Things they should put in the next Animal Crossing game.
A tool box. 9 Slots to hold one of each tool and you cycle through them like normal but it only takes one slot of inventory.
A photo album. Big enough to hold like twenty pictures so you don’t have to clutter up your house or choose which ones to display. When you open it it displays the pictures on the bottom screen with their info and quote. (The ability to hang pictures on the wall would be nice too.)
An aquarium. Maybe multiple sizes but lets you hold more than one fish at a time. You could also get decorations for it? Maybe make a shop that’s run by a fish/aquatic animal NPC to sell you aquariums and stuff?
An apartment building pwp. Build an apartment complex in your town that like 5 villagers can live in. When you walk in the door it asks you who you want to visit and takes you to their floor/room.
A bigger camping area. Maybe make it so like 3 can camp at once? Also let the campers wander around your town.
That’s all I can think of right this second… I think those things would be nice.
More Stuff:
The ability to Hug/Kiss/High-Five/Tickle/Lovingly Pat your villagers based on your friendship level. Villagers you just met you can high-five/ticket but only when you’re at the highest friendship level can you smooch them. (Gender wouldn’t matter because it would be a peck on the cheek, it’s still a game for kids after all, but boy or girl characters would be able to kiss boy or girl villagers on the cheek etc.)
Plush Animal Versions of villagers that you get for extremely high friendship levels
A greenhouse (Not actually my idea but I agree with the person who suggested it) where you can grow flowers and trees, with your level of care and attentiveness to the plants within resulting in higher chances of hybrids and non-native perfect fruits.
Separate storage, like fridges, dressers, and closets all have their own storage slots. (Meaning if you open a fridge you won’t see the same items that are in a closet but all closets are connected)
Cooking for your Friends: invite villagers over to eat with you and play like a mini game to cook them their favorite meal.
Even more stuf:
Go on excursions with Villagers. Like “Let’s go to the museum together!” or “Let’s meet at the Cafe!” instead of just visiting each other’s houses.
Stackable flowers. Flowers of the same type and color can be stacked like fruit. Add the ability to make custom bouquets for decorating or giving as gifts.
I think there should be a grocery store, a school, and a movie theater on main street.
Maybe some more mythical creature NPCs? Like a Pegasus or a Gryphon.
Better ways to display bugs. I can’t even see the firefly, it should be in a jar.
More design space would be really nice. Having 10 slots for designs is great, but in HHD you get like 40-50! Maybe a design sketchbook? Or have the ability to lock designs you place. Like go into town hall and have an option that’s like, “Would you like to lock your current designs in place in town?” or something along those lines so that you don’t have to clutter up your design slots with pathway patterns after you’ve placed everything the way you like it and you don’t have to worry about accidentally erasing anything.
Yet MORE Stuff:
Nocturnal Animals! (I have already begun drawing what I think they’d look like!) Bats, Owls, Raccoons, Coyotes, Skunks, Possums, Wombats, Pangolins, Foxes, and Armadillos are all nocturnal animals that could be added in. They would only be active after 8 P.M., perfect for players who like playing at night time!
The ability to upgrade to a 24 Hour store. For the same reason as above, some players like to play well into the wee hours of the morning.
A spa on mainstreet could be good, like a little mud bath you can climb into and for the rest of the day your skin is kind of glittery and the villagers comment on how relaxed you look.
I can’t believe I haven’t mentioned this in an earlier reblog, but more customization options for your appearance! More skin tones! You shouldn’t have to go tan on the island everyday if your irl skin is darker than the default setting and you want to match.
Shampoodle should sell hair dye. Yes you can go through the whole thing to get your hair redone with her for 3,000 bells but you should be able to buy some hair dye so you can change your hair color without messing up the cut. Since the 3,000 bells covers cut AND color, you should be able to choose from an array of hair colors for 1,500 bells. And maybe put in the option to get JUST a haircut for 1,500 bells. I like a specific hair color most of the time and making sure I pick that one every single time is kind of hard.
Backpacks and accessories you can wear on your back. Like costume wings! Little butterfly or fairy wings so you can run around being adorable.
When Blanca comes to visit she should give out masks. Either of the villagers so you can collect them or just basic animal masks. If you get a mask of a villager and you wear it while speaking to that villager they should have a special reaction. (”Whoa! It’s like looking in a mirror!” “Is that you, *blank*? You look just like me!” “Hey now there’s only room for ONE *villager* in THIS town!” etc.)
Some ideas I’ve seen from other people:
Credit to @miko2495:
Ability to travel, similar to traveling to the Island but to different places, including:
A forest campsite, with your own RV or Tent. (Maybe there could be games similar to the Island Tours here, and the ability to find mushrooms year round.)
A bigger beach with a stall to buy Ice Cream, Lollipops, Drinks, and Hot Dogs. Maybe like a boardwalk? With a ferris wheel! Or a roller coaster! Combining this with the carnival idea, maybe make a huge Circus you can go visit, with rides and carnival games where you can win stuffed animals or collect Tickets (Maybe even MEOW coupons!)
Travel to the town you build in Happy Home Designer, by linking the games together.
