Starting your Animal Crossing island requires several steps, including constructing Nook’s Cranny, building your first bridge, furnishing three incoming villager homes, and upgrading resident services. To decorate your island, have a vision and follow five design tips.
Creating elaborately themed islands in Animal Crossing: New Horizons can be daunting, but players can become design pros with this step-by-step guide. Players are looking for ways to decorate the area just outside their airport, where visitors arrive. Here are 10 of the best ideas:
- Start by plotting a general path winding through the island, then work on one little area at a time. Dream addresses are helpful, but flowers should only be planted in areas that can contain them.
In this playlist, players learn tips and tricks for decorating their island with gnomes, lights, beekeeping boxes, a well, pots, a scarecrow, and a bench. They can also plant flowers and other flora, master their iPhone in minutes, incorporate man-made attractions, and make enough bridges and inclines.
In summary, Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers a unique opportunity for players to create elaborately themed islands and create unique and engaging experiences.
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I’m only halfway through the article and oh my gosh. This article is so helpful. Thank you so much for all the time you put into this article. It’s so well thought out, the explanations are detailed but easy to take in & now I can’t wait to really start planning my island. I’ve had the game since Dec 2020 & I have yet to actually tackle designing my island because it always seemed so daunting. Now I don’t feel that way. Thank you again! 💛
Personally, I love to simply keep the terraforming and waterscaping and try to work with them! I love to do this as it is a sort of already made area, but of course, I do take her advice in removing trees! I love to use the 3D planners to make little areas instead of my whole island 😅 But, that’s just how my brain works, so, do as you wish!
I was already getting stressed, it’s my first time playing the game, I’m in my first island EVER. I feel like my island it’s to big and yet so small 😭 I can’t even get 3 star don’t matter how much I decorate the island, the guy Leif took more than 1 week to spawn to get more flowers, nothing seems to work! But now I know better thanks to your article! Thank you 🫶🏼
At first when I unlocked terraforming, I ended up taking a break from animal crossing because it was all just so much. Looking online, I saw all the work other people put into their islands and it stressed me out. But getting back into it, I started with things I knew I couldn’t move, like doing around resident services and such. I’m now working on my entrance to my island. Looking at what other people have done helps me out a lot. After navigating other islands and looking at dream addresses I know features of islands that I not only like looking at, but love navigating more. I can’t wait to keep working on my island. 😊
I’m so thankful to you for doing this article. I reached 3 stars a couple of weeks ago and have been perusal your Play With Me vids so I knew sort of what to do. I put all my villagers houses on the island instead of the beach so I’m guessing I have to pay 10,000 bells to Nook to reloa te each one to the beach? Now I’m trying to lose villagers I don’t want. What to do with their house’s? Will they disappear when the character leaves? So many questions lol.
This article was so jam packed with love, effort and time THANKYOU SO SO SO SO MUCH! Like I can’t believe how much in hindsight I can see so many key points you’ve made and going to be so ridiculously helpful to me! I related a lot of how creativity you work and thrive upon when creating and building. Again loved this article so much and I truly look forward to your website ❤
This is helping me so much thank you for making this and putting sooo much thought into it! I’ve been fishing, collecting, trading and restarting islands for a year since I decided to flatten my original island and havent been able to decorate again because I keep feeling stuck. the greatest tip for me in this article is to collect all the custom designs/paths before… usually when I start to decorate I give up once I realize I want a new path. Same with just chopping trees instead of moving them as I go!!! Tysmmm
My biggest problem is I have no self control and can’t stick to a theme very long 😭 When I first started I had one main island for a year. I started a new island that’s kind of fairycore/has a chaotic layout (no idea how to describe it except every other square on the map grid is land and the rest is water) but when I was almost done with the decorating, I restarted Now I have an island that was supposed to be a blue challenge kidcore city… It’s now Alice in Wonderland themed. And now I’m almost done with that theme and I want a new one 😭😭
I have a springcore island, and after this article I’ve decided to flatten it. It’s a good form of restarting for me because my villiagers and my progress is dear to me. I’ve decided to flatten my island, but I’m going to keep my DA on my spring island so I can always go back. I felt like I could do better and that some parts of it were ugly but it was already done. Thank you.
my problem is I’ve only been playing a month and have so many ideas but don’t have the items required 😂 so rn I’m just experimenting with codes/terraforming and refining my aesthetic so that hopefully as I acquire more items, it’ll be easy for me to incorporate them into my design. like perusal this article I don’t have half the items op has. It takes so long getting stuff. I started playing pocket camp first and it’s much quicker to get to the meat and potatoes so to speak. but it’s also incredibly expensive lol but this game is a long term commitment so I just gotta be patient ig
I’m so glad i found your articles!! i have had animal crossing since april and i just restarted because i hate how my island was turning out. and i bought a notebook today and started my research on how to create an island im happy to be on. this article kind of just reassured me that im on the right track, so thank you! your advice is not only helpful, its kind and reassuring which i forever appreciate!
