10 Things Nintendo REMOVED (Since Launch) - Animal Crossing New Horizons

We've had many updates and patches since Animal Crossing: New Horizons first launched in March 2020. Most of these patches introduced new content, however sometimes Nintendo has removed certain features from the game too.
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0:00 - Removed Features
0:46 - Hybrid Flower Islands
2:18 - Removed Dialogue
5:50 - Nature Day
7:34 - Museum Upgrade
10:47 - Fourth Level
13:18 - Dock Fences
14:41 - Star Trees
16:34 - Cataloging Posters
18:18 - Trees on Paths
18:58 - Extra Interest
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[@fiercedeitymidna5781]

I hate how they removed Redd's first visit, since it serves as a proper introduction to him and his shop. Now it's just "Redd randomly shows up with no explanation to sell you haunted art".

[@melaniesmall6330]

I was playing earlier today (on 2.0.6) and I got the brown version of the museum and the meeting redd event. It could be that this is the first save on this switch? but i don't know why it would only be available on some saves

[@angrybidoof847]

To be fair, that pretty much how he works in every other game

[@fiercedeitymidna5781]

@@angrybidoof847 In the past games, there was always some form of introduction to Redd. In ACPG, Copper would warn you to be on the lookout for a suspicious tent, while ACWW, ACCF, and ACNL had the residents tell you about Redd's shop.

[@mimikyu2008]

I just reset my island recently and u still meet him wandering around!!

[@Kysdoogle]

for me redd never and still hasn't shown up on my island I played since launch until mid 2022 time but not much anymore but i might see if i have the art gallery open now that they've removed having to meet redd

[@goober112]

The amiibos saying "nah man I'm busy I can't come visit." Was way better than an error message.

[@fiercedeitymidna5781]

Didn't Tom Nook have a message telling the player to just talk to him directly instead of on the amiibo phone?

[@LeoOfficial0]

I remember that. When I got my first amiibo cards I was so sad when I saw isabell couldn't come there

[@xayners]

We can thank Verlisify for the removal of star trees. He literally made streams of hunting people down in the dream world and reporting their islands just for having star trees. I guarantee he's the reason we don't have them anymore and it's just gross behavior to be honest. The star trees did nothing but make people's islands pretty and I'm sure if you really wanted some on your island, you could find someone to get them for you. He's a brown-nose stickler and if anybody is hacking anything, even if it's in a single player game where it really doesn't matter if you hacked your game or not, he'll tattle to Nintendo and annoy the crap out of them until they fix it so he'll shut up about it.

[@faimynth6030]

Get angry about hacking in a single player game is genuinely wild imagine having nothing better to do

[@albedoughs]

and then there’s me, a poor student who can’t afford to get a switch and the games so i’m using an emulator and just started playing a ton of switch games incl acnh :) he’d hate me MWAHAHAHA

[@mxcksrealm]

yeah, i remember that. it was disgusting, i left a comment taunting him about how miserable he must be hunting down people in a single player game they paid over half a hundred bucks for.

[@luckypikachu4892]

Animal Crossing fans🤝Pokémon fans Hating Verlisify

[@faimynth6030]

@@luckypikachu4892 oh man what did he do in the pokemon side of things?

[@classicforreal]

>Nintendo doesn't update game in over a year >game is dead >randomly Lego thinks this is the time to introduce ACNH sets

[@franknova987]

Doesn't help that the team that makes AC games are the team that makes Splatoon so, thry have all their staff working there instead of dividing themselves

[@Bane_Amesta]

I would think that's more about Nintendo being stubborn as hell like they're always are

[@razrv3lc]

@@Bane_AmestaNintendo is such a drag. It literally feels like everything they touch is held back by them.

