Hypothetical QoL Idea for Flower Control

[rubyrubert]

So obviously flowers can be picked, but you need a shovel to move them. When they get picked, they can be crafted into items.

I'm guessing the devs made it harder for flowers get destroyed/taken since games like Wild World because I'm sure it would give someone a mental breakdown if an 11 year old from Nookazon ran over your blue roses and destroyed them. But they also spread like crazy now with rain and flowers breeding and cloning themselves.

For some reason I was thinking about a hypothetical QoL update for players to interact with flowers and here's what I came up with without changing how flowers are now both the plant itself and the item for crafting.

What if: there was a flower app similar to the construction app or as a feature of the construction app? And when activated, you can pick up flowers without a shovel like a regular item? Or maybe, similar to the island cleanup app, the app could "clean up" all flower plants and put them in your inventory.

Thoughts? Don't judge me for posting on New Year's Eve I'm home alone and sick

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I think that's a great idea!!! That, or if the whole harvesting/moving mechanic worked differently only for you when you're on your island, gates closed. So picking them up manually would pick up the whole flower, and maybe hitting with an axe or shovel would harvest the flower?

 

[VanitasFan26]

Yeah the flowers are such a pain to deal with in this game. In New Leaf they were more easy to pick up and you can just pluck it and plant it anywhere you want, but in this game you have to use your shovel to dig it out. There is no way to store it other than just burying it back in the dirt. I seriously was hoping they add some sort of greenhouse to like store flowers, trees and bushes inside so you can use them later, but they never did.

Now I know someone is going to say "Well you can use the Recycle Bin by using a different user to pick it up" What they mean is that if you add a new user to your island you can use them as "Followers" and to make sure they dig up any flower, tree, or bush with the shovel. What happens is that they dig it up and it disappears to the recycle bin at Resident Services. While this sounds like a good idea there is a problem. Its very time consuming and it take way longer just to switch between users. Also the Recycle Bin has a strange limit where if you fill it with so many items it deletes any old items that was previously inside before.

So in my opinion they should add a Flower Storage to basically store away flowers, because I can't tell you how many times I had to dig out flowers I don't want and I had to throw them away in a Garbage bin. It just took way too long. I am not sure if sure they will improve this but I doubt they will but I hope they address this in the next AC Game.

 

[Tiffany]

The flower mechanics for sure need work and your idea would help. My biggest issue with digging them up is the shovel breaking. If we had unbreakable tools I wouldn't mind. What I hate is trying to anything anywhere near flowers always results in pulling the petals off. always. Try to pick up a stick or weed? nope were gonna pull the petals off this flowers instead. Same thing if you try to kick dirt into a hole, pull the flower petals instead. It's so annoying. I also had a thought they could make that new greenhouse box into flower storage.

 

[nightglow]

Something does need to be done about the flowers lol! I have gotten to the point where I don't have them in areas unless they are enclosed via fences or items. Leif, I know you love flowers, but maybe you would be interested in collecting them as well.. please come take some flowers. Maybe he would take them "in bulk" and give you some coin for them. If something like that was implemented I can see the devs having the flowers randomly chosen or the hybrids being targeted though.. which would be all the more reason to have a green house to hide the ones you really want to keep from Leif.
I do like the idea of having a way to move flowers without a shovel... since the shovels break so often and there is no way to get a special shovel that is magical and never breaks... But I don't foresee being able to move flowers without a shovel being a thing.
I wonder if one of the main reasons why they made the flowers spread so fast and easily is because they want to make sure you have enough for crafting.

I wish they considered being able to find all the fruit eventually since we have cooking and crafting with that... Speaking of which... I am a little surprised they didn't lock flowers behind trading too.

 

[Marshmallows]

Some things that would help tremendously with flower control and storage...

An object/tool we can use to destroy flowers. A plow, lawnmower, weed whacker, special boots... something, anything, that turns flowers to weeds or mulch we can pick up and throw away. Could probably be included in the construction app.

I'd also love a way to get seeds from flowers. A duplicate of the flower that we can store. I have a lot of varieties that I don't want to lose, but don't care to display either (especially the black flowers.) I end up hiding them behind a cliff, but it gets tedious.

 

[Lullaboid]

I am 100% behind literally anything that makes flowers easier to move. Moving them has got to be one of the most tedious parts of the entire game.

 

[Snek]

Flowers really do need to go into the inventory. Same with shrubs too. I don't know why they cant be put in storage. I don't really want to go through the pain and make/trash flowers when I dont have to. The blue roses I have out right now look nice in winter but where would I put them next autumn if I want something different? I hope they can let us put flowers and shrubs in storage in another update.

 

[LambdaDelta]

they should've just made it so the beautiful town ordinance will only allow flowers to breed/clone if you water them

 

[Romaki]

Personally I feel like this could be solved a lot easier. Just make a fast X the pickup for the craft material and a long press the flower pickup.

 

[maria110]

Hopefully they will do this for the next edition of the game since it's a great idea. I don't know that they will make flowers part of construction but they should be removable with the clean up option. It's like instead of digging them up individually, they were razed with a bulldozer.

 

[rubyrubert]

Personally I feel like this could be solved a lot easier. Just make a fast X the pickup for the craft material and a long press the flower pickup.

That's such a simple genius idea.

I wish I could just burn down this annoying huge flower field I have

 

[Mr.Fox]

I can't stand the clean up after it rains/snows, and I'm not willing to fence in all my flowers. I like them where they are.

I know the actual flower breeding mechanic will never change, so I was hoping they'd implement something along the lines of a watering can you can use to STOP certain flowers from breeding.

 

[rubyrubert]

I can't stand the clean up after it rains/snows, and I'm not willing to fence in all my flowers. I like them where they are.

I know the actual flower breeding mechanic will never change, so I was hoping they'd implement something along the lines of a watering can you can use to STOP certain flowers from breeding.

That would be good! Maybe a fertilizer (?) that prevents flowers from spreading. And if you pick the flowers up, they can say "Fertilized blahblahblah flower"