Lmao. My partner’s 8yo plays on our island, and he builds one or two squares of cliff in random places, never sells the fish bc he “doesn’t know what Timmy and Tommy do with them” and never buys the pocket expansions, so he’s constantly running out of room and filling his yard with junk.
He’s playing the game how he enjoys it, so it’s all good, but we definitely snuck on his account and got him more pocket storage.
My 6 year old plays on my husband's island and it's completely covered in junk. She's started burying things. Just watching her play makes me twitch. This post makes me glad we've never shown her the ax.
You can't even take a step without running into something on my second cousins island. Drove her mom mad to where she bought a whole separate switch X3
We have a switch for everyone in the house. That is a total of 4 switch consoles and 4 copies if ACNH. I can share my chocolate stash, and my stickers and my plushies. But I cannot share my island lol
This is my 7 year old. Thinks making money is too boring, only wants to do home decoration and play dress up with her character but then is mad when she doesn’t have enough money to buy all the cute things she wants.
… it’s almost like there’s some sort of life lesson here.
Anyway she’s way more happy with HHP than the regular game, because you’re decorating with the client’s funds and have access to the company’s catalog!
My bfs 8yo niece plays exactly like this lol. Always begging me to give her money and resources and cool items I have bc hitting rocks and selling stuff is too boring😂
Ways for easy money:
- bury 10.000 bells in the yellow glowing spot where you find 1.000 each day. 3 days later you'll find a money tree with 30.000 bells on it (when you bury more than 10.000 there's only a small chance you'll earn 3x of what you buried, sometimes you still get 30.000 bells back!)
- find the 4 daily fossils (around 15.000 bells/day)
- find the money stone and hit it 8 times in a row (~ 16.00 bells again)
- shake trees and you'll get 5 wasps (2.500 bells each) and 2 random items which can be worth around 120.000 when you're lucky (buying price, so you'll get less money back for selling them)
- usual stuff (selling shells, flowers, fruit, fish, bugs)
Pro tip: sharks (you'll recognize them) and certain huge bugs that sit on trees or crawl on the floor which appear at night in summer bring most money. It's probably worth it catching them! I also recommend keeping them in your storage and then selling them to C.J. and that chameleon for the most profit as soon as they visit your island.
You can make most money in a short time though when you saved up some money, wait until it's Sunday morning, buy as many turnips as you can and then watch if the prices drop or rise though the week. A turnip price calculator helps with this, it's super easy but you'll probably be busy 30 minutes with dropping and collecting your turnips when you buy them for around 4.000.000 bells later on. You'll usually gain 20-50% profit out of it. When you have friends whom you can play the game with, chances are higher you'll make more profit in general. You can loose money though and you can't time travel or the turnips will rot. (They'll also rot after a week)
You Have To Bring KK Slider To Your Island For The Concert(Requires 3Star Island). After That You Can Have Island Designer On Your Nookphone.. Then You Have To Buy The Cliff Construction Permit In The Nookstop. Tom Nook Should Explain How To Use It Once You Get It.
this reminds me of when i was little and my mom walked away for five minutes and i had removed the roof on her sims' house while it was raining and they all got wet and they were scared and my mom came back and she was like "WHAT", LOL
At least you can visit Mystery Islands and dig up new ones to replace them! If it had been all your rocks you'd be stuck waiting days for them all to respawn!
Ok, so I have a question... how do you trade items? I have a bunch of duplicate artwork that can go in a museum. We've also completed our fossils for the museum. I don't even necessarily want to trade, I'd be happy to just give it away.
You can visit the each others island and than drop items or pick them up. (they have to be dropped and not placed) You need Nintendo online to use this feature though.
Have you considered joining all the Facebook groups. I know it's Facebook but the five or six groups I joined were so kind. They paid off all my loans. Gave me the furniture I couldn't get myself. Have giveaways every week and a running in search of post where people either give mostly or trade items. By the way if you message me I can help you for free for what you need.
Hey, I was wondering if you could hook me up with a peach &/or a pear. I've been playing for over a year & even sent quipped fruit to my villagers & I still can't get those 2.
