Dinosaur Diet Needs
List of all the dinosaurs and their diet needs in their habitats. The number next to the ticks in the prey, meat and fish boxes represent the ratio of feeders to dinosaurs. For example the Allosaurus has a 0.50 requirement of prey, meaning 2 dinosaurs can share 1 feeder. Any more Allosaurus added to that habitat will require additional prey feeders.
Prey feeding dinos will still eat from a meat feeder, but their comfort will drop due to the lack of prey if that is their only food option. Meat feeding dinos will also hunt prey down for the most part, but in my experience they get injured sometimes and compys can't hunt at all.
Plant eating dinos require a certain percentage of their desired plant or plants in their habitat. I have not included this number in the guide, but I can add if needed! I usually just plant food down until they're satisfied with the amount. Adding more dinosaurs to the habitat will increase the need for more plants to eat, so it's worth checking up on them every so often to see if there's enough plants around still. It's important to keep a high number of plants for the dinos to munch on, as too little can cause an outbreak of bracken poisoning. Remember that adding plants will decrease the areas of open space, forest and water so make sure you have enough space and don't delete too much of one plant to place another one down.
A good tip is that some plants have both ground and tall plants and sometimes a mix of fruit and fibre. It's worth remembering if you want to combine your species together and want to save a little space. Also, remember that plants can sometimes decline in space as time goes on and they're eaten. Check in with your dinos often to see if there's still enough food available for everyone!
Link to Habitat and Diet needs sheet here![docs.google.com]
Dinosaur Habitat Needs
Dinosaur habitat requirements are listed below. This is a very rough guide to their needs, as the numbers below are percentage based and will vary depending on the area of their paddock and the number of other dinosaurs within. I have also included the minimum population here as well, for a bit of ease.
But, it can be useful to know which dinosaurs need certain things in their habitats when it comes to grouping your dinos. It makes sense to pair up species who like a lot of forest with other species that like a lot of forest, and not as much sense pairing a species who likes a lot of space and doesn't need forest with a species who likes the opposite.
The rock requirements can be satisfied with either the rock paint tool or the placement of actual rocks, which in my experience have a better effect on the number of rock needed in the paddock and look a lot nicer. Sand is a useful tool for being able to see compys as well, as they tend to become a bit obscured when in grass. It doesn't affect guest's view of them, but I prefer it personally. The dinos also leave footprints behind in the sand as they walk over it!
Don't forget that herbivores need feeder plants to survive. These are included in the list above. Placing forest or paints may affect the percentage of feeder plants available so be sure to check in with every species every so often and make sure everyone is happy once you've finalised your set up. Don't forget that when mixing the types of plant, placing one type of plant down close to or on top of another may affect the plant percentage and could cause an imbalance. In my experience having lots of space and using the space smartly is the best way to avoid imbalances, especially when dealing with sauropods mixed with smaller herbivores as tall plants are only eaten by sauropods and take up large portions of the habitat to appease the sauropods. Remember, some plants are a mixture of both tall and ground and can be useful, but the ratio may still be off. Just keep checking on the species within the habitat as you plant stuff to make sure everyone is happy and you'll get the ratios right eventually.
Water is my first priority when setting up a habitat. I noticed that placing plants and even paints can affect the percentage of water available, and likewise placing water where plants are. Even though the plants do not vanish, the ratio of water to plants will change if you put plants within the water itself. I've also had the same drop when placing paints on areas of forest for example, and is something to just watch out for if, especially your percentages are fairly tight.
Paddock size is sometimes not the easiest thing to judge before you release your dinos into it. The total size you need will always vary depending on the species of dinosaur, size of dinosaur, genetic requirements and the total number of dinosaurs in the paddock. You might release a herd of dinos and get their paddock all sorted to their needs, release another species into the paddock and find that suddenly there's not enough space for your dinosaurs or even not enough water or food. It varies a great deal and is something that you'll likely get the hand of with experience in the game. If in doubt, go bigger. It's much easier to decrease the size of a paddock then try and expand it without deleting any buildings or paths.
If you need to increase your paddock size, use as much of the free space around the paddock as there is, wait for the fences to build (I know I sometimes forget...) and delete the old ones. If you still need space, try making little expansions on the fences. The fence tool should help you create little curves on the fences, which you can probably fit in even the tightest spaces. Once you've done this as much as you can you'd be surprised how much extra space this gives the dinosaurs and might just help with the space issue. If space is still an issue after this, consider selling a dinosaur or separating them. The more stressed they are the more likely fights will happen between species.
TL;DR: Build as large a paddock as you can. Fill it to suit dinos needs. Check dino comfort levels. Fill again is needed. Keep going until everyone in the paddock is happy.
Link to Habitat and Diet Sheet here![docs.google.com]
Dinosaur Species Cohabitation Needs
Below is the herbivore cohabitation guide. Preferred species will not impact on a dinosaur's cohabitation comfort stat. Disliked species will always result in negative comfort, and neutral species will add to the dinosaur's cohabitation stat. Once this goes over into the red, the dinosaur will begin to feel uncomfortable. It's best to keep dinosaurs who like each other together and away from those they dislike for this reason! Once combined with the diet and habitat guide, you can plan out the best combinations for your pack.
I have colour coded the dinos with their corresponding type listed in the hatchery data, and they match up with one of the types at the top of the chart. Ticks means the dinosaur likes a species, cross means they dislike them and blank spaces mean they are neutral towards that type of dinosaur. Additionally there's an extra column with specific species that a dinosaur might like which are listed alongside the various types.
It's worth noting that basically ALL herbivores hate either the Indominus Rex, carnivores in general or Dr Wu Hybrids. If you don't plan on feeding your herbivores to your carnivores or fighting them, don't put them together. Even if you do, be careful to watch the herbivores comfort levels as they may get angry and try and breakout of their paddocks before they're eaten by the carnivores. This chart is built with the intention of housing herbivores with other herbivores. Some herbivore species like compsognathus, but in my experience this has just left the compys to be killed or stress out and die of thirst or hunger.
My recommendation for a good stating group would be a sauropod species, a ceratopsid, stegosaurid or ankylosaurid, some hadrosaurs and a flock of ornithomimus dinos. This gives you a good few species to get your guest interested in whilst you plan out the rest of your paddocks.
Carnivores in general should be housed in single species paddocks with a couple of exceptions.
Baryonyx likes to live with Suchomimus and lives quite peacefully together.
Velociraptor like to live with the Indominus Rex, but the Indominus Rex apparently dislikes everything, so it might not be a great idea to house both together. I've not tried it personally, but with the Rex's blood lust I don't think it would work out so well for the raptors.
Majungasaurus can live with either Carnotarus OR Qianzhousaurus. Not both, as the latter dislike each other.
Carnotaurus can live with either Majungasaurus OR Albertosaurus. Not both, as the latter dislike each other.
Allosaurus can live with either Ceratosaurus OR Metriacanthosaurus. Not both, as the latter dislike each other.
Compsognathus apparently like everything and only dislike the Indominus Rex and Indoraptor, and all carnivores bar these two like living with compys. However, Compys can and will be eaten by other carnivores in the paddock, or stress out and die.
Even friendly carnivores will have fights though, and often results in deaths and major injury. I find it mostly not worth the risk of putting more than one species together if they're carnivores. I would just not bother trying to mix species and stick with mixing only the herbivores.
Link to Cohabitation Spreadsheet here![docs.google.com]
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