[@colamanodoy4775]

Its just stupid to take away existing features that are not bugs when you will never give new updates, its just decreasing the values for what people already paid, no excuses

[@vsprsgdby]

Imagine charging 60 bucks plus more for the DLC and membership for a game that’s 100% centered on customization… only to remove players’ favorite customization options

[@ZentaWinds]

Sounds about right

[@lythsetty]

they really destroyed the feeling of animal crossing it’s crazy. it just became a decorating game when it used to feel like a town you could live in virtually

[@mac8124]

yeah it feels like an empty husk with an animal crossing skin slapped on it

[@1stCallipostle]

Unfortunately in the shallow modern era, people want to make a pretty shadowbox they can post online moreso than have any real experiences

[@MiguelFrancisco997]

I am starting a new village in Wild World today. :)

[@maybeamoth]

Honestly i think they could have made star trees work, like on the night of heavy shooting stars or something instead of a gold spot make it white or a light blue, and only that night you can plant a single star tree, so it's not too over powered but it's still available

[@fiercedeitymidna5781]

It could have been the same as the money tress, only having one harvest then becoming a regular tree afterwards.

[@maybeamoth]

@@fiercedeitymidna5781 yeah that would have worked really well

[@KittenFables]

As far as I was aware, the reason the Museum Upgrade/Redd Visit was changed was because you could potentially lock yourself out of progress! When you get your first piece of art from Redd, if you for some reason don't donate it (sell it, gift it, or so on...), Redd doesn't return and you lock yourself out of upgrading your museum unless you know someone who can gift you a genuine piece of art to donate. Personally, I feel like they just could have fixed this by "locking" that first artwork to your inventory or something instead of changing the whole process, though :(

[@amandaslough125]

That just tells me they really weren't thinking clearly in the programming stage.

[@mxcksrealm]

@@amandaslough125 they usually don't think anymore, look at the mess that is splatoon 3 lol

[@amandaslough125]

@@mxcksrealm well that's the same AC team. Who were struggling _before_ covid came.

[@SparkleWolf404]

Villagers can actually sell you art, it's random if it's genuine though but it IS a way to free yourself from the "lock" without the aid of another player

[@yourehereforthatarentyou]

@@mxcksrealmwhat’s wrong with splatoon 3

[@ceceliatodd4327]

I know we still have the frog chair, but it doesn’t make that farting sound like it used to and that’s disappointing

[@eileenjurek6898]

The whoopy cushions do

[@Dr.Frasier_Crane]

And it took us like a year to get it

[@ceceliatodd4327]

@@eileenjurek6898 yeah there would be cushions do, but it was nice when it was on the chair because you can’t get the animals to sit on those will be cushions

[@Alexis_Danielle1]

I'm still heartbroken about nature day. it went through my birthday and I was so excited because I felt like Animal crossing was finally recognizing earth day- we need to petition for Nintendo to bring it back

[@ShadowEclipse777]

​@@yosefmacgruber1920 okay boomer

[@sarap6862]

I miss the rare flower island. I only go it once and wasn’t even sure what it was at the time. If I had known I would have taken more flowers.

[@PeachQueen221]

I NEVER GOT IT

[@sarap6862]

That is so sad. 😞

[@Abyrae]

Same

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

I found one once or twice, but they were always hybrids I already had plenty of, so I never took any.

[@Tarkus_H]

I only ever got it once. Still got my black and pink tulips.

[@SilentMeteorite]

10:00 removing an incremenral upgrade to a shop is so concerning to me, because my biggest hope for the next AC game was bringing back more robust multi-stage shop upgrades (and just having more shops within town in general). The idea that they're going in the opposite direction sucks

[@FlareFritz]

New Leaf had the best shop system imo. It felt so satisfying to talk into T&T shop and they tell you they're closing down for renovations

[@HeirOfGlee]

i miss waking up to hundreds of bugs and then they updated and youll get like 2 or three the whole island

[@GalacticStudios69]

I wish we could get an introduction to the sea otter guy because I ran into him ONCE, and never understood who he was and when he spawned 😭😭

[@thirdwheel9938]

You have to catch a scallop in the sea by diving to talk to him, he'll either give you a mermaid DIY recipe or a pearl once a day

[@GalacticStudios69]

@@thirdwheel9938 thank you, I literally figured out how to do it the day I posted this comment, I still wish we had a prop introduction tho 🙏🙏

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

If I recall you don't really get an introduction in the previous games either, he just shows up, spouts some hippy quotes, hands you random stuff then drifts off into the sea. I think he's just a random nomad guy.

