Welcome to the guide on how to unlock all animals in Terra Nil! Reintroducing fauna is a crucial part of rehabilitating the environment in this game, and each biome has its own collection of unlockable animals with specific requirements for discovery.
While the game provides hints in the Handbook under the animals tab, it doesn’t outright tell you what these requirements are. In this guide, we’ve compiled all the information you need to discover every animal in each biome, including their discovery requirements, so you can complete your mission of reclaiming the wastes and restoring the ecosystem to its former glory. So let’s get started!
Terra Nil – All Animals:
Here are the specific requirements for each animal in each biome:
Temperate Biome:
- Deer: In range of at least 20 greenery tiles.
- Frog: In range of at least 10 Wetland tiles and at least 5 Fynbos tiles.
- Bear: In range of at least 20 forest tiles, on a hill of at least 20 tiles, and in range of a beehive.
- Goose: Make a lake with a 4×4 tile radius.
- Beaver: In range of at least 20 river tiles and at least 10 forest tiles.
- Timber Wolf: In range of at least 15 forest tiles and in range of a group of Deer (must scan for and discover Deer near a forest first).
Tropical Biome:
- Reef Shark:
- In range of 4 mangrove tiles.
- In range of 16 Coral reef tiles.
- Temperature must be at 20 Celsius or higher.
- Whale:
- In range of 20 ocean tiles.
- In range of 10 deep ocean tiles (usually at a corner of the map).
- No land in range.
- Parrot:
- In range of 20 tropical forest tiles.
- No buildings in range (scan after recycling buildings in forest).
- Manta ray:
- In range of 8 ocean tiles.
- In range of 6 Coral reef tiles.
- In range of 3 river tiles.
- Tortoise:
- In range of 10 Beach tiles.
- On a small island (can be built using Sandbank).
- Flamingo:
- In range of 10 Beach tiles.
- In range of 10 wetland tiles (not mangrove tiles).
Polar Biome:
- Snowy Owl:
- In range of 10 forest tiles.
- In range of 10 tundra tiles.
- Narwhal:
- In range of 20 ocean tiles.
- In range of 4 ice sheet tiles.
- Temperature must be at least -10 Celsius so glaciers will form.
- Penguin:
- In range of 16 ice sheet tiles.
- In range of 10 ocean tiles.
- Arctic Fox:
- In range of 10 snow tiles.
- In range of 5 tundra tiles.
- Elk:
- In range of 6 lichen tiles (not moss on rocks).
- In range of 20 snow tiles.
- Polar Bear:
- In range of 6 ocean tiles.
- In range of 16 snow tiles.
- Near Elk.
- Rocks need to meet the ocean or be very close. Have lichen on rocks, scan for Elk to populate Elk, and place a Flash Freezer to create snow around the rocks. Use a Rock Hopper if need be to place a second flash freezer.
Continental Biome:
- Turtle:
- In range of 20 lagoon tiles.
- Peacock:
- In range of 24 greenery tiles.
- Panda:
- In range of 20 bamboo tiles.
- In range of 6 greenery tiles.
- Boar:
- In range of 8 greenery tiles.
- In range of 12 deciduous forest tiles.
- Sea Otter:
- In range of 12 ocean tiles.
- In range of 12 kelp forest tiles.
- Eagle:
- In range of 6 derelict skyscraper tiles.
- In range of group of boar (must scan to find boar first).
Now that you know the requirements for each animal, here are the steps you can follow to unlock all animals in Terra Nil:
- Reach the third stage of biome rehabilitation after you’ve regrown all of a map’s various ecosystems and built certain structures.
- Build a scanner anywhere on the map.
- Click the arrow under the animal footprint that appears in the top left corner of the screen.
- Click each animal portrait to see its unlock requirements.
- Click the orange circle just below the portraits to the right, and highlight an area of the map to scan for them in that area.
- Scan multiple tiles across several biomes at the same time.
- Depending on the requirements, you may need to create or manipulate specific ecosystems, such as building lakes, hills, or small islands.
- Keep scanning and checking the Handbook to see if you’ve met the requirements for each animal.
- Once you’ve met the requirements for an animal, it will be unlocked and added to your Handbook.
- Repeat the process for all animals in each biome until you’ve unlocked them all.
It’s worth noting that some animals may not be able to be unlocked on a single map due to the requirements and tile sizes of ecosystems. In such cases, you may need to start a new map and try again.
With these steps and the requirements listed above, you should now be able to unlock all animals in Terra Nil and contribute to the rehabilitation of the wasteland.
Check out this guide here to find out How To Unlock All Achievements in Terra Nil.