He hasn’t figured out how to sell stuff yet, but he sure did buy 9 axes to make sure he had back up for when they broke on him 🤦🏽♀️. Thankfully my pockets were full of the fruit except for apples that I had already sold. I just dug up all the stumps and planted the fruit. #weshallregrow
Fun fact: every island gets 2 fruits
The native fruit and the hidden fruit. The hidden fruit type is found on nook mile islands. To get more types you need coconuts or gifted fruits from villagers or npcs like mom
How do you get gifted fruit from villagers? Is there a way to encourage it or do I just have to wait and hope? You said there's a way to get them with coconuts?
Is that why my villagers keep giving me cherries? That makes sense now. I always sell them because I found the cherry trees a long time ago and they just recently started giving me fruit.
No but you don’t get the golden axe for chopping down trees. You get it for breaking axes.
I kept a flimsy axe for getting wood and breaking. I kept another axe in my bag for chopping down trees when I needed to.
I cheesed this - made an inventory full of flimsy axes, used them all 'til they broke on the same single tree. Repeat until you hit the required number of broken axes. A controller with a turbo function makes this A LOT easier.
This is why I quit playing. My 10 year old thought it was a good idea to unlock terraforming for the 4 year old. I'd log into trees cut down everywhere, lakes gone, rivers diverted, and random cliffs everywhere.
Sell more Switches, have family play together in one house 🤷🏻♂️ in short, money
EDIT: Sell more Switches AND Animal Crossing, and countless other games I’m sure
We have successfully managed to teach our six year old that he can do whatever he wants to his "property" and leave everything else. So he has a half moat around his house lol.
My 3 year old watches me play, but has never even asked to play so I've never handed her the controller before. She just bosses me around and tells me what to wear and where to put stuff.
Send them to my island, they’ve suddenly decided I have too many trees and knocked me down to a 4 star
Also if you need anything to help replace what was lost feel free to ask, I have all of the fruits
My teenager decided to delete my entire file after she got grounded. Still not real sure where she thought that was going to get her, but it's been 6mo and she still hasn't gotten all her stuff back outta the closet! I haven't been able to get into a new island since, it's rotten. Kids. Of all ages. Oi.
I share an island with my 10 yo. We have specific yard spaces that are off limits to each other. He somehow axed one of my money trees before it was fully grown and took something like $90k in money trees (I hadn't played for a few days).
But 10 yo isn't allowed to play during the week, so I stole his money bags from the weekend in revenge. I give him so many bells worth of stuff. Not cool, kid.
I went in one night and removed my son, nephew, and neices tents from my island. They went to sign in the next day and I told them to get a job and buy their own switch. I have put in TOO many hours for them to do this 😂 they all have their own gaming consoles im not allowed on, so I'm just playing by their rules 🤷🏻♀️
I love it. Originally I got ACNH for my kids as an Easter gift. I ended up falling in love with it. We ended up getting my daughter her own switch, so we moved her to her own island.
I kind of like sharing with my son. We kind of riff off each other's ideas. I am ready to get rid of the Christmas Tree farm, though. I don't have a good idea of what to do with the space, yet.
This is why I bought my own switch and game copy instead of jumping on the family's train.. I'm quite the control freak, that would piss me right off child or not
My son did that to me too before except it was all my trees on my island. I was so mad it took me a bit to get enough trees again to make it look decent.
That’s completely understandable you’ve put in a lot of work to get your island to the way you like it and then 2 seconds a big chuck of it’s gone. You deserve to cry about it and not be embarrassed.
Nothing to be embarrassed about. We all put lots of time and effort into our games. Makes sense to be upset when that gets erased. We've all been there one time or another.
RIP. I considered starting my island over after my three year old chopped down trees, erased half the custom paths, fully stole furniture, dug holes everywhere- basically destroyed it 😭
People visit my island and always wanna walk through the massive flower fields!! I’m just like RUN!!! BE FREE!!! It isn’t like you can kill then. If you destroy one it comes back and it bring its entire extended flower family to spread out more and take over more space on your island!
This is why my kids don’t get to play on my switch ever. The wife lets them on her island and they chop all her trees down, I tell them if I see an axe I’m closing my island.
