The weeding process has been made a little easier in the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update, thank Nookness! With the addition of Leif's permanent shop on Harv's Island, you can now buy flowers, bushes, crop seeds and saplings whenever you flippin' want.
But there's a secret feature that we didn't know about beforehand: Leif now has a weeding service! He'll clean up your entire island, including all the weeds that are inaccessible and hidden, even, all in one go.
That means it's now much easier to get that coveted Five Star Rating from Isabelle, and to make your island look nice and tidy — especially if you, like many of us, haven't touched the game in about a year.
Previously, Leif would only buy Clumps of Weeds from you for 20 Bells each, although in Animal Crossing: New Leaf he would also offer to weed the town if you had over 50 weeds.
However, there is a catch for this service. It costs... 100,000 Bells. You'd better have a lot of weeds to make that worth it!
Of course, if you have less money and more patience, you can pay Isabelle 20,000 Bells to enact the Beautiful Island ordinance, which will make villagers take care of the weeds. It's not overnight, but it's a loooot cheaper!
Here's some good news to follow the bad news, though: Leif will place all the weeds in the recycling box, ready for you to pick up. Maybe you can use them to make Grilled Sea Bass With Herbs!
Will you be taking Leif up on his offer, or do you prefer to do the manual labour yourself? Let us know in the comments!
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Considering Leif buys a single bag of weed for 20 bells (double the usual value), he might be overcharging here.
Weeds are more valuable as a crafting resource anyway.
Or you could use the ordinance...?
If you tidy up each day there is no need for this, just a sort trip to your island 10-15 mins each day.
@johnvboy I found a lot of hidden ones round the back of my island though. But 100,000 bells...? Nah...
The finest weed in the South Farthing.
Hmm... pay mortgage or weed town.......
That's obscenely expensive. One should easily be able to clean up their town in no time at all. It's tedious, sure, but not so much so that it warrants forking over 100,000 bells for the task.
I mean, he is a sloth, so if you consider his potential movement and work speed, multiplied by his hourly rate, that's probably accurate xD
Yikes! What's with Nintendo and their pricing lately?!
Weeds are just pluck and go, which I can deal with. It's those horrid out-of-control flowers where I need help!
I hadn't played in about 6 months but turned it on a couple of days ago. Had maybe a dozen weeds that I could see. Now if he would pick flowers, probably have about 500 of those. There is basically no original ground cover left on my island.
That price is insane though. I have 11 million bells I think but I'm nto paying anybody 100,000 for pulling weeds. that's like a joke number. 500 would be fair, 1,000 tops.
That greedy sloth! I'd expect that behavior from Redd or Sahara, but not Leif!
@SaucyBrotato funny enough in the new leaf manga, lief is shown to pluck weeds incredibly fast when no ones looking lol
also smart of the game to put weeds into the recycle box once he collects them all. at least you get to keep all the weeds for materials, opposes to beautiful town ordinance getting rid of them all
It's like ... for time traveling mostly. And for people who come back after months.
If you don't time travel, then you're never going to need the service, especially seeing you can use an ordinance to maintain weeds now. And if you do time travel, $100,000 is basically nothing. It also makes the idea of coming back after a long period of time more attractive, and a $100,000 "you did no work for half a year" penalty isn't that unreasonable.
When you're entire series has sold 14 million copies you can take a hard line on "this experience is meant to be daily and with no time travel, our fans know that, and we don't need to cater to people who don't want to play like that"
When your single game has sold 22 million and brought your stock price up around 30% ... not so much. You shift to "however you want to play this, we support you"
I love the country, natural aesthetic the weeds have in this entry, though. There are different types with growth cycles and they change throughout the seasons. In fact, I pick weeds only to replant them in other areas that could use a little more atmosphere! Take a hike, Leif
looking at the millions in the bank "uhhh sure, let me get some weeds for the road"
@Jayenkai The difference with the ordinance and Leif’s service is that Leif actually gives them to you, as opposed to losing them to make DIY items.
i'd pay 100,000 bells for a weed whacker that can kill flowers; they're the real weeds of this game
No thanks, I think I’m still at 5 Star and whatever weed is there I’ll get myself.
@Magrane Yeah, after setting it, I wandered around my island gathering mushrooms and thought...
... hmm.. hang on a minute..
@Abighoul True. Flowers are wild in this game. They spread far too quickly and far too rapidly. The west part of my town is completely covered in them and cleaning them up is really annoying since you have to use a shovel, which can break. D:
The weeds on my island do not grow anymore, so it seems I have the maximum possible amount. AND I still have 5 stars, so with a nice island it is not needed to get rid of these lovely beautiful plants!
That's quite the scam Leif has going, not that there's much else to spend bells on.
@TryToBeHopeful,
Typical Nintendo ripping people off as usual.
@HeadPirate,
Seems right, Nintendo have not made time travelling a major offence now, once Resetti was not included you knew they were going to be much softer on it.
And correct, as it should be up to the individual, and of course their own personal circumstances as to how they play the game.
You apparently need a certain amount of weeds on your island in order to even pay him to do it, otherwise he won't accept payment and won't do the job. Unfortunately, he won't tell you how many you have or how many you need in order for him to do the service and I have at least 150 weeds, if not more, on my island. Gonna need to see that exact amount at some point...
Weed-picking is tedious, but at least you can use them for crafting and getting Nook milestones up to a certain point, so I think I'll stick to doing them myself. Nice to have the option, though!
Such realism. Even though the majority of players wouldn't pay 100k to de-weed the island, there is still an option for the mega-rich players to pay-to-win.
Can he get rid of my flowers? I have too many of those!! Lol
Insert 420 joke here
I wish I could pay some amount of bells to get rid of all the flowers on my island. They’ve taken over the whole top part. It takes forever to dig them all up manually.
@SaucyBrotato Ha! I didn't think of that.
For everyone complaining about out of control flowers: you can contain your flower beds by placing blank textures around them so that flowers have no place to multiply into. You can edit the texture to put an X in it or whatever to see where they are while you're laying them down or changing things up, then change it back to blank and you've got invisible, foolproof flower control.
The same trick can make random hard-to-reach places off limits to fossil spawns.
100k bells for his never ending services. I like the idea of making all my NPC's indentured servants.
I want to use the weeding service, but he won't let me! Apparently I don't have enough weeds growing. Figure that one out.
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