Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

[Hexx]

1 hour ago, Weavus said:

 

Yes please! 

when you free?

[Protocol Penguin]

Getting frustrated with the realisation that I don’t really have the creativity or imagination to build my island to look as interesting as I’d like to... All the previous games, the focus has been on home design rather than village design, even in New Leaf. On one level I wouldn’t mind a plain ‘traditional’ Animal Crossing village with animals’ home scattered about, but that is dodging the challenge this time round. And why waste the chance of being able to freely place furniture on the landscape? 

[Kryptonian]

I changed from the default dress to a fancy one and it looks lovely:

 

 

It flapping in the breeze is really nice too

 

 

[NexivRed]

Tell you what the best thing terraforming is for; just being able to slightly carve out areas that otherwise can’t fit your perfect designs. 

Like being able to add one more square of land so you can move a tree along and have it frame something perfectly. Or straighten out a cliff edge so it can take a ramp. All those little areas rather than huge big projects. 
 

I mean, didn’t stop me building a mountain and my own mini Poseidon’s run lol. But that’s what I appreciate it for. I can add to my zoo easily for example, instead of deleting or compromising the whole thing. 

[Kryptonian]

2 minutes ago, NexivRed said:

Like being able to add one more square of land so you can move a tree along and have it frame something perfectly. Or straighten out a cliff edge so it can take a ramp. All those little areas rather than huge big projects.

This sounds handy, I have numerous tree issues

[NexivRed]

@Lyrical Donut are you online? You were first in line for one of these cameras right? Want me to just post it?

[KRP]

1 hour ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Getting frustrated with the realisation that I don’t really have the creativity or imagination to build my island to look as interesting as I’d like to... All the previous games, the focus has been on home design rather than village design, even in New Leaf. On one level I wouldn’t mind a plain ‘traditional’ Animal Crossing village with animals’ home scattered about, but that is dodging the challenge this time round. And why waste the chance of being able to freely place furniture on the landscape? 

I'm finding it quite intimidating, especially seeing people's creations online.

 

The ability to mould the landscape in anyway you like is quite overwhelming to me. I don't know where to start.

 

I think I'm just going to break it all down into mini-projects and spread them out over several weeks.

[Lyrical Donut]

53 minutes ago, NexivRed said:

@Lyrical Donut are you online? You were first in line for one of these cameras right? Want me to just post it?

If you could chuck it in the post, that would be grand!

[NexivRed]

I’ve winged it. I’ll never be able to compete with what I’ve seen online. I can never get the variety of items, and I find it impossible to bear creation out of nothing. I do much better with a starting point, so I kept my island mostly the same and chipped away a few bits. 
 

Often it was getting a new item that spurred on some design. Like an umbrella for the zoo or jumping over a hole for my race course. 

[Oh Danny Boy]

48 minutes ago, KRP said:

I'm finding it quite intimidating, especially seeing people's creations online.

 

The ability to mould the landscape in anyway you like is quite overwhelming to me. I don't know where to start.

 

I think I'm just going to break it all down into mini-projects and spread them out over several weeks.

This is a good article.
 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgezwk/animal-crossing-new-horizons-is-not-the-game-we-all-need-right-now

 

Play the game at your own pace. Creating it into a tedious grind to keep up with others would ruin the enjoyment 

[Rayn]

I stumbled upon this video and I rather liked it as it not only debunked a few things I've heard (some even on this very forum) but it also explains how the debunked myths actually work. 

It does contain spoilers, though. The video explains the following in detail:

Spoiler

Dodo Blushing, Money Tree Patterns, Nook's Cranny Upgrade, Villagers Moving Out, and Flower Crossbreeding.

 

 

[Rayn]

31 minutes ago, Oh Danny Boy said:

This is a good article.
 

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgezwk/animal-crossing-new-horizons-is-not-the-game-we-all-need-right-now

 

Play the game at your own pace. Creating it into a tedious grind to keep up with others would ruin the enjoyment 

 

I agree with this 100%.

