The Resetting Thread

[HappyTails]

I reset again. Yeah, whatever. this is like the 5th time but my airport location was bugging me.

I decided that this is going to be the absolute last reset. If I reset again, I'm selling my game because I refuse to get stuck in a reset loop that I got stuck in when I played New Leaf. Nope, not this time. Also, I'm tired of the yellow airport. Whatever color is fine with me as long as I get peaches or apples as natives, the airport needs to be centered on my map, I want the large circular peninsula, and Redds beach not centered. That's pretty much all I want and a long dock.

Still haven't found a map, 5 days later. I don't think I'm asking too much, this game is getting on my nerves.

Edit: Found a map.

 

[Lanstar]

Still haven't found a map, 5 days later. I don't think I'm asking too much, this game is getting on my nerves.

I wish you the best of luck on finding your ideal map! Just understand though: There really isn't such a thing as a perfect map - So whichever layout you settle upon, imperfections will forever stand out as you later go about decorating.

Like, I've kept my layout since the game's release, and it has so many issues to me in hindsight: I thought everything about the island was customizable at the time except the fruit - so I went for the first town I saw with apples, and settled with that. Then later on, I witnessed my layout had very minimal continuous beach space, small and awkward beach rock placements, a very thin peninsula, a permanently Orange Airport (Wished it could've been blue), and the Plaza being just 9 spaces away from the south beach.

But despite all that, I've learned to love my layout for what it is - And I still have fun playing in it. If you forgive the imperfections about your next layout as you find them, you'll have a better time keeping your next island afloat instead of resetting again.

 

[HappyTails]

I wish you the best of luck on finding your ideal map! Just understand though: There really isn't such a thing as a perfect map - So whichever layout you settle upon, imperfections will forever stand out as you later go about decorating.

Like, I've kept my layout since the game's release, and it has so many issues to me in hindsight: I thought everything about the island was customizable at the time except the fruit - so I went for the first town I saw with apples, and settled with that. Then later on, I witnessed my layout had very minimal continuous beach space, small and awkward beach rock placements, a very thin peninsula, a permanently Orange Airport (Wished it could've been blue), and the Plaza being just 9 spaces away from the south beach.

But despite all that, I've learned to love my layout for what it is - And I still have fun playing in it. If you forgive the imperfections about your next layout as you find them, you'll have a better time keeping your next island afloat instead of resetting again.

Thank you. I found a map last night, and it's true, there is isn't a such thing as a perfect map. Most of the stuff on my new map is stuff I actually wanted: it has a wide peninsula, a somewhat centered airport, and a secret beach off to the side instead of the in the center. I'm not crazy about the two south river mouths but I'm going to learn to live with it. After I unlock terraforming, it won't be as bad. My two starters are also pretty cool (Sterling and Plucky). I've had this game since launch day and restarted it at least 6 times. There will not be a 7th time or this game is getting sold. It's not going to be New Leaf all over again.

 

[Lanstar]

Thank you. I found a map last night, and it's true, there is isn't a such thing as a perfect map. Most of the stuff on my new map is stuff I actually wanted: it has a wide peninsula, a somewhat centered airport, and a secret beach off to the side instead of the in the center. I'm not crazy about the two south river mouths but I'm going to learn to live with it. After I unlock terraforming, it won't be as bad. My two starters are also pretty cool (Sterling and Plucky). I've had this game since launch day and restarted it at least 6 times. There will not be a 7th time or this game is getting sold. It's not going to be New Leaf all over again.

As someone with an island Dual South outlets, I find it has surprisingly good trade offs: Yes, it splits the beach into smaller chunks, and it's hard to connect the outlets in a nice way. But in exchange, it grants you tons of freedom to decorate on the north side of own. Take things a day at a time, and it will serve you well!

 

[Twisterheart]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about restarting my town. I just... dislike it so much. Right after I unlocked terraforming, I made the mistake to tear everything in my town down. It’s been 6/7 months ago, and I still can’t figure out what I want. I also hate my town name. I gave it a tropical name, which is making me feel pressure to go for a tropical theme which I don’t want anymore. Ugh. But at the same time, I don’t want to reset. I’ve had this game since launch, and I’ve accomplished so much
I also adore my villagers. This is so hard

 

[JKDOS]

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about restarting my town. I just... dislike it so much. Right after I unlocked terraforming, I made the mistake to tear everything in my town down. It’s been 6/7 months ago, and I still can’t figure out what I want. I also hate my town name. I gave it a tropical name, which is making me feel pressure to go for a tropical theme which I don’t want anymore. Ugh. But at the same time, I don’t want to reset. I’ve had this game since launch, and I’ve accomplished so much
I also adore my villagers. This is so hard

I'm almost in the same boat. I hate my town layout, and I have no motivation to try and fix it because it's kind of depressing, especially with my my busy life. I feel resetting and taking a vanilla map would be better for me, but at the same time, I've made so much progress with my unlocks, Nookapedia, and Nook Miles/Achievements, I don't think it would be wise for me to reset. I probably just need to pull the trigger and do it. It would be super nostalgic to hear the prologue song again. I feel like the game was more relaxing when that music played.

