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[whysomanyzoos]

All of the screenshots I have so far of the RDR2-inspired zoo I'm starting up with my mom :D

I've been playing RDR2 exclusively with her watching, we found it for like $10 or so I think when we went out for my birthday and I started playing a couple months ago, it is such a fun game. And of course, loving the aesthetics, I just had to make a zoo based on it! So far I have a lil guest area based on Hani's Bethel because I thought it was fun, I stumbled across it trying to get those debts (and felt bad for taking what seemed to be the guy's life savings, but heck man he shouldn't have tried to get away without it) and managed to wait long enough to get the UFO, kind of shocked Arthur says nothing about it ngl.

Either way turns out I adore this game and similarly I adore Planet Zoo, so I had to combine them.

I didn't have many screenshots lol, I was so focused on building I just, didn't take many. But I really like building off the grid, actually. I had way more fun with this than I usually do struggling with things trying to snap together when they don't need to, or not snapping together right, or all the other strife that comes with building in this game. This? This was fun. I used just about every plank/beam piece I could get my hands on that looked decent, and I love how it looks. Not the most accurate and I have seen much better in this game, but I'm still learning and I cam super proud of this, also I need to fix that beam in the third image I just noticed that ew.

I'm putting a lil picket fence around the entire thing because I thought it would be fun and a good place to start tying things in to the whole zoo, and plan to put it around the guest paths as well for obvious reasons. I'm in sandbox so they won't care about the giant murder lizard right in front of them, thankfully.

This habitat has American Alligators, and I'll also add Mute Swans so I don't have to download another mod. I actually went through and got just about every animal I could find that's in RDR2 but not PZ, but then a remaster/variant mod of all things (I don't remember if it was the Gemsbok or Addax variants, sadly) repeatedly crashed my game whenever I opened the Zoopedia. I was not modding responsibly and ended up having to go through every single mod I've ever put in the game just to figure out which one it was, don't mod like me that was stupid why did I never playtest them one-by-one before this disaster, but all is fixed and I am in fact going to go through and test them all individually before I add them all in again (and as much as I love getting new variants... probably drop remasters haha. Except for the peafowl one) but woah was that not fun. I lost all of my original progress thanks to it lol, but that's fine because originally it was just a tiny duck pond and now I have a lil swampy spot with one of the coolest things I've ever built <3

I know there's no gators in that spot, but I took a creative liberty because I just, wanted gators lol. I then came up with a plan to name the Gators after members of the Van der Linde gang, and the swans after the O'Driscolls/just Irish names in general, which I thought was a lil funny.

All in all I am super proud of this so far. I need to build an entrance still but cabin!! (I also very intentionally added 11 tables!)

Just like with RDR2 itself I am building this one with my mom there to watch and give me ideas, super fun ngl. I love getting to include her in my stuff

(animals, inspirations, and habitat in tags for easy sorting on my blog!)