The Resetting Thread

[Poppies_92]

To anyone in the NH who reset during the winter: is their any drawbacks to resetting during the winter vs the spring (like fishing and bugs collecting?) I wanted to reset for the new year, but I'm nervous about collecting bugs and fish/starting over is harder!

There's not to many bugs, maybe 10 or more if I'm correct throughout the day. You'll be making your money on Fish and Sea Critters. Good time to catch them are after 9 pm if you're able to play at that time. I haven't had a problem and I just restarted myself for New Years.

 

[Moonbay212]

Okay great! I wanted to restart in the new year and I was planning to bring over bells into the new island but I also kinda wanna just start completely fresh and was worried if I did I wouldn't be able to make money

 

[VanitasFan26]

Okay i am very VERY torn on what to do now since its a new year and now the topic of restarting just keeps popping into my head.

Here is my situation. I had my island since day one of the game being out. My island is completed, I got all the villagers I wanted, completed the museum and thats when I ran out of stuff to do. I know restarting is probably the better way but I spent over 2,000 hours making my island and terraforming was pretty stressful. I grew impatient because I moved my buildings all over the place and I had to time travel to speed up the process. I feel like I over did the time travel and never took my time with the game. Also all those diys I collected were from trading and I've hoarded so many items in my home that it just feels like a cluttered mess.

I know if I restart I would worry about redoing everything again. Its a new year so I should not be too stressed up doing new stuff but part of me wants to keep the island the way it is but the other part is like wanting a refreshing start. If I had a 2nd switch and a 2nd copy of the game I can do it but it costs money and I don't feel like doing that. I am very conflicted.

 

[letterKnumber9]

To anyone in the NH who reset during the winter: is their any drawbacks to resetting during the winter vs the spring (like fishing and bugs collecting?) I wanted to reset for the new year, but I'm nervous about collecting bugs and fish/starting over is harder!

I just reset and I didn't have any problems getting enough bugs or fish to upgrade the museum from a tent.

 

[Angelbearpuppy]

Okay i am very VERY torn on what to do now since its a new year and now the topic of restarting just keeps popping into my head.

Here is my situation. I had my island since day one of the game being out. My island is completed, I got all the villagers I wanted, completed the museum and thats when I ran out of stuff to do. I know restarting is probably the better way but I spent over 2,000 hours making my island and terraforming was pretty stressful. I grew impatient because I moved my buildings all over the place and I had to time travel to speed up the process. I feel like I over did the time travel and never took my time with the game. Also all those diys I collected were from trading and I've hoarded so many items in my home that it just feels like a cluttered mess.

I know if I restart I would worry about redoing everything again. Its a new year so I should not be too stressed up doing new stuff but part of me wants to keep the island the way it is but the other part is like wanting a refreshing start. If I had a 2nd switch and a 2nd copy of the game I can do it but it costs money and I don't feel like doing that. I am very conflicted.

Its hard to decide to reset or not. My bedt advice. Take some time to write down lok you just did pros and cons of restarting. Sit on it for a while at least a few days before making a decision.

Remeber Items and DIY and Villagers can be got again

Bug sea creatures fish and art can be got again

Flowers can be got again

Clothes cab be got again

Bells and NookMiles can be earned again.

Also maybe someone would be willing to hold onto a few things you cannot let go if that you can pick back up once your airport is open.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Its hard to decide to reset or not. My bedt advice. Take some time to write down lok you just did pros and cons of restarting. Sit on it for a while at least a few days before making a decision.

Remeber Items and DIY and Villagers can be got again

Bug sea creatures fish and art can be got again

Flowers can be got again

Clothes cab be got again

Bells and NookMiles can be earned again.

Also maybe someone would be willing to hold onto a few things you cannot let go if that you can pick back up once your airport is open.

Okay after so much thought and talking to my friends I decided not to restart my island. It has come to my attention that getting back all those items you mentioned would be a long and tideous thing to do. Even without time traveling. Terraforming was always the most time consuming I did on my island. The thought of doing it again is just going to feel like no "Joy" will come to me if thats all I'm doing. I appreciate your feedback but I decided to keep my island and maybe hope in the future that there will be a new feature added to make a new island. I feel better now.

 

[Moonbay212]

To people who reset: did you guys bring anything over to your new island or did you start off completely fresh? I was gonna reset and mostly wanted to bring over bells from my old island but was wondering if people brought anything else

 

[Chouchou]

This time I started completely fresh, even without TT'ing this time. And no items, no money, no tickets. Nothing.
Not even Nintendo Online for the first couple months.

 

[Angelbearpuppy]

To people who reset: did you guys bring anything over to your new island or did you start off completely fresh? I was gonna reset and mostly wanted to bring over bells from my old island but was wondering if people brought anything else

When O reset, I go all in and start fresh. To do anthing else feels like cheating

 

[iamjohnporter67]

When O reset, I go all in and start fresh. To do anthing else feels like cheating

How is that cheating? You're basically going to re collect everything and its okay to ask for help if you need to get items. Really keep in mind all the stuff you collected is gone from your catalog so it will be hard to get them back again.

 

[TheRevienne]

So, I have a bit of a dilemma, I have a 2nd island, and I don't know what to do with it.

I have of course my main island, which won't be changing or going, but I got the 2nd island & switch because I enjoyed planning, and building the 1st island up.

