Sorry to hear that! I had to restart numerous times to figure out a way that worked. I did an exhibition zoo, a bigger animal zoo. Nope, tortoises all the way! That's what works
@@PlasticSwans Reminds me of Jurassic World Evolution where it's sensible to start with the the cheapest Dinosaurs since they bring in a ton of guests and money and then slowly work your way up
@@The_SilverMane I think it's a deliberate game mechanic so people can get traction. The problem is that some people want to go big right from the start. Me included! My first few attempts I started with some big enclosures, and ran out of money fast! Maybe if bigger/more difficult animals were locked until you reach a certain amount of money in the bank would help everyone starting out.
@@PlasticSwans Same, it’s trial & error w/this game for sure. I just started a new franchise, we’ll see if this one is any better lol I just want to make a 5star zoo w/all the exotic animals I like, is that too much to ask!!??
I wish I’d seen this video when I first started playing three months ago, my first franchise zoo failed because I spent way too much money trying to make my zoo look nice, in the end I had to take a bunch of loans and ended up going bankrupt trying to pay them all off. Glad to know that you’re helping other beginners avoid the same fate! (Side note, another great species I’ve found that is really good to start with are the Nile monitors, like the tortoises they’re cheap and have very easy requirements, and attract enough guests that it will start earning income pretty much immediately. They also breed a lot which is helpful)
Your first attempt, is word for word same as mine! First couple of go's I spent way too much putting the paths out and decorating stuff, taking out the loans and realising I'd gone way too big too early. The nile monitors are also a great species to start off with! They used to have tons of babies per pregnancy, but I think they reduced it down a bit recently.
I just lowered the entrance fees. I increased the prices at the food and drink stands and the toilets and thus generated more income because more guests came because of the low entrance fees.
Ok thank you sooo much for making this video and responding to people's questions in the comment section. I really appreciate all of the work you put into figuring this method out and sharing it with us. Liked and subbed ❤
My boyfriend sent me this video, he got this game for me a couple of days ago (he knows how much I love animals haha), and I had gone in the negative profits so this really helped thank you!!
Nice video. I’m new to Zoo and appreciate what you’ve done. Thank you. I started my zoo with exhibits. A few bugs and a couple of snakes. Cheap, quick and profitable! Had no idea how fast time moves in this game though so actually I think it took a couple of “years”.
I stopped playing for a while, and I recently came back because of the New DLC, I opened up a new franchise zoo and I couldn't figure out why it wasnt making money. I never had that problem before, so i as watching your video and as soon as you said "donation box" i felt so stupid. I can't believe I forgot about the donation boxes.
Thank you so much for this video. This allowed me to actually get started in the game without instantly going bankrupt. Now I can play and learn as I play.
this video reminded me of why my zoo keeps failing... i put no donation boxes..... well atleast now i have like 20 healthy warthogs to add to my next zoo
Nice video. This helps however with the food drinks, toilets I disagree as when I first started without them people were complaining there was no food drink or toilets even though I only had 1 or 2 enclosures
Discovered your channel through the Project Hospital series. Love the fact that you do Planet Zoo as well! Sub'd and looking forward to checking out your other content :)
Many thanks for this, I started my first run through ( yesterday) with flamingoes, then realized how many are needed in a flock for them to be happy! A real noob move! 😏😜
Just be careful with this, I think the next update of the game due next week the developers are nerfing this mechanic a little as it's been too easy to gain heaps of cash from those boxes!
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on the patch notes. Though it wasn't my only mistake (forgetting to put any donation box), so being able to make just about enough cash to keep my zoo running is enough. I also may have made an habitat too ambitious for my tortoises. For now it's going fine.
