Restore guest energy by giving visitors places to sit, transport rides they can use, and suitable food or drink items. Energy naturally falls during a visit; 100% means a guest is fully energised. A low reading calls for a useful recovery option along that guest's route, rather than a zoo-wide rebuild.
The Planet Zoo 2 guest guide confirms these recovery methods. It does not publish a universal bench spacing, an energy-per-minute formula or a drink that every guest must buy. Use the need reading and the visitor's actual behaviour to choose the next change.
Find the tired visitors before adding facilities
Open Zoo Management → Guests and review the needs statistics. Then inspect a visitor in a struggling area: the guest's Info Panel includes thoughts about their visit. The management screen also groups common thoughts and shows whether topics are getting better or worse.
Keep Energy separate from Hunger, Thirst, Toilet Need and Education. They all contribute to the visit, but a full hunger bar is not a measurement of recovered energy. Likewise, an unhappy guest may have a different unmet need even when a nearby bench is working.
Use the heatmaps and guest feedback to locate the weak area. If the problem is concentrated on a distant branch, improve that branch first. Repeating the same placement across the whole park makes it harder to see which change helped.
Choose a recovery method that fits the route
| Recovery method | Useful starting situation | Condition to check |
|---|---|---|
| Bench | Visitors need a place to pause along a walking route | Place it on a path so guests can sit and recover energy |
| Transport ride | Visitors travel between distant attractions | A useful destination, power and correct station connections |
| Some food or drink items | Visitors also need refreshments | The item must actually suit their needs; not every purchase is an energy refill |
| Guided-tour intermission | Visitors are tiring during a planned tour | Set an intermission and provide access to facilities and rest |
These are alternatives, not a requirement to build all four. A bench can address a local pause without committing to a transport network. A long route between attractions may justify a ride that also reduces walking.
Put benches on the path guests use
The building guide explicitly describes a bench placed on a path as a place where guests can regain energy. Start with that supported placement rather than assuming a bench elsewhere in the scenery is accessible.
- Find the path used by visitors with low energy.
- Place a bench on that path.
- Watch whether visitors reach and use it, then revisit the guest need readings.
- Add another recovery point where the route still has a problem.
Treat this as a placement-and-review process. The official instructions do not give a fixed interval between benches or promise that every tired visitor will immediately sit down.
Picnic benches let guests rest and eat. Restaurant operation has additional conditions: it needs power, a vendor and connected tables. Adding seating alone does not establish that a restaurant is functioning.
Make a transport ride useful before relying on it
Guests use a transport ride when another station is near a point of interest they want to visit. A station beside a path is therefore not enough on its own: the route needs to connect places visitors actually want to reach.
For an operating ride, check these connections:
- Power reaches the ride.
- Every station entrance has a queue path.
- Every station exit joins a path.
- The track has been tested and the ride opened.
Guests cannot use a ride without its queue connection. A queue is for reaching the ride; it is not a substitute for an ordinary route through the zoo. If guests are queueing unhappily, inspect the service before adding more stations or extending the track.
Transport can replenish energy and provide animal views, but it is an optional infrastructure choice. Compare the route you need with the space and facilities it adds. No fixed ridership or energy gain is assumed here.
Check refreshments and tours without mixing up needs
Some food and drink items restore energy, while food and drink services also address hunger and thirst. Offer a suitable choice rather than assuming one named product is a universal solution. Guests can have dietary requirements that prevent them buying items with certain ingredients.
For guided tours, use an Intermission activity at a Tour Point when visitors need a break. Give that stop access to facilities and somewhere to rest. Frontier also recommends reducing travel time between tour points when improving the tour layout.
After changing the route, review both needs and common thoughts again. If energy improves but guests remain unhappy, continue with the specific complaint instead of adding more energy facilities indefinitely.