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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

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.

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

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.

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

The shut-down just happened earlier this week. Honestly, I was hoping the site would have stayed up longer but apparently, that was not meant to be.