Your newbie mistakes when you started ACNL

[AnnaThePolarBear]

I didnt know that you could choose your face so I ended up getting a really bad face, I choose a terrible town map since I just choose the first one, I ended up putting my house in an awful place, and then I ate my perfect apple... Though I ended up resetting so it doesnt matter too much anymore I guess..
This time the only mistake I really made was selling my perfect cherry since it took me over 5 months to get another one.

 

[LyraVale]

Oh ya, I ate my first perfect apple too...I thought I needed to eat fruit or something. lol
It is kind of weird that the characters don't need food for energy with all that running around...I wonder if they'll ever work that into the game.

 

[TheGreatBrain]

Sold my silver watering can by mistake.I liked it better than gold.

put in a modern police station even though my town is old fashioned.

Bought a bunch of turnips.It filled my entire locker.I forgot I had them and time traveled back 2 hours.I didn't own a trash can so I PAID retail to dispose of them.Shortly after that I entered Merry's house and noticed that she had a trash can.lol

 

[1980 Something Spaceguy]

police station placement

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh ya, I ate my first perfect apple too...I thought I needed to eat fruit or something. lol
It is kind of weird that the characters don't need food for energy with all that running around...I wonder if they'll ever work that into the game.

I can see that right now.. When your character starts to run slower and slower to the point they just walk, you need to eat fruit.

 

[LyraVale]

Ya! And you know I was so dumb, I though a perfect fruit would give them EXTRA energy! :/ XD

 

[toxapex]

I had some cardboard and sloppy stuff I sold, not understanding about unorderables. But, the main mistake was refusing to have paths and thus placing PWPs in spots that seemed okay but turned out to be horrible when I actually did start pathing. I have since demolished and rebuilt tons of PWPs, but my original town (Pangola) is now my least favorite town.

Wait, the sloppy set is unorderable?

 

[Zee]

Wound up with a face I didn't like... I should have known better, because I've played since the Gamecube game. I ended up restarting my first town within a week, though. That, and the pretty standard one... I sold my first perfect fruit.

 

[LyraVale]

Aw, tokayseye :C
But G.O.B. wouldn't let it get him down and neither should you!

 

[blackroserandom]

Sold my perfect fruit thinking "Eh, whatever...it'll grow back.." Viola, it never grew back. Luckily for me, I had a huge restart phase.

 

[MagicalCat590]

Picked a whole lot of really bad maps, and I sold my one and only piece of perfect fruit. Even though I watched a let's play that specifically told me not to. I was under the impression that there were items worth more than perfect fruit.
I was wrong.

 

[MisterEnigma]

New Leaf is my first AC so I have made many stupid mistakes.

I built the campsite in a terrible place, didn't understand that you could use paths, and so everything was placed in an awkward place that I had to make work with the paths I finally did put down for my town. I think mainly everything was an afterthought upon realizing everything's affixed to a spot.

 

[MadisonCrossing]

You can always check on Thonky guide for real and fake art =D

I always do that. ^u^
The worst thing I can remember is rushing...umm...no real regrets I guess. ^^'

 

[Emily]

I ended up selling my perfect pear not knowing that I should plant it because I didn't understand at the time as nothing like it was in the other games.

 

[honeybutter]

like everyone else here, i sold my perfect peach. five months later and i still wouldn't have any if someone hadn't randomly given me a few as a gift when i visited their town. (i was trying to regrow them myself, but i wasn't going to spit in the face of that opportunity.)

i let stitches buy the sloppy chair in re-tail. i miss that stupid chair more than i miss him. (i still have yet to have a sloppy or cardboard furniture set piece spawn in my town since, of course since i now know they're unorderable.)

i also haven't been plot resetting or thinking really hard about pwp placements. i haven't tried any hardcore gardenscaping yet, but when i do... i know i'll have many, many regrets.

 

[1980 Something Spaceguy]

Oh, I also sold every sloppy furniture piece I found in Re-Tail, not knowing it's unorderable.
But that's pretty much it. I watched Chuggaaconroy before I bought the game, so I didn't have a lot of regrets and mistakes.

 

[Manah]

I apparently sold a cardboard chair to Re-Tail. ;~;
And of course sold my perfect cherry. (And voided Bam...)

 

[CrashTheScene]

Time traveled a bunch when the game came out and lost a dreamie who I still need to cycled out and get again. Also ran all the time and my grass is still super patchy.

 

[stitchmaker]

Real town putting the campsite in the wrong place. No cedar trees will grow there.
In my TT town I kept running pass someone sleeping. It was Leif standing outside wanting to weed.
The town was a harvest town so there was alot of perfect fruit trees and Leif would stand near them.
At the time I never spoke to the villagers and thought it was a very lazy villager. I could have had the weeding badge done by now.

 

[Umbvix]

Hmmm...I think the only thing I've done that I would count as a mistake is that in my games before New Leaf, I always sold off my fish, insects, and fossils instead of donating them to the museum. And now that I'm trying to fix it, ohhh man is it hard. So in New Leaf, I've taken the mentality that if I haven't caught it before, it goes straight to the museum. I already have my fossils section finished, and a lot of the fish and insects are done, too. The art will take longer because of the prices.

 

[Adventure9]

Well let's see...

-Sold my only perfect fruit (thinking there would be more)
-Sold some sloppy furniture (thought they were re-orderable)
-Didn't have a town name pre-picked (spent like an hour picking one out: Zootopia, what do you think?...)
-Didn't know what the pink building (re-tail) on the map was when picking maps. (thought maybe it would go away some how...)

That's probably the worst of it (wasn't like a year later I bought the sloppy set and FINALLY got a perfect pear, thanks to this site :3)

Luckily I spent some serious hours later on the Thonky.com for the rest :3