I really wish villagers would just ask you if they could come over when you're outside only instead of having the option to barge in. It's been happening more lately and it's annoying to deal with when I'm trying to change clothes or do a small task in my house.
ACNH Pet Peeves and Petty Complaints Thread
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Seashells washing on shore. I figured out the trick with branches, stones and fossils behind cliffs a year ago and it made my island much better maintainable.
But whhhyyyy do seashells HAVE to spawn
ill never be done cleaning up the beach and i hate that
But whhhyyyy do seashells HAVE to spawn
ill never be done cleaning up the beach and i hate that
Livia
Always ignored
Unless the update changed it, you can mail art to your villagers. Sometime last year Tank sent me a fake painting and I sent it back to him. He displayed it in his house for a while though, so this wouldn’t be a good idea if you care about what your villagers houses look like.
Charcolor
icon: mayor maker by kyoosh
i'm not sure becauae i haven't tried it myself, but i think if you press B instead of A when they try to come in they will leave you alone. or something like that. again though i'm not sure!
peachycrossing9
Taking a break :3
I kinda wish you didn't have to invite an amiibo card villager three times before they move in. I find it quite tedious. Please Nintendo, once is enough. 
Changing my island name. I know its something that probably would affect the game, however I have on multiple occasions considered completely restarting ACNH just to rename my island. I don't care if there would be a fee, just an oppurtunity to change it at LEAST once.
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I'm pretty sure you can just leave your house and come back in, its tedious but its the only way I've been able to decorate my house
Marshmallows
chocoholic ☕🍫
I may be wrong, but it seems like the Happy Home Network browsing page is regional?? I have noticed a real lack of international names and prompts. If so, that's really unfortunate! I love seeing designers from around the world... especially Japanese designers who have a lot of creative players.
I know we can just add them through their code, but when browsing it'd be nice to see a mix of all players. I also hate how we have no way to search for designs of a particular villager or npc.
I know we can just add them through their code, but when browsing it'd be nice to see a mix of all players. I also hate how we have no way to search for designs of a particular villager or npc.
LadyMacabre
Junior Member
God I have SO many. 99% of them the same as the previous ones on here. It's like if the Devs actually took feedback and listened to us they could improve the game and a lot of them are explained away with "The game is meant to be slow and Zen".
So anyway, here are mine (there are quite a few!)
Disclaimer: I do actually enjoy this game a hell of a lot. It's like a model village/dolls house sim and it's adorable and the fun tends to outweigh the hundreds of issues with it. I just need to get this all off my chest which is I guess why this thread is here!
Terraforming & Designing
- You don't know which "square" you are facing as there is no guide on the floor, so you end up digging water/pilling a cliff/accidentally dusting floor away because you are one pixel off where you need to be. A simple red square indicating where your character will terraform would fix this.
- Having to terraform a whole river/cliff/path bit by bit. It takes SO long and the above makes it even longer when you accidentally knock the cliff down or fill in water you JUST laid because you can't see where you are facing properly
- The Devs noticing that almost every single player exploited the 4th level glitch to place objects and tree's up there because we ALL loved making the 4th level look nice and then DELIBERATELY PATCHING OVER IT SO WE COULDN'T HAVE A NICE THING. WHY?? Why get rid of something we actually liked when they could have just made it an actual part of the game because it basically already worked anyway?
- Not being able to have the edges stacked so you have maximum room on the second/third levels
- Can't move Rocks but can trees, even money trees. Why.
- Can't see what you are doing behind buildings/trees. Yes you can angle the camera down to ground level to see where you are or stuff is but then as soon as you do anything it goes back. You can't get a decent birds eye view either.
- No camera swivel so you can't see anything from different angles. Yet you can do this inside houses.
Properties & Buildings
- 24 hours to build anything. Half a day I could cope with but 24 hours waiting for a stupid incline or house to get built is excessive. There is nothing "Zen" to me about having to wait that long to then do anything else.
- 24 hours not being able to build a bridge because you are demolishing one or building an incline.
- Not being able to just move a bridge or incline you have placed incorrectly (like 1 square off) so you have to pay to demolish it then pay for a new one. Also, not being able to move it over slightly in the same place because "tHeReS sOmEtHiNg iN tHe WaY". So you have to demolish it, skip time, build it again, skip time again, just to move it one square.
- As above but for houses. You have to pay to move the house entirely elsewhere if it is slightly off (you can barely see the guidelines for placing it in some seasons and weathers).
