Michelangelo
Senior Member
Hello everyone! This is my first post on the Bell Tree! Yeah, I'm new, but I've played every Animal Crossing since the Gamecube era, and of course I have New Leaf. I loved how ACNL brought back the train station, police station, and, what was the wishing well in the Gamecube version, the event plaza. The town was huge, with 30 acres.
And believe it or not, New Leaf still uses acres, too. They are still the 16x16 squares of earth, but by finding this out, I had to use the side of town with the cliff wall; not the coastal cliff with the beach. The town has 5 acres across and 4 acres down, so that's 20 acres. However, the coastal acres are smaller because of the beach. So in a way, the town has 4x3 acres, or 12 FULL acres--by full I mean you can dig out the 16x16 square 12 times.
Does it seem like much? Maybe yes or maybe no. That depends on HOW MANY RIVER ACRES YOU HAVE. I've tried this a lot with different towns. Using the Dream Suite, I could see how other people's towns either looked cramped or had a lot of space. The town can have either 6 river acres--including both waterfalls--or up to 9!
There are already 4 full acres taken up for Re-Tail, the train station, the town hall, and the Event Plaza. With only six river acres--which my town has--you can have, at maximum, 3 FULL, EMPTY ACRES OF LAND. Well, not totally empty, since villagers can move in them. Empty in the sense of no rivers or points of interest. With 7 river acres=2 full empty acres, with 8 river acres=1 full empty acre. And with 9 river acres, there would be zero full empty acres.
This impacts space in your town. However, even if you decide to reset, or start the game for the first time, just because the town may have 6 river acres--which is what you want for maximum space--that doesn't mean it's great. Holding ponds will take up space, so make sure your new town layout barely has any. Every town needs at least one. AT LEAST ONE. Re-Tail will ALWAYS have a holding pond in its acre, and there are three different pond shapes for the Re-Tail acre, too. The train station has three different acres, and one train station acre has a pond--which I don't like. The town hall has three different acres, too, and one of its three acres has a pond, like in my town. The Event Plaza can't even fit a pond, but the shape of the cobblestone surrounding the tree can look different--there's also three different Event Plaza acres. It's really your preference having the holding pond in the train station or town hall acre. It's not an empty acre anyway, and you would want full empty acres to have no holding ponds.
The first map is my town. There are six river and three empty acres. The (before) empty acres contain my house, the cafe, and the acre between the train station and the horizontal river acre is empty too--not really because of my neighbors.
The last map is a dream-accessed town. There is only one full empty acre, which is left of the Event Plaza, in the corner. It looks a little cramped, because some parts of this town look narrow.
Sorry for this being long, but I thought this info might be helpful to new players, or anyone who feels they don't have enough land. Thanks for reading my first post! I hoped I was helpful!
And believe it or not, New Leaf still uses acres, too. They are still the 16x16 squares of earth, but by finding this out, I had to use the side of town with the cliff wall; not the coastal cliff with the beach. The town has 5 acres across and 4 acres down, so that's 20 acres. However, the coastal acres are smaller because of the beach. So in a way, the town has 4x3 acres, or 12 FULL acres--by full I mean you can dig out the 16x16 square 12 times.
Does it seem like much? Maybe yes or maybe no. That depends on HOW MANY RIVER ACRES YOU HAVE. I've tried this a lot with different towns. Using the Dream Suite, I could see how other people's towns either looked cramped or had a lot of space. The town can have either 6 river acres--including both waterfalls--or up to 9!
There are already 4 full acres taken up for Re-Tail, the train station, the town hall, and the Event Plaza. With only six river acres--which my town has--you can have, at maximum, 3 FULL, EMPTY ACRES OF LAND. Well, not totally empty, since villagers can move in them. Empty in the sense of no rivers or points of interest. With 7 river acres=2 full empty acres, with 8 river acres=1 full empty acre. And with 9 river acres, there would be zero full empty acres.
This impacts space in your town. However, even if you decide to reset, or start the game for the first time, just because the town may have 6 river acres--which is what you want for maximum space--that doesn't mean it's great. Holding ponds will take up space, so make sure your new town layout barely has any. Every town needs at least one. AT LEAST ONE. Re-Tail will ALWAYS have a holding pond in its acre, and there are three different pond shapes for the Re-Tail acre, too. The train station has three different acres, and one train station acre has a pond--which I don't like. The town hall has three different acres, too, and one of its three acres has a pond, like in my town. The Event Plaza can't even fit a pond, but the shape of the cobblestone surrounding the tree can look different--there's also three different Event Plaza acres. It's really your preference having the holding pond in the train station or town hall acre. It's not an empty acre anyway, and you would want full empty acres to have no holding ponds.
The first map is my town. There are six river and three empty acres. The (before) empty acres contain my house, the cafe, and the acre between the train station and the horizontal river acre is empty too--not really because of my neighbors.
The last map is a dream-accessed town. There is only one full empty acre, which is left of the Event Plaza, in the corner. It looks a little cramped, because some parts of this town look narrow.
Sorry for this being long, but I thought this info might be helpful to new players, or anyone who feels they don't have enough land. Thanks for reading my first post! I hoped I was helpful!
It's all a matter of preference. I'm super picky about my town map. This isn't even my first town!
So far only thing I'm not sure of is where I'd ever put a 4th character house...
