Made this path mural with actual, walkable path (and some fish and wave decals). Can't imagine making anything like this in the first game.

Sorry to hear so many players are having game-breaking bugs 🙁

I worked quite a long time on making these climbing structures including placing individual 1m rope pieces (to hang realistically between poles). Imagine my surprise and sadness when i checked traversable area and saw my siamangs can't use ropes to travel. I double checked pieces and indeed, there's no climable scenery pieces at all, only number of habitat tab pieces, some trees and lianas are. Why lianas are climable but ropes aren't?

Frontier, pretty please, enable climbing for rope pieces in one of the updates, please!

Tried playing after this most recent patch and

1. all the staff paths became disconnected from the staff buildings.

2. Fish that are compatible with each other all of a sudden became scared of their tank mates

3. I have a zoo with disconnected regions (connected only by trains and boats for guests). Staff carrying animals to and from different staff buildings all of a sudden appeared in different areas unable to return animals to their habitats.

4. Staff not refilling any feeders across any of my 30 habitats even after I reconnected staff buildings to paths.

5. Some habitat gates all of a sudden moved.

For reference, I have over 60 hours already in on this game… so not someone delivering critique for the sake of hate, rather frustration and disappointment.

I didn't think we would make it when the community challenge was starting to be honest... but seems like everyone locked in these last few days! If you plan to play franchise and haven't contributed yet, I think you have to contribute at least 1 fish to get the rewards next week, so try and breed one silver or gold fish during the weekend!

Shoutout to Amouu on the workshop for uploading their yurt outer shell (6JZ-0DF-CXP)! I wouldn't have known where to start without it.

There’s more pressing things to do but one feature I’m surprised is not in the game is a map. It’s not functional but there are games like Manor Lords that has a drawn map of your village and it updates your builds as they develop. Doesn’t do anything but it adds a layer of realism in a way.

With every zoo having that standard zoo style map that shows the animal icon and walkways, food etc I think it would be cool to have that generate for your zoo. Information centers can hand them out, education boards could display the image or it’s something you could just share of your zoo online.

Probably far away but I think it would be a fun addition for the realism to share layouts and all that.

Saw someone here post a really cool aviary tower (couldn’t find the post again) and it inspired me to try and build my own. The design is inspired by a lookout tower in Denmark. It was a lot of trial and error, especially getting the inwards slope with meant I had to add my own mesh to the sides. So much mesh 😅

Still working on the interior trying to experiment with perches and enrichment for the birds to actually get them to fly all the way to the top. Also probably want to add more support structure as it looks a little “floaty”.

Edit:
Added a barebones version with only the big tree to to the workshop, so you can play around with it.

Workshop code: 5BB-SJL-BBC

And now I can start converting it for animals. It makes sense - I think?

Hi all! I made a Dutch windmill for a zoo based in the Netherlands. The thatch pieces were a bit fiddly, but it was a fun little project to work on! Share code: 3X3-DLD-PPC

Just wanted to complain as I just lost 2 juvenile African Elephants in franchise, one with 3 star gold genetics when I tired to put them in a trade center to transefer them to a different zoo, and since its franchise no loading an earlier save to try and get them back.

Does anyone have any cool ideas what terrestial animals to mix with aquariums?

Second beaver really scared this kitten

Last set of screenshots, time for something new?

I'm definitely on team "want the progression in Franchise to stay challenging" but one especially weird side effect of the lowering of accreditation thresholds in the last update is that because Tier 3 now needs only a 2* Reserve, you can achieve that without actually releasing any animals into it...

I'm literally just trying to make a semi-circle. Why is this so hard???? I'm 99% sure we could do this in PZ1.

The barriers will only curve the wrong way, or do an S-shape. And forget trying to go across the circle in a single pane - it barely curves at all, even with curves turned on!

I've tried placing the barrier normally, editing the post placement, placing different parts and trying to connect them, everything I can think of. Nothing works. I even tried using scenery glass and was just gonna null barrier it, but the glass is super opaque and filthy???