Planet Zoo Full Beginners Tutorial + Starting Layout

What's up guys? I'm Paul Constitution and today I'm going to show you how to get started on Planet Zoo. Planet Zoo is a game about buying, caring for and raising exotic animals in your own zoo. First, let's look at the camera controls. move use the w s a and d keys you can also use the e key to move up and the q key to move down holding down the right mouse button will allow you to scroll right and left holding down the mouse wheel will allow you to rotate the camera and tilt at different angles, scrolling the mouse wheel will allow you to zoom in and out now to see all the animals you can get in the game, look at your zoopedia at the top left here you will find descriptions of all the animals and their requirements for you know exactly how to create their habitats, we will choose a Nile monitor to be the first animal in our zoo because they are very interesting for a very low feeding cost.

Animals like lions and tigers are great, but it costs a lot to feed a young zoo. If you click on the natural habitat tab, you will be able to see all the requirements your animal has for its habitat. Here you can see that this animal has no climbing or deep water requirements, but it does have a land requirement, a water requirement, a temperature requirement, and a boundary requirement. Now, in order to bring guests to your animals, you will need roads. Parts can be selected in the bottom right tab and you can choose the type of path you want.

A nice selection Once you've found one you like, simply move it onto the map and you'll see it appear. You can adjust the length and width of the path like this, left click to place paths if you want to build. in a straight line you might consider enabling snap angle, this will adjust your pass to a specific degree each time you place them for our initial

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. We're going to build three meters on each side and then 10 meters down and join them together. We're also going to build a road on the four meter line now, unless you want your animals to escape, you'll need some barriers for your habitats.

If you click on the barriers button at the bottom of the screen, you will see all the barriers. the barriers available to you next to the doors that your staff will use to access the habitats. Placing a gate first can be helpful to ensure the barrier is the correct distance from the path. Here you can also turn off the angle adjustment to get more fluid movement, you can also adjust the length of the barrier. Glass barriers can be curved while wooden log barriers cannot, but a clever trick is that if you put the glass barrier in place first, you can then swap it out for the wooden log barrier in order.

To change it, simply click on the barrier and then select the type of barrier you want. If you make a mistake, you can always click the undo and redo buttons at the bottom of the screen, but remember you only get 49 undos. Now I like my barriers. to make it look a little different, so I'm going to put some curves on this one. Remember that we need to make this habitat large enough to meet the minimum requirements of our Nile monitors and now I'm going to finish stitching this barrier if you want to select more than one barrier, simply drag the arrow tool across all of the barriers you want to select.

You can also move all barriers by selecting the move icon. If you want to select all barriers, click the circle icon. You can adjust the height. of your barriers by clicking the up and down arrow icon. This can be done in fixed increments using the height adjustment or can be done freely by turning it off now that we are happy with the barrier. I like to edit the terrain of my habitats to make They are a little more interesting if you click on your habitat and then select the terrain icon. You can see the land area, water area, and average water depth of your habitat.

To modify the terrain, select the terrain tool at the bottom right of the screen. Here you can adjust the size and intensity of the changes you want to make using the extraction tool. We can raise the ground in the specified area. I'm going to use the Smooth tool to smooth out this little hill. You can also undo it. If you make any mistakes, I'll use the push tool to create a water area for our Nile monitors and then use the water tab to place water. You'll notice that you can only place it in certain places depending on the Terrain line now, when I click on the Terrain tab, I can see that these variables have changed and are definitely suitable for our Nile monitors.

You can use a chisel tool to rough out the terrain and make it look a little more natural now so I can buy it. our animals we are going to need some staff facilities in the facilities tab you can select staff facilities and see all the facilities available to you for your staff we are going to need veterinary surgery for any sick animals, unfortunately we have your staff The buildings have a negative impact on your guests, so you should place them far enough away from your paths so that guests will not be disturbed. If you click on the heat map at the bottom left of the screen, you can select the negative impact on guests at the top and see the area you need to keep guests away from once a building is placed, all the other buildings will align with the grid.

You will also need a quarantine to place your animals when they arrive and a building for staff. for your staff to relax now because I chose an aquatic animal, we are going to need water treatment facilities, this building is going to require money, but I think it is worth it because it gives us very nice habitats, you can press z. key to rotating your buildings now unfortunately the water maintenance facility has a pretty large negative impact radius. We're going to need to adjust the size of the grid at the bottom right and position it so that the radius stays inside our square.

Their keeper's hut is used by their keepers who must collect all animal food before bringing it to the habitat. The animal trading center is the building that allows you to buy and sell animals. The research center allows its veterinarians to conduct research and the workshop allows its mechanics to conduct research. Veterinary research focuses on your animals and will give you new foods and enrichment. Mechanical research will give you a number of things, from decorative pieces to new installations. I'm going to join the path between these buildings to create a small area for the staff that I will cover.