[@TheMissileHappy]

I miss just buying a fully finished game without any updayes, adding or removing things and without DLCs. I have to say during the last couple of years I found myself gravitating towards older games without all that. There are so many great older games that I haven't played yet, so why spent money on the newest unfinished mess.

[@jamie1962]

Calling NH an unfinished mess at launch is a stretch.

[@scaleonkhan183]

I like that there’s a renaissance of old games being emulated and played c:

[@amandaslough125]

​@@jamie1962at launch the game didn't have Redd, bushes, or any holidays.

[@himigimi]

⁠@@jamie1962 it’s not a stretch but a fact

[@amandaslough125]

@@yosefmacgruber1920 If you mean a sideways door opposite the Roost in the lobby: it doesn't exist. There's the 4 main exhibits (with diving creatures within the fish), and the Roost. Doing everything grants you the posters. Yes the lobby will no longer be symmetrical.

[@Onyxs]

Either people think Amiibo unlocks are too broken and it’s not fair that Amiibo owners get good stuff for owning an Amiibo, or Amiibo unlocks are pointless and don’t do anything for the game at all. Like it’s supposed to be a special bonus for having it, not a requirement.

[@BananaR777]

Back in newleaf we had more features, sure not as much custimiazation but none the less features. One of them was minigames, both single player and multiplayer.

[@BluMNBafnGaming]

I havnt seen celest on my island in over 2 months 😭

[@HinataElyonToph]

I just saw her on mine a couple weeks ago

[@BluMNBafnGaming]

@@HinataElyonToph I finally found her the other night xd

[@monkeygirl1894]

They could have just made the star trees to be purely decorative. What i mean by that is that it works like a normal tree. You dont get star fragments when shaking, but they still look pretty.

[@jordanhoughton1948]

Nintendo: "NO. You will have fun how we tell tell you to have fun."

[@arsonistnpc]

star trees were modified money trees iirc, which makes me even more upset they were canned because they couldve just made it so they grew when you buried a star fragment in a money hole. or they couldve been kapp'n-exclusive trees you only find on nighttime islands! there were such good possibilities but nope. i never got one myself (didnt really play back when they were big) but im sad theyre gone :^(

[@madpsycho6]

If they weren't programmed by the developers, I can see why they was removed via patches.

[@cutecats532]

​@@madpsycho6because somehow people were hacking or exploiting a glitch to make them, and they patched the glitch and removed them.

[@m00ncore]

I just started a new island- Redd still shows up by walking around and you do get introduced to him the same way as far as I know! The museum is just automatically upgraded.

[@venus4424]

When they removed the 4th tier decorating, it honestly ruined one of my islands at the time. Everything I had built and decorated was dependent on the stuff I did on the 4th level to look good. I can understand removing the ability to decorate up there but I still don't understand why they had to remove everything that was already placed there. It kinda ruined the 2.0 update for me and I ended up just deleting that island

[@rosekip21]

That's crazy they removed some things. I always did wonder why I wasn't getting hybrid Flower islands anymore 😅 I def miss that!

[@ann-mariewhiffen9881]

You can also get villager posters by taking your villager to Harvs island the only ones you need amibo for are the NPC (E.G Celeste)

[@benamisai-kham5892]

I never even thought about this as I've only used amiibos in harvs

[@cutecats532]

Ohhhh maybe that's how I got their posters. I was confused when he acted like amiibo was the only way to get posters. I get for the special ones but I'm like "just swap out more villagers."

[@DannyPageOfLight]

How exactly would keeping the tent permanently work anyway? I mean, you just give stuff to Blathers to display and they just...never get displayed anywhere?

[@ChristinaH2190]

You just don't donate the 15 items to Blathers. I've kept the tent on a few of my islands because the aesthetic worked better. Still hit 5 stars without upgrading it :)

[@ChristinaH2190]

There are island themes where a full museum does not make sense, hence keeping Blathers in his tent. I did a Viking-themed island where I built a Viking settlement. Blathers stayed in his tent because it would not have looked right to upgrade to the full museum. It doesn't impact your ability to get 3 or 5 stars, so people can do whatever they want to do!

