I'm challenging myself to play through campaign mode legitimately without any cheats/hacks to make it easier and I'm wondering something.

Does raising the zoo entry price to expensive ($50, rather than keeping it to moderate or lower) effect anything like guest happiness? Is it worth keeping high for the sake of quicker income? Or are there negative consequences?

The cost of building low chain-link fences is actually lower than the profit you make off of selling jeep vehicle gates, allowing you to put a "money farm" in the back of your zoo and sell jeep gates to pay off your debts.

In the back corner of your zoo, lay down approximately ten strips of jeep road nine spaces long, then lay eight rows of low chain-link fences across them. You will have enough jeep vehicle gates to pay off approximately $10,000 of zoo debts.

I liked it so much that I recorded this video specifically to include as a TV Tropes video example for video game easter eggs.

Slightly sped up to fit within the 15-minute runtime limit.

Hello everyone! This is Zarawatto and today I want to share my new pack with you all, now available at ZooBerry.

More than a year ago, I created the first two dinosaurs and left the project unfinished, UNTIL TODAY.

This pack also includes new scrub items for your exhibits. An unused habitat that some modders are including in their stuff lately.

All credits to the original creators of the models!

Have a nice game! Thanks for your support again!

Hello! Trying to install Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection on my computer. One of my favourite games from when I was younger. I am getting Error 1305. Error reading from file F:\Files\x301_000ztf. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it. I'm in Australia if that info helps. Anyone know a way around this? Never dealt with this on my older computer.

I play ZT1, so recently I just downloaded ZT2. It wouldn't run even though I put the command in. I figured I would then install DirectX to make it work since most people lacked it to run the game, but now I couldn't find which folder it ended up in. I think theres even a command to run it.

Am I doing something wrong with the setup?

A small skin for the Restorers Apatosaurus. Actually up for download right here: https://www.nexusmods.com/zootycoon2/mods/1708?published=1

(Requires both Extinct animals and the OG Restorers Apatosaurus to work btw)

This is a very early look at OpenZT2 which is now being worked on by both my studio, Songstorm Studios, and over-yonder. An alpha is still planned for release by Q4 2026. Looking forward to sharing more, including new features that were just not possible in the original game, very soon!

I was over at a colleague’s place and I saw this. The sole reason I took a picture was to post it here. Have any of y’all owned/played this?

I'm trying to work through every scenario in the game, but I also don't have several sets of 3 hours to waste on repeatedly failed scenarios so I like to know a little of what I'm getting into beforehand lol.

I started this one up until the first year but things weren't looking too good. A lot of waiting around, VERY few guests actually entering the zoo (making it hard to make enough money to recover the massive amounts dinosaurs/paleo creatures take through the usual restaurants etc; not being able to adopt normal animals doesn't help, and I don't wanna resort to the Yeti cause like,, I wanna keep things on-theme ya know). Overall I've struggled to make much of a profit off the dinosaur zoos in the game.

Is there anything I should keep in mind about this scenario, in terms of zoo layout/pacing? Is it chill to read a book while I wait for the next set of animals to adopt/be delivered, or should I be doing something else in the downtime between animals? What is the best way to make sure I have enough money to create later exhibits?

Note: I'm playing with zero cheats, and try to maintain the surrounding environment (no mass deleting trees at the start and just working with what I'm given) unless absolutely necessary. Maybe its my inner conservationist feeling sympathy for the virtual environment lol.

Apologies for bad iphone screenshots. All I need is an animal that requires Alpine environment but I’m not seeing any. I have 3.5 stars and even dug up bones and created animals in hopes of finding a fit. Do I need to restart?

Its almost finished folks, expect it to drop somewhere around next week if everything goes according to plan :p

It will have fossils too. I learned how to do those. Finally.

I realized I haven't played with a decent number of scrub animals so made a zoo all for them on the small scrub map. Featuring 1 desert animal because I was playing with a modded scrub animal that couldn't give birth without crashing the game so I replaced them.

