Planet Zoo Planet Zoo DLC Ideas

Maybe like a Himalayan pack
-Yak
-Takin
-Musk Deer
-Tahr
-Palm civet
Dont know about an exhibit species but yeah.

 

I think we will get a rainforest pack, as many people are saying, so here goes my wishlist:
-Capybara
-Northern White Cheeked Gibbon
-Lord Howe Island Stick Insect
-Red River Hog
-Three Toed Sloth
-Asian Small Clawed Otter
-Matschie's tree-kangaroo
-Nile Crocodile

 

Central America pack:
-Axolotl (exhibit)
-Roseate Spoonbill
-Nine-banded Armadillo
-Brown-throated Sloth
-Northern Tamandua
-Black-handed Spider Monkey
-Kinkajou
-Ocelot

Oceania pack:
-Tuatara (exhibit)
-North Island Brown Kiwi
-Takahe
-Platypus
-Eastern Long-beaked Echidna
-Tasmanian Devil
-Tasmanian Wombat
-Matschie's Tree Kangaroo

Mountain pack:
-Emperor Newt (exhibit)
-Himalayan Monal
-Gelada
-Andean Bear
-Pallas Cat
-Yak
-Takin
-Markhor

Freshwater pack:
-Titicaca Water Frog (exhibit)
-Alligator Snapping Turtle
-Muted Swan
-Shoebill
-Capybara
-Bush Dog
-Asian Small-claw Otter
-Lechwe

Rainforest pack:
-Sri Lanka Pit Viper (exhibit)
-Radiated Tortoise
-Congo Peafowl
-Kagu
-Black Howler
-Mantled Guereza
-African Civet
-Red River Pig

Desert pack:
-Texas Horned Lizard (exhibit)
-Greater Bilby
-African Crested Porcupine
-Bat-eared Fox
-Caracal
-African Wild Ass
-Addax
-Scimitar Oryx

Tanzania pack:
-Jackson's Chameleon (exhibit)
-Grey-crowned Crane
-Secretary Bird
-Southern Ground Hornbill
-Black-and-rufous Elephant Shrew
-Honey Badger
-Serval
-Kirk's Dik-dik

Madagascar pack:
-Achrioptera fallax (exhibit)
-Tomato Frog (exhibit)
-Spider Tortoise (exhibit)
-William's Dwarf Gecko (exhibit)
-Madagascar Ibis
-Votsotsa
-Coquerel's Sifaka
-Aye Aye
-Fossa

Brazil pack:
-Mata Mata (exhibit)
-Scarlet Ibis
-Red-legged Seriema
-Brazillian Three-banded Armadillo
-Brazillian Porcupine
-Golden Lion Tamarin
-Maned Wolf
-White-lipped Peccary

India pack:
-Indian Cobra (exhibit)
-Indian Narrowheaded Softshell Turtle
-Indian Giant Squirrel
-Lion-tailed Macaque
-Crab-eating Mongoose
-Fishing Cat
-Nilgai
-Gaur

Russia pack:
-Common Adder (exhibit)
-Great Bustard
-Mountain Hare
-Wolverine
-Amur Leopard
-Przewalski's Horse
-Siberian Musk Deer
-Saiga Antelope

China pack:
-South Chinese Giant Salamander (exhibit)
-Golden Pheasant
-Crested Ibis
-Red-crowned Crane
-Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
-Yellow-throated Marten
-Pere David's Deer
-Przewalski's Gazelle

Indonesia pack
-King Cobra (exhibit)
-Coconut Crab
-Hawkbill Sea Turtle
-Maleo
-Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
-Celebes Crested Macaque
-Siamang
-Asian Golden Cat

Middle East pack:
-Egyptian Cobra (exhibit)
-Northern Bald Ibis
-Rock Hyrax
-Hamadryas Baboon
-Golden Jackal
-Sand Cat
-Dromedary
-Arabian Oryx

Philippine pack:
-Dorcus Titanus (exhibit)
-Philippine Sailfin Lizard (exhibit)
-Palawan Peacock Pheasant
-Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
-Philippine Tarsier
-Philippine Mouse Deer
-Visayan Warty Pig
-Tamaraw

