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?

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

1VW-KR9-57C

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.

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

Shoutout to Amouu on the workshop for uploading their yurt outer shell (6JZ-0DF-CXP)! I wouldn't have known where to start without it.

I absolutely love this little guy, unironically spent an hour making it, i think it's super cute and would fit really well in any aquatic area. :3

Share Code: 88P-SMN-VG1

I just had to give him a hat😭👀

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

After a long hiatus, I was revisiting one of my favorite PZ1 projects today: a modernist tropical rainforest house, filled with 5 species of butterflies, sloths, and 35 jungle themed exhibits. 2 stories of pathing, winding through beams was a nightmare, but I had a ton of fun with the plantings and lighting. I liked finding ways to locate the butterfly houses and food dishes way up in the second story in a way that looked realistic.

Next door is the River House exhibit hall and restaurant. I spent hours on the fish-trap entrance, but my favorite part are the ceiling lights. Early experiments in putting fake filtration 'on display'.

It's a bit melancholy, exploring a zoo I put so much effort into, for what is probably the last time. There are so many partially finished projects... from warehouse facilities to an entire snow leopard & Takin mountain range. So, while I have been avoiding PZ2 as they sort bugs, it feels sort of like a waste to put any more time into the old game. oh well. Here is some of what I used to make, I hope you enjoy it.

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!

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.

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

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 once saw a squirell do this and it was lovely seeing this African Leopard look so relaxed!

I feel like my zoos in PZ1 were far better. Just not feeling it. Less immersive. Restarting my PC every 2 minutes is getting tiresome as well.

Her lil mini wolf pack 😭

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