Things That Will Ruin Your Animal Crossing Town Or Island From EVERY Game

Ever tried to ruin your Animal Crossing town or island on purpose? Well today we look at every Animal Crossing game to find things that will ruin your town or island.
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[@Clouditivity]

I remember the streamers going into dream towns and reporting them if they had star trees. It was really cringe since it didn't hurt anyone. I really hope star trees become a thing

[@vuxy5872]

i know i wish star trees can come

[@vuxy5872]

One day

[@Anna-ul1fj]

I was a victim of this :( really disappointing as i based my entire island around them. I didn't hack them in myself but i did get them from people who did :( its sad. I miss them. I also had flower trees, snowflake trees, petal trees etc, they could put any item in their place so i had a big collection 😭

[@Clouditivity]

@Anna that's so lame. I hope growing trees with random items become a thing because that'd be really neat. Even if you don't get anything when you shake them, it'd be just a cool decorative thing!

[@rainbowcake8650]

Star trees?

[@equally.marketable]

It annoys me when people get mad at modders or time-travelers for “cheating.” It’s a single player, non-competitive game, if people want to have fun with their star fragment trees, recolored villagers, and quicker game progress, then let ‘em. The only exception is obviously when people are hurt/distressed by it, like having their items stolen. A non-competitive game literally can’t be cheated in, it’s up to what the player makes of the game. Putting pressure on people for just doing what they want on their OWN island makes zero sense

[@testerwulf3357]

Preach!

[@KarateGirl999]

These types of people who try to criminalize modding or time traveling are (part of) why the AC community is more stressful than it has any right to be.

[@somedragonbastard]

It reminds me of people who get mad at Terraria players who use Journey mode. You don't have to like it for yourself but let other people enjoy things

[@WatercolourAbstract]

I agree! I don't enjoy watching or playing mods in any game, I find it boring, but like... Who cares? And time travelling makes it so much easier, why WOULDN'T you do it? Especially now that all the content is out The real issue is modding or time travelling and then lying and saying you didn't

[@sobanoodlegamer]

Not to mention that the grass deterioration made it impossible to make snowman because you needed snowy areas which didn’t pile up on dirt

[@tiacat11]

It's always interesting seeing people's preferences for Animal Crossing games. When it comes to New Horizons, I also struggle to get to five stars, but it's for the opposite problem - I prefer my island to keep that wild, natural feel of the early game and the OG gamecube, so I don't like having too many decorations and random stuff placed for the sake of being there. And why do we get penalized for having too many trees? Didn't this game used to be called Animal _Forest_ in Japanese? Ain't my fault I think trees are prettier than rows and rows of flowers (though no salt to anyone who does).

[@malagrug4326]

funnily enough, i’m pretty sure the japanese name is still a direct translation of “animal FOREST.” but i agree, since new leaf was my first game i take a lot of comfort in the cozy natural islands compared to the big cityscapes

[@MV96_]

You should build lotsa bridges a d ramps, also a lot of fences. I am sure I got my 5 star rating that way with barely any terrain modifications.

[@chattycatty3336]

ugh yes! i have a forestcore island and everytime isabella tells me to plant more flowers i wanna jump over that desk and fight her XD YOU LIVE HERE, YOU KNOW THE AESTHETIC.

[@CanteLizzie]

Exactly my problem. I've never gotten to 5 stars on ACNH because I have too many trees. Apparently the villagers get lost 🙄

[@tiacat11]

@@CanteLizzie Right? Like get lost doing WHAT, exactly, because I sure as hell know it ain't pitching in on all the dev costs for that fucking zen bridge everyone wanted soooooo bad

[@veronicaaragon8610]

The villagers moving out no matter what I did made me understand that you can do everything in the world to try to force people into your decision for them, but you can't stop them. This was right after my parents separated and helped me not feel guilty for the separation or trying to prevent it.

[@Honestlytweaking]

Same here!

[@kolinwhite8348]

You may not see this but same happened to me and I want you to know it was not your fault

[@ursamajo.r]

That's such an insightful perspective on the mechanic, thanks for sharing

[@froggybich_2937]

The thing with the star fragment trees is that you could get them without modding your own switch, if someone modded in a star fragment tree you could go pick it up and plant it on your island and it will still be a star fragment tree. So a majority of people who got banned from having a dream address didn't even mod, they simply bought it with in-game currency or were gifted them.

[@shaobues]

So modding actually is needed

[@froggybich_2937]

@@shaobues Yes, but you can have them on a non-modded island

[@keo549]

​@@shaobuesit's the unreleased pokemon breeding dilemma Long before the related raids for old starters people would hack them into the game and breed in union circles with people who didn't but wanted to masuda hunt them. The mons they bred weren't hacked, and they could've been offspring from a non-hack, but at the core of it it was still only possible because someone hacked one in to begin with

[@PKMNResearcherSkyler]

​​@@Leeloo_the_foxi think a big part of it is that animal crossing isn't a competitive game. In other games it's to help preserve fairness, but in ACNH it just comes across as mean and unnecessary

[@329link]

​@@Leeloo_the_foxpeople absolutely get upset when any other company does it, there's just not as many non-competitive online multiplayer games outside of nintendo. Makes sense to ban a guy who's ruining everyone's fun, but it's bizarre to ban someone who's just having fun without harming anyone else's experience.

