Starting Island Layouts from Official AC Twitter Accounts

[Fey]

By "outlet" you mean the chunk of land that goes into the beach, into the water? Cause if so, there's a couple on there where the dock and outlet are on the same side.

No, I meant where the river meets the ocean. Maybe that’s an inlet? A delta? I’ll look it up and edit for clarity accordingly.

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Also sorry OP, I didn’t see that you’d already mentioned the dock placement, despite reading through all the posts before writing mine lol

 

[Bosca]

The bottom left map is exactly the kind of map I'd love. With higher ground covering the majority of the north of the island and a mini island. I'd totally work with the top right too tho.

 

[The Hidden Owl]

The bottom left map is exactly the kind of map I'd love. With higher ground covering the majority of the north of the island and a mini island. I'd totally work with the top right too tho.

I was thinking the same. It leaves a lot of room to work with features I already like. I'd probably change the course of the northernmost river but that's about it, I think.

 

[pichupal]

Also sorry OP, I didn’t see that you’d already mentioned the dock placement, despite reading through all the posts before writing mine lol

Lol np, me not being fully awake when I made this has lots of people saying outlet for the river mouth today, because I forgot the word mouth.

I might edit in some stuff into the OP though just to help answer some repeat questions.

 

[watercolorwish]

I took one and made my map with it a bit ago so i figured i'd share it here :> its fairy themed

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[John Wick]

I took one and made my map with it a bit ago so i figured i'd share it here :> its fairy themed

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That looks pretty awesome actually!

 

[sierra]

wow some of those rivers look wild lol
i will def do an island inside my island haha

Some of those ponds look wiener.

 

[pichupal]

Just added some stuff to the first post to answer some questions:

• I use the word outlet in the picture, but I mean the mouth of the river, or where the river meets the ocean.
• These are all RANDOMIZED maps layouts. There will be more options then these, but we'll be seeing them four at a time. Consider focusing on specific features on each map you might like.
• Every map has a dock on the opposite side of the East/West mouth (or random in double south). As an example, the west mouth set-up will have a dock on the east beach.
• Residential Services and the airport are always in your starting area, which is enclosed by the two rivers.
• The starting area can have no cliffs
• Each map has a small islet of land sticking out over the beach
• Every north secret beach is always blocked/connected to the second or third tier

 

[John Wick]

With a secret beach, we previously had to swim to it, I know I did in New Leaf, so this could mean swimming is still a thing, and wetsuits.

 

[pichupal]

Added two layout images I missed:

 

[Fey]

I see now what you mean with “starting area”—definitely important to keep in mind that we initially won’t be able to explore past that section.

I’m going to study them for a while and try to visualize my general layout. For now, all I know is that I’m very much leaning toward having one river mouth off to a side (instead of both in the South).

 

[Khaelis]

You can definitely tell New Horizon's map is quite a bit larger than past games, solely based on the river's structure. The extra room definitely allows for a more free-flowing river -- more natural.

It's amazing what a 7 by 6 acre map can do for you, huh?

 

[Aaren]

What do you guys think, can we make bigger "lakes"?

 

[John Wick]

What do you guys think, can we make bigger "lakes"?

If you made an already existing pond any bigger, I think only pond fish would show up there.

You could widen the pond part of the river, where the giant snakeheads spawn.

 

[HoennMaster]

Seeing what some people are coming up with for map concepts, I'm really curious about how big the game will let you make the ponds.

 

[Feraligator]

The maps shown on the Russian Nintendo account are soooo neat, I'd definitely want one of these to start with!

 

[pocky]

I love the ones that have an island within an island

 

[Khaelis]

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The maps shown on the Russian Nintendo account are soooo neat, I'd definitely want one of these to start with!

Whoa, the bottom right one is very close to what I'd likely pick. If only Resident Services was a little more south...

 

[Corndoggy]

this looks like its going to take me a while to choose a layout haha

 

[John Wick]

I still haven't seen one I can work with.
I hope they aren't all split into three.

I want two large areas of land, with one river dividing them.