Villagers
- Barging in on you in your home and/or inviting themselves over
- Getting right in the way when you are terraforming or making things then getting annoyed when you move them
- Having random villagers forced on you if you don't fill a vacant plot in 24 hours. Would love to be able to hold a vacant plot til I got a villager I actually wanted instead of having to time travel to get rid of villagers or buy amiibo/wait for a camp visitor (How about being able to invite villagers from islands to camp so you can swap them out with villagers you don't want? No. That would actually be easy and fun).
- Can't kick villagers out by talking to Isabelle or at the click of a button. Why.
- Not being able to choose to have 6/8/10 villagers. I don't want 10 houses, I want 8. I want the option to go up to 10 if I want or down to 6 or 4 if I want.
Storage, Items & Shopping
- Can't stack plants/flowers/trees which makes moving things around 100x longer. I have heard this was something that was in NL so why take it out of NH? It's not like they CAN'T put it in the game, they just don't want to. Again, what exactly is "Zen" about that?
- Can't put plants/flowers/trees in storage. Why.
- Can't gift flowers/plants/trees to anyone. Why.
- Can't mass plant or unplant. Why.
- Can't buy multiple items at the same time, can't buy things in bulk (No, 5 is not bulk if I want 20 holly bushes), can't buy multiples of the same item even (I want a row of lights so want more than one!!).
- 5 item catalogue limit.
- So I can customise some really random items but not others like beds and general furniture? Why.
Islands and other NPC's
- Getting the same Island 200 times in a row. I don't even bother anymore. The only reason I WOULD go now is to try and get a villager I actually want but (as above) my plots are full, you can't kick villagers to get new ones and it just ends up a complete waste of nook miles.
- Kapnn. Fun character but it's basically just mystery islands with no villagers and way less stuff on them. And again, it's 200 identical pointless islands so I don't even bother anymore as it's just a waste of miles.
- Harvs Island can be great except it only resets items on Monday. Once you have 5 hairstyles that's it so what's the point in Harvs' girlfriend after that?
- Brewster seems really pointless. The only thing I find fun is seeing NPCs in there before they "go to work". Other than that what's the point???
- Label. Gives you a fashion theme to do then if you dare use a different item to be creative you "lose". What's the point?
- Redd. Just annoying having to wait and spend bells to get items not even for you or the Island, but for the museum. At least all the other donations don't cost stupid amounts of bells!
- Literally Celeste and Daisy Mae are the only NPC worth waiting for, and I can't even use Daisy Mae as being forced to time travel to be able to actually DO anything in the game ruins that.
Tech Stuff
- Animations, and constant clicking, and not being able to skip things, and having to mash B to skip dialogue only to exit out and have to start all over again. Some lists being the "Yes" answer at the top so you mash A, only for the next list to have the "No" option at the top meaning you have to start again. It's a complete lack of continuity and just SO annoying and time consuming for no reason.
- Repetitive dialogue so you have to listen to the same thing over and over and over again with almost ALL NPC's (Cyrus is the absolute WORST for this). It's getting so boring having to sit through stuff, then mashing B to speed through it only to skip completely out and have to do it again. MAKE THINGS SKIPPABLE!
- The music. 4 songs all made up of 4 repetitive bars and you can't switch off just the music and keep the sounds. I play in silence more often than not which is actually really boring.
- Being able to use the screen touchpad to type on the keyboard but you can't draw on it, which would make custom designing so much more fun and easy
- Having to save custom designs one by one and it not just auto filling into an empty slot unless you specify otherwise
And the absolute, ultimate slap in the face
- One Island Only. I bought this game for my whole family like I do basically every other family game and only one of us can play it. It's literally not that hard to have multiple saves and the excuses from people about why they can't have multiple islands are pathetic. It's literally so you have to spend more money and buy multiple switches just for AC games because other games can manage multiple saves just fine (and people actually buy 2+ switches just for AC, so AC devs won't change it).
- Above might have been bearable, but Second/Third/Fourth players basically can't do anything. There is pretty much no point in second or more players at all.
- Couch coop being on one screen so second or more players can't do their own thing while all working together. Again, other games manage to have multiscreen with zero issue and again people make stupid excuses as to why AC can't? They literally can. They just don't want to.
The saddest thing about all of the above problems is that THEY CAN ALL BE FIXED BECAUSE 99% OF THEM ALREADY HAVE THAT FUNCTION FOR OTHER THINGS IN THE GAME (e.g. items CAN be stacked, level 4 COULD be decorated, things like plants COULD be stored or gifted like other items, dialogue COULD be skippable like they are for some things). The Devs just can't be bothered and don't listen to what the fans actually want, making excuses about "not being able to" and 2 years in they aren't going to either.
