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This fence set is now approved and available to use! https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/files/file/5797-vondells-modern-wooden-fences-combined/ In the end we decided to use the custom Long Life Fence and Decorative Fence tooltip strings. There might be some other interesting things here in this screenshot ...

I have been getting something new polished up and ready for submission ...

New version of the file has been submitted. As well as addressing the NameID/HelpID and unlock file issues, I have also added graphics and tested proper functionality for deteriorated and destroyed fence states for the exhibit fences. (btw: I ended up deciding to use the IDs of the plexiglass and concrete exhibit fences as a compromise to make them show correct strength/climbability tooltip info. The decorative fences use the IDs of the decorative picket fence, which is close enough.)

The roof pieces will be part of another set that I am working on currently. Just a little preview!

As I have been doing Additional info posts for DD I usually notice things like this. But Jane asked the post info be removed at one point. So I put them out of sight. And then she also updated everything. Unfortunately she was already not well when she did this. But I will be updating all the posts and I will fix any mistakes she made when I do. It will take time as she made a lot of things. Plus I am working on updating some of the overdue updates needed on some ZA files.

Yes, it is the end of an era. Cricket and Fern are working diligently to transfer all the ZA ZT1 downloads here, and the ZT2 content will be hosted by ZooBerry and Goosifer. It will take some time to get everything squared away, so thanks everyone for your patience.

We are (very slowly) working on an open source re-implementation of the game called OpenZT: https://discord.gg/ATqFYVsjkc More info this Summer when we announce the project proper! :)

Sites are not free. And her daughter would have no interest in paying for a site for a game she has no interest in. The files are safe. Some of us were ready for this and made sure we had the files and info. It will take a while to upload them as they will have to be done one at a time. While we are at it we are going to fix some known problems. Tek has a downloads request thread so use it if you want a particular file

I have a question about the Wildlife animal rests (the shelters made by Jane ) I don't know if all have it but I assume so as all 5 for the current contest do I have asked Jane about if in relation to the Wild Tiger Rest and she would look into it once she would get home from the hospital Sadly the stage she never reached as she was taken to the hospice instead Never realised there could be more .... But these are all set up as a guest attraction /restroom/giftshop/restaurant of some form It shows the information panel for the nr of visitors for last month and current month and the total nr of guests and the upkeep price Could someone make the shelters what they are meant for ? A in being shelters They don't get any visitors I know there are also wildlife buildings that are an attraction or any other of the buildings mentioned above These should of course stay as they are but the buildings that are shelters could do with losing the visitors information panel

Those are very interesting things, indeed!

From Jay: None of those "Have All" ".ztd" files are hacks. So they are compatible with everything in CC and MM, including the SuperHack by Jordan.

Thank you both! Submission is pending testing/approval here at Tek but it is also my first release over at ZooBerry if anyone wants to grab it from there in the meantime (it's also on my Drive folder).

So to test out Serpyderpy's new freshwater mod and tank terrain change trick, as well as various freshwater fish mods, I made some ambitious flooded forest tanks yesterday. It was well received on Discord and inspired some other builds, so I thought why not share it here too? My dlupdate folder is a mess right now since aside from these attempts, I'm playing without user-made items for the PANDA contest. The map is barebone and just full of tanks for testing various MM animals. 1. Amazon basin This was V1 before the game crashed prematurely (still unsure of the cause). I salvaged a bit of it from an earlier save and then built a V2 below with some extra land for the tapirs, capybaras, otters, crocodilians, and anaconda. V2 is still my most ambitious tank so far with a very dense number of Hawkkeye's cichlids and piranhas - in fact, I cannot load the save file again without cutting down on the number of animals in this tank. I lost count but I would not be surprised if the total animal count surpasses 100. At this number of animal exhibit compatibility is nigh impossible, but if you cut down to ~10 species it should be achievable. Vegetation also started out very dense - and I love that, but I reduced it eventually to view the animals more easily. And honestly, they look even better in videos when you can see all the critters buzzing around. 2025-02-10 15-09-41.mp4 2. Mekong delta I am more mindful of vegetation this time around - no Amazonian giant water lillies, no swamp cypress, etc. There are also fewer fishes from this region available ingame compared to the Amazon, so I managed to keep most of them happy. There is no land portion like V2 Amazonia tank, but I recognize that this region has a loaded stack of tankable Zoo Tycoon animals (tapirs, Asian elephant, tigers, saltwater crocodile, etc) that can work should I ever do a land segment. 2025-02-10 15-05-31.mp4 The next flooded forest I want to make will be the North American Everglades. I also have an idea of making Jane's neutral rainforest foliage to be tank-placeable in future iterations (unless someone here knows of an underwater rainforest mod). If you think there are specific foliage, rocks, or tank-placeable scenery items that I should throw in, feel free to share them here.

If you have any files that you want loaded first just ask. If they do not need updating we will release them. Most of the early buildings are getting updated if they have not been already.

Thanks to Tek's help, you can find all of ZA's ZT2 mods at ZooBerry: https://www.zooberry.org/archives/zooadmin/ Tek will be covering the ZT1 side of things.

Before Yellowrose passed, she asked that the ZA files be hosted here at Tek. We migrated to a larger server so we have the space for this. Fern and Jay have every file that was hosted at ZA. They are fixing the files and scenarios that need fixed. Once fixed, Fern and Jan and I will make sure they are all uploaded here.

Yellowrose's daughter shut it down. Before Yellowrose passed, she asked that her files be hosted here at Tek. We are in the process of making this happen.

Here in the thread is ok with me, in case the info can help others reading later. I am not surprised I missed some things, I am a bit rusty. Thank you!

You've done it again! These are so cool.

