Top 10 Mistakes in Planet Zoo

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This video takes you through my Top 10 mistakes that are commonly made in Planet Zoo. Hopefully these tips help you to keep your zoos successful and your animals happy!
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:05 Habitat Taxation
00:24 Habitat Decoration
00:45 Building Interiors
01:17 Placing Water
01:57 Walking Space
02:28 Queuing Space
03:26 Poor Animal Views
03:56 Utilities
04:21 Free Power
04:45 Expensive Food
05:26 Outro

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[mrCabbages_]

Really appreciate how you went straight into the list without ridiculously long intros or rambling, and each point was concise.

[vicalonso]

I love to build massive massive enclosures so animals can roam free. I love seeing them walking trough mountains and rivers, caves, hills, woods. I know it's way more space than the game says they need, but I think it matches better how they live in nature. So far I haven't had financial troubles and I've done this in franchise mode and campaign!

[nidohime]

Huge habitat can be a win-win as long you plan to add many animals in the same enclosure.
Having zebras, giraffes, wilderbeasts and ostriches sharing the same space looks way more atractive than just having polar bears.

[PawsBuild]

I hope my voice is ok in this one - I’ve been recovering from the flu but feeling good now and ready to make more content! 😊

[megakaren]

For #10, you need to find a balance. You don't want the super expensive animals, but you don't want to be starting out with warthogs or peafowl either. You need something with high enough appeal to bring in decent donations. Some of my go-to starter animals are red pandas, saltwater crocodiles, and timber wolves.

[shetlandponygirl]

Just bought the whole of planet zoo on steams Black Friday sale and this is the first video that is clear, concise and helpful. Thank you!

[EvanBear]

I actually like to start my zoo out with grizzly bears because even though their food is expensive they draw a MASSIVE amount of guests who will all pay an entry fee and food, drink and souvenirs and that will not only pay for the bear food but also continue to pay for much more than that. I started my franchise zoo with grizzlies and am now sitting at 350k and I've been playing that zoo for 3 days. So I disagree with your last point, animals like grizzlies are a high risk high reward investment.

[Franseman]

Paws Build, I have some additions to your great video "Top 10 mistakes in PlanetZoo", (1) invest in your staff with training (staff work faster & less work pressure) (2) place less stressed animals at the entrance, where it is usually busy (translated from Ned/Eng by Google translate)

[AzraelThanatos]

A lot of zoos tend to have clusters of habitats, often with little to no space between them...and modern ones tend to incorporate a lot of sight line setups so that the exhibits blend together and make the entire thing look much larger which is something that is a really good starting point for things.

For some examples of this is to start with Disney's Animal Kingdom, a lot of their exhibits are formed by a mastery of the way you look at it to make it look like each extends and blurs with the next, using terrain features to hide barriers. Unfortunately, you can't use all of the tricks they have for controlling the animals though.

While it's not a Zoo, the Shedd's Aquarium in Chicago has another great use of this in their Oceanarium. When looking at their larger tanks, they're specifically set up and positioned that the water of the dolphin and beluga tanks blend with the lake water you see through the window behind it that makes it look far larger than it actually is.

You also have the Cincinnati Zoo's Africa, from most viewing angles you can see their various areas that lead up to each other such as their general savannah where you can also see the lions where their exhibit is side by side with it and positioned to look like a natural part of the wilderness, but the animals can't directly interact there but can smell and hear each other,

[bobbymcbobface]

I can confirm that of these 10 tips, I probably do 11 of them on a regular basis.

Great video thanks! 👍🏻

[SakanadeSuigetsu]

I usually start out with one of the tortoises for a lot of the reasons most people suggest. Additionally though, I keep the tortoises and I let them have little baby tortoises for one cycle before I turn off breeding. Baby Tortoises are babies for like 20 years and the guest love to look at the baby animals. By the time they age I’m already well into my zoo

[tomasrubiano]

I would like to add that having a large habitat will require that Zookeepers spend whole lots of time in there. If been under financial pressure, Zookeepers will be inefficient, lots of poop will be spread around, they will have to walk larger distances to place food which will tire them down more swiftly.

[jenniferatterton]

Your voice was fine, and again your tips were so useful for both the seasoned and the beginning player, thank you. The inside decoration tip is so true, I've made that mistake often. I still haven't mastered underwater viewing, could you do a video on them, please? I have seen several, but none really explain things in small steps as well as you do.

[meganfisher]

I know this is 3 years old and the tips are for 'just started the game' people but I want to add a magic trick at the intermediate level: For animals like elephants, polar bear, hippo, that require a lot of space, make a circular viewing area in the center of the habitat, a circular huge walkway with a building around it as a shell, with enough space for the animals to walk into the building. And put enrichment/bedding/their main food source inside the building to keep at least some of the animals in the best viewing spot pretty much indefinitely. You can use a bridge through the habitat or an underground tunnel to get to the main viewing dome.

[sminor]

This was recommended to me, I've never played zoo planet, but you kept me here until the very end. You 100% deserve a thumbs up for that alone 😅

[esocleric]

Just got the game on steam Sale last weekend. Really thankful for those tips.
Arctic Foxes have proven to be a great starting animal for me in the Tundra area.
Gonna do a massive overhaul of the whole Layout now 😅

[aaronng]

Love this video! Been playing PZ for nearly two years now, and this video is a really good refresher on some neat tips and tricks! Also, LOVE the panda animation at the end, it's probably my first time seeing it HAHA

[Davley]

Great video and great tips, please allow me to make an addition:
Tip 2: Also keep in mind adding rocks, trees and bushes eats up reachable surface. Keep a surplus.
Tip 3: Make the roof, add in into its own group, and just slide it into the sky, decorate the inside, slide the roof back.
Tip 4: Freebuild (Mod) allows you to be more flexible with water, terrain, barriers and paths. Also usable in Franchise.

Keep up spreading the knowledge! Thank you!

[davey]

I almost always put my facilities on squares. You can decorate these squares really nicely and even make a big building around it to make it an indoor area. Maybe even connect it to a small indoor habitat.

[Illinoisboy]

i learned #1 the hard way 😂🤣 also this was rly informative, thank you!