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What are your thoughts on the new rise of modding in ACNH?
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Imaginetheday
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So many games out there actually support modding and I wish Nintendo did. I don’t mind if people do it, but since my switch can’t be modded, it’s not even an option for me.
Marshmallows
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It's not for me, too risky and time consuming to even begin to learn how to mod. I have no issue with people hacking, though, especially now that the game has been out for some time. I wish some of the mods were in the real game! Those pastel tulips... 
I don’t keep up with the modding scene for this game, but mods existing is amazing. It makes games more personal, and expands what you can get out of them. It can fix problems with games (in this case, even if you don’t use QoL mods, hacking in items/layouts you want can be fun a la time travelling- I’m guilty of time travelling in every game, and using cheats in the old games, and that was just another way for me to enjoy them- nothing malicious like seeding, that’s bad, I used to be pretty scared of that lol). I also love mods in Mario Kart Wii (still play because of all the new tracks people make) and I’ve enjoyed some Minecraft mods.
I can imagine making custom villagers or textures is a lot of fun, really getting to see that art in a game. I didn‘t get very far, but I’ve tried making HD textures for a Wii game and seeing the art on functioning models etc. was awesome. Seeing characters and levels I already loved in higher res, even if I never really finished remaking any levels.
Didn’t the old lightsaber items in City Folk happen because of some modding? That’s pretty nostalgic. Edited towns in old games were awesome. I don’t see a lot of them in this game, I haven’t really looked either and people don’t really need to hack for town layout stuff in this game to make something impressive but at least putting items in the river and doing more with bridges is cool. Star trees were awesome! I said it.
As long as you aren’t doing anything mean with modding, hacking, cheating, etc. (although those are inevitable, certain people just want to troll/grief with them) they don’t hurt anyone, and promote more creativity. That fits what the game is all about, it’s awesome. Games in general are sandboxes for your own ideas and interactions under their mechanics, so modding is a great thing for any quality game. Think about how many games you would like to make your own levels for and think about how few games actually have something like that. Or extra modes. Or crossovers you would never actually see happen. Isn’t it awesome how Rivals of Aether basically has official modding?
I wouldn’t mod New Horizons because I can’t be bothered hacking my Switch. I’m happy enough with my airport and town hall location, I don’t even know if I’d move them. I don’t have a hackable Switch at the moment.
I can imagine making custom villagers or textures is a lot of fun, really getting to see that art in a game. I didn‘t get very far, but I’ve tried making HD textures for a Wii game and seeing the art on functioning models etc. was awesome. Seeing characters and levels I already loved in higher res, even if I never really finished remaking any levels.
Didn’t the old lightsaber items in City Folk happen because of some modding? That’s pretty nostalgic. Edited towns in old games were awesome. I don’t see a lot of them in this game, I haven’t really looked either and people don’t really need to hack for town layout stuff in this game to make something impressive but at least putting items in the river and doing more with bridges is cool. Star trees were awesome! I said it.
As long as you aren’t doing anything mean with modding, hacking, cheating, etc. (although those are inevitable, certain people just want to troll/grief with them) they don’t hurt anyone, and promote more creativity. That fits what the game is all about, it’s awesome. Games in general are sandboxes for your own ideas and interactions under their mechanics, so modding is a great thing for any quality game. Think about how many games you would like to make your own levels for and think about how few games actually have something like that. Or extra modes. Or crossovers you would never actually see happen. Isn’t it awesome how Rivals of Aether basically has official modding?
I wouldn’t mod New Horizons because I can’t be bothered hacking my Switch. I’m happy enough with my airport and town hall location, I don’t even know if I’d move them. I don’t have a hackable Switch at the moment.
daringred_
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i have no issue with it !! i love seeing what other players can create; i've semi-kept up with it since NL was the main game on the scene. i remember the infamous hacked town with PWPs in the ocean and saw plenty of towns where people had clovers on their bridges and bamboo plants in the rivers. it was pretty cute !! as were people's modded villagers. especially so. i've seen a couple of things on my tumblr feed, including people modding the cliff and sand colors to match the ones from the HHP island.
i always wanted to mod myself in NL, because clovers on the bridges would've been super cute, and so would having some of the fan-made villagers, but i never wanted to risk bricking my game or device or getting banned from online play etc. it's the same reason i won't try it with NH either, and i definitely can't afford a new console/game to test it out on lol.
i always wanted to mod myself in NL, because clovers on the bridges would've been super cute, and so would having some of the fan-made villagers, but i never wanted to risk bricking my game or device or getting banned from online play etc. it's the same reason i won't try it with NH either, and i definitely can't afford a new console/game to test it out on lol.
DarkSlayer1331
Senior Member
Like most others, I don't mind that other people do it, but I won't be doing it myself. I don't have the know how personally and I wouldn't want to risk my Switch or save file. Honestly I'm more saddened by the fact that Nintendo isn't going to do any more updates for the game. Having a couple of people on staff to design some new small content here and there would be nice.
