The Resetting Thread

[Parkai]

Be absolutely sure you want to reset if you're going through with it! I reset my New Leaf file and regretted it, luckily I had a save backup. If you don't have custom firmware on your Switch, there's no way to fix your island

 

[xxcodexx]

ok i hope this works. this is my island. i dont like where the town center is, and i dont like where the river is either. im currently working on the back right corner and ive moved nooks, ables and the museum just a couple of days ago so its a mess right now LOL!

Post automatically merged: Apr 25, 2021

do any of the maps have the river going from right to left? or do all of them have the left or right to south?

 

[PugLovex]

you really have to think about progress. you’ll lose your catalog, diys, villagers, NMT, etc. those reasons alone are why i myself wouldn’t reset lol.

you can always work towards your map again if you’re unhappy, really the choice is yours to make

 

[kiwikenobi]

do any of the maps have the river going from right to left? or do all of them have the left or right to south?

According to this, there is always one river outlet on the south side of the island, and the other one is either on the west, east, or a second south one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossing/comments/g7mc0c

 

[xxcodexx]

i just logged in to ask the question if there were any websites that show all the maps so thank you kiwikenobi for posting that link!!!
obviously i chose the wrong map originally...youve made up my mind...im deleting my island LOL!

 

[kiwikenobi]

Keep in mind that the maps I linked were apparently just showing unique river layouts. There are way more combinations when you include things like airport placement, the rocks on the beach, the pier, the peninsula, the secret beach, etc. And that's even before the native fruit and airport color and other things. You might have to reset for a really long time if you're trying for something specific. So, anything that you like about your current map is something to consider saving, if it's something that you might have a hard time getting randomly while resetting, like a particular kind of beach rocks or something.

 

[xxcodexx]

all of the shop etc locations dont bother me too much *and thank you for the info about the shops and etc locations being random*.
im more concerned with the river mouths and the town hall locations. i liked the double southern river maps; but the town halls are sooo close to the airport in most of them that theyre sort of off limits for me. i wish they would allow us to move that town hall! ive noticed that some peoples maps have larger docks and rocks on the beach than mine do, and that they have room on the beach rocks to put all sorts of neat things *mine doesnt*. thanks for pointing that out because thats one of the reasons i was considering trashing my town. the layout is just poor for what i want to create.
i didnt build much in my current town. i moved the villagers, shops and *my completed* museum and built a couple of nice ramps. i dont think i will miss anything except the recipes and possibly the bred flowers because they require a lot of time.
is there a way to choose a color scheme while youre choosing your island? that was another reason that i wanted to start fresh lol

 

[kiwikenobi]

Getting recipes and flowers again shouldn't be too hard if you're willing to trade with other players. If you haven't restarted yet, you might try making a deal with someone where you pay them with something from your current game now, and then after you reset, they deliver the recipes or flowers, since you won't have anything at all when you first start your new game. Although of course paying with TBT is also an option.

Anyway, I wish you the best of luck getting a map you like, hopefully you won't have to reset too many times!

 

[meltydoll]

I think about resetting my island but;

I managed to complete the museum with the all fossils so I don't like the fact I need (want) to collect them all over again. This is actually no big deal.
I also like Apple and Kabuki so much that I don't want to go hunt for them now since I've got them so easily now.
Also paying again for house upgrades is pain for me since I'm not very good with collecting all the bells again and I don't have second Switch or any friend that is willing to keep my bells and some items on save before the reset.

Honestly I don't know what's even bothering me on my current island. I once got super annoyed by resident services being not on line with airport and location is just not good.
I'm ok with my native fruit peach even though I would love it be apple. Airport color is also ok even it's green... (yellow or orange) would be prettier though, but I'm fine as long it's not blue.

What I should do?

 

[Hedgehugs]

I think I'm gonna reset one possibly two because i can't trust myself last time (I'm on my 4th reset please send help) and give up on this game. I wanted to type a whole rant about this game but this isn't the ranting thread and it's basically there isn't much to do when you're not invested in designing your island after the beginning week(s) of the game and since i'm so picky aka looking at others people's islands and going "dang when do i get that good" i'm almost never satisfied with how my island looks lol. I'm just gonna try a no theme island so I don't feel pressured to follow one and since no tt'ing worked wonders for me when i first reset i'll do that too.

