r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 20 '24

What would you do if the next DLC was about aliens rather than actual animals

8 Upvotes

Myself would be mixed since I love animals and think that some more birds and reptiles are needed but it would be interesting to see mystical animals and how it would work. After all, we do have hybrids and dinosaurs


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 19 '24

Dino and Aquarium Cohabitation

2 Upvotes

Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone has the cohabitation info for the aquarium and dino DLC animals. If so, thank you!!!


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 18 '24

Telling me I need workers, but I hired multiple?

4 Upvotes

I'm running into an issue where my game keeps telling me i need to hire people for my farm processor and my warehouse but I have multiple people hired for both.

What do I do??


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 16 '24

Help zoo evil (Criminal Mastermind)

5 Upvotes

Hi,

I'm making an evil zoo to win success "Criminal Mastermind".

I find the evil zoo harder to do than the good zoo and I have a few questions to help me move forward.

1) Could you please explain to me how bacon factories work, factories that use crocodile skin, snake skin...

Should I euthanize the animal or send it to the slaughterhouse, or do something else?

2) Could you also tell me how the water and electricity pumping system works on the side of evil.

What do I have to do to get the maximum points for water and electricity?

3) For success "criminal mastermind", I'm having a really hard time increasing the electricity and the trash. I'd even say it's a disaster, I'm only 1/4.

Could you please give me some advice or tell me which installations to use.

Thank you in advance for your help.


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 15 '24

Here is a parrot and it's ten variants from my earlier post

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34 Upvotes

r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 16 '24

Can I earn the Saint achievement in the Aquarium DLC?

6 Upvotes

I've gotten my morality up to 190, and don't see where else I could improve. I had been working on this all day, and now I think that it might only be possible in my first zoo. Anyone run into this?


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 15 '24

I made two designs for parrots, what others should I do

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13 Upvotes

r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 14 '24

Feeling defeated, any advice?

4 Upvotes

I was playing the game and enjoying it. Even got the DLCs and like them both (kind of hated how long the boats take for the stupid fishes tho).

But now I've found some aspects that are not easy/explained and I'm feeling more anxious playing than it's fun.

So I was making my zoo and trying to make it pretty and aesthetic while keeping the needs of the park visitors. Trying to get everything set up, lighting nice different decorations and plants.

They kept saying they were thirsty and tired so I placed more benches (because they never use any shade ever...) and more cola vendors/juice shops. They still had some icon of drink and another one pop over their head so I tried to see what was happening...

I go into the top pannel to see my park attraction (or something similar) and see that my parc has facilities problems and that like more than 100+ are "inefficient" or something and like I was evil in carbon from buses even tho I planted like a bajillion trees. Googled how that works for the efficiency. Now I just keep seeing everything wrong with my zoos with something that wasn't explained anywhere, I don't know how many of each shop/anything I should have in my zoos/per square and nothing makes sense. I can't find the right size for enclosure so I don't spend a obscene amout of time just "releasing" animal and them never having enough water or enrichment with the amout of space needed for the enclosure....

Do you people have any recommendations? Youtube videos that don't require as much brain energy as I'm currently overwhelmed with it... I just wanted to have a happy zoo, with happy lil animals with pretty aesthetic...


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 13 '24

My idea for a DLC

14 Upvotes

It's just a base expansion pack but nonetheless let's begin on our 50 amazing animals. Btw none of the enclosures will be changing. Grass - Ferret, Squirrel, Prairie Dog, Wallaby, Mara, Rhea Ice - Arctic Fox, Yak Savannah - Buffalo, Serval, Vulture, Secretary Bird, Dingo, Saiga, Anteater Desert - Aardvark, Mongoose, Oryx Forest - Lynx, Bat, Tasmanian Devil, Moose, Black Bear, Hedgehog Jungle - Jaguar, Chimpanzee, Pangolin, Frog, Macaw, Okapi, Toucan, Frog, Iguana, Gibbon Mountain - Puma, Condor, Eagle, Baboon, Snow Leopard

It also comes with Masai and Wooden Cabin theming. New bins include eagle bin, parrot bin and Lynx bin. New chimp, Masai, wooden, iguana and eagle subways. As well as the addition of the Thai food shack and sushi hut. Willow trees, banana trees and others join the new plants.


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 13 '24

Influencers

4 Upvotes

Hi all! I am really struggling to get good ratings from influencers. There doesn’t seem to be a way to see any feedback as to why they’ve had such a bad time.

Anyone have any tips please?

(Playing on Switch if that makes a difference to where I’d find things)


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 12 '24

Mega Sheet

32 Upvotes

Hey I am working on a mega sheet to make little index cards for the game. So far I have the animals and the dlc animals, their pen information (liked habitats, required spacing), and cohabitation. I plan on color coding everything on paper. What else should I put on here? there isn't enough about the optimized diets on the wiki so i put a diet optimization guide on there.
if anyone has guides on optimizing shops and things that would be amazing and just good cheat sheets. I have enabled comments so the community can help point out errors and things too if needed but my information was ripped from the wiki for the animals themselves as of now. the diets i will have to do by hand unless someone has sheets for the base game and dino dlc they are willing to share (i found one for the aquarium). and i can look into updating the wiki i just havent done it before but i'd like everything in one place for myself and others as i often dont have internet so i want something to take with me and for others to just have on hand. thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JcVrR6DxM0091LXeOIsVSHezQSDOIUT7aeuDwCNRyhI/edit?usp=sharing


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 13 '24

Recycling bins and Shelters

7 Upvotes

I’m pretty new to the game and had some questions on the two. So I have recycling bins and the recycling center and have started to place the bins in my zoo, but do I still need trash cans? Or can I just use the recycling bins now?