This article is very helpful. I just started a new island for the game’s three-year anniversary. All my other islands have been disasters, but I’m gonna do my best to make Peachwood something special. Already have two builds in mind to incorporate: A gas station/general store build w/ Nook’s Cranny featuring a gnome fueling up his pumpkin carriage. A trash/horror beach littered with oil barrels, scorpions, graves, etc.
I could never clear the WHOLE island. Did different areas at once. So the housing district, then the shopping district, then the pretty waterfall zone, then archeology area and a market. Its not so overwhelming when you’re sculpting a bit of cliff or water in one area. I’ll make changes here and there but if I flatten the whole thing I’ll never put new cliffs in.
This is great! But I don’t know where to start since my houses, Able sisters shop, Nook’s Cranny and the museum are all scattered around my island in the worst positions ever😭 So I don’t have flat terrain and there’s so many houses I don’t know where to move them, since I don’t have a good idea of the space… What can I do?
This is the article I’ve been searching for. Where to begin after the 3rd star! My island is so scattered. I love the idea of cleaning the island taking it down to just the ” bones,” as it were. I have a couple of questions. What is DLY? And can you level land under buildings. My museum is on a cliff and I do wish to move it, but I’d like to level everything, first.
i just got back into acnh after a year & 3 months of not playing it.. i’m trying so hard to get 3 starts but i am stuck at 2. i do think that tomorrow i will unlock 3 stars though. i’m gonna try to get happy home paradise & i’m definitely gonna use terraforming when i can use it. i want to add more inclines and bridges but i’m not sure when i want to do that. hopefully i hit 3 stars soon so i have more options.
im extremely burnt out on the game as im not very creative and keep running out of ideas with a very ugly island. I really want to restart but im worried to do so as i have loads of nook miles tickets, bells and nice villagers on my island. Should I just go for it and restart or keep my current island??
do you have any articles on how to do a path cos mine are all just straight and idk how to make them look nice so im really struggling with it D: ik you have some vids on like how to choose a path and a little clip on one of ur vids on like using the phone instead of the app but i need like help on acc planning and doing a path.
My island hit 3 stars a couple of weeks ago, but my kids have been hogging the Switch so I haven’t played acnh very much, plus my kids have crowded the island with furniture and stuff. Can’t really go far without smashing into something that they ‘placed’. Plus, we’re offline…completely, so, we probably won’t do anything, by way of actually going with a ‘theme’ (how can you with five kids, my four and my nephew, on the island, throwing random stuff down all the time).
I’ve had my current island since the game came out. There were so many things I didn’t know about – like that terraforming was even gonna be a thing, and that the things you SHOULD look for in an island, is where the Resident Service, dock etc is, because those you can’t change. There is a part of me that wants to start a new island SO badly, and it has me so burnt out, but I have almost all of my dream villagers.. Zucker, Raymond, Sasha, Shino, Merengue, Julia, Tiansheng, Reneigh, Flora.. I love them all so much, and I don’t wanna lose them, or have to hunt for them again 😭 Most I got just from pure luck.
I’ve had animal crossing since it released and I never completed an island because it’s just too hard and I don’t know what to do, I see all these nice islands other people have and I don’t understand how they do it. I could do it if it was the same as you decorate outdoors in the dlc because it’s a lot easier and I can tell how many squares items take then. I find terraforming extremely hard because it just never works for me I can’t get it to look right and I end up just restarting my island getting to 3 stars then being burnt out and leaving the game for months and repeating
What would you recommend if you are on your first ever island, and you did not place your town plaza where you want it anything that can be done besides starting over? Wish they would just let us have a couple islands but I can see how it would be considered cheating. Thank you though this was such a helpful article wish I’d watched all your vids before starting Willy nilly!! 😝
❤🧑🏽🦳🎮🍹 hello 👋🏼 sparksby! I’m getting ready to start over my animal crossing new horizon, I know that non of my friends will come by, but how do I get a island that’s completely flat? I don’t want no more mountains or hilly areas that you can’t get to? So how can I get a completely flat map with a completely flat island 🏝️ with several large swimming & fishing 🎣 areas on it? Can you help please 🙏🏼 Thank you 🙏🏼 Laetittia 🧑🏽🦳🍹🙏🏼
I still don’t understand why Nintendo didn’t give us the option to use the Paradise Planning way of decorating your island. I just cannot terraform my island properly manually, and the fact that I have to dig up all my flowers and either cut down or move my trees just to experiment on how I want the terraform to look is absolutely ridiculous, tedious, and a huge time waster.