I have a town that I want to accomplished a foresty, earthy look on, but I'm having trouble giving it that look and feel. I think it's rather too neat? How can i make it look more authentic without overwhelming my town and make it look too messy or like I didn't try?
Forest towns
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floatingzoo
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If you don't care about having the perfect town rating, you can keep any lost items you pick up for (I believe) two days. It will then allow you to place it whever you'd like. The book item and mitten seem to match a forest-y town! You can also put gyriods down, and perhaps have stepping stones through your town, instead of "perfect" pathways.
I really like my current paths, I think they fit pretty well with my color theme but maybe I can incorporate stepping stones so that it's not all paths. My town looks more rustic than foresty. ;(
I thought about adding mushrooms and clovers. I guess my real question is how do you place your trees and bushes? Is it just a random thing? Are you just filling in space and planting whatever after laying your paths down?
I like the books too so I'll try to get some!
My town was like that.
I made a pine park next to a pond and the Roost, and put a fire pit in the center, with log PWPs, and stumps with mushrooms everywhere.
It looked so nice.
I miss my town.
Did you plant and drop your things haphazardly? Or do you use a pattern to landscape?
I may have landscaped too neatly, which is probably why I'm unhappy with it. :/
As in QR patterns?
Nope. Never. It was neat and natural.
I had a pine path that led around the pond to the park, with pine and bushes squaring it off.
The Roost was next to it.
The mushrooms covered almost every tile that the log chairs, fire pit, and stumps didn't occupy. I also had orange and black cosmos' planted on a few of the tiles, and pink lillies with black cosmos' in front of the pines.
I had so many pictures but I got rid of my ds over a year ago, but I have a good memory when it comes to my towns.
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No just like how you decided what tree or bush goes where.
I want my town to have an inbetween look. Like both random and neat.
I'm just kinda stumped. Ha!
This is a real neat idea! I would create a campgrounds with patterns making it look home. Id also style the mayor house to look like a cabin meant for camp check in and services. Allow weeds to grow and leave some trash laying around. Cover the beach with dirt like patterns to make it look less like an actual beach.
There is a fine line between a natural looking and careless looking town that I also tried to find the right balance with. What I think worked for me was having a separate (and decently large) forest area away from all the houses (this was possible due to a lucky town map), and I had it go from normal trees and light coloured flowers around its entrance (including jacob's ladders), to a bamboo and bushy area with a fountain (the one with the two pots), to a dense pine tree area with a few perfect fruit trees, a resetti hole, and four leaf clovers and hybrid flowers.
I really enjoy that area of my town now! I also had one of those corrals at the border of the bamboo and pine area to hold some of my favourite flowers and baskets of fruits. and put mushrooms around the entry area
I really enjoy that area of my town now! I also had one of those corrals at the border of the bamboo and pine area to hold some of my favourite flowers and baskets of fruits. and put mushrooms around the entry area
This sounds a lot like what I wanted my town to look like! I really didn't want bamboo in my town since they run rampant and also, it sometimes look too "zen" but maybe that's what I need to make it look more forest-y.
You have a lot of great ideas!
I made sure to put a dense line of trees on either side of the bamboo before I planted it to make sure it wouldn't "escape" 
I'm glad you like it! If you really wanted to avoid using bamboo I would probably try to do the transition with fruits (empty trees into apples or something like that. I also forgot to mention that I put the coffee shop at the edge of the forest by the river (it was a bit before the fountain with the pots) and it turned out really cool! I tried to block it off with a ring of alternating trees and bushes (I forget which order you plant them to have them grow next to each other though)
I'm glad you like it! If you really wanted to avoid using bamboo I would probably try to do the transition with fruits (empty trees into apples or something like that. I also forgot to mention that I put the coffee shop at the edge of the forest by the river (it was a bit before the fountain with the pots) and it turned out really cool! I tried to block it off with a ring of alternating trees and bushes (I forget which order you plant them to have them grow next to each other though)
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I have two Forest type towns.
Moonview is the usual type, the trees and mushrooms one..But I have a step stone path going around the town.
Ume is a bamboo forest type, Bamboo..lots and lots of Bamboo with flowers to keep it from spreading too much!
It's pain digging the few that shows up. lol
This is the only area that have trees that aren't bamboo.
Moonview is the usual type, the trees and mushrooms one..But I have a step stone path going around the town.
Ume is a bamboo forest type, Bamboo..lots and lots of Bamboo with flowers to keep it from spreading too much!
It's pain digging the few that shows up. lol
This is the only area that have trees that aren't bamboo.
Darkesque_
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Can I visit your dream town, by any chance? I would love to see what you did, and give you some advice.
Yeah. I used to put bushes around and in between them.
Ahhh!! Pictures! This really helps for reference! I was struggling to find pics on Pinterest. I love this look!
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That's a great idea. Noted!
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