None of it has put me off the game or will make me stop playing, but all of this has been said over and over and over and over and agreed with by the majority of players spanning over the last TWO YEARS. Not just here but on other forums, facebook, reddit etc. It's stuff we ALL want. So why can't the devs just give it to us (Or, you know, don't take it away in the first place) instead of being lazy and sticking pointless stuff/characters in that just waste time? They could make this game perfect if they just DID these things.
If you made it this far, thank you! Not looking for a debate or to be told "wElL dOnT pLaY tHeN". Literally just wanted to get it all of my chest.
So anyway, here are mine (there are quite a few!)
Disclaimer: I do actually enjoy this game a hell of a lot. It's like a model village/dolls house sim and it's adorable and the fun tends to outweigh the hundreds of issues with it. I just need to get this all off my chest which is I guess why this thread is here!
Terraforming & Designing
- You don't know which "square" you are facing as there is no guide on the floor, so you end up digging water/pilling a cliff/accidentally dusting floor away because you are one pixel off where you need to be. A simple red square indicating where your character will terraform would fix this.
- Having to terraform a whole river/cliff/path bit by bit. It takes SO long and the above makes it even longer when you accidentally knock the cliff down or fill in water you JUST laid because you can't see where you are facing properly
- The Devs noticing that almost every single player exploited the 4th level glitch to place objects and tree's up there because we ALL loved making the 4th level look nice and then DELIBERATELY PATCHING OVER IT SO WE COULDN'T HAVE A NICE THING. WHY?? Why get rid of something we actually liked when they could have just made it an actual part of the game because it basically already worked anyway?
- Not being able to have the edges stacked so you have maximum room on the second/third levels
- Can't move Rocks but can trees, even money trees. Why.
- Can't see what you are doing behind buildings/trees. Yes you can angle the camera down to ground level to see where you are or stuff is but then as soon as you do anything it goes back. You can't get a decent birds eye view either.
- No camera swivel so you can't see anything from different angles. Yet you can do this inside houses.
Properties & Buildings
- 24 hours to build anything. Half a day I could cope with but 24 hours waiting for a stupid incline or house to get built is excessive. There is nothing "Zen" to me about having to wait that long to then do anything else.
- 24 hours not being able to build a bridge because you are demolishing one or building an incline.
- Not being able to just move a bridge or incline you have placed incorrectly (like 1 square off) so you have to pay to demolish it then pay for a new one. Also, not being able to move it over slightly in the same place because "tHeReS sOmEtHiNg iN tHe WaY". So you have to demolish it, skip time, build it again, skip time again, just to move it one square.
- As above but for houses. You have to pay to move the house entirely elsewhere if it is slightly off (you can barely see the guidelines for placing it in some seasons and weathers).
Villagers
- Barging in on you in your home and/or inviting themselves over
- Getting right in the way when you are terraforming or making things then getting annoyed when you move them
- Having random villagers forced on you if you don't fill a vacant plot in 24 hours. Would love to be able to hold a vacant plot til I got a villager I actually wanted instead of having to time travel to get rid of villagers or buy amiibo/wait for a camp visitor (How about being able to invite villagers from islands to camp so you can swap them out with villagers you don't want? No. That would actually be easy and fun).
- Can't kick villagers out by talking to Isabelle or at the click of a button. Why.
- Not being able to choose to have 6/8/10 villagers. I don't want 10 houses, I want 8. I want the option to go up to 10 if I want or down to 6 or 4 if I want.
Storage, Items & Shopping
- Can't stack plants/flowers/trees which makes moving things around 100x longer. I have heard this was something that was in NL so why take it out of NH? It's not like they CAN'T put it in the game, they just don't want to. Again, what exactly is "Zen" about that?
- Can't put plants/flowers/trees in storage. Why.
- Can't gift flowers/plants/trees to anyone. Why.
- Can't mass plant or unplant. Why.
- Can't buy multiple items at the same time, can't buy things in bulk (No, 5 is not bulk if I want 20 holly bushes), can't buy multiples of the same item even (I want a row of lights so want more than one!!).
- 5 item catalogue limit.
- So I can customise some really random items but not others like beds and general furniture? Why.
Islands and other NPC's
- Getting the same Island 200 times in a row. I don't even bother anymore. The only reason I WOULD go now is to try and get a villager I actually want but (as above) my plots are full, you can't kick villagers to get new ones and it just ends up a complete waste of nook miles.
- Kapnn. Fun character but it's basically just mystery islands with no villagers and way less stuff on them. And again, it's 200 identical pointless islands so I don't even bother anymore as it's just a waste of miles.
- Harvs Island can be great except it only resets items on Monday. Once you have 5 hairstyles that's it so what's the point in Harvs' girlfriend after that?
- Brewster seems really pointless. The only thing I find fun is seeing NPCs in there before they "go to work". Other than that what's the point???
