Animal Crossing: Have You Shaken Your Trees Lately?

_J_

(Thanks to previous OP daddies: @HallowedFaith and @Wassermelone)

New to Animal Crossing? This video ought to explain everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXkwfV4TGg

Alright. If that seems appealing, the next step is to buy the game, and then give us your damn friend code.

Friend Codes
PA AC NL User List - New from September 2014
PA AC User List - Old.

Note: Be sure to add @Hargaad of Omnar‌, as his town is our primary trade hub. Most event / DLC / Unorderable items are available to touch, for catalog completion.

Old and probably out of date friend code list that we keep around for...some reason.

1) Submit your 3DS Friend Code here: (It is automatically added to the spreadsheet listed below.
http://bit.ly/pa-submit-friend-code

2) View the list of Friend Codes here:
Note: This list can only be seen through the direct link which can only be found in this thread and is omitted from search engines. Yay google.
http://bit.ly/pa-animalcrossing

Content Directory
Links are organized in the following three posts, in order to ease navigation. If you know of a useful website that is not listed, please @_J_ so he can add it to the appropriate section.

OP 2:

• Getting Started
• Helpful Sites
• Phone Apps
• Gameplay Strategies
• Special Events

OP 3:

• Turnips / Stalk Market
• Your Home
• Your Town
• NPCs
• Exclusive Items

OP 4:

• QR Codes
• Image Convertors
• Image Sharing
• Town Tunes
• Tips / Tricks
• Hybrid Flower Guide

Past Threads
September, 2013 - June 24, 2014
July 23, 2013 - September 3, 2013
June 23, 2013 - July 23, 2013
May 10, 2013 - June 23, 2013

Maz- wrote: »

To go from being banned to making the new thread in just a matter of weeks..it truly is the comeback of a lifetime.

_J_

OP #2

Getting Started

Town Layout

Your most important decision regarding your town is not the name, but rather the layout. Do not be afraid to continually restart 11+ times to get an ideal layout. Some factors to consider:
- ReTail Location: Retail is your primary site for selling items, and your Turnip depot. The two ideal spots for ReTail are either by the train station, or by the dock. The Train station is beneficial since visitors have quick access for selling turnips. The dock is beneficial for selling island beetles. Try to decide which you shall do more often, and then try to generate a town with a ReTail in that location.
- River shape: The main division in your town occurs via the river. Decide how you want your town organized, and then generate a river pattern that compliments this structure. Do you want an even north and south, a very small cutout, a long or short river?
- Bridges: Consider where you will put bridges. Remember that you are limited to three.
- Waterfall access: Some fish only spawn in the waterfall. Ensure that your town has a fishable waterfall location.
- Beach access: Try to avoid generating inaccessible beaches. Either one long strip, or two strips with ramp access is preferable.
- Neighbor Homes: If you want your neighbors consolidated, or spread out, keep this in mind.

Perfect Fruit: Each town starts with one hanging on a tree. Bank it in your train locker until you learn "safe" places to plant trees (where houses won't get dropped on them, or where they'll wither).

Face Style Chart

Helpful Sites
Nookipedia - Wiki with copious amounts of data.
Thonky.com - Assorted guides to nigh-every feature of New Leaf.
bidoofcrossing.tumblr.com - Assorted guides for nigh-every feature of New Leaf.
MoriDB - Item Database. You can create customized lists of items you have, need, etc.
Gamefaqs - Comprehensive Gamefaqs-quality guides
New Leaf Official Site - Full of Marketing Hogwash
Animal Crossing Subreddit - A helpful community for trading items and villagers
Collectible Items Spreadsheet - Useful Spreadsheet for Art, Bug, and Fish Collecting Source


Phone Apps
Guide for Animal Crossing New Leaf - Complete furniture list, calendar, fish / bug schedule, etc. It's like MoriDB, without the ability to share links to your collection.
For iPhone
For Android


Gameplay Strategies

@_J_'s Upgrade Schedule
Upgrade schedule, with requirement data.

Upgrade calendar, without requirement data.

Daily Chores

akjak wrote: »

Shake all the trees in your town. You will usually find ~1k in coins, 0-2 pieces of furniture, and there are five bees in the trees every day. They each sell for 2,500 bells, with the hives selling for 500 bells.

Hit all the rocks in town with your shovel. There is a money rock and a gem rock every day. Pro tip: Dig holes all around you before you hit the rock so that you don't slide backwards if it's a money rock

Buy everything in Nookington Junction/any upgraded version. The upgrades for the store is based on how much money you spend / items you buy from them. This includes the fortune cookie. Clean those raccoons out!

Dig up anything you see buried. You will always find four fossils everyday. Some days you will find 3 Gyroids(crazy wood guys) buried as well, or pitfalls seeds. All of these items are fairly rare(pitfalls are great for annoying neighbors or trolling your friends) and valuable!

Buy out the flower shop every day. Buying 50 saplings will get you a Gold Axe. Buy 50 flowers and you get a silver watering can.

Check Tom Nook's House store. There may be a unique house upgrade for the path/fence/roof/housestyle that wasn't there the day before

BUY OUT the Abel Sisters store for new clothing/accessories. You never know when your perfect Jack the ripper look can be completed.

Check your beaches for unique items/rare shells. Mysterious items and/or persons can wash up on your shores!

Check Retail for turnip prices, new furniture, and special prices. If an item is on the chalkboard out front Reese will pay double for it!

Go to the island. The medal store gets updated daily, as well as new selection of tours every day

Donate new fossils/fish/bugs/sea-creatures to Blathers.

Talk to all of your villagers! Often you can get hard to find furniture pieces from interactions with villagers. Try and carry furniture/fish/bugs with you as they will often want to trade or buy what you have

Go swimming in the ocean and find that scallop! Pascal is an otter who will ask for the scallop you find. He gives you an item from the sea collection which is hard to find!