JellyBeans
only half awake
I have so much respect for people who put the time and effort into making mods for games. i know modding is a hugee thing in communities like sdv so it only makes sense for people to branch out into things like ac; i feel the complete freedom of the game lends itself nicely to mods that offer even more potential. for a console game i personally, like others have said, would probably never risk it just because i'm sure i'd somehow mess it up or get myself in trouble or whatever. i love seeing it though!! and realistically i know if ac was available on pc and you could just download mods i'd probably get involved - same with sdv, i have it on switch and always get upset i can't get as into the modded side of it as people who play on pc
i'd like to give modding a go sometime when i'm more motivated to play this game long term. i think it'd give a nice breath of fresh air to the game for me. i wouldn't be playing online after that so i'd have to make sure my town is absolutely complete before doing it, but id love to give it a go.
I don't care what others do with their games but I have a problem with people who do it maliciously or to do illegal things
I used to have people try and bait me into getting my Pokemon X game to crash because they would screw it up with "illegal" hacked Pokemon but if your not gonna do anything like that I don't see the harm but I don't want to hack or mod my games personally I like playing them just the way they were coded although sometimes I wish I could hack some of my games to see what happens if you do certain things
I used to have people try and bait me into getting my Pokemon X game to crash because they would screw it up with "illegal" hacked Pokemon but if your not gonna do anything like that I don't see the harm but I don't want to hack or mod my games personally I like playing them just the way they were coded although sometimes I wish I could hack some of my games to see what happens if you do certain things
Speaking of Pokemon, when I was really young (about 11 or 12), I used to hack in old event Pokemon through Black and White. I think the only ones that managed to get carried up into Pokemon Home was my Darkrai I made (I made like 6 of those and gave them out). I would also hack in random shiny legendaries and give them to my friends because why not? They never crashed the game, though, they were perfectly safe. Only real issue with them was they were hacked, and you could very easily tell because I was a child and didn't know how to make a legal looking Pokemon.
They made my game crash because they were trying to trade me or battle with me with "illegal" shinys, Pokemon that are impossibly to be shiny without hacking (Example a shiny Zygarde in Pokemon X and Y) they would often but not always crash my game because they modded and hacked their 3DS so it can have "illegal" shiny Pokemon on it
The data for those shiny pokemon does not exist because they altered the coding for it so if someone tries to trade you certain hacked shinys like a hacked shiny Hoopa(which Hoopa is shiny-locked and cannot ever be shiny ever) it will often crash your game because YOUR 3DS doesn't have altered data like theirs so it crashes because it doesn't have the same data
Same thing with my Pokemon Shield game I was playing in an online tournament battle and someone had a Shiny Zacian they hacked(Zacian is shiny locked and can never ever be shiny) and it crashed my game because their switch only lets them have a Shiny Zacian because they altered the switch data mine doesn't have the same altered data so then it crashes
so yes Hacked Shiny Pokemon very much can crash people's games if you didn't hack it properly
Oh I don't doubt you! I was just saying these that I made were perfectly fine. If I knew they were going to crash people's games I would never have given them out!
(Also, side note, is it possible that the shiny Zacian was real? There was a distribution for shiny Zacian/Zamazenta last year that I frustratingly missed.)
Hmmm oh I wasn't aware there was an event you could get a shiny Zacian from
maybe theirs was perfectly legal but it's stats were kind of strange, I don't know maybe they IV/EV trained it super good? I guess it could have well been just a normal communication error and they had a normal shiny Zacian?
That could be! I just remember going to Gamestop and they were out of codes, so I signed up for GAME (UK)'s email thing to get the codes and then I completely forgot to use them. Was so mad at myself!
Also, if you ever are interested in playing SM/USUM, word of warning: don't use the GTS. It's filled with hacked Pokemon that WILL crash your game and may ruin it for good. I don't get why people do that!
I don’t have the knowledge and ability to mod. So, this isn’t anything I will do. What I find particularly interesting is that some choices with modding would have been very nice had they been incorporated into Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In 2020, the stars in trees were a hit. What also caught my attention in exterior design was a video I watched of someone with a modded console who has/had Resident Services not located on Level #01. Yes—these are fine examples of what could have made New Horizons more enjoyable.
Violet Witch
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I love seeing what others are creating via modding but it does make me a little sad that they're just modded items and not anything official or the fact that we won't get new content for ACNH. Maybe the next Animal Crossing game will take inspiration from the mods fans are creating and give us more content to make our next islands even more unique.
I don't mind the mods, just not in my game! There are some really great ideas mods implement that I really wished Nintendo could do instead. Its sort of sad that Nintendo has sort of "given up" on New Horizons after the last big update. The Switch still has many years left too...
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