The PERFECT Island | Animal Crossing New Horizons 

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Caito being so determined to find THE island is my new favourite thing actually. Hope it pays off and she finds it 😀

The fact I got the villagers I wanted, the colour of the airport I wanted and the layout I wanted, is crazzzyyy

Conspiracy theory: Caito’s search for the island she wants is actually just research for Kora since Kora will never delete Ikana and is doing the photo speed run on Eyeland

I just restarted 3 days ago, and had a checklist ready with the expectation that I was going to have to reroll quite a bit. First island I chose had everything that I wanted. I didn't care about the flowers since I can change those but everything else was perfect. The long pier, the large round peninsula (location for both didn't matter), the resident services in line with the airport centered on the map and a good distance from each other (it might be off by a couple spaces but it's close enough), yellow airport, two south rivers, secret beach in the top center, apples, and my starters are Katt and Billy who were on my list of villagers. I couldn't believe it.

I actually found someone with the same layout as my island. We even had the same airport color. Only difference was our native flower, but that’s because we started in different months. Pretty cool.

so you’re telling me there’s a chance …

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I feel like there are SOOO many variables when it comes to the "Perfect Map". From *my research here is what I've found: ISLAND START MAP RESEARCH: (Probably already done much better by someone else 😅) 1. Basic Layout Template - Like you said it picks from a certain river/land tier/resident services option. Resident Services will NOT be in quadrant B and top 3/4 of C. (Not above the river mouth exit points for an east/west river) For the river options: ●2 South facing rivers. The south river mouths can only be in quadrant 2 or 3 AND 5 or 6. ●West and South. West can only be in quadrant B or C and south in 5 or 6. ●East and south. East can only be in quadrant B or C and south in 2 or 3. 2. Secret Beach - the secret beach always falls in the CENTER of one of the top 5 quadrant squares (#2-#6). It is ALWAYS the same shape. 3. Peninsula - There are 4 different shapes of the peninsula and it will be in 1 of 4 positions (B,C,D or E) can be either side except the largest one is always on the left. 4. Dock - you get 1 of 2 placements for the dock and 1 of 2 lengths. 5. Airport - is always on the crosshairs on the bottom in 1 of 4 positions. 6. Rocks - the placement of the rocks around the island can contain alot or very few and are random. 7. Beaches - vary in widths. Some beaches appear to be able to fit houses along the sides while others are more narrow. 8. Airport color, fruit, flowers and villagers. (I'm lumping these together because they aren't directly tied to THE MAP.) *These are my own opinions 😁 (From what I've collected from seeing my own start maps and the maps I've seen on the internet) If you made it this far - THANK YOU SO MUCH and I hope you have a lovely day! 💙

I think the ability to move resident services would have solved a lot of people's island problems. But since Nintendo didn't give us that, it makes me kind of happy that the Animal Crossing community is showing it's stubbornness by re-rolling hundreds of times for islands lol

I was so surprised to find out that my brother and I actually picked the same river layout but totally independent from one another. I always wondered what the chances were^^

I might have to quit mod duties if Caito is going to make me watch her rest an island over 2 million times hahahhaa

I've been watching Caito's streams, and so far, I haven't seen an island like my first New Horizons island's layout (airport on the left side, the Resident Services on the right side). I'm glad I got that island when I first started playing Animal Crossing New Horizons. EDIT: I have a feeling that this video was a dig at Caito by Kora telling her that she's crazy for finding the perfect island.

I recently restarted, and probably reset 20 times or so. Even that small amount of times made me ask why Nintendo couldn’t have just added a “show me more islands” button.

omg that's my island template at 0:38 in the upper right hand corner!! I kept the "I" shaped waterfall in the upper right corner of the island bc I thought it was a really cool land feature when I first chose my starter template. very cool!!

This video has convinced me to start looking for my perfect island layout.

haha roasting caito im fine with that

Since I bought a OLED switch and transfer my island to my new one I made another island on my old switch island I reset over and over until I got my old island layout but I didn’t keep it because I wanted a new island.

4:37 okay but this island looks so similar to mine. the shape of the mountains and rivers, the placement of the plaza, even the heart lake next to the secret beach!

The luck I had when I recently reset my island for the first time ever was. Certainly something. My only goal was to get Genji and an island layout that did not have two south river mouths. Not only did I get a really good island layout and Genji, everything else also lined up perfectly. I got oranges, which I have never had because I don't have Nintendo online. Also got a yellow airport which is automatically better than the blue one. AND Katt, who is one of the four sisterly villagers I actually like. 😭 I have no idea how all that happened

Caito told me my island layout was trash and I've never recovered.

