@SalamAnders that's really great rock work!
What did you do in Planet Zoo today?
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I feel like I have been spamming this thread lately, maybe I should consider making my own. But here I am again.
For a long time I have been looking for an idea for an additional area, since the park is currently mostly Africa and a little bit North America. This area will actually be a bit of both.
In ''The Path of The Past'' we will tell the story of the animals of Pleistocene North America. Since fossil finds are often done in desert areas, I felt like this concept would fit in, even though it will not only consist of animals from desert/semi-desert areas. Taking some inspiration for the concept from the Elephant Odyssey at San Diego Zoo.
This area will both consist of animals found elsewhere in the park as well as a few exclusives.
The current plan is:
For a long time I have been looking for an idea for an additional area, since the park is currently mostly Africa and a little bit North America. This area will actually be a bit of both.
In ''The Path of The Past'' we will tell the story of the animals of Pleistocene North America. Since fossil finds are often done in desert areas, I felt like this concept would fit in, even though it will not only consist of animals from desert/semi-desert areas. Taking some inspiration for the concept from the Elephant Odyssey at San Diego Zoo.
This area will both consist of animals found elsewhere in the park as well as a few exclusives.
The current plan is:
- African Elephants: Mainly the already existing area of the bull and perhaps a new view into the females area from the back of the current enclosure.
- Pronghorns: A big breeding group is already to be seen in the North American area. This area will hold a bachelor group instead.
- Cheetahs: Currently not in the park. Either they are going to be exclusive to this area or they will be both here and in Africa.
- Baird's Tapir: Will be exclusive to this area. Since they aren't a desert species, they only fit in the park because of this Pleistocene concept.
Keep them comming @SalamAnders , I enjoy your posts! Thats a really nice idea, reminds me of San Diego Zoo and their Elephant Oddysey, which is also supposed to display modern counterparts of animals that lived in an old era.
Rotunda
Cape penguin- Big centerpiece habitat with underwater diving, food stands, bathrooms
Meerkat Manor (Meerkats, Aardvark)Gemsbok/Springbok yardMalagasy Heights (Red ruffed lemur, ring tailed lemur, Aldabra tortoise)- White Rhino Yard
- Painted Dog Valley (Painted dogs, Puff adder)
- Nile River (Nile monitor, hippo, scarab beetle)
- Cheetah Speedway
- Fennec Fox Dunes
- Sonoran (American Bison, Pronghorn, Desert scorpion and Gila monster)
- Sierra Madre (Jaguar)
- Chihuahua (Timber wolf as a stand-in for Mexican wolf subspecies)
- Kangaroo Walk-Thru
- Koala Grove
- Dingoes
- Steve Irwin Memorial Habitat (Saltwater Crocodile, Blue-tounged skink)
WFH plus slow Fridays mean progress in PZ! Also, please enjoy this updated screengrab of my underwater penguin cove, now that I have a full colony it's craaaaaazy!
The fennec fox house looks great, @Swjosdotschka!
Not sure if it's what you're going for, but have you considered adding some rock cladding to the wall at the back of the habitat?
Not sure if it's what you're going for, but have you considered adding some rock cladding to the wall at the back of the habitat?
Uuuhh, that's an awesome idea! Thank you, will definitely try that!
@Bearcat9948 I absolutely love that penguin habitat especially! I wasn't going to do an underwater viewing area for the African penguins but now I kind of want to.
Thanks! I wanted to try and emulate the Maryland Zoo's African penguin underwater habitat but we don't have wave effects so I opted for this. Pretty happy with how it turned out.
I believe we have a calm water-rough water option to edit bodies of water. Maybe that can help?
I almost always use the rough water but what I'm talking about is like actual big rough waves. Sorta hard to describe lol. Unfortunately I can't find a good video of their penguin habitat rn
I hope they make a wave generator for the game. It's be useful for exhibits, and for education about Tsunamis.
Have a nice, interactive (and somewhat customizable), educational item.
I understand. To simulate the tide reaching the beach, that kind of thing. That would be a neat feature/effect
Finally finished the Indoor Area of my Main Elephant Enclosure. Just don't know how to do the Entrance Gates for them. I assume I might be able to build something nice with the Africa Pack but I don't have it yet.
The African Elephants will share their Enclosure with 2 other Species. Aardvarks and Termites for which I've created a Billboard. I wish we would have some kind of African Vulture and the Ability to place heavy Gummy Rags on the Entrances to prevent them from escaping. Then I would keep them in there too
The African Elephants will share their Enclosure with 2 other Species. Aardvarks and Termites for which I've created a Billboard. I wish we would have some kind of African Vulture and the Ability to place heavy Gummy Rags on the Entrances to prevent them from escaping. Then I would keep them in there too
Not putting up pictures because it's still a work in progress, but finally moved on to another animal from the new pack (those meerkats are too fascinating!) Working on a viewing and sitting plaza for my African Penguins. At first I just had the path lowered and then decided I wanted to "select to grid" an entire plaza area, but of course, the terrain was uneven from the one path to the plaza so I couldn't connect them easily - yet. Still working that out. By the way does anyone else find it humorous that when you flatten terrain over lowered paths, it leaves a bunch of terrain just floating in air? I do, but it's actually what I'm trying to get rid of too.
Well, I finally bought the Africa DLC. Toyed around with a King Penguin set up. The I tried to make a joint Meerkat-Aardvark exhibit, that guests could walk through. I guess that you need more 2km square to do that, because the stress got so bad for both my Aardvarks, and my Meerkats that I just had to box them all up, and change the exhibit back to a normal one.
Today I finally decided to do a couple of career zoos (I didn't bother trying to reach gold, I just decided to complete bronze to unlock the next part of the story). I went all the way to Myers Sunshine Zoo and finished bronze on that.
But, can we take a minute and stop trying to earn trophies and complete challenges and build our zoos to admire all the work and detail that the devs have done for the career zoos? I mean, the casino zoo at night:
That's awesome. It's just, I can't believe...
The lighting is especially striking (I don't typically play with the settings on day, so I don't even use light pieces that much)
Just to be clear, look how it looks, and I don't even play on the highest graphics
But, can we take a minute and stop trying to earn trophies and complete challenges and build our zoos to admire all the work and detail that the devs have done for the career zoos? I mean, the casino zoo at night:
That's awesome. It's just, I can't believe...
The lighting is especially striking (I don't typically play with the settings on day, so I don't even use light pieces that much)
Just to be clear, look how it looks, and I don't even play on the highest graphics
So this means Meerkats get stressed easy too? Then I really hope that they'll give them the Intelligence to dig into the Ground when they get too stressed and wait underground until they feel better
Finished the polar bear complex. Top left is the male bear habitat - the female is pregnant so he'll go in there when the cubs are born (usually it would be right now, but it's too much fun having him in the deep pool - he's got a max size gene so seeing him swimming by the underwater window is impressive). The main habitat is therefore for the female and cubs (complete with underwater viewing window). Off to the right you can also see my tiny red panda habitat; I put a big ash tree in the middle, and I gotta say, seeing one of the pandas up there just chilling out in the branches reminded me so much of scenes I've seen in real zoos that it gave me butterflies.
I'm also not super happy with the building int he top of the picture, but I've reworked it about three times now so I'm just going to leave it until I feel more inspired by it.
I'm also not super happy with the building int he top of the picture, but I've reworked it about three times now so I'm just going to leave it until I feel more inspired by it.
They seem pretty resistant to stress, but they seem almost high level popular, so you have a lot of guests cramming in which left them as stressed as the Aardvarks normally are.
Though my meerkats might just be dumb. They made their burrow right next to guest paths