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MadDoctor61
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7 years ago

Creating A Zoo

Has anybody ever tried to build a zoo? I recently bought 'Pets' and thought it would be interesting to build a zoo to house all the animals I collect. I've already built a Museum for the relics and a Science Centre for rocks, insects etc. I placed a 'park' lot and put cages, terrariums etc to house all the different animals. I couldn't place any. The family bought the zoo, but I still can't place any animals. Has anybody tried to do this before?
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    IreneSwift
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    I modified the butterfly esplanade from Bridgeport to make a butterfly garden with the fairy arboretum inside, and changed all the spawners to the rare, medium, and epic ones, including the ones for the zebra butterfly and other special ones. That's mostly so my sims who do alchemy can go there for the hard to find fireflies they need for elixirs. I've never built anything else under one of the domes. I didn't know you could put a door in the side, or I might have done more with them before this.
  • "IreneSwift;c-16807721" wrote:
    I modified the butterfly esplanade from Bridgeport to make a butterfly garden with the fairy arboretum inside, and changed all the spawners to the rare, medium, and epic ones, including the ones for the zebra butterfly and other special ones. That's mostly so my sims who do alchemy can go there for the hard to find fireflies they need for elixirs. I've never built anything else under one of the domes. I didn't know you could put a door in the side, or I might have done more with them before this.



    @IreneSwift Those are the Lunar Lakes domes,the better superior ones made with the entrances.They are actually called "Visions" "Memories" I assume replicating the holodeck devices from Star Trex where you are in a fake hologram world.In LL they have several tiny setups of different sims 3 worlds in the domes go look at the names of the lots.Kinda cool

    If you do not know how to start from scratch just edit an existing LL dome and save it to your library.They have big wide openings and you can also live in them and I even build houses inside they can be used as residential. :p

    Use the Lunar Lakes domes they are way!!!! better



    See the entrance,and this is a house being built inside.My sim lives here this dome was placed in Lucky Palms

    https://i.imgur.com/7Sm0jwe.png
  • See

    This is the actual lots real lot names,time capsule like captures of the past since Lunar Lakes is in the future.


    Memories Of Sunset Valley

    https://i.imgur.com/4q14Zr0.jpg


    Memories of Riverview

    https://i.imgur.com/fSVOph2.jpg


    Memories of Twinbrook

    https://i.imgur.com/mtSUwcz.jpg


    Memories of Hidden Springs "Hence the pine trees"

    https://i.imgur.com/RJZeHIV.jpg


    Also cool to note a lot of LL residents are future descendants of townies from different worlds.If you study the bios it is one big connection


    And confirmed by a guru that is the very same Bella Goth buried in the Moon's Shadow cemetery.Gross and shriveled up and zombie like but is Bella Goths corpse and she was after all abducted by aliens and had her traits rearranged.

    Where's Bella book ring a bell

  • That is such an amazing idea, why did I never think of that :open_mouth: Thanks so much for all the awesome tips how to do it @CravenLestat ! One question, while collecting the small animals you’ll need a place to store them I presume? Because they will run if you keep them in your inventory?
  • @JoAnne65 With your place built and cages set how you want remember you are putting sims there residential but temporary.They are the catchers and the best way to catch is cheating of course.

    Have the sim with the collection helper reward/also best they have animal lover trait helps befriend stuff.Anywho you have cheats active and example

    Collection helper lizards activated

    Look on map each lizard tag

    Shift Click on ground there hit teleport me here catch it,

    Find next lizard tag teleport me here

    Repeat repeat repeat

    Go to whatever category you are working on.

    Can wipe through each pet category spawn fast but if you do a few teleport home put them away in the cages.

    Takes no time to fill your zoo unless unlucky and a specific pet does not show but is just luck they will eventually

  • Thanks, yes, my sims have had that reward for generations, so handy you can move it from one inventory into the other :grimace: Sure going to use your ideas, new goal!

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