What do you normally do when you play Animal Crossing? Do you have a routine or something like that or do you just do whatever you feel like the whole day?
I like to write a huge load of letters to villagers in town, so most of the time I'm running back and forth from the post off and back so I can save mail that carry my tools and all. Then walk around town check and see it anyone is moving, then window shop. Right now just landscaping and moving just one villager cx
I usually start off by picking up mail, then going fossil hunting, and trying to talk with villagers along the way.
Once I've made my round, I visit Shrunk and listen to his terrible jokes, assess fossils and donate, go check out if there's any cool stuff in the stores, and then sell the fossils, if any. Then I grab fruit and fill up the rest with bugs or whatnot and go sell again.
I tend to stick to the same routine each day since I started playing, get the mail, go around and check for pings/chat with all my villagers and take any requests. Then I'll go and check the shop and do a general tidy up of any random flowers that have spawned or things buried. Then I go and start up my new PWP with Isabelle (as I pay these off straight away, always). Pretty soon the checking of shops and PWP placing will be done with and I will just be maintaining things
First I say "good morning" or "good afternoon" to all my villagers and see if they have some silly favors for me to do.
Then I go exlpore main street and try to stock up on Sapplings !!
Then I run around and do random stuff!
i like to check any mail, go to the main shops and see what is for sale, chat with my villagers, water my flowers (new town with no ordinance yet), dig for fossils, chat with villagers more and see if there are errands to be ran, collect shells, shake my trees, sell at retail, and then in the evening i like to go to the island and catch bugs. i usually play with my sister as well in my town.
Usually TT a couple hours ahead to noon so I can go to Shrunks. Buy a sapling on a certain character since I want more golden axes, pay of house debt and expand another room. Go to another char, go to shrunks. Switch out to my current main, go around the village, check for any trying to move, check campers, check police station, go to retail and pick up any refurbished furniture. Then go to the island and tan, do some tours then come back and fool around until I'm done for the day.
From the previous day before I go off my game, I make sure to pick some fruit off a tree that bears fruit so I can go to shrunk with it when I wake up. When I wake up I usually check all of the shops first and pick up anything that needs to be sold. I usually check the super T&T first to buy my items to expand the store, because the sooner I do it the sooner I won't have to do it later. After I do that, I head to the able sisters to see if there's any cute clothes or accessories spoiler: there usually isn't so after I do that, I check the gardening store and buy saplings and white flowers. I always buy saplings since i'm trying to get the golden axe atm. Then I check Shrunk's and (hopefully) it's still empty to get my emotion, if im too late I usually skip backwards in time. Sometimes I check Kick's but hardly ever and I never really notice it's there half the time so I forget about it. After I do all of these things I sell anything I don't need and donate fossils to the museum & other items and just chat to my animals for a bit.
I usually do the chores in the morning. I get my shovel, hunt for ores and fossils, pick up unnecessary flowers. Then after a quick visit to Blathers I usually have to wait about an hour until Re-Tail opens so I can sell everything. Then while I'm waiting for all the stores to open at 10am, I get my watering can and do a little gardening, check my hybrids on the coast. If I have fully grown trees that I need to chop down for special patterns, I do that. Then I usually have to get bee medicine :'D
At 10am I go to the garden store to see what kind of bushes they have, I collect all of them for future landscaping. Lobo also wakes up a 10am (heavy sleeper he is) so I can do some PWP resetting to get another zen PWP from him. I got the wooden bridge today for example, so I'm really happy about that.
And then sometimes...
Sometimes I realize that having such a routine in a game is no fun at all. I ask myself why I'm doing that to myself, it's bad enough to have a routine in real life. At times like that I do something random, buy a shirt and then talk to villagers in hopes that someone will buy it from me and then wear it, or write letters, or go to the island and go on tours. Or just sit down at the town plaza and read my accomplishments
Tag all my 3DS in the afternoon and than close it till the evening.
Main town. Check the mail and than walk by all the villagers looking for a ping. Once I get the ping I talk to all the villagers and do any chores. During that time hit rocks and check retail for premium/turnip prices. Play until I get a mover or enough rumor talk.
Guest town. Checks the mail and opens the gate for a visitor point from my main town. Tag all my 3DS again.
Repeats what the main town does. Drops by the dream suite if it's early and try to dream 10 towns. Save/quit.
A side player in that town plays next and checks her mail. Drops by the retail to get the cardboard box redone and goes to the island. Plays tours if there are good ones. Than she fishes and dives for her amount caught badge. Than she plays with the villager, does tasks, hits balloons and has the cardboard box redone.
Drops by town that need weeds pulled and cleans up the town.
If any time is left I open the perfect fruit town and harvest the trees. Sometime I leave the fruit on the ground until the next harvest. Check the board to see what is premium/turnip prices for the day. Buy any sloppy or cardboard items and clear out retail.
I talk to villagers, dig fossils and bamboo up, collect perfect fruit and sometimes work on landscaping or building projects. Sometimes I go to the island to farm medals or look for items.
Talk to villagers and check if anyone is moving out. Go to T&T Emporium and Able Sisters to check their inventory for sale.
2nd house: trying to decorate