[@thedeerguy7579]

It's not a 5 star island unless it operates at 2 frames per decade

[@MV96_]

Personally, I’m 99.99% sure I got my 5 star rating because I built lots of bridges and ramps(thanks to a person who gave me lotsa money, 99,000 bells each bag).

[@KarateGirl999]

Please become funny.

[@crescentceleste]

​@@KarateGirl999Please get a better sense of humour. I thought it was quite funny.

[@KarateGirl999]

@@crescentceleste I don't care.

[@notbinary]

@@KarateGirl999womp womp

[@v.crowley]

The ONLY thing that sucks about the weeds in NH ... is when theyre grown; they actually look nice

[@Mijuki]

Am i the only one who really LOVES weeds? I love the wild nature aesthetic of it, and no weeds just make your AC towns look way too clean 😅

[@LimeLoaf]

Ikr

[@KarateGirl999]

They look pretty in New Horizons. But in previous games...I mean a few of them didn't look too bad but as far as a lot of them is concerned, nah.

[@ida6950]

Same, I los love weeds, even back in wild world

[@timohara7717]

To me only in the latest game that makes them not penalty

[@JZJ7777]

I like having a natural feel to my island, but not the weeds. The weeds on my island make it look messy.

[@ProbablyBees]

I agree that the stars in New horizon are a miss. I love the mechanic in general and working towards getting 5 stars. But new horizon was oddly restrictive but also too easy? Like requiring a special number of objects and fences but not caring at all for teraforming or design was weird. I hit 5 stars accidentally by holding fish for flick

[@roseythebean]

it would be cool if the island stars evaluations were based more on the theme of the island like how the HHA sends you house evaluations based on ur indoor furniture

[@MV96_]

@@roseythebean No, thanks, I love my 5 star rating I got through bridge and ramp building and placing lots of fences and I love all the easy money coming from selling golden roses 😅😂

[@equally.marketable]

@@roseythebean I agree! Sadly I think it’s too late for that in NH, if they changed the system now then I think you can imagine the outrage haha

[@SkeleVale]

Flick doesn't buy fish haha CJ does

[@timohara7717]

It doesn't even count weeds luckily becuase they are useful know

[@kerrischlosser1823]

The problem with the weeding service in NH is that you have to have over 300 weeds on your island, and your island won't naturally spawn that many weeds. So you have to plant extra if you want the weeding service!

[@MoonieLovegood]

I think i had 300 on my island at some point mostly naturally…..

[@NinaSylveon]

Yeah...your island can only spawn 150 (or a little above). If Leif is on your island you even have to have 800!

[@dietotaku]

@@MoonieLovegood your island starts with around 1200 weeds on it, but if you picked/sold them all and then let more grow in and wanted to use the weeding service, you'd have to plant more. the really crap part is not only does he charge $100k, he says he'll put all the weeds in the recycling BUT HE DOESN'T.

[@MoonieLovegood]

@@dietotaku he’s a scam lets cancel him.

[@aurora_yunho]

​@@IceGod64😊😊😊😊

[@adamusprime403]

This might just be me, but I think it'd be pretty cool if the Rafflesia was turned into a decorative plant. I'm probably one of the few people who'd think this, but I actually think it looks somewhat cool, plus Imagine if you're one of those people who have dump sites set up for the city lore, than it'd be cool to plant Rafflesias in that area.

[@KieranH612]

Oooh, I can totally imagine decorating a spooky horror-inspired island with those! They're commonly called corpse flowers and bear a striking resemblance to some iconic monsters like demogorgons, so they'd fit right in with a creepier build!

[@amusedchortles835]

This. I like how they look, and I'd love to be able to have them for decorative purposes! Always been a fan of odd plants, and I could certainly find a way to use them. Shame they were only used as a punishment.

[@JetstreamTheSexSam]

​@@KieranH612 the demos were inspired by those flowers

[@unknowable4147]

I thought they looked so cool as a kid! They looked so different from all the other Fauna in New Leaf so I always wanted to keep them around

[@spyrocamo5721]

In new horizons they are I’m not sure if it’s the dlc that adds them but I have seen them

[@MalkavianGhoul]

I hated the grass deterioration so much in city folk I did not run at all in my New Leaf game unless I was in town. I would put paths down, but I still just refused to run because I truly hated how the ground looked when the grass got ruined. I do not miss that feature at all

[@KarateGirl999]

Tell me about it. Getting punished for doing the most basic movement in any game just sucks.

[@OpheliaTerat]

Tbh I think it was a cute idea in theory since its kinda mimicking how natural pathways are made irl, but in practice it's not a very good game mechanic.

[@borby4584]

The worst thing was the big, ugly bald spot that came from a villager moving out of

[@MalkavianGhoul]

@@borby4584 I know right? I would plant a bunch of flowers there to speed up the process or attempt to anyways

[@SplatDiva_Ant]

In animal crossing new leaf, mods could also let you pocket or drop rocks, trees and rafflesias. It was a common occurrence of having a hacker visit that they dropped rocks around the train station so nobody could go in and out! Thankfully, Nintendo let players sit on rocks on the welcome amiibo and many players could access it again. Also, other "good" hackers often helped those people by removing the hazards placed.

[@PinkDappleleaf]

THAT'S why we could sit on rocks??? Man, I just thought it was cute. Wish we could sit on rocks in NH

[@howdy.8979]

you could sit on rocks?????

