The Comprehensive Zoo

Overview

The Comprehensive Zoo is exactly what its name claims: an ongoing project to collect and house every mob in the world, hostile and passive alike, in enclosures built to match their native environments. It is the longest-running preservation project in The Forgelands and may never be formally finished, which is considered acceptable.

Purpose

The Zoo serves as both an exhibition and a working reference. Each enclosure documents a creature's natural habitat, behavior, and place in the world. The passive wing doubles as breeding stock for the agricultural district, and the hostile wing, built with significantly more deepslate, serves as a standing reminder of what the night used to mean before walls and light.

Current Status

Eleven enclosures are complete, including the savanna paddocks, the frog wetland, and the axolotl grotto, which required three separate cave expeditions to populate. The hostile wing currently holds zombies, skeletons, and a single creeper behind double-layered glass. Transport logistics for larger and stranger creatures are still being solved.

Field Notes

Every enclosure follows the same rule: the animal's needs first, the viewer's sightlines second. Boat-and-rail transport chains have been mapped for the next acquisitions.

The goat arrived by accident. It rammed Andy off a cliff near Cherry Mountain, survived the retaliatory capture attempt, and now occupies the largest enclosure in the Zoo. Staff consider this fair.