Realistically, you should choose your ideal island based on the things you can't change, namely river mouths, resident services, peninsula, dock, airport placement and color, secret beach, and fruit. Now, most people might question why fruit matters if they're all going to be on your island eventually anyway. It's because it shows up in your passport and Nook's Cranny, taunting you, refusing to let you forget it. God I hate pears.

It's really not so bad if you arent being picky about the villagers and native fruit (since you can change these later anyway). I got the island she has in the photo twice, on 2 different playthroughs, the only difference being the side the pier was on and the jut of land off the beach was round instead of the skinny uneven one. First time took me admittedly around 40 attemps. The second time i got it in 5. If i was going for villagers, and fruit too though id probably never find it haha.

3:06 I was just looking at my town map from before I terraformed and when you pulled up THAT map I realized, you pulled up mine. Absolutely incredible. Would not have noticed if I hadn’t looked just 30 minutes ago.

I agree, its better to focus on the following: Location of airport, secret beach, resident service, pier, color of airport, length of pier, river layout/mouths. Somethings you can easily fix or adjust and aren't that much of a big deal. On my second island I wanted the airport to be as close to resident service/as center as possible. It's not 100% center as its just a smidge off (annoying but oh well), but it works for my goal of my island. Same with my river. I wanted my rivers going south for the mouths. Those were my two goals and I got the layout I wanted. I wasn't going to reset for hours on end because I know it would just be that frustrating. Unlike Pokemon were I'll damn reset for a shiny. XD Hopefully Caito gets her layout soon, but considering the her layout, yeah its gonna be a while.

I went into the game blind; and did not care what would happen neither did I care what my starter villagers look like, or anything else I just wanted to enjoy the game; and I've learned that' that's the best choice I've ever made. (In all honesty when I first started playing I didn't even know that I was going to have starter villagers! I knew absolutely nothing; thankfully my sister was able to walk me through some parts, like how you can't change your name I didn't really care about that because I already had a name that I loved!! same goes for my island name! I am the luckiest Rando in the world!!! [enthusiastically words])

It took me probably 40 to 50 resets to get the island I wanted, I basically just wanted a blue airport that lined up perfectly with resident services, and have any other fruit native that wasn't cherries. I didn't care about the jock or sisterly, though I am currently still looking for Reneigh.

I got an island that is close to the one she is looking for. The resident service is maybe a half a block from lining up. Though the way I’m doing the entrance you wouldn’t even notice. I re-rolled lots of times because I wanted a certain layout and didn’t want horrible villagers so I understand why she is.

I’m still going to go with a new AC game will come out before Caito finds that island 😅

4:37 we have this exact island template lmao, it was the best of the 4 generated (furthest resident services, good river placement, etc), the randomized diff is the wide river mouth is on the the left and the peninsula is on the left side in the middle of the island, red's beach is more centered and to the left, and we dont have any rocks on the shore on the left either

this just makes me think about how I wish I knew that you could reset for a different island layout... I honestly thought when I started there were only 4 options. And I thought I felt silly for googling "which item would you take to a deserted island" to see if there was a current answer. And your comment about how rare it is to find cats on villager hunts... haha! I decided I wanted an all cat island a year ago and I'm 2 villagers away from making that happen. But even if I knew the odds beforehand, I think I'd still have gone for it. I've spent so much of my life surrounding myself with cat plushies and beanie babies to make up for the fact I was never allowed to have one... and I swear as soon as I'm able to live on my own, I will get an actual cat :P

I just wish I’ve put more effort to get Oranges as my native. However, I’m thankful I have Fuchsia since day 1 and I will never make her leave.

I restarted SO MANY TIMES but it only took one day for me to Get an island where the airport and resident services lined up. I would have taken any River mouth but i got lucky that the first island where they matched up I got my ideal mouths. It was ROUGH though. I thought I would never get what I wanted.

What did Molly do to you for you to ignore her like that? 8:55

I definitely agree about not looking for the perfect island because it will take for ever...like my main thing was the location of th3 airport ans town center...I didn't want cherries as a native fruit but in the end it wasn't a deal breaker...😊 I love my island and would trade it

Me and my sibling got very similar islands when we first started. Only our rivers and cliffs were slightly different.

if Kora is saying it's a bonkers idea and is too much effort... you know it's an insane amount of time to try and get your exact map choice

I actually found caitos perfect map with hazel, dom, and a yellow airport and peaches. I didn’t take it but I guess I was extremely lucky that day lol!