[@ChristinaH2190]

@@yosefmacgruber1920 And that's the joy of the game: people can play it however they want. You prefer modernity/sci-fi? That's great! Other people prefer minimalism? That's also great! The game has no right or wrong way to play, decorate, and enjoy. Some people prefer to keep Blathers in the tent and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

[@vympyr]

​@@yosefmacgruber1920 What in the absolute hell are you yapping about? What is with these weird ass essays about things no one asked about? Blathers isn't real and people can do whatever they want with their game, even you. It's not that deep.

[@verycleverusername8159]

@@yosefmacgruber1920Why are you taking this so seriously

[@HarvestingThings]

it's so amazing that this channel is still running considering nintendo abandoned this game a loooong time ago. i wish nintendo was as passionate about animal crossing as their fans are

[@Imz_2012]

Hi crossing channel dont know if you know this bbut: my friend had jambette (the botox frog) on her island and she left. I never knew she had jambette. Jambette came to my island. After she moved in my friend came and said that jambette was on her old island. She talked to jambette and guess what: Jambette recognised her. I talked to jambette a few days ago and she said that she remembers when she-was on my friends island and literally said the name of her island.

[@benamisai-kham5892]

Yeah if you get a villager from a friends queue or adopt directly from their island they will remember your friend as long as it's their same account from that villager! Been a thing since the start I love it

[@TheMissileHappy]

That is completely normal and a well known thing that happend in the older games as well

[@Imz_2012]

@@TheMissileHappy oh ok

[@Imz_2012]

@@benamisai-kham5892 thanks thats really cool.

[@jennabee309]

Lol this happened in Wild World when I was a kid, Mitzi was mine and my best friend's favorite villager. I remember my friend being so smug when Mitzi left my town to go live in hers, I was genuinely so upset 😂

[@sophi7929]

feeling sad because I thought the star trees were fake / modded so i never experienced them 😱😮‍💨

[@littlefox_100]

They were modded. Just they could be given to others without them modding their switches.

[@Natalia-009]

I miss them 😢

[@GhostTypeEnthusiest]

I have a random tip: when smashing rocks to get stuff. If you put 2 holes that can block you from getting pushed back, you can hit it 8 times!

[@kittyandleslieable]

I think everyone knows that trick by now

[@GhostTypeEnthusiest]

@@kittyandleslieable not everyone. I just learned a few months ago.

[@cutecats532]

Or having the rock one space away from something. In the video they probably could've used the edge of the cliff.

[@jessicalarsen4546]

I just restarted on my second Switch. The museum was fully upgraded immediately, but I still got to meet Redd. He was wandering about and introduced himself. So that part is still in the game.

[@y2kinder]

1:25 that's me haha never expected to see one of my screenshots in one of your videos!

[@StarryUncannyAngel]

So i recently reset my island, Once you unlock the museum unlocking redd's art stuff was the same as before. Just that the art gallery is automatically unlocked but you still have to first find him walking around before the boat.

[@chadmasta5]

The star fragment trees worked because the star fragments are stored alongside the fruit in the game's data. Each fruit tree has a value that corresponds to the type of fruit on it. Someone with a modded switch could take a peach tree for example and change the value that corresponded with the peaches to the one that corresponded to the star fragments. It was more than likely just an oversight rather than something Nintendo ever planned to use.

[@Meggie2013]

9:13 redd came to my island without just showing up with his art today! And I have the upgraded museum (fri 5th April 2024)

[@stroowoo]

How do you get the upgraded museum if you started your island after the roost update?

[@vixenimoon]

Same here! I just kinda.. got the museum, and after a few more donations, Redd was wandering on my island! Now when he shows up Isabelle says something along the lines of villagers getting fake art, so now I know when he visits xD

[@Meggie2013]

@@stroowoo you have to get a 3 star island and then talk to blathers he will talk about Brewster and them go on a kappn tour find Brewster on it tell him about blathers wanting him there and he will go there the museum will be closed for a day for construction

[@Meggie2013]

@@vixenimoon lol

[@esmeebonestroo3228]

i just started with animal crossing in general and i didnt even got the tent for the museum, it went straight to the building, i was wondering why I didn’t got the tent because i saw it on all of the videos everywhere

[@sharkboy2222]

that has to be some kind of bug

[@fuzzydude64]

