Items
Items are consumables or they can have a different usage. Each item can be acquired through many different ways, however it depends on what type of item is the item (regular, upgraded, terminal).
Regular Items
Regular Items are the most basic items in zoo that are obtained through rescues, goals and quests. These regular items have a Quality statistic assigned to them, when you rescue with Luck, higher quality items have a higher chance of appearing. Without any luck, all items have the same chance of being obtained, no matter the quality of the item.
| Emoji | Name | Type | Quality | Description | Tooltip | Additional Notes |
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| 8-Ball | Other | 3 | Rerolls your curse into a different one. | ''Fun to play with, not to eat' | ||
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Alarm Clock | Notification | 1 | Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 6 times. (stackable) | '7 AM and I go back to sleep' | The notification is only consumed when the message goes through. |
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Ball | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees a pet on your next rescue. | 'They give ball players nowadays very peculiar names' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Bamboo | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees a jungle animal on your next rescue. | 'You've been bamboozled' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Bone | Sacrifice | 2 | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 5 hours, but releases a random common animal. | 'You've cut this story down to the bone' | |
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Broken Clock | Cooldown | 3 | Sets your current rescue cooldown to a random time between 0 and 8 hours. | 'It's still right twice a day' | Can only be used if your rescue cooldown is less than or equal to 8 hours |
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Broom | Cooldown | 3 | Raises your current rescue cooldown by 1 hours, but reduces your next one by 1. (stackable) | 'Work hard, so you hardly have to work.' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Cake | Cooldown | 3 | Reduces your rescue cooldown by 6 hours! | 'I don’t believe in salads' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Calendar | Notification | 4 | Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 31 times. (stackable) | 'There’s 104 days of summer vacation' | The notification is only consumed when the message goes through. |
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Coffee | Cooldown | 2 | Reduces your rescue cooldown by 4 hours. | 'Double Double' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Compass | Other | 4 | Reduces your remaining quest duration by your current rescue cooldown, then doubles your rescue cooldown. | 'East? I thought you said weast!' | |
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Contract | Other | 4 | Gives you 3 more of any common animal you own, then curses you for 4-8 days. | 'FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!' | |
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Cookie | Cooldown | 1 | Reduces your rescue cooldown by 1 hour. | 'You feel like making cookies' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Corn | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees a farm animal on your next rescue. | 'Come down today and try some corn' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Crystal Ball | Guarantee | 1 | Predetermines and reveals the type of your next animal. Not consumed if a type is already guaranteed. | 'I’ve seen the future, Bob' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Energy Drink | Other | 1 | Removes your entire rescue cooldown, but adds it to your next one. | 'Kill' | |
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Feather | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees a bird on your next rescue. | 'But steel is heavier than feathers' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Glasses | Sacrifice | 2 | Guarantees a pair of animals on your next rescue, but raises your current rescue cooldown by 4 hours. | '🤓' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Joker | Sacrifice | 2 | Releases a common animal of your choice and guarantees an animal of that type on your next rescue. Reduces your rescue cooldown by 3 hours.” | 'Hello, Little Caesars? Five orders of NORMAL bread please.' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Lure | Notification | 2 | Automatically rescues an animal, as soon as your rescue cooldown expires. (stackable) | 'Told my wife I was going to the bank. I never said which one.' | The auto-rescue is only consumed when the message goes through. |
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Nazar | Other | 3 | Weakens the effects of your curse. | 'Nope, no evil here!' | |
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Paintbrush | Other | 1 | Changes the embed color when viewing your animals oritems. | 'We'll have 'em run all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with us' | Typing “rainbow” into the prompt unlocks Disco Ball. |
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Pizza | Cooldown | 2 | Reduces your rescue cooldown by 2 hours. | 'ayo the pizza here' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Present | Other | 1 | Gift this to another member to give them some free stuff! None of your animals or items will be lost. | 'That’s ridiculous! You can’t put animals in a box.' | |
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Safety Pin | Other | 3 | Curses you for 7 days, but reduces the chance of your quest reward being a curse by 75%. | 'safety is merely an illusion' | “safeQuest” can only be viewed with the API Key equipped. |
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Sailboat | Sacrifice | 1 | Trades 3 of a common animal of your choice for one of whatever you want. | 'I'll let you use my port for two wood, final offer' | |
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Scarf | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees an arctic animal on your next rescue. | 'Winter is coming' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Shiny Coin | Other | 3 | Fully refills your amount of remaining shop purchases. | 'Shiny, yet deadly coins' | |
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Spider Web | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees a bug on your next rescue. | 'Look it up on the web' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Stopwatch | Notification | 2 | Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 15 times. (stackable) | 'Sub 30 will never happen' | |
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Sunglasses | Sacrifice | 2 | Guarantees a pair of animals on your next rescue, but releases a random common animal. | 'The boys will be jealous and the girls will be surprised' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Sushi | Guarantee | 1 | Guarantees an aquatic animal on your next rescue. | 'Fresh from the gas station' | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. |
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Wand | Other | 2 | Exchanges a rare animal of your choice for 5 of its common variant | 'skidaddle skidoodle' | |
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Wild Card | Other | 1 | Rerolls the server's stashed animal into a type of your choice. | 'It came free with your Xbox' |
Upgraded Items
Upgraded items are special variants of regular items that have its own effects. Upgraded items are usually found in the mechanic shop and through some goals. Mechanic Cap allows you to upgrade items even if the upgraded item is not in the rotation. However it comes at the cost of 50% more time to upgrade.