I just needed resident services to be somewhat close to my airport as well as lined up so when i enter the island i walk right into Delfino plaza and both of them to be in the center of my map, and kept an eye out for a bigger dock, beach rocks, and peninsula, i also avoided double southern pointing river mouths because i wanted as much front beach as possible but everything else was meh on my priorities. I'm making Delfino island and planned on having resident services be part of Delfino Plaza so it was necessary for it to be centered because all the other zones would be built around it. I kept an eye out for bigger beach rocks and whatnot because my very first island had tiny everything and i wanted bigger everything this time. I got what i wanted but made compromises on my dock since it's just as small as my original.

back when i first got acnh i had just watched a couple episodes of rtgame's playthrough just to see what i was getting myself into, and about a month after i started the island i went back and rewatched the first episode of the playthrough and realized i had the exact same starting layout as him, everything except the placement of the secret beach and a couple rocks, but other than that everything was identical. kinda spook

it took me like 3 hours to find the perfect island i love it so much. it has residents service straight ahead from the airport and then it has a heart shape lake which was so cuteee

yeah! this is the craziest quest I have seen. I had no idea just how rare the "perfect map" would be!

LMAO!! the example island layout you used in the video is the same river layout as my first Island (now my sister's) it's a very good layout!!!

Things like this are reasons why I’m so jealous of people with modded islands.

Hot take: I really don’t mind if my airport and resident service building doesn’t line up. I just restarted my island and I plan on doing a more cottagecore/forest themed one with some magical elements. In fact, I think that my airport being further from Resident Services is more ideal. It would make traversing the island from the airport feel more like an actual trek through the woods rather than a straight line.

I did this before, i wanted a penninsula i could access day 1 big enough for my house, only one south rivermouth and cherrys. It took me about 5 hours 💀 The penninsula isnt "random" it has about 3 different shapes that can sit in a few different spots.

(caito don't read this) .... i loveeee caito getting dragged with math!!

When I got my second Switch and restarted my island, I got EXACTLY the same layout as my very first pandemic-time island. River mouths, secret beach, length of rocks, etc.. I have restarted many times since then, and never gotten that same layout!

I loved watching her looking for the lined up resident service and airport color but Caito lost me at everything else. I agree with all of your points, villagers are replaceable, native fruit effects barely anything in the game, and terraforming exists. I do love her commitment to find the island I keep watching her streams and rooting for the tiny chance she finds it

i managed to reset till i had peaches, a blue airport and a centered resident services in a straight line from it and then found out the secondary fruit was oranges and at that point i had to give up and kept playing

...I didn't even realize that it was rare to start with a cat villager. I have Katt and Kitty on my island, and Katt was one of my starters! Yeah never letting go of those two. I love how I just decorated around Katt's house 🤷🏼‍♀️

“Better Florida” as a floridian I can confirm, it is a better pinensula

I wanted a certain river layout with a particular peninsula. That was enough for me, and it was pretty easy to get.

Kora, you’re gonna hate me for this, on my 13th nook mile ticket i got Merry

A heart shaped pond huh? I got that on my first island no resets. Well, that's luck for you

"...that I call better Florida..." This killed me

How am I only just learning that there's more then 4 layouts now that I'm half way through finishing my island 😭

Kora: “HELL no.” Me: (Almost chokes on my drink)

i think i rerolled about 50 times until i got the layout i wanted, the fruit i wanted, the flower i wanted, the airport colour i wanted, and decent starters!

reset my 2nd island for about 4 days to find my perfect layout, wasnt constant but was successful

Not 100% on board with my Island but it's pretty even, symmetrical river, centered community center, slightly off airport Sometimes I wish rivers were in a different spot as I have very small beaches in the front, I played around the center and airport so that's fine Can't imagine ever restarting and get a worse layout 😅😅😅

Yeah the reddit post needs an update. I did reset my island 2 weeks ago and NONE of the templates I seen is the one I selected.

I got a residents’ services far from the airport, a good river layout, peaches as my native fruit with the other two fruits given being my other favorites, my second favorite sisterly, a tolerable jock, roses which aren’t my favorite but are the best for breeding, and the airport color I wanted (well I would prefer blue _now_ , but I liked the orange airport for street lamps) all on my first try in April 2020. I was fully ready to reset but I didn’t need to. It’s a shame I like never play the game.

Today I got the perfect island 1st try with the airport colour I wanted and the fruits I wanted omg

fricking crazy how (5:28) that is exactly my current island, the only difference between them is the location of Resident Services. RS is more to the left

I remember when I was younger I would constantly restart my island just because of the villagers but even tho I have villagers I don’t really like I figured out how to get them to move out, Basically you ignore them for as long as you can till they ask you

0:44 pause. She is looking for the exact layout of my island I have that heart shaped pond! 😅

omg koramora i love your animal crossing content i watch it all day everyday while playing animal crossing

I spent 5 days trying to get the perfect island for me. In that time i picked an island for a day than deleted it. I than picked another island for a day and deleted it. I wasn’t happy. I than for the next three days spent 10-12 hours looking for my perfect island. I took breaks in between meals etc. I continued to reset every island that came up. I have special symbols and characters in my name and island name. Frustrating to do every time but i did it. Hundreds of times for 3 days straight. After the third day of 10 hours resetting islands. A lot of the same maps but with different river mouths etc. And villagers i did not like. I found my perfect island with resident services in the middle, a BLUE ❤ airport, and 2 okay villagers. Orange fruit trees which i can live with and river mouths i liked south and east. I have since changed my first two villagers using amiibos. I was determined and never gave up. I fought the frustration for 5 days and kapow my perfect island ❤️💕✨ So, there is hope.

