Hey everyone! [b]CAN YOU BELIEVE IT'S ONLY TWO WEEKS UNTIL LET'S BUILD A ZOO LAUNCHES?? [/b] I'm beyond excited to get you all building and getting stuck into the game, it's been a VERY exciting week for the whole team this week as we cross t's, dot i's and add a whole host of new exciting SOUND EFFECTS to your game. It's been wild hearing all the animals in my zoo come to life this week, although... With this zoo, I'm not sure that's a good thing. There's a lot I could show you here, so I'm going to pick some of the basics so as not to ruin TOO much for you. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40409106/176c123567260f10b8523f54e5214a590cb1fceb.png[/img] I promised it last week, so let me run you through my FACTORY BASED ZOO. This will, as always, have some spoilers in it, so read on at your own peril. I know LOTS of people have been waiting to see what your bad morality options are, and as I've just hit -85 morality this seems like a great time to show you! This zoo is built not with guests in mind, but with using my animals for... other purposes. That, unfortunately, means I need to save every penny where I can, and the first step for me was to stop paying for water and electricity. Thankfully, I've researched THIS building. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40409106/46d182caf395dc8cedd597c47f4b0f1bec0a0bfd.png[/img] It's uhh. Well. If the water tastes funny here, it's because this is a Sewage Recirculator. The animals don't mind the funny taste, and who cares what my visitors think. It's saving me a WHOLE HEAP of money that I can pump into buying and generating tonnes and tonnes of animals, which I use for my main money-making schemes. Once I'd saved up some money, I invested in a processor! This deals with all the raw materials my animals leave behind when they die and turns them into useful materials that I can both sell and use elsewhere to turn a bigger profit. While I could just jam them into my warehouse and forget about them, I've decided to take things a LITTLE bit further. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40409106/bf63631f076b27bf2f2d3945120a6c94078b163c.png[/img] So (no judgement please), here's my pig enclosure and their happy neighbour next door, the bacon factory. I know it looks bad, but this way I remember which recipe ingredients go where and can easily check how well all my factories are doing! I can also check my warehouse to see what products I've got in stock and a breakdown of how much money I've made. I'll pop an early game screenshot of that in too, so as to not give TOO much away. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40409106/25fee373822ba28e1d970748e1945ea9434ad2d1.png[/img] [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40409106/4661390c7d5f966fb31877e8aae9aab3cf63bf29.png[/img] Aside from that, I have some horses and donkeys which feed into my glue factory - that's definitely earning me a fair chunk of money, but nothing QUITE compares to the CUTEST factory in the game. I'll let you work out what it makes ;) [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//40409106/c609ba801dc21fc322f9bacf2e03e1c178b93182.png[/img] My main focuses next are to work out how to produce more animals at a higher rate, though I'm not particularly worried about their care or the time they'll be spending with other animals! Hopefully, that's not all been TOO distressing for a Friday afternoon! The question is, is this the zoo YOU'D love to build? I'm excited to hear all about your ideas, and in two weeks, see them all come to life! See you next week!