Whats your excuse

Maybe extinction doesn’t have to be forever…

Always have and always will love Prehistoric Park. Had this idea a few weeks ago about there being more park locations after the success of the one from the show.

Concept art from #1 by https://anthonyhutchings.artstation.com/

It's well-known as one of the earliest birds, so you'd think it would have been added to the JWE series at one point. We already have small pterosaurs as aviary animals, so why not Mesozoic birds like Archie?

After seeing so many good ideas on this sub, I decided to come up with my first DLC concept. I have to say, I had a lot of fun making it

I looked for a theme that steered clear of water, an element that has been quite common in previous DLCs. I also search flr species that fit this theme, had potential for great dimorphism and could serve as realistic alternatives to species already in the game. I would love to see a Mamenchisaurid created by Frontier's current team, not to mention that since the feathered species DLC none of their pterosaurs have missed the mark. Yi is here to offer a unique and more complex variety within the pack

Vertical perches are there to add a bit more variety to the aviaries and make room for more small species, also iincluding the insect feeder opens the door to more insectivorous species in future DLCs

Looking at Planet Zoo I was inspired to create a DLC that brings exhibit species to Jurassic World Evolution. This would include buildings containing glass and/or mesh enclosures that can be used to house exceptionally small animals.

Possible New Species

Anomalocaris

Name Meaning: Anomalous Shrimp

Pronunciation: ah-noh-mah-low-kah-riss

Type: Aquatic Arthropod

Diet: Fish

Dig Sites: Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada - Emu Bay Shale, South Australia, Australia

Time Period: Early Cambrian - Middle Cambrian

Anurognathus

Name Meaning: Frog Jaw

Pronunciation: an-yur-og-nay-thuss

Type: Flying Reptile

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: Solnhofen Formation, Bavaria, Germany

Time Period: Late Jurassic

Archaeopteryx

Name Meaning: Ancient Wing

Pronunciation: arc-ee-op-terr-icks

Type: Flying Dinosaur

Diet: Insect, Meat

Dig Site: Solnhofen Formation, Bavaria, Germany

Time Period: Late Jurassic

Coelurosauravus

Name Meaning: Hollow-Tailed Lizard Grandfather

Pronunciation: see-lure-oh-sore-ah-vuhs

Type: Terrestrial/Gliding Reptile

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: Lower Sakamena Formation, Ihorombe Region, Madagascar

Time Period: Late Permian

Diplocaulus

Name Meaning: Double Stalk

Pronunciation: dip-low-call-us

Type: Aquatic Amphibian

Diet: Fish

Dig Sites: Clepsydrops Shales, Illinois, U.S.A - Red Beds, Texas, U.S.A

Time Period: Late Carboniferous - Late Permian

Giant Locust

Name Meaning: Large Bending Joint

Pronunciation: jy-ant low-cust

Type: Flying Hybrid Arthropod

Diet: Leaf, Fibre, Fruit, Nut

Dig Site: None

Time Period: Holocene

Hallucigenia

Name Meaning: Hallucination

Pronunciation: hal-ooh-sih-jeen-iah

Type: Aquatic Panarthropod

Diet: Algae

Dig Sites: Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada - Maotianshan Shales, Yunnan Province, China

Time Period: Middle Cambrian

Hildoceras

Name Meaning: Saint Hilda's Horn

Pronunciation: hill-doh-serr-ass

Type: Aquatic Cephalopod

Diet: Fish, Plankton

Dig Site: Whitby Mudstone, England, United Kingdom

Time Period: Early Jurassic

Iberomesornis

Name Meaning: Iberian Intermediate Bird

Pronunciation: eye-beer-oh-mess-or-nis

Type: Flying Bird

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: La Huérguina Formation, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Time Period: Early Cretaceous

Isotelus

Name Meaning: Equal Extremities

Pronunciation: eye-so-tee-lus

Type: Aquatic Arthropod

Diet: Crustacean

Dig Sites: Dunkinsville, Ohio, U.S.A - Trenton Falls, New York, U.S.A

Time Period: Middle Ordovician - Late Ordovician

Karaurus

Name Meaning: Head Tail

Pronunciation: kah-raw-ruhs

Type: Semi-Aquatic Amphibian

Diet: Insect, Fish

Dig Site: Karabastau Formation, Karatau Mountains, Kazakhstan

Time Period: Late Jurassic

Longisquama

Name Meaning: Long Scales

Pronunciation: long-ih-skwa-mah

Type: Terrestrial Reptile

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: Madygen Formation, Leylek District, Kyrgyzstan

Time Period: Middle or Late Triassic

Mesosaurus

Name Meaning: Middle Lizard

Pronunciation: mess-oh-sore-us

Type: Semi-Aquatic Reptile

Diet: Fish

Dig Sites: Mangrullo Formation, Cerro Largo Department, Uruguay - Whitehill Formation, ǁKharas Region, Namibia

