Items are a type of consumable found in Zoo. They can be obtained through various methods, such as an uncommon bonus reward from rescuing, or from quests.

Each item is assigned a quality value from 1-4 based on its rarity and usefulness. Higher-end, quality 3 or 4 items are highlighted in blue in any textboxes they appear.

Every (non-upgraded) item can be upgraded by the Mechanic into more powerful items. In most scenarios, they are better than their non-upgraded counterpart, but for others they may just have the reverse or a similar effect to the original concept.

Non-upgraded items

These items can be obtained from rescuing or as quest rewards, as well as in some miscellaneous other ways.

Item Quality/Rarity Type Description (in-game) Tooltip Additional Notes
🎱 8 Ball 3 Other Rerolls your curse into a different one. 'Fun to play with, not to eat'
⏰ Alarm clock 1 Notification Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 6 times. (stackable) ‘7 AM and I go back to sleep’ The notification is only consumed when the message goes through.
🥎 Ball 1 Guarantee Guarantees a pet on your next rescue. 'They give ball players nowadays very peculiar names’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🎍Bamboo 1 Guarantee Guarantees a jungle animal on your next rescue. None Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🦴 Bone 2 Sacrifice Reduces your current rescue cooldown by 5 hours, but releases a random common animal. ‘You’ve cut this story down to the bone’
🕛 Broken Clock 3 Cooldown Sets your current rescue cooldown to a random time between 0 and 8 hours. 'It's still right twice a day’ Can only be used if your rescue cooldown is less than or equal to 8 hours
🎂 Cake 3 Cooldown Reduces your rescue cooldown by 6 hours! ’I don’t believe in salads’ Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic.
🗓 Calendar 4 Notification Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 31 times. (stackable) ‘There’s 104 days of summer vacation’ The notification is only consumed when the message goes through.
☕ Coffee 2 Cooldown Reduces your rescue cooldown by 4 hours. ‘Double Double’ Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic.
🧭 Compass 4 Other Reduces your remaining quest duration by your current rescue cooldown, then doubles your rescue cooldown. ‘East? I thought you said weast!’
📜 Contract 4 Other Gives you 3 more of any common animal you own, then curses you for 4-8 days. ‘FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!’
🍪 Cookie 1 Cooldown Reduces your rescue cooldown by 1 hour. ‘You feel like making cookies’ Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic.
🌽 Corn 1 Guarantee Guarantees a farm animal on your next rescue. ‘Come down today and try some corn’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🔮 Crystal ball 1 Guarantee Predetermines and reveals the type of your next animal. Not consumed if a type is already guaranteed. ‘I’ve seen the future, Bob’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
Energy Drink 1 Other Removes your entire rescue cooldown, but adds it to your next one. ’Kill’ If you have no rescue cooldown, instead reduces the next one by 1 minute. (This effect is still programmed but is now impossible to get because of changes to the way item usage works)
🪶 Feather 1 Guarantee Guarantees a bird on your next rescue. 'But steel is heavier than feathers’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
👓 Glasses 2 Sacrifice Guarantees a pair of animals on your next rescue, but raises your current rescue cooldown by 4 hours. ‘🤓’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🃏 Joker 2 Sacrifice Releases a common animal of your choice and guarantees an animal of that type on your next rescue. Reduces your rescue cooldown by 3 hours.” ‘Hello, Little Caesars? Five orders of NORMAL bread please.’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🪝 Lure 2 Notification Automatically rescues an animal, as soon as your rescue cooldown expires. (stackable) Told my wife I was going to the bank. I never said which one.’ The auto-rescue is only consumed when the message goes through.
🧿 Nazar 3 Other Weakens the effects of your curse. 'Nope, no evil here!’
🖌 Paintbrush 1 Other Changes the embed color when viewing your animals oritems. 'We'll have 'em run all the colors across the screen that you need to paint along with us’ Typing “rainbow” into the prompt unlocks Disco Ball.
🍕 Pizza 2 Cooldown Reduces your rescue cooldown by 2 hours. ‘ayo the pizza here’ Consuming 100 hours worth of cooldown-reduction items grants you the Taco Shell cosmetic.
🎁 Present 1 Other Gift this to another member to give them some free stuff! None of your animals or items will be lost. ‘That’s ridiculous! You can’t put animals in a box.’
🧷 Safety Pin 3 Other Curses you for 7 days, but reduces the chance of your quest reward being a curse by 75%. ‘safety is merely an illusion’ “safeQuest” can only be viewed with the API Key equipped.
⛵️ Sailboat 1 Sacrifice Trades 3 of a common animal of your choice for one of whatever you want. 'I'll let you use my port for two wood, final offer’
🧣 Scarf 1 Guarantee Guarantees an arctic animal on your next rescue. None Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🪙 Shiny Coin 3 Other Fully refills your amount of remaining shop purchases. 'Shiny, yet deadly coins’
🕸 Spider Web 1 Guarantee Guarantees a bug on your next rescue. None Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
⏱️ Stopwatch 2 Notification Sends a DM when you're able to rescue an animal. Works 15 times. (stackable) ’Sub 30 will never happen’ The notification is only consumed when the message goes through.
🕶 Sunglasses 2 Sacrifice Guarantees a pair of animals on your next rescue, but releases 'The boys will be jealous and the girls will be surprised’ Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🍣 Sushi 1 Guarantee Guarantees an aquatic animal on your next rescue. 'Fresh from the gas station' Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped.
🪄 Wand 2 Other Exchanges a rare animal of your choice for 5 of its common variant 'skidaddle skidoodle’
Wild Card 1 Other Rerolls the server's stashed animal into a type of your choice. ‘It came free with your Xbox’

