Things you want in future updates?

[Shawna]

Now, I made a thread a couple of weeks ago asking you guys what QoL updates you guys want, but this topic will focus on actual features. These could include things that were in previous AC games, or they can be new features.

1. Tortimer's Island
This is probably the #1 thing I want to come back. I LOOOOOOVED having this in New Leaf. I think most of us can agree that Summer is the best time of the year to play Animal Crossing. It's when the majority of the creatures are out, and a lot of them are rare and valuable. I want to play the game normally for a long time, and I don't want to time travel as it could mess things up and takes away from the normality and sometimes causes burn-out, but with the island we can have all of the creatures we know and love without having to wait another year, or having to time travel. This is also very useful for those rare, hard-to-catch bugs that are only out for July and August. I would love for the island to have a river this time around, so we can also catch good freshwater fish like dorados, arowanas, arapaimas, etc.

Of course rare creatures are not the only benefits of bring this back. We can also go on island tours and earn medals in exchange for special island goodies and furniture. This can give us games to play while playing online with our friends!

2. MEOW Coupons
Now, I know that MEOW coupons and Nook Miles call for similar tasks, but I feel like this could be useful, and maybe Nintendo can come up with some new ways to earn them. We could use these to exchange for bells, Nook Miles, or furniture related to special characters like in New Leaf.

3. A New Nook's Cranny Upgrade
The latest upgrade does not have that much of a variety. I think it's high-time we get a new upgrade in an update. Maybe the next upgrade can give us the furniture series that we miss so dearly (lovely, regal gorgeous, kiddie, robo, etc.) we can use customization kits to customize them, like Cyrus did in NL. Of course, we would still have crafting and craftable furniture.

4. Unbreakable Tools
Maybe Nintendo can somehow implement a way to make or obtain unbreakable tools. I was thinking, maybe a mining feature were you could get gemstones (like Dodo airlines can take you to a cave or something), diamond being the most valuable and can be used to make unbreakable tools. Of course these gemstones can also be sold.

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

1. Tropical fruits: I’ve been missing the tropical fruit trees from NL. Perhaps we could get more mystery islands (as they haven’t added any new ones since launch). Tropical fruit furniture/clothing would also be fun (I’d love to see a durian hat lol)!

2. Rafflesia flowers: I want our stinky flowers back! Since 1-star islands are impossible to obtain after you get enough villagers, perhaps make it bound to weed levels/tree levels (and have a deep weeding service for those who don’t want it but want a ton of weeds anyways).

3. Nook’s Cranny upgrade/Furniture expansion: I believe these two are linked. As soon as that building updates, there should be a whole bunch more themes/items added back in!

4. potted flowers: please please PLEASE let us pot flowers, big N. The little vases are sad. Make it a diy, sure, but give us the option!

5. Kapp’n: I wouldn’t mind a mini game island. Perhaps it could even be linked to the opposite hemisphere (I might be reaching at straws there)?

6. GC plants: I’m talking about little things like thickets and lily pads. They could be services that Leif could give to put down on the ground/rivers. I’m sure there could be some tool to remove them in case you don’t want them anymore.

 

[maria110]

I want to have a castle or a palace for my house. It would be funny to see how much Tom Nook would charge for that upgrade. I also want more exterior decorations like a gazebo (that you can actually go in) and maybe some garden trellises and a cast iron archway, sort of like an old New Orleans look. Any new antique furniture.

 

[annex]

We definitely need the Nooks Cranny update. I would like to see Gracie or Label have an area with overpriced furniture and clothing.

Enlarged town or Island we can visit and decorate with a house.

Dr. Shrunk. He's my favorite. Don't know what his job would be, but he needs to return.

Booker and Copper. They have been in every ac game except Horizons. I miss them.

Rococo furniture, and more sets we can customize with patterns.

Lemon trees and cute lemonade stand.

How about some tall sunflowers. Hmmm Nintendo?

More veggies to grow and make food items. There's just not enough food to decorate with.

More pattern space.