This later with the decoration, but for now the decoration is not as important as making money. Now let's start buying our animals. Once you have the Animal Trading Center, you can purchase Habitat Animals by selecting the Animal Trading tab. Here you can see all the animals. available to purchase, you can filter them by selecting the filters tab and select only the animals you want to see here. We have two Nile monitors, a male and a female. We can buy them with conservation credits, which as you can see we have 300 when we start. In the game, it is preferable to purchase it with money in the early stages, as money can be a bit tight.

You can see the genetics of our animal here, which is important for reproduction, and also the general attractiveness of the animal on the right. You can see the sex and age of the animal, you can buy the animal by clicking the adopt button. Now the animals will appear in our animal storage tab. If you want to move them to the zoo, select them both, click send to zoo, and then select the location you want. To move them, in this case we are going to select our quarantine building, as we want to make sure they are not sick or injured before entering the zoo.

Now, in order to move these animals, you will need some personnel. To hire staff, select the zoo tab at the bottom left of the screen and then select staff. Here you will be presented with a list of all your staff. You can hire staff by clicking on their icon at the bottom of this page and then Clicking on your zoo where you would like to place them, I recommend that you hire a keeper, a mechanic, a vet, and a caretaker to start the zoo. Keepers are in charge of cleaning your habitats and feeding your animals. Mechanics are in charge of fixing them.

Your barrier and utility stakes are in charge of healing your animals and the keepers are in charge of keeping your zoo clean Once you have hired the staff, you can easily see their salaries, the work zone they are assigned to and your level of training, unfortunately you have to do it. Please wait a bit before you can train them, you can also rename your staff work zones, they are a great way to organize the work your staff are going to do in your zoos to create a work zone tab, select add new work zone, now select all the buildings you want to include in this work zone, first I am creating a work zone for our vets, so they will need access to our habitat, our veterinary surgery, our quarantine, our staff building and the research center.

You can see the selected building. on the right side you can also name your work zones, so I'm going to call this vet. Now I'm going to create a mechanical work zone by selecting the workshop water pump staff building and the habitat for our caretaker work zone. I'm going to select the animal trade center, the kiefer hut, quarantine the staff building and the habitat. I'm also going to create a work zone that includes all the buildings and habitats we have, including the entrance doors. This work area will be called the zoo and I will assign my keepers and eventually my security guards to it.

Caregivers and security guards patrol the areas you have selected in your work zones. If you select your entire zoo or an area of ​​your zoo, they will patrol this area and do your job now, you can assign any unassigned staff to the correct work zone and your staff should start working on their jobs, that's right. Your staff will transfer the animals from the animal trade center to quarantine them as we have indicated. I didn't connect the pass correctly and that's why they are doing a strange race and I will fix this using the route tool now, once they are in you will have to wait for them to clear the quarantine, you can move quickly. time using the arrows at the bottom right of the screen note that there are three speed modes and you can toggle between them by left clicking once they have passed their quarantine you will see a quarantine pass icon ready to exit if it appears do Click on this, you will be directed to quarantine and here you will be able to select your two animals, click move and then click on the habitat you want to move them to.

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y it can reach other zoo creators who need it. Now that you have success

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y moved your animals to your zoo, your animals have a certain amount of needs to be happy and you can see them by clicking on your animal in the terrain tab. We can see that the

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of the land is not correct for this type of animal, so we will need to paint it. If you go to the terrain tab you can select paint and select the type of terrain you want to add more to.

You can adjust the size and intensity of What I like to do with your brush is paint at an intensity of 100 and then use an intensity of 30 or 40 of a different type of terrain to mix it up a little bit. You need to make sure all the sliders are within the correct zones once they are. If you are in the right areas they will turn green, the next thing your animals need are plants. If you select the environment tab, you will be able to see the type of plant cover they need. Nail monitors do not require anything, but I think.

We should put some. You can also see the continent and biomes that these animals like plants from. You can filter them in the nature tab so that you only see these types of plants. You can adjust the height of any element by holding down the Shift key. you can adjust its orientation by pressing z and you can move it with greater control by pressing x this will give you three axes to move your elements if you press x again you will be able to rotate the element along three axes by pressing of a plant that is not suitable for our animal, they will tell us and we can easily eliminate it.

These guys seem to like banana palms, so I'm just going to put some of these up. Here I am also going to add some common rods to the line.float to make it look a little more interesting. You can see that our animals really need enrichment, but unfortunately we don't have any to be able to get enrichment, you need to do your research. If you go to the zoo tab, you can select veterinary research and drag your veterinarian to the animal you want to research. Once you have completed your research, you will have a level one research for this animal.

This will reward you with toys or food or fun facts or many other options, if you leave your vet with this animal he will continue to investigate it until you have finished all the levels, but if the vets move from one animal to another they will simply pause their investigation, their animals too. He needs food and drink. If you go to the habitat tab, you can select food and drink and filter the species you have. In this case, our Nile monitor can easily drink from the water supply we have since we filter it properly with our water pump station, but the food tray will allow our keeper to place all of his food in one place, This is useful for our guests as we can place it near an area we want our guests to see when our habitat does not have glass barriers if we edit. the barrier we can select the glass window option to create a nice glass window for our guests to look out.