Please listen to this video it is very useful also get a chief beef shop and a gulpee shop, in my zoo there is alot of people going on the shops even tho I started not long ago with this tutorial
Plastic Swans it’s such a good thing to use to make money, that and speakers around the educations board🙈 it was actually another youtuber PaulsLey who taught me it🙈
Unfortunately I haven't played much of franchise mode since the game was in early launch. It just doesn't hold my interest as much as using creative mode
It's a pretty fine balance. I'm still not certain what factors contribute to what price you can charge. I think it's got something to do with the overall zoo score, education score, number of animals etc. I'd have to do some extensive testing to figure it out.
I just deal with my brokenness by just selling all other animals and then by buying lions.. I had to restart but I followed this but difference isn’t I just put my big lion storage in a little habitat and put plenty of donation boxes got off when I had around 50k so imma see how it goes and yeah
It's a lot like Sims, but check the specs and make sure her computer can run Planet Zoo. People have reported issues if their computers don't meet the specification.
Thanks! I used to stream on Twitch and still have a channel there, but I was streaming to about 3 people lol so never felt like it was worth the effort.
After i did the aldabra tortoises i put in aardvarks! Cannyou help me with the layout? I dont really know if i should continue with the layout like yours to the bottom of the map, put it to the side, and what do i do for animals with big enclosures? (E.g. hippopotamus)
Rule of thumb is to keep everything as close together as possible, honestly I'm not sure if this layout is the best optimised, I pulled this together when the game was still in beta and updates have made a lot of changes. @PaulsLey has some amazing starter tutorials that might be helpful though! @adamup has also produced some recent layout tutorials that might be helpful? Good luck!
At the time I made this video, it was still in the beta stage and exhibits were a bit more unstable. When I started with exhibits I was going bankrupt super quick! I think updates have balanced this a bit better since then, so yes, fair point, I think exhibits are definitely worth putting in early, partcicularly since they reproduce so often
Like yeah there Is no problem with overbuilding but if you Will overbuild that much that Will cost you 38k And dont Have finished first hsbitah, yep thats the problem
ok this is dumb but whenever I try to get an animal into the habitat it says invalid location I can only put it in the trade center or quarantine it won’t let me put it anywhere else
That sounds like a bug, but check that you have the barrier going all the way around the perimeter and that it's connected to the gate. Have you tried a couple locations or is it only doing it on the one habitat?
I don’t have enough points to start a new zoo, so I tried deleting two of my enclosures with animals and left the one with the tortoise. It didn’t work, I have no guests, and I’m almost a thousand dollars in debt :/ I don’t know what to do
Ik I'm really late to thing (just got the game) but do guests like albinos or no?in one of my zoos I have a albino and I have no clue if guests like them more Edit:thanks for this btw I could never get far from building to much
Not sure to be honest, but I'd assume it's kind of the same as Aldabra, in that they don't really cost a lot to look after but have lots of babies you can rear and sell for profit
Hello Then i build this my zookeeper and the other staff keep saying " there is no path to my workzone" can U help? I build it like U did but, cant figure it out whats wrong:(
Hi there! I've had this issue before, where for some reason the path laid down just doesn't register, I'd suggest deleting and relaying the path to the buildings in the work zone and see if that helps. Also make sure there's paths between every building and the habitats too.
This happened to me, granted it was a while ago. Turned out I had too many of the same type of animals. It seems like the game calculates number of guests coming in based on what varieties of animals you have, but it doesn't go up when you get more of the same animal. If you have too many of the same animal it just costs more to look after them. That's what happened to me, not sure if you're experiencing the same thing
@@oliverterry5941 Unfortunately I've lost this save now because this was created during the beta, but I always try to set paths at least six-wide. I think this one was about 8-wide?
Hmm, how many exhibits do you have? How many staff and vendors? First I'd suggest firing all of your vendors for now and get rid of the buildings if they're costing maintenance. Then look at how many animals you have, and other staff. Look at maintenance costs on the finance tab and get rid of anything that is costing a lot to maintain. I seriously recommend cutting back to just two habitats - find your biggest earners and keep those, fingers crossed you can turn around a profit!