Try and build a new public works project every day. It may be hard to find the funds, but the bigger and better projects are unlocked later on. However, some public works will decrease your town's overall rating and so make it harder for you to achieve perfect town status.

Go into your villagers' house when they're home and look in their closet. Sometimes they will give you a random item.

Talk to Sable! After a while you'll get her to be friends with you and she'll let you use the QR machine so you can share patterns.*

Water all your flowers. This may sounds tedious but it builds villager satisfaction, and it regrows the grass beneath them though, as well as making them more likely to hybridize the next day.

Talk to Brewster everyday (The Roost Cafe) If you go and get coffee their everyday for a while, he'll eventually offer you a part time job that pays pretty hefty if you do it right! Plus he gives you a coffee beans that can be put up for 9-10k bells in the flea market and other animals will buy it!

Update your Dream Suite town. You get 5000 bells every time, and it takes about 30 seconds.

I need more storage!

There are two main strategies to avoid storage problems.

Solution #1: Throw your shit out. If you keep items that cannot be ordered from the catalog, and toss out anything you can order, you will find that some storage space frees up.

Solution #2: Add more characters to your town. With one character, you have access to only 866 storage spots. By adding 3 more characters, you gain access to 2,888 inventory slots. Ensure that you are using all possible storage, and then add characters as needed.

866 Not-Clothing-Specific Storage, 1 Home:
- 16 Personal Inventory
- 10 Personal Letter Inventory
- 180 Locker
- 288 Home (48 per room) 4x Homes = 1152
- 180 Letters
- 192 Museum (48 per room)

2888 Not-Clothing-Specific Storage, 4 Homes:
- 64 Personal Inventory
- 40 Personal Letter Inventory
- 720 Locker
- 1152 Home (48 per room)
- 720 Letters
- 192 Museum (48 per room)

Special Events

Fishing Tourney

Average Size Chart

Fish Sizes what earn prizes
Barbel 20.00
Barred Knifejaw 24.6
Black Bass 19.50
C salmon 14.65
Catfish 26.19
Crucian Carp 8
Dab 19.90
Horse mackerel 15.95
Koi 26.65
Napoleanfish: 72
Olive Flounder 31.6
Rainbow trout 23.95
Ray: 49
Red Snapper 35.8
Ribbon eel: 53
Sea bass 39.40
Sea Horse 3.45
Zebra turkeyfish 12.5

Halloween

Meglish wrote: »

As promised, here is a comprehensive Halloween Guide! Feel free to skip over the guide... but please at least heed this warning. Do not wear any irreplaceable clothing the night of Halloween. I won't say anymore.

For those who want the guide, here it is! (below!)

Some helpful tips before the guide begins:
- Do not wear clothing that you cannot replace (including hats and wigs). It may be permanently transformed in the course of the evening. I chose to buy random clothes from the store and rock those all night.
- Don't bother buying candy, you'll be able to get plenty of it for free
- Don't bother buying the Spooky set of furniture. You'll also be able to get lots of this for free.
- If you forget to buy your 6 masks over the course of October, Jack will give you the option when turning in regular candy to get a mask.

Your goal: To collect Lollipops by successfully scaring villagers that are in their homes in your town. Turn said Lollipops (or Candy!) into Jack (by finding him wandering your town) throughout the night and he will reward you with Creepy or Spooky furniture (or masks if you choose).
- Turn in a Lollipop - 100% Chance to get Creepy Furniture from the set (non-orderable)
- Tun in Candy - about a 50/50 Chance to either get a piece of Creepy Furniture or Spooky Furniture (or a 100% chance to get a mask if you choose)


1. When you log in (or the clock strikes for Halloween night to begin) you'll get the normal message for a holiday. Half-ish of your town will begin walking around wearing costumes. You know they are your villagers because they have non-bright orange colored pumpkins on their heads. Once you start talking to them, the nameplate will also have their name... (real sneaky, I know!) They will try to stop you if they see you run by. If you stop and they catch up to you, the conversation will be force started, once it starts there's no going back You can outrun them if you so choose, they give up shortly after you bail. If you speak to one of them, here's what you can expect:
- They will ask you for a piece of candy. You have two choices. You can give them candy. If you do this, they will tell you a secret about a townsperson who is in their home (that you want to scare) See Image1 below. This is good if you don't want to use the online guides about what mask scares which villager. If you choose no, they will challenge you to a mini game (Charades or Rock, Paper, Scissors). If you win, you get a piece of regular Candy. If you lose and are not wearing a hat or a mask, they will put a pumpkin on your head that matches what they are wearing See Image2 below. If you are wearing a hat, they will transform 1 piece of clothing into a "Patched" clothing piece (doesn't change masks). See Image3 below. If everything you have on is transformed and you have a pumpkin head, they will give you an "old wall" or "old floor" See Image3 (just pretend that's a neighbor giving me the wall/floor)below.
Image1

Image2

Image3


2. Visit your neighbors wearing the appropriate mask that will scare them most.
If you're successful, well, I'll be honest, it's pretty funny. They will immediately award you with a Lollipop. You can only get 1 Lollipop per night/per resident, even if you TT throughout the day and come back earlier/later. They will instead just give you candy.

If you're unsuccessful... they will laugh at you and mock you and then challenge you to a game. Same games as outdoor residents. You win, they give you Candy, lose they do the same thing as the outdoor residents.


THE GOOD NEWS! If you fail to scare them properly, you can exit the house and come back. You may do this as many times as you choose.

3. Finally! The rewards! You must find Jack! This is Jack!


Jack is short and has a bright orange (normal) colored pumpkin on his head. He will wander at various places throughout the town. Once you go in a building or speak with him, he will poof to a new area in town. He is kind enough to at least visit the same locations over and over (as long as you don't shut down the game, because then his locations will be different). He will ask you for candy. You can:
- Give him Lollipops or Candy (really in your best interest!) And he will give you the rewards I outlined at the beginning.
- Or you can refuse (or if you have none) and he will simply play a prank on you by doing what the villagers do you if you lose (outlined above).

