Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Fall Update Will Handle The Weeding So You Don't Have To

Not enough to make me want to play it again. Great game, but if Nintendo wanted me back in my town they should have added a more substantial update. Hell I would pay for dlc if it offered more features

Great game .

But.... I like pulling up the weeds.

Those pesky weeds being taken care of, finally?! I'm in!

I tend to play it off and on. I recently had a burst of playing it, so unfortunately I probably won't have too many weeds for it to clean up.

It's nice that Nintendo's finally getting around to providing a reason for people to buy all those countless Animal Crossing amiibos that have been sitting untouched at every amiibo-selling store in the world for the last year or so.

Pulling weeds too much trouble? Don't worry, Daddy Nintendo got your back.

Too bad we can't smoke them

I'll pick anyone's weeds for them; gets me closer to the weed medal. Give your friend code and open your town and I'll clean it for you before the update!!!

Isabelle is probably hiring Shiba Kari (Legend of Kusakari) for this job.

I know it is not Animal Crossing New Leaf per se, but I once pulled up over 4,000 weeds on Animal Crossing Wild World. XD

#TooMuchTime

But I wonder whether this update will allow for a one-time weed pull-up or an option to instantly remove all weeds forever...

But now I'm wondering, is it permanently removing weeds or is it just weeding your town once for you after installing the update? I think it's the latter, but who knows.

@InternetBowser I'm pretty sure they just mean that all of the weed will be removed from your town when you update, but more can grow after that.

Just wonder if the update also remove Random Move Out. It won't be nice for losing Dreamy Villagers just because we don't play Animal Crossing New Leaf for long time.

@Ogbert Haha. Well, I guess you go could on a weed-pulling extravaganza the day before the update drops and put Isabelle out of a job.

Now all we need is an update to evict neighbours who don't attend MY damn parties.

Effers.

I've been thinking of getting the game, but the specter of weeding has kinda held me back. Now that it's 20 bucks, I got no more excuse.

@Ichiyama You never really had an excuse to begin with. You can enact an ordinance in your town that prevents weeds from popping up in your town. By doing so, weeds usually only pop up if you've been away from the game for a long time, and it's only about two or three weeds.

@HappyMaskedGuy How about evicting the rat that moved into my park and ruined my line of bushes? CURSE YOU, RIZZO!

I would like to be able to change my characters skin color. They could find the appropriate questions to do this.

I just picked all of my weeds today. No worries!

My town is overrun by immortal flowers thanks to the beauty rule.

I've never found every weed, apparently, so I don't know what Leif would do if i could. I remember the wisps would do all the work in a previous game.

@Meowpheel
Unless if you or someone accidentally running on Flowers. XD
Oops... sorry.

I never stopped playing. I've almost logged 1000 hours playing this game. I'm also looking to visit other people's town, so if you want, hit me up (seriously all this time and my town still doesn't have apples😒)

After 700 hours in the game I am really just looking forward to the next entry in the series. Still disappointed that the Wii U never got a proper Animal Crossing in glorious HD! It may not have sold as well as the 3DS version but it still would likely have sold a few million, which I would have to assume would cover the expenses in making it and then some. All we can do is wait for the inevitable NX AC game.

Just started playing again after six months,i can't stay away from the AC games!

I finally picked up New Leaf a few weeks ago - this game is worse than crack... excuse me while I go get my fix right now.

@allav866 Rizzooooooooooooo!

@KrakenSoup
Right now, every at least 12 hours i load my save date but before that i change my current gameplay time stay on 6 am with same date over and over again to prevent Villager Move Out without my permission. Also, at the same time i got Lazy Camper so i can "Freeze" the date in order to expoit more Bells from Rare Beetles until i got some Million Bells.

@Alundra-1998 it already has the option to removed all weeds forever. You have to put in place the gardening ordinance.

The last part of the title made me think of the Nostalgia Critic

I won't need to worry about weeds because my town no longer exists. The game took the liberty of corrupting itself for me. Thanks game! (this is obviously sarcasm, I'm not happy, I'm pissed beyond any extent you could ever understand)

I created a new town a few months back. Stopped playing it after one day. Happy for the people who have the AC amiibo cards. It will take more than a de-weeding to get me playing again, though.

