Favorite Places are the row of circular icons along the top of your window in Creatures 3 and Docking Station. These useful shortcuts are normally activated by visiting the area each one is linked to for the first time. Doing so causes a new Favorite Places icon to attach itself to your top row. Third party metarooms also often include their own Favorite Places icon, which can lead to quite a dilemma; the icons tend to extend off the screen or overlap. The currently active metaroom is shown with a glow within the matching icon; in the image below, Engineering is selected. The order of the Favorite Places Icons is dependent on the order in which the signposts which activate them are located.