Items

Items are consumables that can be acquired in many different ways.

Regular items

Regular items are the most basic items in Zoo. Rescued animals have a 15% chance to carry a random item. These items can also be obtained from quests and goals.

See #Item generation below for information on how random items are generated.

Emoji	Name	Quality	Description	Tooltip	Additional Notes
	8 Ball	3	Rerolls your curse into a different one.	Fun to play with, not to eat
	Alarm Clock	1	Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 6 times. (stackable)	You, you're finally awake	The notification is only consumed when the message goes through.
	Ball	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.
	Bamboo	1	Guarantees a jungle animal on your next rescue.	You've been bamboozled	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Bone	2	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 5 hours, but releases a random common animal.	You've cut this story down to the bone
	Broken Clock	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
	Broom	3	Raises your current rescue cooldown by 1 hour, and reduces your next one by 1. (stackable)	Work hard, so you hardly have to work.
	Cake	3	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 6 hours!	I don’t believe in salads	Counts as a "regular food item" for obtaining the Taco Shell cosmetic.
	Calendar	3	Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 31 times. (stackable)	It appears that its days are numbered	The notification is only consumed when the message goes through.
	Coffee	2	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 4 hours.	Double Double	Counts as a "regular food item" for obtaining the Taco Shell cosmetic.
	Compass	4	Reduces your remaining quest duration by your current rescue cooldown, then doubles your current rescue cooldown. (once per rescue)	East? I thought you said weast!	If your quest is shorter than your rescue cooldown, it'll increase your rescue cooldown by the time the quest lasts, instead of doubling it
	Contract	4	Gives you 3 of any common animal, then curses you for 4-8 days.	FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
	Cookie	1	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 1 hour.	You feel like making cookies	Counts as a "regular food item" for obtaining the Taco Shell cosmetic.
	Corn	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.
	Crystal Ball	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.
	Energy Drink	1	Removes your entire rescue cooldown, but adds it to your next one.	Kill
	Feather	1	Guarantees a bird on your next rescue.	But steel is heavier than feathers	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Glasses	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.
	Joker	2	Releases a common animal of your choice and guarantees an animal of that type on your next rescue. Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 3 hours.	To me, he's just Normal Frog.	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Lure	2	Automatically rescues an animal, as soon as your current 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.
	Nazar	3	Weakens the effects of your curse.	Nope, no evil here!
	Paintbrush	1	Changes the embed color of your animal list, as well as most menus.	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.
	Pizza	2	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 2 hours.	ayo the pizza here	Counts as a "regular food item" for obtaining the Taco Shell cosmetic.
	Present	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.	When opening, there's a 3% chance you'll get a ultra rare present
	Safety Pin	3	Curses you for 5 days, but reduces the chance of your quest reward being a curse by 75%.	Safety is a myth anyways	“safeQuest” can only be viewed with the API Key equipped.
	Sailboat	1	Trades 3 of a common animal of your choice for one of whatever you want.	They don't seem to want your wheat or brick right now
	Scarf	1	Guarantees an arctic animal on your next rescue.	Sylish!	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Shiny Coin	3	Fully refills your amount of remaining shop purchases.	Shiny, yet deadly
	Spider Web	1	Guarantees a bug on your next rescue.	Look it up on the web	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Stopwatch	2	Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 15 times. (stackable)	Sub 6 rescues may be possible after all	The notification is only consumed when the message goes through.
	Sunglasses	2	Guarantees a pair of animals on your next rescue, but releases a random common animal.	Cool explosion not included	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Sushi	1	Guarantees an aquatic animal on your next rescue.	Fresh from the gas station	Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
	Wand	2	Exchanges a rare animal of your choice for 5 of its common variant.	skidaddle skidoodle
	Wild Card	1	Rerolls the server's stashed animal into a type of your choice.	It came free with your Xbox	Also includes your leader's favorite animals, or fluffy/predator/winged if your leader requires any of those to trigger

Item generation

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The specific instructions are:

• [1] - “how the item category gets picked when your luck is increased :Troll: / x% chance to remove guarantee items entirely / since they're all quality 1 / alternatively i can just add a super rare item to that category”
• [2] - “i simulated 1,000,000 item rolls to prove my point”

Group	Items	Base chance
Cooldown		20%
Notification		20%
Type guarantee		20%
Other	All other regular items	40%

Each regular item is assigned to a “group” (unofficially known as a “type”), which are weighted differently (see the table on the right). Some individual items are weighted further; for example, if the notification group was chosen, Calendar has a lower chance to appear than other notification items.

