Is my Zoo's save file doomed? :( Please help!

[rabbithaver]

Hi! So I spent like seven hours on this Zoo a few days ago, and I'm kind of obsessed with it. I'm on year six! It's actually profitable! I've played this game since before I was in Kindergarten (I'm 27 now) and this is the most proud of a zoo I've ever been! It looks so good!

 

Devastatingly, something seems to now be wrong with the file, and I don't know what it is. The game loads fine, but it plays for maybe a minute tops before the entire game closes. I don't even get an error message when it does. I play completely vanilla -- no mods, nothing. My game doesn't crash like this for anything else, just this particular zoo, and I don't have any backups. Is there any way to find out why it's not working and fix it? I'm so desperate for a fix that I've made an account here to ask for help. 

Thank you so much for reading. <3

Black Forest Zoo.zoo

[(Admin)Cricket]

Which zoo map did you use as your base?  There are a few that are known to crash.  Two main ones are Jungle River and Lake Resort.

 

You also may want to check out this link:
http://www.ztcdd.org/DG/index.php?board=246.0

[rabbithaver]

i used the Crater Lake map. is that one of the ones that crashes?

 

also... it looks like my zoo's walls themselves are one tile away from the edge of the map. is it supposed to be like that? is that what's causing the crashing?

[(Admin)Cricket]

I just took a look at your zoo.  One thing that stands out to me is the fact that you used the zoo walls as one side of your exhibits.  I've had issues with this before.  One of our club zoos was crashing due to this issue.  I moved all those exhibits one tile away from the zoo wall and it stopped crashing.  You may want to try that and see if it makes a difference.

[rabbithaver]

oh my god, that seems to be exactly what it was! i moved the exhibits away from the walls and the game hasn't crashed! i'm so so so so so happy, thank you so so much!!! this means so much to me!

[(Admin)Cricket]

You are very welcome!  The advice that we give is usually due to us going through the same things!