The thing is, though, I have a close friend who always avoid spoilers in games. He always wants to go in completely blind. He never even read (or watch) reviews of games, he simply decides what to buy on either nostalgia (for remakes, sequels, tributes etc.) or meta score. He's playing New Horizon as a singleplayer game. Not because he doesn't like multiplayer games, but his reasoning is simply that he doesn't want to be force fed the possibilities in the game by visiting other islands. 

Personally, I love visiting other islands for both inspiration and the social aspect. That someone has unlocked something I've never seen before just lits my fire and the urge to press on, I WANT that to unlock on my island.

My friend, though, has now reverted to playing the game for about 15 minutes per day. He logs on, finds the 4-5 fossils, pick up any new patches of weed and checks the cranny for new items. Rinse and repeat. Last night he complained that the game is too slow, has no goal, no purpose and doesn't give hime any reason to spend more time than 15 minutes daily on it. 

I'm on the opposite side of the issue, I simply can't find enough hours in the day to play the damn thing. Even though I've played it for nearly 150 hours I get to see new items, recipes, villagers, people and fauna every single day and my ever growing curiosity is seemingly insatiable. 

[Fuddle]

 

I intended making this video a lot weirder, but my computer crashed about 5 times this morning, so sod it. It’ll do.

[moosegrinder]

1 hour ago, NexivRed said:

I’ve winged it. I’ll never be able to compete with what I’ve seen online. I can never get the variety of items, and I find it impossible to bear creation out of nothing. I do much better with a starting point, so I kept my island mostly the same and chipped away a few bits. 
 

Often it was getting a new item that spurred on some design. Like an umbrella for the zoo or jumping over a hole for my race course. 

 

I'd hazard a lot of people have been extensively time travelling to get some of the bonkers islands they have in regard to items and that.

[Rayn]

4 minutes ago, Fuddle said:

 

I intended making this video a lot weirder, but my computer crashed about 5 times this morning, so sod it. It’ll do.

 

That was certainly weird enough

A slight feeling of envy as you've got Audie, though. 

 

PS: Does your Pietro call you Covidbuddy too?

[NexivRed]

36 minutes ago, Rayn said:

The thing is, though, I have a close friend who always avoid spoilers in games. He

My friend, though, has now reverted to playing the game for about 15 minutes per day. He logs on, finds the 4-5 fossils, pick up any new patches of weed and checks the cranny for new items. Rinse and repeat. Last night he complained that the game is too slow, has no goal, no purpose and doesn't give hime any reason to spend more time than 15 minutes daily on it. 

So he doesn’t pop balloons or find recipes in bottles? Or buy miles tickets to go to islands to farm resources to make the recipes? 
He’s not designing anything in the designer or designing interactive stuff you can do by yourself?

planying flowers? Moving trees?

 

Cos let’s be honest, there’s loads you can actually do alone.

[skittles]

If I don't get a purple pansy, a purple hyathinth (sp?), A green mum or a blue rose in the next few days I might throw a major tantrum.

 

PLEASE somebody confirm the correct combos for the above because it's been two weeks and I've had nothing.

[Rayn]

2 minutes ago, skittles said:

If I don't get a purple pansy, a purple hyathinth (sp?), A green mum or a blue rose in the next few days I might throw a major tantrum.

 

PLEASE somebody confirm the correct combos for the above because it's been two weeks and I've had nothing.

 

Watch the last video I posted from the 16m 56s mark. It explains cross breeding in detail. 

[Rayn]

4 minutes ago, NexivRed said:

So he doesn’t pop balloons or find recipes in bottles? Or buy miles tickets to go to islands to farm resources to make the recipes? 
He’s not designing anything in the designer or designing interactive stuff you can do by yourself?

planying flowers? Moving trees?

 

Cos let’s be honest, there’s loads you can actually do alone.