 

[Raz]

- New Nook's Cranny update

- The Roost

- Expanded limit for custom designs

- Ability to buy more than one piece of clothes (in the same slot) at once at Able's Sisters

- More food items (I still can't believe they didn't make the ones from the turkey day available after the event)

- Fruit juice other than the coconut juice

- Ability to move the Resident Services building

- Something that uses the dock/pier, as it's pretty much useless

- More fruits, like Grapes, Lemons, Bananas, Mangoes, Tamarins...

- Hanging shelves that we can place 1x1 items on them

Post automatically merged: Dec 7, 2020

We definitely need the Nooks Cranny update. I would like to see Gracie or Label have an area with overpriced furniture and clothing.

Enlarged town or Island we can visit and decorate with a house.

Dr. Shrunk. He's my favorite. Don't know what his job would be, but he needs to return.

Booker and Copper. They have been in every ac game except Horizons. I miss them.

Rococo furniture, and more sets we can customize with patterns.

Lemon trees and cute lemonade stand.

How about some tall sunflowers. Hmmm Nintendo?

More veggies to grow and make food items. There's just not enough food to decorate with.

More pattern space.

I think Shrunk is coming, because yesterday Megan talked about him, and I had never seen any piece of dialog in this game (I'm playing since launch) mentioning Shrunk before.

 

[iamjohnporter67]

1. Bulk crafting and being able to select the quantity of how many items to craft.

2. Trading App that allows to trade with other people when they are not online

3. Being able to buy materials at the Nook Shop

4. Dodo Airlines App to make it easy to open the gates instead of running down to the airport

5. A Gold Card so that way we can make expensive purchases without having to run to the ATM to withdraw bells that take up our pocket space.

6. Being able to invite villagers to your home and hang out.

7. Have a Browsing section to Dodo Airlines of which island is open up to the public and you can pick to fly there.

8. Being able to hang items on the ceilings of our homes.

9. Have Isabelle kick out a unwanted villager that you don't like and they will be gone the next day.

10. Give indication when tools are about to break.

 

[Rika092]

1. Furnitures that can be hung from the ceiling like pocket camp

2. Unbreakable tools (man I didn’t know golden tools can break too?! What??)

3. Brewster and roost cafe

4. More furniture varieties

5. Nook link not limited by 5 purchases per day

6. Shop/tailor/museum exterior customization

7. More farming options other than pumpkins

8. Cooking? Would be pretty cool!

9. More seasonal events. And I would like to see new spin on the holidays not 100% borrowed from NL

10. More pattern slots please???

 

[avieators]

1) MORE PATTERN SLOTS PLEASE

2) more tropical fruits, maybe not all of them (i remember having anxiety abt where to plant all of them) but bananas and durians...rip kings

3) kappn...listen i'll agree hes kind of creepy but his songs, i miss them so much tortimer island would be fun to have back too

4) ABILITY TO BUY MULTIPLE THINGS FROM THE SAME CATEGORY AT ABLE SISTERS PLEASE

5) bulk crafting

6) able to withdraw money in a friends town?? also be able to store things in a friends town, like the train station lockers from acnl

7) nooks cranny upgrades where u at

8) more flowers,,,sunflowers...honeysuckle...pls

9) brewster when are u coming home from the war

10) UNBREAKABLE TOOLS PLEASE

 

[Uffe]

The Roost - As much as I'd love to have Brewster's Café be a separate building specifically for him, people have mentioned that his café was in the museum in previous games, and I'd be fine with this.
Tropical Fruit - I do miss these fruits that were in New Leaf. I'm not sure why they were removed, especially since this game has you living on an island. Maybe they could become available if it was possible to visit...
Tortimer Island - I'm not sure what happened to Tortimer, but surely he's still got an island with games. And tropical fruit. The only issue would be having to deal with leaving when people prevented you from talking to Leila at the front desk. I feel like this is part of the reason this island didn't return. But maybe instead of having to talk to Leila directly just to leave, we could use the Nook Phone to get in contact with her and leave that way if ever prevented by other players.
Tool Leveling Up System - Or maybe platinum tools. When you practice something enough, you end up getting better at it, assuming you were taught properly. So maybe this would be a good way to make tools much more durable to the point they no longer break. Or perhaps include a new material such as platinum. The tools don't have special features like they did in previous games, such as golden shovels digging up Bells, golden slingshots shooting three instead of one pebble, and golden axes being unbreakable. I personally have gotten past the annoyance of tools breaking, but I don't think most people have.

