LittleMissPanda
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Know what would be even scarier and more deadly than star bit trees?
...Star bit flowers.
...Star bit flowers.
PSA: About Star Fragment Trees (updated!)
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Luckily flowers can't be edited to spawn other items. (I think because both item ID of flower plant and flowerbuds are connected to each other. I'll assume this is hardcoded rather than softcoded like the money tree.) Then again, I don't know the game's full code so it could be possible but the attempt to boot into it would crash.Know what would be even scarier and more deadly than star bit trees?
...Star bit flowers.
I think what's scary would be those textureless items that uses nearby item textures instead. (glitched items) it's a ticking timebomb to keep in your island.
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RIP to the naysayers thinking this is just a scare tactic/fearmongering since it hasn't happened to them yet.
Hindsight is really 20/20.
This reminds me way too much of the Wild World days! (I guess we have way better hosting tools now with the dodos, session ending, and friends/best friends/none stuff.) I think the trees are beautiful (especially the heart crystal ones), but you never know what could glitch out. Thank you for the PSA!
LittleMissPanda
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Thank goodness for that. Please everyone let's all be careful! Take good care of your islands!
This really reminds me of the WW days with the illegal seeds.
Back in WW really nasty randoms who would come to your town unannounced would purposefully drop these "invisible" seeds that caused the game to think a building was placed there. Something like that. It created a space that could not be interacted with and from what I can remember it was permanent. These could corrupt your save.
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Thanks for the proof! We got concrete evidence that it's destructive (error message + this). I hope the people who are skeptical would believe this. In the Reddit thread, people are saying it's not true lol. Guess they'll believe it if it happens to them. Wild.
marzipanmermaid
*insert Pikmin noises*
They're all over every group I'm in on FB. Even admins of said groups are helping people get the trees or hosting giveaways for a full set of them. "They've been working fine on my game so.... I don't know what everyone else is talking about." They started deleting any of the comments linking posts, tweets, pictures about how it's a threat.
I feel bad for the people who got them as a gift for someone or a surprise not knowing the risks. :/
I feel bad for the people who got them as a gift for someone or a surprise not knowing the risks. :/
That's terrifying! I don't have any but I'm wondering if there's a way to safely get rid of them without bricking your switch? I'd be afraid to sell to the Nooklings.
Speaking from a software engineering standpoint, I would imagine that the only 'safe' way to get rid of them would be to plant them on a mystery island since that memory should be released as soon as you depart the island.
If it's not interacted by any way, you might try and bin it for safety. I'm not sure if it will totally clean your save (since it could mess up your save the more days you leave it out in your game) but I highly suggest binning it.
or what Sicariana said. If you're able to bring it to a NMT island, dump them there.
elphieluvr
Wave-Tossed Mermaid ~ she/her
What the ever loving...
how are people so stupid. Like I feel terrible for someone who got the trees not knowing they were hacked or unaware of the risks, especially since so many new players and non-gamers play NH. But to know and insist it won’t happen to you, and take it a step further by handing them out to innocent players and deliberately silencing or mocking anyone who speaks up about the risk is...wow. No pity for that level of stupid.
DJStarstryker
Senior Member
Wow. I never played Wild World online when I played it, because my router at the time had higher security settings than the original DS could support and I wasn't going to change it just to play online. But I definitely heard about the issue of other players planting seeds in your town that would cause problems.
This just makes me think of the whole seed thing all over again. Yeah, definitely not putting anyone on my best friends list unless they prove themselves trustworthy in advance. It's not worth the risk of messing up my game.
This just makes me think of the whole seed thing all over again. Yeah, definitely not putting anyone on my best friends list unless they prove themselves trustworthy in advance. It's not worth the risk of messing up my game.
It's because it's 6 dollar a tree. (source: Facebook) everyone's profiting real money with these so silencing any attempts to sabotage or warn others about the risk is a threat to them. It's not stupidity if it's deliberate. It's more of a malicious thing.
elphieluvr
Wave-Tossed Mermaid ~ she/her
ok that is just disgusting I don’t think I can accurately voice my opinions on that and still get past the auto censors so...
I hope something very unpleasant happens to people who made real money off wrecking other people’s games.
SheepMareep
Actual Magical Girl
I was thinking the same thing!!! Surprised we havent had anything similar to seeding happen yet with how crazy everyone is with hacking now...
I just cant believe it's so common? Hacking NL wasnt all that common until like.. years into the game. Now you cant go on twitter without running into a ton of hacked towns misleading people who have never played or are easy to convince it is safe
DJStarstryker
Senior Member
They do. According to Ninji (one of the dataminers), Nintendo collects a LOT of data. I don't feel like going through his timeline of the last few months on Twitter to find the post again to see exactly what he said, but it sounds like Nintendo knows pretty much everything you do in your game. I tend to believe him because, not only have I never seen him proven wrong, but the VILLAGERS comment on stuff you wouldn't expect them to. If I spend an hour in the catalog app on my NookPhone updating my item tracker spreadsheet, the villagers will comment sometimes that I've been looking at my phone a lot and wonder what I was doing.
You're absolutely right that Nintendo could potentially see you doing these things and ban you. Even if you're not a hacker and just traded with a hacker to get these trees, it's still risky.
I can understand why people would want to get these beautiful trees, but ahh at what cost? ><
its obviously to good to be true!
and its very very likely that there will be more hacks than this!
i remember seeing a tiktok of someone with a hacked island and it was a nmt island filled with gold and gold trees
simple answer: dont hack unless you are ready to take the risks of corrupting your game!
its obviously to good to be true!
and its very very likely that there will be more hacks than this!
i remember seeing a tiktok of someone with a hacked island and it was a nmt island filled with gold and gold trees
simple answer: dont hack unless you are ready to take the risks of corrupting your game!
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