What do you want to do in Planet Zoo
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A Zoo set in South America
I didn't know the flamingo feeders work underwater. Do other enrichments also work underwater?
You can even sink them into the terrain too!
I've never figured out how to do that properly. I'd love to know.
sinking enrichment items into the ground without free build sucks but the general idea is you have to override the automated terrain edits usually by filling the area with water first.
Got a crazy idea now, turning dallas zoo's Giants of the Savanna into an indian zone. Hoping to include as many suitable offical animals instead of replying on mods for such an area.
Id say official animals could get you all the way there already. Elephants can stay, cheetah and lion could too in theory but id say tiger and sloth bear/dhole/hyena would be the more sensible options. The giraffe savanna could house the blackbuck, nilgai and water buffalo. The warthog could be anything really, maybe macaque or a series of small mammal exhibits for badger and otter perhaps
Great choices for the animals, thanks!
planned on starting a baboon habitat for my Old World section in my zoo
So here is my inspo next to my unfinished habitat
I only just found the inspo pic, so the habitat doesn't currently resemble it, but I plan on doing the rock work, terrain, and climbing structures similar to it, though there will be my own unique flares as well
(Also, the little structure behind is an asian small-clawed otter habitat, will show pics of that soon)
So here is my inspo next to my unfinished habitat
I only just found the inspo pic, so the habitat doesn't currently resemble it, but I plan on doing the rock work, terrain, and climbing structures similar to it, though there will be my own unique flares as well
(Also, the little structure behind is an asian small-clawed otter habitat, will show pics of that soon)
This pack was the much needed inspiration boost i needed to go back to PZ. I always wanted to build a nice India section so i'm now planning for it, begining with the animal roster. Since this is likely to be the last DLC i'll be counting mods into this and this is what i have so far:
Bengal tiger (official with remaster version)
Indian leopard (mod)
Fishing cat (mod)
Asiatic lion (mod)
Striped hyena (official with remaster version)
Ratel (official)
Indian wolf (mod)
Sloth bear (official)
Blackbuck (official)
Nilgai (official)
Chital (mod)
Gaur (mod)
Wild water buffalo (official)
Indian elephant (official)
Indian rhinoceros (official)
Hanuman langur (mod)
Lion tailed macaque (official)
Gharial (official with remaster)
Mugger crocodile (no mod for now)
Indian star tortoise (mod)
Indian python (no mod, implied or scenery mod)
King cobra (no mod, implied)
Indian peafowl (official)
Damoiselle crane / Sarus crane (mods)
Painted stork (mod)
Greater adjutant (mod)
Would you guys add something else?
Bengal tiger (official with remaster version)
Indian leopard (mod)
Fishing cat (mod)
Asiatic lion (mod)
Striped hyena (official with remaster version)
Ratel (official)
Indian wolf (mod)
Sloth bear (official)
Blackbuck (official)
Nilgai (official)
Chital (mod)
Gaur (mod)
Wild water buffalo (official)
Indian elephant (official)
Indian rhinoceros (official)
Hanuman langur (mod)
Lion tailed macaque (official)
Gharial (official with remaster)
Mugger crocodile (no mod for now)
Indian star tortoise (mod)
Indian python (no mod, implied or scenery mod)
King cobra (no mod, implied)
Indian peafowl (official)
Damoiselle crane / Sarus crane (mods)
Painted stork (mod)
Greater adjutant (mod)
Would you guys add something else?
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Section? Thats a whole zoo at this point
You could add the pelican, bar headed goose and maybe a duck or two and make a kickass waterbird aviary with the others.
Or you could add markhor, takin, griffon and/or cinereous vultures and grab the grey langur for like a himalayan foothills area
Lol yeah it'll be a mini zoo basically, but if i ever want to expand on that i guess i'll have that map lolSection? Thats a whole zoo at this point
You could add the pelican, bar headed goose and maybe a duck or two and make a kickass waterbird aviary with the others.
Or you could add markhor, takin, griffon and/or cinereous vultures and grab the grey langur for like a himalayan foothills area
Bar headed goose sound great.
Oh didn't think of the himalayas... that means a lot more animals then lol Though guess i better leave them out for now.
I want to start a new zoo, I've been working on the same zoo for about two years and I'm getting bored of it and would like to start from scratch with my new knowledge.
I've always been a big fan of old school city zoos but I also like big natural mixed habitats and large houses. I kind of want to combine these ideas but I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. Also coming up with a list of species to use is hard, I often want to try use almost all of them.
Can anyone help me with inspiration?
I've always been a big fan of old school city zoos but I also like big natural mixed habitats and large houses. I kind of want to combine these ideas but I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. Also coming up with a list of species to use is hard, I often want to try use almost all of them.
Can anyone help me with inspiration?