 

[jiny]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about restarting my town. I just... dislike it so much. Right after I unlocked terraforming, I made the mistake to tear everything in my town down. It’s been 6/7 months ago, and I still can’t figure out what I want. I also hate my town name. I gave it a tropical name, which is making me feel pressure to go for a tropical theme which I don’t want anymore. Ugh. But at the same time, I don’t want to reset. I’ve had this game since launch, and I’ve accomplished so much
I also adore my villagers. This is so hard

im having the same problem with the island name and tropical theme i never wanted a tropical theme so idk why i chose a tropical name. it's the one thing that makes me want to reset but i cant bring myself to because ive already done so much in my island

 

[HappyTails]

As someone with an island Dual South outlets, I find it has surprisingly good trade offs: Yes, it splits the beach into smaller chunks, and it's hard to connect the outlets in a nice way. But in exchange, it grants you tons of freedom to decorate on the north side of own. Take things a day at a time, and it will serve you well!

That's is true. I did notice that the top half of my island is very spacious and I like it.

 

[Shawna]

I reset my island this passed Sunday. Two main reasons were: #1, I messed up with terraforming, and just wasn't happy with the way my island was turning out. And #2, I had neglected my previous island, which doing this in previous AC games always led to me wanting to reset, and this was the case for ACNH too.

The two main reasons I stopped playing for a while was because I have been preoccupied with other video games, and #2, joy-con drift. The latter has been resolved. My dad is letting me use his pro-controller until he finds another one to buy. His PS5 came in two days ago, so I don't think he will need it for a while. He is mostly focusing on PS5 and computer games as of late.

I reset again. Yeah, whatever. this is like the 5th time but my airport location was bugging me.

I decided that this is going to be the absolute last reset. If I reset again, I'm selling my game because I refuse to get stuck in a reset loop that I got stuck in when I played New Leaf. Nope, not this time. Also, I'm tired of the yellow airport. Whatever color is fine with me as long as I get peaches or apples as natives, the airport needs to be centered on my map, I want the large circular peninsula, and Redds beach not centered. That's pretty much all I want and a long dock.

Sis, I know exactly how you feel! I cannot even count how many times I restarted my ACNL town. I hope we don't get into the same habit in New Horizons.

 

[Perri]

Towards the end of summer, I said goodbye to the island I started on March 20th. I liked my villagers, I felt good about the progress I had made, but the layout and how approached terraforming really affected me. It was awkward and hard to navigate, and much less inviting than what I had just tore down. The landscaping and décor were heavily inspired by a YouTuber who was revealed to be an awful person. It had all left a bitter taste in my mouth. Now I was playing infrequently. So I restarted, and started a new game, but I was so focused on seeing how quickly I could complete all the Nook Miles goals (yikes). Soon after starting, and not long before I settled in to the next semester, I set my Switch aside for a while.

After a long struggle of executive dysfunction and hectic academics, I moved to a new island last Sunday. I became worried I would never find a desirable layout along with a blue airport and cherries; I furthermore worried I was being too obsessive about it. But I'm glad I didn't give up. Eventually, the game will generate something you will be happy with. And my anxiety went away. I'm finally enjoying this game again; my villagers, my layout, my progress and aspirations...

My only advice is keep trying. Don't go through the intro/tutorial until you really feel like you could work with, or accept, what you've been provided. It's still not easy, but the benefit of restarting your save is that you already (hopefully) know what you definitely do or don't want. And most importantly, you are starting fresh. It might become clearer what you want to do. A blank canvas, but not an empty landscape. Also, I always end up liking town names that are sentimental. My island is named Aurelie, which is my cat's name, and that has its own origins. You can also go with something that doesn't fit any sort of particular aesthetic.

 

[cherrygirl]

I really want to reset. I don’t like my island layout and I’ve lost my connection with my villagers. Im finding I’m only focusing on building the perfect island and not the smaller things that make animal crossing animal crossing. However the one thing that’s preventing my from resetting is the new Christmas seasonal items available at books cranny. Bc I would have just started I wouldn’t have the updated shop and therefore miss out on obtaining the new Christmas items. The only way I could get around it is by tt to speed up the process of the upgrade so that it’s ready by Christmas. But I wanted to avoid tt as my past couple of islands it gotten out of hand lol

 

[Shawna]

I really want to reset. I don’t like my island layout and I’ve lost my connection with my villagers. Im finding I’m only focusing on building the perfect island and not the smaller things that make animal crossing animal crossing. However the one thing that’s preventing my from resetting is the new Christmas seasonal items available at books cranny. Bc I would have just started I wouldn’t have the updated shop and therefore miss out on obtaining the new Christmas items. The only way I could get around it is by tt to speed up the process of the upgrade so that it’s ready by Christmas. But I wanted to avoid tt as my past couple of islands it gotten out of hand lol

Hmmm, maybe you can just wait to reset your island after the Christmas season is over.

