Organizing town

[Seel]

Hello everyone!

I'm thinking about organizing & decorating my town, but I have no clue where to start.
I have seen towns with perfectly organized roads, pwps, and flowers, and I want to do the same.

What should I start with?
Do you have any tips?

It would be a great help, especially since I'v never done this before.

Thank you!

 

[Jessy_Azran]

Hello everyone!

I'm thinking about organizing & decorating my town, but I have no clue where to start.
I have seen towns with perfectly organized roads, pwps, and flowers, and I want to do the same.

What should I start with?
Do you have any tips?

It would be a great help, especially since I'v never done this before.

Thank you!

Heya Seel!


I love organising, it's my job, being a person with OCD! (Don't worry, it doesn't take over my life, I just like perfection)


This is what I do in town:

• Highest priority: Getting the best furniture for my whole house, paying off the loans and arranging them to perfection.
• Second highest priority: Growing hybrid flowers all over town.
• Mid-high priority: Since it's non-compulsory, I only do a few PWPs, but only if necessary.
• Lowest priority: Roads and other ground patterns (I do that after every thing's organised).
• Big tip: You can do this whenever, my priorities are a guide and is different to everyone. I suggest do a variety of things listed.

 

[Colette]

Depending on just how organised you want your town, I'd recommend plotting out your town on graph paper. That's what I did for Aurmont because I wanted houses, shops, PWPs etc all lined up perfectly without having to do much trial and error. It took about four sheets of paper and lots of counting and placing pattern tiles, but I'm pretty happy with the results I got. Also keep in mind how many tiles homes, PWPs, and shops take up, as well as those tricky little rules about buffer spaces needed between certain objects and plants.

Also be sure to be familiar with certain landscaping laws like cedars only growing in the north of your town, planting bushes next to pavement, and how many bushes/trees can line up or be in one 7x7 area.

Finally, make sure you lay down tiles where you don't want future villagers to move into, such as around flower beds, perfect fruit trees, future pwp plots, etc. You'll thank yourself later when Bob won't move out of the exact spot you intended a bench to go, haha.

I find that having a strong theme in mind for the town and your characters helps a lot with getting inspired and planning out what you foresee your town looking like. Sometimes the planning phase is more fun than all the work you putting in, but getting that ideal result feels fantastic!

Good luck, and hope this helped. c:

 

[Leedzie]

Since this topic has come up anyway, does anyone have any pointers for designing paths (in terms of layout, not the tile itself)? I've never put roads in my town before, but I've been considering it lately if just because I want space to be able to run, or even walk at full speed, without worrying about the grass. I think about laying down paths all the time, but whenever I seriously consider putting it down I just start to feel really lost.

I REALLY wish I'd learned about the fact that neighbors won't move in on top of patterns just a tad sooner, though. I just got a new neighbor that plunked her house down DIRECTLY in front of mine. It's a huge pain!

 

[LadyDestani]

Like Colette, I also plotted my entire town out on a graph but I found a template online and did it in Paint on my computer. That way I could change things easily if something didn't work out the way I had planned. It really helped me to visualize my whole town at once.

I started with the permanent things, like the river, Town Hall, Re-Tail and my house. I figured out the best paths to take between these main locations and placed bridges accordingly. Then, I started figuring out where I wanted villager houses to go and added paths to their houses. I kept the main paths larger and the other paths smaller because I wanted things to look more natural. I also added a few curved paths for interest, but I was using stepping stones and dirt. If you're only using patterns, then your paths will pretty much have to be straight.

Then, I placed PWPs in the remaining open areas where I thought they made the most sense.

Landscaping was my final step once everything else was in place. I used my graph to layout the tree/bush pattern and make sure I didn't go over the limits. I also used my graph to figure out some of the flower placements. In other places, I just played with the flower arrangements until I was happy.

Good luck. It can seem like a daunting task when you're first starting out, but once a few things start to come together, it feels so good and will really motivate you to keep going.

 

[Ojo46]

I will admit that I landscaped my town in a pretty unorthodox way, where I made paths around my pre existing PWP's and houses (and demolished and rebuilt a few projects).

Just go at it in small increments! It's a rewarding process and it's absolutely worth it in the end!