@@PlasticSwans i have two dog things and a ostrich, i got 4 vendors a vet 1 or 2 feeder guys. i already had two habitats, it is my first zoo where i figured out how to place the cool guys, i didnt do the tutorial cuz i didnt know it was a thing.
@@_voy_ Yeah you might have to start again, or take a loan? If you take a loan you can afford to purchase some of the 'money maker' small animals, such as the peafowl and tortoises. I've found those two rake in the cash after a couple of months!
@@_voy_ thats how i failed. Id do what she says and than once you have money you can wipe your zoo buildings, put your animals in the trade center and build a nice looking layout
I've honestly struggled if I'm already in debt to claw back - I'd suggest cutting down on staff, and hope the animals start breeding super quick, you can start selling them when they mature to help. I think you can sell some of the animals too if you need some breathing room
Hi Suzy, it really depends on each animal - some require a lot more space than others. The in-game zoopedia, I think the 2nd tab for each animal tells you how much space they each need though, if that helps?
As requested, the staff building in this video is now available on the Steam Workshop here steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1874074823
top tutorial and thx for the link
This helped so much.
I am a bit sad that I will have to restart my career Zoo from scratch again but honestly, worth it.
Sorry to hear that! I had to restart numerous times to figure out a way that worked. I did an exhibition zoo, a bigger animal zoo. Nope, tortoises all the way! That's what works
@@PlasticSwans Reminds me of Jurassic World Evolution where it's sensible to start with the the cheapest Dinosaurs since they bring in a ton of guests and money and then slowly work your way up
@@The_SilverMane I think it's a deliberate game mechanic so people can get traction. The problem is that some people want to go big right from the start. Me included! My first few attempts I started with some big enclosures, and ran out of money fast! Maybe if bigger/more difficult animals were locked until you reach a certain amount of money in the bank would help everyone starting out.
I have to restart 3 times because none of my zoos were making money
@@PlasticSwans Same, it’s trial & error w/this game for sure. I just started a new franchise, we’ll see if this one is any better lol I just want to make a 5star zoo w/all the exotic animals I like, is that too much to ask!!??
I wish I’d seen this video when I first started playing three months ago, my first franchise zoo failed because I spent way too much money trying to make my zoo look nice, in the end I had to take a bunch of loans and ended up going bankrupt trying to pay them all off. Glad to know that you’re helping other beginners avoid the same fate!
(Side note, another great species I’ve found that is really good to start with are the Nile monitors, like the tortoises they’re cheap and have very easy requirements, and attract enough guests that it will start earning income pretty much immediately. They also breed a lot which is helpful)
Your first attempt, is word for word same as mine! First couple of go's I spent way too much putting the paths out and decorating stuff, taking out the loans and realising I'd gone way too big too early. The nile monitors are also a great species to start off with! They used to have tons of babies per pregnancy, but I think they reduced it down a bit recently.
I just lowered the entrance fees. I increased the prices at the food and drink stands and the toilets and thus generated more income because more guests came because of the low entrance fees.
That sounds like a solid idea! I'll have to try it out. I haven't played franchise mode in a really long time though
Great job finally someone showed me how to get this thing going
I'm now at my 3rd zoo that falling bad, I have googled stuff and sticked to them but its not working
I had to shut down 25 different zoos
Thank you SO much! Of all the videos I've watched, this is the only one that showed me exactly how to start off right. Well done.
Glad I could help. I really struggled starting off, it took me about 14 attempts not to go bust straight away! I thought it'd be good to share
Ok thank you sooo much for making this video and responding to people's questions in the comment section. I really appreciate all of the work you put into figuring this method out and sharing it with us. Liked and subbed ❤
My boyfriend sent me this video, he got this game for me a couple of days ago (he knows how much I love animals haha), and I had gone in the negative profits so this really helped thank you!!
Glad to help! Starting out is tough
thank you so much this will help out my zoo a lot I’ve had to restart several times
No problem I had to restart loads too!
Same I feel you
Same
Nice video. I’m new to Zoo and appreciate what you’ve done. Thank you.