Hi Kora! I can’t wait to watch your tears of the kingdom vids soon!

I found my perfect island :) but tbh, my criteria were not too many. f.e. I didn't care at all about my starting villagers. in the end, it took me half a day - I made a long break because i was frustrated 🤣 but for me, it was absolutly worth it :)

And we didn’t even touch on your rocks or your dock or your native flowers…

Good video,! You should link the Reddit post in the description since you talked about it so much. Thanks for the video.

Caito is a trooper for sure

I wonder how native fruits are chosen by the game logic. Genuinely, every Animal Crossing game I've had, every "good" town layout I get has the native fruit of pears. Wild World, New Leaf, and New Horizons. I am cursed to have pears.

I wish I knew about the multiple options when I first started. I picked from an early set (1st or 2nd). Just wanted to play.

the way that my exact island in the thumbnail

I’ve always like my island because it has a little mini island inside it

My airport is a blue building. I just started the game five days ago so I’m still new to the game

If wanting a specific starter flower type as well, that’s tied to villager DOB, apparently.

0_0 she's gonna be island hunting for years

i love my layout, i got the perfekt airplane color and i was kinda lucky with my villagers, so everything is fine, but i named my island pumpkin and i am scared it wont fit with the decoration i'll do on it meh ;^;

that's pretty funny considering it's not all that hard to unlock terraforming and just make it the way you want

Now going back to the game after like 2 years I’m just now realizing how blessed my island is. I got a good airport color and it lines up to the town hall. My river mouths are both on the south side out of the way and my dock is perfectly sat on the bottom left corner. Only thing I didn’t get lucky with is getting pears and having moose as my first male villager🤢

I am not going to lie, I actually thought that there were only 4 layouts... The more you know

im mstill on my first island and i didnt know that there were other layouts- so it counts :)

The island Caito is looking for is my island layout! 😅

Definitely not in your move in que...huh... Great vid by the way! Also I got my first amebios and got 4 cats lollie Raymond merry and purrl. My dream is Roisie and I didn't get her but my dad bought her amibio for means just waiting for it to arive. Also I used the lollie amebio and she is now on my island! Question: lollie was ur dreamed I assume and u wrote a song about her so why is she not on ur island?

While the math in the video isn’t 100%, it does illustrate well how controlling every possible option just isn’t possible

...My resident services was lined up first try. I thought the chances of it were absurlsy high but apparently me and my friends just got lucky?

I got pretty lucky with both of my islands. I picked out my first, forever island because it had a smaller dick island on the inside; I lucked out and got reneigh and bam as starters and I’ve had great villagers since. On my second island, I decided that I was going to be pickier and I would reset if I didn’t get cherries as the starter fruit and roses as the native flower, but lucked out after making my first selection (a layout with a little leaf in the center).

I said it would take Caito a month, I guess I meant a decade. 😮

I mean, sure, finding the perfect map is hard. I've been resetting (efficiently too) for about 10 hours. I have a lot of things I take into consideration to layout, but the one thing really setting me back is finding a short pier with a map I like. Also once checking a map out I'm looking for a blue or yellow airport, apples or peaches - all in combination. 😅

Idk if I was really lucky or something but I was trying to find an island where the airport and resident services lined up perfectly and it only took like 1 or 2 hours with like 30 to 40 tries

I feel a little odd watching some of these videos that mention how coveted Raymond is when I have him on my island. Wasn't even searching for him. I was searching for Lobo(luckilly for me, Lobo showed up in my campsite a few weeks later). I have both my dreamies in my town, Goldie and Lobo, who remind me of my parents. Don't give up.

The fact that I have had three Nintendo’s, and I’ve had the same island on all three of them for animal crossing is just amazing cause I don’t like change

95 layouts and yet me and my friend found the same layout first try

I restarted because with treasure island and playing 2 and a half years, I flattened it and I tried to like it but almost a week ago I was like I'm restarting and it took me like an hour and a half to pick a island I liked enough to enjoy ac again but i believe i think i got my forever island now

kora is our new math teacher now

Love that this video is centered around caito 😂