Random things I learned:
- If you save the game and log back in, or you log out and TT to a different time of day, you can get different villagers in their homes so you can more easily get the Creepy set of furniture.
- Have multiple characters? Why of course you can log them in and rinse and repeat everything you've just done for more furniture.
- OMG, have a garbage can in your home. You would not believe the rediculous prices that they want at Re-Tail to toss out your extra "old floor" or "old walls."
- The pumpkin heads given to you by villagers (there appear to be 4 different colors) are non-reorderable. They do catalog though! Completionists anyone?
- Jack's pumpkin head IS orderable.
- the "old floor" and "old walls" are not catalogable and you cannot order them of course. If you want a crappy looking room, keep 'em! (see photo below of what they look like installed).
- Have a full inventory? The villagers will keep their candy/trick item they were going to give you.
- The "Patched" clothing that your clothes are transformed into, are not catalogable. So be sure to get the whole set while you can (hat, shirt, pants, shoes)
- I am sorry to say I did not get to test what Halloween looks like when you have a visitor. It was late so no one was online.
- I may edit this, so feel free to check this again. If I forgot something (which is entirely plausible) I will update it!



Happy Halloween!

_J_

OP #3

Turnips / Stalk Market

Turnip Exchange Subreddit
Stalk Market Tumblr
Tumblr Tagged stalk-market
Stalk Market Predictor

Your Home
Moridb.com - Item Database. Search by category, item theme, and fashion theme.
Feng Shui

Yellow on West
...decrease the price of items sold by villagers
...increase the probability of success of Bell Trees
...decrease the cost of art appearing in Redd's tent

Green on South
...increase the probability of Spotlight items appearing at Timmy&Tommy's
...increase the probability of genuine art appearing in Redd's tent
...increase the probability of receiving genuine art from villagers
...increase the probability of receiving exclusive items from Saharah
...decrease the probability of embarrassing sounds when sitting

Easiest means of acquiring green: Place Potted Ivy on south wall.

Red on East
...increase the probability of receiving Mario Theme and Nintendo Set items from Fortune Cookies
...increase the probability of receiving genuine art from villagers
...increase the probability of receiving exclusive items from Saharah
...decrease the probability of embarrassing sounds when sitting
Source

Optimal Feng Shui Configuration
To maximize Feng Shui:
a) Place Potted Ivy and/or Shamrock Clocks on the south walls.
b) Place Lily-Pad Tables along the south walls.
c) Place Festive Wreaths, Alpinist Hats, Bulb Boppers, Frog Caps, Green Caps, Green Headgears, Green Knit Hats, Green New Year's Hats, Green-Pumpkin Heads, Headkerchiefs, Hero's Caps, Kappa Caps, Li'l Bro's Hats, Mailman's Hats, Makar's Masks, Melon Hats, Retro Helmets, Shamrock Hats, Tingle Hoods, Watermelon Hats, Wizard's Caps, Cucumber Packs, Eye Masks, Green Glasses, Leafs, and/or Green Feathers on the Lily-Pad Tables.
d) Place Hibiscus Clocks and/or Holiday Stockings on the east walls.
e) Place Flower Tables along the east walls.
f) Place Balloon-Dog Lamps, Cassette Players, Crab Clocks, Dharmas, Dollys, Executive Toys, Giant Dharmas, Holiday Candles, Mini Dharmas, Miniature Cars, Simple Kettles, Sketchbooks, Bandanas, Bicycle Helmets, Big Bro's Hats, Celebration Hats, Hibiscus Hairpins, Racing Helmets, Red Caps, Red Headgears, Red Hoods, Red New Year's Hats, Red Ogre Masks, Red Ribbons, Red Team Hats, Red-Pumpkin Heads, Wrestling Masks, Ladder Shades, Red Glasses, Red Noses, Red Feathers, Red Tulips, Red Pansies, Red Cosmos, Red Roses, Red Carnations, and/or Red Lilies on the Flower Tables.
g) Place Golden Wall Torches on the west walls.
h) Place Lemon Tables along the west walls.
i) Place Buckets, Coins, Genie's Lamps, Kettles, Lucky Gold Cats, Odd Clocks, Super Stars, Triforces, Crowns, Diving Masks, Football Helmets, Roman Helmets, Safety Helmets, School Hats, Star Boppers, Star Hairpins, Swimming Caps, Tulip Hats, Wario Hats, Y. New Year's Hats, Yellow Caps, Yellow Ribbons, Yellow-Pumpkin Heads, Beaks, Lemon Packs, Yellow Glasses, Yellow Feathers, Yellow Tulips, Yellow Pansies, Yellow Cosmos, Yellow Roses, Gold Roses, Yellow Lilies, Yellow Violets, and/or Dandelions on the Lemon Tables.
Source

HHA
Home Remodeling - animalcrossing.wikia, has all images
Home Remodeling - thonky page

HHA Interior Prizes
HHA Tee - 10,000
HHA Pennant - 20,000
HHA Jacket - 30,000
Silver HHA Plaque - 50,000
Gold HHA Plaque - 70,000
Silver HHA Trophy - 90,000
Gold HHA Trophy - 100,000
Gold House Model - 150,000

HHA Exterior Prizes
Golden Roof - 300,000
Golden Wall - 500,000
Golden Door - 700,000
Golden Fence - 900,000
Golden Mailpost - 1,100,000

Bidoof Prize Guide

Note: The Interior and Exterior theme challenges are two different systems, each with their own set of rewards. If a player switches to Exterior before acquiring all of the Interior prizes, they will have to switch back to Interior to unlock the rest of those Interior prizes.


