Dinosaur Requirements

How many of each dinosaur's own species do you need for it to be happy? How many dinosaurs in one pen is too much for some?

This guide will help answer all of that.

Note: Ratings can change based on how complete the Genome is and what modifications / skins you use. I will use my genome %s next to the rating and they are using no genes and default skins.

I'll be including the stats of the dinosaur for each section so you can see how happy they are with their enclosure.

I will be using the individually placed trees so i know 100% how many trees I am using

Enclosures and Terrain

Instead of using the hard to decipher numbers in the information panel of the dinosaurs, I'm going to classify each dinosaur as a Tiny to Huge exhibit based on their minimum requirements, and list their Tree or Grassland needs as 'Very Low' to "Very HIgh' based on how much of their exhibit they want covered

Note 1: Water counts as whatever you put it on. If you fill a area of trees with water, it still counts as Forest. If you fill a open plain with water, it still counts as grassland

Note 2: The larger their exhibit, the more forgiving they are on required terrain

Note 3: You don't to make their exhibits as small as I'm showing. I'm just doing this so you know the smallest they'll accept

I tested these by putting each dinosaur in the enclosures pictured above and adding trees one by one until they were happy. If they were always in the red for both grassland and forest, i upgraded them to the next size pen. For scale of reference, you can fit a Fossil Center perfectly inside the Small enclosure.

Exhibit Key:

• Tiny - Example: Struthiomimus and other -mimuses
  
• Small - Example: Low social Ceratopsians (Pentaceratops, Chasmosaurus, etc)
  
• Medium - Example: (Suchomimus, Stegosaurus)
  
• Large - Example: (Tyrannosaurus, Spinosaurus)
  
• Huge - Example: (Brachiosaurus, Mamenchisaurus)

Terrain Key:

• Very Low - Barely needs any of that terrain type
  
• Low - Requires a little bit of the terrain type
  
• Medium - Requires a moderate amount of terrain type
  
• High - Requires a large amount of the terrain type
  
• Very High - Majority of the enclosure better be that terrain type

Paleobotany

If you have the DLC Claire's Sanctuary for Paleobotany (and choose to use it), there are some things you should know:

• Favored foods increase life span and prestige
  
• Harmful foods decrease comfort and paleobotany rating
  
• If you use Paleobotany, you limit yourself on what species combos you can use
  
• You are limited to 5 plants per map, if using the garden bed 3 upgrade

Through experimenting, the combos I found to work are thus:

Grow:

• Palm
  
• Rotten Wood
  
• Tree Fern
  
• Cycad
  
• Paw Paw

this allows you the following combos:

• Anklyosaurs / Ceratopsids / Hadros / Iguants / Orinthos > Palm, Wood
  
• Pachys / Stegos / Anklyosaurs > Cycads, Paw Paw
  
• Sauropods > Tree Ferns

Acrocanthosaurus

Base Star Rating: 153 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 85%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Albertosaurus

Base Star Rating: 132( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 85%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 18

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Medium (9 Trees)

Allosaurus

Base Star Rating: 228 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 80%

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 1

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: High

Forest: Low ( 5 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Ankylodocus

Base Star Rating:

Comfort %: 60%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 14

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Low (6 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Anklyosaurus

Base Star Rating: 60 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 60

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 4

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 8

Enclosure Size: Tiny - Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Low ( 3 trees )

Wetland: Low

Apatosaurus

Base Star Rating: 135 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 45

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 7

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 22

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: High

Forest: High (20 Trees )

Archaeonithomimus

Base Star Rating: 17 (100% Genome)

Comfort %: 15

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 16

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 21

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Very Low

Forest: Very Low (1 Tree)

Wetland: Very Low

Baryonx

Base Star Rating: 137 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 70%

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Wetland: High (10 uses of the water brush)

Brachiosaurus

Base Star Rating: 140 ( 100% Genome )

Comfort %: 50

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 5

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: Medium

Forest: High (42 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Camarasaurus

Base Star Rating: 128 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 45

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 7

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 23

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very High (59 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Carcharodontosaurus

Base Star Rating: 142 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 85 %

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Low (5 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Carnotaurus

Base Star Rating: 191( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 60%

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Wetland: low

Ceratosaurus

Base Star Rating: 102 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 55

Social MInimum 0

Social Maximum: 3

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum 20

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Chasmosaurus

Base Star Rating 50 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 45

Social MInimum 3

Social Maximum 5

Population Minimum 3

Population Maximum 11

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Chrichtonsaurus

Base Star Rating: 57 ( 100% Genome )

