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Thank you! Last year I made a Prehistoric Pampas Zoo with animals from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the Americas, where I had them in an enclosure in the middle of the map. I might post screenshots of that one sometime later.

Thank you. Next comes the South America and Mesoamerica section. Irritator Tupandactylus and Pterodaustro Glyptotherium and Eremotherium Austroraptor Dreadnoughtus Purussaurus Josephoartigasia

Uintatherium Eohippus Diatryma Heptodon, Helaletes and Presbyornis Moeritherium and Apidium Arsinoitherium Palaeoloxodon falconeri Paraceratherium Megaloceros giganteus Llallawavis Tapirus augustus And that concludes the tour.

My attempt at building a Jurassic Park style raptor pen.

Jeff has been kicked out, banished, defunded, and exiled. This is because he exploded every computer at every zoo simultaneously, and since he has questionable design practices this also meant that every fence at every zoo disappeared. Obviously this is not good when most of your exhibits are extinct animals, and this incident has led to his understandable blacklisted status. Also he stole a bunch of dinosaur eggs so he's a wanted criminal. It's fine though. We have alternatives. Cadaverine is more than happy to take up the role of park builder! He's more of a mad scientist, but it's probably ok. We think we can trust him, because scheming little shapeshifters in lab coats are always trustworthy. As such he has been given access to all of our finances. Okay, more seriously, I want to pick this up again! I had a lot of fun making parks. I just have to download all my mods again (and maybe some new ones, idk) before I'm ready to build again. I did kind of disappear for several months. Oops! Happy new year. To finally post any kind of update regarding the computer situation, the old laptop was beyond salvageable. But first I would like to tell its story, because it did get me through for probably about seven or eight years. It had a lot of issues to begin with, namely lagginess and a yearning for the grave. It was old and not really built for gaming. To put it into perspective, some visual novels were too strong for it and would lead to game crashes, if not severe lag. Text and images was too much for it. A lot of modern websites were unusable; my computer physically could not handle opening them and would lag severely. It was a necessity to have task manager open 24/7 in case a webpage I opened froze the browser. As for that yearning for the grave, it had a hard time starting up. It was a bit like an old push mower, or maybe a car. You just had to turn it on and off and listen to it struggle until it finally worked. Shutting it down wasn't really an option, so I mostly let it sleep. I don't really recommend that for most computers but it was a genuine concern that one day it would just Not Wake Up. The first sign was a very specific one: after playing the sims 4, no matter when the game was played, it would inevitably have a fit and, at 5AM, go to the BIOS screen, and get stuck in a BIOS loop. The only way to get out of BIOS was wild. You had to tell it to boot up in safe mode, then turn the computer on and off three times (holding for several seconds each time). This would resolve the issue. It also did not boot up in safe mode. After three instances of that, it was clearly a sign, and I stopped playing the sims 4. The issue stopped. Some day in July, while working on a large artwork, my drawing tablet malfunctioned. This is not unusual. The computer didn't like playing nice and would, sometimes, randomly decide that my every input should lag severely. This would, as you expect, make it impossible to use. The only way to fix this was to restart the computer, which was a pain, because the computer did not like to turn back on. But fine. I was drawing 9 characters in one image, I really wanted to get this done. Save and exit. Alas, what greeted me upon its waking was a new (and final) BIOS loop. This one would not go away with the standard method. Every possible method out was examined, tried, and discarded once they failed. Long-dead forums were scoured. Useless help pages read through. Youtube videos watched. Eventually we noticed something very wrong, which was cause for concern: the boot menu had no listed hard drives. No OS. Obviously a computer kind of needs those to function. It was sent off to a tech guy who gave it a look over and declared it DOA. Which was kind of what I expected, but still. My art!!! Let this be a warning to always back up your files all the time, even if you don't think you should. I lost all the artfight artwork files for that year (though they were all uploaded onto artfight's site itself), including the massive character WIP. I sent the sketch to friends in messenger, though. So there's that. Though I had finished several characters... owch. Anyway, July was spent computer-less. I bought a lovely gaming laptop, with the intention of coming back to this thread, except almost immediately I realized my full steam library was open to me because I had a terabyte of drive space and a 4060 graphics card. Then I bought baldur's gate 3 and blacked out for several months. But I have returned!! I'm in the process of finding everything I had lost (er, mod-wise. That artwork is done for lol) and getting zoo tycoon back up and running. Looks like people made / found some cool stuff while I was away!