Sebas' Big-ass Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch Wishlist!

[Ribiveer]

So I've got a lot of things I want in Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch. So many, that I've made giant list below! I'll keep updating it when I remember more things I want. Please keep in mind I've only played New Leaf so far, so I might not have the context for everything. It may seem like I want a lot, but I don't expect everything on this list to happen. If anything, I hope we'll get stuff that nobody knew they wanted! That being said, I present:

Sebas' Big-ass Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch Wishlist!

• Character customization
  This is an obvious one. It's been in both spinoffs (yes, I'm counting two. I'm trying to forget that one) and I'd love to see the feature seep into the main game! It wouldn't make sense as a random menu, so maybe have Harriet expand her business for that?
• The return of height differences in terrain
  I thought this would clash with the rolling log effect, but after a bit of research I found that City Folk (I still want to play that one some time) has both! I understand why it wouldn't work as well on a handheld, but I'd be glad if it returned, it would make for more interesting layouts for sure!
• Better camera controls
  Now this is one of the more farfetched wishes, but I'd love to be able to rotate the camera anywhere! In New Leaf, you can only rotate in your house and in the museum as far as I'm aware. Being able to do it outside and in other places as well would be amazing, but I don't think it would be worth it to change all the models for that, as most objects don't have a backside. It would also clash with the rolling log effect, so I'm not expecting this any time soon.
• Automatic fruit stacking
  This has no excuse not to exist. When you pick up fruit, it should check if you have another piece of that fruit, and stack with it. If I have a full inventory, but in that inventory is a stack of 8 apples, and I'm picking up a single apple, the game shouldn't tell me my inventory is full!
• More stackable items
  This one kind of speaks for itself: I want to be able to stack multiple items of the same type: like fossils, flowers and stuff.
• Improved PWP (and similar) placement system
  I absolutely love being able to decorate your own town with little buildings and structures and I am happy with the fact that you can choose where your house is.
  That being said, I think how you do that in New Leaf is a bit sloppy. In New Leaf, you have Isabelle or Tom Nook follow you around while you walk to your destination. Then, if the spot you're at is free, you can talk to them and voil?, you got it. If there's something close, however, you have to repeat the same dialog at different spots over and over again until you get one that fits, if it even exists:
  
  "Yes, Mayor! Is this about where you'd like to place the park clock?"
  [menu where you click yes]
  "Well, let's see... It's just so close to something else that I think it would be very tough to place it right here. We're planning to put in a new park clock this time... From where you're standing now, Mayor, we need an empty section of land that's 1 left and right! And then another 2 spaces back! Basically, you need a lot of space! However, if it's going to be next to something else, I think it'd be best to have extra space on all sides."
  
  And that happens over and over again! Like geez dude, I just want to place a single park clock! Here's my solution for this problem:
  I propose a mode that you can access from the town hall, a GUI kinda like HHD, where you can move stuff about. if something doesn't work, the item you're moving just becomes red and you can try a different spot immediately.
• Functional chat
  In New Leaf, you can type some messages with the touchscreen, sure, but you're limited to 32 characters. 32. CHARACTERS. And that's only dots, because if you want to type characters with actual width, you're going to get a lot less! I want to be able to type full sentences. I also want no miscommunication because someone walked into a building at the wrong time and missed a message, just have a chatlog like with the best friends, but everywhere!
• Automatic saving
  This is another one of those things that imo have no excuse not to exist. Saving takes a long time in New Leaf, and I think that's because it's running on a handheld, but on the Switch, it needs to be there. I don't want to worry about losing my progress when I go online with an unstable connection, I just want to have fun! While I personally wouldn't need it, some people might still want to reset, so I think being able to toggle between autosave and manual save should be an unlockable option, maybe with the reset center.
• Automatic Blathers-assessing
  When you go into the museum, you can choose to donate stuff, or asses fossils. I just want to donate the fossils asap most of the time! Why doesn't Blathers just let me give them to him, so he can take the ones he need and give the rest back to me for easy money? It's a win win! Again, no reason not to exist yet!
• Seperate space for tools, away from the main inventory
  I mean, this one kind of speaks for itself. Sometimes you see a bug you really want, or see a rock that's not supposed to be there, and you can't get it because you decided to actually have some space in your inventory for once! That also leads me to:
• Bigger/Upgradable inventory
  We all know it all too well: you're just minding your own business, picking up flowers, digging up fossils, collecting fruit, when all of a sudden... your inventory is full! Oh... how much bells I wouldn't spend on making my pockets bigger. And that's exactly what I should be able to do! I don't know if it should be done by an existing character, or an entirely new shop, though. It doesn't matter as long as I can carry as many golden stags as possible!
• NES games
  I forgot about the entire reason I wanted to make this list! If this returns in the new Animal Crossing (unlikely, with the whole NES online thing, but still) I'll practically squeal with delight the first time I see it. There's like a 99% chance it won't happen though, so I'm not holding my breath.

Anyways, that's my big-ass Animal Crossing for Nintendo Switch wishlist! Have you got any suggestions? Tell me! I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

 

[Snowesque]

The stacking ideas are nice, I don't think I've heard of an automatic stack yet.