| Emoji | Name | Trades (Mechanic) | Type | Description | Tooltip | Additional Notes |
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Ace | Joker x2 → Ace x2 (6h) | Gurantee | Releases a common animal of your choice and guarantees it on your next rescue. | 'Not very attracted to the other cards.' | |
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Backpack | Sunglasses x2 → Backpack x1 (10h) | Other | Guarantees the best outcome for all luck-based effects on your next rescue. (not including pairs or items) | 'Mon sac à dos est gros' | Guarantees every chance-based things that can be affected by luck. |
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Battery | Alarm Clock x1 → Battery x2 (6h)
Calendar x1 → Battery x12 (12h) Lure x1 → Battery x4 (6h) Stopwatch x1 → Battery x5 (8h) |
Notification | Consumes 3 rescue notifications but automatically rescues your next animal. (stackable) | 'AA. AAA. AAAAAAAAAAAA-' | |
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Blank Card | Wild Card x2 → Blank Card x1 (8h) | Other | Allows you to pick the server's stashed animal from five random animals. | 'Admit the stash is useful or draw 25' | Upon use, it is consumed. If you are unsure of what to choose be quick. |
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Cake Slice | Cake x1 → Cake Slice x12 (12h) | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 15 minutes. | 'nom' | Can be eaten multiple times at once with $ nomnomnom.Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Canoe | Sailboat x3 → Canoe x1 (8h) | Sacrifice | Trades a common animal of your choice for 3 random ones. | 'Bad trade offers? Just travel somewhere else.' | Gives 2 luck if the curse is unweakened and 1 luck if the curse is weakened. |
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Chains | 8 Ball x1 → Chains x1 (8h) | Other | Makes your curse incurable, but drastically increases rescue luck while you have it. Use at your own risk! | 'Embrace darkness.' | Caps out at x0.0625 aka 4 cocktails. |
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Cocktail | Energy Drink x1 → Cocktail x1 (8h) | Cooldown | Halves the length of any cooldown-raising effects on your next rescue. (stackable) | 'Don't let the ESRB find this' | Upon use, it is consumed. If you do not make the trade in 60 seconds, it will still be consumed. Does not trigger Sack. |
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Coupon | Shiny Coin x1 → Coupon x2 (10h) | Other | Generates a random (even) animal trade. | 'Please, please don't hoard these' | |
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Eyedropper | Paintbrush x2 → Eyedropper x1 (10h) | Other | Copies one animal from a member of your choice, weighted based on their animal count. Sets your embed color to their color. | 'Blue! ...No, yell- AAAAAA!' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Fixed Clock | Broken Clock x1 → Fixed Clock x1 (12h) | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by a random time between 0 and 6 hours. | 'The time has come' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Fortune Cookie | Cookie x3 → Fortune Cookie x2 (8h) | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 1 hour, and increases luck on your next rescue up to 5 times. | 'You will use a battering ram to violate your son's privacy' | |
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Goggles | Glasses x2 → Goggles x1 (6h) | Cooldown | Raises your next rescue cooldown by 4 hours, but all effects applied to that rescue will also apply to the one after that. (stackable) | 'I've got an experiment for you, safety glasses on' | |
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Green Tea | Coffee x2 → Green Tea x5 (8h) | Cooldown | Grants a 70% chance to reduce your current rescue cooldown by 2 hours, otherwise raises it by 1 hour. | 'A perfect matcha for hard-working zookeepers' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
| Lootbox | Present x2 → Loot Box x5 (14h) | Other | Exchanges 10 of the same rare animal for loads of animals and items, as well as a special trophy. | 'Actually, we look at it as "surprise mechanics"' | Gives you a trophy of the selected rare animal, but also common and rare animals of the same type, and items. | |
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Lotus | Contract x1 → Lotus x1 (8h) | Sacrifice | Removes 3 of a common animal of your choice, but also removes your curse. Cannot be used on curses longer than 7 days. | '😇' | |
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Magic Mirror | Crystal Ball x2 → Magic Mirror x1 (8h) | Guarantee | Predetermines and reveals your exact next animal. Not consumed if a specific animal is already guaranteed. | 'And you'll pay any price to decide your future' | |
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Mystery Meat | Bone x1 → Mystery Meat x1 (6h) | Cooldown | Raises your current rescue cooldown by 5 hours, but gives you a random common animal. | 'Pretty damn good' | |