Time Period: Early Permian

Parvavis

Name Meaning: Small Bird

Pronunciation: par-vay-viss

Type: Flying Bird

Diet: Fish

Dig Site: Jiangdihe Formation, Yunnan Province, China

Time Period: Late Cretaceous

Petrolacosaurus

Name Meaning: Rock Lake Lizard

Pronunciation: pet-row-lack-oh-sore-us

Type: Terrestrial Araeoscelidian

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: Garnett, Kansas, U.S.A

Time Period: Late Carboniferous

Purgatorius

Name Meaning: From Purgatory

Pronunciation: purr-gah-tor-ee-us

Type: Terrestrial Mammal

Diet: Insect

Dig Sites: Ravenscrag Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada - Tullock Formation, Montana, U.S.A

Time Period: Late Cretaceous - Early Paleogene

Sacabambaspis

Name Meaning: Shield from Sacabamba

Pronunciation: sack-ah-bamb-ass-piss

Type: Aquatic Fish

Diet: Plankton

Dig Sites: Amdeh Formation, Muscat, Oman - Carmichael Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia - Sacabamba, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia

Time Period: Middle Ordovician - Late Ordovician

Titanomyrma

Name Meaning: Titan Ant

Pronunciation: tie-tan-oh-mer-muh

Type: Terrestrial/Flying Arthropod

Diet: Insect, Meat

Dig Site: Messel Formation, Hesse, Germany

Time Period: Middle Paleogene

Triadobatrachus

Name Meaning: Triple Frog / Triassic Frog

Pronunciation: triad-oh-bat-ruh-kuhs

Type: Semi-Aquatic Amphibian

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: Middle Sakamena Formation, Diana Region, Madagascar

Time Period: Early Triassic

Tullimonstrum

Name Meaning: Francis Tully's Monster

Pronunciation: tull-ee-mon-strum

Type: Aquatic Bilaterian

Diet: Insect

Dig Site: Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Illinois, U.S.A

Time Period: Late Carboniferous

New Buildings

Animal Houses

Three pre-fab animal houses are included. The small building contains one enclosure, the medium building contains two enclosures, and the large building contains three. The enclosures are visible from the outside.

Players can also create their own animal houses using the modular building tools, and can have as many enclosures as the player wants.

The enclosures can only house a single species at once and change to suit whichever animal is housed within and can be further modified with several selectable objects to suit the inhabitant.

New Dig Sites

Australia

Carmichael Sandstone, Northern Territory

Emu Bay Shale, South Australia

Bolivia

Sacabamba, Cochabamba Department

Canada

Burgess Shale, British Columbia

Ravenscrag Formation, Saskatchewan

China

Jiangdihe Formation, Yunnan Province

Maotianshan Shales, Yunnan Province

Germany

Messel Formation, Hesse

Kazakhstan

Karabastau Formation, Karatau Mountains

Kyrgyzstan

Madygen Formation, Leylek District

Madagascar

Lower Sakamena Formation, Ihorombe Region

Middle Sakamena Formation, Diana Region

Namibia

Whitehill Formation, ǁKharas Region

Oman

Amdeh Formation, Muscat

Uruguay

Mangrullo Formation, Cerro Largo Department

United Kingdom

Whitby Mudstone, England

U.S.A

Clepsydrops Shales, Illinois

Dunkinsville, Ohio

Garnett, Kansas

Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Illinois

Trenton Falls, New York

Tullock Formation, Montana

Ok, so here's my dream DLC, the Surf'n'Turf DLC.

The roster consists of:

-Tanystropheus

-Mystriosuchus

-Hesperornis

-Atopodentatus

-Metriorynchus

In addition to these species, a new lagoon module will be added to the game in the free update: the lagoon beach. This module would allow for a direct connection between land and lagoon, allowing for semiaquatic species to enter the lagoon to fulfill their deep water requirements and feed, and it would allow for the first 4 new species (and potentially others) mentioned to go on land to lounge, interact with land species, and breed. This new module would also be especially modular in that placing many of them next to eachother makes them connect, allowing you to make partial or full natural lagoons.

This free update would also include:

-Free Archelon

-Free Nothosaurus

-A new shallow lagoon preset

-Lagoon terrain editing

-5 new lagoon foliage brushes: the kelp forest, the seagrass meadows (required for atopodentatus to feed), and 3 styles of coral reef

-A new lagoon tunnel attraction

-A new submarine tour attraction, with depth mappable as well as the other aspects of the route

-A new cohabitation animation for rebirth mosasaurus and rebirth spinosaurus

-When uncomfortable, lagoon species in the presence of a beach module will attempt to beach themselves, and must be rescued before they die

-Dead lagoon animals can wash up onto shore and be scavenged like other corpses by land species

-The return of the island lagoon rock from JWE2

I really want that boardwalk map or blueprint that was seen on the trailer. All of what Frontier shows in their trailers looks really well made and polished. I just wish they would share them especially if they are shown on a paid DLC trailer.