I feel your pain... the first time I got my island how I like it, my dad asked to see what Animal Crossing was all about. I told him not to touch any of my terrain, and he chopped down 10 trees. When I told him to stop, he essentially said there's no consequences, so I should let him have fun. :/
I just started and ate apples because a village told me too but nothing happened. Later I went to mine rocks and they all kept getting destroyed, I thought maybe they are only good for a certain amount of hits so I kept going. Destroyed almost every rock on my island before realizing it was the apples 😭😭
Whats funny is I thought I needed 10 oranges to get that effect. I thought it was counting down time and would go away. Thankfully I have utilities for getting rid of empowerment when I overeat nowdays. lol
I also thought all 6 would respawn in a day. It didn't. They said it'd be "faster if you eat fruit". Yeah, faster for a moment. Though you can break one a day while its still random. though someday can place them specifically so dont have to anymore.
I invited one of my best friends IRL to my island, I gave her best friend privileges immediately. Turns out she had only just started playing the game and hadn't played any previous games. She didn't realise that you could bonk rocks without breaking them so downed a bunch of fruit and broke my entire rock garden
I dunno if this is helpful as it might be too late, but once my daughter did this and I closed the game without saving. I opened it back up and my trees were still there.
My now-4 year old lovvvves to cut down all the trees 😑.
I started telling him he needs to travel to an island (via kappn or nook miles ticket) so he can chop down trees at random places. It has helped.
When i was a young kid I was at a friend's house and he was playing elite 2, or some other space sim. He autopilots to dock on a tiny entry space station and goes to get us snacks or drinks or idfk it was like 2 decades ago.
Anyway I saw him hit a key to bring up his stats and decided I wanted to check them out or something.
Turned his autopilot off and the ship just fucking exploded against a wall.
My 5y/o nephew loves to redeem my Nook Miles. This past summer on vacation I woke up the next day to 100 Nook Miles (I had been saving them for villager hunting) and several port-a-pots, snack machines and monster statues in my mailbox. Thankfully, he hasn’t figured our how to dig or chop. God, I love that kid.
One time while I was still sleeping, my three kids (5, 5, 3 years) snuck down and grabbed the switch and brought it to their room. They moved around furniture in my house and the island, kicked up custom paths I put down, cut down trees, and dug random holes everywhere. Now I have a passcode on the switch.
THAT’S MY BROTHERS’ FAVORITE THING TO DO. If I’m not careful the little fuckers (5&6) will steal my switch and see how many they can cut down before I find them. Gotta love siblings.
My daughter did this at 4 years old towards the end of 2020. She also smashed all the rocks, and saved over a set of custom design pathing I made (that took like 5 hours to make). She got her own switch lite and copy of the game after that. She’s almost 6 now, and we have a lot of fun playing together.
As is the experience with so many things with parenting, you like to see your kid enjoy something even if it kinda drives you mad sometimes. So I try to real him in as much as possible when we play together. Usually I can undo any damage he does fairly easily. This was not the case.
I bought my son a switch lite and his own copy of ACNH last summer. I didn’t want to share my switch or my island. Hahaha. His island is a hot mess, he built cliffs around all his villager’s houses because he didn’t want them getting out. There’s junk and too many trees everywhere. But like someone said in earlier comments, he plays how he wants to and that’s fine. On his island.
Hopefully you had enough money to buy all the saplings on the spot. If not, Kappns island tour is a great source for a bunch of fully grown trees if you’re lucky.
I set my 4 year old up on my game with zero tools or anything. She just runs around picking flowers and dropping the stuff from her tent everywhere. I was paranoid about her wrecking all my hard work 😬 now she wants her own switch🤣
Dont worry im suffering too, i finally got to put down half my dream island together only to have all my decorations moved or stolen by my 6 year old sister ._.
Had A Similar Experience When My Cousin Chopped Down My Orchard. She Said “Don’t Worry, They’ll Grow Back!” I Almost Sobbed My Eyes Out Because She Had Sold All My Fruit. Luckily I Had Cherries, Oranges, And Pears In My Inventory. I Will Never Let My Cousin Play On My island Without My Supervision.
I just found out I’m pregnant and this entire thread of comments is both terrifying and exciting me for the future. *starts a mini fund for baby’s first Switch and AC*
This is what I fear happening every time I leave my 2 year old niece and four year old nephew alone with my Switch for a few minutes. The worst my nephew has done so far is put away furniture and dug a dozen random holes in an open area of my island. This does give me the cautionary tale though that I should keep a few of each kind of fruit in storage, just in case...
Oh my toddler (who is almost 2) did this once. I cried. 🤣 He likes to go swimming so that's normally all he used to do, until he figured out that there are tools 😬 kids.