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Needle | Nazar x1 → Needle x2 (10h) | Other | Removes 2 days from your curse, but unweakens it. Cannot reduce your curse below 12 remaining hours. | 'Fresh from your zoo's haystack' | You cannot use this when the curse is not weakened. Once your curse would be below 12 hours before it expires, the curse gets set to 12 hours. |
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Pineapple | Pizza x2 → Pineapple x4 (8h) | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 2 hours, but raises your next one by 1 hour. | 'Freshly picked from the pizza' | |
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Pushpin | Safety Pin x1 → Pushpin x1 (12h) | Other | Guarantees the highest number of animals/items from your current (or next) quest, but increases its length by 12 hours and prevents finding a relic. | 'I recognize that telephone pole, see you soon' | |
| Riceball | Ball x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h)
Bamboo x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h) Corn x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h) Feather x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h) Scarf x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h) Spider Web x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h) Sushi x3 → Rice Ball x2 (8h) |
Guarantee | Guarantees one of your leader's favorite animals on your next rescue. | 'These donuts are great!' | ||
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Screwdriver | Broom x2 → Screwdriver x1 (12h) | Cooldown | Increases the strength of any non-leader cooldown-reducing effects on your next rescue by 50%. (stackable) | 'Let's do some serious upgrading. Let's equip this. Let's rescue that. Then, let's get to it. So then we can go do... absolutely nothing.' | |
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Telescope | Compass x2 → Telescope x1 (8h) | Other | Increases the length of your current (or next) quest by 12 hours, but raises relic chance and guarantees 1 extra item/animal/curse day. (stackable) | 'I can see Uranus from here!' | |
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Unstable Wand | Wand x1 → Unstable Wand x1 (8h) | Other | Exchanges a rare animal of your choice for 4-7 random common animals. | 'skibidi bop mm dada' | Averages to 5.5 animals per use. |
There are secret upgraded items that are only available through the Mechanic Cap relic, if you attempt to upgrade an item again that has a secret upgrade attached to it or an item that isn't in the mechanic rotation, but can be upgraded through mechanic cap.
| Emoji | Name | Trades (Mechanic) | Type | Description | Tooltip | Additional Notes |
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Booster Cookie | Browser Cookie x1 → Booster Cookie x1 (12h) | Cooldown | Reduces ALL your active cooldowns by 1 hour. | 'You will not be able to earn Bits from this cookie.' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Cracked Mystery Egg | Golden Mystery Egg x1 → Cracked Mystery Egg x1 (24h) | Other | The egg has a crack in it! What could it mean? (cannot be used) | 'uh oh' | Can be only upgraded once. After that the button is not shown. |
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Normal Egg | Blank Mystery Egg x1 → Normal Egg x1 (3h) | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 1 minute? | 'Just a regular old egg' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Omelette | Use Normal Egg while having Frying Pan equipped | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 2 hours, doubled if the last item you used involved egg. | 'My knowledge of eggs is tremendously wide.' | Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic. |
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Very Cracked Mystery Egg | Cracked Mystery Egg x1 → Very Cracked Mystery Egg x1 (36h) | Other | It's about to hatch! What could it mean? (cannot be used) | 'you've committed to this. no stopping now.' | |
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Hatched Mystery Egg | Very Cracked Mystery Egg x1 → Hatched Mystery Egg x1 (48h) | Other | Wait a minute, this is just a regular egg painted orange! (cannot be used) | 'wait till murphy hears of this...' | |
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Mystery Chick | Hatched Mystery Egg x1 → Mystery Chick (60h) | Other | Seems like a happy chick. You're free now! | 'don't you have a certain shiba to thank?' | Upon use you'll gain a chick and the Decearing Egg. |
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Rice Cracker | Riceball x4 → Rice Cracker x2 (6h) | Guarantee | Triggers the ability of your leader. (does not earn XP) | 'Homemade with love by Jaxper' |
Other Items
Other items are items that are obtainable through unusual means, or cannot be obtained at all. Some items can be obtained through the terminal, some are related to different kinds of commands like fusion commands or the fishy command.