It's so weird seeing a video like this pop up. I pre-ordered New Horizons and took a week and a half off work to play it. I poured my heart into Population Growing and City Folk, while New Leaf blew my mind. Spent years with each one. In terms of visuals, it's stunning. A lot of things just felt wrong though, lots of important aspects and content saw cuts and I wasn't impressed by the soundtrack- why is the iconic 24-hour music system locked behind a time sink? The online community was the worst it's ever been thanks in no small part to streamer culture, though the Nook mile system effectively being the tired old mobile gaming "daily rewards" function didn't help. The fact I saw multiple serious petitions to brand time-travelers with a permanent badge of shame is disgusting. I work 12.5 hour days, 40-60+ hour weeks in a warehouse and I should be able to time travel if I want. I literally could not buy turnips without time traveling. I spent less than two months with it then dropped it forever. I walked away heart-broken and it doesn't seem like it ever improved after I left.

[@silasd7348]

I feel the same way. This didn't feel like Animal Crossing to me.

[@JanMaynz]

I started after the flower islands were removed, and I can't afford Nintendo Online... literally the only way for me to get anything is what the base game provides. (I don't have HHP, either. Can't afford it.)

[@renoirrr]

@@yosefmacgruber1920ik it’s so stupid that you can’t get all fruits without either getting a free month trial or shelling out like $15. ig it’s not that bad of a number but really? for three items in a video game?

[@RainbowLinings]

What do you mean we're not expecting more updates? I *JUST* FINALLY GOT IT 😭

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@RainbowLiningsHow many things get updates 4 years in, Dawg.

[@gspoiler]

​@@1stCallipostle Monster Hunter. They'll keep updating the game with new gear and quests for years after release.

[@1stCallipostle]

@@gspoiler 4 years though? Generations lost support after like 2 years, world lasted for what, 2-3? Rise hasn't had that much in general

[@eileenjurek6898]

I did not know there was a star island!

[@jcr1842]

still remember doing the item duplication glitch to farm money b4 it was removed, good times lol

[@benamisai-kham5892]

I remember talking to a coworker about it when it was around 😂

[@1o1nah]

If you take pictures of your villagers on Harv's Island, you get access to their poster. I didnt even know the amiibo was an alt option.

[@KalEmberTTV]

*gains reverb mid video*

[@QueenSix811]

10:39 you can keep the tent to continue the story and upgrade the RS. You don’t need the museum to get 3 stars

[@lPsychoMax]

If the game isn't getting updated, I wonder if fans could mod the removed content back in? It would be cool that, even if nintendo pulls it plug, fans can still give updates years later.

[@Sugary-Stardust]

People are def modding the game, I've seen it all over Pinterest, but you have to be careful because modding your Switch nulls the user agreement and can actually lock you out of your Switch entirely ;;

[@ElemonAdventures]

I started playing like a year and a half ago, so there’s so many things I didn’t know in here. Also 12pm music for the win. I can hear it in the background

[@QueenSix811]

I never got to play Nature Day. I got ACNH and a switch in general Xmas 2020

[@Blazingflare2000]

The star trees weren't necessarily a planned or cut feature, just an unintentional quirk with how the trees are programmed that hackers took advantage of. It's been 4 years since I messed with it, so I might be a little off with how it works, but iirc, all of the non pine/palm trees are actually the same exact type of tree in the game's data. And they just use a variable to determine their state (growing, empty, holding a beehive/leaf/coin, fruit tree, or a money tree holding 3 money bags) Regular fruit trees just have a second variable to determine what type of fruit they are. But money trees use their second variable to state the exact item ID of what they are holding. Normally, only ID's for bell bags are used, but the trees fully support holding and displaying any item ID in the game that has a drop model. So you could hack them to be a star tree, a fish tree, a leaf tree, a clothes tree, a tree tree, etc. Some people messed around with the other types of trees, but star trees were the only ones that really spread since they were so pretty. After the star trees gained a ton of notoriety, Nintendo added a check in one of the next updates that runs at the start of every new day. The check looks for any planted money trees in the town that have an item ID that isn't a bell bag and replaces it with an empty tree instead. You can technically still have star trees in your town, but they will always be replaced the next day you play the game if you leave them.