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. I knew I was missing a step; it's been almost two decades since I used to make animals with APE and edit the (I think?) UCA's, just couldn't remember the exact process for getting into the files I want to manipulate. Off I go to make some glorious flooded forests!

Read the ReadMe in the pack. To install, extract the scn999PixiggersWorld.ztd file to the dlupdate folder, if you have it, or to the Updates folder in the main Zoo Tycoon folder, and the PixiggersWorld.zoo file to the maps folder in the main Zoo Tycoon folder. Start the game, play a scenario/tutorial game and the game will appear at the bottom of the list. You should note that the scenario will be unavailable until all previous scenarios have been completed.

There are more coming but Jay is checking they work properly. One pack has abut 30 scenarios in it. They were made before MM and CC. I remember doing these 20 years ago and they were a lot of fun.

We have a dedicated thread for you to request any particular download that has not been rehosted yet:

Go to ZooBerry. Eric was given all the ZA ZT2 files to host there. There are some of us that do have all the files

Last Post So as a lot has happened since the first post I made on this, I’ve spun this into its own thread since it’s so wildly different now To start off, I have some old WIP screenshots I did the same day as the last post. Should have shared them there before, but as I’m making a new thread for this bigger thing I thought I’d add them here 🙃 First off, I made a restaurant area with a fake “mini” exhibit. Its only purpose is to be scenic, and as such there’s an object on every tile. It’s a mix of desert, Savannah, and jungle features, along with some arctic bush to give it that dry look 🦣 You may have also spotted the second of my new viewing areas. A full series of pics below: Moving on to the actual meat of this post, here’s the new, second Savannah diorama right before the animals were added. Unfortunately, most of this design had to be changed in order to fit their needs, but it gives a good sense of what I was going for: And here it is with its first animals! The left shoulder exhibit houses hyena (who got so unhappy so fast that all their grass trees had to go), with African Wild Dogs on the right shoulder, and a joint Sable Antelope & Ostrich enclosure in the middle: A zoomout of one of those closer pics: Now, you may have noticed that there aren’t any crocs in these images. This is because I was busy getting them to eat the last of their meat in the old moat, for that surprise I mentioned in the title Once I did move them into the new moat, I put all but one baby one on the left island (in order to do the whole infinite meat exploit XP). This is what pretty much every croc from that smaller moat looks like when placed next to each other: But forget the overcrowding for a sec, while I turn your attention to the reason I moved them… I converted the whole old moat into a tank-moat, up to the exact same waterline (don’t ask me how I got the ladder to appear at that exact point, it took ages 🫠) Of course, I had a good reason for doing this. I added something very different to crocodiles… :0 HIPPOS! Yep! I have not only added Hyenas, Sable Antelope, Ostriches and Wild Dogs, but also the one savannah animal that can actually swim ^^ The long distance between islands of course is slightly more of an issue for hippos than crocs (at least in my mind). But that’s why I turned it into a tank, so that rather than them simply passing by- They can stop off for a visit ^-^ Sorry for being so slow and dramatic with this reveal, I’m just so glad that it worked! I introduced a pair to either island, so that slowly they would swim across to meet each other. Here’s the other one: The only real downside here is that they are less visible than the crocs would have been in the moat, given they blend pretty well into the tank walls: But it’s worth it to see them going on a journey to see their neighbours! Habitat suitability is of course all over the place for them, but the tank ticks off their need for fresh water (alongside that already in the other enclosures), and overall they seem happy even when in an enclosure that isn’t tailored too much to them specifically: I have lots more hippo images, but don’t wanna clog this one post up too much. Might post them in a comment below at some point though if people wanna see, have plenty of everything since I’m forever taking screenshots 😅 But the last hippo one I’ll share is of one of my hippos deciding to tuck in to the elephant’s lunch. All the enclosures, bar the Buffalo, have their food already stocked, and any keepers present will do so automatically in their presence: This new setup has actually really benefited my side enclosures. Raising the hippo (formerly croc) islands up means the keepers can now exit those side exhibits, meaning I can now force one keeper to look after the hippos, buffalo and rhino Btw, has anyone else done a hippo enclosure with this kinda setup? I know land-tank hybrid exhibits for hippos have been done over and over, but I’m curious to see any earlier examples of people using this to create exhibit-hopping hippos 🏝🦛 Either way, this post is already getting way too long. So to finish off, I’ll just drop some more of the new expansion pics I have, including the changing foliage and stuff when the Sables also got unhappy

Offf I knew about yellowrose passed away, but didnt know her daughter shut it down. And the entire database of the downloads what happened?

Another teaser. Still on track to release by end of May.

Aww that means so much to hear, thank you! I’ve actually taken the liberty of getting a few more of the hippo pics uploaded, so you can really see them in action 🦛 Here’s another view of the last pic I showed of them: And here’s the bits I should have really added in the post, the two of them finally meeting up They do this entirely of their own accord, and I swear sometimes they even follow each other in and out of the different exhibits (although that’s almost certainly just coincidence, I don’t think that behaviour is actually coded 😅) But yeah this is probably the best thing I have ever done in anything! I actually assumed it probably wouldn’t work, but their general hardiness and the extent to which a tank will connect with a land exhibit means it all just falls into place The only thing that isn’t clear is whether they’ll still be able to breed like this, since they’re technically in and out of different enclosures all the time. But even if they can’t, it’s still just awesome having them around

Do you want that level tank hack to see how it works. I really must get around to doing rock tank walls at some point

I have recently released some new animals over on Zooberry, one is a giant camel in collaboration with Buffzoo and the other is a green anaconda, in celebration of 2025 being the year of the snake! I hope you enjoy them! Link to the Giant Camel! Link to the Green Anaconda!