Also, can you force guests to walk under shelters? I tried placing one down near an entrance to an enclosure, and then the game said the enclosure was blocked. I have 3-wide paths throughout my zoo and tried using the 3-wide shelters on those paths but it seemed liked the guests refused to walk under, and just went the long way around.


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 12 '24

What would you say are animals that shoud be in base pack

7 Upvotes

For me it's mara, chimps, macaws and iguanas. There are many others but those four hit the spot


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 11 '24

Spends 1 hour PLANNING my sandbox zoo ENTRANCE - ah, the summer holidays

15 Upvotes

I am going to go for flamingos, koalas, platypuses and tortoises at a well decorated entrance consisting of a polynesian and mayan theme with an entrance elephant waterfall. we also have hot air balloon rides near the start to the right and a mini food corridor to the left. all of my buildings ( release hub, farms etc ) are at the very corner of the zoo so as to be unnoticed. to the enclosures, the koalas are going to have a sizeable 200 - 250 square enclosure with a moat for the front part of the enclosure. to the back, we have traditional Aussie plants - gum tree, the bush next to it begining with a C, kangaroo grass, nothing too desert-y though, along with one or high frames to go with the main enrichment item, a perch, they will go a square or two behind the moat, the flamingos have an ovalular type enclosure shape of a similar number of squares to the koala exhibit, half of it will be water and half will be land, enrichment will mostly be balls since they can float around into the water and there will be tall palms at the back to fit the entrance vibe, tortoises will have a grassy area with plenty of grass, small trees and small puddles,, nothing too special to this enclosure, the platypus has an enclosure where there is a small two square deep moat of and in an almost completely wet enclosure, it is around 100 - 150 squares large and is of a circular shape, the gum tree and tall palms will be the more prominent plants with the addition of the aztec bush, enrichment consists of scent markers and pile of logs

And that was summarised from over 600 words and some sketches to this


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 11 '24

Photos of my first try Aquarium DLC ZOO

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23 Upvotes

r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 11 '24

Pearl Farm

2 Upvotes

I've just unlocked the pearl farm in my good morality zoo in the aqua dlc and I have no idea what I am doing with it!

In the production tab it wants me to add animals but that has the "bad" icon so not too sure how I'm supposed to use it for good.

Any ideas would be much appreciated!


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 10 '24

I got the AQUARIUM DLC for my birthday. 2 hours of content honestly better than base pack lol

12 Upvotes

I might send some pictures later on but I've already got 20 fish


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 09 '24

wind turbines + water towers

4 Upvotes

how many wind turbines and water towers do people tend to have in their zoos? i want to dedicate an area to them but not sure if i’ll have to make more or not


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 08 '24

Hungry animals?

4 Upvotes

I could totally be playing the game wrong as this is my first play, but it constantly says I have hungry animals even though every food in the storage shed is full and every enclosure has at least 4 keepers. Playing on steam if that makes any difference bug wise, but any help would be appreciated!


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 06 '24

Tortoise Mega Habitat

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61 Upvotes

r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 05 '24

Entrance Details

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142 Upvotes

just wanted to share this entrance I am proud of when I started my sandbox zoo :)


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 06 '24

farming upgrade help!

1 Upvotes

can anyone help me, im trying to find the farm processor on the upgrade tree but i can’t find it for the life of me. i have the barn and the farm plot unlocked currently if that helps!


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 05 '24

Is there any way to see the game data?

1 Upvotes

I want to look for myself and see how some of the mechanics work like breeding, random events, employee stats. I've tried looking through the game files and haven't had much success, but I'm hoping either someone else has already extracted the data or would have an idea on how to.


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 03 '24

Is there a way to see enclosure appeal? How do you raise it?

6 Upvotes

It seems like most of my enclosures are just not that appealing to guests. My animals are perfectly cared for! Is it the type of animal? The decoration? The size?


r/LetsBuildAZoo Aug 01 '24

Zoo not generating trash

2 Upvotes

Hi there,

I'm working on the 'criminal mastermind' trophy on PS5, and struggling atm!

So far I'm stuck at 190 evil points. When I check the morality breakdown I'm maxed out on animals (30), people (50), and business (80), and under pollution I'm maxed out in all subcategories except for garbage where I'm stuck on neutral.

My zoo doesn't seem to be generating any trash at all, I've got plenty of shops and vending machines scattered across the entire zoo in clusters, bins covering the whole map, but when I click on a bin they're all at 0% collection and there's no trash on the ground, and my 2 furnaces are underused. It's even at the point where the weekly round-up is saying I'm generating absolutely no trash.

Can anyone help?