@bubby444
Wow, you still play until today ?
Same with me.
Also, my ACNL gameplay time is more than 400 hours (Gosh...you're even longer than mine). Also, play it everyday.
My native fruit is Cherry and also i have ALL fruits (Apple also have) including Tropical fruits. If you interested, you can check my town.
My town name is Neptune, with Mayor name is David.
You can check in Dream Suite first to take a peek my town looks.
Later, if you interested i can give you Friends Code so you can visit my town by Real.

this game. it mixes my feels all up. i spent something like 400 hours on it, but i've barely played for a year. i don't like worrying about villagers leaving, i don't like that i can't dump the one i hate without worrying i'll get stuck with one i hate more, or worse, that those damn paths i spent so much time on will get borked by a new house. i don't like that i can't edit my paths, because i exported and scanned them back and now the game won't let me touch them. and i'm really REALLY tired of catching beetles (never one to gamble on turnips).

i LOVED this game. and it made me miserable in the end. i think i'm just ready for a new ac!

@bubby444 you can grab all the fruits from island minigames.

@RealPoketendoNL i would guess it just does it for you once. i mean, isn't there a furniture set you get from weeding?

@PlanetaryNebulae
That's exactly what happened to me. I played it in August and just quit again, so I'll have to see if I'm ready to pick it up again.

@doll
Here's my tips:
1. You can go back on that day you played before so no need to worry for losing villagers. I'm also doing this trick by setting my gameplay clock at 6 am + same date over and over again, every 12 hours. Just only 2 - 3 minutes to change the time, load data, save and quit. 3 minutes for maintenance. Easy. And then you can play different titles. My schedule for maintenance usually at morning (before i work) and evening (after work day). So, i can maintain my Dreamy Villagers stay in my town forever.

2. Exploit more money is easier when you got Lazy camper. Just put a lot of rare Beetles for easy 30,000 until 60,000 Bells each. Kinda tedious but necessary. You can repeat until get bored.

3. Save and Quit , then Load Data oftenly to check your Villagers if they have a plan to move out. If you have befriend with them, they'll give Exclamation mark "!" at you when you encounter with them. Check their dialogue and when you noticed someone wanna Move Out, your decision to Keep Them Up or Just Let Them Go.

I hope my tips can cheer you up while waiting for a new update. Happy playing again.

i had this game but I gave it to my kids. And then their carts got corrupted or the connectors got damaged. another one lost his 3DS somewhere in the house (not sure where). so we no longer have this game. I was going to get again once it went on the select line, but then they announced the other version so I decide to wait and see what the direct brings. Plus I have plenty of other games to play in the meantime (like DQ7, YoKai Watch 2, DMW2 and the Pokemon games).

@Anti-Matter thank you, i'm not keen to mess with my clock, i guess i worry i might mess something up? if not in this game, then in another one. i've just been using the stop-the-mover trick, but sometimes i get frustrated trying to figure out who the mover is instead of enjoying myself.

i had not heard about having a lazy camper. if i understand you correctly, just having a lazy camper means i'll get more money? i had no idea!

i think i just burned out. i was spending something like 2-4 hours in the eve/early night to catch the best beetles, trying to get all the furniture/clothing for four player characters. it's my own fault as much as anything. but i hang on to my town in case i ever go back, and i definitely hope i'll get to play whatever is next.

fwiw, i've been playing style savvy, where i don't so much feel the game punishes you for taking breaks or playing at your own pace. i think the next game ac could give us more control without undermining the game or our enjoyment! but that's just my opinion.

@doll
Oh, about the clock. I usually change the time when Isabelle asked me about setting the time, not change the time directly from 3DS system setting. It will not messing up your save file as long the DATE is exactly same (Example, my latest date in my ACNL = 14 July 2016 despite right now the date is 13 September 2016. I have delayed so many times to keep the date stay on 14 July 2016 and before 12 a.m. or it will changed into 15 July 2016). When you setting the time like that, it will completely 100% SAFE. Well, it just only Rotten the Turnip due to Time Travel but anyway, it will keep your Villager stay forever.
Same here, I'm also playing Style Savvy Fashion Forward. Quite interesting for me, a young man who have never played it before but oftenly watched America's Next Top Model series. XD
Hopefully the new update will not punish us to play ACNL forever.