I think about resetting my island but;

I managed to complete the museum with the all fossils so I don't like the fact I need (want) to collect them all over again. This is actually no big deal.
I also like Apple and Kabuki so much that I don't want to go hunt for them now since I've got them so easily now.
Also paying again for house upgrades is pain for me since I'm not very good with collecting all the bells again and I don't have second Switch or any friend that is willing to keep my bells and some items on save before the reset.

Honestly I don't know what's even bothering me on my current island. I once got super annoyed by resident services being not on line with airport and location is just not good.
I'm ok with my native fruit peach even though I would love it be apple. Airport color is also ok even it's green... (yellow or orange) would be prettier though, but I'm fine as long it's not blue.

What I should do?

Museum: Are you considering 100% it and not just the fossils portion? If so you might as well reset (with consideration with the other stuff I typed below this ofc). You do not want to 100% it and STILL be considering resetting your island. Fossils are also the easiest to complete since you don't have to be TT'ing all over the place/waiting for months to go by to get them daily. Also depends on what the museum means to you in general. Do you visit it often? Do you have people who visit it? Or is just completing it a milestone for you? If you're in the last group like me then there's really no rush in completing it.

Villagers: If island hunting is the only way for you to get your old villagers back then... uh, I don't think I would reset personally lmao unless they don't mean that much to you and you're willing to accept new ones, you have alot of Nook Mile Tickets or/and you're patient. Sounds too tedious. However almost any other method of getting them back I think I would consider resetting. If you're willing to buy villagers off other people (and since this forum is REALLY NICE im not sponsored you could probably find people giving them for free) or get their amiibo (if you have the money lol) then I would reset... Actually, forgot the other option which is to have someone hold your villagers for you, typically I would go to a friend first but if you're like me and don't have one of those there's a thread on here for asking people to hold your villagers. I would check that out if you want your old villagers back without having to get new ones. Go for people with nice feedback rates.

House: Again, Priorities. Is a full upgraded house needed ASAP for you? Do you decorate or have already decorated the inside of your house? Or do you mostly just use it for storage? I said this like a million times already but there's no rush in this game. You make money every day via rocks, balloons, bugs, fish, etc. and If you're in the online trading community then getting bells is so easy it's kinda painful. But if you're desperate for someone to hold your stuff there's people on here as usual. heck, you can even come to me if you trust me or want to but i gotta clean my island first because there's junk lying around e v e r y w h e r e and there's almost nowhere to put anything

Residential Serv. and Airport: I actually know where you're coming from since I reset one time until my Res. and Airport aligned perfectly... ended up hating it and wasted my time but hey we're two different persons so you might like it lol. Anyway, these places are gonna be your make or break decision since the others you can get back with time but these locations are permanent. So if you hate where they are you're probably gonna hate them until you reset. The only solutions? Decorate around them a bunch, maybe look up some inspiration until they look better, or just get used to.

Fruit: I'mma be honest. I don't know why people are picky about their native fruit (unless you only play offline then rip) considering you can get your preferred fruit from other people and the only time it'll matter is if someone is looking at your passport. I've played this game since launch and the number of times I've looked at anyone's passport that wasn't mine would be less than 10 lol. Only reason to be resetting for fruit is that you're resetting because of other things. Getting your preferred fruit is just an extra benefit.

TL;DR edition: On a scale of 1 to 10 how much does the permanent stuff on your island (Not just Res. and Airport. I'm also talking about your dock, your beaches, your peninsula, your rivers, etc.) bug you? And this is AFTER decorating around this stuff and maybe finding something good. If it's anything higher than a 6 then you might as well reset. Chances are you're not gonna be happy with your island until those problems are fixed. Less permanent things depend on how much time you put into this game, your patience, and how much you care about them now and how you're gonna feel about them when they're gone for a bit. If you have online and trade then some of this stuff is made much easier get back.