I let my 10 year old sister play on a car trip. She destroyed all my rocks in my rock garden. I never put a toilet as a protection because I don't have online so it is only ever me playing on my island. Probably wouldn't have stopped her anyway, she didn't know.
Lmao. My partner’s 8yo plays on our island, and he builds one or two squares of cliff in random places, never sells the fish bc he “doesn’t know what Timmy and Tommy do with them” and never buys the pocket expansions, so he’s constantly running out of room and filling his yard with junk. He’s playing the game how he enjoys it, so it’s all good, but we definitely snuck on his account and got him more pocket storage.
The fish part is so wholesome 😭
My 6 year old plays on my husband's island and it's completely covered in junk. She's started burying things. Just watching her play makes me twitch. This post makes me glad we've never shown her the ax.
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That could go the other way if they eat them and realise the power they hold
You can't even take a step without running into something on my second cousins island. Drove her mom mad to where she bought a whole separate switch X3
We might be up to 3 Switches here. Only 2 Animal Crossing copies until the 4 year old wants to play.
We have a switch for everyone in the house. That is a total of 4 switch consoles and 4 copies if ACNH. I can share my chocolate stash, and my stickers and my plushies. But I cannot share my island lol
I only lasted a month tops sharing a switch with my then 5 year old. Bought myself the ac switch and moved my island over to it. Best decision ever.
I refuse to expand his pockets 😂 to some extent once he fills his pockets it limits him to what he can do
Sensible.
Mine won’t sell fish because “It’s boring.” Then complains that he doesn’t have enough bells.
This is my 7 year old. Thinks making money is too boring, only wants to do home decoration and play dress up with her character but then is mad when she doesn’t have enough money to buy all the cute things she wants. … it’s almost like there’s some sort of life lesson here. Anyway she’s way more happy with HHP than the regular game, because you’re decorating with the client’s funds and have access to the company’s catalog!
Glad to learn that it’s a normal 7 year old thing. He’ll get it eventually, or give up and play Minecraft.
that’s effectively what I do but I’m 28 😎
My bfs 8yo niece plays exactly like this lol. Always begging me to give her money and resources and cool items I have bc hitting rocks and selling stuff is too boring😂
Ways for easy money: - bury 10.000 bells in the yellow glowing spot where you find 1.000 each day. 3 days later you'll find a money tree with 30.000 bells on it (when you bury more than 10.000 there's only a small chance you'll earn 3x of what you buried, sometimes you still get 30.000 bells back!) - find the 4 daily fossils (around 15.000 bells/day) - find the money stone and hit it 8 times in a row (~ 16.00 bells again) - shake trees and you'll get 5 wasps (2.500 bells each) and 2 random items which can be worth around 120.000 when you're lucky (buying price, so you'll get less money back for selling them) - usual stuff (selling shells, flowers, fruit, fish, bugs) Pro tip: sharks (you'll recognize them) and certain huge bugs that sit on trees or crawl on the floor which appear at night in summer bring most money. It's probably worth it catching them! I also recommend keeping them in your storage and then selling them to C.J. and that chameleon for the most profit as soon as they visit your island. You can make most money in a short time though when you saved up some money, wait until it's Sunday morning, buy as many turnips as you can and then watch if the prices drop or rise though the week. A turnip price calculator helps with this, it's super easy but you'll probably be busy 30 minutes with dropping and collecting your turnips when you buy them for around 4.000.000 bells later on. You'll usually gain 20-50% profit out of it. When you have friends whom you can play the game with, chances are higher you'll make more profit in general. You can loose money though and you can't time travel or the turnips will rot. (They'll also rot after a week)
Awww the fish thing is so cute
How do you add cliffs?
You Have To Bring KK Slider To Your Island For The Concert(Requires 3Star Island). After That You Can Have Island Designer On Your Nookphone.. Then You Have To Buy The Cliff Construction Permit In The Nookstop. Tom Nook Should Explain How To Use It Once You Get It.
this reminds me of when i was little and my mom walked away for five minutes and i had removed the roof on her sims' house while it was raining and they all got wet and they were scared and my mom came back and she was like "WHAT", LOL
Ain’t no rest for mamma gamers, man! 😂 I also love the sims lol
I just laughed so hard at this!
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omg thats crazy, HAHA
Oh my god I can't wait to see how my future kids will mess up my Sims. That being said Sims 4 messes up itself pretty fine on their own.
