@@Folk_core for sure - digital recreations are definitely the best way to experience this sort of zoo!

@@andregames8487 trial and error of moving everything a little bit at a time until there’s *just* enough space to place an animal. It sometimes gets a bit funky and animals get boxed, but it normally doesn’t happen with the apes for some reason

@@JackOfDiceAndThem thanks bud!

@@toveberries more of a ‘gotta catch ‘em all’ situation

@@andrewchandler625 thank you!

@@sparrow838_ there’s a plant pot and… some ropes… what more could they want?!

@@wyatt-andrews-workshop22 it has broken my brain in an equally astounding way!

Thank you so much, and merry Christmas to you too!

A video is never late, gingerjoe. Nor is it early. It arrives precisely when it means to.

@@ZSHplays I was thinking that on a rewatch too. I did find a collection of royalty free wax cylinder music a few weeks ago…

@@andrewchandler625 thanks for all your support!

As they would have said at the time

@@andregames8487 see, if I had a consistent release schedule, you wouldn’t have nice surprises like this!

Thanks Joe!

Thank you!

Weird, it's a slower movement than the others, but the frame rate looks normal to me!

@@sparrow838_ thank you Sparrow! Those aviaries are another case of the grasslands sign pole being absolutely vital - genuinely no idea what I’d do without it!

@@gazf6163 thank you! Full walking tour is absolutely the plan once it’s done! Individual building tours and overview swoops like this are the plan until then

I definitely want other people to be able to explore it - once it's all done and completed, it will be going up on the Workshop, but I've still got a lot of work to do yet! Some individual buildings are up on the Workshop already.

@@ralphthestick in your videos I saw that alpaca and reptiles house is ready, but why you don't put in steam workshop?

@@andregames8487 Laziness and piece count respectively 😆I do need to do another batch of uploading to the workshop - I'll see if blueprinting the more piece-heavy buildings as habitats works when I have time to sit down and do it.

@@gazf6163 thanks Gaz, good to know I’ve got some repeat customers! Interesting question - I suppose that’s the hope really, isn’t it? To assume we’re doing things the best they could possibly be done is to stop trying to improve

@@wolfystein1 thank you!

@@gazf6163 served on the main lawn at three o’clock

@@ralphthestick 🫖🇬🇧

@@gazf6163 thanks so much! Hopefully I’ll be able to put something else together before too long!

@@Catherine-j4e amazing - glad it’s been useful! Let me know if I can help if there are any bits you’re struggling with!

@@ralphthestick Thank you, I will, but I think that my own research plus your wonderful video has pretty much sorted everything for me. I just stumbled on your video by googling Carnivore Terrace!

Yeah, this was definitely one of the tougher ones to actually get animals into - the bears in game are particularly big specimens!

Thank you!

Not that I could see in any of the references. Health and Safety hadn't been invented yet…

Thank you very much!

Thank you!

Also I have a question, do you plan on adding thylacines to the zoo? If so, will you use a mod or a faux one similar to faux birds? Just curious.

I do indeed - there were thylacines in the zoo in the year 1904. I’ll probably use the dhole or something while I’m still building, but might get some modded species in once the entire zoo is finished so I can keep a finished version ‘safe’

Thanks pal!

Glad to hear it!

Thanks Sparrow! It's certainly changed a lot over the years, and changed very, very quickly right after this time period. Got to get those little Easter eggs in there, even if they're just for yourself!

Me neither... Turns out working three jobs really eats into historical zoo building time!

Understand perfectly. Still excited I love exploring the houses you upload.

Definitely an interesting period of development

Thank you!

Thank you! It definitely feels like I’m fighting the game a lot of the time to get it to look right. I’ll keep tinkering away when I can - hopefully I’ll have some more to show before too long!

Just what I am building at this very moment! It won’t be the Cotton Terraces for another 60 years or so, but the area around the giraffe house, including the hippo and zebra houses - definitely a candidate for a tour in the future once the surrounding area is prettied up a little.

Thanks so much! Give it a go - if nothing else it’s a very interesting research project!

Thanks pal!

Can't wait to make more either!

That's very kind of you to say! I agree - as much as there are some distasteful elements to the subject, I think understanding the history of zoos is really important to see how far we've come

Yeah, those pelicans were really living it up in comparison to some of their neighbours...

Definitely something I can do once the whole thing's finished - probably be a very long video, mind!

As they say - when life hands you a load of straight metal pieces that are too long, make a fence out of pitchforks. Glad you liked it!

Thank you! Yes, that seems very likely. I might have given it a bit of a scrubby terrarium in that case, but at least it’s got a bit of leaf litter!

Maybe you should, sixbirds, maybe you should… I don’t know anything about Copenhagen Zoo (though googling it, that tower is pretty cool) - is there a particular time period you’d want to recreate, or more of a ‘greatest hits’ historical mishmash of all the most interesting buildings?

@@ralphthestick I was actually thinking of starting at the beginning. First build would be the official opening in 1859. Then expand and rebuild from there - see how far I get. it's an insanely ambitious project that I don't mind failing at 😆

@@sixbirdsinatrenchcoat Definitely ambitious, but very cool. If I'm not completely burnt out after building 1904, I've got vague plans of updating it to something like the 1930s.

Thank you! I can't promise there will be backstages for everything, but if I've got decent references and/or they can be seen from a guest area, I'll certainly give them a go!

Thank you! Yes, I definitely get the sense from how the lion house is written about that the bridge system was novel and interesting, otherwise why go into so much detail about it? I assume with less dangerous animals, they could have just been shepherded from indoors to outdoors across the service corridor (perhaps using screens or the doors themselves to channel them) - basically the same idea as the moveable bridge, but without an actual structure.

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