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[leahwest3056]

does anybody have any tips for a newbie to new leaf?

what's best way to grow perfect fruit.
feel free to add me as well 4296 3593 8601

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

When you start your town one of the trees in your town should have a perfect fruit, PLANT IT! After that tree grows, plant all the fruit off that tree too and continue to plant as many as you'd like, but just remember a perfect fruit tree will only produce 3 times! After harvesting it 2 times the 3rd time will be two perfect fruit and one rotten fruit that can attract ants to it, the rotten fruit will have to be tossed into a trash bin(which I suggest on investing in) or recycled at Re-Tail which you have to pay for each time. But if you do just keep one perfect fruit tree make sure you plant one of the good fruits after the last shake because after the perfect fruit trees are "dead" or barren they will never produce again, they make for neat spooky trees though!

 

[Miii]

Some general tips/things you should know:
1. When you spend a certain amount of bells in the nookling shop and the able sisters (clothing shop) they'll upgrade :3 this is how you unlock shampoodle, the hair salon where you can change your hair and eye color, or wear "makeup" which is actually just a Mii face.
2. You have to completely pay off your first home loan to unlock the island, where you can catch beetles that sell for lots of bells. This is one of the easiest ways to make money in new leaf :3 You can make up to 2 million bells in one trip.
3. Talk to the villagers you want to keep in your town at least twice a day. Ignore the ones you don't want unless they ping you (they look like they're making a surprised face), which means they might tell you they're moving.
4. If you don't have the Beautiful Town ordinance (which you talk to Isabelle to get), you have to water your flowers every day, or they'll die. Other town ordinances include the Bell Boom ordinance (everything sells for more bells), the Night Owl ordinance (all the stores stay open later, including Retail), and the Early Bird ordinance (Stores open earlier).
5. Some public works projects (like the cafe, campsite, reset center, windmill, etc.) are permanent, so you want to be careful where you place them.
6. Your native fruit sells for less in your town than it will in a town with a different native fruit. So try taking your fruit (especially your perfect fruit which sells for 6 times more) to a town with a different native fruit. And if that town happens to be a Bell Boom town, that's even better.
7. Every day, something will sell for extra at Retail. This something will be listed on the board outside Retail. The more streetpasses you get in a day, the more things will sell for extra that day.
8. When you save a lot of bells in the post office, you'll accrue interest over time. You can get up to 99,999 bells in interest each month.
9. Having complete furniture sets in your house gets you more HHA points. When you get the gold badge for the HHA, you get a cool little gold house model lamp
10. Once a week or so, Katrina the fortune teller will appear in your town. Get your fortune read by her 20 times, and she'll open a shop in your town.

That's all the advice I have for now :3 I'll add you, and feel free to visit my town! My fc's in the sidebar.

 

[Brooke_the_Phoenix]

I don't know if you played Let's Go to the City on the Wii, so you should know that the grass wears out in places where you walk or run. Running on grass makes it wear out and turn to mud quicker, which is why a lot of people simply walk in their towns now, but walking does also wear it out. If there's a patch of mud that you want to grow back into grass, DO NOT WALK THERE. If you want it to grow back quicker, plant flowers there and water them, while still not walking on them. Planting trees also makes grass grow back quicker, though not as quickly as when you plant flowers. Also, it grows back slower in winter.

 

[leahwest3056]

wow thank you for all your advice

 

[X2k5a7y]

#1 thing that I didn't know, until forever after I started my first town: Talk to Isabelle and get her advice for living there, and just keep doing what she says to do, you'll end up with free non-native fruit to plant, and a watering can and some stationary, if you wanted to write anybody.

Be sure to find the money rock and the fake rock. Shake all of your trees, there's 100 bells in a certain amount of them and furniture in two of them every day. There's also five bee hives, if you're careful you can catch the bees with a net, and sell them and their hive. The hives sell for 500. I don't know exactly how much the bees go for. You get the advice from Isabelle at any point and time, unless you've already done that.

 

[Nemo The Fish]

Also since you're just starting out SAVE ONTO YOUR MONEY, it'll really help w/ projects, house debt/renovations, buying better furniture, clothes etc.
Also when you unlock the Island, try going at night, since I found it alot easier to find fish and bugs. At first, if you're not time-traveling like crazy, things might seem sluggish but BE PATIENT in the long run it'll be worth it. Also if you want villagers to like you to the point where eventually they'll give you a picture of his/her self, any time they ask you to do something DO IT.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

#1 thing that I didn't know, until forever after I started my first town: Talk to Isabelle and get her advice for living there, and just keep doing what she says to do, you'll end up with free non-native fruit to plant, and a watering can and some stationary, if you wanted to write anybody.

Be sure to find the money rock and the fake rock. Shake all of your trees, there's 100 bells in a certain amount of them and furniture in two of them every day. There's also five bee hives, if you're careful you can catch the bees with a net, and sell them and their hive. The hives sell for 500. I don't know exactly how much the bees go for. You get the advice from Isabelle at any point and time, unless you've already done that.

And if you want to avoid bees you can always open your gate and the bees wont attack! I did this after catching my first bee so I don't end up getting stung whenever I don't have my net on. AND if you didn't know already fruit stacks in your inventory, so instead of carrying a bunch of single fruits you can stack them (by dragging them in your inventory onto another same fruit) into baskets that carry 9 fruit which is 3 trees worth, this way you can carry a lot more fruit, it took me way too long to notice this the first time I played!

 

[Red Cat]

For perfect fruit, it is best to plant the trees next to your town plaza so villagers cannot move in there and destroy your trees.