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London Zoo 1904

This is a complete recreation of London Zoo as it stood in 1904, at the transition between the classic Victorian zoo and something more recognisably modern. I have tried to make it as accurate as possible, based on a wide range of visual and written sources.

All of the publicly accessible buildings have interiors, and I have also built interiors for some keeper areas where I had good visual sources and/or they would have been visible from public areas. As a general rule of thumb, if transparent glass is used in a window or (especially) a door, the area is at least detailed enough to hold up to a glance through the window, though they do tend to be less detailed than the public areas.

One of the custom images included in the Google Drive folder linked below is the zoo map as it appears in the 1904 guidebook - this should help you navigate, and also includes a suggested route in order to see all the major buildings.

This is a very piece-heavy zoo with a large number of animals. If you just want to explore the buildings, you will get a significant FPS boost by quick trading all of the animals through the habitat menus. On my Steam Workshop page, you will find versions of the file with animals removed from the North and Middle Gardens (giving a small fps boost while exploring the South Garden), and with animals removed from the South Garden (giving a slightly larger fps boost while exploring the North and Middle Gardens), as well as a ‘lite’ version with all non-zoo scenery (i.e. the decent chunk of Camden Town and Regents Park surrounding the zoo) removed.

The elephants and camel near the main lawn make use of habitats that are too small to create a traversable area, and can be a bit unstable. The elephants tend to behave themselves, but the camel does get boxed up from time to time. The only way to fix this is to move the box somewhere else (like one of the elephant 'habitats', and then back again, as clicking 'unbox animal' does not work in that instance.

This zoo makes use of a lot of billboard images, as well as a few bits of custom audio. These can be downloaded from Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RjfZwrbhWo29ZKmT8B-bnQ50LeyvI6xk?usp=sharing

I have put together historical tours of some of the major buildings on my Youtube channel, which include visual references to compare the in-game builds with the real thing, along with shorter overview videos. I do plan on a full historical tour of the entire zoo, but that will take a while to put together! My videos can be found in my London Zoo 1904 playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaeEbDLW-ne2fYIIoz6yvD0tvUKtfSHSB&si=jTYNPjEfhXiWXewE

ZSH Plays has been kind enough to tour the zoo on his channel. You can see his video here: https://youtu.be/d4nN7A8432A

Thomas Freakz: https://youtu.be/DymfDk1Jz0Q?si=9aBrxxHIGWolpnan

Rudi Rennkamel: https://youtu.be/vDfURiOwChQ?si=7tIykzwffzI62u_y

DeLadysigner: https://youtu.be/XDAVZjo6COY?si=1fCR0d2Pg5UCGRed

Captain Callum: https://youtu.be/hkrDK61U-Tc?si=TWCoA2aymnWbiwvL

Ty weeb: https://youtu.be/KNGmy8SxrPk?si=501_pqskB6fw6rJG

A few of the major buildings have been uploaded to Steam Workshop separately, though many of my builds go above the piece count for workshop items.

Many of the aviaries, tanks, and smaller cages are populated by a variety of birds, fish, and small mammals created by Drac, Jaguar_X, and Captain Callum on the Workshop. If you are not already subscribed to them, I would strongly recommend doing so.