r/PlanetZoo

I integrated overgrown stone ruins directly into the habitat, surrounded by dense tropical foliage and tall palms. For the guests, I created an elevated stone pathway overlooking the habitat. There’s also a fantastic covered wooden viewing deck perched right on the edge of the cliff above the water. 🌿 (Climbing structure made by Wyatt!)

I was struggling to figure out which theme of a zoo I wanted to build. After trying savannah, temperate, and even trying arctic, I settled for a tropical, Central and South American theme, heavily inspired by a few small towns in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Guatemala, and Brazil. I used some real-life references, as well as exploring myself, through Puerto Rico.
Each photo has a caption, telling you what you're looking at.

The idea behind the zoo is that it was a small town nestled in the rainforests and mountains, and they banded together to create a zoo to help bring interest and money into the town, and to help warn and advise against the rampant deforestation, pollution, and increasing urban expanse of the island. That is why where are some "houses" scattered around the zoo.

Any animal recommendations. Doesn't have to be a central or south American animal, obviously! Just something unique, and fun!
(Please, I'm out of ideas...)
Any other comments, or ideas, or even references for buildings to be added next, let me know! The think tank is running dry...

You pick a continent, biome, and how much land/water you have. It randomly picks a matching animal, shows you exactly how many fit in your enclosure (with the full calculation), and tracks which animals you’ve already placed in your zoo so they don’t come up again.
Covers all 210 animals including DLC.
Still work in progress, curious if this is something people would actually want, and what features you’d add?

Hi everyone, i wanted to show the "zoo" (i still have to place an habitat) i've been working on for 200+ hours (most of them spent thinking on how to terraform all of ts)

As the title said, the tallest mountain reach the max height, 250m approximately (which is not the one with the glacier, but the one on the other side that looks like a volcano, not finished of course)

Obviously this map was made starting with a completely white height map (so cube shaped), however it only made me start at 120m, then it was all manual terraforming

I wanted to know if anyone out there as build something like this, I would love to take inspiration, but I didn't find anything so far

I always tend to make my franchise parks gridded, so I challenged myself this time to really shake up the layout. What do you think?

I love the detail on this black rhinoceros!

I finally added a Borneo elephant habitat to the Asian section of my zoo.

The habitat was a little tricky because the Borneo elephant came out in a later DLC after this area of the zoo had already been completed, so I had to expand the section to make it work out.

Check out the video: https://youtu.be/JhBKb5n7cHc

Would love to hear what you think of the expansion and if any of you had trouble adding DLC animals into older zoo sections!

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The World Zoo Project took 21 months to build, features 16 unique sections, and includes all 210 species in the game.

It's on the workshop if you want to see more photos of the zoo, or download it and see if your computer can handle the large file.

Built live over at my twitch

My computer specs:
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-14700F
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX™ 4060 (8 GB)
Ram: 64GB DDR5 RAM at 5600 MT/s