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Starter Galapagos Giant Tortoise Habitat by PlasticSwans
   
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Mar 23, 2021 @ 7:08am
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Starter Galapagos Giant Tortoise Habitat by PlasticSwans

Description
This Galapagos Giant Tortoise enclosure is part of my Starter Habitat Series. This habitat can house 1 X Male and 3 X Female Galapagos Giant Tortoises.

About the Starter Habitat Series
The Starter Habitat Series is a set of basic enclosures for every animal in the game. I've designed these habitats for beginner players, meaning that:

1. Each habitat is optimised to meet all animal needs - every habitat meets all requirements for the number of animals to be housed (volumes of flora & fauna, water, terrain paint, hard shelter, barrier strength/height and climb-proofing if required). There's no wasted space, or sprawling gigantic pens. Sizes have been optimised to fit (in most cases) the maximum number of animals the game recommends be housed together. I've taken liberties with this where the game says it can house massive amounts (like the 500 penguins and flamingos)!

2. These habitats don't use any DLC - you don't need any DLC packs to download and use these enclosures (except for ones that are made for specific DLC animals - you may need the relevant DLC for those). The habitats also only use base game 'Planet Zoo theme' pieces, so you can download and use straight away without having to research building set themes. You may need to research barrier types as majority are made from the wood, concrete, wire mesh or glass barrier types.

All enrichment items need to be added manually. I've kept enrichment items in images for purposes of showing where they can sit, but removed before uploading to Steam so those who haven't researched them can still use the habitat, and you can choose when/how you add enrichment yourself.

3. All habitats are rectangular for easier placement in game - Please note - every habitat blueprint in Planet Zoo automatically loads into the game 'floating in the air'. You need to use the move tool (press x as soon as you click on the blueprint to place) to sink it back down to the correct position. To help with this, I've left markers inside the habitats to get them flush with the ground ('see me' and 'hide me' signs). With the advanced move tool, sink the habitat down until the 'hide me' sign disappears and the 'see me' sign is still visible. You can then click outside of the habitat to place it in that position and delete the signs. Check out my video tutorial (attached above) for more help with this.

4. Nothing is super expensive - I've avoided heavy decoration to keep in-game costs of these habitats down. I've still tried to make every habitat interesting and unique, but keeping to basic materials, plants and decorations.

If you have any issues or need more help to download and place, leave a comment below and I'll look into this for you! Also rate and leave a thumbs up if you like this, it helps others find these habitats too!
3 Comments
dangfool Oct 17, 2023 @ 5:45am 
I used this and they did get stressed after a while. I replaced the visible barrier with one way glass and this fixed my problem.
PlasticSwans  [author] Dec 13, 2021 @ 11:37am 
@cosiso thank you, I'm glad you enjoy it! I put all the simple habitats up sans any enrichment because they sometimes show up as 'locked' for people using them in challenge modes, due to the research not having been completed on the animal in question yet. I can appreciate sometimes the animals do get stressed with the builds in habitat series, I didn't take into account how sometimes there can be too many guests about! As you say, putting up 2-way glass can help
cosiso Dec 12, 2021 @ 7:07pm 
I have placed this habitat and changed some walls, to make it more in line with my African-themed zoo. I love how "simple" you made this, as this means I can change some things, without getting frustrated about the small areas and difficult angles.
One thing I did get: the tortoises lacked food enrichment and toys. Not sure if that was intentional or not, but I decided to mention it at least. The other problem was that half my visitors were standing there, stressing the animals out. I solved it by replacing the barrier at the low areas with one-way glass.
Anyway: thanks for the hard work!