Zoo

The Zoo's entrance area in October 2023.

The **Zoo** (also known as the **Seacraft Zoo**) is located on the path from Mainland Plaza to Craterwood. It hosts many different types of animals and mobs. It also has a train station with 2 platforms.

## Zones

There are different areas or zones at the zoo. They contain different types of mobs.

### Entrance

The Zoo has two main entrances connected to a main entrance area. One entrance can be accessed from Oceanview across the road from the Zoo station, and the other can be accessed from Town.

The entrance area contains a café, a gift shop and toilets. It also contains a building for "Old Zoo Tours", which tours the old Zoo's "Monster Cave" and "Nether Depths" sections which have been preserved.

### The Overworld

This area includes the peaceful mobs. This is the top level of the Zoo. Some of the mobs in this section include:

* Pigs
* Sheep
* Wolves
* Horses, donkeys, mules
* Chickens
* Bees
* Cats
* Parrots
* Ocelots
* Bats
* Cows
* Mooshrooms
* Rabbits
* Polar Bears
* Llamas and wandering trader
* Pandas
* Goats
* Foxes
* Frogs
* Camels
* Sniffers

### Monster Cave

The Monster Cave contains many of Minecraft's hostile mobs. This area is built underground, and is split into several subsections. They are as follows

#### Zombies

The zombie section features the following mobs:

* Zombies
* Drowned
* Husks
* Zombie villagers
* Giant
* Zombie horses

#### Skeletons

The skeleton section contains the following mobs:

* Skeletons
* Strays
* Skeleton horses

#### Nether

The nether section can be accessed by travelling through the model Nether portal found in between the skeleton and illager sections. It contains the following mobs:

* Zombified piglins
* Zoglins
* Striders
* Magma cubes
* Ghast
* Hoglins
* Piglins
* Piglin brutes
* Blazes
* Wither skeletons

#### Illagers

The various illagers can be found in a woodland mansion themed area. Specifically, it contains the following:

* Vindicators
* Illusioners
* Evokers
* Witches
* Allays
* Pillagers
* Ravager

#### Guardians

The ocean monument section of the Zoo can be found between the zombie and woodland mansion themed areas. It contains the following:

* Guardians
* Elder guardian

#### Deep Dark

The deep dark section can be accessed by going down the bubblevator in the miscellaneous section. The deep dark contains a single warden, placed in a pen far enough away from the observation area as to not aggravate it, even if a player were in survival mode. The pen also contains some redstone contraptions which stimulate the warden with vibrations.

#### Spiders

The spiders section is comes off the miscellaneous mob section. It contains the following:

* Spider
* Cave spider

#### End

The end section can be found past the miscellaneous mobs and the model end portal room. It contains the following mobs:

* Endermen
* Endermites
* Shulkers

#### Miscellaneous

The following have been included in a miscellaneous section, as they do not fit in any of the aforementioned groups:

* Creepers
* Slimes
* Killer bunnies
* Phantoms
* Bats
* Silverfish

### Aquarium

There is an aquarium section containing many of Minecraft's aquatic mobs. It contains the following exhibits:

* Cod, salmon, tropical fish, pufferfish
* Squid, glow squid
* Axolotls
* Turtles
* Dolphins

## History

*The Forgotten Period*Please note that the following content may contain assumptions as some of the information has been lost or forgotten.
The Zoo was made during the Gamma Period in Version 1, built by zac5 (now ZacNVR), aa11ron (now SirAbrahamy) and jacobme32 (now jaykobe). First, the area was flattened to make room for the zoo. This was done by using TNT and then patching up the craters in the ground.

Then the pens and the paths were made. The zoo was originally made without the following mobs due to spawning difficulties or version restrictions:

* Spawning issues
	+ Wither skeletons
	+ Undead horses
* Unreleased mobs
	+ Rabbits
	+ Endermites
	+ Guardians
	+ Killer Bunnies
	+ Shulkers
	+ Polar bears
	+ Husks
	+ Strays
	+ Llamas

There may not have been slimes or witches either.

### Additions

Eventually, there was more knowledge of commands and new versions that allowed for more mobs to be included in the zoo. Slimes and witches were added first, if they weren't already there.

Then, when Minecraft 1.8 was added, rabbits and endermites were added.

    Undead horses and killer bunnies were released with Seacraft 2.3. This was shown in one of the teasers, where two crates, labelled with a rabbit spawn egg and a horse spawn egg respectively, were outside the zoo.

Seacraft 2.3.10 brought wither skeletons to the zoo, and modifications were made to the slime and magma cube pens as larger slimes would often suffocate when spawned.

With the release of Minecraft 1.10, polar bears were added to the zoo. This wasn't released as an update as zac5 believed it wasn't update-worthy.

Seacraft 2.3.15 released the husk and the stray to the zoo, as well as the shulker. But with the release of Minecraft 1.11 came the release of the llama, which was also added to the zoo in this update.

### Version 3 renovations

During the Renovation Period, jaykobe became mayor of the Mainland Plaza City Council. As part of his mayorship, he decided to completely overhaul the Zoo. With this, came a massive expansion into the area formerly used for the Animal Range. He built the entrance and Overworld sections of the Zoo, populating the various animal pens. He also built part of the aquarium.

The Zoo project then stalled for sometime, as jaykobe was unsure how to continue. ZacNVR took over too build the remaining aquarium and the monster cave section.