These are items obtained from the Mechanic. This can be done by visiting the Mechanic directly, or (if equipped) directly from the items’ use menu.

Upgraded items

Item Quality/Rarity Type Description (in-game) Tooltip Additional Notes
Ace 3 Sacrifice Releases a common animal of your choice and guarantees it on the next rescue. 'Not very attracted to the other cards.’
🎒 Backpack Other Guarantees the best outcome for all luck-based effects on your next rescue. (not including pairs or items) ‘Mon sac à dos est gros’ Quote translates to “my backpack is big.”
🔋 Battery 2 Notification Consumes 3 rescue notifications but automatically rescues your next animal. (stackable) The auto-rescue is only consumed when the message goes through.
Blank Card 3 Other Allows you to pick the server's stashed animal from five random animals.
🍰 Cake Slice 1 Cooldown Reduces your rescue cooldown by 15 minutes.
🛶 Canoe 4 Sacrifice Trades a common animal of your choice for 3 random ones.
⛓️ Chains Other Makes your curse incurable, but drastically increases rescue luck while you have it. Use at your own risk! ‘Embrace darkness.’ Chains give a luck bonus of 4, whereas a weakened Shackled Curse’s luck bonus is 2.
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Luck is reduced by 1 if the current Luck is greater than or equal to 2. | | 🍹 Cocktail | 4 | Other | Halves the length of any cooldown-raising effects on your next rescue. (stackable) | | | | 🎟 Coupon | 3 | Other | Generates a random (even) animal trade. | | Does not trigger Sack | | Eyedropper | 4 | Other | Copies one animal from a member of your choice, weighted based on their animal count. Sets your embed color to their color. | 'Blue! …No, yell- AAAAAA!’ | | | 🕓 Fixed Clock | 3 | Cooldown | Reduces your current rescue cooldown by a random time between 0 and 6 hours. | 'The time has come’ | | | 🥠 Fortune Cookie | 3 | Cooldown | Reduces your rescue cooldown by 1 hour and increases luck on the next rescue up to 5 times. | ‘You will use a battering ram to violate your son's privacy’ | | | 🥽 Goggles | | Sacrifice | Raises your next rescue cooldown by 4 hours, but all effects applied to that rescue will also apply to the one after that.(stackable) | | | | 🍵 Green Tea | 2 | Cooldown | Grants a 70% chance to decrease your rescue cooldown by 2 hours, otherwise raises it by 1 hour. | | | | Loot Box | 4 | Other | Exchanges 10 of the same rare animal for loads of animals and items, as well as that rare animal’s trophy | 'Actually, we look at it as "surprise mechanics” | You get slightly more stuff if you already have the trophy to make up for it. | | Lotus | 4 | Sacrifice | Removes 3 of a common animal of your choice, but also removes your curse. Cannot be used on curses longer than 7 days. | | | | 🪞 Magic Mirror | 2 | Guarantee | Predetermines and reveals your exact next animal. Not consumed if an animal is already guaranteed. | ‘And you’ll pay any price to decide your future’ | Can