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I just had to chop down an entire pine forest because I was NOT happy with it, so I've been asking around the forums and buying lots of cedars to replace them. I want to try and make a REALLY pretty pine forest but I can't get anything aligned and there's tons of rocks in the way :( does anyone have any tips, cool paths or even some dream addresses that could help me out? I'm getting really frustrated.
 
I know that feel. I can give you some advice specifically for the pine forest? Okay, so I would recommend starting with pathing. Find a nice nature-ish path (if you are having trouble, i can help) and lay that down. Make it kind of winding, I would say. Line it with flowers, and add in clovers and mushrooms as wanted. Now put in some pwps that go well with a forest. Finally, put in the trees wherever there are empty spaces.
 
I know that feel. I can give you some advice specifically for the pine forest? Okay, so I would recommend starting with pathing. Find a nice nature-ish path (if you are having trouble, i can help) and lay that down. Make it kind of winding, I would say. Line it with flowers, and add in clovers and mushrooms as wanted. Now put in some pwps that go well with a forest. Finally, put in the trees wherever there are empty spaces.
Oooh, this sounds so nice!

Now I want to try this out...
 
I know that feel. I can give you some advice specifically for the pine forest? Okay, so I would recommend starting with pathing. Find a nice nature-ish path (if you are having trouble, i can help) and lay that down. Make it kind of winding, I would say. Line it with flowers, and add in clovers and mushrooms as wanted. Now put in some pwps that go well with a forest. Finally, put in the trees wherever there are empty spaces.

Thank you! I love the mushrooms idea. Hopefully I can find the right path!
 
If you're going for a forest, it might even be in your favour that you can't align everything perfectly!
Some asymmetry makes things seem much more natural and unique! :blush:

Good luck!
 
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I like the idea of the rocks being in the way, actually. If you look at real life forests the trees don't tend to be perfectly aligned unless they've been specifically planted that way by people. You could make the most of it by having the trees around the rocks and a path that wasn't straight ahead, with curves and even places where it split into a smaller path. That would make it look more like a real forest, in my opinion.
 
Well seeming as its ment to be a forest, just dont have them aligned! I have various trees round my town not in line! And tons that are. Just do whatever works best for that area!
 
Landscaping Your Town

Place trees two spots from each other. Start at the cliff and place temporary paths every two steps from each other. (You don't literally have to end up planting trees in all these spots.) This will takes tim; but you will develop a consistent template for where you would plant trees.

Decide: Place native fruit trees closest to train tracks (so new human arrival can see the native fruit on the way into town). Maybe yes; but you may want to also surround the Plaza area with your town's native fruit with the trees. (You can do both. If you don't use plant native fruit trees along the tracks; then non-fruit trees would be wise.)

You will need to have planted at least 110 trees, in all, to help qualify for a Perfect Town rating. This includes the beach for the Coconut and Banana trees. For those, you should organize them similarly; but leave open a wide gap, with no trees, for creating hybrids on the beach (so the sun bares down on those flowers).

By the way: When planting a number of trees, in a particular section, let the back row have a day to grow before placing any more trees directly in front of them. Reason for this is because anything in the middle might not grow. For example: If you plant nine Cherry trees in a section with three in front, three in middle, and three in the back, you will want the back row planted on Day #01, the middle row on Day #02, and the front row on Day #03. (You can check day-to-day to see this is so.) To plant them all on the same game date, you may end up finding that one in the middle row, especially the tree in the center of them all, did not grow.

As for all these bushes, the game makes you wait for those with T&T Emporium. (At least that's what I recall. Unless it's one shop update before Gracie and T&T Emporium.) So, the bushes aren't as big a focus as getting those trees planted for the development of your town.

For getting some paths, I have mine from the following:

  • Applewin: 2700?0520?1469
  • Progress: 1100?2752?3264

I came across these paths from YouTube videos uploaded by that site's member WiiFolderJosh. A lot of people, from WiiFolderJosh's videos, did not include access of their original patterns. The two listed above have. And, as someone who does not have a feeling with these "Animal Crossing: New Leaf" game tools for designing patterns, I am glad and grateful to get these patterns. (I don't have the Dream Address on hand for the patterns I am using in my third active town, Temps.)
 
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