[@PinkDappleleaf]

@@howdy.8979 Yeah! They added it after the Welcome Amiibo update! It was one of the first things I tried to do when I got NH and I was so sad I couldn't :(

[@timohara7717]

​@@howdy.8979yea I forgor you couldn't in horizons

[@timohara7717]

​@@PinkDappleleafat least rock stools exist

[@Game_Erica]

I remember when I got Wild World like a couple or three years ago and I got Tangy in my town. I absolutely fell in love with her, she became my absolute favourite. Then I missed one day and she had moved out during that *one* day I didn't login. I was crushed lol. So glad I got her on ACNH tho, still love her lmao

[@queenofsevens]

i had a similar experience with Stitches in middle school 🥺 i was on a trip with my parents and didn't play for a few days, came back and he was gone. missed that boy for a whole decade until Amiibo cards became a thing and i got him back in New Leaf lmao

[@Game_Erica]

@@queenofsevens yeah lol, I bought an Amiibo coin from Etsy to get Tangy, I know how you feel

[@ButterFromDiscord]

For me, ACNL moving out never was much of an issue, personally every time I tell them to stay they’re like “whoa! Didn’t know you cared that much” and they stay

[@salemmarz3809]

ikr, it feels more realistic that they can have their own ideas and not just be mindless and easily controlled

[@ButterFromDiscord]

@@salemmarz3809 yeah, I would rather not have the ability to control them like that, but since I do have it I use it on all the villagers I really like

[@vanyadolly]

I have trouble getting them to move out! First the whole town guilt-trips you for a week to ask them to stay. Then you tell them "bye! I'll miss you," and suddenly they're so emotional they can't leave. I outright had Canberra refuse to leave because she thought I let her go too easily 🙄

[@shaobues]

Fun Fact: The Pokémon "Vileplume" is based on the Rafflesia as well. It's poison-grass type and is known to smell bad.

[@echo9352]

That will be actually Vileplume, its also worth to note that it starts as weed (Oddish) I wonder what does inspire the "rafflesias comes from weed" thing in media

[@shaobues]

@@echo9352 I think it's just the weed = bad mentality.

[@tiacat11]

More fun facts: Rafflesia smell bad specifically because they rely on insects like flies and meat eating beetles to pollinate! Specifically, they smell like rotting flesh.

[@Porygonal64]

fun fact i farded pfpfpfpfpfpptttt smells bad too

[@tiacat11]

@@Porygonal64 That's nice, dear.

[@vanyadolly]

I can live with the weeds, but coming back to Wild World after a break and finding ALL your flowers gone is heartbreaking. Every single one of my 100+ hybrid flowers poofed into thin air 😭

[@ChicagoMel23]

You could also get your Wild World game ruined by hackers who got seeds in their inventory. The seeds spawn buildings and normally can’t be accessed in game. Sometimes people would hack them into their bag, visit someone else’s town and drop them. Random stuff would spawn and block entrances and things.

[@329link]

Oh yeah that was REALLY bad. Since seed buildings were unloaded until the game reset, there were loads of people who would save and quit only to find that their copy of the game is now bricked. Enough seeds could crash the game when it tried to load them, and since the title screen loads your town they couldn't get to the menu to erase their save data. Easily the worst thing hackers have done in AC history.

[@JourneyInJapan]

Someone did this to my first Wild World island. I played for two years, invited a rando from an online forum and they visited my town and dropped a seed. I BAWLED. Luckily I was ablw to reset rhe game and start a new island, but I know others weren't so lucky and had to buy new games. Was heartbreaking to lose all my beloved villagers and their photos.

[@Sonictheoofhog4]

The "city folk hacker incident" also happened in Wild World, but WORSE. There was this mechanic called "seeding" and you could basically just put structures in people's islands and make their game crash so hard you have to edit your save file if you add too much

[@IcicleThorn229]

In ACNL, I had gotten a new cartridge after mine broke so I understood the game already. When I found the perfect fruit, I immediately went to go plant it, did, and the next day a house had moved in right where I had planted the sapling. Perfect fruit, GONE

[@inkii-y]

imo, how stars shouldve worked is it can go up and down UNTIL you reach 5 stars, making it a challenge to get there. but once youre there, youre there and can do whatever with your island without penalty

[@critter_core]

This is how I feel for the tools too. Like working for the tools until you get the golden ones where they should be indestructible lol

[@critter_core]

This is how I feel for the tools too. Like working for the tools until you get the golden ones where they should be indestructible lol

[@randomstufffoot]

Wisp is actually very useful in new horizons as it allows you to get a random item not in your catalog.

[@KarlaO711]

Ah yes the New Leaf random placement. I was happy, when they didn't allowed the houses to be placed on tiles that the player placed. I literally placed grass tiles all over the place and left the squares for the houses. This worked very well I I got a very organiced town :D

[@vanyadolly]

I really hate that in NL. The old system where unoccupied house lots were shown with a sign post worked much better, because you knew where they were and could plan and design around them. Instead you had to feel anxious every time a villager moved out in NL.

