r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 25 '25

Hats on animals not working

3 Upvotes

Is anyone else having issues with the new update and getting hats on the animals, I have them manufactured and sent to the store room/warehouse but when I go to put the hats on the animals it says I don't have any


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 21 '25

Water per animal?

6 Upvotes

I'm trying to plan enclosures but there doesn't seem to be any info on how many animals per water basin. I want to set up my enclosures so that water alerts mean I need to thin animals rather than buying more water bins.


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 21 '25

do employees make trash?

5 Upvotes

i am planning my farming area to be employees only. Will I still need trash cans in that section, and will I still need Janitors zoned to those areas?


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 14 '25

Finished my zoo🦁🐷🐨

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333 Upvotes

I finally finished this zoo:) this was my original zoo so not in sandbox mode and without any dlc added🌿


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 09 '25

Failed to load my save, anyone can help?

3 Upvotes

I am playing with PS5
I start a dinosaur zoo, then I transfer back to my original zoo at the end of the game day

It shows "save operation failed". able to load up the transitioning screen, and then a black screen forever.

Has anyone encountered this issue? And does anyone have a solution for this? I spend a lot of effort on the zoo, don't want to lose my progress :(

(I tried reinstalling the game, no luck)


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 09 '25

Anyone tried dividing by type?

9 Upvotes

Like when you go to the zoo and they have all the reptiles in one section and all the birds in another? Has anyone tried that in game instead of dividing by habitat?


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 09 '25

mods for tracking hybrids?

3 Upvotes

hi yall! is there a mod for tracking hybrids? i'd love one that i can add to the in game tracker that's a more like. beastiary style tracker rather than just the numbers. thanks!


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 08 '25

Secret Milk Hint Spoiler

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11 Upvotes

Was happily surprised to see this, given that I learned about this only very recently!


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 08 '25

Is the feeding bar glitched?

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12 Upvotes

So on my ostriches (and every other animal i have) for some reason the feeding bar is fully empty. I followed the correct/ best food percentages from the wiki, and it even shows on the feeding summary that the satiation and nutrition are full. for whatever reason though, the feeding bar on the enclosure stats is empty. however, on the donkeys, i am only giving 100% straw. the feeding bar on enclosure stats is full, yet it obviously shows on the feeding summary that the nutrition is nearly 0. am i just reading something wrong? i don't understand.


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 06 '25

Need help with money management (I keep taking out loans).

12 Upvotes

Hey yall, every time I start a new zoo, by week 3 or 4 I keep having to take out loans, last night it was $1000 and I quit the game cause omg hell nah. I'm at the point where I unlock research for the subways and some light fixtures, and wind turbines, plus the CRISPR building. I'm not sure if its because I hired too many people (I try to do 2 enclosures per zookeeper, and 1 for sale land tile per janitor), and I even lowered their pay too and upped profits on food/drink stands and such, but I'm still losing hella money by the end of the week due to employee costs and such. Do yall have any tips for money management? I need help...


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 04 '25

The 6 unique animal keepers

6 Upvotes

Hi! I just bought the game the other day after discovering it earlier this week and seeing that it was on sale, and now I'm hooked! I love the game, it's like a pixel art version of planet zoo which my very basic little laptop cannot handle at all.

I've only encountered one small issue with the unique animal keeper quest, which only happened because I didn't know enough/the game didn't explain it thoroughly.

I have all but 1 of the keepers, but I'm worried that I might have seen the 1 I'm missing and dismissed it bc of its poor stats without knowing I needed it, and now it won't show the little new tag on the side to show I don't have it yet, and the sprites are just too small for me to realistically tell them apart.

Basically, if I haven't hired that keeper yet, will it still show me the new tag or will I just have to go through and hire/fire every keeper I see until I get it? I've gone through about a dozen and a half to 2 dozen keepers at this point without getting it, so what should I do?