 

[princepoke]

automatic stack 100% is something id love to see tbh!!
and i definitely would love stack options for flowers and fossils, but am unsure if thatd b a good idea per se since fossils are different with each thing (ie. the actual "fossil" they contain is different) and stuff like flowers have some kind of genetic thing for each flower, meaning that stacking would bring about the question of "if i stacked a pure red and a hybrid red rose, would it bring me back both? in which specific order - the first i stacked in to be removed first or the last i stacked in will be removed first?" and so on, so im unsure how feasible per se itd be? maybe for things ike dandelions, jacon ladders, mushrooms and clovers itd b amazing to have some actual stacking, since they dont actually have any other variety :-0c

 

[Ribiveer]

automatic stack 100% is something id love to see tbh!!
and i definitely would love stack options for flowers and fossils, but am unsure if thatd b a good idea per se since fossils are different with each thing (ie. the actual "fossil" they contain is different) and stuff like flowers have some kind of genetic thing for each flower, meaning that stacking would bring about the question of "if i stacked a pure red and a hybrid red rose, would it bring me back both? in which specific order - the first i stacked in to be removed first or the last i stacked in will be removed first?" and so on, so im unsure how feasible per se itd be? maybe for things ike dandelions, jacon ladders, mushrooms and clovers itd b amazing to have some actual stacking, since they dont actually have any other variety :-0c

I was thinking of an item like a bouquet that has inventory of its own, kind of like the gift bag in toy day. I do think it'd be a seperate item unlike of the stackable fruit if it's going to be so versatile.

 

[Sweetley]

I like the idea for the Character customization by expanding Harriet's business. I think
she could offer more options for later changes of your character in the game. The idea
with the automatic fruit stacking sounds also pretty nice. I hope something like this is
in the new game.

 

[gobby]

Yes stacking manually makes me a little frustrated lol maybe little mini games with other villagers would be cute! I like when they ask you to play hide seek, maybe bug catching competitions would be neat! I want to feel like I'm hanging out with my villagers

 

[Neechan]

If automatic fruit stacking is put in the game, I want an option to turn it off, but that's just me

 

[Ribiveer]

If automatic fruit stacking is put in the game, I want an option to turn it off, but that's just me

Oh, that's interesting, why would you want to turn it off?

 

[Neechan]

Oh, that's interesting, why would you want to turn it off?

Really I'd have no problem with auto-stacking, other reason than to have it as an option

 

[22lexi]

Every single one of these things needs to be added

 

[oath2order]

I love these because I get to critique everything.

Character customization, yes, I agree.

I don't care about the height differences as much.

Camera controls would be nice.

Automatic fruit stacking sounds like something that could be patched into NL. And should have been.

Fossils I couldn't see, but flowers would be a bouquet.

Better PWP placement would be a godsend.

 

[Ribiveer]

I love these because I get to critique everything.

Character customization, yes, I agree.

I don't care about the height differences as much.

Camera controls would be nice.

Automatic fruit stacking sounds like something that could be patched into NL. And should have been.

Fossils I couldn't see, but flowers would be a bouquet.

Better PWP placement would be a godsend.

I love these because I get to be critiqued!

I admit the fossils were a bit far fetched, and that suggestion is largely based on that single pet peeve. I think the problem is a mixture of the tools taking up space, along with the amount of fossils that appear every day. Maybe I just want more inventory space. I'll add that to the list as well!

 

[Neechan]

I love these because I get to be critiqued!

I admit the fossils were a bit far fetched, and that suggestion is largely based on that single pet peeve. I think the problem is a mixture of the tools taking up space, along with the amount of fossils that appear every day. Maybe I just want more inventory space. I'll add that to the list as well!

I think a lot of people including me hate the fact that we have a lot of our inventory space taken up by our tools, even worse when we need to keep the letters in our letter pouch so we can keep the out of it.

I’m sure they’re going to add either a tool box to keep all your tools including wetsuits, or a tool tab A la harvest moon (or story of seasons)

 

[ShadowDire]

Same, I would love a lot of the things you proposed, I also would like a HHD kind of method with villagers, like make it a rare request or something where you can design their house. Also, I WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE THEIR FLOORS AND WALLS! It's so hard to find items that will work with some of the villager's houses. I also wish that the villagers would have improved type of AI where they would know where it would make sense to place items, NO MORE FRIDGES IN THE MIDDLE ERIK.

 

[carackobama]

Great list! I would love to see all of these, the automatic fruit stacking and separate storages for tools would be especially useful.

 

[Ribiveer]

I forgot about the entire reason I made this wishlist, NES games! I added it to the list.

 

[Mr_Persona]

Here is what they should do is to HAVE 15 VILLAGERS IN YOUR TOWN AGAIN
they had it in Wild World but not in NL so why not put 15 villagers in your town again in the new AC.

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It will be better then having just 10 villagers

 

[Neechan]

Here is what they should do is to HAVE 15 VILLAGERS IN YOUR TOWN AGAIN
they had it in Wild World but not in NL so why not put 15 villagers in your town again in the new AC.

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It will be better then having just 10 villagers

Wait, what?... Wild World had a limit of 8 villagers and city folk had a limit of 10 villagers, the original had 15