Planet Zoo: Best Franchise Starting Layout | Step by Step Tutorial

Thank you! I feel much better prepared to try my first from scratch zoo. Your idea of using plaster walls is amazing!

This game has the most useless controls ever. Nothing works as it should. You need a degree to work it out😢

I've been trying to do this, copying it exactly, but it's not letting me duplicate the habitat. I added a rocky border along the top of the panels, but it says, 'Cannot duplicate more than one building at a time'. I'm not selecting any buildings? I've deleted the rocky border and I'm getting the same message. I can save it as a blueprint, but it's then nearly impossible to place accurately because I can't seem to place it on the grid. What have I done wrong?

Great tutorial and great voice cracks

If I could +👍 this multiple times, I would. BEYOND helpful, thank you so much!!!

Also, this makes my autistic heart happy. Why do I need to make my zoo with random organic shapes? I will happily make a square zoo and why not make it in fantasy colours too? 🤣

For the habitat gate, could you not just use the shop door piece?

Learned a lot from this voice-cracking voice. Thank you for a very informative video.

Why do you erase the trees? You can integrate them in to the habitats. Weird guide where you waste money when you have none.

Thank you for a tutorial that Finally taught me how to build on the grid....I've got over 400 hours in game and have started over and over a billion times because everything looked so basic and nothing lined up. It opened a new game for me! Much appreciated even a year after you made it. I appreciate you not speed-building through this tutorial as well. I needed to pause and build along and that's what finally made the light bulb switch on over my head! It's one thing for someone to tell you how to do it, and another to do it yourself.

Honestly using what instead of that all the time confuses my brain so much. But the tutorial is helpful thanks.

can anyone help i don't have any guests coming to my zoo

AWESOME VID TY!

This game is an OCD nightmare

This is a fantastic tutorial. I'm new to the game and have been somewhat overwhelmed by the prospect of starting anew in Franchise Mode, but this is super helpful. Subbed!

I'm going to sound super stupid but I wanted to thank you for making this video. It really helped alot to get through the first few steps and really start my own zoo. I had, for some reason, alot of anxiety to start as I didn't really know where to begin with but with your videos I am finally able to build my very own zoo and actually look at it and be proud. So, thank you, alot.

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the voice break got me

holy crap snapping everything to the entrance building is a life saver.

i need your help for real the game dont do for me like yours can you help me plss?

On pathing: if you choose to align the paths to the 'group 2' (aka with the buildings rather than inside the entrance), there are much less issues (ie the guest facilities will be perfectly aligned and the weird mid-path split won't happen).
Only 'downside' is there's a mid-split at your entrance for the first square and you'll have to manually connect the staff path to the main path like you do with the smaller staff buildings.

Hopefully anyone who's still using this tutorial like me will find this helpful Xx (I've come back to Planet Zoo after a year and having to relearn everything)

so i just got this game today... i thought its similar to zoo tycoon but it doesn have a starting internal tutorial? I can't even find where to make path, and everything is confusing! And i select facilities, the screen for the making part is just black, cannot do anything. Zoo tycoon is easier

I can’t make the paths a square shape even when aligning to grid, how to I make them square?

I watched this video right before starting my first franchise zoo and it was so helpful! I really appreciate you taking the time to make this. Thank you!

I’m not good at this game, I can’t do anything right with it so I’m just gonna stop

Almost 200 hours in this game and I’ve never even touched franchise mode 😂 this was helpful!

Figuring out barriers and walls and how everything works in this game is annoying but worth it. I needed this to see how to start profitable, thank you for the series.

hey bud thank you for this series

It won't let me copy paste it, nor place the null barrier in the wall 🥺

Thank you so much for this! My first zoo was a mess and this set me off to a great start. My education is only 4% even though I did what you did. Did I do something wrong?

Just returning to the game - fantastic tutorial, keep up the great work !

too many cutsie little alignment tricks and setting adjustments in this tutorial for a true blue noobie like me. i will go find a simpler guide for my first attempt

I think I’ve came up with a hack for planet zoo, just place other guest entrances around the zoo, considering they’re dirt cheap. Free energy. No tax paid. No need for mechanic. I don’t see the downside to this. If there is I would love to be informed

how do you rotate without having to press z and hold it?

I would love a tutorial on what animals are the best for starting out. Some species such as flamingos are so useful because they live a very long time and are affordable. If you buy 2 breeding pairs you don't really have to worry about inbreeding ever again as they mate for life.

More brilliant animals to get are the American alligator or saltwater crocodile. Although they're more expensive, they live an extremely long time so will make you a lot of money in donations. They also have no social needs so you only need to buy 1 animal for an enclosure.

I'm sure there are more animals, but I haven't played the game enough to work out the rest yet.

why is building walls and windows and stuff so complicated... i wsh it was just drag and drop and edit.. the interface is to complex.

thank you so much for this video, made making things so much easier!

I'm kind of a beginner and had some difficulties follow the building. For me it's much easier to build with regular fences. And I've must done something wrong with the path right from the start..the visitors don't enter the zoo and leave it right at the entrance..

I have to say thank you! I recently bought the game and my first zoo was a disaster, after watching this my zoo is perfect! Thank you!

I almost lost my shit trying to make that enclosure but damn it looks nice. I can’t get the door or glass to duplicate tho.

First, thank you so much for this video. I just got the game last week, and you've answered three questions that were bugging me about terrain and pathing. Second, I have two questions about the null barrier - 1) Does it have to be outside the wall, inside the wall, or running through the wall? 2) Should my barrier be highlighted blue, or yellow? I'm guessing blue, and I'm guessing yellow is bad.

It’s weird because since the game has came out I’ve kept up with EVERYTHING. I only just got the game this year. Even though I’m technically a newbie, I’ve been watching planet zoo content since the game came out

My non-sandbox zoos always go bankrupt.

This dosnt work.. after a few 1000 people, it will get very crowed...

And how can you build in the walls when your paths is there?

I am sure I am not the only new player who get piss off by this game building system. I know it gives you more freedom bla bla bla but honestly give us something simple and easy to use to start off of. It is so damn hard to use, you do the game action twice and you got two different result FSR. Try to follow the video step by step for the past 4 hours and something just goes wrong amd I have no idea why.

Personally with the trees I like to just select all of them and bunch them up in a back corner so I don't have to spend money deleting them and they're out of the way 😊