tips for new player? what should i do?

[SlEEPYTEARRS]

so my gf gave me her 3ds xl and i got a copy of acnl!!! i just started today and havent done anything besides plant the tree and introduce myself to my villagers (moe, bubbles, skye, boone, and rocco) this is my first time ever with acnl so i was wondering what i should do my first few days?

 

[LadyDestani]

Welcome to ACNL! I hope you enjoy it.

One of the first things you should do is talk to Isabelle in Town Hall. She will give you a bunch of tutorial tasks and reward you with foreign fruit and some tools. She'll also give you advice on how to raise your approval rating so that you can get down to mayoral business sooner.

Another thing to do is shake trees for furniture and money, dig up fossils and the pitfall seed, and hit rocks with your shovel for ores and money.

Also, look around on your fruit trees for a perfect fruit. There should be only one in your town when you start it and it will look slightly different from the regular fruit. Shake it down and plant it somewhere safe so you can grow more perfect fruit. I say somewhere safe because villagers will start moving in randomly over the next few days and they can plot their houses anywhere. So planting the perfect fruit in a narrow space of land or between two buildings will keep it protected. Just remember that in New Leaf, it will die if it is planted directly next to another tree, a rock, a cliff, the river or any building. There must be one free space on all sides when you plant it.

Finally, if you are concerned with villagers randomly plotting their houses in awkward spots like in front of your house or next to ramps and bridges, you can block them from certain areas by placing down patterns. They don't have to be anything fancy. You can just use the default patterns if you want. Villagers will only move on top of patterns if there are no other free 3x3 spaces for them to place their houses. Note: This only works with the Welcome Amiibo update installed.

That's all I can think of right now, but it should give you a good start. Good luck!

 

[JKDOS]

This is going to be messy, but bare with me.

--- Approval Rating

If you feel like grinding approval ratings:

You can get 1 approval point for every 9 flowers you water. So you can water 9 flowers, pick them all up, and them plant them in 9 un-watered spots, and repeat.

Isabelle won't tell you about the approval rating until day 2, but you can still earn approval on the first day.

Refer here for a full breakdown of approval points: https://www.ign.com/wikis/animal-crossing-new-leaf/100%_Approval_Rating


-- Making Bells

Unless you're using your meow coupons to buy stuff from the campsite, you can sell them at the bank for 3,000 bells a piece. Not bad.

Sell most of your items to Re-tail. They pay more than selling to Nook's shop.

If you don't mind villagers putting Fossils in their homes, sell your duplicates to them on the flea market. The highest they will pay is 4𝑥 – 1. Where 𝑥 = the price Reese will pay. Keep in mind their is a ceiling of about 9000 bells. Villagers will never pay more than that.

If you have a fossil that Reese will pay 2k for, put it on display for 7,999 bells, and then push a villager to the item to get their attention.


Later on though you might want to just farm beetles on the island. If you get good at it, you should make about 400,000 bells in 20-30 minutes.

Spoiler

You should enact the Bell Boom ordinance while you're trying to earn money. Otherwise, I recommend Beautiful Town as this will keep your flowers from withering. It allows you to take breaks from the game without worry, and helps obtain a Perfect status, which is the equivalent to a 5-star town in New Horizons.


-- Money Rocks!

Dig 2-diagnol holes on a corner of a rock. There is 1 rock per day which will net you 8k bells on normal days, and 16k bells on lucky days. If if you're super lucky, it will net you 8 various gem stones. If a solid object is obstructing you from making a hole, such as a tree, cliff, building, etc. only 1 hole is needed.

P = Player
H = Hole
R = Rock

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346523631816359936

-- Villager move-outs

I don't know if you played NH, but unlike New Horizons, villagers will move out on their own. They don't seek permission.

Once you reach a full town, villagers should ping you to tell you they are moving about every 10 days. Villagers will not ping you if you are in what's referred to as "stranger mode". You enter this state with a villager if you haven't spoken to them in 7 days. So be sure to speak to your villagers at least once a week. You don't want to risk your favorite moving out.

Villagers will also pass rumors to you when someone is planning to move out. If you hear rumors of a villager moving out before the ping, you should go find that rumored villager and see if they ping you or keep an eye on them throughout the day for the next couple days or so.

Once a villager is in boxes, you cannot make them stay. So be careful here.

-- Shop Upgrades

Shop upgrades and unlocks are based both on time and bells spent/made at respective stores. So you should make an effort to sell stuff some of the time to sell to Nook's shop, and buy furniture you don't need. Also buy clothing you don't need from Able sisters. This will not only upgrade the stores, but unlock others like: Leif, Kicks, Harriet, etc.

Refer here: https://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/shop-unlock-guide

This will also increase your catalogue, which is needed to unlock Cyrus. (Req. 100 furniture and 50 clothing)
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