[@damien678]

Wait a minute... You're a fucken legend for this comment. I was gonna restart my NL town soon and you just saved me a lot of grief

[@KarlaO711]

@@damien678 :D glad I could help ^^ Well. It's still a grind to get your tiles placed and get the villagers out of your city that you want to move, but. It helped a lot

[@Diana-gk6yx]

I think the creative type of modding is completely fine since you're not really abusing any mechanics

[@Aurelia_BSP]

I hope star trees become real one day! My island got reported for having a star tree, a birthday gift from a friend. It really was heartbreaking but it wasn’t banned but I closed my island down for safety Now I have a new island named StarryFalls Cottage core/A little FairyCore

[@KarateGirl999]

I don't know why they were never a thing to begin with, they were right up the game's alley with how pretty the star fragments look. Also am I alone in thinking that shell trees would be neat or is that too goofy?

[@timohara7717]

​@@KarateGirl999only furniture and summer

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

As someone who grew up with ONLY wild world and city folk, New Horizons being so easy to control feels like it's not even animal crossing anymore. Especially the aspect of moving houses and buildings wherever you'd like and controlling who stays and leaves. I'm not saying they're bad but they feel SO far removed from how I grew up playing. I like it but it feels like a completely different game. It felt more realistic in a sense that one day your friend would just move away one day. I was also way less stressed about not having so much control over my island. I'm so overwhelmed by the game now and I get so unhappy with my island and discouraged to play after 3 stars. I don't remember ever feeling that way in city folk, even though I would have loved the ability to put furniture outside.

[@TwoToTheSix]

Yeah, I’m with you. It’s fun when someone moves out and a new person moves in to replace them! I’d love it if there was a way to let villagers choose their own spots again, too.

[@vanyadolly]

I agree. I'd love the ability to put decorations outside and place a few bigger building projects, but I don't want to control the entire town! The other villagers having agency is what made them feel alive, and not just like cardboard cutouts in your private dollhouse. I wish we could have at least one game that plays like WW or CF, but with the ability to place a few items outside to spruce things up.

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

@@vanyadolly me too, I think its great there's a game so customizable for those who like it but it'd be great if there was an in between haha

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I rarely played NH but I did play NL for a while and the tragedy of Julian moving in front of my house when I had plans of building fountains and such right there was such a painful experience. Julian is one of my favorites and getting him was amazing, and so I was depressed to let him move away. I haven’t touch NL since. AC requires too much motivation that I just don’t have sadly, but man I would love to build cities. I always make my homes into fancy hotels.

[@katiebrown-farquhar1270]

The star trees were so cute and did no harm it’s sad they banned them

[@timohara7717]

They litterally could be malware stop spreading propaganda its cheating at least just dupe the fragments

[@akuro_the_time_traveler4200]

@@timohara7717 First calm down, second they aren't malware, third You couldn't even get anything from them, Damn, let people play as they will. Also, why you pressed over star trees? mad you can't code them in yourself?

[@timohara7717]

@@akuro_the_time_traveler4200 bro your the one pressed I just am annoyed you say certainly they aren't malicious when I've heard of hackers making evil variants so your probably wrong

[@akuro_the_time_traveler4200]

@@timohara7717 They were only for aesthetics, And you will always find bad people but thats small majority, People who hack there switches now mostly help people or do it for themselfs

[@nandohenriques2975]

@@timohara7717 So your argument is basically "you're wrong because I've heard so"

[@GoldenTGB]

I have no frickin idea how you function in an island like that That's just seems like too much of everything I don't know, maybe I just like the openness

[@KarateGirl999]

Laid-back decorating >>>>>>>

[@kitkatmewers]

In New leaf I planted a bamboo plant and then left for like a year. After I came back it was a mess of bamboo everywhere

[@borby4584]

6:45 I actually once lost ALL of my apple trees in my town because a villager thought it’d be funny to plop their house right on the chunk of land that acted as my apple orchard.

[@snoozebutton9996]

All these older features were, for me at least, what brought a little bit on unpredictability into the game and made a big part of it's longevity. Just like in real life, where not everything goes to my will only. I lost some favorite villagers, yes. But i found new favorites who moved in. Back then the villagers had some personality, which was smoothed in NL and totally erased in NH. The older games had a certain charm to them. NH is just a glorified Dollhouse, pretty but lifeless. Like Instagram, only the Looks of something matter. Same with the villagers. I like some of the considered ugly ones, because i remember their personality from older games. It's a shame that Nintendo thinks, Kids and YA these days can't handle a little bit of sass. NH is the least played game of the series for me. For modding, if it can corrupt an uninvolving players savefile by visiting a hacked island, than yeah it should be banned. Generally speaking i don't care what others do to their islands though.

[@sophie427]

Your nostalgic preference for villagers makes so much sense! I always hear all these people gushing over villagers and having so much fun and loving them so much, but to me, they’re so… uninteresting. In NH, they’re just a pretty (or ugly) face. I have some repeat personalities as well, and it highlights how unremarkable they really are. Your comment finally sheds some light on how some people pick favorites from older games!

[@snoozebutton9996]

@@sophie427 One famous villager for that is Butch. Gift him a Yodel-Shirt in WW and he gets angry, because he hates yodel-shirts. He gave you sass and it was so rewarding when he warmed up to you and you saw the softer side of him. Or all the little stories for the NPCs in Wild World with Tom Nooks past or the love triangle with Pelly, Peggy and Pete.