Marine pack:
-Atlantic Mudskipper(exhibit)
-Lemon Shark
-Great Hammerhead
-West Indian Manatee
-Brown Fur Seal
-Walrus
-Sea Otter
-Bottlenose Dolphin

 

Once aviaries do happen, I'd like to see a huge bird pack with species from each continent from past DLC represented, so for instance:
- Snowy Owl
- Green-winged Macaw
- Blue and Yellow Macaw
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Bali Starling
- African Grey Hornbill
- Bald Eagle
- Eurasian Eagle Owl
- Barn Owl

It probably won't be that large or extensive, but those are the species I'd like to see the most once we get birds in the game.

 

Small Wild Cat Pack
- Fishing Cat
- Golden Cat
- Sand Cat
- Pallas’s Cat
- Leopard Cat
- Black-footed Cat
- Rusty Spotted Cat
- Ocelot

We can build a small mammal house for these kitties. OMG it is going to be soooo cute.

 

My guess on the "Freshwater pack" has three species appear on the coming Wetland pack LOL. The Frontier surprisingly makes the Lechwe.

 

Mountains
Andean bear
Sichuan takin
Gelada
Mountain goat
Rocky mountain bighorn sheep
Nubian ibex
Pallas' cat
Mang Mountain viper (exhibit)

Islands
Tasmanian devil
Cuban crocodile
Foosa
Visayan warty hog
Matschie's tree kangaroo
Hawaiian monk seal
American flamingo
Lord Howe's Island stick insect (exhibit)
Antillean pinktoe tarantula (exhibit)

India
Sloth bear
Blackbuck
Asiatic lion
Rhesus macaque
Fishing cat
Chital
King cobra (exhibit)
Indian star tortoise (exhibit)

Pacific Rim
Tanuki
Pudu
American black bear
Southern sea otter
Humboldt penguin
Stellar's sea lion
Monkey-tailed skink (exhibit)

Deserts
Swift fox
Desert bighorn sheep
Dama gazelle
Dromedary camel
Arabian oryx
Guanaco
Sand cat
Arizona blond tarantula (exhibit)
Bark scorpion (exhibit)

 

Some ideas:

Central Asia Pack:

- Blackbuck
- Pallas’ Cat
- Sloth Bear
- Lion-Tailed Macaque
- King Cobra


Oceania Pack:

- Emu
- Tasmanian Devil
- Goodfellow’s/Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo
- Red-Necked Wallaby
- Tuatara

African Animal Pack:

- Red River Hog
- Serval
- Mantled Guereza
- Cape Porcupine
- Eastern Black Rhino
- Common Eland
- Grey-Crowned Crane
- Jackson’s Chameleon


Madagascar Pack:

- Fossa
- Aye-Aye
- Madagascar Teal
- Coquerel’s Sifaka
- Madagascar Giant Day Gecko


Neotropical Animal Pack:

- Maned Wolf
- Spectacled Bear
- Bush Dog
- Ring-Tailed Coati
- Greater Rhea
- Ocelot
- White-Faced Saki Monkey
- Emerald Tree Boa

 

With more animals available in the game, it's trickier to decide how I'd sort the animals I want into new DLC! But I'll try!

Urban Wildlife showcases wildlife commonly found in urban environments around the world. This pack will also include an urban building theme featuring architecture and decor inspired by New York City.

- White tailed deer
- Grey langur
- North American opossum
- Cape baboon
- European herring gull (walkthrough exhibit species)

Folklore showcases animals that prominently featured in popular folklore and myth.

- Japanese raccoon dog
- Coyote
- Cape hare
- Eurasian wild boar
- Mute swan
- Common raven (walkthrough exhibit species)
- King cobra (exhibit species)

Birds is pretty much just an excuse to fill out the walkthrough exhibit roster. But there will be habitat species too.

