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Creating A Zoo
MadDoctor61
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Has anybody ever tried to build a zoo? I recently bought 'Pets' and thought it would be interesting to build a zoo to house all the animals I collect. I've already built a Museum for the relics and a Science Centre for rocks, insects etc. I placed a 'park' lot and put cages, terrariums etc to house all the different animals. I couldn't place any. The family bought the zoo, but I still can't place any animals. Has anybody tried to do this before?
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Step 1
Build your zoo build setup how you want it.That means afterwards including bird trees for large birds,cages for small birds,aquariums for fish,terrariums for snake,turtles,or lizards whatever you may use.
Step 2
Change it to a residential lot
Step 3
May be best to use several sims as catchers these will be sims with the collection helper reward that will gather your specimens.Also if doing fish best to have a sim planned ahead of time with any species being used since fish dont escape your sim inventory like minor pets and birds do after X amount of time.Easy to cheat your sims to get collection helper.They will be placed in your zoo build from step 1
Step 4
After catching and placing your critters in cages etc and are happy with it.Edit town hit "split up household" not evict not move out "split up household" you then take all sims in the split out leaving home vacant.You can delete them once split to clipboard
Step 5
Choose that home while still in edit town change it's lot type to community and then small park
Step 6
Save a copy of your lot to the library
You are done you now have a zoo that requires zero upkeep because community lots are self sustaining.They will feed,clean everything the pets there need.Your sims can visit to watch them and the large birds will fly around the room as normal.Any new game/world you start afterwards just plop down the lot from your library everything will be intact.
Example on a small scale
This is still as a residential lot had my sim put these there about 6 sim hours ago.A yellow Chondro Python and a Yellow Naped Amazon
Added this in case you do not know about community lots,every 24 hours a community lot rids itself of dishes,messes,broken plumbing whatever changed it from default.Purposely leaving this dirty plate on a table before splitting my household and turning it community lot
Changed it to a community lot after splitting my household
3 sim days later had my sim visit the community lot
Happy critters needing nothing
The plate of course was gone as expected,granted was gone later the evening of day turned community lot when the reset happens.
There you go pretty simple have fun.Anything you want to add later after that edit it in edit town add your popcorn machine,barista bar whatever.Save it to library if you like that version too.
Edit: As mentioned large birds love to fly all around a room and get exercise often before relanding on their perch so be sure to give them room.
And thank you.
In case you wanna get crazy with your community lot
Do you also place spawners for the smaller animals? I've done that, and no need for the cages.
(I have a toad couple who are living in an old rundown house I put spawners for roaches in. And I've added insect spawners to that mansion that is all rundown).
And used the dome recently-ish for a water park.With a swimming pool,sprinklers,waterslides and summer concession.I love building community lots.
I've used the dome as a butterfly/insect park with a pool and fish. I would like to add birds as well.
@IreneSwift Those are the Lunar Lakes domes,the better superior ones made with the entrances.They are actually called "Visions" "Memories" I assume replicating the holodeck devices from Star Trex where you are in a fake hologram world.In LL they have several tiny setups of different sims 3 worlds in the domes go look at the names of the lots.Kinda cool
If you do not know how to start from scratch just edit an existing LL dome and save it to your library.They have big wide openings and you can also live in them and I even build houses inside they can be used as residential.
Use the Lunar Lakes domes they are way!!!! better
See the entrance,and this is a house being built inside.My sim lives here this dome was placed in Lucky Palms
This is the actual lots real lot names,time capsule like captures of the past since Lunar Lakes is in the future.
Memories Of Sunset Valley
Memories of Riverview
Memories of Twinbrook
Memories of Hidden Springs "Hence the pine trees"
Also cool to note a lot of LL residents are future descendants of townies from different worlds.If you study the bios it is one big connection
And confirmed by a guru that is the very same Bella Goth buried in the Moon's Shadow cemetery.Gross and shriveled up and zombie like but is Bella Goths corpse and she was after all abducted by aliens and had her traits rearranged.
Where's Bella book ring a bell
Have the sim with the collection helper reward/also best they have animal lover trait helps befriend stuff.Anywho you have cheats active and example
Collection helper lizards activated
Look on map each lizard tag
Shift Click on ground there hit teleport me here catch it,
Find next lizard tag teleport me here
Repeat repeat repeat
Go to whatever category you are working on.
Can wipe through each pet category spawn fast but if you do a few teleport home put them away in the cages.
Takes no time to fill your zoo unless unlucky and a specific pet does not show but is just luck they will eventually