[@timohara7717]

Look I litterally saw completly diffrent villagers say the same exact thing without function it was just normal talking it's getting horrible now bruh

[@tsian7328]

​@@snoozebutton9996Wild World still holds up amazingly well to this day, even if it's a huge graphical downgrade, the actual "life sim" part of the game is so much more enjoyable

[@raffaelm6558]

Wasn’t grass deterioration in Wild World, too? I remember that my town ended up really barren bc coming from the original, I had no idea that running was now a crime 😂 I always meant to look into whether or not they actually changed the move out mechanic in New Leaf with the Welcome Amiibo update. I had huge breaks in NL now, sometimes a year or more, and I haven’t randomly lost any villager since Welcome Amiibo very much like New Horizons 🤔

[@senderunknown9278]

No, Grass Deterioration was introduced in City Folk, and New Leaf was the last game to feature it so far. I thought the exact same thing though, since WW and CF are basically the same game.

[@raffaelm6558]

@@senderunknown9278 Huh, I was 100% certain that it was in Wild World too 😳 Thanks for clearing that up, I guess my memory played a trick on me 😂

[@lya__]

In New Leaf, when you've just told a villager to not move out, you're safe for a bit I believe. I've often used that to not lose villagers. Put the time, when I last played, played until I could tell a villager to stay and then put the time to the current time while keeping all my favourite villagers :3

[@raffaelm6558]

@@lya__ Yeah, I remember that but this time I had literally not played for over a year and then again for like 6-7 months and both times no one had moved out randomly. That's what surprised me. I just had someone ask to move out but no one did by themselves. 🤔

[@lya__]

@@raffaelm6558 Interesting 🤔 maybe they really did change something about it 🤔

[@doodlebloom_]

about getting your island to five stars, i've just given up lmao i'm doing a tropical resort themed island and isabelle told me i needed more tree variation. like i'm sure there's certain parts that cedar or hardwood trees would fit in but she said that when like maybe 1/5 of my island was done and it still had all these normal trees so idk lol

[@timohara7717]

Fruit trees bruh 💀

[@mirandas3167]

I disagree with some of these things being punishments… animal crossing as a whole was never about having an ultra manicured town until new horizons came out. It had always been a game about going with the flow of life, making friends along the way, and never running from your responsibilities (many of the NPCs backstories have similar themes). Villagers in new leaf spawning in to random locations wasn’t a punishment- that’s how the franchise always worked up until new horizons. Rafflesia was just a cool easter egg to discover if you did lots of tt or didn’t bother with weed picking.

[@horselover7744]

It was a punishment i always hated villagers spawning everywhere One ruined my beautiful rose flower field and put itself next to the pwp And i had villagers twice move in in a close spot near my house and it was so annoying having to go around it every time ! But otherwise i agree with your other points (i guess this was the con when our community grew so wide )

[@hazeleyes6644]

Yeah, I think that's why NH feels so underwhelming to me. It's about making a bland dollhouse instead of living in a weird town with interesting people

[@QueenLethargy]

I remember the first and (for now) only time I got a perfect island in NH was when I had a section of my island become my scorpion hoard for Flick. I don't understand what requirements were met for that.

[@pur3chao56]

I think this is a sign that everyone in your town wants to die

[@Afellowfromfaraway]

This video just made me remember my personal Animal Crossing hot take that being: I don't like New Leaf like at all. I got Wild World as kid fell in love with it and played it to no end (I had no Wii as a kid so no City Folk for me) and so I begged my adoptive dad to get me New Leaf launch-day which I got and was hyped for especially with my best friend playing too and at first I enjoyed my time the childhood wonder from Wild World was gone sure to be expected I was a teen by now but it was fine to be expected really. But I got bored super quickly and my friend was like decorate your town you'll enjoy it and I just hated it, it was so boring to me I barely managed to get any Bells making it even harder. So I just resetted the game over and over again playing the very short early game and then dropping the game I even sold it by now. So come New Horizons I wasn't interested I didn't even want to buy it initially yet I relented in the end my best friends excitement and some trailers peeking my interest and so I bought it and I enjoy it even now sure the lack of some core features when the game came out sucked but I didn't really mind it felt like getting eased back into my the old familiar flow of things sure I still miss things like my villagers having any deep personality but even that only bothers me slightly so I'm excited for the next title although that might take forever to come

[@ZaneBlade88]

It's actually illegal to mod hardware or software in Japan. Nintendo tries to enforce this as law around the world.

[@snappishtemperament213]

That explains a lot tbh (💀)

[@pakhitou5254]

That's how I notice the difference in gameplay because I kinda like weeds, I really wanted to have a Rafflesia on my Island and I really don't care about the rating of the Island, I don't even know what it brings to the game 😂

[@MV96_]

Maximum rating in NH gives you the recipe for the golden watering can which, when used on black roses, it may make golden rose plants spawn, whose flowers you can sell for 1000 a piece.

[@Ashley-vc2gy]

Thanks to welcome Amiibo, the villagers won’t move on top of custom designs. So if you put them EVERYWHERE the villagers will only move into the open spots you left. But make sure you leave a spot open or they will just move in at random

[@budsif]

I bought NL super late, like after they stopped making new copies, and the only reason I was assed to connect to the Internet and update the game was this haha.

[@Ashley-vc2gy]

@@budsif welcome Amiibo is good. You can get Zelda and Splatoon Villagers!

[@goodnighthawks]

i remember playing acww as a kid and jitters was one of my starting villagers. he was my favourite for the longest time and stuck around for years. then one day i got a letter saying he was gone and i genuinely cried

[@dietotaku]

if nintendo actually bans your console, you get no notice and they will not unban it no matter what. i got the runaround for awhile with nintendo telling me GAMESTOP could unban my switch and gamestop being like "uh... no? that's all nintendo."

