Rodeo Stampede guide to running a better zoo

Posted by Nick Tylwalk on June 24th, 2016
+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

In Rodeo Stampede, honing your skills so you can jump from animal to animal and outrun the herd as long as possible is only half the fun. Once you've tamed a few animals, you can bring them home with you.

To live in your floating zoo in the sky, of course! We're not even making that up.


Compared to the actual stampeding part of the game, building up your zoo is a lot less hectic. Since guests only arrive every few hours once you've been playing a bit, there's plenty of time to plan what you're going to do next. Read through our Rodeo Stampede guide to running a better zoo and you'll be making some extra coin and aiding your rodeo game at the same time.

Each kind of animal needs a habitat

While there are many kinds of animals you'll encounter out on the Savannah (and later, in the Jungle as well), they don't all live together in your zoo. Each general kind of animal requires a separate habitat. For example, all ostriches live together, all elephants share one habitat, and so on.

Animals, especially rare ones, produce more coins when visitors arrive, but you earn nothing if they don't have the basic habitat finished first. That said, you should prioritize building a new habitat over upgrading an existing one when you don't have enough coins to do both.

The joy of upgrades

Once a habitat is in place, it will hold all of the different variations of that type of animal. The next step is to upgrade them, which can be done a total of eight teams for each habitat.

Upgrades are reflected by visual improvements to the habitat on the game screen, but they serve a functional purpose as well. Each new upgrade allows you to earn some kind of bonus for that animal in the stampede, and you can look at what you've earned and what's coming up by tapping on the 'level' button within the habitat information panel.

Double your profits with video

Rodeo Stampede only allows you to open the gates of your zoo to the public every few hours. Before the customers arrive, you'll see a quick summary on how much money it costs each family -- based on how many rare animals you have, plus any bonuses supplied by upgrades -- as well as how many families are coming.

Thanks to the power of Marketing (said in a heroic voice, no doubt), you can double the amount of coins you earn doing some zoo hours simply by tapping on the 'play' button that pops up and watching a video. If you've got the 30 seconds to spare, it's not a bad idea.

More zoo tips

Some additional tips about the zoo you might find helpful:

  • When you have enough coins to upgrade a particular habitat, you can tell at a glance by an arrow icon that appears in its upper-left corner.
  • You can use the zoo to choose which animal you want to ride at the beginning of a stampede run. Simply tap on the correct habitat and then the 'Ride' button and you'll see that poor thing get shot out of the cannon right along with you.
  • It's worth checking in on your zoo when visitors are aboard, because they have a tendency to drop coins as they go. Simply tap on them to earn some extra virtual dough.
  • Confused about how to complete certain stampede missions? Upgrades are probably the answer. For example, some missions ask you to smash other animals while riding a buffalo, which you normally can't do. However the Level 2 buffalo upgrade makes them charge forward and smash things right when you land on them, which is exactly what you need.

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