We've said it before and we'll say it again: crafting items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can really start to grate once you've been playing the game for a while. Just like most aspects of the game, crafting items requires you to continually hammer the 'A' button, making your way through several screens of dialogue and menu options that really could have been streamlined.
It's one of the very few things that we wouldn't mind being altered in a future update, but for now, Reddit user Ra7vaNn05 has come up with a pretty inspiring way of getting around the problem.
As you can see in the clip shared below, Ra7vaNn05 has designed a LEGO contraption that does all of the 'A' button pressing for them. We assume the idea here is that you can simply put your LEGO to work, nip off elsewhere to get on with your day, and then come back to find lots of lovely fish bait or the like waiting for you upon your return.
Indeed, Ra7vaNn05 says that they "built this monstrosity" in an attempt to catch the super rare Mahi-mahi fish, with the pain of having to sit there for hours just to craft fish bait packs one at a time no doubt being too much to deal with. It's genius, really.
Right, excuse us for a bit - we're off to build our very own LEGO Animal Crossing "monstrosity" machines. Wish us luck!
[source reddit.com, via polygon.com]
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saw "animal crossing" and "Lego" and clicked as fast as i could
This, timeskipping, duplication glitches, buying items and villagers online.....why are people so against playing the game?
It's not even challenging - just put in the time and get your rewards. It's like life but less corrupt
@Kimyonaakuma less corrupt? You HAVE met Tom Nook and that little art forger Redd haven't you?
I’m usually on my phone when I batch craft things, spamming the A button with my other hand
Haha, let's put mindless repetitive crafting in a game that already wasn't short on mindless repetitive tasks.
Or you can get a controller with turbo functions.
@mr_benn Leave Nook alone. His zero% interest rates are amazing
@mr_benn Still better than real life unfortunately, I'd take Tom Nook's mortgage deal any day!
I just save that for late at night, fall asleep with the controller in my hand, wake up with bait.
Best. Insomnia. Cure. Ever.
@Kimyonaakuma I guess some people see it as being awfully boring trying to do certain things within the game. Somethings are intentionally time-consuming and make sense, but for the love of almighty, why can we not craft multiple items in one go? It is time wasted on boring stuff when in this example, the player could be doing the fun thing of fishing. I guess the closest example in other games which is time-consuming and not fun would probably be grinding in a RPG until your x-level so you can actually defeat the next boss and continue the story.
I like the concept but I wouldn't be a fan of hitting the A button that hard on my Switch!
@mr_benn lol, I WISH real loans worked like Tom Nook's. And Redd sucks at faking art. A real forgery would be almost impossible to detect.
That's very clever.
Seeing it at work made me laugh
Well done
@Kimyonaakuma While we're at it, why drive 15 miles to work each day when we've got two perfectly good feet?
It's nice to see people using the name LEGO correctly. Every time I see an 's' attached to the name I die a little inside.
The endless a mashing to get bell vouchers is admittedly, really annoying after about the 10th voucher, going through all the text and the slow printing animation for each one. I admit thinking to myself that a turbo controller would be nice.
I'd say I'm surprised the process is so slow when that's 1 of 2 things to spend Nook Miles on. I don't say that cynically: they keep giving me Nook Miles and they clearly want me to spend them on bell vouchers and Nook Miles tickets, since there's not a daily selection of other stuff and they clearly expect you to get everything you want pretty quickly. But it's Nintendo - having quality of life improvements is the surprise, not their absence.
I feel like some people are defending this game without been rational. Don't feel offended by this. Remind me of some individuals defending Pokemon Sword/Shield while there was some major problems within the game.
I see some comments "the game is meant to be slow" or "this is like real life". I disagree simply because this is a video game. In real life, you would not only prepare a fish bate, but also attach it to your fishing rod, wait for a while and maybe have a chance to reel in a fish. It's not real life, you still want to have fun while playing. What I mean by that, is this game could use MANY quality of life improvements because some aspect of the game are uselessly repetitive. It might get better but the devs are making some aspects of the game slow for no reason. Take the intro of Splatoon 2 for example made by the same director as ACNH.
Sorry for the long post.
I wouldn’t mind using this for the intro of Splatoon 2.
Homer had this idea back in the 90s with a different contraption... "look at that! He's taking another drink!"
Easier solution, just use a pro controller with a turbo button, and put something on the button to hold it down. That's how I got loads of tokens (forget what they're actually called) from the slots on dq11.
@ComposedJam People can do what they want, but buying something just do go against it seems a bit pointless.
It's like putting effort into a recipe and then taking out the oven early because you got bored. Some people just need patience
@Kimyonaakuma Bold of you to assume I live my life free from corruption 😂
@Kimyonaakuma yeah because it should take an god awfull amount of time to do something in a video game....... especially over one little task
This is cute and I respect the innovation
I made millions selling bait during the last fish tourney. Diggin them clams ain't much, but it's honest work.
For all the Tom Nook haters out there: TOM NOOK IS A GOOD GUY!
He set up the whole island experience for you, who brought LITERALLY NOTHING to contribute to the island. Tom Nook pays out of his pocket for every worthless thing you happen to find on the island. The whole economy for the entire island is funded by Tom Nook. The only thing of value the player brings to the island is their labor, which is not worth much. You can spend < 1hr harvesting fruit and have enough money to purchase many luxury items from the shop. Give this tanuki the respect he deserves! TOM NOOK IS A GOOD GUY!
/end rant
@Kimyonaakuma why won't people just let people play the game how they want
@C-Threep At least the Splat 2 intro gives you some half useful information and doesn't last that long relatively. I spent 45 minutes spending miles on bell vouchers last week and got a measly amount of bells to show for it.
@Rob3008 You and me both. Guy might be looking into a new controller or fixing that sooner then they thought.
Wow, that's a lot of trouble when he could have just bought a Hori Split Pad, turned on turbo A, and walked away like I do.
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