HHA Item Values - thonky guide
HHA Guide - Gamefaqs guide.  Ctrl+F to the "Happy Home Academy" section

Themes
Exterior Theme Pieces - Incomplete list, with pictures
Exterior Pieces[/url - thonky list. Seems to be complete, but without pictures.
Exterior items - Ctrol+F to "13) HOUSE EXTERIOR REFORMS"


Sample Exterior Theme Home

Trendy / stylish theme score.


Exterior - All but pavement is Trendy


Main - Minimalist carpet, walls, and two lamps. 3 Brewster Gyroids also count for trendy. I decided main room could not be jammed full of items, since I need access to the doors, so I moved everything to other rooms last night.


East - Modern carpet and some mannequins, but empty other than that. Items were moved to other rooms.


North - Full Astro and partial Modern


West - Partial Striped (missing lamp) with some Minimalist and Modern


Top - Full sleek and full minimalist (excluding wall / floor)

Your Town
Flowers / Bushes - List of all flowers and bushes available in game.
Tree / Bush won't grow in a spot? - Speculation on infertile zones, and how to avoid.
Public Works - All projects, with pictures
Public Works Checklist - Spreadsheet with all Public Works, organized by personality source.
Perfect Town Guide - explains Cleanliness, Abundant Nature, and Abundant Living rating categories

See OP#4 for @"SilverWind"'s PA-Approved Hybrid Flower Guide


NPCs
Brewster Coffee Preferences - a list of every neighbor's coffee preference, for use when working for Brewster. Credit to @SilverWind
Crazy Redd - Pictures of Real / Fake items.
Gulliver - Answers to each question.
Shampoodle - Best Hair Guide with pictures
Cyrus - Custom Furniture Images, by our very own @tiloah
Gracie - Fashion Checks

Gracie will appear underneath the town tree, but wont appear until you have spent 70,000 bells at the T.I.Y

Blathers Museum Shop Items
Neighbor Popularity

Searchable Popularity List
Villager List, with search filter
Vote for your Favorite!

Neighbor Move-In Schedule
If you are getting a villager from another town.

• Day-1 You talk to villager, they say they are moving to your town.
• Day-2 A fenced-in area appears, where their home will be.
• Day-3 Neighbor moves in, home appears.

If you are getting a villager from the campsite.

• Day-1 You talk to villager, they say they are moving to your town.
• Day-2 Nothing happens.
• Day-3 A fenced-in area appears, where their home will be.
• Day-4 Neighbor moves in, home appears.

Tripping / Katrina / Lucky Items
If you find yourself tripping often, this is due to bad luck. Below are guides to Katarina the fortune teller, and lucky items.

Katarina - Thonky Guide
Katarina - Bidoofcrossing Guide
Lucky Items - AC Wikia Guide to Lucky Items
After 20 fortunes are told in your town you will get the Katarina Public Works Project. The Prima Guide says 20 to anyone (including visitors). Some online guides say that only your own fortune being told counts.

Exclusive Items

Nintendo Zone
You can obtain Nintendo Zone items from home! Follow these 6 steps.
To obtain Bestbuy exclusives, use the SSID "Bestbuy"
To obtain other NZ exclusive items, use the SSID "attwifi"

Step 1: Change the SSID on your wireless network to "attwifi".
Step 2: Rename your wireless network name within your 3DS wireless settings.
Step 3: Load Animal Crossing.
Step 4: Go to the post office.
Step 5: Talk to Pelly / Phyllis.
Step 6: Click the 'Ask about a present' option.

Bank Account Items

Earn the following items by collecting the required number of bells in your savings account.

100,000 bells: Box of Tissues no theme
500,000 bells: Letter Set no theme
1,000,000 bells: Piggy Bank Harmonious
5,000,000 bells: Aluminum Briefcase Sci-Fi, Trendy
10,000,000 bells: Post-Office Poster no theme
20,000,000 bells: Safe Sci-Fi
50,000,000 bells: Mailman's Hat no theme, "Official" Look
100,000,000 bells: ABD no theme

Neighbor Pictures
Your neighbors may give you their picture if you are their bestest-buddy. Pictures can be obtained through the following means.

• When a villager moves, they will send a letter the following day. If you had high friendship with the neighbor, their picture will be attached to the letter.
• April Fool's Day
• As a reward for accomplishing a task requested by a villager. (Deliver a package, give them furniture, etc.)

_J_

OP #4

QR Codes
QR Code Downloads
QRCrossing.com - Collection of various QR Codes
Pathmagic.tumblr.com - QR Codes for path tiles.
matome.javer.jp - Japanese site of QR Codes
Game Consoles
Pokémon Portraits
Assorted Nintendo Clothing

QR Code Owner modifier
Here's a guide from @Zetx on how to change the ownership of an existing item:

1. Export out your own design via Sable/QR Machine
2. Download AnimalCrossingQR / Version .2 zip
3. Load up the image:

4. Set author information as default
5. Load desired image
6. Hit 'Load Default'
7. Hit 'Create QR Code'

Ex. Original image created by @Yunniecorn:


New QR code with myself as the owner:


A pie-brella!

Image Convertors
nicofinder app Version 2 - Japanese web app. Upload an image, and the app converts it into an AC bitmap.
nicofinder app Version 1 - Same as the above, but works slightly less well.
Pattdesign - Another image convertor. Doesn't seem to be working at the moment.


Image Sharing
Nintendo 3DS share - Official method for sharing pictures on Tumblr or Twitter.
Zetx' upload to imgur tool - Visit this url from your 3DS browser to upload screenshots.
Another upload to imgur tool - Upload images to imgur directly from 3DS browser.
QR Code that will take your 3DS browser directly to the url:

Town Tunes
Town Theme FAQ - gamefaqs
QRCrossing Melody List - Themes already created and available.
QRCrossing Melody Creator - Create your own melodies!


Tips / Tricks

Island Medal strat

Elite scavenger tour is what it's all about! 8 medals/minute. Here is a helpful guide to item identification.

