Cutting down all trees?

[honeymoo]

Okay so I recently finally started up my second copy of New Leaf because I have enough time, so like always when starting a new town there's a mess of trees everywhere and it's just tedious when you have ideas. I also own a golden axe, so I'm thinking I should cut down all my trees, dig up all my stumps etc. and then in turn begin acquiring and planting saplings/apple, peach, cherry, trees.

So my question is, should I just cut them all town for the time being?
Has anyone else done this?
Will my villagers mention it with anger?

 

[molas]

I would, a clean slate is always helpful.

I did this almost immediately when I restarted and got into my new town. Villagers won't mention the lack of trees, but not having might cause a raffelasia to pop up.

 

[matt]

Nah the villagers wont care, to make the job quicker though id use a chain saw

 

[floofyunicorn]

It's easier to just cut everything down and plant things where you want them again. Most people seem to agree on that. Personally, I like to cut down the trees I don't want as I go. The villagers won't care, though they will complain about the lack of greenery to Isabelle.

 

[Freckles]

I didn't do it this way in my main town because I was going for perfect. But if you plan on re-landscaping in a decently fast amount of time I think it would be much more helpful.

Your citizens will be unhappy about a bare town though and if you ask Isabelle, she will tell you about it.

 

[honeymoo]

@molas Doesn't raffelasia only appear when there's weeds though?

@matt haha i wish

@floofyunicorn i'm convinced isabelle makes stuff up, my villagers wouldn't be so rude lmao

@freckles well landscaping is probably going to take really long time since i've not unlocked any pwps yet, but i can always just replant and cut down, i don't really value saplings that highly.

 

[molas]

@molas Doesn't raffelasia only appear when there's weeds though?

Nope.



I didn't have any weeds here, just not too many trees.

 

[lazuli]

a rafflesia can appear when your town is too bare, meaning, no weeds, trees, flowers, pwps, bushes, etc. and trash on the ground doesn't help either.

 

[honeymoo]

oh okay thanks. when i first saw the plant in someone's town i thought it was a pwp, but it seems harmful, so i guess i'll be planting tons of flowers to make up for the tree

 

[laineybop]

Every time I start a new town, the first thing I do is level every tree. It's just easier to navigate through the town if I can see every thing...

I just restarted my 2nd cartridge for a new permanent town & I'm slowly replanting trees, starting with perfect fruit trees along the top of the town. Once I get the garden shop, I'll add more trees & really start landscaping.

 

[molas]

It's not really harmful to anything other than your town rating, and the fact that it can be in the way, but the latter can be fixed by throwing a character house on top of it. It'll respawn the next day though, so it's a temporary fix if it might be in the way of where you want a villager's house or a PWP.

 

[hiimsenpai]

whenever i restart i cut down my trees and then plant nice orchards around town.

 

[the_red_cloud]

all cuz i did too just plant new ones were u want to be like i did

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ur new right

 

[Skyfall]

I have cut down every tree in my town before... but for a completely different purpose. I wanted to catch the tarantula and without the tree bugs, the tarantula definitely spawned more. I noticed no complaints from villagers (or any other weird phenomena) whatsoever.

 

[HoennMaster]

If you want to get a perfect town I suggest doing that first and then completely tearing everything down.

 

[Rarr01]

I've kept all my trees and only cut them down when I need to for a path or something. I think it's worked out well for me, and it's saved time.

 

[ellemacc]

nah, i did it before and nothing really happened. the whole town looked 10x bigger though.

 

[honeymoo]

all cuz i did too just plant new ones were u want to be like i did

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ur new right

no i'm not lol

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thanks everyone for the insight tho, i'll definitely do it, now.

 

[nevvleaf]

i don't think i saw this mentioned, but if you have a golden shovel (or borrow one) and bury 1k bell bags then you can grow regular trees (so you don't have to buy over-priced regular saplings from someone else)

 

[honeymoo]

i don't think i saw this mentioned, but if you have a golden shovel (or borrow one) and bury 1k bell bags then you can grow regular trees (so you don't have to buy over-priced regular saplings from someone else)

seriously? woah thanks so much geez i'm gonna go look to buy a golden shovel right now!