only view “guaranteed Luck” with the API Key equipped. | | 🍖 Mystery Meat | | Sacrifice | Raises your current rescue cooldown by 5 hours, but gives you a random common animal. | 'Pretty damn good’ | An item with a “simple” effect because Colon was getting sentimental over old zoo | | 🪡 Needle | 2 | Other | Removes 2 days from your curse, but unweakens it. Cannot decrease your curse below 12 remaining hours. | | | | 🍍 Pineapple | 1 | Cooldown | Reduces your rescue cooldown by 2 hours, but raises your next one by 1 hour. | | | | 📍 Pushpin | | Other | Guarantees the highest number of animals/items from your current (or next) quest, but increases its length by 12 hours and prevents finding a relic. | | | | 🍙 Rice Ball | 1 | Guarantee | Guarantees one of your leader's favorite animals on your next rescue. | 'These donuts are great!’ | Cannot be used without a leader leading. | | 🔭 Telescope | 4 | Other | Increases the length of your quest by 24 hours, but slightly raises relic chance and guarantees 1 extra item/animal/curse day. (stackable) | 'I can see Uranus from here!’ | Adds 1 to the “quality” of your quest. This can be infinitely stacked for infinite items from a single quest. | | Unstable Wand | 2 | Sacrifice | Exchanges a rare animal of your choice for 4-7 random common animals. | 'skibidi bop mm dada’ | |

The Token Shop Items

These items can only be obtained through The Token Shop or Fusion.

Price (Zoo Token™) Description Tooltip Additional Notes
Aetherium Varies A decentralized currency that fluctuates in value. Pray it doesn’t crash! (cannot be used) Profitable?
Base Mystery Egg 1000 Hatches into an NFB of a random common animal. Every non-functional beast is unique. Please do not screenshot.
🥚 Blank Mystery Egg 2500 Hatches into an NFB of an animal of your choice. The animal will be (painlessly) consumed. Animals are often more of a liability than an asset unless you can make it cash flow or you are flipping
Blue Checkmark 8000 Verifies your profile for 24 hours. (stackable) Also legalizes comedy!
Browser Cookie 750 Reduces your current fusion cooldown by 3 rescues. (once per fusion) Accept for the best Zoo experience!
Golden Mystery Egg 5000 Hatches into an NFB of a random rare animal. I’ll have you know that the foxchain doesn’t lie. I own it. Even if you save it, it’s my property. You are mad that you don’t own the art that I own.
Zoo Token™ Varies Some kind of crude digital token. Generated passively by fused animals. (cannot be used) You might make a lot of money, you might make no money at all. But like it’s gonna be fun.

Unobtainable “joke” items

These items exist only for historical reasons. They cannot be obtained anymore.

Item Description (in-game) Tooltip Additional Notes
Animal Spirit The spirit of an animal that accidentally abandoned your zoo and ascended to a higher plane of existence. Don't worry, we found a replacement. (cannot be used) 'Oh whoops, whoopsie!' Could be obtained twice: