Don't Make These 10 MISTAKES in Animal Crossing New Horizons 

I love that you encourage players to realize that each island is unique! I honestly have trouble with this because I don't use the online feature nor treasure islands, so I am building my island completely step by step which is why it does not look like other islands at all

The fact that you hit Bea with your net and her crying afterwards filled my heart with unexplainable sadness 😢💔☹️ you should've done this to Wart Jr

My favorite tip is to put your net/ fishing pole away before the time runs out during tournaments. They won’t break during a round, so if it’s in your pockets before the time runs out, you can use the same tool for as many rounds as you want! 🤓

Comparing your island to others is one of the biggest mistakes I ever made playing this game. I felt so disheartened and embarrassed, cause I had and still have absolutely no structure in my island. Comparing even made me stop playing for a long time. I accepted now that I never can make such beautiful islands like some content creators here, BUT I learned to enjoy and adore my chaotic islands (I made several islands and they were all Chaoscore, haha :D ) In the end enveryone needs to play the game and create the island the way THEY want, it's so important to remember this. I didn't know you can reset the usage of tools by customizing it! Big help, thank you so much for this!

Breaking tools is part of getting nook miles though, it takes a long time, but that's a category called 'Trashed Tools' So don't really fix them until you get all those stamps for breaking tools. The last stamp is 200 tools.

Flatten your island in sections. I completely flattened mine, and now I want to have the cliffs I started with, and it's a lot of work to revive it.

Customizing tools to reset their usage?! wow, that’s DEFINITELY something I wish I knew sooner, cuz every time a tool breaks I just buy another one at Nooks Cranny or craft one of it’s closed, but this is a new fact I just learned! Thanks, Ben!

The island backups are only really useful for transferring though because you have to have both switches ( the one the island is currently on and the on its being transferred to) to get any use out of it. If you lose your switch there's still no way to recover that island until you find said switch.

I have had the same island for over a year, and I would like to experience the game all over again. I am going to start my OWN ACNH RU-vid channel series about my new island when I restart!

I absolutely love my island. other than some light terraforming (mostly to allow more bridges and inclines to be built), placing walking paths, as well as building said bridges and inclines, i kept the place very natural. i went for a "quaint, small town where everything is in walking distance" feel to it. i have even embraced the parts of my island where the flowers have multiplied crazily! 😂

I've never regretted starting my second island over again. I've kept my islands on my Switch and Switch Lite both flat since I had no interest in changing my island and I've never liked decorating very much. I never restarted my first island since I wanted to keep all my fruits and I don't have friends that I regularly play with.

For me, my biggest mistake was choosing the ordinance that waters your crops and flowers automatically. My island became so overrun with flowers that digging them up and throwing them away was very tedious. I won’t make that mistake again.

I just bought a Switch after three years of thinking about it (a bit indecisive lol) and I’m binging every ACNH content like this I can to feel ready for the next week. So thank you for all the good videos on your channel, really great content! ❤

I actually needed to hear the second part about comparing islands, thank you I am currently rebuilding mine and I am not as creative as other players so I always felt down about that my island just wouldn't be as cool as others

Regarding the tools bit- the only tools with limited durability which cannot be customized are flimsy tools, golden tools (which have high durabilty, so it's not a big deal) and axes. Also, upgrading tools resets durability as well

I haven’t played the game for over a year, i’ve been thinking about restarting but at the same time i really don’t want to lose all my designs and progress. But i’m also really tired of working on the same island since 2020. I feel like it’s a big risk to restart if you don’t have nintendo online 😵‍💫

i needed to be told my island was fine. I just came from a video about how to decorate my island and was so so overwhelmed because i don’t want to be limited to just a certain time of year for grass and i don’t want to have SO much that my island lags. This is MY island and I wanna love how it looks year round. So thank you.

can’t agree with 1:27 enough!! for years i was always comparing my island to other peoples, which made me reset easily 20+ times because i always wanted to bigger, better themes which inevitably made me burnt out. at the start of this year i reset for the last time and now have a very simply, non-aesthetically please island but i haven’t loved the game more! i’ve loved playing slowly, and how the game intended. it’s really brought those march 2020 feelings back for me!

I just started my island again not too long ago when I got a new switch and decided not to back my island up and restart! It’s been fun. Bobs Gang!! 💜

I can relate to the 'selling everything' mistake. When I started my island, I caught a scorpion and sold it to the shop, as I hadn't unlocked the museum yet, or even really know of it's existance. Little did I know...

So I have restarted my island then knocked it all down and have been trying to build it up again. I keep walking away from it because I'm either bored or unhappy because it isn't looking as cool as yours. Thank you for the pep talk. I'm going to pull it back out again and keep pushing on. Again, thank you.😊

with the island backup thing, that happened to me on new years eve 2022. (almost) three years down the drain. I was so upset I only made my new island two days ago, but with time traveling, I already have a 3 star island

This was brilliant! So informative… and covered some things I hadn’t considered. Thanks for creating this!