[@firstcanonkill1767]

Looks at the breeding patch I have specifically for weeds because I have a forest themed island

[@SaturnSatyr]

I have an abstract, overfilled, low loading frame rate island and might I just say…. I am mind blown 🤯 I always thought the mechanic was based around plants and having more. Never thought furniture and placement could affect your stars.

[@judelush]

really wish they would keep adding things to keep you playing i.e if you got all the sea creatures or bugs or dinosaurs they need to do like a challenge or something

[@timohara7717]

Bug turney

[@Marinseya]

I remember my cousins and I used to all travel to one town in wild world and clear the weeds bc it took all of us to do it lol

[@birdie8006]

you're just improving with every vid!! great job elijah :D this was a nice casual watch

[@lyss.the.panini]

the one time i time travelled in new leaf (it was to get sables sewing machine for paths) my favorite villager moved away and i swore off of time traveling since then

[@scawydemon]

I may be biased (hacked 3ds + wii u), but tbh? I don't think people should get repercussions for modding their consoles unless they're using it to cause harm.

[@CWorthStudios]

Only animal crossing youtuber I watch. A game series I like blended with a fun and informational video format. I'll be here when you make more :3

[@timmyb.3426]

I will say that I always hated how moving was handled in previous games. The first three barely gave you any control over who gets to leave and who stays. Even if you do get the chance to give them the big NO, they sometimes will still just move anyway, which was very frustrating. New Leaf gave basically forced the villagers stay if you said no to their moving request, but the problem is that the cooldown for the next villager wanting to move was EXTREMELY short. Like, two days, even the next day, there will be another villager asking to move away. It always bothered me. Also, in all games prior to New Horizons, you can end up loosing a villager just from not playing the game, which can be very stressful if you don't want a certain villager to leave. Luckily, they seemed to do a good job with the moving system in New Horizons, though I will say that it's a shame the villagers will be in boxes the next day after telling them they could leave, and don't even write you a letter when they leave. But that is really not anywhere near as big of a problem compared to the stress that the previous games could give.

[@six-piecechickenmcnobody7531]

One month late but yeah, I had this happen. New leaf was my first AC game and one of my first villagers was Dotty. I bonded with her and loved her to bits and then one day she just moved lmao. I was so sad I deleted my island and now I'm hunting for her in NH

[@timmyb.3426]

@@six-piecechickenmcnobody7531 That's so unfortunate to hear that happened to you! I hope you'll find her soon in New Horizons.

[@six-piecechickenmcnobody7531]

@@timmyb.3426 Funnily enough, the same day I wrote that comment I got her at my campsite so now I'm reunited with her 🐇

[@weebywolf]

That’s so interesting! That’s a feature I really envy, since I never found Animal Crossing in game shops in NZ as a kid so New Horizons is my first game. I was so excited to experience this moving world but it feels so static without me. I wish they could just leave if you didn’t have a high friendship. But if the friendship was low, but they were gifted something recently, they wouldn’t leave. Don’t like feeling like I’m holding my villagers hostage :( I want Chester to be my bestie because he is my bestie, not because I forced him to stay

[@equally.marketable]

My heart was broken when Fang left my New Leaf down. Never in my life did I think I’d rage quit over a cartoon wolf with eyeshadow, but I never played on my 3ds again

[@sleepykittyMMD]

1:19 same thing happened in the gamecube edition when it came to weeds, 2 weeks off and all the acres are covered. eventually I gave up trying to get the golden tool for weeding because of it. i'd always miss a weed or 2 in an acre somewhere. I think the gamecube one was worse because trees close to the tracks would often obstruct weeds, plus there were so many acres to check.

[@christianjohnson8036]

this video made me so grateful for all the overlooked features new horizons brought

[@awesomeocelot7475]

I hate having only 3 stars because I have “too many trees” but I happen to have a lot of fruit trees plus I like all my trees….

[@casev799]

How has the lore gotten so deep

[@Alex_Silverpen]

aren't Rafflesia flowers also called something like 'corpse flowers' because, in real life, they smell like rotting flesh? No wonder people comment on how they're awful. The Pokemon Vileplume is also based on one of these flowers. Truly disgusting, and I'm glad I'm a coward who resets every time I take a long break from one of my older games.

[@MV96_]

The stink is meant to attract flies, the pollinators of rafflesia.

[@ceomg]

I was 10 years old and would time travel 99 years multiple times in wild world just to make bells. My poor child self didn’t know it would engulf my island in weeds 😭

[@SCP_SLOW]

Honestly loving all these new animal crossing videos, keep it up 👍🏽♥️

[@yyooogguurrrttt]

talking about star rating i play only 1.5 month at this point and what im thinking is i cant be bothered with getting stars and dont see myself doing it in a long time, since i want it to be like a forest with a bit of weeds and little to no fences and isabelle wont like that and i just want to have fun even if my island sucks and i wont get the golden tool recipy

[@softtacos6611]

Yea that’s me basically I’ve decided to do a mix of developed and natural so weeds are defo a needed detail stuck at 3 stars forever and I’m fine with it

[@Ariyelle]

@@softtacos6611unlike what the majority thinks, weeds do not affect ur island rating

[@santyxeorrr]

lmfao i'm so glad you and your wife were able to figure out the rating problem for the island, that is incredibly frustrating but it's also really sweet that you helped her get it fixed

