are your paths organized/straight or natural/curvy?

[ForgottenT]

Straight because my island will be a town.

 

[Miss Misty]

My paths are straight near the entrance, but once you leave the entrance area they get all curvy. I use a variant of The Path which I think looks way better with bends in it. And even then I really don't like the way my entrance looks with the straight paths either tbh

 

[meggiewes]

Straight because I don't normally walk in a twisting or meandering line.

 

[Chris]

Straight. I've aimed to create the feel of old Gameboy titles on my island, and if you're old enough to have owned one then you'll know how straight paths feed into that!

 

[Bluebellie]

I would say straight. My whole town is starting to look like a big square.

 

[Feunard]

My island is made up of mostly straight paths. I like clean and simple layouts.

 

[Pintuition]

I did both! On my switch lite the paths are all straight and organized. On my new switch I made the paths more organic. I think the straighter paths are easier to follow but the twisting more organic paths look nicer with many of the natural style houses and decor.

 

[oak]

I used to have straight dirt paths all around my island but I recently switched them out for a curvy custom path. I'm liking the creativity that comes with laying down custom paths!

 

[LambdaDelta]

my paths are straight af, unlike either my island basis or myself

 

[GnarlyGarden]

Mine are straight, but also mostly in the center of town and out to my house. 2/3 or so has no paths at all. It’s pretty impossibly to make the in-game paths curve or meander nicely.

 

[6iixx]

i like to make the stone paths - the 'official' paths i use - to be straight. and then the custom dirt paths i use go literally all over, because they're supposed to be more natural.

i like the dynamic of the two, honestly. it makes me feel like my town has some 'concrete' (no pun intended) areas of travel so it isn't a completely unruly and overrun with nature. i think it gives my island a good mix between the outdoors-y look i wanted and an established look that a village on an island might have.

 

[Serabee]

It varies! The main roads are primarily straight, but I have some winding paths in the more natural areas.

I was actually considering redoing my upper forest area with more natural paths... but I have yet to figure out how I want to arrange it. Even my natural, unplanned looking areas are actually carefully planned

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i like to make the stone paths - the 'official' paths i use - to be straight. and then the custom dirt paths i use go literally all over, because they're supposed to be more natural.

i like the dynamic of the two, honestly. it makes me feel like my town has some 'concrete' (no pun intended) areas of travel so it isn't a completely unruly and overrun with nature. i think it gives my island a good mix between the outdoors-y look i wanted and an established look that a village on an island might have.

That's pretty much how I feel, too! I use a version of "the path" to make the meandering, natural paths. I love how it looks, but it would be weird to use for my mainstreet area!

 

[eseamir]

I use almost exclusively windy dirt paths on my island, there are a couple of areas (like the shopping plaza or the area around the museum) that have some more structured cobblestone areas but for the most part I don't really like the straight 90 degree angle paths in the game and I don't have any on my island except for in garden beds

 

[minnew]

Organized would be the best way to describe my paths. I don't like when paths are confusing! I like to use the dirt paths and trees, flowers, bushes, mushrooms to make it feel more natural

 

[-Lumi-]

I have both, I think! The path on the lower half of my town is a straight with regular turns in it and then on the upper half of my town I have a stepping stone style path so it’s a little more curvy with its turns

 

[Xara]

while i’d love to give more natural pathways a chance one day, i currently have straight and organized ones, which i like!

 

[moon_child]

I used to have all straight paths and a more urbanized island but I reset and now I have a more natural island so the paths are all curvy.

 

[leohyrule]

Mine are all straight. I used to just have my paths be horizontal or vertical, but then I realized my island looked too boxy, so now I figured out a way for the default paths to be diagonal (but still straight I guess) and not look ugly.

 

[Splinter]

All mine I straight, I did them early on and then decorated around them.

 

[Snek]

Mine are all straight. My island is a giant resort so straight paths are a given. Visitors shouldn't get lost or they might want refunds... I use the official stone path so it doesn't erased as easily like with the custom paths. The stone is natural yet also gives an urbane feel.