Been playing regularly, even though my favourite villagers have gone. Looking forward to the supposed amiibo functionality allowing you to scan a card and have that character camp in town. Oh yes, Chevre is coming back home.

The game will be re-released...? But it's been out for years, and readily available everywhere. What?

I left my village with beautiful town ordinance ^_^

@allav866
Rizzo is great!

@Vineleaf
La baa.

@CB85
The re-release includes the update, so you won't need to download it.

I haven't played New Leaf yet, so I'm looking forward to the re-release. Despite not playing it I feel that AC is a better fit for handhelds, as you can play it anytime anywhere. Though on consoles it would benefit greatly from Off-TV play.
There are franchises more fit for home consoles, like 3D Pikmin, and those more fit for handhelds, like Animal Crossing.

I got this on launch day. More than 1,000 in-game hours later, I still play nearly every day. I've found/bought/caught pretty much everything, made a killing in the turnip market, won all the trophies (but not all the badges yet) and it's still my happy place to visit at the end of the day. Apart from when some random villager has moved in and ruined my beautiful path or my patch of hybrids or my hedges, that is!

does anyone know if the re-release will be at a new price? I thought this was going to be a Nintendo select game or did I imagine that?

Beautiful ordinance = almost no weeds ever. There's also a certain gardening lover who offers to pick weeds for you.

As for townsfolk leaving: such is life.

Colour me interested in playing this again.

Yeah, the weeds thing is great but I think there needs to be a better way to get villagers to move in/back to your village. THAT would get me playing again, I spent all this time getting my village just the way I want it, then I stop playing for a few weeks and all my favourite villagers left. THAT is what killed the game for me (and this was my second time restarting my village after this has happened before.)

I will never get a gold weed pulling badge at this rate.

Thanks, Nintendo, but I got the weeds taken care of. :3

Autumn.

I wish Tomodachi Life and Happy Home designer had been DLC updates to New Leaf instead of stand-alone games.

So the Tom Nook amiibo finally has a purpose, lol.

@-DEMISE- A couple weeks ago, I went to a Target to buy a Ryu Amiibo that I've never seemed to buy. They only had Lucas, Zelda, and the Animal Crossing crew. 2 weeks later, I check. The Animal Crossing Amiibos seemed untouched. They replaced all of the Smash Amiibo, though!

@Yoshi Ha! Drunk with power!
(Thanks.)

@Captain_Gonru I wasn't aware that there was going to be more. I hope it's enough to entice me to come back to an amazing game.

@Wandman5612 Oh yeah. Every Target, Best Buy, and Game Stop I ever go to always has a ton of Animal Crossing amiibos that never get touched. Which I actually think is kind of sad because in my opinion, they're super cute and well-designed, and some of the best looking of all the amiibo figures. I just don't buy them because I've never actually played an Animal Crossing game.

@-DEMISE- Wait, the figures are getting Amiibo treatment for this. EVERYONE, RUN TO THE GAMESTOP BARGAIN BIN! Last time I checked, Tom Nook was $5! Really though, I might buy 1 or 2 figures, hopefully including Rover. I think there's a Rover Amiibo exclusive to Target or something.

@Wandman5612 Really? Man I've been wondering when those things would hit clearance. Last time I checked at Target they were still full price, which struck me as pure crazy.

@-DEMISE- Well, I go to a shopping center of sorts, so the prices might be different. Then again, we are talking about Gamestop.

@Wandman5612 Yeah I don't doubt that they're at a cheaper price, I'm only surprised that it took so long for that to happen. Funny enough, I went to Target last night and they had Splatoon amiibos on clearance. I got the boy and girl Inkling for $3.88 each. Bargain of the century.

@-DEMISE- Oh my gosh. SORCERY, I TELL YOU! Especially if they are the original colors. They lowered the Green/Purple ones by 2 dollars and raised originals by 1 dollar.

@Wandman5612 The ones I got were the alternate colors, but the standard colors were also on sale. I don't remember if they were discounted as heavily as the alternates, though. The only problem was, they didn't have the standard ones in stock, and haven't for several months.

Im updating my game but its taking a long time i let it sit for an hour but its not even half way !!!!!!!!