Things you didn't know about forever?

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I just found out there are different patterns for grass. My town has triangles, but I believe there are also squares and circles (not counting the patterns for winter/snow)

We probably read the same thread^^ I never even considered it could be a thing...and it acutally was for the past games too..

I also found out today that you don?t need to keep the pattern for the town flag or signs within your town in your inventory. Apparently these designs don?t get overwritten even if you delete them.

 

[primandimproper]

Honestly, I had completely forgotten we could give our avatars hairstyles of the opposite gender. It makes me really tempted to create a secondary character based off Loki Odinson since he is my favorite Marvel character and find a female hairstyle that suits him since he has long hair.

 

[Imbri]

I also found out today that you don?t need to keep the pattern for the town flag or signs within your town in your inventory. Apparently these designs don?t get overwritten even if you delete them.

I wasn't aware of that! I have the design on a bulletin board in my office. Would that change if I removed the design from my inventory? It took a long time to create my flag, so I'm a bit nervous about overwriting it.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I wasn't aware of that! I have the design on a bulletin board in my office. Would that change if I removed the design from my inventory? It took a long time to create my flag, so I'm a bit nervous about overwriting it.

Bulletin board? I think you mean a furniture item that you customize right? In that case the design will change if you overwrite it in your inventory. I was only told that designs placed as the townflag or on signs outside (PWPs) will stay if you delete them.
Also you don't really need to risk your flag. Why don't you save it with Mabel and then try it out? ^^

 

[HappyTails]

I just saw today that frog villagers dont use umbellas when its raining. I rarely have frog villagers and so this is something I didnt know.

 

[visibleghost]

i didn't know about the bush and tree line limit for some time after i had started decorating my first town. probably like at least two months after i got the game that i realized why my bushes were dying.
also didn't know about only being able to plant pine trees in the north of your town until i tried to plant some and they died for seemingly no reason but this was also just a month or so after i got the game.

i didnt make a lot of patterns until i figured this out but i didn't know that you could copy pro designs as well, i just thought that if you wanted to make a change to a pro design you'd have to make it from scratch

Oh thats cool! For some reason I thought that owl meant that you didn?t check a lot of messages (kind of like the post box moving faster and making more noise if its overflowing). But it makes much more sense that this is just because of the time.

wait for real?? i always assumed the owl came when you time traveled back and a message repeated, i'm not sure exactly why i thought that, i guess i play during the night more often when i time travel? idk hhhhhhhhhhh but this made me feel a bit stupid lol

 

[Lanstar]

I discovered that a villager can plan on moving out even before plotting a spot to move in your town.

 

[Seastar]

For a long time, I didn't know that villagers give generic dialogue about "rumors" when the other villagers are not moving. I always thought this dialogue was random and didn't know it was actually useful.
So, if I want to check if any villagers are moving, I just need to keep talking to two villagers until either one tells me a villager is moving or both give the generic rumor dialogue. It has to be two because a villager who wants to move won't admit it this way and will talk about rumors instead.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I learned today that supposedly (no tested myself yet):

• blue roses are more likely to grow from second generation orange and purple roses.
• the map?s "acres" limit how many houses can be built. The reason why some people have villagers move onto designs while plot resetting, even though the space they prepared was fine, was because there already were three houses in the same acre of the map *mind blown*

 

[Lemonsky]

I feel like I should've known already but I didn't know that a multiplayer session could be ended by pressing start and then just choosing the option to end the session.

 

[RedPanda]

Speaking of tarantulas, did they make anyone else jump when they first saw them? It actually startled me seeing it the first few times in Wild World. It was just this big black thing that lunged at you really quickly out of the blue. Not expecting it, I was knocked out the first time and my face was like O_O.

YES - it startled the heck out of me!!

- - - Post Merge - - -

I didn't know that the gyroids hanging out with Tortimer would give you tools that weren't part of the island tour/game, so that if you wanted you could catch insects during a fishing game, for example.

And it took me an embarrassingly long time to learn how to run in this game. Like a year. I have no idea why it took so long. I guess because I didn't need to run in my own town... but man did it make island games easier once I learned about running, hah!

 

[newleafjunkie]

I just love this thread... so many nice things to discover!

Something small: I just bought a piano today and placed it in my room. When you press A) your character plays one note, but its not the same each time and its not just a musical scale either. If you stand there and spam A) you will play a little melody. It doesnt seem like the tune has a specific start, its more like a loop and you continue where you left off. I can?t tell if it resets to a certain point after leaving the room though...

If you have music playing in the room, then the notes on the instrument will sound as random notes from the same key as the music playing. I've always loved this little attention to detail that makes everything sound more harmonious!!

 

[Hanzoisbae]

I learned today that if you sit on a stump with a hole on the side and try to move towards it you'll fall in. (It reuses the pitfall animation so it's not really that special)

 

[Cherry-Blossoms]

I only just realised that you can read a list of everything that's been donated to the museum on that board outside of it... oops

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

I only just realised that you can read a list of everything that's been donated to the museum on that board outside of it... oops

That feature makes my life so much easier ^^

 

[stiney]

On Saturday while trying to find a house centipede for the museum I learned that each character gets their own money rock. Unfortunately I wasn't prepared and only got three hits in on the second character.

 

[Tomoe Hotaru]

On Saturday while trying to find a house centipede for the museum I learned that each character gets their own money rock. Unfortunately I wasn't prepared and only got three hits in on the second character.

That makes so much sense but I never thought about it before... Looks like a good way to farm gems if it also works for the gem rock!

 

[stiney]

I think there's only one gem rock still, but if each player has the silver shovel, you have still increased your chances of getting gems from a money rock.

 

[stiney]

Oh, another thing I learned--you can attach items to letters you've received--not just ones you're sending. So if you need to free up some bag space and have some read letters in your bag you haven't tossed you can put the items in any Campground or HHA letters you haven't tossed yet.

 

[koopasta]

I've tried with multiple characters, I can confirm there's only one gem rock ^^