I think another mistake people make is that buying flowers may seem like a good idea but some people forget to contain the flowers and dont play for a few days, your island just gets a entire tsunami of flowers 😅Some of my family and I have made that Mistake. Great video Aswell, this does help alot.

Bobs gang!! Also, I JUST found out like a week ago that villagers get upset when you push them too much.. but like, with peace and love, move!

Bob’s Gang,, the biggest mistake i made was rushing through the entire game during the lockdowns, altho i had soo much fun with friends and the community. Eventually i flattened the entire island but then I got sooo overwhelmed and also bored of just decorating. I stopped playing for like a year and now I deleted my island and started a new one. Planning on taking it really slow. And when i really do need an item or something i can always go to a treasure island. I made a strict rule there for myself tho, as u can get kinda greedy walking there 😂 I’m only allowed one visit per week. Hopefully this will keep me playing for a while 😊

Thank you very much for those tips :) I think you’re very right about the „don’t compare your island to others“, each one is unique and even though there are some who just are miserable enough to hate on yours I think your island is super unique and that’s cool :) just gained a new subscriber, looking forward to more of your content ❤ hope you have a good day

Thank you so much for this. Especially for the comparison part. I'm a fairly new player and I compare a lot!!! Have a great day, thank you again

Changing things up on the island totally, or even part of it, is how I've been able to have fun and keep playing daily for three years! I bounce between forests, gardens, amusement parks, then changing up the houses. Adding extra humans helps too, as does rotating residents via Amiibos. We have a whole game card box packed with Amiibos. Currently, I'm stocking my islands with Crankies. Have fun, keep it happy, people! Love the video 💗

10: ONLY hit your villagers when you want to give them a gift and they are sitting somewhere (except when KK is on the island and they are listening, it doesn't work) 1: BACK UP YOUR ISLAND!!! i am speaking as someone who had autobackup disabled because someone on twitter said they got their data corrupted. (this ended being a joke btw) but when my own switch broke, I lost my +1600 hours island and had to restart.

Thanks for the tips! I'm brand new to the game so these are great for me to know

My old switch broke and i lost all my progreas in my old island but it feels great to start over with all my newly found knowledge

All the seasonal items are so cool and adorable...! I want them so bad, but even in the DLC I don't think I can order them...

The first new creature I catch always goes to Blathers. And I found the outside storage shed helps a LOT.

Regarding the Recyling Box: A Rusty Part shows up in there the in-game day after you help Gulliver regardless of his outfit, so that's undoubtedly where the one shown in the video came from. Whether you still get one if you don't help him, I don't know because I always do. And besides the unlocks, something I like about the DLC is it's an indirect means of having more than 10 favorite villagers in your game. You won't get their personality DIYs or Reactions, and I THINK the photos can't be purchased for your home island (I haven't tried placing then buying one from Wardell so correct me if I'm wrong). But you'll still have them. And if for any reason you plan to kick a villager out of your home island, if you design their vacation home first, they'll still be there and you can still visit/edit it (According to a GameFAQs user. As of this comment, I've only completed the "Design the outgoing villager's vacation home" step because the villager in question is being sent to a friend and we need to coordinate pickup).

Honest question here: why do so many people say to customize tools instead of making new ones when they break? I carry sticks, stones, all the wood types and iron on me all the time, so making a new tool is straightforward, as opposed to buying customization kits or getting them from storage. Plus the supplies are free, as opposed to paying for customization kits. Plus you get nook miles for breaking tools and making new ones. Plus you get the maximum number of uses from every tool before doing something to "renew" it. How is customizing better?

Restarting my island. I figured since I restarted a bunch in New Leaf that it would be fine and I would enjoy starting from the beginning again. Well I was wrong and I regret it. I did exactly what you said and pretty much abandoned the game.

I love that game! I would love to have you visit my island, it's not much, but it's a work in progress and I love the chill vibe while playing.

Thanks for the info😊

I always donate the first of everything then sell after

Thanks I need this!!

i dont know if anyone knew this but when you go in camera inside the airport and you go in handheld, point it towards orville you would use a reaction that makes him do the shock reaction and use the reaction until you hear wilbur behind him

Thank you for teaching us

When I first started out, I read all kinds of tips and tricks on how to get a villager to leave. None of them ever worked. I stopped trying when a villager I was literally in the process of trying to get their picture (talked to them first, gave them any item they asked for, gifts everyday) asked to leave 😑while the one I wanted to leave didn't even ask until weeks later.....