I bet he pops balloons and find recipes, but I know for a fact that he doesn't touch the designer or move trees. 

 

Edit: To be honest, I suspect he might've decided to just hate New Horizon because of the immense success. He's normally quite strongly opinionated on popularity and trends. AC has always been quite niche, which is why I think he used to talk warmly about the series. 

[Danster]

3 minutes ago, skittles said:

If I don't get a purple pansy, a purple hyathinth (sp?), A green mum or a blue rose in the next few days I might throw a major tantrum.

 

PLEASE somebody confirm the correct combos for the above because it's been two weeks and I've had nothing.

Have a look at that mythbuster video posted previously. The hybrid combinations are much more complicated than any guide is able to describe at the moment.

 

[NexivRed]

11 minutes ago, skittles said:

If I don't get a purple pansy, a purple hyathinth (sp?), A green mum or a blue rose in the next few days I might throw a major tantrum.

 

PLEASE somebody confirm the correct combos for the above because it's been two weeks and I've had nothing.

I think that video has explained that it’s not just to do with just combos. Each flower has genes. 
And some, such as a blue rose, only comes from successfully breeding recessive genes for a while. 

[NexivRed]

The flower thing explains why I’ve had two red flowers produce red flowers. 

[Rayn]

Just now, NexivRed said:

The flower thing explains why I’ve had two red flowers produce red flowers. 

 

Inbred buds...

[majic]

6 hours ago, SweatyTravolta said:

If you could generate a code at some point today I would be extremely grateful. I try to play the nip game with only local friends so that I don't break the game but it's all gone tits up this week and everything is bad. Currently looking at a 200000 bell loss

Sorry missed this. When is good? 

 

 

Just checked the price.... Now its only 181...

 

[Weavus]

40 minutes ago, skittles said:

If I don't get a purple pansy, a purple hyathinth (sp?), A green mum or a blue rose in the next few days I might throw a major tantrum.

 

PLEASE somebody confirm the correct combos for the above because it's been two weeks and I've had nothing.

 

The document about flower breeding in that video is this one https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ARIQCUc5YVEd01D7jtJT9EEJF45m07NXhAm4fOpNvCs/mobilebasic

 

It's mental! 

 

Spoiler

Guaranteed blue rose path

Note: due to spawning mechanics in New Horizons, it’s recommended to have multiple pairs at each step to speed up breeding. This means starting with a bunch of whites to get your first purples, getting multiple offspring from each step so you have a reasonable amount of pairs per step.

 

Breed two seed whites together to get a purple (25% chance)

Breed that purple with a seed yellow to get white (100%)

Cross that white back to purple to get purple offspring (50%)

This is where it gets tricky. Only half of the purple offspring will have the required genes for the next step, so you have two options. You could place them all in a large plot together and move on to the next step, knowing that you may not be able to produce white offspring at all, or you can test breed them to seed yellows to pick out the good purples and guarantee that you can complete the next step.

The good purples can produce yellows 50% of the time when crossed with seed yellows, while the bad purples only produce whites. If it doesn’t produce a yellow after 3-4 breedings, you can safely get rid of the purple. You will need at least two good purples in New Leaf, and one in New Horizons, since it’s best to duplicate the good purple in NH.

Important New Horizons notes:

Due to flowers now being able to duplicate themselves, if you’re not doing a 1-on-1 breeding layout, it’s recommended to block open spots around your purple parent at this step.

For the same reasons, if you do any layout other than 1-on-1 breeding for the test breeding, it’s required to block open spots around the seed yellows.

After you have one confirmed good purple, the easiest thing to do is to stop breeding the parents, isolate the purple, and water it to duplicate it.

Breed two of the purples from the last step to get white* (25%)

Keep these whites, they’re important for increasing your odds later.

If you have trouble getting whites even with purples you’ve test bred against yellows, you can place the purple offspring of this pair in a separate plot together while continuing to breed. If you get any whites from that plot, you can move on to the next step, as they are the desired whites*.

