Ways to enjoy ACNH again without restarting

[VanitasFan26]

I know it can be hard to get back into ACNH when you love your island but you don't want to restart which is understandable. Here are some ways you can enjoy ACNH without restarting:

1. Change things around your island. Meaning if you see areas on your island that feel "incomplete" or if its something you're not proud of make some changes to make it more comfortable with a style you enjoy

2. Change your villagers. Yeah I know this one is a bit personal but if you have villagers who you are tired of seeing and you want to change up you can let them move out when you see them thinking about moving out

3. Try to do your daily Nook Mile Tasks. If you see items that are in the Nook Mile shop and you feel like you don't have enough Nook Miles then do your daily nook mile tasks. It will at least give you something to work for.

4. Try collecting villager photos. This is something I do in my spare time but if you want to have a reason for being rewarded then getting villager photos will interest you to talk to your villagers and gift them gifts so they end up giving you items up until they give you their photo at a high friendship

Those are just some of my ways to enjoy ACNH without restarting, but what would you personally do to keep ACNH enjoyable again besides restarting?

 

[Kristen]

first and second are definitely things i'm doing right now. i've never really been sure on how to get villager photos in new horizons all i know is friendship needs to be high. is it just random from there?

 

[VanitasFan26]

first and second are definitely things i'm doing right now. i've never really been sure on how to get villager photos in new horizons all i know is friendship needs to be high. is it just random from there?

Well there is a way to check a villager's friendship and that is talking to Katrina at Harvs island. She can give your a "Blessing" which will increase the villagers friendship but keep in mind this can be done once a day. Also what the best gift I would recommend gifting villagers is Non native fruit wrapped up in a gift using wrapping paper which you can get from the Cabinet in Nook's Cranny.

 

[Kristen]

Well there is a way to check a villager's friendship and that is talking to Katrina at Harvs island. She can give your a "Blessing" which will increase the villagers friendship but keep in mind this can be done once a day. Also what the best gift I would recommend gifting villagers is Non native fruit wrapped up in a gift using wrapping paper which you can get from the Cabinet in Nook's Cranny.

oh wow, i had no idea! thank you so much for this info!! i think it's going to be so much easier to raise friendship levels now with my other villagers. i've only gotten 2 pictures so far and to me it seemed random HAHA

 

[CylieDanny]

I find that my favorite way to keep myself entertained is mostly by catching insects or fish. Even if Im just doing my thing the boys will still come up and want to do or give me stuff. So its fun for me!

But I also love to get to know my villagers better and make back stories for them. Also play around at Harv's.

Then of course theres also pulling pranks and messing with them ^^ since most pranks dont lower friendship, so its safe to have a little fun with them

But yeah. I reccomend just hang and get to know your dude or dudettes more. It might tone down the restarting if you build strong connections too!

I mean I wouldnt have found my dream ten if I didnt get to know them better. We've been through alot ♡

 

[VanitasFan26]

Then of course theres also pulling pranks and messing with them ^^ since most pranks dont lower friendship, so its safe to have a little fun with them

Oh that is a fun idea especially pulling pranks on villagers who you don't like the most.

 

[CylieDanny]

Oh that is a fun idea especially pulling pranks on villagers who you don't like the most.

Nah, pranks like pitfalls dont lower friendship. Basically just there to have fun and thenget caught the next day

 

[VanitasFan26]

Nah, pranks like pitfalls dont lower friendship. Basically just there to have fun and thenget caught the next day

Oh it doesn't? I always thought it would but I guess not. Learned something new.

 

[Kristen]

It might have in a previous game

 

[TN4U]

Once I finish Parkwood, I'll probably go back to Wahu and finish the remaining Nook Miles achievements I still have to complete. Off the top of my head...

The hard ones:

• I still need to catch around 2,300 bugs and grab around 1,300 deep sea creatures. Not very hard in the summer, but still super time consuming and boring. Once I caught every single bug and creature, I kinda stopped catching them all the time and only went for high-valued ones.
• Nook Miles+ goals completed. Still need to do around 800 of them.
• Inviting players to my island. Only one person ever visited, and I don't know of any other friends in real life that still play the game as religiously as I do. There's always the option of inviting random people over, but eh, I don't know. I'm anti-social.