I love your island. It looks very unique and awesome.

whenever i dig a fossil or catch a bug or fish i always go to blathers first! if he says i dont have anything to donate, i sell them right away

When you explained mistake #2 I felt that, I appreciate it

Myself I do admit that I tried kicking out Judy (sorry...I know I'm a cold blooded monster, but I wanted to replace her with Rosie I think), I was hitting her with my net but I apparently caught a flea and she was like "Oh, I think I must've gotten a major head trauma so I don't remember you swatting me with that net. Only thing is that it's no longer itching!". Island comparison is something I do consider as something that is bit...foolish? Usually I'm eager to get some inspiration from others islands. Myself I'm trying to make an urban style island with proper roads, park and suburb for some villagers. The rushing was probably something that may turn me into a total do*****ag but I did indeed use Treasure Islands on my new save to retrieve at least some portion of the items, villagers, my house furniture and clothes. The new save idea was to get a completely new island layout because I was dissatisfied with the old one. But in the reality, Animal Crossing games are meant to be played in slow pace. Currently I'm not really regretting that I wiped my old save, the current layout is certainly better, plus I even got other than apples as my island fruits, and they're peaches, airport is blue instead of green, lots of good things and certainly a layout that allows me to build the things I wanted, one thing I forgot to do on my old save was to back up my designs somehow, but I did them in ACPatterns so I learned it the hardest way possible, download the QR codes and store them. Tools breaking, spoiler warning! If you want to complete the trashed tools achievement, do NOT customize the tools. In fact, fastest way to complete this achievement is to use the flimsy tools (one exception is the axe, if you need to chop the tress down, not dig them in whole), since they break the fastest, and with the resources found from your island you should be able to craft more and more flimsy tools. Of course if you REALLY feel the need of customizing the flimsy tool, do it AFTER crafting but BEFORE you utilize it in any means. DLC unlocks, I already completed Happy Home Paradise, the unlocks certainly made my home look more cozy, and furnishing the other villagers houses was actually fun. It also allowed me to fix the infamous fire hazard Audie keeps doing in her home, which is to put the microwave on her gas range xD Selling everything is now just stupid. Mostly I'm selling the bugs, fishes and seacritters Blathers already has in his museum. If the player dialogue doesn't contain "Yes!" as a first part, it means that you have caught it already, with that kept in mind, you know which critters you should hand over to Blathers before you recklessly start selling them, and any extra fruits and sprouts can be also sold, fossil duplicates also sells pretty well. Usually if I have some furniture duplicates or something I certainly don't need, I give them to my villagers to grow the friendship between me and the villagers. But easy for me to say as an individual who has all the rooms and floors, no mortgage to pay, but for those who are still stuck in it. This kinda links with the Recycle Box in Resident Services, there may be items that you can sell for decent amount of Bells. Let's say that Sloppy series furnitures aren't your thing, you still get decent sale in Nook's Cranny. The time of day you're playing the game is debatable, some people don't mind playing in middle of the night with Able Sisters and Nook's Cranny closed, but the optimal play time is between 8 AM to 11 PM for me at least. Damn that was a long essay. Just some words of my response on all these mistakes as an Animal Crossing player, I actually have to adapt myself more with the Wild World I have on my DSi I bought from second hand store last year.

Question about the dlc. If I design a villagers house and then I go on a villager hunt, will I see them? And if I don't could I possibly fill happy home with ugly villagers to get the good ones on my normal island?

Also empty the recycling box regularly because then the items yoibget in there seem to get more useful and interesting

My switch broke and island backup wasn’t on.. lets say I’m very mad rn.. but at least I got a new switch..

a problem that ive had was not being able to craft, like when my resident services upgraded, I didn’t have tom nooks crafting thing anymore but I didn’t build a crafting log thing so how and where do I craft?

Welp! That explains why my island was unfortunaty deleted, by not backing it up before the transfer from my old switch to my new switch OLED. Sigh…..

I know it didn't do any good, but smacking Rocket with the net made me feel better sometimes.

Thank you!!!

How're y'all making those patterns on the ground looking so good? 😭😭 I need that

I restarted and since it was half term I got my island to tree stars in 1week but I didn't really focus on how it looks so I'm trying to fix that

Hi Bobs Gang. I`m on my third island now and this time I do everything opposite to my first ones. I don`t stress anything, no rush, no hurry, no timetraveling (wich just confuses me) I`m not concerned about villagers since I like all I`ve met so far. This time I will go for "less is more" and try to keep that deserted island feeling. A funny mistake I did was accidently selling my wetsuit during a nightly divingsession, without having any extra suit in my inventory. 😹

your island looks so awesome like a fantasy heaven

My two biggest mistakes: eating the cherries mom sent me, all of them without thinking to plant any! And selling off items either by accident or in a hurry to get bells.

