Trouble resetting for native flowers?

[MayorZenia]

Since my friends all have other flowers and seem to be having trouble finding roses and lillies, I thought I’d reset for my town since I’d liked roses as a native flower anyway however I’ve come across a strange pattern. I’ve reset for hours and have had a pool of the same 3 flowers whenever I’ve reset and I don’t know if I’m incredibly unlucky or there’s some sort of factors that go into what you get. I keep getting Windflowers, Panseys, or Mums. I haven’t gotten anything other than that and I would’ve believed it to just be a stroke of bad luck if it weren’t for the fact that I have not gotten Tulips, roses, lillies, cosmos, or hyacinths ONCE. I was wondering if anyone else who had reset for whatever reason had the same findings or I’ve just be extremely unlucky.

 

[Sanaki]

I feel the same. I've only gotten one of those three when I reset today. What was the 1 item you chose or whatever they said at the intro of the getaway package? Like the sleeping bag, food, or whatever else. Because I chose food. Not sure if it effects anything, just curious?

 

[MayorZenia]

I feel the same. I've only gotten one of those three when I reset today. What was the 1 item you chose or whatever they said at the intro of the getaway package? Like the sleeping bag, food, or whatever else. Because I chose food. Not sure if it effects anything, just curious?

I was wondering if that had a correlation as well but no matter what answer I chose it would be the same 3 flowers every time I reset!

 

[Sanaki]

I was wondering if that had a correlation as well but no matter what answer I chose it would be the same 3 flowers every time I reset!

It's honestly super odd. Maybe where we live IRL has correlation? I can't think of why it would automatically dictate our 3-4 flower types. :/

 

[Lilette]

I reset for over 20 hours trying for Lilies and never once got them.

Only ever got Roses, Wildflowers, and very occasionally Tulips. I tried every answer and both Southern and Northern hemispheres, saying I was in Asia, Europe, etc. I tried different and new profiles, even switched my Switch to other countries.

Someone said it was tied to the Switch itself, and the only way to get different flowers was to completely wipe the data but I obviously can’t do that because of my Pokémon save.

 

[MayorZenia]

I reset for over 20 hours trying for Lilies and never once got them.

Only ever got Roses, Wildflowers, and very occasionally Tulips. I tried every answer and both Southern and Northern hemispheres, saying I was in Asia, Europe, etc. I tried different and new profiles, even switched my Switch to other countries.

Someone said it was tied to the Switch itself, and the only way to get different flowers was to completely wipe the data but I obviously can’t do that because of my Pokémon save.

It seems that may be the case which is extremely unfortunate. Uuughhh that’s such a bogus thing to do though.

 

[MayorZenia]

So since I didn’t have anything to lose I decided to completely wipe my switch and try that. I even made an entirely new account to link and see if that might change anything but nothing changed. I still get the same 3 flowers. Pretty bummed about it

 

[Circus]

Since my friends all have other flowers and seem to be having trouble finding roses and lillies, I thought I’d reset for my town since I’d liked roses as a native flower anyway however I’ve come across a strange pattern. I’ve reset for hours and have had a pool of the same 3 flowers whenever I’ve reset and I don’t know if I’m incredibly unlucky or there’s some sort of factors that go into what you get. I keep getting Windflowers, Panseys, or Mums. I haven’t gotten anything other than that and I would’ve believed it to just be a stroke of bad luck if it weren’t for the fact that I have not gotten Tulips, roses, lillies, cosmos, or hyacinths ONCE. I was wondering if anyone else who had reset for whatever reason had the same findings or I’ve just be extremely unlucky.

I feel the same. I've only gotten one of those three when I reset today. What was the 1 item you chose or whatever they said at the intro of the getaway package? Like the sleeping bag, food, or whatever else. Because I chose food. Not sure if it effects anything, just curious?

I was wondering if that had a correlation as well but no matter what answer I chose it would be the same 3 flowers every time I reset!

I reset for over 20 hours trying for Lilies and never once got them.

Only ever got Roses, Wildflowers, and very occasionally Tulips. I tried every answer and both Southern and Northern hemispheres, saying I was in Asia, Europe, etc. I tried different and new profiles, even switched my Switch to other countries.

Someone said it was tied to the Switch itself, and the only way to get different flowers was to completely wipe the data but I obviously can’t do that because of my Pokémon save.

The flowers you can get are tied to your birthday month. There are three you can get depending on what month your birthday is set to.

 

[Liete]

The flowers you can get are tied to your birthday month. There are three you can get depending on what month your birthday is set to.

Do you know which flowers are tied to which month?

 

[MayorZenia]

Do you know which flowers are tied to which month?

I just tried to to test it out and it worked! I got roses for May. Since it’s tied to birth month January is Windflowers, Panseys, and Mums

 

[Liete]

I tested a little bit too
April: Common are tulips and windflowers, more uncommon are hyacinth
June: only got Cosmos while testing
July: only got roses while testing
August: only got Lilies while testing

 

[Sholee]

It's honestly super odd. Maybe where we live IRL has correlation? I can't think of why it would automatically dictate our 3-4 flower types. :/

Conspiracy theory: Nintendo wants people to use their online service to trade. Therefore they locked certain elements to your switch account such as flowers. Otherwise everyone would reset for roses and lilies and there wouldn't be as much trading going on.

 

[Feraligator]

That's interesting, my birthday is this month and I got tulips as a native with pansies and windflowers as shop flowers. Hyacinths have replaced pansies though.

Conspiracy theory: Nintendo wants people to use their online service to trade. Therefore they locked certain elements to your switch account such as flowers. Otherwise everyone would reset for roses and lilies and there wouldn't be as much trading going on.

This definitely seems to be the case as it's really difficult to get all 5 fruits without online trading and the Nook Miles furniture being set colours for each island. I'm glad I got online for MK8 (play it all the time with friends) but I'm still not a fan of online trading to get flowers and fruit as I like to play AC offline and alone.

 

[Lozza]

I tested a little bit too ☺
April: Common are tulips and windflowers, more uncommon are hyacinth
June: only got Cosmos while testing
July: only got roses while testing
August: only got Lilies while testing

My birthday is in June and I got Hyacinths

 

[Saga]

I have a September birthday and I got cosmos.

I can't believe it's tied to birthdays... I would never have guessed that!

 

[ctar17]

I have an April birthday (today 4/10) and have Windflowers, although I wasn't resetting for them at all, only for my fruit. It took me 10 tries to get apples...

 

[angiepie]

My birthday is March 12th and I got tulips

 

[moonbell]

October and saw cosmos, mums, and roses. I think windflowers also, but can't be 100% certain.

 

[Marshmallows]

Interesting! I don't know if there's a list somewhere, but mine is February and I got hyacinths (pansies and windflowers in shop.)

 

[JKDOS]

What about that question Timmy and Tommy ask "What would you bring to a deserted island?"

Post automatically merged: Apr 10, 2020

I have an April birthday (today 4/10) and have Windflowers, although I wasn't resetting for them at all, only for my fruit. It took me 10 tries to get apples...

Happy birthday