All the features of Planet Zoo Plus and more! This mod requires ACSE, which allows PZPlus to change the game without vanilla file replacement.  It also means game updates will very rarely, if ever, break PZPlus or require an update.

Status: Working with 1.18

PZPlus ACSE Overview

All existing PZ+ features are now individually toggleable, and the data supplied for them is user-configurable where applicable. For example, if:

• you disagree with a specific animal change, you may remove this from Config.PZPlusData, or copy and change the data in Config.PZPlusData.User. 
• you only want increased albinos/variants, you may turn off every feature but that one.
• you want to add PZPlus features to modded animals, you may do so using the internal species name (generally but not always the mod folder name).
  

Due to the nature of ACSE, features which apply to all animals (e.g. increased albinos, no plant coverage requirements) will apply to all modded and future DLC animals without any intervention or updates required. 

Every feature is toggleable in the INI , and the data used by PZPlus to modify the game is fully user-configurable (Config.PZPlusData).  Different feature settings are available for Franchise (Config.PZPlus.Franchise) and non-Franchise (Config.PZPlus). Different options for every game mode was unfortunately not possible.

User-provided modded animal data is possible as long as you know the internal species name for the mod (generally but not always the mod folder name).

New Features

Increased Facility Ranges - Heater/Cooler, Power Producers, and Water Treatment all have had moderate range increases.  Running costs of water treatment scale based on the increase in area for balance purposes.  Note: Water Treatment range increase has been disabled by default for the time being.  Some people have issues, some do not, you may try enabling it.  A new test version of ACSE is available to those wishing to help debug this.

UI Sorting and Filtering Defaults - Blueprints may be hidden by default.  Default sorting may be changed to Type instead of Name, which splits blueprints and prefabs, making it easier to find prefabs.  This new feature is off by default.

Detailed Inspection Report - Several more categories are rated by visiting Inspectors.

Additional Continents/Biomes for Plants are now appropriately tagged so they will show when using tag filtering.

Juvenile Navmesh for adults is now programmatically assigned for all species, including mods.  Exceptions are any mod based on Gray Seal or penguins, as their juveniles cannot swim in deep water.  Vanilla gray seals and penguins are handled manually in PZPlus. 

The probability of all variants has been increased, with differing, configurable probabilities per variant type.  To increase albinos only, set bIncreasedVariantsHabitat to false and bIncreasedAlbinosHabitat to true.


PZ+ features ported to ACSE

Scenery

Unlocked Ride Limits - Coasters in PZ

Cut Content Restoration - Zen pebbles, waste barrel unlocked for use.

Scenario Statue Unlocks

Additional Continents/Biomes for Plants

Animals

Lower, more realistic space requirements

Increased guest view distance

Increased Albinos - (New: This now defaults to increases for all variants.)

Additional walkabout animals

Additional interspecies enrichment

Animal size changes

Additional animal plant biome/continent preferences 

Removed animal box confetti


Updating

If you do not edit Config.PZPlus,Config.PZPlusFranchise,Config.PZPlusData simply follow Installation instructions, overwriting all files.

Certain updates may specify that you do not need to overwrite your INI files.

Otherwise:

• Config.PZPlusData MUST be overwritten with each mod update.
• If you have put changes in Config.PZPlusData, you should rename Config.PZPlusData.UserExample to Config.PZPlusData.User and paste the changes there instead, into their appropriate tables (e.g. tAnimalSizeData).
• Config.PZPlus and Config.PZPlusFranchise currently do not *need* to be overwritten if you have toggled a lot of options.  PZPlus maintains internal defaults for any new, missing feature toggles.  You will simply not be able to change this default until you add the new values to these INIs.
  

Installation

• Ensure ACSE is installed
• Extract the PZPlus folder to Planet Zoo\win64\ovldata
  

Credits

GiornoPizza - Co-author
Inaki - Invaluable ACSE help
Kaiodenic - UI help
PureWinter - Original Animal Overhaul