Comfort %: 55

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 5

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 8

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (2 Tree)

Chungkingosaurus

Base Star Rating 42 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 50

Social MInimum 2

Social Maximum 12

Population Minimum 2

Population Maximum 18

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium ( 9 trees)

Corythosaurus

Base Star Rating 27 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 20

Social MInimum 2

Social Maximum 13

Population Minimum 2

Population Maximum 24

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Deinonychus

Base Star Rating 75 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 75

Social MInimum 3

Social Maximum 8

Population Minimum 0

Population Maximum 18

Enclosure Size: Small - Medium

Grassland: Low

Forest: Low (6 Trees)

Dilophosaurus

Base Star Rating 69 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 70

Social MInimum 1

Social Maximum 12

Population Minimum 0

Population Maximum 22

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium (10 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Diplodocus

Base Star Rating 122 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 40

Social MInimum 1

Social Maximum 8

Population Minimum 0

Population Maximum 24

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Medium (10 Trees)

Dracorex

Base Star Rating 32 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 25

Social MInimum 2

Social Maximum 8

Population Minimum 2

Population Maximum 12

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Low (3 Trees)

Dreadnoughtus

Base Star Rating: 110 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 50%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 3

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Huge

Grassland: Medium

Forest: High (24)

Wetland: Low

Dryosaurus

Base Star Rating: 4 ( 93% Genome)

Comfort %: 10%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 22

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: High ( 7 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Edmontosaurus

Base Star Rating 23 (100% Genome )

Comfort % 20

Social MInimum 1

Social Maximum 15

Population Minimum 1

Population Maximum 25

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Euoplocephalus

Base Star Rating:

Comfort %: 60%

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 6

Population Minimum: 2

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium (About 7 trees)

Gallimimus

Base Star Rating: 12 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 15

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 18

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 23

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (1 Trees)

Wetland: low

Giganotosaurus

Base Star Rating: 216 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 80

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 13

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low ( 3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Gigantspinosaurus

Base Star Rating: 48 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 55

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 10

Population Minimum: 4

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium (9 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Herrerrasaurus

Base Star Rating: 56 ( 77% Genome)

Comfort %: 50%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 5

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 22

Enclosure Size: Small - Medium

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Low ( 3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Homalocephale

Base Star Rating: 16 ( 86% Genome)

Comfort %: 25%

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 10

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Low (1 Tree)

Wetland: Low

Huayangosaurus

Base Star Rating: 38 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 50

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 13

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Medium (11 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Iguanodon

Base Star Rating: 32 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 20%

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 10

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Indominus Rex

Base Star Rating: 273

Comfort %: 90

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 1

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 10

Enclosure Size: Large - Huge

Grassland: High

Forest: Low (About 6 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Indoraptor

Base Star Rating: 281 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %:

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 1

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 10

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Medium (10 Trees)

Kentrosaurus

Base Star Rating: 44 (100% Genome)

Comfort %: 55

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 11

Population Minimum: 3

Population Maximum: 14

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium (12 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Maiasaura

Base Star Rating: 32 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 25

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 12

Population Minimum: 4

Population Maximum: 23

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Low (4 Trees)

Majungasaurus

Base Star Rating: 156 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 60

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees )

Mamenchisaurus

Base Star Rating: 110 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: ~ 50%

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 4

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: Very Low

Forest: Very High (62 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Metricanthosaurus

Base Star Rating: 126 (100% Genome )

Comfort %:

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 18

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Medium (About 6 Trees )

Muttaburrasaurus

Base Star Rating: 38 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 30

Social MInimum: 6

Social Maximum: 12

Population Minimum: 6

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Low (4 Trees )

Wetland: low

Nasutoceratops

Base Star Rating: 29 ( 83% Genome)

Comfort %: 40%

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 10

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Slightly larger than the Large I have

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Medium (6 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Nigersaurus

Base Star Rating: 42 ( 86% Genome)

Comfort %: 50%

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 8

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium (10 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Nodosaurus

Base Star Rating: 63 (100% Genome )

Comfort %:

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 4

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 7

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low ( 1 trees )

Wetland: Low

Olorotitan

Base Star Rating: 35 (100% Genome)

Comfort %: 20%

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 12

Population Minimum: 4

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Low (5 Trees)