[@ZrCrazyL3monade]

The 4 to 5 star rating change for that one block was because there is a rule where you can’t have too many items cluttered together in a 8 square radius. So to avoid that it would be ideal to space out your objects…

[@skystruck236]

I get why Nintendo gets upset about modding, it’s like taking an artists painting then drawing something on it yourself in a way. I totally get it. I really do, but I think once you have every item in the game I think you should be rewarded star trees! I think that would be a great way to reward players, and make it not so cheatsy because you wouldn’t have any use for the stars or make the trees have a different kind of star that cannot be crafted into items since that aspect of it is kinda cheatsy. They look adorable and would be great on my island but I don’t like modding unless it’s skyrim and I like my online privileges 😂

[@2hd4me]

Honestly, kinda wish the Rafelsia would come back, but as a shovelable item. That mechanic could be useful with it attracting bugs and all. Maybe it shouldn’t rely on the island’s rating, but maybe how long the weeds in the area have lasted. You can make a little fenced off area to make a farm of them.

[@EmilyMae]

Yes! Villager's wanting to leave is so sad. Bones was my favourite villager in my old game and he kept trying to move out and I'd talk him out of it but one day I logged in and he'd gone 😭

[@keeweefroot2692]

Thank you for acknowledging the older games as towns. It bothers me so much when people who have only played New Horizons call what is actually a town an island and have no idea what they are talking about in the video. It's always apparent when no one has actually played the other games but it's refreshing to see an actually knowledgeable and intimate AC video about other games in the series

[@golgothastrickster]

i always end up calling my island a town since i play new leaf more often than new horizons

[@timohara7717]

He even calls them islands its instict

[@jfs983]

Rafflesias are so cool though, I honestly wish you could force them to spawn somehow.

[@illintentpersonified1912]

man, ive been playing new leaf lately, and let me tell you, the villagers house placement is outrageously annoying..... ankha just moved in recently, RIGHT in front of my bus stop, and kiki moved in awhile ago literally like a space off from being right in front of one of my bridges..... incredibly irritating, but i do enjoy having less control over my villagers. it makes them feel like real residents of my town!

[@name6953]

Early in new leaf, i had a problem where Cherry moved directly in front of my house. so I just messed with her everyday to get rid of her. I also remember Ankha leaving my town because I didn't talk to her, but that's because she's only awake at night. my mom took my 3ds at night. so, the villagers were sooooooooooo annoying to me.

[@BringTheParty]

Man I love your stuff! Keep it up

[@Larat..]

You’re one of my favourite animal crossing KZbinr

[@ben12355]

Agree

[@yanukisworld964]

I was sad when prince moved out because he was my favorite villager and he was like my child

[@meganmclendon5063]

I wish there was a way in new horizons to get rid of a villager quickly. Maybe the cost of that being other villagers want to leave as well because you're being mean to a villager they like

[@taarna1097]

When I time traveled on Wild World, I stopped receiving mail from villagers. It was nuts

[@jadejacobs2221]

As for the "Overloaded Islands" one... My problem was always the opposite end of the spectrum, as, in my opinion, things look too busy or cluttered when there's a ton of stuff. But if you don't have a ton of stuff, it's so hard to get the rating. People going for less "everything on display" themes, if you can call them that, or themes with more "overgrown/rustic" aesthetics and not as much reliance on the items you'd buy from the stores have SO much of an issue in New Horizons....

[@Fallen_Pup]

To be honest in terms of New Horizon, Modding is pretty harmless but i can see why it would not be wanted. people seeing your town and being super excited for something like "Oh i want that how did they/you get it!" oh sorry you cant i cheated it in. would kill the excitement for something new to get for someone, which in that way i think Modding is terrible.

[@custardapplecat2902]

Why is the segment titled Rafelsia and why does he say it like that?? It’s Rafflesia. It’s a real plant. Just google a spelling it’s not hard oml

[@lime-flavoredneo1062]

If you like Google so much then why don't you Google how to get some bitches?

[@eway44]

I liked the Ruffelsia. I thought they looked cool. And as someone who was trying to catch every bug, i loved these. And I played City Folk only btw. I only had one in the town tho. I also never noticed the deterioration haha

[@SebTheSamMarten]

On the last part there... Having Cherry, Biskit, Coco, or Whitney leave my town would legitimately make me spiral. I don't think I could recover from that. ;-;

[@gwendolynrobinson3900]

That's really sad :/

[@hsdkitty-chan_official]

EARLY GANG!! You're one of my favorite animal crossing KZbinrs and I want you very often. Glad to see you!

[@qwertyb18]

I wish it was easier to get villagers to leave, like simply complaining about them to Isabelle

[@samsoutsideadventures6121]

11:43 I feel like the star rating is really important between getting thoughts of your island from your villagers, getting KK Slider, getting the lily of the valley and overall feeling pretty awesome because you got a 5 star rating. However, the getting demoted a star just because you moved an item even just by a bit is extremely stupid. I feel like the way your island is rated should be revised a bit. Maybe they fixed it by now but they definitely should fix it if they haven't yet.

[@IveryClassic]

My favorite villagers are 1.) the one who gave me my first friendship photo, Raddle, and 2.) the one who would always tell me if he was thinking about leaving and let me talk him into staying everytime, Rasher. No matter how long I was away for, no matter how many other villages had come and went, Rasher would always let me know ahead of time and would always let me convince him to stay. If I ever find Rasher in New Horizons he's going to get a special spot on the island just for him, he and Raddle are my best animal crossing pals even 3 games later.

