How to play guide for Let's Build a Zoo

## Our TOP TEN TIPS to getting the best start for your first zoo!

Starting your first zoo in Let's Build a Zoo can be pretty daunting! There are so many options and possibilities to choose from while opening up your new collection to the public.

To help you get started and build up a good base to work from, here are our TOP TEN things to do when you fire up your first zoo!

## Buy some Buses

One of the first things you should do once you're settled in to your new zoo is save up, or answer a critical choice in order to grab yourself some buses. Without buses, you won't get any visitors, but too many buses will block up your entryway. It's important to get the right balance of bus numbers and people visiting, so we've put together a guide on how to buy more buses and best use them!

**Read more about buying up buses**

## Set your Ticket Prices Right

Setting your ticket price just right is the key to making lots of money in Let's Build a Zoo! While shops and donations are great ways to earn a little bit extra, setting your price too high will drive away visitors, and setting it too low won't attract many more - so it's important to keep tabs on how much your visitors are willing to pay and increase your price as your zoo gets bigger and more popular.

**Read our guide on Ticket Prices**

## Get Trading

Trading in Let's Build a Zoo is super important, as it opens up your zoo to more species of animals and provides young, healthy breeding pairs to kickstart your collection! Trading can be a little daunting at first as you'll need to breed specific variants to get more pairs! Check out our guide on trading, and how to grab what you'll need to get the best animals on the planet!

**Read our guide on getting trading**

## Build some Shops

After ticket prices, shops are a great way to make some extra cash and keep people happy! Each visitor carries an amount of cash on them, and as zoo builders it's important we help them spend it all. There are all manner of shops to unlock and ways to tamper with what's sold in each to tempt (or poison!) your guests, so make sure to think strategically, and build lots of them!

**Read more about building shops**

## Spread out some Benches & Restrooms

Benches and Restrooms and some of the most important amenities for your zoo - they help fulfil your guests needs and keep them comfortable and in your park for longer! These can be placed strategically all over your zoo to draw people further in and get them to stay for longer!

**Read more about the best way to place Restrooms and Benches**

## Get some Staff

When your zoo is just starting out, Animal Keepers and Janitors are some of the key staff members you'll need to keep your zoo afloat! Without them, no animals get fed and your zoo becomes filled with garbage from your terrible guests throwing their hamburger wrappers everywhere! Make sure you have plenty of each to keep your zoo ticking over!

**Read more about grabbing yourself a team of Animal Keepers and Janitors**

## Invest in some Nurseries

The nursery is one of the first buildings you'll need to build a successful zoo! It allows you to selectively breed pairs of animals to get specific variants, so is useful for collecting up genomes and breeding animals for trades. You can build as many nurseries as you need, don't feel you have to stick to one!

**Read more about getting your nurseries up and running**

## Lay down some Pathways

While your visitors are free to walk wherever they please, but if they have pathways to walk on, they'll make it around your zoo much faster! Their energy stats will deplete much slower if they have pathways to walk on, rather than bare ground.

**Read more about the benefits of Pathways**

## Unlock some Research

Early on in your Let's Build a Zoo playthrough, you'll be given the opportunity to build a research hub. This will allow you to unlock new enclosure types, animal enrichments, decorations, buildings and much more! Unlocking research is a vital part of running your zoo, so we've written a guide on how to get started!

**Read more about how to research new technologies for your zoo**

## Get the right Enclosure Types for your animals

There are eight different types of enclosure in Let's Build a Zoo, from simple concrete through to sculpted ice. Each type, with the exception of the concrete enclosures, are better suited to different kinds of animals. These animals will live longer if you can look after them better, with enclosure type being a small piece of the puzzle.

**Learn about which enclosure types are best and how to unlock them**