Rocks: to break or not to break

[MelodyRivers]

So I have a couple rocks that are in the way of where I want to pave and decorate and I’m wondering if I break them will they respawn somewhere else or will they be lost forever?

 

[Aleigh]

They will respawn somewhere else the next day!

 

[tajikey]

Break away, as they'll re-spawn elsewhere.

 

[Jas]

they will respawn one day at a time! so if you break three rocks, only one will reappear each day.

 

[dragonair]

As everyone said, they'll respawn somewhere else every time! One of my favorite new features lol, my NL life was plagued by rocks being right where I'd want a path. TT v TT

 

[LuchaSloth]

I just break them when they're in the way of a project I'm doing...otherwise I leave them. I always break them on the Nook islands, though (after I've already hit them for all that they're worth)...as I see it as one more chance for a gold nugget. Lol.

 

[allainah]

woops
i was literally browsing this thread and wrote my PM here slfhsdklfhs

 

[FireNinja1]

You can break them. I've broken some rocks that I didn't like the placement of.

 

[stiney]

I just break them when they're in the way of a project I'm doing...otherwise I leave them. I always break them on the Nook islands, though (after I've already hit them for all that they're worth)...as I see it as one more chance for a gold nugget. Lol.

I always break them, too, but I thought when you did you could only ever get a stone when it breaks?

 

[LuchaSloth]

I always break them, too, but I thought when you did you could only ever get a stone when it breaks?

Haha...maybe. I just assumed it was a similar chance as the rest of the times you hit it. I thought I'd been able to get gold from breaking one in the past...but I may just be making things up. But, I've definitely got more than just stone before. I just broke one and I got a piece of stone and a piece of clay. 2 items.

 

[Red Cat]

I got an iron nugget once from breaking one, so you can get good stuff from breaking rocks, but it's not really worth breaking them for materials unless it's on a mystery island.

 

[Xara]

they’ll respawn!

 

[Imbri]

They'll respawn, but if you break all of them, you'll only get one per day coming back. Kind of a pain for getting resources, but I've found that if I only have 1 rock, it's the money rock, so as long as you brace yourself, you're guaranteed the 16K from that.

 

[skogkyst]

I'll break them if they're in an inconvenient spot, else I keep them.

 

[Bioness]

If you want to go the little extra and control where they spawn. Rocks need a 3x3 space to spawn, so if you place items, trees, fences, or terraform enough you can know exactly where they will appear.

 

[Moonfish]

I wish there was a way to dig up a rock and place it somewhere instead of breaking and hoping it goes where I want. But I shouldn’t whine since what we have now is 100x better than in ACNL. :j

 

[stiney]

Haha...maybe. I just assumed it was a similar chance as the rest of the times you hit it. I thought I'd been able to get gold from breaking one in the past...but I may just be making things up. But, I've definitely got more than just stone before. I just broke one and I got a piece of stone and a piece of clay. 2 items.

Cool, thanks (and @Red Cat). I thought it was only ever 1 stone so I've often broken it before clearing the area--I'll stop doing that in case I get more than 1 item from breaking it and keep an eye out for ore/clay. (And yeah, I only break them on my island if they're in the way of something I want to do, but I break all the rocks on mystery islands.)

 

[Vanillite]

They respawn! I honestly really love this feature. For aesthetic reasons, I've kept a few rocks in certain places, and then break the ones that I don't like the spawn location of! but yeah, break whichever rocks you wanna

 

[sunshinesnekdeceit]

They will respawn in another location so you would break them

 

[Dim]

Use rock smash on those geodudes!