[@JZJ7777]

I think the only annoying thing about checking my island’s rating is finding out there’s too many items cluttered somewhere. Then I have to find out where that location is. I was absolutely ecstatic, however, when I checked my island rating a few days ago and found out I had a four star rating. This is the first time I checked my island rating in ages. I’m glad, however, that I’m not a fan of putting a bunch of furniture and trying to make an island theme of whatever. I’ve made a wedding area on one of my beaches and a couple Festivale themed areas, though, but that’s just about it when it comes to themes on my island.

[@StrikerZero6]

I remember losing my old 5 star island, I still have the dream code, and it's the only way I can visit it anymore, I lost all the work due to having to completely format my switch...

[@LittleBlitzballLeauge]

Bro I took 2 years off new horizons coming back to those weeds wasn’t fun but coming back to my island was so emotional for me❤

[@Zander10624]

The store thing is actually a myth! Idk where it came from for Wild World since its impossible to have your store downgraded in that game (i used to time travel a TON, sometimes years in the future) but in City Folk, you get the store downgraded down to Nook n Go or Nookway, but you had to be prompted by Tom Nook first (which he did about once a month after unlocking Nookingtons) and you also had to specifically choose to do the downgraded (the option to upgrade back would become available the next time). The purpose for this was that the Nook n Go and Nookway stayed open later than Nookingtons (11pm, 10pm, and 9pm respectively in City Folk), so if you preferred late hours to store variety, you could just revert to Nook n Go etc. Regardless of the origin of the myth, I can confirm through my many years of tinkering with and playing those games that neither game will ever downgrade the store without prompting you first!

[@softouji]

Just came across your channel and LOVE this content ^_^

[@lucywoomy]

I had a rafflesia near my house in new leaf at some point. I don't think my town had too much weeds or maybe it had a certain amount but I found it looked nice in the areas they were in. I was pretty grossed out when I saw it but at least I got flies for the museum

[@simmons1377]

3:32 This didn’t happen unless you gave the go-ahead and you chose which store you wanted it to regress to

[@GigiCantRead]

something that really annoys me in acnh is how if you place items on the ground your ratings can go down, im doing a forest core island so i like to place acorns mushrooms ect on the floor but im not sure ill ever get 5 stars bc of it

[@ShuckleIX]

11:31 If it's gonna randomly punish the player for playing the game with no explanation, the mechanic definitely should be thrown out. That, or it should be fixed to not do that and the rules should be specified so it doesn't happen anymore to anyone who reads the explanation. I don't know what's up with games being essentially turbo illiterate, they never explain their mechanics to a vital degree, they're always like "oh yea just make the city good and you'll get 5 stars" and then you never get 5 stars because the devs liked street lights so much they programmed it so a requirement was putting street lights everywhere or something equally nonsensical that punishes the player for not being an intercontinental telepath. Every game is like this, a lot of games would not suffer for explaining every mechanic with perfect detail, and most games would not suffer from explaining the mechanic enough for the player to not be punished, yet the most you get is a "oh just make the town pretty" or some equally vague description that LITERALLY MIGHT AS WELL NOT BE MENTIONED. Hylics made the same amount of sense and that game is pure brain jam for god's sake.

[@chizzicle]

Villagers moving out in New Leaf was messy but manageable. As long as you talked to all your villagers every day, you could figure out if anyone was moving out, and then keep talking to that villager until they change their mind. The issue, as you mentioned in the video, is if you actually want them to move out. Basically every time you talk to them, regardless of what you tell them, there was a chance they change their mind and choose to stay anyway. So the trick there was to simply ignore the villager from the moment you learn they are planning to move, so you don't give them a chance to change their mind even by accident.

[@GenesisSaturna]

I remember purposefully leaving weeds so I could get the bad flower, I thought it was pretty.

[@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42]

Animal crossing new horizons has feng shui as an in-game hidden force that the HHA or whatever observes and uses to rank places or that would be why one block matters that much

[@lilypoise]

I think you should have mentioned rocks specifically in new leaf. You couldn't really destroy rocks back then so if one of them spawned right in front of your train tracks (like mine) then you couldnt do anything and the rock continues to be there after like 5 years ):

[@ChubbulusUwU]

Me and my sister tried to gain a ton of bells from the ACWW time travelling exploit involving Interest. We did it wrong and got nothing. Our towns became FLOODED with weeds. We had to help each other clear our towns for like 5 hours

[@boethia7367]

The random villager house placement was the one thing I didn't like about New Leaf.

[@meltedprincess]

They gave too much and also took away too much in NH. Which is why I just bought Wild World this week and I've been playing it and NL religiously.🖤🖤

[@Seallbay]

At this point, the weeds are just part of my Wild World town. Also, I thought grass deteriorated in Wild World too...

[@jesterspin]

personally on an individual level i don't care if you mod or time travel or whatever but i think it's entirely fair on nintendo's part to say "hey, you're hacking our game, we can't let you connect to the internet because you are hacking our game and may have malicious intent." while modding your island usually isn't malicious there are many hacks that are and i can get why that's not a risk nintendo is comfortable taking. ultimately do whatever you want on your own time but if you aren't playing by their rules you kind of can't really complain when they say you can't connect to their online services