone is planned to be split across two smaller subsections, South-east Asia and The Floodplains, with this boardwalk leading on to the latter. The cassowary doesn't really fit in either subsection (despite what the game says it's really not an Asian animal at all) so it works well as an introductory animal to the zone. Stringybark Zoo has two cassowaries, a male and a female, but for realism's sake they're kept in two separate enclosures - if there's one thing cassowaries hate more than potential predators, it's other cassowaries. The two are only able to interact within their shared shelter, but even then are still separated by a mesh barrier.
The jungle zone is one of the more heavily themed areas of the zoo, with an almost entirely different selection of foliage - given that the east coast of Australia experiences mild snowless winters and hot summers, many tropical plants can be successfully grown outside with little issue, as they are in my local zoo (which doubles up as a botanic garden in some respects).
Before I got onto the new section itself, I built a small food truck area just across from the capuchins. The area behind the food trucks is planned to look out into one of the first habitats in the floodplains subsection of the Jungle Zone, most likely the saltwater crocodile.
For the first habitat in the Jungle Zone, I decided to go with the southern cassowary. As I just hinted at, the Jungle Zone is planned to be split across two smaller subsections, South-east Asia and The Floodplains, with this boardwalk leading on to the latter. The cassowary doesn't really fit in either subsection (despite what the game says it's really not an Asian animal at all) so it works well as an introductory animal to the zone. Stringybark Zoo has two cassowaries, a male and a female, but for realism's sake they're kept in two separate enclosures - if there's one thing cassowaries hate more than potential predators, it's other cassowaries. The two are only able to interact within their shared shelter, but even then are still separated by a mesh barrier.
The jungle zone is one of the more heavily themed areas of the zoo, with an almost entirely different selection of foliage - given that the east coast of Australia experiences mild snowless winters and hot summers, many tropical plants can be successfully grown outside with little issue, as they are in my local zoo (which doubles up as a botanic garden in some respects).
Awww, everyone is SO good at this! Noob question @DarthQuell why do you have player names in the top left of your pictures? Do you somehow play multi-player?
I started an Australian franchise zoo last night using the Australian themed stuff. I am not showing any close up pics as it looks pretty rubbish but I am not really sure what to do to improve it. I think I build too quickly, I need to have patience and slow down/plan and take more care.
I've got cassowarys on the left and then the habitat on the right has kangaroos and koalas. I did make the latter a walkthrough habitat but the peeps kept dropping horrid litter on the ground in there instead of using the placed bins, so I took that privilege away from them and they have to view from outside the fence lol.
I started an Australian franchise zoo last night using the Australian themed stuff. I am not showing any close up pics as it looks pretty rubbish but I am not really sure what to do to improve it. I think I build too quickly, I need to have patience and slow down/plan and take more care.
I've got cassowarys on the left and then the habitat on the right has kangaroos and koalas. I did make the latter a walkthrough habitat but the peeps kept dropping horrid litter on the ground in there instead of using the placed bins, so I took that privilege away from them and they have to view from outside the fence lol.
Well from the top it look completly fine.
Often habitats just need that extra touch of attention to detail to really pop, so dont worry you will also get better and better over time