I've been playing for a year and a half and had no idea about the island backup😮

another neat way it to add a 2nd human profile. Your existing character is there but now you have a second to start fresh

Wait hold up ! I just restarted my iso s after been gone for 1-2 years . I got yellow airport (as I wanted , Hufflepuff 💛) but I also got those 2 starter villagers aswell I see on 1:25 😂

Thanks so much

I like to take everything from the recycling box then look through it then sell the stuff I don't want to get a little extra bells

I reset My island once because I didnt have acnh purchased and was playing on my sisters account, and I couldve kept my last island but I didnt, and almost instantly regretted it, dharr man style, but now I would say I'm fairly happy with my island, though I'm not getting any of the villagers I've grown attached too :(

I remember one time in my early months of playing animal crossing I caught a tarantula but I didn’t have the museum yet so I sold it 😭

I just started. When can I access the DLC? Also thank you for the tips.

Well i kinda made this mistake myself with hunting for villagers i wanted for the first 3 house plots , then not knowing their houses would not be their own unique ones but standart ones. But i did fix it by getting the Amiibocards of said villagers but having to kick em out to get the best house was a bit of a bummer.

How do you link your nooklink to your new island?

The fact I didn't know you could more on Tom Nook's desk

Bobs Gang! Well, restarted my Island. Got bored and my daughter wanted to restart hers as well.

i wish my island was this cool! 😁😁

When I started I loved the game even though I only was on the sign in

2:51 I accidentally did this and got a 3 star island on day 3 😬

Can you do a video on tips on forest core please i struggle

I like Whisp because he's not likely to appear. Only between 8 pm to am and only a days you had no other visitor.

I have a random thought and I have no idea how this is but... ... I have a Golden Shovel that I use to dig up Manilla Clams and only Manilla Clams and I haven't replaced it in about two months playing. Do you think that the durability on it resetted after a certain amount time of no use, or do you think that Katrina's fortunes has something to do with it? Also, it's not everyday I use it either... just randomly, if ever...

How did you get those boats on your island?

The first thing I did after getting online was backing up all my games

The only reason I rushed through my current island was to get back where I was before my Nintendo account got hacked. I'd been playing since 2020 and my account got stolen in 2022. 🙃 (I'm almost back to where I was, so it's okay. Plus it means my ex and I aren't sharing an account now lmao)

Btw do you suggest treasure islands?

I’m really not the best at decorating or terraforming, I’ve reset my island a bunch of times and now I find just getting through the beginning too hard

The trick to kick out villagers is to not interacting with them at al for a long time :)

Actually villagers with lower friendship scores are more likely to move out, and hitting them with your net does lower friendship score as long as you don’t apologise Also giving them any gift increases friendship, and trash just keeps it the same Talking to them at all also raises friendship score so it’s better to just ignore their entire existence It won’t guarantee a move out though

How do I get the 10th villager lot?

Actually, making your villagers mad and then apologizing nets a +1 in friendship which will absolutely speed up them leaving. So you can talk to them +1, give them a gift wrapped in their favorite color +2, make them mad -2, and apologize +3 and come away with +4 for the day 😊

I don't really think my island because how it is built because I was so happy to get it but I think I got it late!!!! my villagers: lyman (eh?) tammy (AYYY!) zucker (I WAS SOOOO LUCKY IT WAS MY 2ND) flora (cute!) and soon maple!!!! (i was looking for her house name and zucker gave me a cute shop sign!!!!) im a starter!!!

Poor Bea catching strays just for a video 😭 if you got a villager you don't like though and want them to move, ONLY talk to them ONCE and then ignore ALL interactions with them. When the thought bubble appears on your island, they'll be the lowest friendship level and be more likely to move out. If you don't talk to them at all, I've noticed they will never have the thought bubble as if they game still registered them as newly moved in (unconfirmed). Only talk to them once and get the "Hi I'm ____ I just moved in" and that's it!

My island was crap but I didn’t care lol never care that you don’t “fit the mould”. Celebrate being different!

I only restarted once, my 2nd playthrough I immediately got Drago as a villager. Never restarting again

"No way to back it up without Nintendo Switch Online" *Coughs in Yuzu

I've just started playing, 3 years late lol, and I totally agree about not comparing your island to others. I definitely felt that at the beginning, but after customizing even a little of my island, it feels like mine and I absolutely love it. And in terms of rushing through the game, I definitely did that with Nooks shop, the museum, and up to the Able Sisters. That's all I wanted to really rush through and now I'm just chilling out making bells and actually just exploring my island. I only really time travel a day if I want my flowers to grow 😂😂

i don’t play this game but i watched it anyway

3:47 is 5 may your birthday mine is!

Everyone can play it how they want to, who cares if they sell or restart its their choice the only one i agree with is the pace

I tried flattening my island rebuilding is so painful and makes me hate it more so I’m gonna restart again soon

would playing on pc better than playing on switch? Or is it the same

Bob’s gang is stronger than I thought

the only tool u can't customize that can break is the axe no clue about golden ones tho