Keep playing until a villager requests to move out. Say no and save. Then time travel at least a week ahead and then back to the original date. Grass will be fully grown back. Not playing the game for about a week helps too.
As HoennMaster says - although I think you need to TT more than a week (more like one month) but so longs as you have that villager locked down you are OK.
I know grass wear does not work exactly the same as in city folk - so I am presuming, rather than knowing that the following will work/help: to keep the grass you have (or the increased grass you will have if you TT forward & back):
Grass wears on the spot/tile/space that you step on (walking & running the same, its the fact of actually stepping on the tile):
so keep to paths as much as you can (you would do better to get a path down soon - I put down a temp one, replaced with proper path later).
Grass wears with each load of the game - so multiple loads (on an ingame day) are OK so long as all but one load of the game you keep to the paths. The off path load of the game - go over town to find fossils/rock etc.
I don't keep to this my self, its tiresome to do! - I go off path quite a lot on multiple loads of the game - and yes I do have a fair amount of grass wear. In city folk I was a lot more disciplined and only loaded twice per ingame day.
Paths (ie patterns you put down) do not protect the grass - it wears under the pattern.
I have a bit of the opposite problem. I want to make a really forested, rural town that only has dirt trails as the path to everywhere. The grass won't die fast enough, man.
I have a bit of the opposite problem. I want to make a really forested, rural town that only has dirt trails as the path to everywhere. The grass won't die fast enough, man.
But yeah, keep loads of flowers around! I find even if I don't water them, they help the grass grow. Probably because I have a beautiful ordinance so my villagers water it!
Try to refrain from running all over the place, if you can. And like others have said, put flowers over the places where the grass has worn and water them regularly. They'll be back in no time.
I have this problem by my house- I built on a tiny sliver of land between the rail tracks and the river because my mayor is a grumpy hermit and doesn't want to be crowded by villager houses, but that then means only one way to and from my house to the rest of my town, and thus, grass-wear galore!
I'm hoping to find a nice set of tiles for pathways soon, I like to avoid TT that's forward or back more than one day- just wanted to say I totally feel your pain though.
It took 3 weeks for my grass to grow back, in that time I hardly played. Only checked stores daily and talk to villagers I met on the bridge. Only then I started to see a difference in the grass.
Two weeks should restore your grass. Sticking to a set path helps as well.
But I thought it had been decided that grass doesn't wear for each load of the game in NL, or people with multiple characters would be experiencing a ton of grass wear.
1. Plant trees/flowers on the dirt patches, water the flowers.
2. Try to set a path buy placing QR codes on the ground to follow.
3. Avoid running.
4. Time travel. I was gone for a week or two, and my dirt patches eventually had grass.
5. Grass grows faster in Summer/Spring, so if you leave it alone, it grows fast.
6. Rain and Snow regrow grass slowly.
Here's what the wiki says:
Regrowing grass in New Leaf
Fertilizer and the Beautiful Town ordinance do not help regrow grass.
Placing patterns on the ground will not prevent grass deterioration.
Staying off the grass all together will help it slowly regrow.
Watering flowers on decaying grass doubles the regrowth speed (the flowers must be watered for this to count). Stepping or walking over the flowers counteracts this and will instead count as walking on the grass, deteriorating it instead.
Villagers walking on grass or watered flowers does not deteriorate it.
Growing bushes or trees help regrow grass on the tile on which they are planted.
Rain and snow will slowly regrow grass. However, as with watered flowers, stepping on any grass tiles will counteract the regrowth and cause deterioration instead.
Time traveling two or more weeks forward in time will regrow grass. The amount of regrown grass will be directly proportionate to how far forward the player has traveled.
Unlike in Animal Crossing: City Folk, grass will regrow even on days when the game is not running. (The game will simulate grass growth for any length of time since the game was last played.)
Loading save files multiple times a day, including loading different characters, does not affect the growth of grass.
1. Plant trees/flowers on the dirt patches, water the flowers.
2. Try to set a path buy placing QR codes on the ground to follow.
3. Avoid running.
4. Time travel. I was gone for a week or two, and my dirt patches eventually had grass.
5. Grass grows faster in Summer/Spring, so if you leave it alone, it grows fast.
6. Rain and Snow regrow grass slowly.
Here's what the wiki says:
Regrowing grass in New Leaf
Fertilizer and the Beautiful Town ordinance do not help regrow grass.
Placing patterns on the ground will not prevent grass deterioration.
Staying off the grass all together will help it slowly regrow.
Watering flowers on decaying grass doubles the regrowth speed (the flowers must be watered for this to count). Stepping or walking over the flowers counteracts this and will instead count as walking on the grass, deteriorating it instead.
Villagers walking on grass or watered flowers does not deteriorate it.
Growing bushes or trees help regrow grass on the tile on which they are planted.
Rain and snow will slowly regrow grass. However, as with watered flowers, stepping on any grass tiles will counteract the regrowth and cause deterioration instead.
Time traveling two or more weeks forward in time will regrow grass. The amount of regrown grass will be directly proportionate to how far forward the player has traveled.
Unlike in Animal Crossing: City Folk, grass will regrow even on days when the game is not running. (The game will simulate grass growth for any length of time since the game was last played.)
Loading save files multiple times a day, including loading different characters, does not affect the growth of grass.
Thanks for the advice everyone!! I'll try the flower thing and just plant them everywhere haha
Also does anyone know the answer to this? (It's easier to ask here than make another topic) but recently in my town I have been hearing a weird chattering noise, it's like its coming from underground, it's not a mole cricket because I've found a few of them and know what they sound like but I have no clue what this noise is