Regular items also have a quality between 1 and 4^{[citation needed]} assigned to them. “Good luck” increases the weight of quality 3 and 4 items; “bad luck” increases the weight of quality 1 and 2 items. Without any luck, all items have the same chance of being obtained, no matter the quality of the item.

Items with a quality of 3 or 4 appear with blue text in The Zoo Shop.

Upgraded Items

These items can be obtained by upgrading a regular item at The Mechanic, as well as from a few goal rewards.

Emoji	Name	Trades (Mechanic)	Description	Tooltip	Additional Notes
	Ace	⨯2 →⨯2 (6h)	Releases a common animal of your choice and guarantees it on your next rescue.	Not very attracted to the other cards.
	Backpack	⨯2 →⨯1 (10h)	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.
	Battery	⨯1 →⨯2 (6h) ⨯1 →⨯12 (12h) ⨯1 →⨯4 (6h) ⨯1 →⨯5 (8h)	Consumes 3 rescue notifications but automatically rescues your next animal. (stackable)	AA. AAA. AAAAAAAAAAAA-	The auto-rescue is only consumed when the message goes through.
	Blank Card	⨯2 →⨯1 (8h)	Allows you to pick the server's stashed animal from five random animals.	Admit the stash is useful or draw 25	Upon use, even if you don't choose an animal, the item will be consumed.
	Cake Slice	⨯1 →⨯12 (12h)	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 15 minutes.	nom	Can be eaten multiple times at once with $ nomnomnom.
	Canoe	⨯3 →⨯1 (8h)	Trades a common animal of your choice for 3 random ones.	Bad trade offers? Just travel somewhere else.
	Chains	⨯1 →⨯1 (8h)	Makes your curse incurable, but drastically increases rescue luck while you have it. Use at your own risk!	it's so dark.	Gives 4 luck if the curse is unweakened and 2 luck if the curse is weakened
	Cocktail	⨯1 →⨯1 (8h)	Halves the length of any cooldown-raising effects on your next rescue. (stackable)	Don't let the ESRB find this	Caps at x0.0625 (4 cocktails)
	Coupon	⨯1 →⨯2 (6h)	Generates a random (even) animal trade.	You're not hoarding these, right?	Upon use, If you do not make the trade in 60 seconds, it will still be consumed. Does not trigger Sack.
	Eyedropper	⨯2 →⨯1 (10h)	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!	Gives you 1 score
	Fixed Clock	⨯1 →⨯1 (12h)	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by a random time between 0 and 6 hours.	This one's right 720 times a day
	Fortune Cookie	⨯3 →⨯2 (8h)	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
	Goggles	⨯2 →⨯1 (6h)	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
	Green Tea	⨯2 →⨯5 (8h)	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
	Loot Box	⨯2 →⨯5 (14h)	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"	If you use it on a rare animal you already have the trophy of, the rewards will be bigger
	Lotus	⨯1 →⨯1 (8h)	Removes 3 of a common animal of your choice, but also removes your curse. Cannot be used on curses longer than 7 days.	😇
	Magic Mirror	⨯2 →⨯1 (8h)	Predetermines and reveals your exact next animal. Not consumed if a specific animal is already guaranteed.	Also makes for a convenient trip back home!
	Mystery Meat	⨯1 →⨯1 (6h)	Raises your current rescue cooldown by 5 hours, but gives you a random common animal.	Pretty damn good. Who knows what's in it?
	Needle	⨯1 →⨯2 (10h)	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.
	Pineapple	⨯2 →⨯4 (8h)	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 2 hours, but raises your next one by 1 hour.	Freshly picked from the pizza
	Pushpin	⨯1 →⨯1 (12h)	Guarantees a high number of animals/items from your current (or next) quest, but increases its length by 8 hours and prevents finding a relic.	I recognize that telephone pole, see you soon
	Rice Ball	⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯3 →⨯2 (8h) ⨯4 →⨯2 (6h)	Guarantees one of your leader's favorite animals on your next rescue.	These donuts are great!
	Screwdriver	⨯2 →⨯1 (12h)	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.
	Telescope	⨯2 →⨯1 (8h)	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!
	Unstable Wand	⨯1 →⨯1 (8h)	Exchanges a rare animal of your choice for 4-7 random common animals.	skibidi bop mm dada	Averages to 5.5 animals per use.