Ah, my audio thing is in the way, but you can see it

Trying to make sense of whatever they did in the movie and thank god for Polizzi’s behind the scene shots

Sarcosuchus , Elaphrosaurus , Heterodontosaurus , Inostrancevia africana , Vulcanodon

We likely have 2 DLCs remaining for the rest of the year and whilst one of them is almost certainly the chaos theory/animated series pack, the other remaining DLC is ripe for speculation and this concept came to me as I was considering three things

1. A complaint of the rebirth DLC not including the Anurognathus (and so we can get canon species out of the way and focus on more interesting species)
2. A complaint of the Crocodilia Coast DLC not including any kind of marine crocodylomorph (which is crazy tbh even if I love desmatosuchus and postosuchus)
3. Wanting more unique species to diversify the roster

These three factors lead to this concept - The Solnhofen Species Pack, an extremely well preserved Late Jurassic fossil site with this dlc taking a page out of planet zoo for the third dlc type we could have - ignoring the scenery for the most part and including more species in this pack to boost diversity and allow for inclusion of more oddballs and requested species.

PAID DLC
New Species

• Anurognathus : It would complete the film canon species (except for people who really care about unnamed amphibian and unnamed eel or leech thing) and would be a good pairing with Jehelopterus with two freaks in the aviaries
• Archaeopteryx : Almost certainly the most requested species of this pack, it would be our first aviary species that is not a pterosaur, spending most of its time on the ground and flying in short bursts as opposed to the pterosaurs
• Rhamphorhynchus : Another highly requested species that I simply could not have left out, of course being Walking with Dinosaur Alumni helps but would also give us a paleoaccurate long tailed pterosaur which I desperately need for coastal builds
• Dakosaurus : It would be the final piece in the marine reptile family and would give us all the major mesozoic groups some representation (except for the many Sauropterygian freaks in the triassic) and would help balance the size differences in the lagoons by being on the slightly smaller side
• Asteracanthus : The oddball pick of the pack, This shark would give us our first mesozoic shark species, something much smaller than the massive megalodon and would also stand out with how many fins the hybodont sharks had.
• Gnathosaurus : Yet another small aviary species but it would stand out for it’s unique crest and would be a nice pick although Solnhofen has many pterosaur species that could take its place I thought Gnathosaurus stood out amongst the ones left

NEW SCENERY
I know I said that species packs wouldn't have scenery but I think having some perchable trees would help in aviaries as it is something I have felt sorely missing even with how useful perch points are they really do not work with the trees we have currently in game and would also give a naturalistic look for smaller species

FREE UPDATE
NEW PERCH POINTS
I think the perch points are great but I had a couple of ideas to make them even more versatile

1. Vertical perches : Something similar to the art shown, something that would allow certain pterosaurs to grasp onto something vertically for a short while, particularly Anurognatus and Jehelopterus 
2. Sandbox option to make the wood invisible, would help massively as I hate building pterosaur colonies just to have to mess around for ages trying to hide the wood of the perch point as best as I can so I think a sandbox option to make it invisible would be great.

RETURNING SPECIES
The returning species with this update would be Jehelopterus because it would save dev time to work on both this and anuroganthus at the same time with them sharing quite similar rigs, whilst also giving people who don’t buy the dlc atleast one species that can use the vertical perch point. Maybe this dlc would release around the one year anniversary which would give them a reason for a “special gift” or around the holidays as a thank you instead. This would also mean the insectivore feeder would return for free which would help with more species in the future.

Theme: A journey through the eras of the Mesozoic, featuring a variety of species from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods discovered in different parts of the world.

Species:

01- Rhamphorhynchus - It’s a highly requested pterosaur from the Jurassic, and I like its tail.

02- Atopodentatus - It's a strange marine reptile from the Triassic, and I think it would be cool as the game's first herbivorous marine reptile.

03- Dinodontosaurus - One of the largest herbivores of the Triassic, and another synapsid for the game.

04- Dracovenator - A medium-sized African carnivore from the Jurassic period with crests similar to "Dilophosaurus" —making it a great alternative for those who want a more accurate "Dilo".

05- Shantungosaurus - And from the Cretaceous, I think that's a pretty solid choice.

06 - Nigersaurus - As the free specie in update.

(Realistically, I’d be okay with Frontier removing two brand-new species and replacing them with "Nothosaurus" and "Jeholopterus" to keep the theme consistent—but they should be free.

Attractions: 01 - DLC: The Safari Boat, which can be used in the lagoons and in water areas generally. We could build canals to connect the lagoons to the open water. 02 -

Free Update Attraction: Minibus Tour—I think this would be cooler than the trucks we currently have. Modular

Construction: Zoo-inspired pieces featuring plenty of attraction-related park decorations, as well as statues and architectural elements based on Mesozoic animals.

Free Pieces inspired in Jurassic Park, Jurassic World and Ingen.