Breed two seed reds for black (25%)

Breed the white* with the black for reds (100%)

At this point, these are the “hybrid reds” that are capable of producing blue offspring. However, the following steps will gradually increase the odds of blue offspring from 1 in 64 up to 1 in 4.

Cross the hybrid reds back with the whites* for oranges (12.5%)

If you stop here, these oranges can be bred together for a 6.25% chance at blue offspring.

Cross the oranges back to whites* for reds (25%)

Breed two of those reds together for blue (25%)

 

[skittles]

14 minutes ago, Weavus said:

 

The document about flower breeding in that video is this one https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ARIQCUc5YVEd01D7jtJT9EEJF45m07NXhAm4fOpNvCs/mobilebasic

 

It's mental! 

 

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Guaranteed blue rose path

Note: due to spawning mechanics in New Horizons, it’s recommended to have multiple pairs at each step to speed up breeding. This means starting with a bunch of whites to get your first purples, getting multiple offspring from each step so you have a reasonable amount of pairs per step.

 

Breed two seed whites together to get a purple (25% chance)

Breed that purple with a seed yellow to get white (100%)

Cross that white back to purple to get purple offspring (50%)

This is where it gets tricky. Only half of the purple offspring will have the required genes for the next step, so you have two options. You could place them all in a large plot together and move on to the next step, knowing that you may not be able to produce white offspring at all, or you can test breed them to seed yellows to pick out the good purples and guarantee that you can complete the next step.

The good purples can produce yellows 50% of the time when crossed with seed yellows, while the bad purples only produce whites. If it doesn’t produce a yellow after 3-4 breedings, you can safely get rid of the purple. You will need at least two good purples in New Leaf, and one in New Horizons, since it’s best to duplicate the good purple in NH.

Important New Horizons notes:

Due to flowers now being able to duplicate themselves, if you’re not doing a 1-on-1 breeding layout, it’s recommended to block open spots around your purple parent at this step.

For the same reasons, if you do any layout other than 1-on-1 breeding for the test breeding, it’s required to block open spots around the seed yellows.

After you have one confirmed good purple, the easiest thing to do is to stop breeding the parents, isolate the purple, and water it to duplicate it.

Breed two of the purples from the last step to get white* (25%)

Keep these whites, they’re important for increasing your odds later.

If you have trouble getting whites even with purples you’ve test bred against yellows, you can place the purple offspring of this pair in a separate plot together while continuing to breed. If you get any whites from that plot, you can move on to the next step, as they are the desired whites*.

Breed two seed reds for black (25%)

Breed the white* with the black for reds (100%)

At this point, these are the “hybrid reds” that are capable of producing blue offspring. However, the following steps will gradually increase the odds of blue offspring from 1 in 64 up to 1 in 4.

Cross the hybrid reds back with the whites* for oranges (12.5%)

If you stop here, these oranges can be bred together for a 6.25% chance at blue offspring.

Cross the oranges back to whites* for reds (25%)

Breed two of those reds together for blue (25%)

 

I just can't believe it is that difficult to get a blue rose.

[Weavus]

1 minute ago, skittles said:

I just can't believe it is that difficult to get a blue rose.

 

It's not necessarily, thats just the guaranteed way to get one.

[Rayn]

Does the honey bees have any effect on cross pollination in the game at all?

[majic]

25 minutes ago, Weavus said:

 

It's not necessarily, thats just the guaranteed way to get one.

Im also chasing the blue rose. This seems to be the holy grail of flowers. I believe I have 3 hybrid reds so I'm hoping this finally produces the blue 

[skittles]

31 minutes ago, Weavus said:

 

It's not necessarily, thats just the guaranteed way to get one.

I've had a couple of drinks but my brain just cannot digest that quote at all right now.

 

I need diagrams.

 

Hoping for positive news tomorrow..