So gathering acorns & pine cones isn't as fun as I thought it would be...

[Nunnafinga]

I just shook the crap out of nine or ten hardwood trees and that netted 10 acorns and 116 tree branches.How many flimsy fishing rods could I make out of that?

 

[kindakooky]

What I find a bit annoying about this is that the trees tend to drop about 15 branches before you get one single acorn/pinecone. And some of them you don't get any! I really don't need or want this many tree branches Nintendo!

 

[Rosch]

I shook all my trees and never got any... I wasn't aware that you need to shake my trees repeatedly. I only shook them all once.

Did they mention that? Or I was just not paying attention?

 

[Nefarious]

I certainly don't mind having to shake them. Just means I'm going to need to plant hardwood trees. I replaced them all with cedars a few months back. At least it give me something to do while I wait for traders in front of my airport.

 

[Dunquixote]

I shook all my trees and never got any... I wasn't aware that you need to shake my trees repeatedly. I only shook them all once.

Did they mention that? Or I was just not paying attention?

I wouldn’t have known this either had I not gone to @Hobowire’s town to shake some ornaments before. If it makes you feel any better, when I visited his town and saw snowflakes, I thought by pushing y or b, that is how you get the snowflakes; I was wrong lol. I missed cherry blossom season (didn’t have game then), so had no idea how to get the snowflakes or cherry blossoms.

 

[NyattaSama]

If I hadn't click on this thread, I wouldn't even know that I need to keep shaking the trees until they give me acorns and pinecones Now I have a pocket full of sticks. Man this is tedious.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

tbh, none of the mats gathering is much fun

though it's still better than just about everything else, imo

also, spoilers: the ornaments afaik are obtained the same way

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there's no reason to shake multiple trees

just focus on one, and pick up everything that drops as the spots fill up. they'll never stop dropping sticks/acorns/etc, so

also remember though that acrosn=hardwood, pinecones=cedar

Oh thank you! I had no idea! This helps so much lol

 

[DJStarstryker]

We have 3 months to find them. It's not a big deal IMO.

Cherry blossom season and trying to get all of the DIYs in time was far worse. Nothing has surpassed that yet in stressfull grindyness.

 

[UnendingHope]

bruh nothing could prepare me for the amount of branches that was going to rain upon my head on September 1st

 

[KittenNoir]

As someone from a Southern Hemisphere island I did not enjoy the Autumn months haha trying to find pine cones and mushrooms I was like nope. I didn’t really go all out and didn’t really collect much diys either. But now that my island is entering spring I am so excited to go all out and collect everything I can haha

 

[stitchmaker]

Friend posted that fruit trees give acorns. Last night I spend time planting trees and placing flowers around hardwood trees.
Today I need to move the flowers or trees to get acorns. Plan on removing items/flowers around trees and placing invisible pathways 2 tiles away from my trees until I get enough acorn/pine cones.
30 minute I've got 12 pine cones and 2 acorns.

 

[eko]

As someone living in the southern hemisphere, it was so tedious that I honestly gave up and waited to buy pinecones :''3c

 

[BalloonFight]

It definitely is pretty tedious having to deal with all of the tree branches that fall. Sometimes though you can get a cedar tree or hardwood tree that will just continuously drop a bunch of pinecones and acorns. I've had 1 cedar give me 15 pinecones in the span of 40 "drops" before.

If you go villager hunting though, it's a fun side thing to do as you don't really have to worry about picking up the tree branches during your hunt. Far more enjoyable that way than having to deal with 100's of tree branches on your own island.

 

[Dunquixote]

I’ve been a bit stressed out lately and you can call me crazy, but I am actually fun shaking these trees. lol. I’m kinda stumped on decorating ideas atm but still want to play the game so I think this is relaxing. I’m not going to deny that all these tree branches dropping are annoying, but just a minor one that i can deal with.

 

[-Blue-]

A repetitive and mundane chore isn't fun? Who would had thought...

 

[Sharksheep]

I think I'm just going to buy them from other players now. Too much work. My poor controllers.

 

[-Blue-]

I think I'm just going to buy them from other players now. Too much work. My poor controllers.

Yeah this is just busywork to keep people occupied. Don't find that fun at all. I'd rather my AC playtime be spent elsewhere and not mindlessly mashing a button and hoping rng gives me enough in an hour or something.

 

[Splinter]

I'm here realizing I have a really inadequate amount of hardwood trees and probably have to go to nook mile islands to steal trees to plant lol. I shook trees for like 20 minutes this morning and got 1 acorn. It's my pride and joy! I didn't expect it to be this hard either. I visited someone earlier in the year that TT'd to fall and got a bunch of materials quickly since their island wasn't built up and there were trees everywhere. I didn't really think it would be hard until today!

You only need 1 of each tree really, I shook 1 hardwood and 1 cedar tree over and over and got 10 acorns and 10 pine cones.

 

[-Blue-]

You only need 1 of each tree really, I shook 1 hardwood and 1 cedar tree over and over and got 10 acorns and 10 pine cones.

I haven't had the time to play yet, how long would you say it took you to get a full stack?

 

[Splinter]

I haven't had the time to play yet, how long would you say it took you to get a full stack?

About 30 minutes.
Sometimes you can shake and only get sticks, other times you might get lucky and acorn after acorn will drop.

My method was, shake on one side until 5 sticks or acorns/pines have dropped, then do the other side. Pick up all the stuff and repeat the process.