What did you do in Planet Zoo today?
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Oooops I did it again
Work has finally started on omaha's desert dome interior, a look at the namib desert, the african portion of the dome. So far it includes a fennec fox cave habitat (working at 130m2), and a sand dune area showcasing the scenery of the namib desert with some unique plants like the quiver tree and the welwitschia
You know whats the only thing more fun then planet ceiling?
If your answer was planet flooring your correct!
After completing the basic ceiling and surrounding wall of one half of my tropical house, i took up the next step of figuring out what to put under there so that i can finish my currently very hole filled walls with more specialised tiles of walls, gates, windows or whatever else so that i can directly copy and paste them over for the second half.
This let to about 1 hour of trying and scrapping an idear, 1 hour of actually building once i settled on another idear and then another hour trying to make the trifecta of blocking each other (terrain, water, path) to get along without peaking through my custom floor, but hey now that the outlines are in the details can follow suit!
My Zoo is based on the idear of repurposed habitats and buildings in a way to up there well fare, so i tried to orient myself on some of the older tropical houses i know, and something that ties them all together are concrete, bricks and lots of them. My main inspiration is a certanly by now destroyed building, which was the first of its kind with for the time revoluonary husbandry, using moaths instead of cages and more spacious for the time indoor areas to give less of a claustrophobic vibe, but to be fair to the real building i did shrink the space quite a bit more to get my point across of this being old ass not suitable anymore habitats.
Got a guess what kind of house this was with which main inhabitants? As a little hint, there will be a third habitat in the style joining on the other half of the house (if i dont mix up my plans again lol) and the moats wernt allways filled with water
If your answer was planet flooring your correct!
After completing the basic ceiling and surrounding wall of one half of my tropical house, i took up the next step of figuring out what to put under there so that i can finish my currently very hole filled walls with more specialised tiles of walls, gates, windows or whatever else so that i can directly copy and paste them over for the second half.
This let to about 1 hour of trying and scrapping an idear, 1 hour of actually building once i settled on another idear and then another hour trying to make the trifecta of blocking each other (terrain, water, path) to get along without peaking through my custom floor, but hey now that the outlines are in the details can follow suit!
My Zoo is based on the idear of repurposed habitats and buildings in a way to up there well fare, so i tried to orient myself on some of the older tropical houses i know, and something that ties them all together are concrete, bricks and lots of them. My main inspiration is a certanly by now destroyed building, which was the first of its kind with for the time revoluonary husbandry, using moaths instead of cages and more spacious for the time indoor areas to give less of a claustrophobic vibe, but to be fair to the real building i did shrink the space quite a bit more to get my point across of this being old ass not suitable anymore habitats.
Got a guess what kind of house this was with which main inhabitants? As a little hint, there will be a third habitat in the style joining on the other half of the house (if i dont mix up my plans again lol) and the moats wernt allways filled with water
Great parking lot!The parking lot is almost finished - I love it
Can't one of the modders do some car probs?
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I'm amazed the game has been out for more than 5 years and it still feels like some of us have never actually built further than the zoo entrance
I'm the opposite. I've never built a zoo entrance but i have built several enclosures.
I’m feeling genuinely torn. Although I’m actually much more of an autumn-winter person than a summer person I feel like doing something summery and escapist at the moment.
Australian animals are some of my favourites and the wombat is one of my favourite animals in the game, I find it very calming to watch them wandering about and even access the burrow I built with a viewing window and curl up for a nap.
But there are lots of animals I have never really built for that look great like addax, wild ass and porcupines. In general I really like the desert antelopes and I’d like to do something with them too.
Australian animals are some of my favourites and the wombat is one of my favourite animals in the game, I find it very calming to watch them wandering about and even access the burrow I built with a viewing window and curl up for a nap.
But there are lots of animals I have never really built for that look great like addax, wild ass and porcupines. In general I really like the desert antelopes and I’d like to do something with them too.
They do perfectly well in temperate environments and even tropical, so there's no reason to leave them out of any zoo if you want to include them.
Anyway, my own progress on my zoo has stalled somewhat. I've been somewhat distracted by Planet Coaster 2, but more than that I keep wanting to rework things or I keep getting new ideas and then I feel paralyzed. Right now it's still just the giraffe and rhino paddocks (the wildebeest have been moved in with the rhinos, so the giraffes now only share their space with zebras and ostriches). I'm going to put the oryxes I originally had with the rhinos in their own paddock (probably with dama gazelles), and then leave the lechwe out until I eventually build a little wetlands area (hippos, flamingos, lechwe).
