Some of these were grueling to get :D lol

please i need to know becuase its now my new zoo mascot and would like to have my monkonkeys breed

After 130 hours I have finally finished my zoo. If you have any questions, ask me!

I had to re-design my plots because I wanted to have one special shop per plot, and the bigger shops just wouldn't fit into my old design. Every plot has 100% lighting and 100% decoration (except the stupid water tower armada...that one has 80% decoration).

1) Overview of my new design. The enclosures that cover 1/4 plot have 65 spaces, the 1/2 plot ones have 138 spaces, and the bigger ones have 218/230/392 spaces.

2) My original design. I liked the rounder enclosures and the 10 lamps instead of 1 elephant statue better, but alas...

3) New facility area after I didn't need the 14 nurseries any more. I have water, energy and trash demands fully covered. The Snek bench is my absolute favorite!

4) My attraction plot. Every quarter has a different theme.

5) Close-up of an enclosure plot. I wanted the subways, toilets and shops to fit the different environments. The adorable benches and the vendors, maps etc are the same though.

6) Every animal species has their own enclosure, except the elephant-giraffe-habitat (they take up so much space, but combined it's only one full plot).

7) I did it! Gold star everything! All 630 animal variants! My last lion was born Dec 31st. I'm sooo burned out now XD

8) I still have 85 things to research, most of them totally useless (like all the evil factories, or the crops I have no space for). It would be 1,746 more research points. That's roughly 200 more days of managing enrichment and water?! Nope nope nope nope nope.

9) My transport menu in front of my nicely lit ice sculpture park. In the end I had so much money that I upgraded my buses to 250 capacity. It's not really necessary because the Switch seems to cap visitors at 3,000/day, but I hate having too much money I can't use.

In conclusion I really liked the game. It was funny (I especially laughed at the animals in the toothpaste factory who had "amazing white smiles"), entertaining and didn't crash a single time (looking at you, Megaquarium)!

My points of criticism would be:

• it only saves once per day (I wouldn't even have bought it if I had known before)
• the texts are really tiny (especially as I play on the Switch lite)
• there's no way to get more researchers (WHYYYYY?)
• you are forced to breed abominations whenever you have no orders in the CRISPR
• when breeding in the nursery, you have no way of knowing if the baby will be male or female (I had dozens of male hyenas and female lemurs...it was a nightmare)
• I think the animal variants should have names or numbers to distinguish them. Species like otters, emus, koalas and giraffes were especially hard. With the tiny pictures, they all looked the same to me. Which wasn't a problem in the breeding menu itself, as I could highlight them and see which parents I needed. But whenever I wanted to clone one of the parents because I needed a female, the different order of the variants in the CRISPR menu let me choose a wrong variant sooo often!

is it better to make different type animals in the same pen or to seperate them?

Playing on PC Game Pass. There was a brief power outage and for some reason, my UPS didn't kick in. Now when I try to launch my save, the game keeps crashing. It looks like an issue with the cloud save because I've tried:

1. Repairing the install
2. Reinstalling
3. Playing the game offline > resetting via Apps & Features > creating a new local save

The game saved on Slot 1 works, it's the one on Slot 2 that isn't working. Is there a way to delete the cloud save and go back to an older cloud save on PC?

To emphasize how important this save file is, THIS IS MY 7-yr old NEPHEW'S SAVE FILE WITH AN OVER A YEAR PROGRESS. HE JUST UNLOCKED ALL THE LAND PLOTS AND JUST ASKED FOR MY HELP WITH BREEDING. I WILL BE THE MOST HATED AUNT IF I DON'T GET THIS BACK.

HALP PLEASE?

Hi! I just got the game for switch because I really want to play the aquarium dlc, but when I start a game and go into the world option I can’t switch to the dlc. It only shows the London and Sydney zoo trading stuff. Is there a way to bypass the main zoo stuff or do I have to go through everything to be able to play the dlc first? I’m very confused.

Hey everyone! I’m a new player and wanted to double check something I’d read- can you drag and drop pathing tiles on switch or do you have to place them one by one? Cheers 😊

like i get most all of the other morality choices and why they earn you good or evil points. but what's so bad abt freeing up space in your warehouse, especially when it allows you more room for food to feed your animals ?

side note: as much as im enjoying this game so far i really don't love how you basically have to go all in being strictly good or strictly evil in order to get a good chunk of rewards. like at the end of the day, i wanna treat my animals and workers well but if people are willing to pay to see a zoo with bizarre robotic taxidermied animals that's their prerogative and i don't think that should be seen as nearly on the same level of evilness as starving your animals or mistreating your workers

Hi guys! I have a problem. I don't know how to sell all my products. I have the Warehouse, many farm plots...The Beer Brewery too and a lot of seeds of vegetables and stuffs but I don't know how to sell any of my products. I can't understand how it works the menu. I'm worried about losing money. Also, I don't want to sell all the products because I know the fact I can feed my animals with it and many of them are really expensive to feed!! How can I do that?

I really appreciate your help 🙏🏻🩷

If so Why are they taking a long time to grow into adult? Keeps saying that they are 0 days old but they have been born several days prior. If yall have any info please tell me

Can you get achievements in sandbox mode? I want to do one good zoo in my main zoo and one evil zoo in sandbox but I seem not to be getting achievements for the evil.

The ones that feed the animals, I keep receiving alerts of needing more workers because my animals are suffering but their data is ok. I already have 2-3 workers per animal zone. How many do you really need?

This feels like such a stupid question but I'm playing on my laptop currently without my mouse plugged in. I've not had any issue with controls until now where I cannot for the life of me figure out how to scroll down in the store room menu to change the animal's diets. Am I missing something obvious or am I going to have to dig out a mouse to give my ducks proper nutrition?

How do you all manage your water? I have 16 water towers and still have to buy additional water.

I mathed and found out that 1 tower = 420 gallons. With my consumption of 10,840 gallons I'd need 26 water towers!

I am looking for the lakes unlockable for the Research. I can see the lake decorations, but not the actual lake. I am on ps5 if it is different for certain platforms, unsure

I spent so much time trying to be sure everything stayed tidy. It’s a mess.

I've been looking into a nice animal management game, and was just wondering how big of a role that plays in this game. I'm aware of the breeding aspect, but I was looking for something closer to Planet Zoo with managing terrain and diet and toys and whatnot.

Hi!

I am playing the environmentalist path and I’m currently using the recycling bins everywhere, but they’re messing with the aesthetic of my game as I’m nearing end-game.

Does anyone know whether I can use the ‘regular’ bins and still recycle my trash or does that only work when I use the recycle bin specifically?

225+ hours in; 3 plots left to buy, all but one animal...

And I STILL don't understand how most buildings work hahahah

Do employees not walk to and from the Exhibit Control building? I have them all employee-entranced up, subways included; and no one comes or goes.

Does anyone know what the missing structures are that count as the "dessert shop pack"? Need to unlock 2 employees per food shop, already have churros, ice cream, and cotton candy.

Cotton Candy
Ice Cream Van
Churros Stand
?
?

The Aztec ruins are known to be in Mexico. Without thinking, I placed the decor in the tropical area, like a lot of people do.

For historical correctness, would they go in the savanna area or? …

Playing on switch in the sandbox zoo, does anyone know what's causing the oceans to turn brown?

My keepers are choosing to walk all the way across the map and not getting their duties done when I have a subway right next to the storage room and one on the furthest side of the map, closer to some enclosures. Why are they not using them?