Dream Zoo codes and tips

UPDATE 5/13/13:

Zynga is discontinuing this game. Apparently, the company downsized and the game presented too many bugs to be worth fixing. Which is a huge shame, because by all accounts they won’t be refunding anyone their money (even people who have invested in the game in the past few weeks). My game stopped loading last week, and so I deleted it off my phone.

Dream Zoo has become my proxy for my desire to have lots of pets. I still have Bandit and Jacoby, but somehow taking care of a virtual zoo makes more sense right now for me.

One of the tricks to Dream Zoo (not surprisingly) is having lots of neighbors to visit. And there are codes here and there, but I thought I’d make a place dedicated to posting Dream Zoo codes to help other players. Feel free to comment and add your own code. Tips are also appreciated from players who have figured out a strategy that works.

Here are my tips:

1. Have a few rhinos and sequester them in their own areas, each set off by paths or just open space. Give each rhino 5 sections of 60% open grassland touching each other. Your champion coins will go from 15K to 53K for each rhino. These are your treasure chests. If you start from a common rhino and breed your way up, you’ll get paid every 12 hours. If you start from rare, you’ll get paid every 15 hours. I recommend starting from common. Having a few extra rhinos makes a few expansions worth the cost.

2. If you’re feeling like you want even more coins from your plains animals, you can move them to the rhino grassy areas (and move the rhinos out each time), cash in, and move the rhinos back. As long as an animal is within a certain environment at payout time, you’ll get that payout. That is, if you move a rhino back just before you cash him out, he’ll still get the 53K.

3. I can’t stress this enough — have a nursery area right by your dock. Put any babies in these sections. Visitors can see them right away and help speed up your babies. Not everyone plays on an iPad — Dream Zoo is very flaky and crashes A LOT on Droids, and I think lots of Droid players just play whatever hearts and coins they can at the dock and then move on, for fear of the app crashing when they explore a zoo. You can have 2 or 3 nursery areas (I have 2, but recommend 3). Have each one set off by paths to give them a little boost at payout time (or move the expecting animals back to their sections, where you undoubtedly have a few booster areas for them). You’ll need them separate from the surrounding sections anyway, probably plains or winter, and why not add a few percentage points payout with a couple of dirt paths, which cost only 100 coins?

3a. The Move tool is your friend. Use it frequently to increase coin payout and move expecting families to the dock nursery area.

4. Put plains animals next to the nursery area and keep them there so that your neighbors can get in and out quickly if they want to. Plains animals are almost always dirty. Next common dirty animals, in my experience, are koalas and puffins. Washing and feeding plains animals isn’t lucrative, but does get a quick heart (if they are placed near the dock). Exploring for more exotic dirty animals takes time and the risk of DZ crashing, but it gets you more coin if you’re looking for both coins and hearts on your travels.

5. Never pass up a dirty or hungry rhino. Every now and then when you’re visiting a neighbor, you’ll get lucky by finding one. Clean him, feed him. They give lots of coins.

6. Speed up babies when you’re visiting other zoos. It does not give you any coins, but it can make you a favorite neighbor and get your own babies sped up. This is especially important in underwater zoos.

7. Underwater Zoos are expensive. A few initial animals cost a reasonable amount of coin, but it won’t be long until you’re spending 60,000 coins per safari (and, of course, they don’t come with guarantees that you’ll get the animal and rarity that you want). If your zoo grade matters to you and you’re trying to maintain an A, for instance, get ready to pay out a LOT of money for your underwater zoo. Some of my neighbors are on level 60 and don’t even have an underwater zoo because they are just focusing on their animal park. Not a bad strategy. I have an underwater zoo, but my grade is currently a B- and I’m trying to boost it with every coin, heart and stork I get and it’s taking a LONG time to budge.

8. Underwater Zoo babies take a long time to deliver. Again, I suggest having a nursery area right by the landing area so that your neighbors can help you out as easily as possible.

9. Similar to my tip about keeping plains animals close to the dock, keep manta rays and sharks next to your landing area for your underwater zoo.

10. When you have 2 storks, save all your cash (Zoo Bucks, whatever) for a 3rd stork.

Here are the Zoo codes I’ve found. Sorry if not all of them work…some zoos may be abandoned, etc. Feel free to add your own in the comments. I’ll start with my own code. The rest are alphabetical, to avoid duplication on my part.