[@grizzlywizzly]

I think the fencing-block on the docks is because they’re similar to the rocks where the wharf roaches spawn in some way. When they realized people were “farming” bugs then they removed the fence building feature for those rocks. I know nothing would spawn on the dock, but I imagine it’s because they are connected in a way on the backside

[@Zabe_B]

yes, he said it's not a bug but in my opinion it certainly seems like an oversight. i don't think it was an intentionally removed customization option for docks specifically, it seemed to me that it was likely they changed or fixed something else that caused fences on docks to no longer be possible.

[@haydenyuy7060]

To be honest, I prefer the villager photos over the posters. I don't even understand the purpose of the posters.

[@Sugary-Stardust]

Posters are WAY easier to get, they don't require friendship and luck. (I prefer the photos too.)

[@haydenyuy7060]

@@Sugary-Stardust once you get the rhythm down, getting the photos are easy. I have 131 photos. Was going to try to get them all but I haven’t had time to play in a while.

[@libby423]

The only "paylocked" posters are of the NPC characters. If you bring your current villagers to take photos on Harvey's island, it will register their poster in your catalogue. So there's a way without amiibos to get posters of regular villagers.

[@libby423]

(and special characters like the Sanrio ones)

[@Meggie2013]

14:47 if you want one (ONLY DO ONE FOR A 5 STAR ISLAND) use a normal hardwood tree (not a fruit one or a cedar tree) put 3 of the same star fragments where fruit would fall on fruit trees to make it look like fallen fragments

[@Meggie2013]

1:51 tip go by the cliff then you will get the max amount cause you will bump into the cliff!

[@v_bunny]

i like to dig three holes behind my villager so that way when i hit rocks he doesn’t move anywhere!

[@Meggie2013]

@@v_bunnyI do that too but sometimes it’s by a cliff by the water and I can’t dig holes so I just use a cliff!

[@Meggie2013]

@@v_bunnyplus it takes less time

[@renoirrr]

@@v_bunnyyou only need to hit 2 holes at a corner! it might help save some durability on your shovels since it adds up. It’s a bit hard to find the spot at first but you could easily pinpoint it afterward.

[@fallen0angel]

Nobody quote me on this, but I thought I heard that they removed the Hybrid Flower Islands because there was something about the code of the flowers that didn't allow them to 'breed' properly on your own island. I don't know *why* theirs would be different than the flowers you grow on your own island, but it would explain why I could never get those damn green mums to spawn.

[@SketchyCoyote]

Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but you can get access to posters from bringing villagers to Harv's island. So if a villager lives on your island you can gain to access to the poster for free(like the portraits)

[@Fujoshi1412]

I think the campsite interactions were moved to the cafe. Because I’ve invited Isabella’s brother there before. And it makes more sense for them to be there than at the campsite.

[@alioness-w-noregrets7471]

New Horizons is my first real animal crossing game, and honestly I like this game. There are some things I do wish they would add, especially for people who don’t really play online. I know the point is to connect via online, but as someone with crappy internet, it’s hard for me to feel like I can do that without the internet disconnecting out of nowhere. But without the internet connection, the game is still fun for me and I still do my island every day whenever I get a chance at home. I just really wish that there was a way to get recipes for certain themes without an internet connection.

[@Zabe_B]

unfortunately it isn't enough for nintendo that you dropped 60 or 70 dollars on the game. they need to upsell you on their online services too, something i knew would happen as soon as i found out that Nintendo online would be a paid service on the switch. i think nintendo games that do have online features are always going to cater to online players first, because they need to convince them the online is worth it and keep paying for it.

[@Defender1876]

a correction for crossing channel redd still shows up and walks around our islands on newer saves

[@pawpawmariachi]

I got a second hand switch recently to have a second island and I didn't realise that it hadn't updated and was on version 1.0 until I got through a good chunk of the tutorial, and I happened to get a hybrid flower island on my 3 nook mile island visits for villagers! I just assumed they'd added it back (not knowing what version I was on) but I guess I was just strangely lucky? I might be one of the last people to play on a hybrid island on acnh

[@Sugary-Stardust]

The game allowed you to play without updating?? I thought the updates were forced.