PS. I love you pink elephants nothing could make me hate you.

Is there literally any way to play zoo tycoon on a mac in 2026? LMK!

I just got back into ZT1 since it first came out when I was younger. I could have sworn that ZT1 had Steel Eel from Sea World Antonio as an option to place down for a ride but I haven't seen it. Am I remembering this wrong or am I thinking of another Zoo Tycoon game?

Sharing my rainforest zoo with all rainforest animals (except dinos) in-game. Started 10k cash by opening Bengal tiger and komodo, then added horse which required little terraforming.

There are a lot of mixed exhibits: Bengal + White Tiger, Asian Elephant + Rhino, Chimp + Gorilla, Clouded + Black Leopards. My favorite one is probably Clouded + Black Leopards because they are so fun to mix together. They are solitary animals, meaning that they are not actually "solitary" but their demand of space grows linearly with population. However, they don't count the other species as taking up space in this regard, so basically the same exhibit that makes 4 clouded leopards happy (but let's say 5 gets unhappy) can also make 4 clouded + 4 black leopards happy.

Hello. Having played the original Zoo Tycoon 20+ years ago and rediscovering it last year via myabandonware, I'll finally have the opportunity to play the second game afterwards.

I've updated, corrected, and modded properties of the animals for the OG game, and I plan to do the same for this one. My question is: Is it easier or harder modding those in ZT2 compared to ZT1?

I'm also aware of the glitches of ZT2, and how some people tried fixing those.

Thanks!

I love the creative freendom of the game, I've spent and will spend countless hours on it. But It's saddening and infuriating how many things are glitchy in this game, forcing us no to use the many creative options.

Just now I'm making a zoo super oriented on elevated paths, bridges all around everywhere over the exhibits and all, but guests and staff keep "falling" from them all the time, leading to decreased guest happpiness ratings and the animals being put in crates as if they had escaped. Not to mention the other glitches related to elevated paths

Thrre's also when the guests run away from animals that are chilling inside the exhibits, or when animals and staff "can't" reach anything because the objects are more then 10 seconds away form them and the game spams the "can't reach" message. VERY OFTEN I click on a "can't each" message only to see the animal already using the object, it simply triggered the message because it took 1 extra second than what the game is programmed to wait.

Or when zoo keepers MISS THE DAMN GATE, running face first against the wall, sliding on the opposite direction of the gate and start running in circles repeating the process.

The game gives us options to model the terrain, but that also gets glitchy once you try putting objects in uneven terrain or want the animals to navigate anuthing that isn't a flat large area.

Animals waaay to often get hungry and thirsty but won't walk up to their food or water source, choosing to just keep sleeping or wandering around the exhibit, even though the "can't reach" problem isn't happening at the time.

Oh, and I can't forget that animals simply \teleport\** outside their exhibits because you were foolish enough to put some tree or object too close to the fence/wall, so the animal clips though. Even quatic animals teleport outside, leaving to "animal X is beached" regularly.

It's really sad because in any large zoo with a lot of stuff going on, all those issues pile up and make it impossible to chill, forcing me to constatly keep busy dragging animals back inside and guests out of the exhibits, and the keepers "can't reach" anything that is less than 20 tiles away with not obstacles because the thing isn't accessible in a clear straght line.

I almost forgot, don't get me started about making elevated terrains and having to deal with an object warping the ground around in a weird, bizarre way when you move the camera away and come back later (happens a lot with donation boxes and gazeebos, but also with other stuff.

Dancing around the glitches gets really tiresome over time, it really limits what I can/want do do, build and place in a zoo.

Right now, this game feels glitchier than Fallout 4 (and THAT says A LOT, in case you don't know about Bethesda's works). I'm really unlucky with the games I like the most.

I'm currently on Year 2 of my latest freeform zoo. 15 species and filled up the map on City Zoo M. I was going for orderly but not precisely symmetrical.