BGMRGVA

BAFOVZD

BAGPBOA

BALPSGR

BASBLPB

BBGGSWT

BBGMRPU

BCZPKBO

BDCTZWD

BDJRQOX

BDQFNXJ

BDUYOUV

BDWADKD

BEBZZAK

BEEMMFL

BEOZEYM

BEPKJOQ

BEYUIYW

BFVNXRS

BGJYEXQ

BGKLJCI

BGVBIRT

BHHAQLR

BHIHPNP

BISDACX

BJIFJPV

BJTKKYE

BKBVPHI

BKLNBMY

BKZOSOR

BLGRETX

BLQTHYA

BLVLYPF

BMITZKL

BMNSFJX

BMYRFXL

BOOAPMP

BOWHSQI

BOXDVPX

BOZLPZM

BRAVXMC

BRBFEIG

BRITTITS

BSEGUFD

BSLTLXP

BSRGUFD

BTDGPSU

BTPWNXL

BUCFOFJ

BUHNLCN

BULHDGY

BUOBMEM

BUOCSJY

BVNOYZB

BWJVOR

BWPWMPO

BWUIPXK

BWUYUKB

BWYXLMU

BXBSREB

BXDJIVZ

BXLHWUN

BXUFZFI

BXUOHJL

BXYAASM

BUFCATL

BZTIGDW

CANXVRZ

CAROSOE

CAUNXAI

CCEXAOP

CCGTJQS

CCJCOCF

CCONSAJ

CCOQMDN

CCPFLML

CDAOSCL

CDATTQJ

CDGCOLD

CDZFCZY

CECLVOW

CEUBZOJ

CEUJZBI

CEVUYGU

CFMHOVM

CFMWWHI

CFZREQT

CGBDLPH

CGMTUYL

CHXOLRU

CIAOEOD

CIEZZTE

CIUFENP

CIUYZUC

CIYYCXU

CIZJSJR

CIZOEUB

CJDAKKE

CJLENHF

CJQNRBK

CJRXVZJ

CLCVYYL

CLKWAUZ

CKGZRCY

CKQWLPU

CLRQLAN

CMBRQUO

CMEZPLV

CNBWTBR

CNBYMSE

CNJPZDQ

COCHREV

COEHYVD

CORTNFX

CPIKULX

CPFYNWR

CQIHYCB

CQIIOAI

CQQGRIP

CQTPGYU

CQYUBTM

CQZWOIX

CRFYUBE

CROCOOK

CROIQTP

CRTPLVV

CSKLRCK

CSLXDDN

CUIOJZB

CUQLNQE

CVCVEOO

CWQVYHY

CWXNQBU

CWHTPSO

CWWSAEJ

CXEYTTW

CXQJFRP

CXRQDZI

CZGLTYJ

CZKJZNC

CZOLELA

CZWAEED

CZWDVNN

DAJYZXV

DAUDJYE

DAVHYPH

DAVISWT

DBOPHJE

DBQCCYQ

DBVWCFE

DBXTPZM

DCCQNLM

DCLQILH

DCNMXYR

DCOOTGN

DCRPBSQ

DCTQBHN

DDFSDPE

DDMNUJD

DDUWMVN

DEKSZXU

DESLCSV

JLBOIT

JNFXDP

JNNTUN

JPYJST

KAVAZH

KNFZLT

KYGDMM

LBPCQI

LDEPDI

LEHBCP

LIVDJL

MKIEBE

MPWAPL

NGYVAB

NCALJI

NTKTUL

NUVLPO

NXBTVJ

OSUOND

PGQNAR

PUSTAX

QLCDZC

QSACLK

SEQATG

SFXNIT

SMRKJX

SQWCOU

SUUNVT

SXWDJP

TBGVUB

TBXRRK

TNNFUY

TRUDWD

UBZQBA

UCAYYI

UFDPMI

UJXVIR

UMZHHG

UNHJGS

VFXZMWW

VGMWAP

VHYJLY

VWFTUB

WCHADH

WJBHNU

WNBUEJ

XDGUWC

XTBSNE

YPXCAR

YUOYCC

ZBFOHU

ZCRAKR

ZDGETE