- Secretary bird
- Greater rhea
- Shoebill stork
- Scarlet macaw (walkthrough. If Frontier is feeling generous, they can recolor it into the military macaw and blue and gold macaw to really fill out the roster without a lot of extra work)
- Snowy owl (walkthrough)
- Black-headed weaver (walkthrough)
- Rainbow lorikeet (walkthrough)
- Harpy eagle (walkthrough)
- Hooded vulture (walkthrough)
- Toco toucan (walkthrough)
- Eurasian eagle owl (walkthrough)

 

Savannahs
Eastern black rhinoceros (how don't they have this species yet?)
Grevy's zebra
Olive baboon
Serval
Bat-eared fox
Great white pelican
Marabou stork
East African crowned crane
Helmeted guineafowl
Leopard tortoise (habitat)
Pancake tortoise (exhibit)
African house snake (habitat)

Wings and Water
Whooping crane
Sarus crane
Demoiselle crane
Sandhill crane
Shoebill stork
Saddle-billed stork
Chilean flamingo
American flamingo
Pekin duck
Brown pelican
New educational content: hunting as a means of conservation/source for funding, oil spills, whooping crane migration and conservation initiatives, folklore surrounding bird species

China
Pere David's deer
Red-crowned crane
Chinese goral
Yak
Tufted deer (can be mixed with red pandas)
Chinese alligator
Chinese big-headed turtle (exhibit)
New educational content: urban sprawl, panda diplomacy, greenwashing, Pere David's deer conservation story

 

Water critters pack:

Mindanao water monitor (exhibit)
Blue crayfish (exhibit)
Indochinese smooth coated otter
Water scorpion (exhibit)
Guam rail ( continuing the theme of conservation)
Some kind of racer?

 

red crowned crane is already in the game, in the wetlands animal pack.

 

I've decided to make my own DLC's for the next 3 years! I'll post a year at a time, so as not to be too exhausting. So, without further ado, here's the DLC packs I wish to see for next year.

10-04-23 Avian animal pack
Free update:

• Free-flying habitat animals (greater flamingo and crowned crane included)
• Some free-flying habitat animals (waterbirds especially) can be wing-clipped.
• New fencing type: aviary (automatically climb-proof)
• Aviaries can house flying exhibit animals too (fruit bats, butterflies, birds, etc.)

New animals:

• Bald eagle
• Dalmatian pelican
• Saddle-bill stork
• Hyacinth macaw
• Great Indian hornbill
• Snowy owl
• Sulphur-crested cockatoo
  • Village weaver (Walk-Through exhibit)
  • Bali mynah (WT)
  • Javan green magpie (WT)
  • Blue dacnis (WT)
  • Amazilia hummingbird (WT)

20-06-23 Underground pack
Free update:

• New exhibit; 8x4m; allows for larger populations of some exhibit animals. Those suitable for 4x4m enclosures are eligible for this type too, and this allows for higher populations. They also look more detailed, the yellow anaconda getting a sizeable pool, for example.
  
  
• 8x4m enclosures allow for SOME species to be mixed (eg. Both types of dart frogs)

New theme: Metropolitan (reminiscent of art deco)

New animals:

• African crested porcupine
• Eurasian wild boar
• Burrowing owl
• Patagonian mara
  • Naked mole rat (only suitable for 4x8m exhibit)
  • Leafcutter ant (4x4m exhibit); instead of individuals, you buy a whole colony at a time.

10-10-23 Tropical animal pack
Free update:

• New, biome-based climbing structures (more natural-looking, overgrown)

New animals:

• Keel-billed toucan
• Ocelot
• Painted batagur
• Mexican spider monkey
• Goodfellow's tree kangaroo
• Mantled guereza
• Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
  • Rainbow lorikeet (WT)
  • Raggiana bird-of-paradise (WT)
  • Superb starling (WT)
  • Resplendent quetzal (WT)
  • Eastern rosella (WT)

5-11-23: 4th Anniversary update
New animals

• King cobra (4x4m)
• Red spitting cobra (4x4m)

12-12-23 Alpine pack
Free update:

• New vehicle: chairlift
• Guest misters and heaters

New theme: Alpine (swiss ski resort look)

New animals:

• Gelada baboon
• Golden takin
• Andean condor
• Pallas's cat
  • Common vampire bat (WT)
  • Long-tailed chinchilla (8x4m)
  • Mountain pygmy possum (8x4m)

Stay tuned for 2024!

