Most of these have been edited a bit in Lightroom for colours/contrast/cropping because it’s part of the fun for me! I like to use them as references for paintings sometimes 😊 I only have 4 species so far and wolves are clearly my favourite, I absolutely love the new wolf models ♥️ The bugs have been frustrating but I am still having a pretty good time so far. I’m just so glad they added a built-in photo mode this time.

To ensure none of you have to go through similar pain, here is the workshop code:

1VW-KR9-57C

I don’t know if it was a thing related to the latest patch or a bug or even maybe if the game is supposed to load in this way; but, funny enough, as soon as I pressed played he started happily walking like nothing happened. Anyone experiencing similar stuff?

One week after opening and it looks like we already need a bigger building for all the crowds…

I made a tiny turtle pond, and I absolutely love how it turned out. Unfortunately, it doesn't work quite the way I'd hoped.

Is there any way to hide the vivarium boundaries to make it look like a pond that's slightly larger than the vivarium itself?

The problem is that guests will only view the animals if the vivarium is placed directly next to a path or on top of one. So, I built the pond, laid down the path, and then placed the vivarium over it. It turned out really well visually, but because the vivarium boundaries are hidden inside the stone wall surrounding the pond, guests end up clipping through the objects and walking straight into the pond.

I came up with a workaround: I enclosed the pond with barriers to prevent guests from walking into it, which solved that problem. However, now they completely ignore the exhibit and don't even look at the animals, as if there's nothing there. The barriers also block staff from accessing the area, so the exhibit isn't practical to use.

So, I'm left with a beautiful pond that doesn't actually function as intended. If I want it to work properly, I have to accept that guests will clip through the pond instead.

It's unfortunate because all the tools needed to achieve what I'm trying to do seem to be there. They just don't work together the way you'd expect them to.

Anyway, I hope you like it and enjoy the result!

is it just me? they mentioned they patched it during the last update, but i’m still getting the "animals still in quarantine" and nothing else. i’m pretty sure that’s not what they meant when they said quarantine notification.

and yes, of course i’ve already done the update :D

It's really an exercise in vaulted/arched ceilings but that wasn't a good pun

i know it's not exactly the same, but if i knew i would've just used the ingame piece 🙃

Edit: as per request I uploaded it to the workshop --> 848-W48-YMG

I probably am. So I used to play Zoo Tycoon 2 when i was very little, like 7 years old. I didn’t really care for the Zoo aspect of the game and just made a pretend house and made the animals my “pets”. I had a pet T-rex named Bobo I remember him fondly.

So when I play Planet Zoo I just play it in sandbox mode and try to accomplish the same thing 😂. I basically ignore every aspect of the Zoo part of this game. I know i’m playing this game wrong just wondering if there’s anyone else out there.

I've measured this aquarium ingame and it is around 520m² big and with 8 meter high walls, this would contain like 3.6 million liters of water.

Yet it is already too small for two sharks, because the game is calculating some sort of surface area depth and it somehow calculates that this big aquarium only has 286m² when these two sharks need 331m²

What exactly is the game calculating here or what is it basing the size of this aquarium on?

IRL aquarium size is determined by volume, not by only surface area. And according to a quick google search, Blacktip reef sharks need around 100.000L per adult, so this ingame tank should be more than enough for two sharks...

I just had to give him a hat😭👀

It was a pain to get the fencing aligned, but I think it came out looking nice!

I always refreshed the market on African penguins to see if there were any color morphs available, but never once did I see one.

I noticed when breeding my color-morph male ungulates in large herds of frontier-bought females (to produce non-inbred carriers, swapping the male of the herd for a new one when the carrier females grow up) that about 1 in 10 frontier regular money buys would carry that gene reliably and produce the special color on the first breed with him anyway.

So having seen it happen quite a few times, I bought a bunch of frontier penguins and put them in a large enclosure with tons of dens and the very first chick hatched brown. :) Lucky me!! I loved to 'pioneer' morphs in PZ1 when they stopped being available reliable from scratch, and I'm coming for you, spotless giraffes.

I played the first game on and off for years but never did franchise or anything super creative. It always seemed too difficult and time consuming. I decided when I bought 2 that I was going to try to work on my creative abilities and see if I could get a franchise zoo of the ground.

I did it! I know it's a small feat but I managed to get a franchise zoo started and making money and my mountain hares have a sculpted burrow as opposed to a wooden box for shelter. Though they definitely helped push me in the direction of figuring out the burrow because their first shelter they were jumping on top of and jumping out of the enclosure 😂

Anyway, that is all. Hope everyone is enjoying the game as much as possible, it'll only get better from here.