Enclosure Planning Tool

[Shouting at Clouds]

Hey folks,

Just putting this up here because I'm finding it very useful and I figured it might help some others too. The list of example enclosures is okay but the enclosure planning tool is gold.

Pick a dinosaur and it automatically filters the rest of the list for other dinosaurs that will or won't get along with it, complete with data on food requirements and habitat needs. Really useful for planning out enclosures with more than two species in, especially if you don't want to go nuts planting a ton of different foodstuffs for your herbivores.

The one thing I'm not sure about is where they get their paddock size figures from. They seem off to me, or else they're intended for a lot more dinosaurs than I normally use. Anyway - enjoy and I hope it helps someone.

https://www.paleo.gg/games/jurassic-world-evolution-2

[The Former]

Excellent! This will be mighty useful.

[Kotli]

Oh cool exactly what I was looking for.

[apophenia]

All data is parsed from game files. Let me know if you discover any bug or have any suggestions.

[apophenia]

BTW, if you don't mind, can you please update the URL. Thanks!

I have moved the website to a new domain 'paleo.gg' a few hours ago. and the old domain will be abandoned eventually.

[Shouting at Clouds]

URL updated as requested. Great to have you on the thread - the JWE2 Toolbox is a fantastic resource!

[Nejc]

Originally posted by apophenia:

All data is parsed from game files. Let me know if you discover any bug or have any suggestions.

My recommendation would be to sort the list based on how easy it would be to add additional dinosaurs to the already selected. Those on top would require little to no changes to the enclosure.

[Ghod90]

Nice thanks for the share!

[Godrik Underscore]

How do you use this tool?

[Kotli]

Originally posted by Godrik Underscore:

How do you use this tool?

You pick a dinosaur then the program tell you what other dinosaurs that dinosaur likes to live with and if they will fight or hunt each other. Lastly it tells you what size the pen need to be to max out the population for those dinos.

As such it allows you to find out stuff like Ichthyosaurus or Plesiosaurus both can live with Attenborosaurus or Elasmosaurus without any problems at all.

[apophenia]

Originally posted by njc:

Originally posted by apophenia:

All data is parsed from game files. Let me know if you discover any bug or have any suggestions.

My recommendation would be to sort the list based on how easy it would be to add additional dinosaurs to the already selected. Those on top would require little to no changes to the enclosure.

This tool is mainly exploratory, it doesn't define which enclosure is the 'easiest' or most optimized. Instead, you can sort candidates however you want.
Is there any other sort option you would like to add?
I think I did what you asked for the other enclosure tool, the one lists many optimized enclosures.

[Nejc]

Originally posted by apophenia:

Originally posted by njc:

My recommendation would be to sort the list based on how easy it would be to add additional dinosaurs to the already selected. Those on top would require little to no changes to the enclosure.

This tool is mainly exploratory, it doesn't define which enclosure is the 'easiest' or most optimized. Instead, you can sort candidates however you want.
Is there any other sort option you would like to add?
I think I did what you asked for the other enclosure tool, the one lists many optimized enclosures.

It might be nit picky, but example of what I meant:
I select Stegosaurus into the enclosure. It shows I need 10.650 of space. Now if I add Nigersaurus that number doesn't change. I can add it for free (without changing the enclosure) as it's population needs are lower than that of the Stegosaurus. Adding Ouranosaurus instead of the Nigersaurus however, increases the area needed to 15.450. If not yet added dinosaurs were sorted based on the effect they would have on the enclosure size if they were to be added, I could find out which I can add into already built enclosures without changing/rebuilding the enclosure. Efficient enclosures don't provide that information as all three of these dinosaurs in this example are listed in various combinations with each other.

On an unrelated note, one sort option I miss in the DinoDB tool is appeal per area as opposed to appeal per 1$MM. Sometimes i'm struggling with space before reaching 5 stars and it would be good to know which dinosaur would increase appeal most space efficiently. Appeal per area would have to be calculated at the population maximum of a dinosaur in the needed amount of space. Example: If I can add 5 dinosaurs with base appeal of 1000 to an enclosure size 7000, it gives me appeal per area of (5 x 1000) / 7000 = 0,71.

Just some ideas.

[apophenia]

Originally posted by njc:

Originally posted by apophenia:

This tool is mainly exploratory, it doesn't define which enclosure is the 'easiest' or most optimized. Instead, you can sort candidates however you want.
Is there any other sort option you would like to add?
I think I did what you asked for the other enclosure tool, the one lists many optimized enclosures.

It might be nit picky, but example of what I meant:
I select Stegosaurus into the enclosure. It shows I need 10.650 of space. Now if I add Nigersaurus that number doesn't change. I can add it for free (without changing the enclosure) as it's population needs are lower than that of the Stegosaurus. Adding Ouranosaurus instead of the Nigersaurus however, increases the area needed to 15.450. If not yet added dinosaurs were sorted based on the effect they would have on the enclosure size if they were to be added, I could find out which I can add into already built enclosures without changing/rebuilding the enclosure. Efficient enclosures don't provide that information as all three of these dinosaurs in this example are listed in various combinations with each other.

On an unrelated note, one sort option I miss in the DinoDB tool is appeal per area as opposed to appeal per 1$MM. Sometimes i'm struggling with space before reaching 5 stars and it would be good to know which dinosaur would increase appeal most space efficiently. Appeal per area would have to be calculated at the population maximum of a dinosaur in the needed amount of space. Example: If I can add 5 dinosaurs with base appeal of 1000 to an enclosure size 7000, it gives me appeal per area of (5 x 1000) / 7000 = 0,71.

Just some ideas.

Efficient enclosures list sqmt info too, there's a "View Deck" toggle on the right side of screen near the search box. Probably it's bit hard to find. There's also a feature planned to allow user to import any pre-calculated enclosure into the Enclosure Planner tool and tweak it however they want.

Yup, rating/sqmt is planned too. Before that I need to figure out how sqmts stack for multiple creatures of one same species.

[Lauw]

I did some changes to make it more "realistic" like it was in the first one.

Big theropod can get along with any medium/small theropod etc etc.

It's going smoother that way, and seems more "normal" to me.
(Of course that's not the only change I made)

[Gared]

Please consider posting this in a Guides section

[apophenia]

Enclosure Planner has been updated so that you can adjust the number of creatures for each species. It also shows the total appeal now.