I started my zoo with exhibits. A few bugs and a couple of snakes. Cheap, quick and profitable!
Had no idea how fast time moves in this game though so actually I think it took a couple of “years”.
I stopped playing for a while, and I recently came back because of the New DLC, I opened up a new franchise zoo and I couldn't figure out why it wasnt making money. I never had that problem before, so i as watching your video and as soon as you said "donation box" i felt so stupid. I can't believe I forgot about the donation boxes.
Haha, we've all been there!
loved it. it helped me so much i didn't know where to start and know i do
Great tutorial. I'm really excited to play this when it comes out and feel like I'm ready to make some money right off the bat! Thanks, Swans!
Thanks! My zoos failed so yours don't have to 😄
Thank you so much for this video. This allowed me to actually get started in the game without instantly going bankrupt. Now I can play and learn as I play.
Thank you for the animal suggestion. instantly gave me profits!
this video reminded me of why my zoo keeps failing... i put no donation boxes..... well atleast now i have like 20 healthy warthogs to add to my next zoo
Thanks for this guide! Helped me out alot.
Nice video. This helps however with the food drinks, toilets I disagree as when I first started without them people were complaining there was no food drink or toilets even though I only had 1 or 2 enclosures
She posted this quite some time ago, I believe the game has changed a bit since then
Thank you so much, I finally have a successful zoo 😭🤣🧡🧡🧡
I'm really glad this helped!
you deserve a lot more subs
Thanks!
Discovered your channel through the Project Hospital series. Love the fact that you do Planet Zoo as well! Sub'd and looking forward to checking out your other content :)
Thanks! I started this channel to record what I was doing in Planet Coaster, and transitioned over to Planet Zoo when it released last year.
Thanks for brill tutorial. Subscribed and wait for more
ty i did start like in your video and it looks like i'm getting money now :D
you sound like you're from somewhere surrounding liverpool, nice video too!
Indeed, Liverpudlian here. Glad you enjoyed this!
@@PlasticSwans Snap!
Thanks this helps a lot I had a zoo but I was in debt so I had to stop so I made. New one
Happy to help, I hope the info was still ok - this video was made last year during the early days so I wasn't sure if it'd still work!
Such an excellent video thank you!
Many thanks for this, I started my first run through ( yesterday) with flamingoes, then realized how many are needed in a flock for them to be happy!
A real noob move! 😏😜
I was lucky and was able to adopt a few albino warthogs and played it slow from there, getting some cheap pronghorns next
Oooooh, donation boxes. That's what I forgot when starting my franchise mode.
Just be careful with this, I think the next update of the game due next week the developers are nerfing this mechanic a little as it's been too easy to gain heaps of cash from those boxes!
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on the patch notes. Though it wasn't my only mistake (forgetting to put any donation box), so being able to make just about enough cash to keep my zoo running is enough. I also may have made an habitat too ambitious for my tortoises. For now it's going fine.
I actualy knew what to do to not go bankrupt. Thanks
Charge 1$ for toilet use
Very helpful ty. You got a new sub :)
Please listen to this video it is very useful
also get a chief beef shop and a gulpee shop, in my zoo there is alot of people going on the shops even tho I started not long ago with this tutorial
Very helpful video! Thank you!
No problem, so glad it helped!
I also know you make more money if you have education boards because then they get educated on the animal and they give more donations
I did not know that! It makes perfect sense though. Note to self: education boards everywhere
Plastic Swans it’s such a good thing to use to make money, that and speakers around the educations board🙈 it was actually another youtuber PaulsLey who taught me it🙈
I was hoping this video would show how to be successful on the open market
Unfortunately I haven't played much of franchise mode since the game was in early launch. It just doesn't hold my interest as much as using creative mode
Thanks for that, very helpful
Glad I could be of help!
Thank you!
nice vid for a newbie, thanks x
Glad it was helpful!
I always get complaints that the admission price is too high if I raise prices.