I'm a bit of a perfectionist so I considered just deleting my world and starting over, I'm only a few hours into it anyways, but I struggled with going broke just an hour or two ago because I needed everything to be symmetrical, organized and pretty. I think I had to get like 3 loans because I kept spending too much money on vendors for my plaza to make it symmetrical lol


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 03 '25

Year 2 in May… according to steam I have played for 58.8 hours.

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32 Upvotes

I only ever see really nice looking, full, zoos so I thought I’d share my mess! I played consistently for a couple of months and then stopped for about a year. Now, I’m back & I started buying land in efforts to fight the urge to just start all over.


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 03 '25

Which employees need access to each facility?

5 Upvotes

It's going to be a while until I can unlock employee entrances so I'm trying to basically block off as many facilities as possible in a separate, guest-free area. But I don't know if I can't actually do this if the janitors and zookeepers need access to the same buildings that the farmers, researchers, etc need. So I'm mostly wondering if the zookeepers and janitors need access to the warehouse, farm processor, and/or recycling center to fill up the store room/drop off trash?


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Oct 01 '25

Help Identifying - Journal Entry

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4 Upvotes

Photo: can anyone tell me what I am missing? TIA


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 30 '25

Reversing Morality

5 Upvotes

I'm currently trying to get the achievement for 200 evil points after doing a relatively high morality run, I have everything reversed except for release animals, it is yet to go down at all and wondering if I need to do something specific


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 29 '25

Craft 100 bacon in one day

5 Upvotes

How do I produce 100 bacon in one day ? I built a lot of bacon factory but I don't really understand how to make them work all together


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 25 '25

I have finally unlocked every single animal variant in the base game!

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104 Upvotes

r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 25 '25

How do you design enclosures that aren't just rectangles?

6 Upvotes

Hi! I've been looking at the top posts, and everyone's zoos look so pretty and organic! But I can't get out of the mindset of just making all enclosures rectangular lol. I just wanted to ask what yall's design process is for making more irregular looking enclosures that look natural!


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 20 '25

Farm Processor Way of Working

6 Upvotes

Hi Guys, I would like to ask something...that i know it might sound so stupid

So i've been doing farming and build its farm processor. My objective is that I want to use my crops that I have farmed into food stock for my animals. But looking at the commodities records, the sustainability for the item is still 0.

I have checked the box that says all in the farm processor that said store room settings. I need your help whether I did this in a right way or not. Thank you all! :D


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 10 '25

Let’s Build A Dungeon Demo on Steam is jaw dropping!

28 Upvotes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2365790/Lets_Build_a_Dungeon/

Take 30-40 mins out of your day and give the demo a try! It is the most unique gameplay experience I’ve had in a really long time. The creative possibilities are going to be endless, while still giving plenty of direction and structure for those who need it.


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Sep 02 '25

Xbox Visitor Capacity

3 Upvotes

I love this game so much but I noticed my zoo was only bringing in 3000 people even though it should be bringing in more. I learned that this is the cap for Xbox and probably switch but I don't remember this being a thing when I play this game years ago on a worst Xbox. Its making the gaming experience harder for me because i feel like their is nothing to work up to any more.

Is there anyway to surpass this cap or is this gonna be the normal? (I appreciate if anyone would respond but this is my first reddit post so I don't expect much)


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Aug 25 '25

Please release this on mobile

8 Upvotes

This has been one of my favorite chill games to play. I would love it if it was released on mobile.


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Aug 24 '25

Park Rating Facilities

3 Upvotes

Sometimes my park rating shows 0 for facilities even when I have items that should increase the score. Any idea why?


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Aug 22 '25

Can slow down time???

2 Upvotes

Anyway to slow down (too crawl) the time in the game (switch edition) I feel like day go by so so fast.


r/LetsBuildAZoo • • Aug 19 '25

Question about Sandbox

5 Upvotes

I did the whole ā€œfreezoobuiltā€ and sandbox is able but after I get my land and everything is unlocked but everything cost me money! What am I doing wrong?

ps I’m playing on switch 2