 

[eseamir]

I agree with a lot of the things that people have already said!! my main list would probably be:

1. more custom design space
2. unbreakable tools (literally why do even the golden ones break?? what is the point???)
3. more houseplants/fruit varieties
4. lief and kicks to have either their own shops or somehow be incorporated into nook's/ables, it's so frustrating to have to wait until lief is visiting to buy more shrubs when I need them Now
5. bulk crafting?? fish bait kills me and I cannot stand for this use of my time
6. ability to order more than 5 things/day from nook shopping
7. ordering materials from nook's (that feeling when u got no iron and all your rocks are empty for the day )

 

[Licorice]

The two main things I REALLY want are more furniture sets and more villager dialogue/errands.

We have a good amount of items but barely any sets. For example, why was the Halloween furniture not a full set? No bed or couch?? It’s not useable indoors really at all imo. They could have had the old spooky set in nooks like in acnl meanwhile the other set could have been strictly craftable.

The villagers need more dialogue and errand requests should be more frequent. I can boot up my gamecube town right now and have several errands to run for my villagers. Meanwhile my new horizons villagers rarely ask me to do anything. Hide and go seek should make a return as well.

 

[Xara]

most of the features that i’d love to see have already been mentioned but i’ll chime in anyways;

the roost
this one gets mentioned all the time but to be more specific, i’m really hoping for the part-time minigame and the brewster gyroids from new leaf! it could also be a nice way to have npcs who aren’t currently in the game make an appearance occasionally (ex. rover, the pelicans, gracie, etc).

a “hug” reaction
nintendo, please, i have been asking for this for years. let me hug my villagers >:c

the post office + pelly, phyllis and pete
hoo boy,, i really took the post office and these amazing npcs for granted. i miss the free postal service. i miss when a 4-pack of stationery was 80 bells rather than it costing 200 bells just to send one letter. i’d love for the airport’s postal service to be strictly for postcards (sending letters / gifts to friends via wifi) and for the post office to handle everything else.

dr. shrunk
being without dr. shrunk when my island is named “axolotl” feels like a hate crime.

building exterior customization + more house exterior options
while i don’t mind the look of the airport and rs as is, being able to customize them would definitely be nice! i’m really yearning for more exterior design options, though; new horizons is really lacking compared to new leaf in this department. ;/

nook’s cranny upgrade
other than an upgrade potentially bringing back old and even new furniture sets, this could also be a nice way to reintroduce leif as a permanent npc by giving him his own gardening section again + maybe even having gracie upstairs??

tropical fruits
i have spent the last 263 days without any lemon trees and that is just,, unacceptable.

new fruits and vegetables
to be honest, i was a bit on the fence about farming and cooking being added in and while i still don’t want the game to become entirely about those features, i actually really loved the addition of pumpkins and would love for some more fruits and vegetables to be added in! specifically, i would literally shave my head for some strawberries.

unbreakable tools
nintendo not giving us a single indestructible tool is my villain origin story.

more custom design slots
in new leaf, i honestly couldn’t care less about custom designs and never found myself aching for more slots and so, i thought it’d be the same this time around. .....it was not. i have turned into a wh0re for custom designs and i am running out of room,,,

hhng i think that’s it? i excluded QoL features (bulk crafting, buying, etc) and more furniture since well,, i really hope that’s a given lmao.

 

[John Wick]

Google all the NL items and that's what I want.

 

[mayor.lauren]

1. reduced/removed waiting times while traveling! there's nothing worse than trying to go sell your turnips and being unable to even get to the island due to "nookphone interference." or, if you ever finally get there, being stopped every 3 seconds because someone is coming or going. the game autosaves, why do we need a whole loading screen that pauses the entire island to save every time someone shows up or leaves? makes no sense to me...

