Planet Zoo invites you to create your dream wildlife sanctuary, offering full control over animal selection, zoo layout, and guest management. With detailed customization options and intricate animal behaviors, the game encourages creativity and careful planning. However, certain in-game limitations can leave you wanting more.
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Thankfully, the Steam Workshop has your back. With collaborations from the passionate community, you can access unique building designs, bring extinct animals to life, or even add fantastical elements to your zoos. Whether you’re seeking realism or whimsy, the Workshop ensures your imagination is the only limit.
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Green Path Tunnel
This mod adds a visually stunning and immersive pathway option to your zoo, perfect for enhancing the overall ambiance and guest experience. The Pathway Tunnel is surrounded by lush greenery, creating a natural tunnel effect that guides visitors through your park while adding a serene, tranquil atmosphere.
You’ll need to use the Advanced Move tool to properly set the Green Tunnel around your pathways.
The tunnel features a flexible design that allows for creative placement and customization to follow winding paths or curves around obstacles. The use of plants from various biomes, including Asia, Taiga, and Temperate, that will make guests feel like they’re walking through different natural environments.
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Lotus Restaurant
Syyrael’s Lotus Restaurant facade brings a stunning and thematic addition to Planet Zoo, perfectly blending nature and functionality. Designed to resemble a blooming lotus flower, this unique facade captures the beauty of the flower’s petals, with the added touch of lights that illuminate the structure at night, creating a captivating visual.
When you place the Lotus Restaurant in your park, you’ll want to make sure that the green entrance marker is exactly above ground level and the red marker is just below ground level.
Inside, the facade houses two food shops and three drink stands, ensuring guests have plenty of options for refreshments. There’s also a Hats Fantastic gift shop for visitors to grab a souvenir and multiple educational boards to further immerse guests in the zoo’s mission.
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Bear Cave Entrance
This Bear-Shaped Rock Formation is a massive, whimsical addition to your zoo that looks like it’s straight out of Disney California Adventure. Its large, bear-shaped design not only adds a fun, eye-catching centerpiece to your zoo but also serves a practical purpose.
You can use it as the entrance to your bear exhibit, offering a thematic and immersive way for guests to enter and experience the animal enclosure, or as a shelter for your animals, providing a cozy, protected area that mimics the natural environments many animals need.
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Staff Complex Courtyard
- Created by: edenmoon3
- Mod: Create a staff complex courtyard for your staff facilities
- DLC Requirements: South America, Australia, Aquatic, Africa, Europe, Conservation
- Download the Staff Complex mod here.
The Staff Complex mod by edenmoon3 is a brilliant addition to Planet Zoo, transforming your staff buildings from functional but bland structures into a beautiful and cohesive area. This mod provides a lovely courtyard setting for all your essential staff facilities, including a keeper’s hut, staff room, quarantine facilities, a trade center, and even a garden.
The complex is designed with a picturesque, natural aesthetic, featuring a rocky fence that encloses the area and an elegant archway that invites staff into the space.
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Wolf Habitat With Viewing Gallery
The Wolf Habitat mod is a thoughtfully crafted addition to Planet Zoo that ensures both your wolves and your visitors have an enjoyable and immersive experience. This habitat is designed not just for the comfort of the animals, but also to enhance the experience for your guests.
You’ll need to build the path to the viewing gallery. Start by aligning the path grid using the first two floor tiles. Then, use square paths along the grid to pave the interior. Once the interior is paved, lower the first two floor tiles to finalize the path.
The gallery is strategically placed to provide excellent views of the wolves in their natural-looking environment, allowing visitors to observe them up close. The gallery is enhanced with information boards, which educate your guests about wolves, their behavior, and conservation efforts.
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Biomimic Learning Center
This mod is a fantastic addition for players who want to enhance the educational and immersive experience within their zoo. The Biomimic Learning Center introduces a stunning glass-roofed building that serves as a hub for learning, featuring a variety of animal exhibits that showcase the diversity of wildlife. Visitors can engage with educational boards throughout the space, gaining insight into different species and their ecosystems.
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Make sure that you are inside the learning center when editing, especially when adding water.
The museum also features aquariums and biome exhibitions, adding visual variety and educational depth. To ensure the museum feels lively and authentic, the mod includes ambient sounds and special effects, creating an atmosphere that feels as if you’re walking through a real, dynamic museum. The addition of staff facilities ensures that the building remains functional, providing the necessary logistics to run smoothly.
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World Turtle Reptile House
Reptile houses are a popular attraction in zoos, both real and in Planet Zoo. But why settle for a typical structure when your reptile house could be shaped like a turtle?
Use six-meter paths to connect the first and second levels where the stairs are outlined.
Inspired by the mythological World Turtle, this unique terrarium features three sections with five small exhibits each, housing snakes, frogs, spiders, and lizards. Each section is themed to a different biome: jungle, caves, and deserts. The complex also includes a food court, restrooms, and staff facilities, creating a fully immersive experience for visitors.
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Chinese Garden YuHai
This mod, inspired by the serene beauty of Northern Chinese gardens, brings an immersive and peaceful experience to Planet Zoo. It introduces a traditional garden that embodies the harmony between humans and nature, blending a variety of set pieces such as shrines, sculptures, ponds, rock formations, and a diverse collection of trees and flowers. Each section of the garden is thoughtfully connected by winding paths, guiding you through tranquil garden scenes and animal enclosures.
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Designed with first-person POV in mind, the mod allows you to fully immerse yourself in the peaceful surroundings. After installation and customization, you can seamlessly enter first-person mode and wander through your garden, appreciating the calm atmosphere and natural beauty.
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The Wandering Zoo
- Created by: JaiSss
- Mod: Creates a zoo on the back of a wandering dinosaur
- DLC Requirements: Deluxe Edition Animals, Arctic, South America, Australia, Aquatic, Africa, Europe, Conservation, Twilight, Tropical, Oceania
- Download The Wandering Zoo mod here.
Inspired by The Wandering Village, this mod introduces a delightful new feature to Planet Zoo: Derpy, a gentle giant dinosaur who allows you to build your zoo on his back. As you manage your zoo, Derpy enjoys a dip in his lake, taking in the landscape.
This mod will only work with all the management features turned off.
Not only does the mod bring Derpy as a stand-in for Onbu to life, but it also pays homage to The Wandering Village by redesigning building facades to echo the aesthetic of that game. The result is a charming fusion of two worlds, with new visual elements that enhance the atmosphere while offering a unique gameplay experience.
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A Zoo In A Galaxy Far, Far Away
This Star Wars-Themed mod for Planet Zoo offers an epic and immersive experience for any fan of the galaxy far, far away! As you explore this customized zoo, you’ll find a variety of exhibits and decorations inspired by the Star Wars universe… everything from jawas, droids, and ewoks to tie fighters and x-wing fighters.
Guests can enjoy a fully transformed zoo environment, complete with thematic shops and restaurants serving blue milk and Bantha burgers, and a gift shop selling personalized droids. The scenery pieces are meticulously designed, giving homage to the entirety of the Star Wars universe.
- Released
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November 5, 2019
- Engine
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COBRA
- ESRB
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E10+ For Everyone 10+ due to Crude Humor, Mild Blood, Mild Violence
- OpenCritic Rating
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Strong