...Though all of this is coming from a person who has reset multiple times and technically has two switches now... So... yeah.

dang i really wrote all this mannnn im bored and need a life

 

[meltydoll]

Hedgehugs thanks for replying me and giving me some new perspectives and tips.

Yeah most of these are easily fixable situations and feels so dump to even think about resetting my island because of them (like native fruit, which I'm fine it's peach because I can change my trees to apple and still have cute peach on my passport).
I haven't even fully decorated my island yet so I guess I would be ok with my map the way it is now since they are not that bad. It's just feels like after watching other people island mine feels like I don't even play the same game and progress is so slow to do things I wanna do, because I'm so bad to get those freaking bells.

Also thanks for giving me some hope with my current island. I think I'm not gonna reset my island... yet.

 

[thehikingsociologist]

Hi, I thought I’d share my resetting story. I wanted my sister to be able to play with my cousins but she wasn’t wanting to buy a switch and so when the prices went back to normal on the animal crossing version of the switch I bought one and gifted my original switch (black) (which had my original island) to my sister for a bday. My first tip- save your island in the dream world before you delete. It will remain after you delete the island to start over! Anyways I restarted on the new device, she erased mine to start her own on hers. I have loved my island number 2. Starting over gave me more insight into what I wanted to terraform later and things to avoid early on to make my island into what I wanted. The only thing that is too bad is that I’m kind of bug hunting/fished out but I still want the golden tool diys so that’s the only reason I’d say maybe not. I caught up to my cousin on catalog items within 5 months & so that wasn’t a huge issue either. Also my new island is honestly not even comparable to the old when I visit the original’s dream code. So my experience was really, really good. I think all the reasons not to provided above are entirely fair, however. Like villagers- I started collecting/trading amiibo cards during the pandemic so I wasn’t worried there, it’s things like that which might make other’s experiences different- but I thought I’d share a success story/how it can also be good.
DAs for both for comparison why I think island 2 is coming along better- you’ll see I’m further along in island 2 & idk I think it opened me up to be creative and I planned bridges/water better to avoid all the jumping.

Spoiler: Dream Addresses if you are curious

New: 5978-4768-5279
Old: 4062-9191-1955

 

[Moonbay212]

Hi, wasn't sure if I could post this but I was thinking about resetting my island but wanted to bring a couple things over (NMT some bells and a couple of items) and was wondering if anyone could hold onto them while I reset?

Can pay NMT/Bells/materials etc...

 

[VanitasFan26]

Just want to put this here for the people who are unsure about Restarting their island because there are pros and cons.

Pros:

1. Picking whatever Map layout you want your Resident Services, Airport, Secret Island, Rivers, and the Rocks on the new island to look like. You can restart to get different layouts if you don't like the 4 layouts.
2. If you have friends who are trustworthy, have them hold on to important items you need to start on your new island like a lot of bells and your tools.
3. You will get a different native fruit when you pick a new Island map.
4. You will have a fresh new start on what your island looks like and its easier if you want to plan ahead of what you want to do.
5. Its easier to go villager hunting when you want to pick what villagers you want to have on your island.

Cons:
1. You will lose everything you had on your old island (Bells, Nook Miles, Villagers, Museum Donations, Your Home, and all the items you cataloged)
2. Once you delete your old island there is no way to restore it. Its gone forever.
3. You have to play through the tutorial again and get to 3 Stars on your new island to get KK on your island in order to unlock the Terraforming App on your phone.
4. Even if you get back the villagers you once had on your old island it will take a long time to build the friendship you used to have with them before.
5. You have to re-add all of your best friends since the "Best Friend" app is not available until you talk to Orville at the Airport when you want to

Remember at the end of the day, you do whatever you feel works for you.

 

[SakuraMoon]

So.. I'm going to restart my island.

I really need help with new layout ideas, dreamie hunting, holding onto items, (all that jazz.)
But here's the catch.. @SoraFan23 just posted the pros and cons above me, (Thank you!!) Anyone got suggestions for me, or any tips? I'm a bit new to the whole reset thing aha! I just want to know what to expect.

