Planet Zoo: How To Build A Hard Shelter

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Planet Zoo’s animals have a whole host of needs that virtual keepers need to be on top of. No matter which species, you need to ensure they have an enclosure suited to their natural habitat, enough toys to play with, a high level of medical care from your staff, and the right amount of companions to ensure they are happy and healthy.

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An important aspect of your animals’ welfare is to ensure that they have enough shelter so that they can be protected from the elements, and also have a place to go when they want a bit of downtime away from the prying eyes of your guests. There are a few different ways of providing this:

In Planet Zoo, a hard shelter is one that provides a solid roof above your animals’ heads. This is opposed to open or soft shelter, which is when you place your animal bedding outside or underneath a natural canopy.

Your animals will need a certain minimum amount of hard shelter within their enclosure, and you can find the level required of each by clicking on one of them to open the animal information box. Then go to Welfare > Habitat > Hard Shelter.

For this to be 100 percent, the hard shelter in the enclosure must be able to cover all of your animals in their entirety, so different sized animals will need a different amount. Elephants would for example, obviously, need a lot, whereas Meerkats need less.

You can make a hard shelter in one of two ways: the easy, but slightly ugly, way of buying one directly from the Habitat Menu (under the Shelter Tab), or by making your own using the landscaping tools. Both of these methods will increase the Hard Shelter percentage in the same way, so there’s no real benefit to one or the other apart