I knew exactly where I wanted to go with the 2nd island, it was going to be witchy themed, and the character would be a witch, and the animals would be the animals of the forest etc.

I've unlocked terraforming, and have shaped the island to what I had planned, and it's time to landscape and decorate, but I feel like I'm procrastinating with it. I finished terraforming it months ago, and have been slowly adding trees in and bit of furniture but that's it. I feel like I've lost the passion I had for it.

My friend has recently reset her main island and helping her restart it has got me thinking about it all again.

I don't have much on the island in the way of things I'd lose if I did reset, can shift all the stuff to my main island, and all the villagers were amiibos, but I don't know whether I want to stick with it, or reset and try again, but then my worry is, what if I do the same again?

I've also included a picture of the town map in case that helps anyone

The 2nd island is currently SH, but if I did reset, should I make it NH to match the other one, or leave it as SH?

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[Sara?]

I dont think your passion for it will come back after resetting, if you are content with your terraformed second island i guess i would then suggest to maybe wait it out and eventually you will be more into the decorating, maybe go to dream island to see other hunted,foresty and witchie islands to maybe inspire you and get your interest back in track. But its your island and only you can know what you really want to do and what will keep the spark in you for the long run. Sorry if i was not very helpful


PS: maybe also decorating your home inside according to your theme might sparkle things up

 

[JellyBeans]

I would say that part of the luxury of having that second island is that you can do whatever you wish with it. you can do what you enjoy, and then start all over again when you lose that passion, yet there is almost no consequence as you still have your main, built up island to play on and have fun with. if you're not enjoying what you're doing currently, perhaps dedicate some time to start decorating the island as you initially intended. if after that you don't 'rediscover your passion' for the island, then you can reset knowing that at least you tried to keep it going. (bear in mind this could just be me projecting abt how I want to restart lol)
as for NH vs SH I think that's just a matter of personal preference - would you rather have two NH islands to match your irl season changes, or would you prefer to have something slightly different? it doesn't have any major impact on gameplay

 

[TheRevienne]

I dont think your passion for it will come back after resetting, if you are content with your terraformed second island i guess i would then suggest to maybe wait it out and eventually you will be more into the decorating, maybe go to dream island to see other hunted,foresty and witchie islands to maybe inspire you and get your interest back in track. But its your island and only you can know what you really want to do and what will keep the spark in you for the long run. Sorry if i was not very helpful


PS: maybe also decorating your home inside according to your theme might sparkle things up

Thank you <3 The house was actually the first thing I finished and the most complete part of it :'D I'm starting to lean towards the clean slate side of it and just start over

 

[JKDOS]

If you think resetting it will be worth it, go for it. I'm not sure how much of a difference it will make in the end though. Erasing all your progress may have a negative effect on the little passion you have now. I wouldn't worry too much about procrastination. You can save it for a rainy day and it will always be there for you when you feel a little bored of your main island.

Right now I'm spending more time on my second island than my first. I plan on putting in just as much effort as I have in my main. I may even swap them at some point. I put my second island in the same hemisphere as my main, but I could see benefits of having one of each.

 

[letterKnumber9]

I don't regret resetting my first island, but I got too greedy chasing perfection and resetting the island I had a couple days in since New Years. Now I can't find a decent map close to the one I had (the 2nd time). I'm super disappointing in myself, I think I might just reconcile with not having the perfect island, or I might take a break for a while, maybe until another update drops and piques my interest again.

 

[azurill]

It took me a long time to decide about resetting or getting a second island. I wanted to have a fresh start but hated the idea of losing my island. So after two weeks of debating with myself I know have another switch lite so I can have another island as a reset island. It is taking me forever though to get a map I like even though I only have 3 requirements for my second island. Pier on left , peninsula on right and blue or green airport. For some reason every island I go to gives me an orange airport.

 

[Boccages]

To people who reset: did you guys bring anything over to your new island or did you start off completely fresh? I was gonna reset and mostly wanted to bring over bells from my old island but was wondering if people brought anything else

I am on my 5th island. They usually last me 3 months. I did restart completely fresh. There is not much difference between restarting fresh or hoarding over stuff you want.

 

[JellyBeans]

anybody who's completely flattened their island/took all the decorations off and restarted in that sense - was it worth it? did you lose motivation after doing it all? because I really want to redecorate my entire island but the thought of taking everything down and moving houses onto the beach is enough to make me just want to reset entirely. the only thing stopping me is in case any future updates are better enjoyed with a more developed island

 

[Perfektion]

anybody who's completely flattened their island/took all the decorations off and restarted in that sense - was it worth it? did you lose motivation after doing it all? because I really want to redecorate my entire island but the thought of taking everything down and moving houses onto the beach is enough to make me just want to reset entirely. the only thing stopping me is in case any future updates are better enjoyed with a more developed island

I did. I would not recommend it unless you are really unhappy with your island or have a really big plan ahead. But as you say resetting could be even more frustrating if you not plan ahead and more likely you will have the same problem as before.
I would say just reform everything in chunks. It will give you much more reward (since it would not take as long and you accomplish more) and much less frustration with moving all houses to the beach. I don't know if you are TT but I don't and it was so frustrating just to wait for the houses to be moved.
Maybe it would help to make a plan of your map. Which chunks do you really like and most likely don't want to change and which annoy you?

I would only recommend resetting if you are unhappy with the things that are not changeable.