- Label. Gives you a fashion theme to do then if you dare use a different item to be creative you "lose". What's the point?
- Redd. Just annoying having to wait and spend bells to get items not even for you or the Island, but for the museum. At least all the other donations don't cost stupid amounts of bells!
- Literally Celeste and Daisy Mae are the only NPC worth waiting for, and I can't even use Daisy Mae as being forced to time travel to be able to actually DO anything in the game ruins that.
Tech Stuff
- Animations, and constant clicking, and not being able to skip things, and having to mash B to skip dialogue only to exit out and have to start all over again. Some lists being the "Yes" answer at the top so you mash A, only for the next list to have the "No" option at the top meaning you have to start again. It's a complete lack of continuity and just SO annoying and time consuming for no reason.
- Repetitive dialogue so you have to listen to the same thing over and over and over again with almost ALL NPC's (Cyrus is the absolute WORST for this). It's getting so boring having to sit through stuff, then mashing B to speed through it only to skip completely out and have to do it again. MAKE THINGS SKIPPABLE!
- The music. 4 songs all made up of 4 repetitive bars and you can't switch off just the music and keep the sounds. I play in silence more often than not which is actually really boring.
- Being able to use the screen touchpad to type on the keyboard but you can't draw on it, which would make custom designing so much more fun and easy
- Having to save custom designs one by one and it not just auto filling into an empty slot unless you specify otherwise
And the absolute, ultimate slap in the face
- One Island Only. I bought this game for my whole family like I do basically every other family game and only one of us can play it. It's literally not that hard to have multiple saves and the excuses from people about why they can't have multiple islands are pathetic. It's literally so you have to spend more money and buy multiple switches just for AC games because other games can manage multiple saves just fine (and people actually buy 2+ switches just for AC, so AC devs won't change it).
- Above might have been bearable, but Second/Third/Fourth players basically can't do anything. There is pretty much no point in second or more players at all.
- Couch coop being on one screen so second or more players can't do their own thing while all working together. Again, other games manage to have multiscreen with zero issue and again people make stupid excuses as to why AC can't? They literally can. They just don't want to.
The saddest thing about all of the above problems is that THEY CAN ALL BE FIXED BECAUSE 99% OF THEM ALREADY HAVE THAT FUNCTION FOR OTHER THINGS IN THE GAME (e.g. items CAN be stacked, level 4 COULD be decorated, things like plants COULD be stored or gifted like other items, dialogue COULD be skippable like they are for some things). The Devs just can't be bothered and don't listen to what the fans actually want, making excuses about "not being able to" and 2 years in they aren't going to either.
None of it has put me off the game or will make me stop playing, but all of this has been said over and over and over and over and agreed with by the majority of players spanning over the last TWO YEARS. Not just here but on other forums, facebook, reddit etc. It's stuff we ALL want. So why can't the devs just give it to us (Or, you know, don't take it away in the first place) instead of being lazy and sticking pointless stuff/characters in that just waste time? They could make this game perfect if they just DID these things.
If you made it this far, thank you! Not looking for a debate or to be told "wElL dOnT pLaY tHeN". Literally just wanted to get it all of my chest.
Plainbluetees
vienna waits for you
Hearing the sound of stepping on snow in this game hurts my ears. It’s almost like a nail on chalkboard. I don’t know why because I’m not usually sensitive to sounds, especially in video games.
Charcolor
icon: mayor maker by kyoosh
another thing that bothers me is wisp. specifically, no matter what i do to try to alert him i'm here and about to talk with him (emoting at him, running around him), he always acts like it's my fault that he gets so startled he splits into pieces! i know otherwise it would totally ruin his purpose in the game so realistically it's better this way but as a person wisp annoys me! i've just stopped talking to him altogether since he clearly isn't a fan of me
yeah, great things from new leaf I'm totally glad they brought back
I mean I guess we do the same to them, but we also don't interrupt whatever they're doing unless we go talk to them
also, can you believe we got an entire update with a bunch more diys and yet they still didn't bother to add a snow pile diy for a winter alternative to the various leaf piles (and spring's cherry-blossom pile)?
It actually took me a while to realise that Cyrus charged for his services because of this!
paine408953
Senior Member
1. you can't give other players on your island food unless its in a present
2. you can't buy multiple of the same clothing at the Able Sisters
3. you can only have the milkshake in one color
2. you can't buy multiple of the same clothing at the Able Sisters
3. you can only have the milkshake in one color
Everybody who visits my house keeps commenting on how my gyroids are "facing the wrong way". They are on shelves on the wall, clearly facing forwards! No Punchy, I cannot teach you my secret way to use furniture, this is just some bug in the game it seems?
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