| Emoji | Name | Method of Obtaining | Description | Tooltip | Additional Notes |
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Aetherium | Zoo Tokens™ → Aetherium x1
Zoo Tokens™ → Aetherium x5 |
A decentralized currency that fluctuates in value. Pray it doesn’t crash! (cannot be used) | 'Profitable?' | The zoo tokens obtained is the current price of ethereum in USD. (Signified by ) |
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Base Mystery Egg | 1000 Zoo Tokens™ → Base Mystery Egg x1 | Hatches into an NFB of a random common animal. | 'Every non-functional beast is unique. Please do not screenshot.' | |
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Blank Mystery Egg | 2500 Zoo Tokens™ → Blank Mystery Egg x1 | Hatches into an NFB of an animal of your choice. The animal will be (painlessly) consumed. | 'Animals are often more of a liability than an asset unless you can make it cash flow or you are flipping' | Hatching a fox through a Blank Mystery Egg grants you the Silver Fluff cosmetic. |
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Blue Checkmark | 8000 Zoo Tokens™ → Blue Checkmark x1 | Verifies your profile for 24 hours. (stackable) | 'Also legalizes comedy!' | |
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Browser Cookie | 750 Zoo Tokens™ → Browser Cookie x1 | Reduces your current fusion cooldown by 3 rescues. (once per fusion) | 'Accept for the best Zoo experience!' | |
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Golden Mystery Egg | 5000 Zoo Tokens™ → Golden Mystery Egg x1 | Hatches into an NFB of a random rare animal. | 'I’ll have you know that the foxchain doesn’t lie. I own it. Even if you save it, it’s my property. You are mad that you don’t own the art that I own.' | |
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Zoo Token™ | Generated passively from fused animals.
Aetherium x1 → Zoo Tokens™ Aetherium x5 → Zoo Tokens™ |
Some kind of crude digital token. Generated passively by fused animals. (cannot be used) | 'You might make a lot of money, you might make no money at all. But like it’s gonna be fun.' | The zoo tokens obtained is the current price of ethereum in USD. (Signified by ) |
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Pebbles | By crafting a fishing rod in $ fish rod. By selling items using $ fish sell. By losing every one of your pebbles and rescuing an aquatic animal. | Some regular old pebbles given to you by a pretty chill raccoon. (cannot be used) | 'I love the economy.' |
Some items are unobtainable through normal means in the game, usually given out by Colon or it has been deleted.
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Animal Spirit | The spirit of an animal that accidentally abandoned your zoo and ascended to a higher plane of existence. Don't worry, we found a replacement. (cannot be used) | 'Oh whoops, whoopsie!' | This item can be only obtained through losing animals. It is usually given out by Colon.
- On Jun 4 2022, a bug caused auto-rescues to wipe people's zoos. When zoos were rolled back a day later, one Animal Spirit was granted for each animal lost. - When old RoboTop profiles were transfered to the new bot, zoos with negative animals (obtained from glitches) had them removed. For each negative animal, a random animal was removed and replaced with an Animal Spirit. | |
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Ethereum | A crystal that's worth whatever people want it to be. Seems like it crashed over night. (cannot be used) | 'The world is not anymore the way it used to be, mmmm no no no' | Added for the April Fools 2022 event. Could be bought in the Shop for 3300 Shiny Coins, 1 Kidney, 1 Heart, or 1 Lungs (the latter three being new items), or sold for Monkeys or Lions. When the “organ” items were removed a few weeks later, players who had them received some Ethereum as a replacement.
Additionally Ethereum was given out once subsequently, in June 2022. | |
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Heart | Give me back my heart! | — | Added for the April Fools 2022 event. Could be sold for 36 ethereum and can be obtained through the developer giving it out to people. This item does not exist anymore. | |
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Kidney | Donate one and you're a hero, donate ten and you're a criminal | — | Added for the April Fools 2022 event. Could be sold for 65 ethereum and can be obtained through the developer giving it out to people. This item does not exist anymore. | |
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Lungs | Just breathe... | — | Added for the April Fools 2022 event. Could be sold for 81 ethereum and can be obtained through the developer giving it out to people. This item does not exist anymore. | |