But then, I want to include a waterway through the zoo, with a large lake and some islands for some primates (macaques, one of the gibbons, one of the lemurs), so I need to think about where that will go. I also want to do a "northern cats" area with cougars (which I've never used before), Siberian tigers, and Amur leopards (six habitats in total) but it will require a ton of terrain work. Sometimes infinite possibilities are a hindrance!
In honor of my very first zoo which was a desert franchise zoo, I've started a new project. I've been mostly a franchise player, but I've started this zoo in sandbox mode. Set money to 25k and conservation credits to 50. I've played franchise for so long that the 40k & 300CC you start with became just too easy for me. I've also turned research on, and it's been fun playing with limited pieces.
Basically, I've turned sandbox into challenge mode.
It's called Arani Zoo.
Entrance animals are African penguins. Just a very simple enclosure. As a side note, I know a lot of players are annoyed with the amount of foliage the animals can have before the game decides that it's too much (or incorrect foliage), but I've always found it a challenge to try to manage the correct amount of foliage. Even if it's unrealistic (I don't really play realistic most of the time, I just go with the flow).
The path to the left side is where I'll start a South American section. The first habitat is the maned wolf because I've never built for them. I really wanted to make it feel like you're in this jungle on an elevated path. This enclosure is probably one of my best work, I really like it so far. It still needs a lot of work. And rocks. Lots of rocks. And foliage.
Overview of the zoo so far.
Basically, I've turned sandbox into challenge mode.
It's called Arani Zoo.
I made up the name, but after googling if it actually means anything, I've found out it means a few different things: it's used as a name or surrname in India, Iran, Italy and Azerbaijan. There's also a city in Bolivia and India, and even a river called Arani in India. A spelling with double A's (Aarani) is a goddess Laxmi in Hindi, and "sun" or "fire" in Tamil. Apparently, it also means "beautiful" in Indigenous Australian languages. All of it is so cool!
Entrance animals are African penguins. Just a very simple enclosure. As a side note, I know a lot of players are annoyed with the amount of foliage the animals can have before the game decides that it's too much (or incorrect foliage), but I've always found it a challenge to try to manage the correct amount of foliage. Even if it's unrealistic (I don't really play realistic most of the time, I just go with the flow).
The path to the left side is where I'll start a South American section. The first habitat is the maned wolf because I've never built for them. I really wanted to make it feel like you're in this jungle on an elevated path. This enclosure is probably one of my best work, I really like it so far. It still needs a lot of work. And rocks. Lots of rocks. And foliage.
Overview of the zoo so far.
Overplannig and Analysis Paralysis can be a real issue that really dampens motivation.
Imo a rather good way to lessen it is to a screenshot from up high and draw on it rough outlines for the layout of the zoo and then choosing the idear you feel like working on the most in the moment from those. It also helps imo to build adjacent to other things to have a better sense of space and making it easier to align nice viewing angles with other habitats in the back ground.
But im also the guy who floods the what do you want to do thread with a new potential plan after every third session or so, so i might just be in general aligned with that style of play
It’s not about the environment but rather that if I make an Australian zoo I will only use species present in Australia. Addax and Scimitar-horned oryx are but dama gazelles and Somali wild ass, for example, are not.
I finished an enclosure for my moose today and I'm quite pleased with the result. At first it was going to be regular enclosure near the entrance but it was a bit too small and I decided to let them trample over the gate and roam the streets, haha 
The road and the tunnel are part of their habitat now and they seem to enjoy exploring the concrete world
The road and the tunnel are part of their habitat now and they seem to enjoy exploring the concrete world
This is amazing, i love this, take my money, i wanna pet that mooseI finished an enclosure for my moose today and I'm quite pleased with the result. At first it was going to be regular enclosure near the entrance but it was a bit too small and I decided to let them trample over the gate and roam the streets, haha
The road and the tunnel are part of their habitat now and they seem to enjoy exploring the concrete world
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Haha, glad you like it! Thanks!
This moose is a very good boy, I'm sure you could pet him
Would make a +1 on my list of pz animals i have pet before. Currently im around 13 animals i believeHaha, glad you like it! Thanks!
This moose is a very good boy, I'm sure you could pet him