Tips for Enclosures

Tips for enclosures, I guess.

UPDATE???

i updated

NOTES!!!!!

PLEASEEEE know and understand that I use MODS. These affect the foliage amount, and make it so I can add endless amounts without them getting upset.

Plants

The first tip is a tip most beginners can have troubles with, which is; plants!
-Plants should be evenly placed, and I usually add a ton because it just looks better.
For additional beauty, lower existing plants and make them into "bushes",
<<As seen here

-To prevent the plant penalty, select plants from it's continent and biome. In my experience, a few outliers from other continents/biomes do not hurt the % too much.
(You can do this by clicking the animal > environment > ideal plant range, or going into the zoopedia)
-If you need a certain coverage, and it's a pretty large amount you need, don't just spam one plant around! Scatter it, and switch between trees/bushes/flowers to make it look natural and pretty. If vines/mosses are available, try to use those! Press 'X' (by default) to advancely translate and/or rotate the vine(s).

Appropriate Habitat Sizes

-You want happy animals, don't you? Well, of course you do! The clouded leopard looks cute and happy! That's because the enclosure is a perfect size with perfect hides and a perfect climbing area!

-You want to avoid them being able to climb the walls! You're able to see if a wall is climbable by hovering over it with your mouse in the barrier section. You can make them climb proof, though! You also want the walls tall enough so they won't escape, but still look good. Unfortunately.. not all animals can handle the wood barrier. You could make custom barriers as well, and those don't even need repair!

-In the zoopedia, you can see what the minimum size for an enclosure needs to be. You'll be surprised on how big they can be, *cough* polar bears *cough*. I usually go overboard with enclosures instead of doing bare minimum. This makes it easier to put all the necessary items needed.

Just a fun note: When you have swimmable areas, for let's say; hippos, you sometimes [at least I do] accidentally go overboard with it and remove some ground below the barrier and past it. When that happens and the animal goes past the barrier underneath it, the animal will be marked as "escaped". So be aware! Same thing will happen if an animal climbs on top of a tree with goes over the barrier, that happened to me, it's really annoying.

No Animal Lonely

Oh, goodie, we got an animal who is social! In the Zoopedia, under species data, you can see their group size minimum and maximum. This is helpful, because they won't get stressed out or sad and lonely. If failure to do so, that will result in the animal possibly escaping or try to escape. Also, some, not all, animals can and will get enriched by other species in their habitat. Others will result in predation.

[Frant1x.Cat]

i updated

[Frant1x.Cat]

ill update this soon for you lol

[liberty7]

i try scatter plants but my enclosures always look so bad and basic

[Yellowstone]

MY KEEPERS NEEEEEEVER FEED MY ANIMALS ACK HELP WAT DO I DOOOOOOOOO

[Frant1x.Cat]

i forgot about this, i should prob update

Go to staff, then at the top there should be work zones, click that, then from there go back to the bottom of that tab and click new work zone. What you wanna do now is highlight a habitat, staff room, and a keeper hut. Then exit back out, go to staff, find a keeper, and next to their name there is a "No work zone" button. Click that, and then click whatever work zone you just created is called.

[mrsomusa]

How do i make a habitat into a work zone