The Save and Quit method for Public Works acquisition

Here's how I do it:
Load my character, make a round trip in town for a villager to spot me [Usually 1-2 rounds] and make sure I have no money or items on my bag.
If a villager spots me for some random stuff I'll go save and quit and make a round again 'til they make a project request. [ You need to bury or sell the item if you're given that or it'll add on to their request

Can definitely confirm that this works. Every time you save and quit a new batch of villagers are deemed "Active" (out in the main village). They're all found relatively close to their houses, and one of the five available will almost definitely BING for you, if not immediately, then after a few passes of the town. Seems like a bing is more likely the more villagers you have out that weren't out BEFORE the last save and quit. I've gotten 10 bings in 15 minutes doing this.

Camper Reset Trick

1) Make a new character.
2) Run over to campground.
3) If the tent isn't there or it's an undesirable villager that's inside the tent, reset without saving; if it's a good character inside the tent, get them to come to the village, then save.
4) Delete the new character after saving.
5) Tomorrow, or whenever campers move in, create a new villager to see whether or not that camper has moved into a desirable house location. If not, reset without saving; if so, save.
6) Delete the new character after saving.

How to select where your new villagers will place there homes.

Camper villagers move in two days after they are asked. Neighbors from other towns move in one day after asked. When you know that a villager will move in...

1. Set your time to the day the villager will move in, after 6 a.m.
2. Create a New Save File / new town resident.
3. Go through the introductory whatnot on the train.
4. When you arrive in town, run through the town to find where the new home is located.

If you like where the home is located

1. Save the game.
2. Log out.
3. Log in as your Mayor character.
4. Save.
5. Now you may delete the new character you created

If you do not like where the home is located, then exit the game, and try again with a new save file. If you quit without saving on a new character, resetti will not yell at you when you log in on another character.

@SilverWind's PA-Approved Hybrid Flower Guide

SilverWind wrote: »

Guide to Flower Hybrids

Hybrids are special coloured flowers that you can't find blooming randomly in the wild or purchase from Leif. They sell for a lot more than regular coloured flowers. Their monetary value isn't why people usually breed them, though—it's for the glory of getting those rare colours, and blanketing your town in them! :P

There are a lot of guides online for how to grow hybrids, and a good deal of the information is contradictory. To try and avoid adding more false info to the pool, everything below is something I've tested in my own game unless I mark it as a theory/speculation. The most helpful section, in my opinion, is #7.


1) How do I start breeding flowers?

If placed beside each other, two flowers of a similar species have a chance of spawning a new flower overnight. "Beside" means that the two flowers are either touching each other on one side, OR that they are diagonally spaced from each other (e.g. their corners are touching—see below picture). There must be a space nearby for the new flower to spawn.

It is more effective to place flowers diagonally from each other as opposed to in rows, because placing them that way creates more spaces for a new flower to spawn (twelve instead of ten). This means that the ideal way to lay out your flower breeding field would be a checkerboard sort of pattern:



You do not need to place flowers like this in order to start breeding them; if you want to place them in rows, go ahead.

Note: Jacob's Ladders, dandelions and gold roses do not breed this way, so don't bother trying. :P


2) How do I get rare coloured flowers?

Firstly, consult a hybrid table to see which two coloured flowers you should place beside each other. Some species are available in one colour, while others are not. For instance, there are no blue tulips, but there are blue roses. Again, the two flowers you breed together have to be from the same species.

Let me also stress the following point: there is more than one way to get any hybrid flower.

The easiest way to get any colour is by breeding two parents of that colour. For instance, if you have two purple roses, they have a large chance of producing purple offspring. This does not help if you are starting from scratch, with no purple roses at all, but it is helpful to keep in mind for the future. This also explains why you will end up with common coloured children when you breed common coloured parents.

Child flowers retain information on what colours its parents were. That means if you use a red rose and a yellow rose to breed an orange rose, and you then breed that orange rose with another orange rose, the resulting children can be red roses, yellow roses, or orange roses. In theory, this means that if you want hybrids to consistently produce hybrid children, you should breed hybrids that have hybrid parents themselves (e.g. an orange rose with orange parents will likely breed more orange roses consistently than an orange rose with red and yellow parents).


3) Okay, but give me a colour breeding chart!

There are a variety of colour charts out there, but due to the problems above it's difficult to track and prove what flowers will produce which hybrids.

The most dependable and straightforward guide I've found on hybrid colours is here Liquefy's Gamefaqs guide (see section 65), even though it does not cover every possible combination. I've tested and had successful results for each one of those colours save for blue roses and purple pansies (more on them in a second).

Here is Liquefy's hybrid chart in full:

Pink Tulips = Red Tulips + White Tulips
Orange Tulips = Red Tulips + Yellow Tulips
Black Tulips = Red Tulips + Red Tulips
Purple Tulips = Orange Tulips + Orange Tulips

Pink Cosmos = Red Cosmos + White Cosmos
Orange Cosmos = Red Cosmos + Yellow Cosmos
Black Cosmos = Orange Cosmos + Orange Cosmos

Orange Pansies = Red Pansies + Yellow Pansies
Blue Pansies = White Pansies + White Pansies
Red Pansies* = Blue Pansies + Red Pansies
Purple Pansies = Red Pansies* + Red Pansies*
(It seems that you need Red Pansies that have spawned from Blue Pansies in
order to spawn Purple Pansies.)
Orange Pansies* = Blue Pansies + Orange Pansies
Purple Pansies = Orange Pansies* + Orange Pansies*
(It also seems that you need Orange Pansies that have spawned from Blue Pansies
in order to spawn Purple Pansies.)

Pink Roses = Red Roses + White Roses
Pink Roses = Red Roses + Red Roses
Orange Roses = Red Roses + Yellow Roses
Purple Roses = White Roses + White Roses
Black Roses = Red Roses + Red Roses
Red Roses* = Orange Roses + Purple Roses
Blue Roses = Red Roses* + Red Roses*
(It seems that you need Red Roses that have spawned from Orange Roses and
Purple Roses in order to spawn Blue Roses.)