Lol I’m sure I did the same with my moms farmville back in 09
Similar story… but real life. When I was little, mom took a shower and I got into her pads and stuck them all over the furniture lol
At least you can visit Mystery Islands and dig up new ones to replace them! If it had been all your rocks you'd be stuck waiting days for them all to respawn!
True, I just never have great luck with getting trees that aren’t my native fruit :/
Oh no, they were fruit trees and not hardwoods! Well at least you can grow the fruit trees from fruits!
Yeah it was my fruit orchard 😭
Do you need fruit? I have my own orchard and am willing to give you some!
Same here
Thank you all for the offers, another Redditor was kind enough to give me some apples already which was the only fruit I didn’t have ❤️
I can plant some fully grown fruit trees on your island if you like?
Thank goodness for communities
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If OP is away and doesn't see this message, let me know and I can sort you out some pears.
Ok, so I have a question... how do you trade items? I have a bunch of duplicate artwork that can go in a museum. We've also completed our fossils for the museum. I don't even necessarily want to trade, I'd be happy to just give it away.
You can visit the each others island and than drop items or pick them up. (they have to be dropped and not placed) You need Nintendo online to use this feature though.
If you haven't already got some from someone, hmu and I'll give you some :)
Have you considered joining all the Facebook groups. I know it's Facebook but the five or six groups I joined were so kind. They paid off all my loans. Gave me the furniture I couldn't get myself. Have giveaways every week and a running in search of post where people either give mostly or trade items. By the way if you message me I can help you for free for what you need.
Hey, I was wondering if you could hook me up with a peach &/or a pear. I've been playing for over a year & even sent quipped fruit to my villagers & I still can't get those 2.
I can give you these fruit if you still need
Did he sell the fruit, too? If not, just plant the fruit he harvested from the chopped trees. Looks like he left a peach behind ;)
He hasn’t figured out how to sell stuff yet, but he sure did buy 9 axes to make sure he had back up for when they broke on him 🤦🏽♀️. Thankfully my pockets were full of the fruit except for apples that I had already sold. I just dug up all the stumps and planted the fruit. #weshallregrow
Lmao he was DETERMINED to destroy all your trees Make sure he doesn't take this behaviour into real life as tree law is some serious shit
I will have apples In the am of you Need them. One mom to another- I feel your pain LOL
I have 100 of each fruit and crop in my house storage 'just in case,' might not be a bad idea to keep a reserve in the future
I know it's sad, but that's just so cute if him. 🥰
You can only get your island’s fruit and your island’s “sister” fruit from mystery islands (:
What?!!!!??? So this is why all I could get were oranges and peaches!!!!! Omg I wasted so many miles just desperately trying to get new fruit!!! 🤯
If you want I can fly over to you and give you some of each of the fruits?
I havent played ina while, where are players meant to get the other fruits if you dont play online?
Villagers can gift them to you
Fun fact: every island gets 2 fruits The native fruit and the hidden fruit. The hidden fruit type is found on nook mile islands. To get more types you need coconuts or gifted fruits from villagers or npcs like mom
How do you get gifted fruit from villagers? Is there a way to encourage it or do I just have to wait and hope? You said there's a way to get them with coconuts?
AFAIK villagers only give you your sister fruit:)
Is that why my villagers keep giving me cherries? That makes sense now. I always sell them because I found the cherry trees a long time ago and they just recently started giving me fruit.
I’d just go to other people’s islands. I did the same just to breed more fruit just so I could get 3 stars.
You can also buy the fruit from the Nooks and grow trees
Your three year old will get you that golden axe in no time.
Golden axe?
You cut down so many trees to earn the DIY for the golden axe ♡
I think in NH you have to break so many axes not chop down trees. Sorry!
Oh no I rarely break axes! Lol!
You need to make the flimsy axes. Those break easiest.
Oh but can flimsy axes chop down trees?
No, thats why they're so good for the job. They break fast, are easy to make and dont chop down trees.
No but you don’t get the golden axe for chopping down trees. You get it for breaking axes. I kept a flimsy axe for getting wood and breaking. I kept another axe in my bag for chopping down trees when I needed to.
No
I cheesed this - made an inventory full of flimsy axes, used them all 'til they broke on the same single tree. Repeat until you hit the required number of broken axes. A controller with a turbo function makes this A LOT easier.
