Building a walkabout only Zoo, is it possible?

[Jimi]

Has anyone ever made one continuous walkabout zoo, using only habitats/exhibits where guests can safely walk through, giving them one long safari on foot sort of speak. It seems like something fun to do but is it even possible?

[MIGHTYANDYMAN]

The 4m path get crowded so quickly but sounds like a fun idea, maybe I will try in a new zoo

[kiralea.wood11]

yes it is! i did it with my elephants, giraffes, zebras and rhinos all in one exhibit and all the animals were fine! the guest deferentially loved it

[Jimi]

The path will get crowded indeed even if you limit guest.

kiralea.wood11 ; I did not mean the jeep safari. I ment with the guest gate and animals like the asian small-clawd otter, capybara, aardvark, fallow deer, african penguin ect.
You can let guest walk into their habitat on a designated path

[audiolady]

If you try to let people walk through the elephant habitat, they scream and run. Found that out the hard way, when the path only went through the corner of the enclosure!
I KNOW I've made a habitat where they walked through it with dangerous animals, but forgot how!

[Just Kevin]

Habitats can have common barriers, but I am not sure if you can place guest gates in them. I think they have to be fixed to an external path when you place them.
I don't think the walk through exhibit entrances can be joined. I expect the flappy 'gates' would stop that. And as audiolady says, guests cannot enter the habitats of some animals, even if there are animals that can have walk through in them.

BTW. I have never tried to shoehorn an elephant in to an exhibit :)

[Just Kevin]

You can turn off run away from dangerous animals in the sandbox. I have not tried that, because it does not stop the dangerous ones from being dangerous! Will guests get eaten?

[MIGHTYANDYMAN]

Originally posted by Just Kevin:

Habitats can have common barriers, but I am not sure if you can place guest gates in them. I think they have to be fixed to an external path when you place them.
I don't think the walk through exhibit entrances can be joined. I expect the flappy 'gates' would stop that. And as audiolady says, guests cannot enter the habitats of some animals, even if there are animals that can have walk through in them.

BTW. I have never tried to shoehorn an elephant in to an exhibit :)

Yes it is possible to place a guest gate on a shared barrier, you can place walkthrough exhibits very close but not touching with a small connecting path

[wpegg]

Just to be clear, people can totally walk through any habitat, I've got them casually strolling through my lion enclosure. The only rule is that the path must not be traversable for the animal.

[Just Kevin]

Originally posted by kiralea.wood11:

yes it is! i did it with my elephants, giraffes, zebras and rhinos all in one exhibit and all the animals were fine! the guest deferentially loved it

How? Did you turn off the fear factor? I don't think any of those animals are usually walkthrough.

[Just Kevin]

Originally posted by wpegg:

Just to be clear, people can totally walk through any habitat, I've got them casually strolling through my lion enclosure. The only rule is that the path must not be traversable for the animal.

That's not true, unless you turn off guests fearing some animals. If you do, I doubt the dangerous animals would attack guests anyway. Perhaps they should at least chase them!

[wpegg]

Originally posted by Just Kevin:

Originally posted by wpegg:

Just to be clear, people can totally walk through any habitat, I've got them casually strolling through my lion enclosure. The only rule is that the path must not be traversable for the animal.

That's not true, unless you turn off guests fearing some animals. If you do, I doubt the dangerous animals would attack guests anyway. Perhaps they should at least chase them!

It's true, I've done it here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955234156

You can see the habitat boundary is going around the whole thing, and the guests are not scared. I removed the glass wall blocking them and put some reeds in to prove that it wasn't any boundary mischief doing it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955233992

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by audiolady:

If you try to let people walk through the elephant habitat, they scream and run. Found that out the hard way, when the path only went through the corner of the enclosure!
I KNOW I've made a habitat where they walked through it with dangerous animals, but forgot how!

You just have to make sure the guest path(s) going through the habitat is not accessible to the animals. Visitors only panic if the animals can traverse onto the same locations that they (the visitors) can.

So, to make a walkthrough habitat for any animal that the zoopedia doesn't say allows it you merely need to ensure that the visitor path itself has barriers that keep the animals off of it. You can use barriers, construction pieces, rocks, vegetation, and/or terrain editing to achieve this. The heat map for traverseability is your friend when designing such a habitat.

ANY animal in the game can be in a walk-through habitat using this technique, in any game mode. I do it all the time.

[Livia]

One-way glass and silence signs are your friend! Any and all can have walkthrough habitats, I can also confirm.

wpegg has given you a great visual - make an enclosure that has the null barrier where you are going to put your path. Once you've placed your path, place a barrier to prevent the animals from crossing the path. You can do this with actual barriers, or you can use decoration (you can be very creative with it). Ensure your animals can either cross over or under the path so they can use the whole habitat, and make sure any way over/under can also be traversed by staff. The guests now comment they are in the exhibit.

One-way glass and silence signs are ideal to prevent the animals from getting stressed. There is one-way glass also in the buildable items you can use, it doesn't have to be the barrier.

Use a nice, big path to avoid crowding.

[Just Kevin]

Originally posted by wpegg:

Originally posted by Just Kevin:

That's not true, unless you turn off guests fearing some animals. If you do, I doubt the dangerous animals would attack guests anyway. Perhaps they should at least chase them!

It's true, I've done it here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955234156

You can see the habitat boundary is going around the whole thing, and the guests are not scared. I removed the glass wall blocking them and put some reeds in to prove that it wasn't any boundary mischief doing it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955233992

That's not a walkthrough. You have barriers on the footpaths.

[Just Kevin]

Walkthrough in PZ means that a habitat can have guest gates and inner paths. In otherwords, guests can mix with the animals.