Fruit Abilities in New Horizons?

[matchaman]

okay, so
in the september direct trailer we saw someone eat an apple,
and it enabled them to dig up whole trees yeah? this probably sounds a little bit farfetched
but what if eating different fruits gave you different ~abilities~ or sumn? like if you ate an orange,
and you watered two flowers, it'd have a higher chance of producing a hybrid for example? it seems a bit
out there but it was just something i was thinking about.
please feel free to elaborate on this or give feedback! <3

 

[SheepMareep]

That actually sounds like a fun idea and would give people a reason to want multiple fruits in their towns/to interact with other players more who have these other fruits!!!

Maybe peaches let you pick up/remove rocks, pears make you luckier with finding rarer fish/bugs for maybe an hour or so at a time, bananas could make placing pathways faster, the possibilities are endless c:

 

[Circus]

That's a really interesting idea!

 

[Ossiran]

It would be interesting, but it would inspire even more resetting if you don't get a specific fruit as your native because some would likely be better than the others. It would make some fruits more valuable to other players as well, allowing those who got the best one as their native to sell it for more. Just seems like a little too much.

I don't dislike the idea, though.

 

[Azrael]

I like this idea! That would be very cool! It would be nice to have little bonuses like that to encourage multiple types of fruit for more than just aesthetics!

 

[AlyssaAC]

That's a pretty neat idea and I can definitely see that working. If would really get people into trading fruit with each other and maybe selling some of it for profit. Hopefully in the new game it will be easy to obtain the other fruit if you can't trade with others though. Like maybe obtaining them could be easy like it was in Wild World where all you had to do was send lot of letters and you would most likely get one from one of those.

Removing rocks, easier fishing and bug catching and a few other abilities would be neat. Though if they do do something like that, I won't reset for a different fruit though.

 

[John Wick]

I hope we don't end up with the player having a health bar/meter, hunger level, and/or a happiness bar. I would hate AC to go down that path.

It's meant to be relaxing, now we have to eat an apple to be able to dig up a tree.

 

[Boccages]

Yes. Interesting idea. We'd need to see how it fits with the game.

 

[matchaman]

I hope we don't end up with the player having a health bar/meter, hunger level, and/or a happiness bar. I would hate AC to go down that path.

It's meant to be relaxing, now we have to eat an apple to be able to dig up a tree.

I may be missing your point, but how does a happiness meter, hunger bar and health bar have
anything to do with fruits giving you nifty abilities?

 

[SheepMareep]

I hope we don't end up with the player having a health bar/meter, hunger level, and/or a happiness bar. I would hate AC to go down that path.

It's meant to be relaxing, now we have to eat an apple to be able to dig up a tree.

As opposed to not being able to dig up a tree at all...? How is eating an apple not... relaxing....

 

[RainbowGrace]

I think that sounds like a great idea! Maybe some could also increase our luck at catching difficult fish, or similar.

 

[John Wick]

I may be missing your point, but how does a happiness meter, hunger bar and health bar have
anything to do with fruits giving you nifty abilities?

My point was that if we now have to eat something to give us in game energy, will AC end up being one of those games where you have a health/hunger etc meter that you have to monitor.

Those are great for action games, but I wouldn't want to see it in AC.

I doubt it would be, but it's something we haven't needed to do in the past.

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As opposed to not being able to dig up a tree at all...? How is eating an apple not... relaxing....

You're overthinking my post.

I never said anything about apples being relaxing, it's more about having to worry about eating in a relaxing game.

I explained it above.

Forget I even mentioned it.

 

[moo-kun]

I hope eating different fruit gives you different yumminess reactions!
Like:
✲︎eating lemons will be sweet but sour, cherries imo are Ambrosia so I'll probably be in yummy heaven after eating that!

✲︎Would be nice if we could assign ourselves a favourite fruit!

✲︎If you eat a banana, you can lift a mountain! Haha