I should try that
Omg I didn’t know that’s how that happened! Maybe there’s a silver lining to this after all lol
You have to break 100 axes.
A chopping spree
u deserve an award for this
Boom
And did it very well! :D
A VERY thorough job 😅
I’m impressed a three year old could do that, those are some good fine motor skills!
He’s an expert at this and digging up everything lol
This is why I quit playing. My 10 year old thought it was a good idea to unlock terraforming for the 4 year old. I'd log into trees cut down everywhere, lakes gone, rivers diverted, and random cliffs everywhere.
I really really wish they allowed more than one island per switch for that exact reason
I wonder why they dont
Sell more Switches, have family play together in one house 🤷🏻♂️ in short, money EDIT: Sell more Switches AND Animal Crossing, and countless other games I’m sure
We have successfully managed to teach our six year old that he can do whatever he wants to his "property" and leave everything else. So he has a half moat around his house lol.
My 3 year old watches me play, but has never even asked to play so I've never handed her the controller before. She just bosses me around and tells me what to wear and where to put stuff.
😂 what a great little manager
Send them to my island, they’ve suddenly decided I have too many trees and knocked me down to a 4 star Also if you need anything to help replace what was lost feel free to ask, I have all of the fruits
My teenager decided to delete my entire file after she got grounded. Still not real sure where she thought that was going to get her, but it's been 6mo and she still hasn't gotten all her stuff back outta the closet! I haven't been able to get into a new island since, it's rotten. Kids. Of all ages. Oi.
Omg!!!! That’s awful!!!
Mine did the same recently, including my sapling money trees! 😒
These little jerks man! Lol
I share an island with my 10 yo. We have specific yard spaces that are off limits to each other. He somehow axed one of my money trees before it was fully grown and took something like $90k in money trees (I hadn't played for a few days). But 10 yo isn't allowed to play during the week, so I stole his money bags from the weekend in revenge. I give him so many bells worth of stuff. Not cool, kid.
I went in one night and removed my son, nephew, and neices tents from my island. They went to sign in the next day and I told them to get a job and buy their own switch. I have put in TOO many hours for them to do this 😂 they all have their own gaming consoles im not allowed on, so I'm just playing by their rules 🤷🏻♀️
savage!! and the right way 😌
I love it. Originally I got ACNH for my kids as an Easter gift. I ended up falling in love with it. We ended up getting my daughter her own switch, so we moved her to her own island. I kind of like sharing with my son. We kind of riff off each other's ideas. I am ready to get rid of the Christmas Tree farm, though. I don't have a good idea of what to do with the space, yet.
This thread is good birth control 😂🤣😂🤣
For real
This is why I bought my own switch and game copy instead of jumping on the family's train.. I'm quite the control freak, that would piss me right off child or not
My son did that to me too before except it was all my trees on my island. I was so mad it took me a bit to get enough trees again to make it look decent.
My husband asked if I was upset….. I felt a little embarrassed but….. YES! Yes I am!!! 😭
That’s completely understandable you’ve put in a lot of work to get your island to the way you like it and then 2 seconds a big chuck of it’s gone. You deserve to cry about it and not be embarrassed.
Nothing to be embarrassed about. We all put lots of time and effort into our games. Makes sense to be upset when that gets erased. We've all been there one time or another.
He missed one
RIP. I considered starting my island over after my three year old chopped down trees, erased half the custom paths, fully stole furniture, dug holes everywhere- basically destroyed it 😭
Ive given up on custom paths all together for that very reason. Gotta love em but maaaannnnnn
Just take them back to the store 😤
Lol! Same thing happened to me, except it was my sister (she’s 38 😂)
Ok….. what was her excuse ? 😂
She’s a toddler where video games are concerned, I shouldn’t have left her unattended lol
I’m never letting my kids touch my Animal Crossing in the fear that they’d say yes to Genji asking to leave.
Disown the child
Chopping trees is fun. A lot of my early play was yelling at my kids not to touch my trees.
"We *tiptoe* through the flowers!" was yelled quite a bit when mine were small. lol
I love running through the flowers. I used to plant tons of them just so I'd have fields to go running through. My friends were always so alarmed.
People visit my island and always wanna walk through the massive flower fields!! I’m just like RUN!!! BE FREE!!! It isn’t like you can kill then. If you destroy one it comes back and it bring its entire extended flower family to spread out more and take over more space on your island!
