Is your game more realistic or more fantastic?

[Your Local Wild Child]

I’m fully fantastic. I’m making a wilderness island with a bunch of the giant mushroom furniture, and I want my villagers to follow the woodsy feel. Plus my character has the whole backstory of being cursed to be feral so it really can’t be realistic

 

[nerfeddude]

Mine is more fantastical. I don't care if those bookshelves will get wet in the rain, or those surfboards will be covered in the snow, it's just a video game after all! A video game where a human lives alongside talking animals on a island in the middle of nowhere with electricity and good internet. Boring real life rules won't stop me from doing silly things as long as they look cool.

 

[dizzy bone]

More realistic. A big chunk of my island is town-like/residential. It bothers me a little having items outside that wouldn't survive certain weather conditions... although some items I can't help using (I try to at least put them under a stall or something!) I have a market area and I cringe every time I run by my secondhand bookshop when it's raining omg... A small portion of my forest does have some fantasy-like elements like my den I made for the godzilla to live in lol, but for the most part I would say I try to be more realistic.

 

[Bcat]

Mostly fantastic. I have water flowing in ways that makes no sense, furniture sitting outside that would never survive the elements, and gnomes running a nightclub. I’m living on an island with talking anthro animals, so I just roll with it lol.

 

[Hobowire]

I wouldn't talk to bears or octopus IRL but aside from that the village has resemblance of a realistic environment.

It's quite opposite of my current environment. I'm in NYC so the city build is a no-no for me. I have open fields to run and frolic.

 

[FraudulentDimetrodon]

I love this question!

My town is definitely more realistic. It's named after the Shire from Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, and anyone who's familiar with Tolkien's work knows how detail-oriented that world is, and I want my island to somewhat-reflect that. I bought a book about the flora in Middle Earth, and I did research into plants in England so I know which flowers and shrubs are best to use (spoiler alert, I don't have many options). :'D I'm having such a hard time putting down a river because my Resident Services is in the actual worst place, and other locations for the river make no logical sense. It's genuinely destroying me.

I'm fine with vignette-type settings (like placing a book on an outside table), but things like full outdoor libraries is something I feel like I can't do. But there's so little furniture to work with; it feels incredibility limiting in a not-fun way, so I might have to just break my rules. Especially with my beaches. I can't put cute spa areas or tropical settings or outdoor restaurants in not-England, so my only plans for them are filling them with seaweed and rocks. OTL I really need more outdoor-type furniture and furniture that doesn't lean modern.

The main exception is my house, which is decorated however I want. Rooms are either hyper-realistic or extremely surrealistic. I have normal rooms like my bedroom/living room/kitchen that have anachronistic items to my island setting (computers, TVs), but are otherwise realistic and take into consideration what I'd like in a house. For example, I had trouble putting down a mirror in my bedroom. The only place it looked good was facing my bed, but I just couldn't do that because light would reflect off of it right onto my bed, and I just can't sleep in my imaginary bed like that!

The rest of my house are just pure nonsensical aesthetic rooms and use things like Saharah's wallpapers that have outdoors environments. These rooms I want to be as weird as possible. Right now, I have a Moon floating in the center of a room with Cloud Flooring, lots of the shell furniture, and a music player with the song "Farewell." I want to have a Valiant Statue in there eventually.

 

[CrankyCupcake]

It's quite opposite of my current environment. I'm in NYC so the city build is a no-no for me. I have open fields to run and frolic.

Same thing for me. I live in a tropical concrete jungle and I don't want my island to be the same. No widely paved roads (just single tile wide paths), no canals (just meandering rivers) and no deliberately constructed gardens (no fences, just bushes and flowers for everyone and a small farm plot for Rolf).

I'm fine with vignette-type settings (like placing a book on an outside table), but things like full outdoor libraries is something I feel like I can't do.

Likewise! I enjoy having the little spaces here and there where I'd leave a birdhouse and log stool, or a swing and tiny library. I feel that big developed areas (such as multi-table restaurants or sprawling libraries) actually look lonely and sad, on account of their being empty.

The main exception is my house, which is decorated however I want. Rooms are either hyper-realistic or extremely surrealistic. I have normal rooms like my bedroom/living room/kitchen that have anachronistic items to my island setting (computers, TVs), but are otherwise realistic and take into consideration what I'd like in a house. For example, I had trouble putting down a mirror in my bedroom. The only place it looked good was facing my bed, but I just couldn't do that because light would reflect off of it right onto my bed, and I just can't sleep in my imaginary bed like that!

I can relate. Thank you for the smile on my face!

 

[craftyshack]

I wouldn't talk to bears or octopus IRL but aside from that the village has resemblance of a realistic environment.

It's quite opposite of my current environment. I'm in NYC so the city build is a no-no for me. I have open fields to run and frolic.

Omg I'm in NYC too, and my island is very natural looking because I miss it so much T__T

I'm on the realistic end of the spectrum too. I really can't bring myself to put too many (if any) indoor items outside. It looks really weird to me. I got some mushroom furniture to help decorate the natural areas of my island, but I find it a bit aversive sometimes in the area because they are so big T__T compared to the proportions of the other things that I have on my island. I'm really trying to thing of ways to get rid of them/ replacing them, maybe with some mushroom materials planted >_> my island is also inspired by the vacations that I have been on haha, and the places that I would rather be than in my home in NYC during a pandemic. So it's an escape in someway, but rather allows me to access certain positive memories I've had in the past

I find it somewhat limiting though valuing realism because there's so much cool furniture, flooring, and wallpaper available that is SO cool! And I've seen really creative uses of it! (Lava flooring and wallpaper to recreate Mordor?! ) But I just can't bring myself to do that... at least yet! Maybe after I finish decorating everything realistic will I then challenge myself and creativity by making a more fantastical world

 

[Xara]

honestly? i’m teetering more on the side of unrealistic with the celestial campground, gnome forest, outdoor movie area (drive-in movies? normal. tv working without being plugged into anything and still working after several rainy days? not so normal lmaoo). i don’t think i have anything too outrageous on my island but it’s definitely not very realistic aha.

despite this, i try to have outdoor items outside and indoor items inside but once again, i have a still-functioning tv outdoors and a fountain in my living room so uh 👁👁

 

[FoxFeathers]

I run "both" in a way. like 95% of my island is aiming to be a more victorian gothic vibe (can't wait for winter) but there is one section in there that is my enchanted starry forest with glowing items, blue and white flowers and fairy tail kinda things, completed with its own "unicorn in the magical forbidden forest" thanks to a friend of mine. Very happy as Julian also fits the star theme.