PSA: About Star Fragment Trees (updated!)

[Dormire]

For those who are tempted to buy star fragment trees despite several warnings, please read carefully:

Dead tiles or bugged cells are specific areas that cannot be interacted, modified or terraformed in any way. This is the same case with the table glitch that create ghost/bugged cells except this has no way of reversing the effect it caused.

Update: This has been proven false, it doesn't create dead tiles nor cause errors if shaken.

Proof: Video 1, Video 2
(from TBT user Zoella)

However, still, be cautious about the trees because they are modified and not legitimate trees. We don't know what will happen if new patches will roll out in the future.

That is all! Stay safe out there, guys!

 

[tajikey]

Rule of thumb: if it's not a naturally occurring event, then stay away.

 

[Shellzilla_515]

Ugh, are you serious? Duping glitches, scammers, rude people, and now this that can permanently impact your island in a negative way? Welp, this is another reason why I'm just playing offline. It's just to keep my island safe. I had a dream last night where my save file got corrupted for no apparent reason!

 

[Dormire]

Rule of thumb: if it's not a naturally occurring event, then stay away.

The instagram/twitter designer island reps tend to advertise these modified money trees which is very irresponsible lmao. A friend of mine got hooked into it and now is regretting it badly. It's so awful for these people to just entice people to do the same since it's "aesthetic". rip.

 

[Silh]

Yeah I keep seeing AMAZING towns with these trees and every one of them is all "Yah I know its hacked, but I think Im safe!".

Big oofs.

 

[kojuuro]

Wow I didn't realize they were this destructive. Thanks so much for the heads up. Super pretty but totally not worth it to me if they make dead tiles.

 

[senbeiiscool]

Wow that's actually worse than I thought it would be but honestly, not surprised. Anyone who has these modified trees should get rid of them unless they want to further risk their game save

 

[Dormire]

Ugh, are you serious? Duping glitches, scammers, rude people, and now this that can permanently impact your island in a negative way? Welp, this is another reason why I'm just playing offline. It's just to keep my island safe. I had a dream last night where my save file got corrupted for no apparent reason!

This isn't exactly everywhere. As long as you trade in places where people are trustworthy (TBT for example) then you should be fine. Most of us here aren't out to hurt others.

 

[coffee biscuit]

It just sucks that there's already a good amount of glitches in this game and people are out here straight up making more of them.

The star fragment trees are cute though, I wish they were a real thing >w<

 

[tajikey]

Ugh, are you serious? Duping glitches, scammers, rude people, and now this that can permanently impact your island in a negative way? Welp, this is another reason why I'm just playing offline. It's just to keep my island safe. I had a dream last night where my save file got corrupted for no apparent reason!

I wouldn't go to this level, unless you only want to experience the game offline. I've had plenty of pleasant interactions online.

The only bad one happened today, and that's because I put too much faith in people. Karma will get the idiot that took 5 NMTs and 40k bells I had laying on the ground as payment for 9 different people to water my flowers.

 

[Bloobloop]

i'd actually never heard of star fragment trees until this post, but i'm surprised so many people are willing to brick their game in exchange for some internet clout. it's in poor taste to advertise something that will potentially ruin the save files of those who try it.

 

[Cadbberry]

If its a glitch or hack, avoid it guys. Another reason why you don't want to cheat just for a little extra. I hate to say it but I can't feel bad for people who knowingly modify the game and then have their town corrupt. Maybe I am a bad person but if you knowingly aren't doing the right thing and try to spread the glitched items, you deserve possible Nintendo Online bans

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

Wait just to clarify, you can plant flowers in someone's town via dodo code, but not trees, is this correct? I'm finding more and more reason not to ever do online with strangers T_T

 

[Dormire]

Yeah I keep seeing AMAZING towns with these trees and every one of them is all "Yah I know its hacked, but I think Im safe!".

Big oofs.

Wow I didn't realize they were this destructive. Thanks so much for the heads up. Super pretty but totally not worth it to me if they make dead tiles.

i'd actually never heard of star fragment trees until this post, but i'm surprised so many people are willing to brick their game in exchange for some internet clout. it's in poor taste to advertise something that will potentially ruin the save files of those who try it.

Exactly. These people who have modified money trees are saying "guys, its ok my save file is ok nothing's gonna happen" but the thing is, "yet", Nintendo's games aren't exactly kind if it detects invalid item flags or wrong item IDs. It's very irresponsible to say that it's safe knowing that unlike Wedding items, these are deliberately modified and technically non-existent. They should always put a disclaimer that it might get your save files corrupted if Nintendo ever decides to roll patches.

I hope these people know that being a designer island also has the responsibility equal to influencers since a lot of people take inspirations from them (esp. if it's about illegitimate items).

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Wait just to clarify, you can plant flowers in someone's town via dodo code, but not trees, is this correct? I'm finding more and more reason not to ever do online with strangers T_T

I think they can't plant trees if both are strangers. All I know is it's possible to plant flowers but trees, I'm not exactly sure. I haven't bought fully-grown trees from someone.

 

[Xara]

this is big yikes. they’re pretty but definitely not worth screwing up your save file over

 

[Clock]

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[dragonair]

I saw someone doing a giveaway of these on Twitter and they were like "each winner will be made known of the risks before receiving these!" and it's like.....you're still distributing them though. Just because they're being made aware of the risks doesn't absolve you of any responsibility, especially when you're gaining followers for it.

 

[brockbrock]

Of course I feel terrible for anyone innocent who has to experience this, but other than that, I mean, they're purposefully glitched. I don't understand why people would willing pay for these or would be seeking them out? It's not worth it.

Thank you so much, as usual @Dormire, for the awareness and letting us know.

 

[juneau]

Considering the potentially game-breaking bugs that exist in the vanilla game already, I would have been very wary about anything modded or hacked anyway (although with this information now, it does make me wonder if the instances where people reported their save files being wiped was actually due to factors like hacked/modded content they didn't think were related or wanted to disclose).

Is there any risk to visiting an island with hacked or modded content?

 

[Aliya]

This is awful and I wouldn't even think to plant them in someone else's town. Who thinks of that? That would be a terrible scam if someone did that to anyone random online. Pretty things aren't worth killing my game or anyone's game over.