 

[thehikingsociologist]

So.. I'm going to restart my island.

I really need help with new layout ideas, dreamie hunting, holding onto items, (all that jazz.)
But here's the catch.. @SoraFan23 just posted the pros and cons above me, (Thank you!!) Anyone got suggestions for me, or any tips? I'm a bit new to the whole reset thing aha! I just want to know what to expect.

1) Save your current island dream before you start over. It is nice to have some reference to what you had done previously and what you've done now. So save it and save the address.
2) Try to plan your bridges/inclines ahead of time with what you plan to terraform later. It'll help you avoid needing to destroy and rebuild. I also did this with villager's homes.
3) Get someone to hold onto items that are hard to get again like villagers photos.
4) You can deregister all your songs! Deregister them and have someone hold onto those too! That will save you time if you've collected a good number of KK tunes.
5) Leading up to restarting visit a random dream island every day, I enjoyed doing this/it gave me a ton of ideas for how I wanted my second island to look. It is also nice because while some people have put together lists of islands you should visit, it is also cool to see all the islands of people who aren't active online players- some of them have incredible islands that you won't find posted somewhere.

Good luck and hope this helps!

 

[Moonbay212]

Here were some tips/things for when I restarted.

1) Think about what you want this island to look like, I thought about if I wanted to flatten or work with the starter layout and worked from there. I decided that I wanted to try and work with the natural land as much as possible so I really focused on what the island look like at the start of the game! (Also a little side tip, try picking an island style that's different from your old one. It gives you a challenge so you don't fall into a rut!)

2) Remember that when you start you won't have a lot of storage, so think about what you really want to keep. I didn't want to keep a lot besides bells and a couple of special items I liked and didn't wanna have to hunt down again. It could be different for you in terms of what you want to keep/leave behind but I always think that's something to think about

3) Also remember to save all design codes somewhere. It sounds tedious but I didn't write them down and spent a good couple of weeks looking for them!

4) Definitely take it day by day. It's totally your call but in my experience I loved doing it day by day and really just working one day at a time. I forgot how simple the game really is and how much fun it was to just take my time on things (of course that isn't for everyone just wanted to put in my experience!)

Hope this helps!

 

[Shipper-Girl-27]

I, really don’t want to reset my island, more like getting a second switch so I can start over without losing literally everything.


When I do get that switch, I’d like to build a city with a built in mall.

 

[VanitasFan26]

Here is something I should let people know that there is another way of restarting, but you still get to keep your home, bells, and all the items you had on your island, but of course it requires a 2nd Switch. So if you go to the Setting on the Title Screen you can speak to Tom Nook. You can tell him "Move to a new island" and what this will do is that you can move a resident (player) off of the island to a new island on the 2nd Switch as long as it doesn't have a Save Data.

Here's the catch. You cannot move your main user thats the "Resident Representative" it must be another user who is regular user that is just the "Resident" and they must not have a Nintendo account link to their profile. Now when you are able to transfer your user to the next Switch, you're going to have to boot up the 2nd the Switch with a copy of New Horizons (If you have a digital copy you can redownload it on the 2nd switch) and then when you get to the counter where Timmy and Tommy speak to you, you have to pick "I am Moving" then what this will do is look for another switch nearby that will the detect the user who wants to move to a new island

Go back on the first Switch and then speak to Tom Nook again when you are ready to start the moving process. When you do right Timmy and Tommy will be able to pick up the user's name from the first switch. You're going to want to confirm it. Once your user from the first switch has been successfully transferred you can close the first switch and now you're user from your past island is moving to a new island which they will become the Resident Representative. The good news is that you still keep your home, all the diys you learned, the island designer app, all the bells you had, and every item you had cataloged. This is a complicated process, but this can be good if you really don't want to lose your home and items while at the same time still wanting to start over on a new island.

 

[Moritz]

This is getting beyond a joke and am genuinely getting angry at the game now.

I want oranges as my native fruit and an orange airport.

I've been resetting for 4 HOURS and have seen oranges (fruit)... twice.

Are you kidding me?