Have you flattened your island before?

[*The Oakboro Mayor*]

Nope! Never did. I think its mainly because I want my old map to still be at least a little intact, and I never really did any heavy terraforming that I was comfortable with. I was never really confident with the idea of terraforming my whole island, so I never thought about flattening it before! It would probably be easier to navigate, but I don't think I would ever flatten my island. I think it would be a really cool thing to see though, so if you end up doing it I would totally love to see some photos!!

 

[Theoneandonlymegan]

I lose motivation really easily so either I would not finish or I would finish and it would just stay empty for weeks

 

[Soot Sprite]

Yup! It was a huge pain but luckily I figured I would be terraforming a lot so I originally put all of the villager houses and shops on the lowest floor to begin with. I don’t even want to think about how many bells I wasted moving buildings and ramps around.

 

[awesomeelle2001]

I'm currently in the process of doing it now. It's exciting to plan out everything I want but be prepared that if you do lose motivation to keep going, it's gonna hinder your planning experience (or at least it does with me). I want to go on and enjoy events but hate the awkward look of my island right now so don't go on. Best of luck though! It's very rewarding getting to plan out things how you want.

 

[Nicole.]

Yup! It was a huge pain but luckily I figured I would be terraforming a lot so I originally put all of the villager houses and shops on the lowest floor to begin with. I don’t even want to think about how many bells I wasted moving buildings and ramps around.

This is what worries me! I have nothing else to spend my bells on though

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I'm currently in the process of doing it now. It's exciting to plan out everything I want but be prepared that if you do lose motivation to keep going, it's gonna hinder your planning experience (or at least it does with me). I want to go on and enjoy events but hate the awkward look of my island right now so don't go on. Best of luck though! It's very rewarding getting to plan out things how you want.

That's cool! Are you flattening the entire island or going by sections? Have you had to move any resident homes yet? There's a lot of things I want to shift about on my island, including a lot of the ramps and buildings, and adding more layers and dimension where places are mostly flat and boring.

 

[fluttershy300]

Yes, all my houses are on the beach and my shops, campsite, and museum are in the back of my island. I destroyed all the cliffs and rivers so I can have a clean canvas.

 

[Koi Fishe]

Yes and I kind of regret it ;-; I wish I just worked with what was already there and I find it hard to make everything seem natural. Honestly might reset!

 

[nightglow]

I'd suggest not filling in all your rivers fully. But that is just me. I like to have rugged rivers and I tend to make them too artificial looking. I don't regret flattening and building up though.

 

[John Wick]

I keep thinking about doing it but I know if I did, that would be the end for me.

I hate my island and don't even know what I want anymore.

 

[Gracelia]

I've flattened it twice now. On the third time of re-building and so far, I've been quite content with the outcome!

 

[not_sure]

I "flattened" it... and then built it back up to more resemble a natural island. It's been a pretty big undertaking.

Unfortunately because of the way the camera works I had to make the back of the island the tallest but I think I did a decent job making it look natural and tropical while maintaining the ability to quickly get around. I don't time travel, so I still have a few houses on the beach and ramps to remove and bridges to build. I planned out the terraforming, inclines and bridges with a sketch. it's taken over a week and a lot of time, but I only have about a week left and most of the difficult work is done. Definitely worth the effort.

 

[sleepydreepy]

I've flattened the majority of my island because I too was bored and "stuck" with my original layout that wasn't very well planned out. But I haven't flattened my entire island.

 

[Nicole.]

Before I have flattened mine by sections and not the whole island , but at this exact moment it's starting to get tempting the idea to just throw everything to the trash and flatten my island

The only reason I'm not doing it is because I have too many flowers and it makes me go lazy

I feel you, flowers are a pain especially when having to shovel them up. Plus, I don't know where to put them all for the time being. A lot of them are having to be thrown away.

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I flatten, terraform, and redecorate in sections. One section can take me an entire day...

the whole island at once would be so overwhelming!!!

I flattened one section of my island the other day, and I agree it took me near enough the whole day to do. I think its just gonna be something that I'll pick at here and there everyday until it gets done.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

I've flattened it twice now. On the third time of re-building and so far, I've been quite content with the outcome!

TWICE oh god that's hard work and dedication

 

[Nicole.]

I'd suggest not filling in all your rivers fully. But that is just me. I like to have rugged rivers and I tend to make them too artificial looking. I don't regret flattening and building up though.

I made this mistake too early on in the game. My rivers now look too boxy and far from natural looking, so I'm in the process right now of redesigning all of my rivers. Before, I patched over my river mouths, which I now regret because as I said it doesn't look very natural. I think I did it because I didn't really like having both river mouths placed in the south, its something I didn't think about when playing from the beginning as I was too excited to just play. With that said, if I were to ever reset I'd look for a different map entirely.

 

[WalceDony]

I've already decorated parts of my cliffs; if I flatten my island I know for a fact I will regret it at some point.
I think I'd be patient enough to do it but I have no idea what I would do with the flattened land

 

[nammie]

No, I just... "flatten" one section at a time, but never my whole island at once, I have way too many hybrids lying around for me to bother flattening everything haha.

I have a general idea of what i want certain areas of my island to look like and I just slowly develop those sections and then find ways to connect areas together.

And I think starting from scratch is sometimes even harder than having something to work off (i.e. existing cliffs and rivers).... it's def more tedious, since I hate terraforming (please nintendo add a box telling me where I'm aiming)

 

[pinkfawn]

Yeah, I flattened mine back in April and it took about a week to get everything terraformed and I used the island designer website. Make sure you have a plan when you flatten it though, my friend flattened hers without mapping out what she wanted and said she regretted it since it was hard to fill in the space. If you don't want to commit to flattening it all though, I'd do segments at a time.

 

[Hanif1807]

Yeah, but not entirely

 

[Lynnatchii]

I never fully flattened my island, but I have flattened some bits of my island