It's a pretty fine balance. I'm still not certain what factors contribute to what price you can charge. I think it's got something to do with the overall zoo score, education score, number of animals etc. I'd have to do some extensive testing to figure it out.
Thanks for advice! Very useful. Sadly, this beta doesn't allow us to build quickly nice zoos, with bears or lions as example...
Build 4 exhibits or more, buy a couple of titan beetle for each. Research them to max. Sell their babies everynow and then. Profit.
Snakes and butterflies do really well too!
Do u think u could upload ur staff area from this video to the workshop? It’s so simple and efficient I love it
Hey absolutely, I'll leave a comment here with the link
Plastic Swans can you add the link? I need this!!
@@lifeofamanda31 I've pinned the link as the top comment cheers :)
very useful 😻
Glad to help!
Imagine losing an entire zoo full of strange and endangered animals just because you have a debt of two pennies.
Thank you Plastic Swans :)
I just deal with my brokenness by just selling all other animals and then by buying lions.. I had to restart but I followed this but difference isn’t I just put my big lion storage in a little habitat and put plenty of donation boxes got off when I had around 50k so imma see how it goes and yeah
My first and second animals were painted dogs and a bengal tiger.
Guys these are habitats, not exhibits. Exhibits are a different thing entirely in PZ. ;)
Yep, I have a habit of calling them the wrong things!
I started somewhat big with Grizzly bears. I'm making money, but i'm sure i could have made more. I'm not bankrupt though so it's fine.
might buy this for my girlfriend as she likes sims and its kinda the same concept?
It's a lot like Sims, but check the specs and make sure her computer can run Planet Zoo. People have reported issues if their computers don't meet the specification.
@@PlasticSwans thanks and it will run it fine, its msi 2070 super gaming x / ryzen 5 3600 lol
im stuck at nutrition and habitat
Awesome video. Subbed. Do you stream on twitch?
Thanks! I used to stream on Twitch and still have a channel there, but I was streaming to about 3 people lol so never felt like it was worth the effort.
After i did the aldabra tortoises i put in aardvarks! Cannyou help me with the layout? I dont really know if i should continue with the layout like yours to the bottom of the map, put it to the side, and what do i do for animals with big enclosures? (E.g. hippopotamus)
Rule of thumb is to keep everything as close together as possible, honestly I'm not sure if this layout is the best optimised, I pulled this together when the game was still in beta and updates have made a lot of changes. @PaulsLey has some amazing starter tutorials that might be helpful though! @adamup has also produced some recent layout tutorials that might be helpful? Good luck!
I didn’t use and tutorials and got over 300 000 cash like not lying!
I think you forgot 1 really easy money maker. Exhibits are amazing at generating money, and are cheaper to keep than bigger animals
At the time I made this video, it was still in the beta stage and exhibits were a bit more unstable. When I started with exhibits I was going bankrupt super quick! I think updates have balanced this a bit better since then, so yes, fair point, I think exhibits are definitely worth putting in early, partcicularly since they reproduce so often
Good guide tnx :)
I only have 4 enclosures and people flood my vendors / bathrooms.
That's annoying! I've had it where the snack machines break down within 5 minutes of placing, plus the toilet floods.
just put the price for adults on 25, and 20 for the kids. it works fine. also you can lower the loans from your staff a bit.
Like yeah there Is no problem with overbuilding but if you Will overbuild that much that Will cost you 38k And dont Have finished first hsbitah, yep thats the problem
How do you build those waist high fences
This is just the habitat barriers
ok this is dumb but whenever I try to get an animal into the habitat it says invalid location I can only put it in the trade center or quarantine it won’t let me put it anywhere else
That sounds like a bug, but check that you have the barrier going all the way around the perimeter and that it's connected to the gate. Have you tried a couple locations or is it only doing it on the one habitat?
@@PlasticSwans i’ve tried multiple location, multiple zoos, and I even restarted the game but it’s still doing that.