 

[Romaki]

I'm resetting again. I know it's a problem, but I didn't like the name afterall lol. I've decided to go with my first island name idea I chose before the game came out. I never used and maybe that'll help? Idk, but my current island name makes me cringe sooo

 

[iamjohnporter67]

Okay so I've been seeing this happening alot recently and one my friends just told me that they just restarted their island and It kept me wondering should I do it? I mean here's the thing. I've had my island since day one. I've worked hard on it, terraformed it to the way I like it to be, got the villagers that I wanted so badly, and of course I have a lot of bells and many items from trading.

Since my friend told me this it just got me into this thought of doing it, but I am not so sure. Do I really want my hard work turn to go away? I mean this just means that everything I did in the game is all gone. I don't feel any reason to do it. I mean whats the point? You're going to just have a new island, maybe a new native fruit and your Resident Services will be placed differently. I guess thats one reason to restart your island but as for me I have no issues with my current one. Its in a spot that its not blocking the entrance and there is a alot of space to work with.

My overall thoughts is I don't feel like restarting I can see why many people would want to do it because they feel burned out on the game and start fresh, but I am not doing it. As far as I'm concerned I don't want to redo that long tutorial again. If the game would've had multiple save files that you can do different islands instead of one island per switch this would not bother me as much but it sucks with the limitations. I mean if you want to restart know this. All of you're hard earn bells, your villagers, and everything you once have will be gone so I would suggest giving those items and bells to someone who needs them before its all wasted. Just something I wanted to share because when my friend told me this it caught me off guard.

 

[JellyBeans]

I would absolutely *love* it if the game had the option for multiple save files. I reset a lot in New Leaf and I think it's just because you reach a point where you want to start fresh and try something different, but at the same time it's heartbreaking to see all your previous progress just disappear. so far I haven't reset my island, although I have been tempted because I think it's easy to get stuck in a rut with your decorations and not know how to change it from where it is.

I have a feeling I'll reset at some point in the future, likely when I've accomplished all the nook mile achievements and I can see nothing more to do on my island. resetting would revive the game and help me keep playing instead of give up (although I understand a lot of people wouldn't do that because a large selling point of animal crossing is that you can't really 'finish' the game). I do, however, also want to keep this island until all the new updates have rolled out so that I can experience everything on a developed island.

 

[Cakecrazy909]

I don't recommend restarting NH personally- many people do it due to burn out, but we still have plenty more future events to tide us over. And what do you even do once you've reset? Just the same thing all over again till the inevitable burnout?

I did reset my NL town, but that was after 3 years, and not because of burnout or nothing to do. I reset because
A: I was having reoccurring nightmares about the corruption of my save file, and i couldn't be dealing with those.
B: In NL, Tom Nook would pay you to reset (i got 23,000,000 bells for my new save files bank acc) and I got to carry over my catalogued items.
C: I made sure to give my most valuable items to my mate to hold onto and give to my new character, including the souvenir clock I got on the 3 year anniversary of me being mayor.

So yeah, unless your Island is negatively impacting your mental health, I'd keep it, especially with all the future events. It's also nice to look back on your island once years have gone by.

 

[Lady Timpani]

Yeah I personally don't think I'll reset my island for a couple years, if that; the beginning week or so is just too much of a hassle (and boring) for me to ever want to go through it again lol. It also won't change the fact that the later game content isn't keeping me interested right now, so to do something I'm already not fond of and to not really have a reward for it doesn't make any sense to me.

 

[Romaki]

It's just a game, it's not a loss. I restart constantly when I was something differently, I don't think it's that deep. I want to enjoy my game to the fullest and I don't think that starting the game later on makes yout island less valuable.

 

[iamjohnporter67]

It's just a game, it's not a loss. I restart constantly when I was something differently, I don't think it's that deep. I want to enjoy my game to the fullest and I don't think that starting the game later on makes yout island less valuable.

You need to understand some people may regret restarting their islands. Like my friend told me that even though she hates the fact she had to do this it was for the best because she had a mental breakdown with her island not being the way it wanted to be so I understand that part, but remember Restarting can really make you miss what you just had before and trying to earn all the stuff you had before can be very time consuming and at the same time really making you feel overwhelmed.

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

I’m tempted to reset eventually (a good amount of my permanent features are awful-especially my peninsula) but I have my parents’ island to hold my assets while I’m resetting and since I’d return to my deer island I don’t have to use as much NMT. If you don’t have access to a friend’s/family member’s island and don’t trust an acquaintance on this site to hold it I could see losing your assets as a reasonable concern.