Pink Lilies = Red Lilies + White Lilies
Orange Lilies = Red Lilies + Yellow Lilies
Black Lilies = Red Lilies + Red Lilies

Blue Violets = Purple Violets + White Violets

White Carnations = Red Carnations + Pink Carnations

Thonky's guide and the Bidoofcrossing guide have errors or are not entirely clear on some points, but they are useful in exploring alternative combos and are respectively available for viewing here and here.

Note: there are various theories on whether or not Leif-purchased seeds are needed to produce hybrid flowers. I did not find that to be the case; a lot of my original flowers were grabbed from the island tour games.


4) What if I've got just one special coloured flower and I want more of that colour? What's the easiest way to get more?

The general rule is to stick it beside its parents and hope that it increases the chances of spawning more of its kind. For instance, if you have one pink tulip, stick it beside a red tulip or a white one; the chances of getting another pink tulip are higher than just breeding red and white ones by themselves. See the Bidoofcrossingchart for good combinations to try.




5) Special exception hybrids:

Gold roses: easy to produce. The simplest way is to breed two red roses until they spawn a black rose baby. Then, wait for the black rose to dry out (turn greyish). Water that dried out black rose with a gold watering can, and it will be gold by the next day. I suggest that you grow a bunch of black roses before you start turning any gold, however; gold roses are unable to breed. On the plus side, they are also unable to wilt.

Blue roses: more complicated. The general belief is that you first have to get purple (white x white) and orange (red x yellow) roses, and then breed those together to get special red roses. You'd then breed those special red roses to get a blue rose. Yes, it's multi-stage breeding! I've only gotten up to the special red rose stage; those have not resulted in a blue rose for me yet, but I'll keep all of you updated.

Purple pansies: more complicated. Breed two white pansies to get a blue baby. Theories then vary on whether you breed that blue baby with a red pansy or if you are supposed to breed it with an orange pansy (obtained by breeding red x yellow), but both theories are consistent in saying that you should then take the resulting offspring and breed them to get a purple pansy. My guess is that both theories work; I've gotten both what I assume to be special red and special orange pansies, which I am waiting to spawn purple pansies. I'll keep everyone updated.

One thing to be very careful about if you're breeding blue roses or purple pansies: keep those special orange/red pansies or special red roses separate from your regular orange or red flowers! The worst thing is losing track of where the special flowers are, or to forget whether a particular flower is special or not. There is no way to distinguish between a special and a regular flower, save for the fact that one breeds those dreamy blue or purple offspring and one does not.


6) Where should I put these flower patches?

Flowers can grow on the beach, and the beach is the ideal location to put your breeding patches for the following reasons:

- animals will not build on the beach; you run the risk of a new villager building their home over your flowers if you plant them elsewhere

- save for a few areas (usually around the ramp down to the ocean), animals do not usually wander around on the beach and won't water or plant unwelcome new flowers near your patches (they do plant new flowers in New Leaf!). This fact makes it super important to do the middle stages of purple pansy or blue rose planting in the remotest areas of your beach. You don't want to be guessing at whether that red rose in your purple x orange rose patch is a special red rose or a regular one some terrible villager placed there. Just don't forget to water these out of the way flowers. :P

- fossils, gyroids, weeds and lost items do not spawn on the beach, meaning you won't lose spaces to them each day (not that they eat up that much space on regular land, but every bit can matter)!

If you do want to breed flowers on regular land, I'd recommend that you play it safe and grow rare ones only right beside buildings or public works projects. This means that there is less free space for babies to spawn, but it also means you won't wake up one morning to find your flowers paved over.


7) How do I improve the chances of getting the hybrid I want?

- water the flowers that you want to breed

- don't water the flowers that you don't want to breed, as that will improve their chances of spawning and reduce the chances of other hybrids. Only a handful of baby flowers spawn each day. This policy applies to flowers that have no space nearby to produce offspring as well. (My guess is that so long as one flower is adjacent to another flower of the same species, it joins the daily roulette; if it is selected as one of the breeding pairs of the day, the game will try to generate a child flower, fail to find a space, and then fail to produce a flower, ultimately still ruining another pair's chances.) The beautiful town ordinance will help you keep unwatered flowers alive, or you can just go around daily and water the wilted ones. Your call!

- try to reduce the amount of flowers in your town in general, or at least the ones beside flowers of the same species that you don't want to breed. Again, that includes flowers without spaces nearby to produce offspring, as they appear to be counted in the daily roulette as well. Note: I don't mean you should be pruning all but a half dozen flowers in your town or anything like that--just don't overload your town in excess flowers. For reference, I started off with about 300 flowers in town. Pruning that number down to about 100 helped to increase chances of hybrids breedings.

- use fertilizer, purchased at the T&T Emporium. Bury it beside the parents you want to breed. This does not guarantee a rare colour baby (it doesn't even guarantee that a new flower will spawn at all), but it somewhat improves your chances. Included below is the image of an ideal layout of where to bury your fertilizer. I would consider clearing all the other spots around those four flowers touching the fertilizer so that there is optimal space for them to spawn a hybrid.




8) Does placing jacob's ladders beside flowers improve their chances of spawning offspring?

This is a common rumour but I really haven't seen its effect in practice at all. There's not much harm in trying so if you would like, but keep in mind that it eats up a potential space for a child flower to spawn.


9) Does the beautiful town ordinance help with breeding hybrids?

It helps by ensuring that flowers you don't water will survive, meaning that you can focus purely on watering the ones you want to breed to improve their chances. I do not believe it creates a higher chance of obtaining rare hybrids each day, or anything like that, but I have not personally observed the conditions under the perfect town ordinance. (Pluck your daily weeds for the weed plucking badge!)


Feel free to ask additional questions or point out corrections/additions.

Cullen

First post!