 

JigerofLemuria's post brought me to another question:

What should be the first 8(!) species in a first Avian Animal DLC?
(hope, that will upcoming soon)

Here are mine:
1 Bald eagle (probably most iconic bird of prey species)
2 Species of pelican (prefered Great white, would fit for many exhibits)
3 Species of geese (prefered Egyptian)
4 Species of humming bird (any)
5 Species of guinea fowl (prefered helmeted)
6 Species of weaver bird (any)
7 Species of macaw (prefered Hyazinth)
8 Snowy Owl

Strong contender: scarlet ibis, toco tucan, andean condor, great indian hornbill, laughing kookaburra, mandarin duck, tropical starling specie, tropical pigeon/dove specie.

Explanations: These birds are either very popular or would complete perfectly already existing zoogeographical areas (specially Africa and Arctic).

 

There are many bird species I would like to see on Planet Zoo but here are a few of the larger species.

- Scarlet Ibis
- Black Stork
- Pink-backed Pelican
- East African Grey Crowned Crane
- Roseate Spoonbill
- Javan Rhinoceros Hornbill (along with a few other Hornbill species)
- Keel-billed Toucan
- Blue & Yellow Macaw
- Rainbow Lorikeet (for a walkthrough and guests can feed them nectar)
- Blue-eyed Cockatoo
- Laughing Kookaburra
- Hamerkop
- Kenyan Crested Guineafowl
- Red-billed Curassow
- Great Grey Owl (along with a few other Owl species)
- Victoria Crowned Pigeon
- Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
- Andean Condor
- White-backed Vulture
- Javan Green Magpie

 

I love your ideas.

 

Glad you do so!
I'll post 2024's DLC ideas tomorrow morning.

 

So, these are the DLC packs I'd like to see for 2024:

10-04-24 Desert animal pack
Free update:

• Audio safari tour; vehicles give audio information about animals in order (automatic or custom)
  

New animals:

• Eastern black rhinoceros
• Barbary sheep
• Dromedary camel
• Collared peccary
• Secretary bird
• Short-beaked echidna
• Black-footed ferret
  • Northern carmine bee-eater (WT)
  • Black-cheeked lovebird (WT)
  • Anna's hummingbird (WT)
  • Merriam's kangaroo rat (8x4m)
  • Turkish spiny mouse (8x4m)

20-06-24 Island animal pack
Free update:

• New educational displays; interactive maps, comicbook-style posters, interactive touch screens.
  

New animals:

• Tasmanian devil
• Aye-aye
• North Island brown kiwi
• Laughing kookaburra
• Fossa
• Victoria crowned pigeon
• Northern rockhopper penguin
  • Sugar glider (8x4m)
  • Panther chameleon (4x4m)
  • Reticulated python (8x4m)
  • Madagascar day gecko (4x4m)
  • Yellow-banded millipede (4x4m)

10-10-24 Petting zoo pack
Free update:

• Children's play areas; slide, trampoline, jungle gym
• New fence type: petting zoo
• Pettable animals: llama, capybara, red-necked wallaby, European fallow deer
  

New theme: Children's zoo (farm-like, very colourful and cartoony)

New animals:

• West African dwarf goat
• Kunekune pig
• Shetland pony
• Mute swan (only one that's not pettable or handleable by educators)
  • Guinea pig (8x4m)
  • Mongolian gerbil (8x4m)
  • Common leopard gecko (4x4m)
  • Central bearded dragon (4x4m
  • Sinaloan milk snake (4x4m)
    

5-11-24: 5th Anniversary update
New animals:

• Scarlet macaw
• Blue and gold macaw
  

12-12-24 Maritime pack
Free update:

• Aquarium feature; exhibits in which fully aquatic animals are placed (axolotl, great crested newt, 99% of fish, etc.) automatically turn into aquaria, filled with water top-to-bottom. Walk-through exhibits have a plexiglass tunnel over the visitor path. As with other animals, some aquatics can cohabitate a single exhibit (8x4m, WT).
• New gate type: ladder. Tanks can be made by using water-tight walls (glass, concrete, corrugated, etc.)
• Aesthetics; zookeepers, vets, etc. automatically change into wetsuits when they enter a tank or body of water.