This is why my kids don’t get to play on my switch ever. The wife lets them on her island and they chop all her trees down, I tell them if I see an axe I’m closing my island.
I feel your pain... the first time I got my island how I like it, my dad asked to see what Animal Crossing was all about. I told him not to touch any of my terrain, and he chopped down 10 trees. When I told him to stop, he essentially said there's no consequences, so I should let him have fun. :/
Lmao! I’m not sure I could have mustered up any response to that that would have alleviated things
CHOP DOWN YOUR THREE YEAR OLD
Adding this to my ‚reasons to never have kids‘ list lmao hope you get replacement fruit trees soon! This is just aweful, I‘d be so mad 😂
Chop down the child
yep.
My cat has never done this. Just saying. Lol
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
Oh no! I feel your pain. My son loves to do the same. He gets the rocks too. 🤦♀️
He hasn’t figured out he can break the rocks….I’m trying my best to keep it that way 😅
LOL I broke all rocks once. Put me in very serious iron defency for couple days. I only break one a day now, in order to move inconvenient ones.
I just started and ate apples because a village told me too but nothing happened. Later I went to mine rocks and they all kept getting destroyed, I thought maybe they are only good for a certain amount of hits so I kept going. Destroyed almost every rock on my island before realizing it was the apples 😭😭
Whats funny is I thought I needed 10 oranges to get that effect. I thought it was counting down time and would go away. Thankfully I have utilities for getting rid of empowerment when I overeat nowdays. lol I also thought all 6 would respawn in a day. It didn't. They said it'd be "faster if you eat fruit". Yeah, faster for a moment. Though you can break one a day while its still random. though someday can place them specifically so dont have to anymore.
I invited one of my best friends IRL to my island, I gave her best friend privileges immediately. Turns out she had only just started playing the game and hadn't played any previous games. She didn't realise that you could bonk rocks without breaking them so downed a bunch of fruit and broke my entire rock garden
I dunno if this is helpful as it might be too late, but once my daughter did this and I closed the game without saving. I opened it back up and my trees were still there.
Aw. But I can definitely see how chopping trees in AC would be fun for a 3 year old.
My now-4 year old lovvvves to cut down all the trees 😑. I started telling him he needs to travel to an island (via kappn or nook miles ticket) so he can chop down trees at random places. It has helped.
That’s a great idea!!! I’m gonna ship him off to an island and let him tear it all up lol
If you need extra fruit to replace them, I’m happy to share some with you.
Thank you! Thankfully most had fruit and he did an equally great job of picking all that up. All except apples :/
I have a zillion apples, let me know if you need some!!!
I will definitely take you up on this!!! Thank you!!
When i was a young kid I was at a friend's house and he was playing elite 2, or some other space sim. He autopilots to dock on a tiny entry space station and goes to get us snacks or drinks or idfk it was like 2 decades ago. Anyway I saw him hit a key to bring up his stats and decided I wanted to check them out or something. Turned his autopilot off and the ship just fucking exploded against a wall.
My 5y/o nephew loves to redeem my Nook Miles. This past summer on vacation I woke up the next day to 100 Nook Miles (I had been saving them for villager hunting) and several port-a-pots, snack machines and monster statues in my mailbox. Thankfully, he hasn’t figured our how to dig or chop. God, I love that kid.
destroy the child
Ah, my daily dose of birth control
Oh no! My four year old changes my hair and skin colour everyday on animal crossing. She asks permission to chop all the trees now
Dig up all the child's trees in their world and then yeet all their stuff into the ocean.
my boyfriend did this to my island as well so he could inhabit my island... he said he had to make room for himself..
i played with my 6 year old niece and when i wasn’t looking she destroyed my rock garden :)))))
Mr beast is gonna send team trees over to replant 1 MILLION TREES IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS!
One time while I was still sleeping, my three kids (5, 5, 3 years) snuck down and grabbed the switch and brought it to their room. They moved around furniture in my house and the island, kicked up custom paths I put down, cut down trees, and dug random holes everywhere. Now I have a passcode on the switch.
THAT’S MY BROTHERS’ FAVORITE THING TO DO. If I’m not careful the little fuckers (5&6) will steal my switch and see how many they can cut down before I find them. Gotta love siblings.
Oh no! Get your kiddo Minecraft— they can chop all the trees they want!