I don’t have enough points to start a new zoo, so I tried deleting two of my enclosures with animals and left the one with the tortoise. It didn’t work, I have no guests, and I’m almost a thousand dollars in debt :/ I don’t know what to do
maybe u closed the park? or try checking ur finance management. or you have way too many staff etc.
Ik I'm really late to thing (just got the game) but do guests like albinos or no?in one of my zoos I have a albino and I have no clue if guests like them more
Edit:thanks for this btw I could never get far from building to much
I'm not sure to be honest, I've never managed to breed an albino yet!
Thx
can anyone help me with nutrition and habitat please for tortoise?
Is this any help? ruclips.net/video/TCVAb5ntYyY/видео.html
Does the other turtle work well
Not sure to be honest, but I'd assume it's kind of the same as Aldabra, in that they don't really cost a lot to look after but have lots of babies you can rear and sell for profit
Hello
Then i build this my zookeeper and the other staff keep saying " there is no path to my workzone" can U help?
I build it like U did but, cant figure it out whats wrong:(
Hi there! I've had this issue before, where for some reason the path laid down just doesn't register, I'd suggest deleting and relaying the path to the buildings in the work zone and see if that helps. Also make sure there's paths between every building and the habitats too.
I think your forgetting education. Education brings more revenue from donations.
I'm 20k in debt on year 20 idk how to get out of it
This happened to me, granted it was a while ago. Turned out I had too many of the same type of animals. It seems like the game calculates number of guests coming in based on what varieties of animals you have, but it doesn't go up when you get more of the same animal. If you have too many of the same animal it just costs more to look after them. That's what happened to me, not sure if you're experiencing the same thing
where do u get that shelter for the animals? works perfect
I made this using the breeze block wall pieces and the basic asphalt roof that's part of the construction pieces you get at the start of the game
@@PlasticSwans im not very good at the game. i definitely wanna make it, looks so professional like its actually from a zoo. GOOD JOB!
WHAT WAS THE MEASUREMENTS FOR THE PATH?
@@oliverterry5941 Unfortunately I've lost this save now because this was created during the beta, but I always try to set paths at least six-wide. I think this one was about 8-wide?
@@PlasticSwans I played yesterday and your set up is perfect got tortoises and breeding making so much money right now on 100k
Thank you for this I hAve -18,000 dOlLars
👍🐢
I have negative 4,500 dollars and i dont want to restart, what should i do?
Hmm, how many exhibits do you have? How many staff and vendors? First I'd suggest firing all of your vendors for now and get rid of the buildings if they're costing maintenance. Then look at how many animals you have, and other staff. Look at maintenance costs on the finance tab and get rid of anything that is costing a lot to maintain. I seriously recommend cutting back to just two habitats - find your biggest earners and keep those, fingers crossed you can turn around a profit!
@@PlasticSwans i have two dog things and a ostrich, i got 4 vendors a vet 1 or 2 feeder guys. i already had two habitats, it is my first zoo where i figured out how to place the cool guys, i didnt do the tutorial cuz i didnt know it was a thing.
@@_voy_ Yeah you might have to start again, or take a loan? If you take a loan you can afford to purchase some of the 'money maker' small animals, such as the peafowl and tortoises. I've found those two rake in the cash after a couple of months!
@@PlasticSwans Aww, i really dont want to restart. My favourite part is making a good looking zoo but i guess that will wait
@@_voy_ thats how i failed. Id do what she says and than once you have money you can wipe your zoo buildings, put your animals in the trade center and build a nice looking layout
Iam 11k in debt
I've honestly struggled if I'm already in debt to claw back - I'd suggest cutting down on staff, and hope the animals start breeding super quick, you can start selling them when they mature to help. I think you can sell some of the animals too if you need some breathing room
How many meters do you recommend the dimensions of habitats be? Thanks!
Hi Suzy, it really depends on each animal - some require a lot more space than others. The in-game zoopedia, I think the 2nd tab for each animal tells you how much space they each need though, if that helps?