[@cutecats532]

​@@Sugary-Stardustmaybe they didn't have it connected to the internet and had a game cartridge?

[@Phantomermaid]

Shoutout to the moth that always spawned by the tent museum ❤

[@sachamckenzie8608]

You can catalog villager posters by going to Harv’s island and going into the photo studio, invite your villagers in for a photo shoot (make sure to take a photo) then their poster will be available to buy when you get back to your island

[@NostalgiaUnicorn]

They removed the cataloguing posters JUST as I finished my collection. I luckily had a second house on the island where I stored a copy of each poster but ouch for the partners I was doing the project with who just catalogued them to buy as needed!

[@dozydreamstarot]

I don't get the discourse of removing features in efforts to moderate resources. After a certain point you have an overflow of Nook Miles anyway and the hybrid flower gatekeeping is redundant. I was a launch player and NEVER came across the hybrid flower island anyway so it does show how rare it was at least to me let alone you are limited to what you can carry off of it. Previous versions of this game feel like a fever dream at this point because of the nature of playing it during the pandemic.

[@Makithe2nd]

They kinda got rid of the original tutorial and there's just a different and easier tutorial

[@JoshyYoshi4]

How

[@Makithe2nd]

@@JoshyYoshi4 I remember that in the original tutorial for the 3 houses you needed to get materials then all the furniture, also the houses you can build were an obligatory thing, this was probably very early and i kinda remember it like that.

[@tiktokki._.]

@@Makithe2ndthat part hasn't changed at all, not since i did it only a couple weeks ago. you still have to put down the three house plots and get the 3 interior and 3 exterior furniture for the houses

[@Makithe2nd]

@@tiktokki._. what i meant is that you needed to get the materials to build the actual house not the furniture, also the other houses i really don't remember exactly but i remember having to build the other houses to get the "K.K operation"

[@Nyxiius]

Bob's Gang! I recently came back to ACNH after a while and I did not know that the hybrid flower islands weren't a thing anymore. That's really a shame :(

[@shonid9175]

I had some star trees on my island I got from a friend, I had a “enchanted” area so to speak and Nintendo removing those trees from my island ruined it and the game for me. Dont get me wrong I still play but I no longer put the effort in decorating my island as I did before. 😢

[@CorpCoral]

17:18 you can get posters from harvs island

[@bgblossom5094]

I did remember the amiibos I had 3 figures on discount at a five below before ACNH came out when I got the games I did individually scan them and got the dialogues, I never knew they took away the the dialogues 😔

[@bezelanimations]

I completely forgot about the Nature Day event! Jeez, it's been so long...

[@TheShadowLight13]

You can invite the special characters to the happy home and make them a home I have done it with Celeste and grandma kappin

[@amandaslough125]

My path trees just stayed where they are. I specifically made 2 trees on my paths lining a garden.

[@leefolderman2030]

Somehow I still have two of my trees planted on a concrete pathway - they never disappeared after the patch

[@hikariyumi9441]

I still have my fruit trees on the dirt paths too. i didn't even know that got patched out, or does it only not work on stone anymore?

[@lucapeyrefitte6899]

Wow that’s allot, sucks that my first island is gone because my first switch broke 😢

[@charlottehollingsworth9125]

I love learning more lore about a game I'm relatively new to! I started with ACNH in 2022 and have really loved it, despite most people no longer playing by the time I got into it which takes away a lot of the game play elements of visiting islands and having visitors, I still found a lot of fun in just building my island and exploring for new residents.

[@No_Named_Nobody]

So the ‘trees on pathways’ does that only relate to the brick and stone paths? Or the dirt and sand paths as well?

[@Ambersunshine858]

How do u get a star fragment island / know ???

[@Disneydreamgal]

Hi fairly new player of ACNH, I'm sad I won't be able to experience those things that are gone, it kind sucks. 😢💔

[@jjjjjjjjjjjinnnn2323]

we're in the same boat :(

[@rainbowcat498]

I miss Nature Day SO MUCH!

