What beginner mistake you did in animal crossing?

This is not so much a mistake, but a regret. I used to not care about how the villagers houses looked in Nl, but since playing NH, I’ve really regretted having given a lot of my villagers furniture (can’t remember if I gave them clothes) and messing up their houses. I think I liked how their house interiors looked better than how they look in NH.
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At the same time, in NH I kinda wish I didn’t care since I feel like I’m missing out on something by only giving them coconuts. lol
 
Dunquixote said:
This is not so much a mistake, but a regret. I used to not care about how the villagers houses looked in Nl, but since playing NH, I’ve really regretted having given a lot of my villagers furniture (can’t remember if I gave them clothes) and messing up their houses. I think I liked how their house interiors looked better than how they look in NH.
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At the same time, in NH I kinda wish I didn’t care since I feel like I’m missing out on something by only giving them coconuts. lol
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Something I found out in NH at least is that you can gift villagers wall-mounted furniture and they are guaranteed not to display it. I suppose that would be a beginner mistake for me because I missed out on at least one extra FP every time I gifted them a piece of fruit instead of some more expensive furniture such as an Iron Wall Lamp. 😢 I also would like to tack on that I didn't realize at first that gift-wrapping a present would also help for friendship points.
 
Well, not sure if this would be considered a minor thing or a major one, but... I admit I started time-travelling quite soon. I got NL in August and it was my first AC game, but when September ending I had some reason to going back to the beginning of the month again. Don't remember anymore what it was, maybe a missed fish/bug or whatever?

Anyway, I didn't know by then, but later discovered that carelessly time-travelling completely messed up the chronicle story in my tree (the one in the townsquare). It doesn't affect the game in any way, but if you sit down there and start reminiscing, you'll read some mismatched things. Like, I got the third expansion of the nookies before the second? :LOL: And etc.
 
When I began New Horizons, which was my first Animal Crossing game at the time, I made my villager eat fruit thinking they would need to eat or something and then saving the game after. It didn’t take me long to figure that doing that was dumb and I shouldn’t do that.
 
I didn’t know how to fish in wild world so I spent hourssss gathering and selling non native fruit for bells.

I didn’t know how to request songs from K.K. Slider in Wild World either so I spent hourssss, days, weeks trying to get this one villager to sell their kiddie stereo that was playing K.K. Lullaby in the flea markets only to get severely disappointed when it didn’t in fact play K.K. Lullaby
 
Oh, so many. Too many to list, in fact, but here's a few off the top of my head:

  • Sold creatures without donating to them.
  • Didn't know what a money rock is, so didn't look for them each morning.
  • Didn't know there's a website that helps you predict turnip spikes.
  • Placing the buildings haphazardly without considering how messy and disorganized it would look.
  • Didn't bother planting as many the trees that bear non-native fruits from day 1, thus losing a lot of profit I could've made.
  • Didn't know you could bury the bells that you find buried to grow money trees, thus losing a golden opportunity to earn bells from day 1.
  • Didn't know you could earn Cast Master easily by going for the size 1 fishes, the smallest ones.
  • And the biggest one that got me so upset I wrote an entire rant for it in the forum... MASS-DONATED LOTS OF CREATURES AT THE SAME TIME, thus leading Blathers to NOT explain the interesting trivia for ANY of the creatures, period.
 
I began with New Leaf and these are a few mistakes I made:

- I didn't give my villagers the right gifts during Toy Day.
- I didn't Plot Reset correctly and thus many of my villagers moving to my town placed their house in an inconvenient location. For example, Claudia placed her house next to mine.
- My town layout is quite inconvenient and cramped and I didn't reset my game at the beginning to choose a layout that has plenty of space for Public Works Projects and laying down paths.
- I sold my clothes because I didn't have space in my inventory and I didn't know how to store them. However, I'm happy I can repurchase them in the Nookling stores.
- I ran around my town and created a lot of dirt paths in places that I didn't want, although a lot of them grew back.
 
When I first started NH I thought you had to fill up on fruit for energy or something and I ended up destroying a load of rocks before getting all the ore.
 
I started in New Leaf and made some mistakes

1. I avoided villagers that wanted to check out my home. I thought it was weird they wanted to see the inside of my house so I avoided talking with them. Little did I know that they could give me presents if I did show them my house.

2. I thought that the jellies could be caught somehow. I seriously thought you could donate them. I know that they could be caught in previous AC games, but NL was my first AC game

3 I used to always cut down the dead trees after the perfect fruit trees died. Big mistake, especially for Halloween season. In NH I wished that they return, the spooky trees are ok but I miss the natural, non-decorated dead trees.
 
Most of the beginner mistakes that I can remember making mostly came from either WW or NL, or both:

  • ignored my villagers a bit too often, unless they were villagers I really loved, so some of them I never really got a good friendship with and ended up hardly ever getting their photos when I played WW
  • didn't pay enough attention to the town layout when I first started playing and ended up with a layout I didn't really like but was also reluctant to reset for a very long time so had to try and work around it
  • hardly ever got my fossils assessed and usually just sold them to make bells, also I very rarely donated bugs or fish (the few I did manage to catch anyway) to the museum as I wanted to expand my home so sold them to make more bells, leaving the museum very sparse for a long time
  • sold my first perfect fruit, again because I was too focused on making bells early on, not realising that it wouldn't grow back and I'd have to get another one elsewhere
  • when I first started NH I wanted to please all my villagers to work on getting their photos as I'd neglected that a lot in previous games so often agreed to deliver gifts for them to other villagers, thinking it would harm my friendship a lot with them if I didn't, and ended up with my villagers having a lot of strange furniture and clothing items
 
  • Eating a perfect apple instead of planting it. 😱 (after that, I reset my game and planted the perfect fruit.)
  • I didn't know about viĺlager pictures, so I didn't get any.
  • Selling fossils, bugs, and fish to pay off my house loan faster instead of donating them to the museum.
  • Not building a strong frienship with my villagers.
  • Not requesting songs from KK because I didn't know how.
 
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Hahaha i did the same thing 😂 I gave a boot or a can to a villager and they got upset with me.
I also made another villager upset cause I whacked them with a net a few times
 
I sold my perfect fruit because I had no idea how they worked. I was just mesmerized by the amount of bells Nook wanted to give me for it.
 
I don't recall making a lot of mistakes early on (though I started with the og like 14 years ago so there were plenty of tutorials n stuff, not to mention my brother played too). but I remember wanting to making a beach themed house so I made a custom design with sand and a palm tree and whatnot, to use on my wall at home. little did I know it would be displayed in tiles (instead of being stretched across the wall) so it ended up looking really dumb lol.
 
I crushed all my rocks in NH. Not great at the beginning.
Removing my river instead of minor edits to keep a natural look.
 
GCN. Add me to the list of people who didn’t figure out how to fish for an oddly long time. It also took me years to realize paying off your loan would get you a bigger house, so I could store all the cute outfits I was buying, and that if you talk to villagers about things other than asking for favors they’ll walk you through other aspects like, say, setting your birthday.
 
When I started playing AC City Folk (I was about 5 at the time), I didn't know how to sell things to make bells so I gave up on the game for a while until I eventually was curious enough to search it online (probably 3-4 years later). I then came across ACC and joined that forum and fell in love with the series. I ended up joining TBT in 2013 (I was 12-13 at the time).
 
I first started playing animal crossing new horizons about a year and a couple months ago and i have never played any other animal crossing games
At first, i didn't know that you could bury money to get money tree each day so after each time i would shovel the money bag out the ground i would just cover up the hole :oops:...i did that for a while until one of my friend told me... lol
 
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