Wetland: low

Ouranosaurus

Base Star Rating: 25 ( 69% Genome)

Comfort %: 30%

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 12

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: High

Forest: Low (3 trees)

Wetland: Low

Pachycephalosaurus

Base Star Rating: 39 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 25

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 6

Population Minimum: 3

Population Maximum: 10

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Parasaurolophus

Base Star Rating: 36 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 30

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 14

Population Minimum: 4

Population Maximum: 21

Enclosure Size: Small - Medium

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Pentaceratops

Base Star Rating: 53( 100% Genome )

Comfort %: 45

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 5

Population Minimum: 3

Population Maximum: 9

Enclosure Size: Small - Medium

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Wetland: low

Polacanthus

Base Star Rating: 65 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 60

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 3

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 6

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (1 Tree)

Proceratosaurus

Base Star Rating: 44 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 70%

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 10

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 23

Enclosure Size: Small - Medium

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Sauropelta

Base Star Rating: 68 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 55

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 4

Enclosure Size: Tiny - Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (1 Tree )

Wetland: Low

Sinoceratops

Base Star Rating: 42 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 40%

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 7

Population Minimum: 2

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Very Low (2 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Spinoraptor

Base Star Rating: 145

Comfort %: 70%

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 4

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: Medium (3 uses of the water brush)

Spinosaurus

Base Star Rating: 240 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 70

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 13

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: HIgh

Forest: Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: High (14 - 15 uses of the water brush)

Stegoceratops

Base Star Rating: 44

Comfort %: 55%

Social MInimum: 3

Social Maximum: 8

Population Minimum: 3

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Low (7 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Stegosaurus

Base Star Rating: 51 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 55

Social MInimum: 5

Social Maximum: 9

Population Minimum: 5

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: Low

Forest: Medium (12 Trees)

Wetland: low

Struthiomimus

Base Star Rating: 9 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 10

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 20

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (1 Tree)

Wetland: Low

Stygimoloch

Base Star Rating: 36 ( 100% Genome)

Comfort %: 25%

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 12

Population Minimum: 2

Population Maximum: 14

Enclosure Size: Tiny

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees )

Wetland: low

Styracosaurus

Base Star Rating: 41 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 45

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 5

Population Minimum: 2

Population Maximum: 14

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low ( 3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Suchomimus

Base Star Rating: 144 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 65

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 2

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Medium

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: High (About 10 brush uses)

Torosaurus

Base Star Rating: 47 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 45

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 5

Population Minimum: 2

Population Maximum: 13

Enclosure Size: Tiny - Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Triceratops

Base Star Rating: 39 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 40

Social MInimum: 1

Social Maximum: 6

Population Minimum: 1

Population Maximum: 16

Enclosure Size: Tiny - Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low ( 3 trees)

Wetland: low

Troodon

Base Star Rating: 63 (100% Genome)

Comfort %: 70%

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 16

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 25

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Medium (8 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Tsintaosaurus

Base Star Rating: 33 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 25

Social MInimum: 4

Social Maximum: 15

Population Minimum: 4

Population Maximum: 22

Enclosure Size: Small

Grassland: Low

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees)

Wetland: Low

Tyrannosaurus Rex

Base Star Rating: 234 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 85

Social MInimum: 0

Social Maximum: 1

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 15

Enclosure Size: Large

Grassland: High

Forest: Very Low (3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

Velociraptor

Base Star Rating: 74 (100% Genome )

Comfort %: 80

Social MInimum: 2

Social Maximum: 6

Population Minimum: 0

Population Maximum: 20

Enclosure Size: Medium - Large

Grassland: Medium

Forest: Low (3 Trees )

Wetland: Low

[rokelle_2012]

If I get above four triceratops, they start getting angry and uncomfortable. Even just two in a mixed exhibit with lots of other dinos they were getting uncomfortable. These guys must be very picky, lol.

[Ultimate Gator]

simple and helpful
10/10

[Vall]

This was really amazing to read! Very helpful. I was wondering though, what the length and width of each enclosure is?

[yellowniteowl game]

i love it

[Enjoy The Journey]

Well done, and thank you!

~ best regards from a recent arrival to the JWE management team

[Durhil]

Very detailed and thorough guide, good job

[V4NTAPURP13]

This is so useful!

[Clown World]

Not all heroes wear capes

[glichinpigeon]

Great guide! Thanks for all the time and effort, it's really useful :D

[MikeyMassacre]

This is incredibly helpful! Thank you