Preparing your island for the Animal Crossing: New Horizons update?

It has been about a year since I last visited egg, my island Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I played Animal Crossing: New Leaf a lot, so I knew what to expect when I rebooted it again, following the recently crowded Animal Crossing Direct – weeds everywhere, roaches in my house, and the villagers were more disappointed in me than my dad when they found out. that I wanted to be a game journalist.

“Well, well, well,” they would say. “Look who’s crawling back after months. We thought you were dead!” I don’t blame them for being upset with me, because after all, I’m the only one who can decorate the island and make decisions.

Rex has wanted to move for years, but apparently needs me permission to do so. Sherb has been picking up trash that he wanted to unload on me. The Lost and Found is full of things that only I can claim. KK Slider has been performing to a crowd of no one, and Gulliver is probably dead.

Well, I’m back now, and only because I was finally attracted to the new content. I’m a huge fan of Brewster, even if I’ve never had a cup of coffee in my LIFE; the addition of farming and cooking will give me a lot of things to do in the game beyond decorating; and I am also intrigued by the islands of Kapp’n, even if they seem quite similar to the existing desert islands, only with a little extra flora and fauna.

But me the island fills me with despair. I spent so much time terraforming, renovating, planning and building it, but once all of that is done, well … it’s not so much fun anymore. I have a handful of options left and I don’t like any of them …

Option one: start over

You know that feeling when you go to save an essay you’ve been working on all day and the file gets corrupted? The thought of having to do it all over again is enough to make you sick. Well that’s what it would feel like to start over.

I’m not going to lie, I Really like the idea of ​​not being tied to what I have already done and being able to create something new; A big part of the reason my island bores me is because it’s all done. There is very little new, and the areas that I spent so much time creating are difficult to dismantle. It’s so much easier buuuurn it allll dooooown.

But … then I think of my DIY Ironwood recipes. My furniture for special events. My outfits. My complete Museum. All these things, I like to have them. I like being able to rummage through my bulky storage boxes to suit whatever decorating ideas you have. I don’t want to do that again, especially since it will be MUCH harder to gather all the necessary things now that basically none of my friends are playing games.

I do not want miss egg. I love the egg. It represents all the work I put into it and I would be sad to lose all of that. But it’s also an albatross around my neck, dragging me down. Maybe I should free myself.

Option two: renovate the island

This option is probably the one with the best ease / reward ratio, and what I’ve seen some people do on social media. I can keep all my stuff, but I choose a couple of “sections” of my island to remake. I already have a couple in mind: the cemetery, which is cool, but a bit useless mechanically, and the open-air pizzeria, which is nice in theory, but nobody ever uses it.

I could even, as some of my friends have done, terraform everything into a flat island and redecorate it with new ideas. This is the ideal scenario, if only you had time – you could build cafes, restaurants, and playgrounds, and with the upgrade … would actually be usable.

However, I know how much work this would be. Terraforming in-game is a pain in the ass, and I don’t miss out on it. Having to go back and forth with my little inventory to store things also sounds like a nightmare, like trying to bring groceries one at a time. No thanks. There’s the new storage shed, of course, that could help … but you’d have to find and buy it first.

And apparently, I’ve forgotten about all the controls, which makes redecorating a bit of a hassle. While exploring the other day, it took me ten minutes to get a floor pattern back where it was, after I accidentally erased it. At best, it is difficult to get ACNH to do what you want. It’s almost impossible when you can’t remember how to do things.

Also, my island was purposely designed to have things exactly where I want them, and if I repurpose that space for a farm or Gyroid choir, it might not get where I really want it. The graveyard, for example, is hidden in the upper left, and my Gyroids deserve better than that, right? [How about getting the gyroids in the sea where they belong? – Ed]

Option three: live with it

If I really don’t feel like redecorating or making a new space, I could always just … live with the things I’ve created. I know the sunk cost fallacy tells me that I can’t destroy things that I spent so much time doing, which is silly, but also … looooong less time to play ACNH now than when it came out. When he came out, he was working 4 days a week! And he was trapped inside! Actually, it was a battle against everyone.

I guess I could deal with that and accept the fact that I will never be one of those ‘aesthetic’ people from Animal Crossing. Sigh.

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Maybe he could hire Resetti to demolish the whole place overnight … Maybe there could be a terrible storm, and everything except the buildings could just be washed in the ocean, freeing me of any responsibility.

But the thing is. The. Thing. It is. All these they are exhausting up to a point. I don’t want to be too picky here, but … I wish there was an option to start over. and Save everything.

Maybe I could hire Resetti to demolish the whole place overnight, and all my decorations could be re-stored automatically. Maybe there could be a terrible storm, and everything except the buildings could just be washed in the ocean, freeing me of any responsibility.

Or even, at this point, just a trash can. A trash can where I can put all my useless DIYs. PLEASE.

Maybe there is a Option four: denial. I could simply refuse to recognize my island and immerse myself in the Happy Home Paradise DLC content, decorating the islands and houses of other characters and living vicariously through them. Who knows, it might even reinvigorate my desire to renew my own island!

However, there is no correct answer. Each option is a bit of work at best, and lot working in the worst case. And, well, games shouldn’t seem like work (unless you want to). But tell me … what is your plan? Have you already started? How are you? And what should I do?

We’ll all find out what we’re made of when the update comes out on November 5, but for now, tell me about your experience dusting off your village in the comments!