Grass Deterioration

[RainCrossing]

Hi! I've been aware and concern about grass deterioration currently. Do you guys have any tips to slow/prevent grass deterioration and tips to grow it back? Thank you so much to those that answer ~

 

[Sanxithe]

Growing flowers at the grass patch helps. Also if you put your designs on the ground as tiles the grass won't wear out. (but it's kind of pointless since the design would cover the grass)

 

[Barbara]

That last statement is wrong. Grass does deteriorate when you have patterns placed on it, the only thing is that you don't see it. Placing paths and mostly following those will prevent grass deterioration elsewhere though, the grass will only wear where you walk most often (on the paths) and as you've covered those up it should probably bother you less.

 

[Nanaki]

Planting flowers/trees and watering the flowers helps grow back deteriorated grass, and can help prevent it. The only other prevention measure I can think of is to simply not run on areas you want to keep grassy.

 

[Voluptua Sneezelips]

Be careful when watering flowers over dirt patches, though: even walking on the grass to water the flowers can contribute to grass wear. In addition, there are some natural bare patches in your town that are there from the beginning; grass won't grow in those spots.

The website thonky.com has a helpful guide to grass wear in the AC:NL section of the site, which talks about rates of regeneration, etc.

 

[Shay10]

I once time traveled to a rainy season and the grass grew back in most places

 

[Vizionari]

Plant flowers over dirt and water them everyday. The grass will slowly grow back. However, be careful not to walk over them, as that will negate the effect of watering them. Some dirt patches are permanent, so keep that in mind.

However, I've found that if you plant bushes in some spots, grass will start growing underneath the bushes. That's might be a nice, alternative way to regrow grass.

 

[Orieii]

Plant flowers over dirt patches along with fertilizer and water them. Then TT 2-4 days at a time, your grass will recover faster if you don't load up your file each and every day. I hope this helps

 

[ACNLcat]

Growing flowers at the grass patch helps. Also if you put your designs on the ground as tiles the grass won't wear out. (but it's kind of pointless since the design would cover the grass)

The grass will still wear out with designs on it,
that wont do anything to help the grass

 

[MasterM64]

To prevent grass deterioration, the first step is to create a path system that will allow you to easily access everything (including villager homes). After that, landscape the rest of the town to your heart's content (carefully plan out PWPs while you are at it as well). Once you do all that, just be careful of who you allow into your town and also be careful of how much you walk on the grass yourself. Unlike City Folk, grass grows faster than the amount of wear you put on it by simply walking on it. Hope this helps!

 

[HoennMaster]

If your not against Time travel, wait until a day a villager asks to move. Say no and then Time Travel forward one month, and then back to the original date. All grass will be regrown.

 

[failedexperiment]

As far as I know, the most effective ways to prevent grass deterioration are to plant flowers over mud patches, time travel because apparently it helps the grass regrow, lay down paths because it supposedly slows down the grass deterioration, and also walk slowly because running and walking fast makes paths appear, I think.

 

[RainCrossing]

To prevent grass deterioration, the first step is to create a path system that will allow you to easily access everything (including villager homes). After that, landscape the rest of the town to your heart's content (carefully plan out PWPs while you are at it as well). Once you do all that, just be careful of who you allow into your town and also be careful of how much you walk on the grass yourself. Unlike City Folk, grass grows faster than the amount of wear you put on it by simply walking on it. Hope this helps!

I'm using steppingstones with clovers

 

[Serif]

If your not against Time travel, wait until a day a villager asks to move. Say no and then Time Travel forward one month, and then back to the original date. All grass will be regrown.

I was literally about to suggest this.

Whenever you move an alt out, or a villager moves out, they leave dirt in their wake. I use this trick when that's happened a lot~

Otherwise:

-Pathing doesn't prevent deterioration, but you can use them as a safe running area since you won't see the grass anyway.
-Flowers help tons. Watering them helps your grass immensely.
-Trees are good too.
-Walk, don't run. Using your full speed run kills grass.
-If you need alt homes for plot reset purposes, try to keep one designated area free for them. You can also "recycle" old plots and reset until animals move into plots that once belonged to others. After you're done with the reset trick you can either TT or fill the area with flowers and let it grow.

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And just to re-iterate and clarify, pathing does NOT prevent or slow down grass deterioration. At all. Don't make me call Mythbusters!