Secret upgraded items

These items can only be upgraded while the player has Mechanic Cap equipped.

Emoji	Name	Trades (Mechanic)	Description	Tooltip	Additional Notes
	Booster Cookie	⨯2 →⨯1 (12h)	Reduces ALL your active cooldowns by 1 hour.	You will not be able to earn Bits from this cookie.
	Cracked Mystery Egg	⨯1 →⨯1 (24h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (36h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (46h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (60h)	The egg has a crack in it! What could it mean? (cannot be used)	uh oh	This upgrade can only be completed once. After a Cracked Mystery Egg has been obtained, the button is not shown again.
	Egg	⨯1 →⨯1 (3h)	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 1 minute?	Just a regular old egg
	Omelette	Use Normal Egg while having Frying Pan equipped	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 90 minutes, doubled if the last item you used involved egg.	My knowledge of eggs is tremendously wide.	Reduced by an additional 22.5 minutes if you have Frying Pan equipped.
	Very Cracked Mystery Egg	⨯1 →⨯1 (24h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (36h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (46h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (60h)	It's about to hatch! What could it mean? (cannot be used)	you've committed to this. no stopping now.
	Hatched Mystery Egg	⨯1 →⨯1 (24h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (36h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (46h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (60h)	Wait a minute, this is just a regular egg painted orange! (cannot be used)	wait till murphy hears of this...
	Mystery Chick	⨯1 →⨯1 (24h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (36h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (46h) ⨯1 →⨯1 (60h)	Seems like a happy chick. You're free now!	don't you have a certain shiba to thank?	The whole upgrade process from a Golden Mystery Egg takes 168 hours (or a week) Using this gives you a single chick and the Decearing Egg.
	Rice Cracker	⨯4 →⨯2 (6h)	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.

Terminal items

These items can be obtained from various terminal commands.

Emoji	Name	Method of Obtaining	Description	Tooltip	Additional Notes
	Aetherium	$x$ Zoo Tokens™ → Aetherium x1 $x*5$ 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 $x$) Sell price is 97% of the actual price
	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.
	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.
	Blue Checkmark	8000 Zoo Tokens™ → Blue Checkmark x1	Verifies your profile for 24 hours. (stackable)	Also legalizes comedy!
	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!
	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.
	Zoo Token™	Generated passively from fused animals. Aetherium x1 → $x$ Zoo Tokens™ Aetherium x5 → $x*5$ 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.	Not counted towards total item count
	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.	Not counted towards total item count

Unobtainable items

These items are unobtainable through normal gameplay. They're instead given out manually by the game's developer.

Emoji	Name	Description	Tooltip	Additional Notes
	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.
	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.

Removed items

These items are no longer part of the game.

Emoji	Name	Description	Tooltip	Additional Notes
	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. Was re-added for the 2024 April Fools event.
	Heart	Reduces your current rescue cooldown by- actually no. (cannot be used)	'I'd call you heartless for buying an organ off a shady market, but...'	Added for the April Fools 2024 event. Obtainable by buying the item for 10 Aetherium. This item does not exist anymore. This item was originally in the 2022 April Fools event.
	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.
	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.