⭐Hello Zookeepers!!⭐
Updated for Americas Pack DLC!!

My initial idea for this project was 100% for my use alone... but it has become so much more than that. In the process of making this, I have found so very many resources online for Planet Zoo, but the problem is... none of them seem to collect ALL of the information in one place - so I was ending up hunting and pecking high and low on the internet for scraps of knowledge that I needed. A good portion of the information in this spreadsheet collection was either 100% collected and researched by me (i.e. it didn't come from someone else's work) or required me searching high and wide to try to figure out how to make this or that formula work for what I needed it to do. The rest of the information has been culled from multiple online sources and sorted in a way (I HOPE) is understandable.

This collection is the result of many, many countless hours of work and yes, hours upon hours of gameplay testing. I am not a programmer, nor do I have the slightest idea how to datamine the game code for the information I wanted to include, so everything has been collected, copied, and or faithfully and painstakingly tested, one animal or item at a time. From the very beginning of this project, I was committed to keeping the result publicly available and 100% free, and I am sticking to that. However, the question, for me, has become how to keep people who were using the spreadsheet apprised of updates and upgrades to the sheet. For this and several other reasons, I decided that setting up a Patreon was probably going to be the easiest way to do so. I considered just doing a mailing list, but at the same time - I have other game spreadsheets either in the works, completed, or planned for the future, and it just made sense to have a central location for them. I do have a blog, as well, but that's mostly dedicated to my Sims 4 knowledge, challenges, and stories... so adding a whole new section just to house my spreadsheets seemed just to not fit with my blog's concept. The patreon may be an easy way to support me in my spreadsheet and Content Creation journey, but it is in no way going to require anyone to pay for information that they could, in theory, find for themselves with a bit of work. Being forced to be on a strict budget myself, I understand more than most that money is precious - and in this day and age - increasingly hard to come by. Therefore, if you are in any position to be able to help me out, I would thoroughly appreciate it - but I will never require it.

I've put HOURS into this spreadsheet to bring it to a usable state for me. This included adding MANY new animals, adding some planning data sheets, and adding many sheets worth of other data that seemed useful, all of which I noted in the changelog. I don't know how well I'll be able to keep up with updating this spreadsheet, but I will make every attempt to keep up with the new animals added when they're added. Moreover, I didn't do this because anyone asked me to. I did it for my use, and I published it for the simple reason that I thought other people might find it useful.

OF NOTE: It should be noted That this 0.9 Version of the sheet IS missing some things that will be coming in the full version later this year. Namely, The compatibility sheet is NOT complete, and neither is the Husbandry sheet - there are two columns of data (Columns K and L) that have not been finalized!! These two sheets will, however, be fully complete in the full 1.0 version (again, coming later this year - approx May or June). Also, this version of the sheet is NOT going to be hidden behind a member paywall for the first two weeks as following releases will be, because it's a BETA release, and I'd like as many people to have immediate access as possible, and as much feedback on it as possible!