@cabsy‌ I'll gladly take Flip from you if you are around in the next 30 mins.

_J_

While you wait, you can visit Ghee.

I'd like to get another visit, to bump me to 400.

Cullen

Sure. I'll help you grind up to 500 too if you return the favour. Gotta catch 'em badges.

_J_

Cullen wrote: »

Sure. I'll help you grind up to 500 too if you return the favour. Gotta catch 'em badges.

So much visiting!

But yeah. If you want to leave your town open sometime I'd be happy to grind out visits.

Cullen

cabsy wrote: »

Cullen wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

@Cullen or anyone else in need of a new resident, I've got flip in boxes today if you want to come woo him away. He's a favorite of my fiance's so it'd be cool if he went to a good home

Flip is a jock and a monkey? Let me in!

I've got to run some errands but I left my gates open so you can stop by whenever you get a chance!

Flip is mine! Thanks.

cabsy

Cullen wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

Cullen wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

Cullen or anyone else in need of a new resident, I've got flip in boxes today if you want to come woo him away. He's a favorite of my fiance's so it'd be cool if he went to a good home

Flip is a jock and a monkey? Let me in!

I've got to run some errands but I left my gates open so you can stop by whenever you get a chance!

Flip is mine! Thanks.

Oh wow I didn't realize when someone came by and seduced them away they moved out immediately! Glad you managed to get him to move, I'll be able to tell my fiance he's got a happy home now. Hope you enjoyed the town of a BILLION FLOWERS

Of course I decided to try time traveling to grow back grass, three days at a time talking to all my villagers each time, and of course of course the only resident who moved out was Fang who is one of my favorites. Ah well

Toxic Toys

cabsy wrote: »

Cullen wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

Cullen wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

Cullen or anyone else in need of a new resident, I've got flip in boxes today if you want to come woo him away. He's a favorite of my fiance's so it'd be cool if he went to a good home

Flip is a jock and a monkey? Let me in!

I've got to run some errands but I left my gates open so you can stop by whenever you get a chance!

Flip is mine! Thanks.

Oh wow I didn't realize when someone came by and seduced them away they moved out immediately! Glad you managed to get him to move, I'll be able to tell my fiance he's got a happy home now. Hope you enjoyed the town of a BILLION FLOWERS

Of course I decided to try time traveling to grow back grass, three days at a time talking to all my villagers each time, and of course of course the only resident who moved out was Fang who is one of my favorites. Ah well

Have I added you yet?

cabsy

I have no idea! I'm not in the sheet but my fc is in my sig, I went ahead and added your code from the sheet

_J_

cabsy wrote: »

I have no idea! I'm not in the sheet but my fc is in my sig, I went ahead and added your code from the sheet

Added you. My number is in my sig.

Toxic Toys

cabsy wrote: »

I have no idea! I'm not in the sheet but my fc is in my sig, I went ahead and added your code from the sheet

Got you added.

_J_

Oh, this game.



Sweet! The Reset Center is open! I wonder what's inside this time.

Ooo. A fancy machine? So fancy!





Got it! Push the button and say Scramble!




Oh, sure. I can't reset. But if you want to.




A sensible reaction to your brother being launched away.

HallowedFaith

Just wanted to say that this is an excellent OP series. Great information!

Hargaad of Omnar

@cabsy, I suppose I'll mosey about to gettin' your fc in both of my DS's so you can join in the Omnar2 touch-a-thon.
I'd tell _J_ to put something about it in one of the OPs, but it's not really something that noteworthy unless people ask about it.

_J_

Hargaad of Omnar wrote: »

I'd tell _J_ to put something about it in one of the OPs, but it's not really something that noteworthy unless people ask about it.

This is a good idea.

Added to OP#1, in the Friend Code section.

Cullen

@_J_ open Ghee and I'll grind some visits.

_J_

Cullen wrote: »

_J_ open Ghee and I'll grind some visits.

@Cullen Apologies for the delay. Ghee is open.

If anyone is doing turnips this week, my town has been on a steady decline so far.

Cullen

I've got 191 at the mo, up from 101 this morning. If I spike tomorrow I'll keep the clock wound back, so you guys can get in on the action.

I noticed you still need some art. If you've got a list, I'll check my spares. Got loads spare now just rotting in the closet.

_J_

This is my Need catalog I can make a separate art need catalog if you don't want to scroll through this one.

I believe the art is up to date.

And now I recall that I need to order those K.K. songs I touched in Omnar over the weekend...

cabsy

In intensely unfair news, I checked how many visits I need to remodel my station and I'm only at 54... Meanwhile my fiance's game is at 99. Balls to him!

Cullen

I had 8 on your list. Not 100% sure they are all genuine but most should be.

Also got my last silver badge today:



Just 9 golds to go.

_J_

@Cullen Super thanks for the artwork! Turns out I had some of them. I'll drop the duplicates in your town.

Art I need:
amazing painting
fine painting
motherly statue
moving painting
mystic statue
neutral painting

cabsy

_J_ wrote: »

@Cullen Super thanks for the artwork! Turns out I had some of them. I'll drop the duplicates in your town.

Art I need:
amazing painting
fine painting
motherly statue
moving painting
mystic statue
neutral painting

I have a fine painting of questionable provenience that I can drop in Cullen's town for you to pick up

I've kind of been assuming if a town is open it's ok to stop by - is that correct?

_J_

cabsy wrote: »

I've kind of been assuming if a town is open it's ok to stop by - is that correct?

Yup. Generally ok to visit, buy things from shops, fish, shake trees, etc.

Just don't destroy flowers.

Edit: I would be quite grateful for the fine painting.

cabsy

_J_ wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

I've kind of been assuming if a town is open it's ok to stop by - is that correct?

Yup. Generally ok to visit, buy things from shops, fish, shake trees, etc.

Just don't destroy flowers.

Edit: I would be quite grateful for the fine painting.

