Saturday, January 14, 2023

Zoopark


Started working on another sandbox park in Jurassic World Evolution.

I want to make it look mostly like a regular zoo that just happens to house (mostly) non-avian dinosaurs, and I also want to take my time to decorate the enclosures more than I've bothered to in campaign and challenge mode. There's one hotel, but I don't know if this would be located on a remote island where a multi-day stay is encouraged while you're already there, it's more city zoo than theme park. You can also pretend some of the other guest buildings are indoor exhibits of small animals rather than dedicated to selling merch.

I've also installed a bunch of dinosaur mods, mostly having to do with making them more scientifically accurate. A few I'd like to still install require DLC I don't have, so I've left empty spots for dinos I can't have yet.

Here's a little tour of what I have now, and of course I'll eventually use this as an environment to run around in with an imaginary camera and take aesthetic screenshots of every critter.

Near the entrance, the first enclosure on the left houses some of our few actually avian dinosaurs, and also another pretty birdlike critter:


A quartet of Aepyornis, also known as the elephant bird. They share their enclosure with a flock of Struthiomimus.

The enclosure next to them on the left has Pachycephalosaurus, six adults and two juveniles. I haven't modded the Dracorex, but the adult Pachys got a new design that even gives them a bit of fluff on the back!


The oval-shaped enclosure on the right of the Pachys has a pack of Guanlong.

Quick, chirpy, and fluffy little tyrannosauroids.
On the right from the zoo entrance (left in this picture) are some bigger carnivores. First Ceratosaurus, of which I don't have a good screenshot right now to show off that they're less retrosaur now, too, but next to them is:

Dilophosaurus!
The splashy one in the corner has spinosaurids.

A pair of Baryonyx, and also Suchomimus (latter not pictured, and are unmodded because they're already pretty great), and I have plans to eventually put a Spinosaurus or two in there, too, when I can have the mod I want for them. I don't know if the smaller spinosaurids will be scared of them, and if so I'll separate this into two enclosures, but the Barys and Suchos I already knew get along in sandbox.

Near the Guanlong enclosure are paddocks for some very big guys, and also very little guys, respectively.

Under the big tree in the round-ish enclosure graze some tiny members of marginocephalia, including my favorite ceratopsian. The many Psittacosaurus and Homalocephale have three feeders in addition to their constant foraging in case it gets too crowded at one.

The big guys in the other enclosure include Apatosaurus. Hi there! Careful you don't lose that treestar floating from the feeder.

Edmontosaurus giving a serenade at the watering hole.
Look at this beautiful Ankylosaurus!
The big guys enclosure also has the wonderfully colourful Muttaburrasaurus and now-colourful Brachiosaurus.
On the other side of the zoo from the guys of extreme sizes is Paravian Paradise... Maniraptoran Madhouse? We're still working on a name for the area. To start with some more little guys, the closest enclosure in this picture is empty right now, but I want to eventually put a bunch of Balaur in there, and on the right of them is Tsaagan.
Having their afternoon bath.

Moving to the next enclosure, we have some bigger deinonychosaurs - the eponymous Deinonychus itself! This area is often open after the rest of the zoo's closing for the night, and has guided evening tours, as our birbs are up at odd hours.

Next to them is a perhaps closely related species, the enigmatic Velociraptor. No, not Ovoraptor djadochtari, these 6-foot turkeys only share a genus name with it from another universe. Confusing, but clever birbs.


They are also part of the evening tours.

Sometimes they observe you right back, but we advice not to make eye contact.

Despite this not really being Jurassic World, I couldn't resist using the Raptor Squad paddock items to build some kind of facility at one edge of the Velo paddock.

This species seems to require extra on-site monitoring, including a staff-only viewing tower inside the enclosure, usually accessible through the raised walkways (though there is a door in it to the paddock that's kept locked because they figured out how to open it, should have seen that coming). Perhaps the zoo is participating in a breeding program for this endangered but in this particular universe never extinct species.

Next to the Velos is a small, strange deinonychosaur. Their feathers are sparse and wings deformed, but they have proven capable of having a good quality of life in captivity with the right care. They were given a home at the zoo after being rescued from unethical animal testing, and lack proper documentation of their exact origin, but DNA testing identifies them as Stenonychosaurus with a rare mutation. They are fully nocturnal, and the last stop on the evening tours, to catch a glimpse of them as they wake up for their "day". Our days they spend in an indoors part of their enclosure, safe from noise and other disturbances.


On the other edge of the maniraptoran area (but not part of the area if we name it for housing paravians, but then again we already have Aepyornis, which is both, elsewhere in the zoo, so) are some very big turkeys.


A trio of Therizinosaurus.

And next to the Theris at the back of the zoo are some more big theropods. I seem to always put big carnivores in this part of the Nublar map.

A pair of Allosaurus,
A Carnotaurus, and an empty paddock reserved for Yutyrannus, but on the other side of that,

We have a T. rex, because of course we do. Two of them.

Last but not least, between the sauropods &co. and the big theropods are more ceratopsians.

Triceratops and Styracosaurus in the bigger enclosure.

And in the smaller one, Protoceratops.

Which never sleep (because their mod is a replacement for the live bait goat. This is obviously the only enclosure where I'll use that feeder, and they have a plant feeder for show even though they don't eat, either).

Why are little traffic circles with a tree in the middle so fun?
 
Mods I'm currently using in this park:
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