The easy ones:

• Planting flowers and crops. Just find a somewhat open space, plant a bunch, dig back up and throw away.
• Crafting furniture and tools. Find the easiest piece of furniture and tool to craft, and just do it endlessly until it's done. Will probably do these two if I have nothing else to do.
• K.K. shows. Only four to go without time traveling.
• 8 more Kapp'n tours. I kind of stopped going once my storage filled up with materials and I learned all the DIY's.

There's probably some I forgot, but they should be easy to finish anyways. I'll probably be one of the very few players to have completed every single achievement. I really wish I could see how many actual hours I've spent playing the game, because it's definitely way over 590.

 

[Kristen]

Once I finish Parkwood, I'll probably go back to Wahu and finish the remaining Nook Miles achievements I still have to complete. Off the top of my head...

The hard ones:

• I still need to catch around 2,300 bugs and grab around 1,300 deep sea creatures. Not very hard in the summer, but still super time consuming and boring. Once I caught every single bug and creature, I kinda stopped catching them all the time and only went for high-valued ones.
• Nook Miles+ goals completed. Still need to do around 800 of them.
• Inviting players to my island. Only one person ever visited, and I don't know of any other friends in real life that still play the game as religiously as I do. There's always the option of inviting random people over, but eh, I don't know. I'm anti-social.

The easy ones:

• Planting flowers and crops. Just find a somewhat open space, plant a bunch, dig back up and throw away.
• Crafting furniture and tools. Find the easiest piece of furniture and tool to craft, and just do it endlessly until it's done. Will probably do these two if I have nothing else to do.
• K.K. shows. Only four to go without time traveling.
• 8 more Kapp'n tours. I kind of stopped going once my storage filled up with materials and I learned all the DIY's.

There's probably some I forgot, but they should be easy to finish anyways. I'll probably be one of the very few players to have completed every single achievement. I really wish I could see how many actual hours I've spent playing the game, because it's definitely way over 590.

I think I got some of my visiting ones by selling/buying/trading! Helping out others by giving away stuff is my favourite way of getting those points, LOL. I'd also have family/friends over for shooting stars or to talk to Celeste. If you don't know anyone IRL who plays, I think you could just generally invite people over to talk to Celeste for recipes as well

BTW, love your island name!

 

[TN4U]

I think I got some of my visiting ones by selling/buying/trading! Helping out others by giving away stuff is my favourite way of getting those points, LOL. I'd also have family/friends over for shooting stars or to talk to Celeste. If you don't know anyone IRL who plays, I think you could just generally invite people over to talk to Celeste for recipes as well

BTW, love your island name!

I never thought about that. I do have tons of gold nuggets and other items that I could sell off to forum members, but I'm pretty much set when it comes to receiving things. Maybe I could just be a provider for others and not a buyer. Seems like a good idea...

And thanks for the island name compliment! I was going to name it Wuhu after the Wii Sports Resort island, but misspelled it when naming my island and never realized until I revisited Resort again. I actually grew to like my spelling better.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

Redesiging the entire island. Including terraforming, villager house placement, and facility placement. It’s like you’re restarting the island, but not deleting and starting a new one.

 

[S.J.]

I love how positive this thread is!

At the moment I've been getting back into ACNH by doing more HHP requests. I really enjoy designing the vacation homes based on the villager personalities/traits/villager design.

I'm also trying to catch my island villagers when they're at home to see if anyone could do with a new home makeover.

I was never worried about completing my museum or doing the Nook Mile achievements originally, so I'm thinking about completing my fish collection!

 

[VanitasFan26]

I love how positive this thread is!

Well I know this game has gotten so much you know flack and I know my personal gripes with this game given my history, so I felt like this was a nice change of pace. It is cool to play the game differently and discover things that you never knew you could do or makes you feel the urge to keep on playing. Now I understand why Animal Crossing is so special in general.

