For Animal Crossing: New Horizons' first birthday, many people thought that Nintendo would release a 2.0 update, adding much-awaited features like Brewster's café, new characters, gyroids, and more. What actually happened was the anniversary update, which added some smaller quality of life features, including extra custom design slots, new items to design, and a range of seasonal items to celebrate prom, April Fool's Day, and the game's first birthday.
But it's the design tools that got most players excited (at least, in the absence of a coffee-brewing pigeon), and we've seen a massive influx of new ideas and creative applications of art.
In particular, you may have seen the extremely cool idea of turning an umbrella into a three-dimensional box, and making it look like there are animals inside it - Animal Crossing doesn't let you have pets (probably because it would raise questions about why some animals are sentient), but this is another loophole to make it look like you do.
Of course, once people realised that the umbrellas looked like cubes if you painted them just so, all sorts of new designs started popping up.
But it's not just the umbrellas that have inspired creativity. The new cutout panel — the kind you might see on a seaside pier, painted to look like a mermaid with a hole for your face — has been used in all sorts of ways.
Have you made anything super clever with the new design tools? Let us know in the comments!
[source reddit.com]
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Imagine what could be done if weren’t obtuse about not giving players the same cursor decorate system you can do in your house.
No pets, although weirdly there is a dog kennel, which Butch gives the side-eye every time he comes by my house.
Also, you can catch a frog and keep it in a tank. Prince hasn’t been round since he saw that on my table.
@stipey I haven’t seen Octavian since I sold that octopus I caught last week...
Depends on your definition of pets. The bird cage has a bird in it, the hamster cage has a hamster in it, the dog house is implied to have a (very angry) dog inside it, and you can display any fish, bug, or deep sea creature you want in your house or on your isle.
Only 15 years in the making.
This is pure brilliance! Wow!
There ideas are really cool. I am saving this to look more into using some of the ideas myself later, though on a lot smaller scale.
If nothing else, AC:NH has proven the maxim that constraints and limitations are the harbingers of creativity and innovation.
I'm honestly somewhat let down by the updates we have had in the last several months. I wanted more actual mechanics to be added, like when we got diving and the ability to grow pumpkins.
I do not want to spend more time running up and down the beach grinding Balloons hoping for DIY recipes ...
I just recently made a basketball court, all I need now is a basketball to complete the look for it.
It'd be cool if they made stuff more interactive. Like having the ability to use sports/kitchen equipment for example.
Oh and the obvious stuff like streamlining a lot of the repetitive actions.
These ar sick. i definitely am making some
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