[@youraveragejoe9286]

"Buy, consume, forget, repeat." - Nintendo allegedly

[@squishmvllow]

wait wha :< i got the game in november last year and i didnt know there was a step of museum without the art gallery :< mine already had all of them

[@Artistmom2011]

i started playins January 2023.. had never heard of the game until then! never even saw it!! but fell in LOVE with it!! so some of these things are super cool!! i did learn the game super fast tho! I did not have fb until march 2023 or groups either.. so i had to learn by myself too. i had a friend who played since the beginning.. and she said i know more about the game and how to do things etc than she does!

[@SoulbreakerNB]

maybe they removed the amiibo thingy in favor of the roost invites.

[@92jaxs]

I’m still mad that they didn’t buy the og furniture like the regal set plus I felt like the furniture content was so low and the seasonal stuff was a big no from me like the Mario set.

[@jswenden]

Can you time travel to nature day in 2020 and reap the benefits?

[@linkmaster555]

Redd still shows up walking around.

[@GirrlyCreeper]

For the poster catalogue that's so sad that the major characters are paywalled now :( But the villagers technically aren't, as a poster is also registered if you take a photo of the islsnder at photopia. So I consider my poster collection a sort of Guest Book for everyone who has passed through my island over the years :)

[@404_kayjay_not_found]

So which of these things would still work if one were to play with a vanilla physical copy version? I'm not sure about the islands but I imagine everything else would be as it was. Would it be worth it to play on 1.0 for a good while before updating? Or are the updates so good that it makes more sense to start with an updated game, even at the cost of what was lost? I remember back when, I actually did play during Nature Day and it was a lot of fun. I just ended up burning myself out as I always do with AC games. Now I got a different switch and am wondering about starting anew and taking things slow.

[@clevername123]

Im curious about how this works too

[@PlutoIsntReal_]

I know they added a filter for what your vilagers could call you at some point... unlucky for them I already had most of my dreamies before then. When someone visits my island I tell them not to talk to the villagers because of what their catchphrases are LMAO

[@dumbdave961]

I don't understand why they patched out the fourth level. That and the star trees were missed opportunities

[@cutecats532]

Maybe the 4th level put too much stress on the game or wasn't what they intended.

[@MiguelFrancisco997]

Taking away features that are not glitches is inexcusable. Stuff like this is one of the many reasons why so many of us still prefer the older games to NH even with all of the new features.

[@BMoney8600]

I just picked up the game again after a nearly two year long break and I started a new island for the 4th or 5th time. I donated all the “creatures” I found and Tom Nook gave me flowers to plant yet I don’t have the DIY recipe for the shovel!

[@headlikesoup]

Oooo I know, series idea. Get an acnh game cartridge, disable updates and start a new island. Then you can play the "original" acnh and show newer players who never got to experience that.

[@sachamckenzie8608]

As long as you don’t change it yourself the trees can stay on the paths, I still have it on my island

[@luciferteaparty]

Ive spent weks trying to get flowe islnd and nothijg and now i know why. Thanks 😊

[@Serasia]

If they got rid of the update where you get the art gallery so it’d be easier, I wish they’d kept the hybrid flower islands because I have given up on getting the blue rose. It’s just too frustrating and I stopped caring after a few tries of hybridizing my roses.

[@YeahNaw]

The bell nerf was one of the more necessary ones because I was one of the people that abused the 99,999 bell interest lmao. Until you have everything set up on your island, bells WERE pretty hard to come by. Quickest way to earn bells at that stage was to repeatedly time travel and farm the 99,999 bell interest. It takes about 2-3 to get each of those batch from quitting / saving, going into setting and launch back the game.

[@susanlisson7066]

Damn! I’ve been playing since 2021 & didn’t get to see Nature Day or the hybrid island. Feel ripped off now. lol

[@shadowjoker285]

Doesn't this mean if u buy a new switch and play ACNH without updating the game. You can do a lot of the stuff thats in the video?

[@clevername123]

That's what I want to know too.

[@Hunter.ohmann]

So….mine is up to date and I can invite special characters to my campsite and they do the fun dialogue…

[@kshawdyy]

can you place the roost later on or nah?

[@LeoOfficial0]

From the fourth layer glitch, I still have an item placed on the fourth area! Which wasn't taken away?

[@RayYoWTF]

I hope the next AC game brings back all previous Nintendo items, New Leaf amiibo characters, all previous game furniture AND allow us to customize how we see fit.