What if it's a zoo that has a good budget but maybe they can't rebuild the classic habitats into more naturalistic habitats, so they just update them to look as natural as possible despite the limitationsI want to start a new zoo, I've been working on the same zoo for about two years and I'm getting bored of it and would like to start from scratch with my new knowledge.
I've always been a big fan of old school city zoos but I also like big natural mixed habitats and large houses. I kind of want to combine these ideas but I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. Also coming up with a list of species to use is hard, I often want to try use almost all of them.
Can anyone help me with inspiration?
(Basically, build the habitat like a classic habitat and then update it as need to make it seem like an attempt to make it look natural)
I mean you could certainly get all these to come together. Yeah City zoos usually dont have the biggest enclosure due to space problems, but you could go the route of the zoos reducing their animal collection over the years and combining enclosure together for one species in recent years. Like maybe the old predator building previously had all sorts of big cats, but now its just lions and perhaps one or two small species like sandcat and meerkat. Or an old ape house which in the past was home to gorillas, chimps and orangs but the zoo deceided to focus only on one species these daysI want to start a new zoo, I've been working on the same zoo for about two years and I'm getting bored of it and would like to start from scratch with my new knowledge.
I've always been a big fan of old school city zoos but I also like big natural mixed habitats and large houses. I kind of want to combine these ideas but I'm not sure what the best way to do this is. Also coming up with a list of species to use is hard, I often want to try use almost all of them.
Can anyone help me with inspiration?
Im a really big fan of historic buildings being renovated, i just really like the contrast of a super old classical building with a modern habitat attatched. So id for sure include some of those, the giraffe/antelope house at zoo Berlin and the south america house at cologne are some of my favorite examples, although there the new stuff is mostly indoor.
Another thing typical for city zoos i feel like is repurposing old habitats for different, smaller species. So mabye you could include a historic elephant house which now has pygmy hippo or tapir maybe.
Another thing, i feel the PZ community as a whole has a tendency to build in super clean, clear cut sections, which is fine ofcourse. But imo a city zoo especially if you make it intentionally not perfect, and have the animals not neatly ordered. Maybe you could see the zoo is trying to get thematic areas and then there is a random asian animal in whats for the most part a south american area, because they havent gotten around to building a new enclosure for them in whats supposed to the asian area yet. Like idk old primate house is now a south american rainforest house for capuchin, saki, sloth and ocelot but there is a random group of lion tailed macaques vibing there because their new enclosure hasnt been build yet or its a senior group living out their days there and once they have passed a new, fitting specis will move in.
And man, im really in the mood to also start a city zoo now. I feel there is so much potential with implying lore and worldbuilding there
I already mentioned it on here, but i was planning on building a all-indoors zoo after my other projects ( Namely Dier zoo, Terres Froides zoo, keajaiban liar, Crimson outback reserve and Zoológico de São José) but recently i've grown found of the idea for a bunch of reasons, such as my own moral and how fast the whole thing sounds, so i am planning on start doing it and finish before the other projects.
The current plan is to make the zoo have 6 themed regions: each being both a biome and a continent (for obvious regions i will ignore the aquatic biome), so i end up getting
South America - Tropical - capybara, armadillo, capuchin, centipede, Goliath Birdeater, poison frog and boa constrictor
North America - temperate - terrapin, rattlesnake, skunk, pronghorn, raccoon and red fox
Eurasia - Taiga - crane, wolverine, boar, caribou and Amur leopard
Oceania - desert - cassowary (as a transition specie) red roo, brown snake, emu, Wombat and croc.
Antartica - tundra - penguin
Africa - Grassland - ostrich, meerkat, baboon, dik- dik and nyala.
Overall glad with how things are looking
The current plan is to make the zoo have 6 themed regions: each being both a biome and a continent (for obvious regions i will ignore the aquatic biome), so i end up getting
South America - Tropical - capybara, armadillo, capuchin, centipede, Goliath Birdeater, poison frog and boa constrictor
North America - temperate - terrapin, rattlesnake, skunk, pronghorn, raccoon and red fox
Eurasia - Taiga - crane, wolverine, boar, caribou and Amur leopard
Oceania - desert - cassowary (as a transition specie) red roo, brown snake, emu, Wombat and croc.
Antartica - tundra - penguin
Africa - Grassland - ostrich, meerkat, baboon, dik- dik and nyala.
Overall glad with how things are looking
Right, but you also can't edit terrain around paths, yet I've seen people sink enrichment feeders like the forage box into the ground to hide the wooden edges.
For the forage box example I actually think they are building the terrain up around the box rather than sinking the box in at least thats how I do it. However in order to do that specific example you dont use paths but rather water which stops all terrain editing whilst still allowing for not flat surfaces or just use mods.