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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.