• Your hard work restoring The Bell Tree has paid off! A commemorative Shiny Ditto Easter Egg has now appeared in the Shop for 99 Bells.
  • Easter season is here! Here's what we have going on at The Bell Tree:
    • The egg decorating contest is back! Join TBT’s Fifth Egg Decorating Contest, now with two distinct categories: decorating and painting. Entries must be submitted by April 9th.
    • Starting this Friday at 7PM EDT, follow clues to search for eggs around the forum in TBT's Thirteenth Annual Easter Egg Hunt. New eggs will appear throughout the weekend and the hunt ends on April 6th!
    • Customize your profile by spending bells on any of our three recurring backdrops.

Rock garden help!

ectofeature

trendy grandma
Joined
Aug 26, 2014
Posts
812
Life Coins
1
Eggs
0
Hello! I've decided to try making a rock garden on my island so anyone who has done it successfully can you let me know if there's any reason that rocks wouldn't spawn in this area I've set up? Thanks!
104673532_10217520070815829_2261468121084204016_o.jpg
 
I've done it, what I did for it to work was:

  • decide the spot you want them and make sure there is enough space (you've done that)
  • make a design for a mannequin that you can delete afterwards
  • cover your entire island in manequins/paths/flowers
important: when placing the mannequin, the rock won't spawn in the spot next to it, but with flowers/a path the rock will spawn next to it, this means you can place a mannequin, leave 2 empty blocks, and put a new mannequin
  • test and see where the rocks spawn
  • once you have the rocks where you want them, delete the design from the mannequin, easy clean-up!
2020052318053500-02CB906EA538A35643C1E1484C4B947D.jpg
 
The rocks should be able to spawn in those points. My advice is throughout your entire island, to put custom design mannequins down. When you have those mannequins on your island, a rock cannot spawn within a full circle of them (like on the edges of the mannequins, similar to how stuff drops from rocks). Once you have them covering all possible spawning points for a rock (you don't have to worry about cliff edges, or water edges near rivers), the rocks will be forced to spawn in your rock garden that you have set up. Of course if you have a bunch of pathing, trees, and custom designs all over it cuts down how many mannequins you have to use to force the rocks to spawn.

Once you have all of the rocks in your desired spots, all you have to do is change the design that you used for the mannequin, and they'll all be picked up automatically to clean your island. :) Hopefully I explained this well haha. With this method though, you can get a rock garden set up fairly easily in about 2 hours.
 
Thanks guys! I was planning on using the mannequins as they are easiest to tidy up once my rocks have spawned ☺️ good to know that my spots should be ok for rocks!
 
They won't spawn in the bottom left spot because of the tree. I would advise moving that tree back after the rocks have all spawned in the places that you want.

I decorated the area after I spawned all my rocks, just in case any decoration messes with the spawn.

Here's an in-depth explanation:

rocks.png
 
Hello! I've decided to try making a rock garden on my island so anyone who has done it successfully can you let me know if there's any reason that rocks wouldn't spawn in this area I've set up? Thanks! View attachment 279080
Can u link me the design for the tree stump please? Also would you mind telling me how did you find that design?? I seem to have trouble with knowing where to find them...
 
Can u link me the design for the tree stump please? Also would you mind telling me how did you find that design?? I seem to have trouble with knowing where to find them...
MA-6647-9230-4716. My sister sent me the design, I think from Twitter? I don't use any social media so I really don't know where to find more designs I'm sorry!
Post automatically merged:

They won't spawn in the bottom left spot because of the tree. I would advise moving that tree back after the rocks have all spawned in the places that you want.

I decorated the area after I spawned all my rocks, just in case any decoration messes with the spawn.

Here's an in-depth explanation:

View attachment 279348
Thank you! I was worried about that tree, I'll move it elsewhere until it's done!
 
They won't spawn in the bottom left spot because of the tree. I would advise moving that tree back after the rocks have all spawned in the places that you want.

I decorated the area after I spawned all my rocks, just in case any decoration messes with the spawn.

Here's an in-depth explanation:

View attachment 279348

Has this been disproven?

I'm trying to move my rocks to a particular area and one just spawned 3 spaces behind a tree!
 
Back
Top