I dropped it out front of Cullen's train station, I got it from a villager so I'm not sure if it's real or not. I was in Omnar touching things but it started to lag so I returned home to make sure all my touching was saved

_J_

cabsy wrote: »

_J_ wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

I've kind of been assuming if a town is open it's ok to stop by - is that correct?

Yup. Generally ok to visit, buy things from shops, fish, shake trees, etc.

Just don't destroy flowers.

Edit: I would be quite grateful for the fine painting.

I dropped it out front of Cullen's train station, I got it from a villager so I'm not sure if it's real or not. I was in Omnar touching things but it started to lag so I returned home to make sure all my touching was saved

The fine painting was real. Super-thanks!

Hargaad of Omnar

_J_ wrote: »

@Cullen Super thanks for the artwork! Turns out I had some of them. I'll drop the duplicates in your town.

Art I need:
amazing painting
fine painting
motherly statue
moving painting
mystic statue
neutral painting

@_J_:
Omnar2 has these paintings and statues in front of my house.

_J_ wrote: »

cabsy wrote: »

I've kind of been assuming if a town is open it's ok to stop by - is that correct?

Yup. Generally ok to visit, buy things from shops, fish, shake trees, etc.

I would err on the side of caution and suggest only shaking trees without fruit on them.
Omnar2 has yet to make any perfect cherry trees, but shaking perfect trees without consent from that town's mayor is ill-advised. Personally, you can shake Omnar2's fruit trees and take them as you wish since they'll spawn that fruit forever...but just be cautious of perfect fruit trees in other towns since they only have a limited amount of shakes in them.

cabsy

I'll probably avoid shaking trees in general since I have a tendency to let mine all fruit up and then go on a massive collecting spree and I would be mildly irritated if someone messed with my system; seems wise to just leave trees alone in other towns, anyway. Do you want some perfect cherries for Omnar2? I maintain my fiance's town these days and thanks to the forums providing the initial fruit he's got probably 20-30 perfect cherry trees at any given time, so we have plenty to spare. I also have perfect oranges by the bushelful if anyone needs any of those

_J_

Hargaad of Omnar wrote: »

"_J_":
Omnar2 has these paintings and statues in front of my house.

You are, as always, a gentleman and a scholar.

Cullen

My morning spike was just 248, and its down to 135 this afternoon. I sold out anyway as I'm out tonight and thought some guaranteed profit was better. Hope you peeps have better luck.

Hargaad of Omnar

cabsy wrote: »

I'll probably avoid shaking trees in general since I have a tendency to let mine all fruit up and then go on a massive collecting spree and I would be mildly irritated if someone messed with my system; seems wise to just leave trees alone in other towns, anyway. Do you want some perfect cherries for Omnar2? I maintain my fiance's town these days and thanks to the forums providing the initial fruit he's got probably 20-30 perfect cherry trees at any given time, so we have plenty to spare. I also have perfect oranges by the bushelful if anyone needs any of those

Much appreciated, but I'm still unsure of planting a perfect cherry tree. I do have a bunch of 9 perfect cherries in my inventory in Omnar2 (along with 9 of every other perfect fruit) in case somebody didn't collect their one perfect fruit when they started their town, and I'm mostly just holding on to them until somebody wants some to plant in their town (and then, hopefully, they return however many they borrowed once they bloom on their own perfect trees, and they'll have extra perfect fruit to replant themselves).
I'm sure that I'll eventually plant a perfect cherry tree, but since I can't bloom all the perfect fruit trees in my town, I opted to just not plant the perfect cherry since I have no need for them (other than to trade, but that still means I don't have the other 4 out to share).

_J_ wrote: »

Hargaad of Omnar wrote: »

"_J_":
Omnar2 has these paintings and statues in front of my house.

You are, as always, a gentleman and a scholar.

But, realistically, I can only be one. Which one?

Hargaad of Omnar

Phew...down to the last 5 PWPs (wood bench, log bench, bus stop, scarecrow, geyser), all from an Uchi villager, which I only have one of (Flo, a penguin), and they live closest to my house. Let the grind begin! Should I get bored, I'm happy to visit other towns to help with the visiting badge.

Brainleech

So certain personalities ask for certain town items?

_J_

Brainleech wrote: »

So certain personalities ask for certain town items?

Yup

Hargaad of Omnar

_J_ wrote: »

Brainleech wrote: »

So certain personalities ask for certain town items?

Yup

And, yup.

I not only went through and figured out what projects I didn't have, but I got to group them in an Excel spreadsheet by villager type, and create a related spreadsheet with a re-organized grouping of villager types instead of alphabetical. Fun times. >_>

_J_

Hargaad of Omnar wrote: »

_J_ wrote: »

Brainleech wrote: »

So certain personalities ask for certain town items?

Yup

And, yup.

I not only went through and figured out what projects I didn't have, but I got to group them in an Excel spreadsheet by villager type, and create a related spreadsheet with a re-organized grouping of villager types instead of alphabetical. Fun times. >_>

Does your spreadsheet happen to include all the pwps? Or just the ones you are missing?

Hargaad of Omnar

_J_ wrote: »

Hargaad of Omnar wrote: »

_J_ wrote: »

Brainleech wrote: »

So certain personalities ask for certain town items?

Yup

And, yup.

I not only went through and figured out what projects I didn't have, but I got to group them in an Excel spreadsheet by villager type, and create a related spreadsheet with a re-organized grouping of villager types instead of alphabetical. Fun times. >_>

Does your spreadsheet happen to include all the pwps? Or just the ones you are missing?

As I've received the requests, I've been eliminating them so I knew which ones I had left.
If you want, I'll work on a google excel doc tomorrow for you to copy. It wasn't anything super special.
Also, to note, I said "I got to", as if I actually enjoyed it or felt privileged to do it?

_J_

If you made such a document, I would use and appreciate it.

I spent some time today farming pwps between Hearthstone turns.

This is officially worse than dream town farming.