Feraligator
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I've not flattened my island but I've redesigned it like 3 times now already and I'm still not happy with it lol
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TheSillyPuppy
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I considered flattening my whole island and re-terraforming the whole thing in late autumn/early winter. The urge to do so went away after I had traded for all the Festive recipes and decorated my island for the holiday season in early December and wanting to focus my energy elsewhere, including other Switch games and other aspects of my life!
Like others have suggested previously, I would recommend starting off with terraforming a small section at a time so you can sort of figure out what you want your island to look like (e.g. a theme or vibe) without fully committing to something before you've had a chance to evaluate on whether or not it's what you really want.
Like others have suggested previously, I would recommend starting off with terraforming a small section at a time so you can sort of figure out what you want your island to look like (e.g. a theme or vibe) without fully committing to something before you've had a chance to evaluate on whether or not it's what you really want.
i flattened my island a few days ago and it’s been flat ever since then 
i kinda regret it bc after doing all the work to flatten it i got burnt out and now i’m probably gonna take months to finally figure out what to do with my island lol i barely started redoing my campsite 
i kinda regret it bc after doing all the work to flatten it i got burnt out and now i’m probably gonna take months to finally figure out what to do with my island lol i barely started redoing my campsite 
Angelbearpuppy
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Im afraid to terraform so flatebubg makes me shrudder
I feel so different compared to everybody else. One of my main activities in New Leaf was doing, re-doing, and re-doing my paths because I couldn't decide if I wanted them down or if I wanted natural ones. Now, one of my main activities is terraforming and knocking down, building up, knocking down, and building up the same section of the cliffs over and over and over again. 
I think I'll eventually get to a point where I won't change the terraforming of my island very much and just change the decorations, but that won't be for a while. As much as I love the heavily cottagecore islands, I have to develop my own style of things and that can take me years sometimes to figure out what I really like and dislike.
I have noticed that terraforming my husband's island is much easier because I have learned so much from tearing everything down on my island and redoing it.
I think I'll eventually get to a point where I won't change the terraforming of my island very much and just change the decorations, but that won't be for a while. As much as I love the heavily cottagecore islands, I have to develop my own style of things and that can take me years sometimes to figure out what I really like and dislike.
I have noticed that terraforming my husband's island is much easier because I have learned so much from tearing everything down on my island and redoing it.
Bulbadragon
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I did this recently. It took weeks because I don't time travel so I could only move one house a day. So I ended up moving some houses multiple times, and it took forever to be able to fully terraform everything. However, I am much happier with my island setup so I think the pain was worth it. Now I have to redecorate everything. I got back to 5 stars again but I have so much empty space now. Redoing my island did get me back into the game completely though.
i battle this feeling on a daily basis, now. because i'm in the middle of working on my island, i'd say it's only about 40% actually 'finished'. and that gives me a lot of room to want to.. 'redo' everything that i've already done. i but i keep reminding myself that if i don't get it remotely sculpted the way that i want it to, i'll never get rid of this feeling. i'll never get any kind of 'end' from my progress, and i'll constantly be working on a half-completed island.
i definitely do wish i had flattened my island when i got the ability to terraform, however. i think that's where i get a lot of my what if ideas on if my layout was changed, or i could put in a three-tier cliff there, etc., but i already built up so much with the generic two-level area that my island had started with that i would have to literally tear everything down in that section just to make one little thing look better. so it's.. a bit of a process for me.
the way i'm getting around it is i'm trying to focus on one area at a time, currently. that being my museum. unfortunately i haven't had too much inspiration for it lately.
i definitely do wish i had flattened my island when i got the ability to terraform, however. i think that's where i get a lot of my what if ideas on if my layout was changed, or i could put in a three-tier cliff there, etc., but i already built up so much with the generic two-level area that my island had started with that i would have to literally tear everything down in that section just to make one little thing look better. so it's.. a bit of a process for me.
the way i'm getting around it is i'm trying to focus on one area at a time, currently. that being my museum. unfortunately i haven't had too much inspiration for it lately.
THIS. IS. SO. ME RN.
Since I got my second island, I keep looking at my first and being super unsatisfied with it, to the point that I want to start over. I don't want to delete my island now, I just want to flatten everythin, relocate villagers and shops, possibly even get rid of some of the villagers I have now and do everythin over. I'm like 70% complete with this island thing I've got goin on now and I've put so many hours into the game. The only thing that has stopped me is that it's going to be alot of work tearing everythin down then building it back up again. But I'm just so very unsatisfied with everything. I kind of did rush my first island and I didn't do alot of planning before setting everythin up, so some areas are a little too small, too big or just straight up too bare for my tastes.
I'm going to go ahead and make a Dream Code for my first island, even thou I told myself I wouldn't do it till I finished, so that atleast my current progress will be up somewhere so that maybe other people can enjoy what I've done so far. Heck if any of it inspires them that'd be even better!
Since I got my second island, I keep looking at my first and being super unsatisfied with it, to the point that I want to start over. I don't want to delete my island now, I just want to flatten everythin, relocate villagers and shops, possibly even get rid of some of the villagers I have now and do everythin over. I'm like 70% complete with this island thing I've got goin on now and I've put so many hours into the game. The only thing that has stopped me is that it's going to be alot of work tearing everythin down then building it back up again. But I'm just so very unsatisfied with everything. I kind of did rush my first island and I didn't do alot of planning before setting everythin up, so some areas are a little too small, too big or just straight up too bare for my tastes.
I'm going to go ahead and make a Dream Code for my first island, even thou I told myself I wouldn't do it till I finished, so that atleast my current progress will be up somewhere so that maybe other people can enjoy what I've done so far. Heck if any of it inspires them that'd be even better!
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