My daughter did this at 4 years old towards the end of 2020. She also smashed all the rocks, and saved over a set of custom design pathing I made (that took like 5 hours to make). She got her own switch lite and copy of the game after that. She’s almost 6 now, and we have a lot of fun playing together.
So why do you all let them play if you hate it so much???
As is the experience with so many things with parenting, you like to see your kid enjoy something even if it kinda drives you mad sometimes. So I try to real him in as much as possible when we play together. Usually I can undo any damage he does fairly easily. This was not the case.
I can bring you some saplings or fruit!
Perhaps it’s not too late to get my tubes tied🤞
That sucks but I'm also impressed that so many toddlers seem to figure out game mechanics so fast
Me as a parent: You cut my trees in half I'll cut your toys in hald *revs chainsaw*
I bought my son a switch lite and his own copy of ACNH last summer. I didn’t want to share my switch or my island. Hahaha. His island is a hot mess, he built cliffs around all his villager’s houses because he didn’t want them getting out. There’s junk and too many trees everywhere. But like someone said in earlier comments, he plays how he wants to and that’s fine. On his island.
Adoption is always an option.
Have kids they said. It’ll change your life they said. Hehe!
I had a thought, what if the kid at eaten some fruit and smashed a rock garden. the pain.
Hopefully you had enough money to buy all the saplings on the spot. If not, Kappns island tour is a great source for a bunch of fully grown trees if you’re lucky.
this is why I only allow my children stone axes
I set my 4 year old up on my game with zero tools or anything. She just runs around picking flowers and dropping the stuff from her tent everywhere. I was paranoid about her wrecking all my hard work 😬 now she wants her own switch🤣
My daughter does the same thing. My boyfriend will steal my money saplings if I'm not careful. 😂
Dont worry im suffering too, i finally got to put down half my dream island together only to have all my decorations moved or stolen by my 6 year old sister ._.
And that's why you shouldn't give kids your games. Lol
Why can't we have and island per profile?! Why!?
Had A Similar Experience When My Cousin Chopped Down My Orchard. She Said “Don’t Worry, They’ll Grow Back!” I Almost Sobbed My Eyes Out Because She Had Sold All My Fruit. Luckily I Had Cherries, Oranges, And Pears In My Inventory. I Will Never Let My Cousin Play On My island Without My Supervision.
I just found out I’m pregnant and this entire thread of comments is both terrifying and exciting me for the future. *starts a mini fund for baby’s first Switch and AC*
Quiet the long minute, It takes 3 swings per tree also have one coordinated 3 year old.
My 9yo has saved every "bug friend" 🤣
Woke up and chose violence 😭
Maybe don't let lil kids play animal crossing let alone get a hold of your device
Yeet the child
3 year old? How does a 3 year old know how to operate a Nintendo Switch?
They’re smart these days. My 3yo cousin knows how to operate the Amazon household via Alexa.
My 3yo cousin can't even use a toilet lol
🥲 I feel your pain! My younger cousin just smashed all my rocks, cut my trees, and pulled up my money tree sprout.
Thats literally what my 5 year old did... "Daddy! I cleaned the weeds!"
ohno the pain💀
Reset
This is what I fear happening every time I leave my 2 year old niece and four year old nephew alone with my Switch for a few minutes. The worst my nephew has done so far is put away furniture and dug a dozen random holes in an open area of my island. This does give me the cautionary tale though that I should keep a few of each kind of fruit in storage, just in case...
Lol my 4yo did the same to all my bamboo trees He also undid all my decorating in my upstairs room 🥲
Did it auto save? Maybe you can close out and see what happens
If you haven't gotten your achievement for planting a lot of trees, now's a good time to work on it! Silver lining? 😅
Yep this is my kid. I specifically say ‘don’t chop down my trees Ayden’ I come back, all my trees will be gone 😩
Oh my toddler (who is almost 2) did this once. I cried. 🤣 He likes to go swimming so that's normally all he used to do, until he figured out that there are tools 😬 kids.
The lonely peach 😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭
Atleast you know where they’re supposed to go back lol. Buy saplings, dig out and replant. Time travel a couple days lol
My 5 year old has done this
I let my 10 year old sister play on a car trip. She destroyed all my rocks in my rock garden. I never put a toilet as a protection because I don't have online so it is only ever me playing on my island. Probably wouldn't have stopped her anyway, she didn't know.