 

[TN4U]

Well I know this game has gotten so much you know flack and I know my personal gripes with this game given my history, so I felt like this was a nice change of pace. It is cool to play the game differently and discover things that you never knew you could do or makes you feel the urge to keep on playing. Now I understand why Animal Crossing is so special in general.

I was never really bothered by some of the common gripes people had for the game…

• Yeah, some special characters are straight up missing outside of HHP such as Copper/Booker, Shrunk, Gracie, Lyle, and even Digby, in which why he wasn’t even given a small role bothers me. He’s Isabelle’s twin brother for crying out loud!
• The amount of interior size upgrades you could do was kind of disappointing, but I made the smaller spaces work anyway for my builds.
• The dialogue and music does get very repetitive, especially if you play the game at the same time every day. I kind of wished there was a feature to turn the non-KK music off.
• The game felt way easier than older installments at certain points. In my entire playthrough of New Leaf, I only ever caught a single Coelacanth. In New Horizons, there was a single day where I caught 10 of them.

Those were all minor issues in my eyes, and I never let them deter me from continuing to play the game on a semi-daily basis. Heck, one reason I keep coming back to it is because of how ridiculously easy it is to decorate outdoors. New Horizons is probably the best game in the series when it comes to customization, by far. An amazing-looking town in New Leaf basically just pales in comparison to an average-decorated island in this game. I love it for that.

And then I finally decided to share my love for the game with others, and the online community overall is just the best. I only wish I had a girlfriend that loved this game as much as I do. That would make me a very happy man, but I’m getting ahead of myself here.

So, essentially, this game not only make me a huge Animal Crossing nerd, but it also made me a better person in the process, and that is the major reason I continue to revisit it.

 

[Tsukuri_Yukimura]

As of right now I have wanted to restart again cause I wanted to do the Forever Island thing but I am soo satisfied with the island terraforming that I kinda don’t want to restart. The only thing that is tempting me is the nook stamps are messed up with dates cause I time travel.

I am slowly working on the museum and the critterpedia cause I m the type of person who focuses on one thing at a time but I’m kinda done with my map work soo I have something to do. Also need alot of DIYs and Catalog work.

All in all I am taking the rest of the work slowly so I can enjoy it.

 

[Halloqueen]

As opposed to actual in-game activities, my recommendation for anyone looking for a way to enjoy Animal Crossing New Horizons again without restarting is to simply take a break from the game and focus on other games, hobbies, etc. Whether it be a week, a month, whatever you feel necessary and/or applicable to your situation. Maybe whatever you do in the meantime will engross you enough that you don't feel the urge to play Animal Crossing.

Time away from the game can renew the experience once you return to it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

 

[dino]

As opposed to actual in-game activities, my recommendation for anyone looking for a way to enjoy Animal Crossing New Horizons again without restarting is to simply take a break from the game and focus on other games, hobbies, etc. Whether it be a week, a month, whatever you feel necessary and/or applicable to your situation. Maybe whatever you do in the meantime will engross you enough that you don't feel the urge to play Animal Crossing.

Time away from the game can renew the experience once you return to it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

much agree with this and very well said! space from the game helps things feel fresh and less chaotic and pressured. i find that a 1-2 week break after a couple of weeks heavy planning rly helps and revitalizes both my creativity and energy. its the same as moving away from any big creative project like writing or crafts or work, etc.

similarly, i find this especially true if i've been working on a big terraforming or designing project.

 

[himekirako]

echoing the sentiments already said, i took a really long break from the game before i went back to it and i took things slowly. when i would get inspiration, i would only work on a small section of my island rather than trying to tackle a bigger area, least i overwhelm myself with what needs to be done.
i've also been slowly trying to complete my museum and that's been really motivating since they're time sensitive so it makes me want to log on for the day.

i also like to imagine the relationships happening on my island (platonic and romantic) because then it makes the interactions more fun, especially when there's fights, when someone wants to move out, when they hangout together in their houses, or when they're just out and about outside