Flower-Loving Punk
In Debt to a Tanuki
Hi Gamers!
Just wanted to vent and chat a little about Island Decorating, and see if anyone has any advice on how to keep going. My island is technically 5 starts but I think it looks terrible.
I'm at work currently, but when I get home I'll post some pictures in this thread. I got very inspired in 2020 before I even had New Horizons to make a Ancient Grecian themed island I picked my specific island because it had two southern river exists and I wanted to make a giant horseshoe. When I finally earned enough bells to start real prep and real terraforming, I got to work and within the span of a week (with lots of time traveling) I managed to make a decent looking museum on a cliff with water falls and a really neat looking horse shoe river.
It was so exhausting that I took a 2 month break from Animal Crossing after that because I was so burnt out. I made a little campsite after, really took my time with it, and it looks okay but I really thought I'd get better at terraforming and decorating by that point. It was a little disappointing, to be honest.
After a couple of years I decided to change my island inspo and go towards more of an Ancient Minoan, King Minos and the Minotaur, vaguely Midsommar kind of vibe, and I drew out plans to make a labyrinth with the Monster Statue 'minotaur' in the middle. I started working on it but it looked terrible so I stopped. My island got overwhelmed with flowers so I just kind of gave up.
I eventually got back to playing, moved all my villager houses to the beach, worked more on the labyrinth, I like how it looks a little more now, but for some reason I just can't quite gets things to look right. I still have big plans, I have ideas for giant crop fields, I made a large eye at the top of my island near the secret beach I eventually want to move all my rocks to to make one of those cool rock rings around the iris. I want to make a giant villager plaza in the center of the rivers and have a little fake port near my dock with old rusty boats and outdated equipment.
I've seen so many spooky islands done SO well. Anything I try just looks tacky to me. I can't get the unsettling atmosphere I've seen so many popular islands make. Granted, I know making a spooky island in AC alone is pretty difficult (it's not a scary game), and a lot of the really popular horror islands aren't fight both for both "historic" AND "horror" vibes, which makes my own project a little harder on myself. I'm not really trying to be scary... just make things seem... off... until you wander into the labyrinth like Theseus and realize oh! There's a monster in here!
After so many years playing you'd think I'd get better at decorating outside by now. It's a little frustrating because I've seen my interior decorating skills improve so much, but my exterior ones not so much. If anyone has any advice for how to get emotionally over your own skill gap or how to actually improve and get better at terraforming I'd love to hear it!!
Thanks for reading!
Just wanted to vent and chat a little about Island Decorating, and see if anyone has any advice on how to keep going. My island is technically 5 starts but I think it looks terrible.
I'm at work currently, but when I get home I'll post some pictures in this thread. I got very inspired in 2020 before I even had New Horizons to make a Ancient Grecian themed island I picked my specific island because it had two southern river exists and I wanted to make a giant horseshoe. When I finally earned enough bells to start real prep and real terraforming, I got to work and within the span of a week (with lots of time traveling) I managed to make a decent looking museum on a cliff with water falls and a really neat looking horse shoe river.
It was so exhausting that I took a 2 month break from Animal Crossing after that because I was so burnt out. I made a little campsite after, really took my time with it, and it looks okay but I really thought I'd get better at terraforming and decorating by that point. It was a little disappointing, to be honest.
After a couple of years I decided to change my island inspo and go towards more of an Ancient Minoan, King Minos and the Minotaur, vaguely Midsommar kind of vibe, and I drew out plans to make a labyrinth with the Monster Statue 'minotaur' in the middle. I started working on it but it looked terrible so I stopped. My island got overwhelmed with flowers so I just kind of gave up.
I eventually got back to playing, moved all my villager houses to the beach, worked more on the labyrinth, I like how it looks a little more now, but for some reason I just can't quite gets things to look right. I still have big plans, I have ideas for giant crop fields, I made a large eye at the top of my island near the secret beach I eventually want to move all my rocks to to make one of those cool rock rings around the iris. I want to make a giant villager plaza in the center of the rivers and have a little fake port near my dock with old rusty boats and outdated equipment.
I've seen so many spooky islands done SO well. Anything I try just looks tacky to me. I can't get the unsettling atmosphere I've seen so many popular islands make. Granted, I know making a spooky island in AC alone is pretty difficult (it's not a scary game), and a lot of the really popular horror islands aren't fight both for both "historic" AND "horror" vibes, which makes my own project a little harder on myself. I'm not really trying to be scary... just make things seem... off... until you wander into the labyrinth like Theseus and realize oh! There's a monster in here!
After so many years playing you'd think I'd get better at decorating outside by now. It's a little frustrating because I've seen my interior decorating skills improve so much, but my exterior ones not so much. If anyone has any advice for how to get emotionally over your own skill gap or how to actually improve and get better at terraforming I'd love to hear it!!
Thanks for reading!
