Island Design App New Broaden Features Ideas

[GAMESweet]

COLOUR DEFAULT PATHS​

I would love it if there was like a way to toggle between colours for the default paths. Because limited to one colour I feel isn't good. The stone path could have alternate colours to toggle via the (X) button.

The colours for the default paths you can have are.

1. Marble white
2. Mossy Green
3. Zen white
4. Pinkish red Brick

And even generic colours.

Half Cliff Terraform Tool​

I would like to give my island some realistic elevations for the ground level. The main cliff levels are just too high. I would like to do half cliff height. So I can make my villager homes area have like a doorstep level.

Stairs/Steps as a separate Tool​

Stairs/Steps incline should be excluded from the main inclines and be part of the Island Designer App. So I can put steps next to the half cliff to make my villager's home area more interesting.

Adjusting Beach Sand Terrain​

I am not happy the way my beach terrain level is shaped. I would like to be able to adjust the beach crop area and even change its size.

Sprinklers​

It would be nice to build sprinklers for the garden. So then the garden can self water the flowers on its own. Then I can then just wait for the flowers to breed and bloom.

However the sprinklers could be required to be linked to the nearest water source for the automatic watering system to be operative.

Customizing Cliff Face​

I've mentioned this in another thread. But I am getting tired of seeing the boring brown sides of the cliff face. I would love to customize the cliff face. And make it look like grass or vines hanging over the sides. Or something as long as it changes the cliff face.

I know you can place those customizable simple panels with custom designs. But that doesn't help with the game's loading the decorations or framerate stability, if there's so many of item. Plus the panels doesn't fit accurately next to the cliff face.

Gates Placement​

It would be great to have gates in the game. Where we can set human visitor's permissions. Of what areas that they can access. So I can like set a gate to allow only my best friends in the important areas.

Just friends can only access the designated areas that they can visit and look at. And random's can only access the area, when they leave the Dodo Airlines areas.

Sort of like how the Sims games has when you can set permissions on who can access certain areas. Because I'm getting tired of having to keep putting fences around the island. Just to block access to areas where I don't want random's to access.

Natural Inclines​

Surely we could just terraform a natural incline ourselves. Instead of getting Tom Nook to build one. Because there could be like a slope cliff terraform tool. And then you can place you own paths on it.

Change Fences Colours​

I'm sure it would be possible to use the Island designer app to change already placed fences colour. Because the current available fences. In the real world there are other variety of colours for them. That could be implemented in the game.

 

[Xara]

these are some great ideas!! i especially would love to see more path colour variations, sprinklers and gates be implemented! sprinklers would especially be useful for those to have large breeding gardens and having gates would make the notion of people coming to your island a lot less worrisome ;v;

 

[Underneath The Stars]

those are great ideas! and yeah i would love to see more colored path variations. i mean if we are stuck with RS and fences design (are they ever letting us customize them? idek) might as well just give us more path options without using custom codes.

i doubt they'll ever give us natural incline option but that would be great to solve our incline limit problems. i just think they won't because that would just give people free incline basically. unless getting it via nook miles would be expensive, then it will have its price worth to balance it out. this will go well with half cliffs though.

as for gate placements, isn't that basically fences? i do block off certain areas (even inside the house) for the dream when an area is not ready or it's just a dump, but i feel like having locked areas and letting only certain people would be too complicated for such a chill game. how would it be marked if it's not fences? you talk to isabelle and manually tick off the ground areas? idk i'd love to hear suggestions though.

also i would love if it requires opening the design app before we get rid of a custom design on ground. wiping it off randomly when you're meant to pick up something else is so 2013. come on ac, keep up!

 

[Loreley]

More path colours would be awesome! It would be great if we could adjust the edges or borders of a path to be more uneven or something like that. I really miss the natural dirt paths from New Leaf.

 

[GAMESweet]

as for gate placements, isn't that basically fences? i do block off certain areas (even inside the house) for the dream when an area is not ready or it's just a dump, but i feel like having locked areas and letting only certain people would be too complicated for such a chill game. how would it be marked if it's not fences? you talk to isabelle and manually tick off the ground areas? idk i'd love to hear suggestions though.

Yes but that is kinda tiresome since you gotta keep putting down fences before you have random visitors, to prevent them from going into areas where you don't want them to go to. And then picking the fences back up again.

With the gate connected with the fence. You can set who can walk through the gate. So you can set it to only allow best friends. To walk through them. Or set them for friends only. But for random visitors that are not your friends. They can only access the main area that isn't blocked off by the gates.

these are some great ideas!! i especially would love to see more path colour variations, sprinklers and gates be implemented! sprinklers would especially be useful for those to have large breeding gardens and having gates would make the notion of people coming to your island a lot less worrisome ;v;

Yes I have a large hybrid breeding area too. Its very tiring watering a whole field of flowers. Would be great to see sprinklers in the game.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

Yes but that is kinda tiresome since you gotta keep putting down fences before you have random visitors, to prevent them from going into areas where you don't want them to go to. And then picking the fences back up again.

With the gate connected with the fence. You can set who can walk through the gate. So you can set it to only allow best friends. To walk through them. Or set them for friends only. But for random visitors that are not your friends. They can only access the main area that isn't blocked off by the gates.

oh, i see. yes it would work for a small area, let's say for trading you fenced off an entire block for it. still it's with fences, but only the entrance is with a gate. i'm just thinking, in a technical sense, how it could work unless you also have fences all around. because with that feature then the game would imply no one could get in, but let's say the area is on second level. a random person could get in via a ladder if left an open spot, which would make the feature not fool proof.

 

[justalittlemad]

I like the ideas suggested. Personally I'd just be happy if custom paths operated like normal paths. Sounds when you walk on them, the ability to smooth/shape corners without taking extra slots, showing up on the map...They have the option with custom designs on clothes to indicate the type of clothing so why can't we get that option to indicate a path?

 

[Mikaiah]

what if
-just what if-
there were stairs we could hop up and down on like you can hop across 1w patches of water

think of the possibilities.

fence colors were teased in the original ACNH advert or some official video (there was fencing that was a different color) but for some reason isn't in the game?? like come on nintendo.

also let me hang stuff on cliffs still waiting to make my outdoor greenhouse cos i cant put the hanging plant items outside hnnnng