whats a good first animal for a new player (me)
so I'm a new player and I want to start my first franchise zoo and i want to get a first that animal that will get some good money and will make pepole come to my zoo
I have:
deluxe addition...
challenges/zoo ideas
hey! i am quite honestly getting bored of pz. i miss it though! does anyone have any challenges/zoo ideas for me?
preferably easy on building( i suck and i always download from workshop but im willing to try with the right ideas)
franchise mode (i love the market)
and i do have a large majority of the dlc...
Conservation Buildings crashing my game
Every time I go to place a building from the conservative pack it crashes my game. I've tested it by placing other pack building and it doesn't crash. It sucks because I've built my whole idea around this pack and just started playing the game so custom buildings is daunting. Any ideas? 😔
Game randomly crashes either while playing or while idling and paused!
• Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600
• Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M K AM4
• Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super 4GB (ASUS Phoenix OC)
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3000MHz C16 – Black (CMK16GX4M2D3000C16)
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Resale animals in Franchise
Sorry, if this is not the place where you can write this post. Delete if it’s inappropriate. I am also not a native speaker and use a translator 🙂
I have a zoo where I started breeding chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans. While I develop 100-100 in the first two characteristics, there are already many good animals, some of which I do not need because I have already given the best ones. Of course I put them in the shop. Almost all of them are gold or without a medal, but they have good first two characteristics. This is especially important because when I started this zoo a few days ago, I could not find anything like it on the market, had to wait very long for suitable males for 10,000 credits. But here’s what really gets me off:
I have just delivered about 20-30 quality animals, and most of the gold was bought by a man called WIWI, after which he returned them back for resale. God, why? I already have over 200k credits for breeding and many other animals, and that’s more than enough in this game. Why do you not allow other players to buy animals at a more or less acceptable price?...
The marketplace is dead.
Every time when i go to look for a animal I want to keep, no one is selling any at all. Is this a bug or is the market really dead?
Guest Congestion
Does anyone have any tips as far as path layout to prevent guests from overcrowing so much in certain areas causing SEVERE fps drops? I find i have to limit my guests to 1500-200 most of the time to keep the game from dropping so many frames. Normally this is fine but in late game I simply cannot make a profit unless i remove the guest cap.
Null barriers!
So! I understand that you use nulls to create a useable habitat around your custom walls, but can ANY animal be contained this way? Is it only up to a certain security level requirement etc? Would love to know more before I inadvertently allow all my animals to escape 😭
Thank ya in advance you lovely bunch! 👌💙...
Why does this show me when I enter my world? What's the problem? Unfortunately, we can't find a resc
Why does this show me when I enter my world? What's the problem? Unfortunately, we can't find a rescue for this zoo. The animals on it were moved to the mall.
Blueprints
Hi, can I somehow use blueprints that was posted in steam use in ps5? Because I saw many cool blueprints by planet zoo creator and all of it was posted on steam
Recommanded Ticket prices
the overpriced tickets are driving me crazy still wondering that is the best price for tickets when you have only 3 animals still in the game
just need help on whats the best ticket price for only 3 animals before setting up the others...
Any tips for managing money?
I seem to be really bad at managing my money. Things go really well for a while and then often times when I build a new habitat, I still have a lot of money, but then my cash flow starts falling drastically. I can go from having like $80,000 to -$10,000 so fast.
I try sitting up shops and donation bins and vending machines and education places and everything, I raise praises, and yet it still happens. I don't understand.
What am I doing wrong?...
How to design a layout?
I am really bad at knowing how to make a good layout for my zoo? Anyone got any suggestions or tutorials?
I've seen some premade layouts in the Steam Workshop, maybe I can find more of those but I don't want to scroll through each page trying find one I like. There really should be a way to search in the workshop for specific things.
Anyway. Any advice?...
Keepers not feeding animals
hey guys so I have heaps of hours on my zoo. Everything’s fine…. until the animals just stop getting fed. Now they are all slowly dying and I’m really not sure what to do.
What are some have-to-know’s that aren’t too easy to find in the PZ’s help box?
I’ve been grinding Planet Zoo for about two weeks now - this is the most dedicated I’ve been to this game in a while. I’m hyper-focused and I’ve been watching hours upon hours of different YouTubers for inspiration, but also to see those tips and tricks that Planet Zoo doesn’t really tell you.
This leads me to the point of this post. What are some of those things that you’ve discovered about the game that Planet Zoo doesn’t teach us?
One of the examples I came across was that if you’re in sandbox and you’ve set all your species to have 100% happiness all the time, they aren’t as active as they would be if they had happiness settings. I’m not sure how true that is because I haven’t tested it out yet or paid too much attention to it, but a few people said it. ...

dlc recommendations??
I have been playing the game for around 3 weeks and thinking of getting my first dlc. i was thinking maybe africa, aquatic or australia. If anyone would like to please reply to this and help me decide please and thank you 😃
Slumber Safaris and Overnight Stays
Lately (especially in Australia where I live) lots of Zoos have been building add-ons that they call “Wildlife Retreats” or like Staying the Night at the Zoo now a cool idea for an Update could be like little modular guest rooms similar to the gift shop and all the furniture inside you can customise and stuff like that so no two rooms are the same for example some could be decorated into like really nice modern or “new world” looking cabins while others could look proper African Safari like
I’ve stayed at lots of these before and they are so fun as they boost guest interactions and make you feel like you are somewhere else to look for further examples see
- Taronga Zoo Sydney: Wildlife Retreat...