If you select the heat map again and click on the water tab at the top you will be able to see the range of our water pumping station, only part of your water needs to be within this radius for it to be filtered, so Don't worry if something sticks out, this means that the water is clean for our animals and they can easily drink it without getting sick. You can also select the power option to see which of your buildings are contained within the power radius this building has no power required your zoo entrance will act as your initial power generator your animals also need shelter and most animals They will need a hard cover over their head and then a bed option to sleep in.

In you can select from several pre-built shelters or you can build your own using these building pieces. Gnar monitors are aquatic, so they can use the bedding on the dock. I think this looks good, but I'll make it a little more interesting. and build it myself to verify that your animals can access all areas of their habitat, click on the animal, click on heatmaps and then click on the habitat tab. This will show you the blue highlighted areas that your animals can access. Next important thing to cover. In the education and donation containers, your guests need to be educated about your animals and this requires energy, so you need to make sure you place the education within the energy radius.

I am going to build a path around our habitat to give our guests a better view. In the settings tab, you can select the option to adjust next to the barriers, this will ensure that your paths follow the line of your barriers, although the curves that I have built make this quite difficult, so to stop my path by connecting automatically, I am holding the control key down the donation bins generate a lot of money for your zoos. You can find these in the facilities tab under guest facilities. If you want to place your donation containers in areas where your guests will gather, the more you educate your guests the more they will donate, you can also change the color of your donations.

Guest education boards can be found under the facilities tab. You want to place them in areas where your guests will gather. These will educate your guests about the animals in the habitat, but remember. to link them to the habitat they are in by clicking on them and selecting the animal you want them to display. Another great way to get your guests to see your animals is through display areas. Here we are going to create a viewing area by building a small platform to build the path up press the u key if you press this twice it will turn into stairs if you hit it once it will be a ramp you can also drop the path by pressing j the barriers will try to connect automatically to make it easier to build from both sides and then connect the middle, you can select the raised railing in the settings tab, this will add railings to your raised walkways, so now when you are

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out you will also need some display animals , as they are very cheap to maintain and can still attract many guests to find the exhibits.

Go to the facilities tab and click on small animal exhibits. These buildings have four sides where guests can see their animals from here. We'll only use three to get the display. animals, click on the show trade tab and select the animals you want to buy, just like in the animal trade tab, show animals only have two jeans when you want to add them to your exhibits, click on the tab storage of exhibit animals and send them to the zoo and then click The exhibit you want to place them in will move instantly to make your animals happy.

You need to adjust the layout and climate of your display. The layout can be unlocked with research, but the weather can be adjusted at any time based on the weather you want. To ensure the temperature and humidity are within the animal's preferred ranges, change this by moving the slider and remember to add them to your keeper's work zones. Your exhibits also need education in the facilities tab, you can find the exhibit's educational boards, these act as habitat boards for your exhibits and don't forget to place donation bins where your guests have needs and need to meet them to have a good time at his zoo.

You can find them by clicking on any guest. You can also see your history from where. your current thoughts your guests' information your finances for your group and information about your group, including how long they've been at your zoo and their group type. You can also find information about your guest by clicking on the guest tab within the zoom menu this will show you what all your guests currently think about your zoo if your guests think your ticket prices are too cheap adjust them in the menu zoom your guests will need facilities to suit their needs especially food and drink here i'm using the route tool to make sure my guest facilities line up with my entrance to place the guest facilities click facilities then click Click on guest facilities here you will have all the guest facilities you have unlocked.

You can unlock more through your research of mechanics in front of your zoo I recommend placing an information center and some crazy balloons the information center will sell audio tours and umbrellas while the crazy balloons will sell balloons to children I would also recommend placing a meat boss and a goldfish soda to fulfill your food and drink needs here I am going to create a small park area using the align to grid option and selecting the path that I already built, so now I am going to place park benches park by clicking on facilities and then selecting the bench option.

I want it to be a good idea to put other benches around your zoo when it gets a little bigger because visitors will get tired of walking around too much. You will also need to place bins around your zoo to prevent litter. This will really help your caregivers eliminate trash. accumulates in your zoo, guests will find it unpleasant and will not want to stay when you place guest facilities, you will automatically hire a supplier for each facility, you will need to create a work zone for these suppliers that includes the staff building so they can rest.

If you wish, you can hire more suppliers in the staff menu. Now our remaining cash at the moment is 3525 pounds 28, which means we spent approximately 474 pounds 72, although our zoo has been running a little bit, so we have been earning a little bit. a little money, the point is that right now our zoo is making money so we don't have to worry about going bankrupt now, once we have made a little more money we can add some decoration to our zoo .