Planet Zoo

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About this mod

This mod increases the chances to find color morph animals in sandbox for all animals (habitat and exhibit) including DLC animals, remasters and new species! ACSE is required.

READ THE DETAILED DESCRIPTION FOR MORE INFORMATION AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS!!!

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General information
This mod (previously known as More sandbox albinos) has been ported to ACSE in order to improve user experience as well as make the mod update proof! To install you MUST have ACSE installed or your game will crash. Download ACSE here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/planetzoo/mods/983


Update 1.12
Just to be clear: yes this mod does work for 1.12 and yes it does raise the chances of king cheetas, etc. from appearing. Hope you continue to enjoy the mod.

Why change to ACSE?
  1. This mod no longer has to be updated every single patch and DLC release. It will always work. So you are no longer dependent on me to update the mod whenever a new patch or DLC is released
  2. No more changing existing game files! You just place the unzipped folder (do not change the name!) in your ovl folder and it will activate. So it is much less error prone when installing.
  3. This mod now works on ALL animals, including new species mods and animal remasters!

Will an update ever be neccesary?
In theory: no. The only reason for an update will be if Frontier throws us another curveball like the piebald color morph released in 1.11. Other than that, you are good.

Original flavors (high/medium rate) have been premade for you (plug and play)
To ease your transition into this ACSE version of the mod, we have premade the HIGH and MEDIUM color morph rate that you were used to seeing from us. You only need to download and install one.

Adjust to your own liking
New with this mod is that it is very easy to adjust the color morph settings to your own liking. All you need is a text editor (e.g., notepad++) and you are good to go. This is how you do it:
  1. Download the CUSTOM_RATE version of this mod. You can use this as is, but you can also edit it
  2. Unzip and open the file called Config.MoreVariants.ini in your preferred text editor
  3. Change the color morph rates
  4. Save the file and install the complete folder in your ovl data folder, same as for new species mods and the high/medium rate versions of this mod.
It is possible to edit the color morph rate for a specific animal species. Examples are given in the Config file. However, you edit this at your own risk. You break it, we are not going to fix it.

What if I want to edit more than just color morph rate?
This mod is now a trimmed down version of PZ+. If you want to edit more features of your game, including color morph rate, please download PZ+ instead.

Is it safe?
Frontier does not endorse modding, so if you mod you do so at the risk of breaking your own game. However, I actively use this mod without any troubles. If you install the mod correctly, you should be fine.

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ChallengeOfTheDark's other Planet Zoo Mods:
Whiter Arctic Wolves
Albino Giant Anteaters

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Credits to:
ChallengeOfTheDark for creating the original version of this mod
Hexabit for updating the mod to ACSE and explaining to me how it works. I couldn't have done it without you!
Pure Winter for the helpful tutorials, advice and explanation on modding this great game. 
Cobra Tool Dev Team for the Cobra modding tools
Nicholas LionRider for his helpful tutorial series
Frontier for Planet Zoo