Planet Zoo Planet Zoo!

birdsandbats said:
I've tried building something similar, but my game lags too much if it gets too big. How did you avoid this?
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I have some slight lag, but a couple things. The laptop I have I bought specifically for this game back when it came out with the intention of going above and beyond the minimum requirements. But I also make use of the guest cap, right now it’s set at 8000. Since it is sandbox, I also don’t build to the massive space requirements either. I do have around 800 animals in this zoo at the moment as well.
 
I’ve also found that internet speed affects performance. While I have high speed internet at my place and have little lag, while opening at either my parents or in laws houses, I encounter a ton of lag due to internet speed.
 
MGolka said:
Took me quite the number of hours, but at this point in time I have an every species and highly detailed zoo up to date through the new Oceania pack. Been in process for a couple years now, this is the third fourth detailed zoo I've done since launch, but the only one I've continue to update with every DLC.

If there is interest, I could start a thread showing off this zoo. As you can see, I've used EPCOT as inspiration like the World Showcase Lagoon. This zoo features 16 different "lands" so to speak, roughly by geography/biome from the entrance at the bottom clockwise: Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe/Middle East, North America, South America.

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It has been fun trying to incorporate DLC species into areas that I previously didn't build out for, and since I've started to leave some expansion plots throughout the zoo to build new exhibits for potential new species. This zoo started with a hand drawn concept, my own master plan if you will, and evolved since then. I think I started this just after the Southeast Asia animal pack, so anything newer than that I've had to fit in on the fly. It's really been the Wetlands pack on that I've had to go back and edit previously built parts of the zoo as only half of the map you see above was built prior to that pack.
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Looks fantastic. Would love like zoo tout. Have you considered doing a showcase the PZ forums?
Like a captioned tour with images going around the zoo?

Curious does every species have its own enclosure or are there some mixed ones too? Like when Oceania released did you build 4 new habitats or are quokka sharing with wallabies and little penguins with the other penguins etc.

All exhibits too?
 
Fresco3 said:
Looks fantastic. Would love like zoo tout. Have you considered doing a showcase the PZ forums?
Like a captioned tour with images going around the zoo?

Curious does every species have its own enclosure or are there some mixed ones too? Like when Oceania released did you build 4 new habitats or are quokka sharing with wallabies and little penguins with the other penguins etc.

All exhibits too?
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Yes, every species has its own enclosure and I do have all the exhibit species as well. I suppose the only mixed species exhibit is the butterfly one, as I didn't care to have 5 separate massive exhibits for butterflies.

I lurk sometimes around the PZ forum, but I don't think I would join that forum to post, so if I did anything like a captioned tour, it would be here.
 
birdsandbats said:
I've tried building something similar, but my game lags too much if it gets too big. How did you avoid this?
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If it helps, I have a very detailed zoo with almost every animal in game. Unplayable on my PC, works like a dream streaming through Geforce Now.
 
One of the best things you can do to reduce lag is to turn off the climbable tag on the objects in your zoo. If you select huge portions of trees, poles, etc and turn off climbability it really helps. Of course you can leave it on for areas you want animals to still climb.
 
Anyone else having success (or not) with breeding the Tasmanian Devils?
 
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Great Argus said:
I've bred them a couple times - they die out really fast though, I'm constantly finding their exhibit empty.
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I've set up a breeding centre with 6 enclosures (set within an Australian style zoo that funds the breeding centre). It's taken 7/8 generations but i'm finally producing decent, gold star individuals.

I've found the best techniques are:

Only attempt to breed from females under 4 years old when first introduced to the male. Any older and she will die before mating or giving birth.

Males can be a little older when introduced to females, but they need monitoring to make sure he doesn't die and leave the female alone.

If I get a really good stats male then I put him with the female and then remove him back to the TC as soon as she's pregnant. Then I can put him in with another female, when I have one. Using this I've managed to get 4 litters from one male before now
 
After watching this hint on Instagram repeatedly, I’ve decided that this mysterious creature could be either one of two species of swine. The first and probably most likely of these options is the Wild Boar. While the second option is far more ambitious in that it could very well be a Pygmy Hog!
 
Given the general look and the setting, my slight bet would be peccary. But either Wild Boar or any of the three peccaries are very welcome indeed as far as I'm concerned!
 
Either of those would be very welcome. The wild boar is currently my most wanted ungulate.
 
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