2. more design slots. self-explanatory, i shouldn't feel the need to have to ration my designs.

3. a shopping cart at able sisters! PLEASE NINTENDO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I WANT THIS SWEATER IN EVERY COLOR BUT IT'S KILLING ME TO HAVE TO GO IN AND OUT OF THE DRESSING ROOM OVER AND OVER

4. tropical fruits. would really love a mango or a lychee tree, especially.

 

[ekcomyth]

i want those big ass furniture in new leaf from the welcome amiibo update to be included. They were so big that people didnt have any idea how to put them in their houses or even decorate around it. Now that we can put furnture in new horizons those big furniture would be so much fun to use.

 

[LambdaDelta]

let me mass purchase everything at once from the able's changing room, including multiples of the same clothing type

and since they clearly have access to send clothes to my closet, give me some indication of a clothing item already being in my closet when I'm browsing the changing room selection. at least from my own town

also, I hope unbreakable tools never get added. just let us customize gold tools to silver. so they're effectively "unbreakable" too, and thus, not for the most part, matter of fact downgrades. in this case, axe included, obviously

 

[Jam86]

1. gold tools shouldn't break, it's so difficult to get gold and it's such a waste if the tools break anyway

2. craft with materials from storage

3. materials should be 99 per stack like weeds

4. buy multiple items from able sisters without having to go in and out the dressing room

5. bring back my boi brewster ♡

6. more tropical fruits, coconuts look pretty basic tbh

7. leif needs his own shop

8. more spaces for custom designs

9. bring back gracie and her shop, i loved the princess furniture set, i spent ages collecting all of it in new leaf and i was hoping to get it again in new horizons

10. bring back other characters like wolf link, epona

11. more house exterior options, a lot of my island is pink but the pink house exterior isn't really that nice imo so it doesn't match

12. u should get to customize the exterior of resident services and the airport

13. and most importantly, bring back sanrio items/characters, my brother got me the sanrio amiibos for my birthday back in march so i could have them for new horizons but they weren't in the game

i could literally go on forever, there is so much i want in this game ☆

 

[lexy_]

Google all the NL items and that's what I want.

Amen to that!
plus I want brewster and tortimer island + mini game so bad.
I want all NPC back too ^^, I miss my little kitty who loves to travel too.

 

[Fruitcup]

I would really love a new kind of multi player mini game so that there is more to do other than tour the island when people visit.
It would be cool if they did something with the Nintendo switch item like they did with the ds in new leaf but somehow add a multiplayer option as well.

 

[JKDOS]

I'll copy what I wrote back in may

Ability to mute BGM
Ability to decorate interior for villagers
Ability to buy multiples at Able Sisters
Ability to craft multiples
Ability to see tool durability
Ability to craft ANYWHERE from storage
Ability to access storage from other towns
Ability to access ABD from other towns
Ability to hear K.K. Music anywhere you go.
Ability to move buildings a few spaces
Ability to move bridges/inclines
Ability to build grass inclines with island builder
Ability to move Resident services
Ability to place things in plaza

I'd also like to see
- Re-tail
- More Nook's Cranny Upgrades
- A Café / Club for K.K. Slider to perform rather than the plaza.
- Permanent shops for Leif and Kicks

EDIT:

Here's another list of mine (Focused on QOL)

1. Sound controls for background music. I'm sorry, but 75% of the music in this game is either obnoxiously annoying or just dull and uninteresting.
2. Bulk crafting. I'm looking at you fishing bait!
3. Revamped dialogue with Dodo airlines. It takes way too much effort to invite/travel
3a. Let us open/close gate from our nook-phones. We have phones, so do I need to say more?
4. Move furniture when guest are over.
5. Disable autosave in build-mode... This would be so helpful while terraforming
6. Give us unbreakable tools or bolster the durability for current tools. They seriously break too easily. 30 uses is unacceptable when our inventories hold 40. Make it 100 for regular tools, 50 for stone, and 25 for flimsy.

EDIT:

ooh, I forgot the newest addition to my Wishlist.
7. Let us visit another surprise dream without having to wake up and do it all over.