New theme: Maritime (similar to Aquatic and New World, naval architecture, very modern-looking)

New animals:

• Bottlenose dolphin
• Sand tiger shark
• Atlantic cownose ray
• Green sea turtle
  • Ocellaris clownfish
  • Regal blue tang
  • Moorish idol
  • Mandarinfish
  • Copperband butterflyfish
    

Stay tuned for 2025!

 

And finally, these are the DLC's I'd like to see in 2025.

10-04-25 River animal pack
Free update:

• Water play areas; splash fountain, water slide, etc.
• Visitors instantly change into a swimsuit when in the water play area.

New animals:

• West Indian manatee
• Scarlet ibis
• Pirarucu
• Silver arowana
• Red-tailed catfish
• Roseate spoonbill
• Alligator snapping turtle
  • Atlantic mudskipper
  • Banded archerfish
  • West African lungfish
  • Siamese fighting fish
  • Red-bellied piranha

20-06-25 Reef pack
Free update:

• New path: transporter (moving path); more expensive, requires electricity, can break down, reduces in guests tiredness.
• New path option: tunnel through habitat; path surrounded by a resistance 4 plexiglass tunnel. Cannot be climbed on, but climbing frames can bridge over it. Works best for tanks.

New theme: Reef (reminiscent of traditional hawaiian, maori, etc. Architecture)

New animals:

• Blacktip reef shark
• Atlantic nurse shark
• Giant grouper
• Green moray
  • Common octopus
  • Blueberry hermit crab
  • Red rock crab
    

10-10-25 Taiga and tundra animal pack
Free update:

• Animal ambassadors; some habitat animals can be taken by educators around the park; raccoon, binturong, lemurs, macaws, owls…

New animals:

• Eurasian eagle-owl
• Wolverine
• North American porcupine
• Pacific walrus
• Beluga whale
• King eider
• Golden eagle
  • Atlantic puffin (WT)
  • Inca tern (WT)
  • Amur hedgehog (8x4m)
  • Siberian flying squirrel (8x4m)
  • Daurian pika (8x4m)
    

5-11-25 6th anniversary update
New animals:

• Spectacled bear
  

12-12-25: Back from the brink animal pack
Free update:

• Custom conservation boards: the player can write new information and add a custom or premade image

New animals:

• Lappet-faced vulture
• Peregrine falcon
• Saiga antelope
• Chinese sturgeon
• Northern bald ibis
• Blue iguana
• Northern white-cheeked gibbon
  • Tuatara (4x4m)
  • Lord Howe Island stick insect (4x4m)
  • Peacock tarantula (4x4m)
  • Lake titicaca water frog (4x4m)
  • Radiolate partula (4x4m)

 

Right now, there's three DLC packs that I could logically see being made.

1. The Aviary Pack. Lets face it, there's been hints of this dropping everywhere, with Frontier having two different walkthrough exhibits with flying animals. They're clearly trying to see what they can get away with. I don't think we're going to get a pack full of free-flying birds...probably four species that could work in a standard habitat (the Secretary Bird could finally get a look-in?) and then maybe four as a walkthrough?
2. The Mountain Animal Pack. I'm saying mountain specifically because it's really the only habitat left that either hasn't been made as a pack or has had a lot of options covered in the base game. Southeast Asia is effectively rainforest, Europe is temperate forest, Africa is desert, Arctic is tundra...you get the idea. There's still a few open options for a mountain-related pack, or at the very least an extreme climate one.
3. The Island Pack. Because, well, where else are we going to stick the much requested Tasmanian Devil, or seemingly cut Lord Howe's Island Stick Insect?