Visit your In-game parents! Go visit your “hometown” and say hello to them! It would be nice to see what your “mom and dad” look like according to how you make your character appear! OR maybe they can come visit you and you can show them around the town and let them comment on how well you’re doing! I know for a lot of people who play the animal crossing games their irl parents aren’t super supportive, so maybe having your “mom” come see you and tell you how proud she is of you wouldbe nice.
Credit to @nova-crossing:
Send letters to your friends without having to visit their towns, maybe set up an “email” where you can log onto the WiFi and send them to your friends via spotpass.
More colors for flowers! I personally have been trying to make a rainbow of Tulips but there’s no green so it’s incomplete. Maybe expand the hybrid options to include more shades. Green and Teal were suggested by Nova, I’d also like to see more shades of Pink.
Credit to @akmazianisgay:
More variation in town structure, rather than the town with a river and a beach, maybe a town with more rivers, or a town where you have little bridges leading to the areas where houses are built. A mountain town with cliffs. A larger beach town. More diversity.
credit to @bellionaire:
Windy days where the trees shake and the Bell PWPs chime. Have villagers comment on wind (”Wow it sure is breezy today!” “I feel like I’m going to get blown away!”).
More types of flowers! Bellionare said Sunflowers and Water Lilies. I’d like to see Tigerlilies, Chrysanthemums, and Marigolds.
More conversation options! (This goes along with my earlier ideas of being able to invite Villagers yourself instead of having to wait for them to invite you.)
Key phrases in letters that make Villagers respond a certain way. I.E. “How are you?” = “I’m doing well!” or “I’m feeling sick.” / “Did you have fun at *X event*?” = “Yes I did!” or “I wanted more *blank*.” / “Want to come over on X/XX?” = “I’ll be there!” or “I can’t make it, maybe another day!”
I’ve seen this a lot, bring back the Constellations! Celeste is adorable, and she definitely deserves more love.
Send mail to NPCs, like fanmail to KK Slider. (That’s a super cute idea!)
Grass as a plantable item. Similar to bushes but you can walk through it. In that strain, maybe a wheat field? or a cornfield? Since you could walk through it normally you could make a cornmaze! Fun for fall and festival themed towns!
Fruit bushes in addition to fruit trees, Strawberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, etc.
Villagers that are initially cold or mean that you have to become friends with gradually. (I personally like that the Villagers are all nice, so maybe have this as a Title menu option you could turn on or off? Put down as “Tougher Villager Interactions.”)
A hide-and-seek competition! Maybe after you’ve played hide-and-seek enough times they decide to have a tourney! And the ability to let YOU hide would be nice.
Give Isabelle a break! Or a day off! Poor puppy works too hard.
A icon in your Encyclopedia that shows if you’ve donated already. Like a star, or even a stamp of Blathers. (FANTASTIC IDEA!)
A library PWP on Main Street, with a Librarian that either likes you if you’re quiet (walk slowly, etc.) or scolds you if you’re loud (running, emoting, etc). Adding onto this, the ability to check out books with short stories inside that your Mayor can read. Maybe a bug collecting book that makes more rare bugs appear for 24 hours after you read the book. Or a gardening book that boosts your chance or hybrids/perfect fruits. Etc. And fines if you don’t “return” the book after a week.
PWPs for the beach specifically, like beach umbrellas or a seaside shop/restaurant.
Credit to @crystal-village:
Gyroid Exhibit! (GREAT IDEA. As much as I personally don’t really like gyroids, I would be more willing to collect them if I could build an exhibit with them!)
Houses for the NPCs that you can visit. (Maybe all the NPCs live in an apartment building, or a small development you can reach by walking off Main Street?)
Villagers interacting with their homes/items more like they do in HHD
Bring back the UFO event (I don’t know what that is but I’d love to see it!)
Credit to @mayor–anne:
More character editing. Freckles and Eyebrows. More hairstyles (I AGREE).
Height and Weight options. (I can see why this isn’t an option now, but maybe in a later game they can swing it :])
Newspapers (like the bulletin board, only you can have it delivered to you?)
More ideas that I have had ( @calicoscrossing ):
A credit card that links straight to your bell account so you don’t have to carry around 10 bags of coins to buy one of Gracie’s pieces. Maybe make it like a real card and charge a “monthly fee” of 5 bells.
Bigger flower patch PWPs. The 4 plot one is nice, but they should have a 9 and 16 plot option too so you can make a nice big flower garden in your town.
When you lay down in your bed at home you should get the option to take a nap and have a short “dream” mini-game, like cloud hopping or flying or other silly stuff, with a special emote if you “fail” where you wake with a start and a popping dream balloon. (Kind of like the dream games in Tomodachi Life.)
A writer NPC that hangs out in the Library or at Brewster’s, and when you speak to them they ask for help writing their story. After you help them a few times they thank you and maybe a week later you get a letter saying they got the story published and inside is a bag of bells as a thank you? Or a copy of the book.
Create your own town events! This would be hard I know, but maybe you want to celebrate a big thing you did IRL so you ask Isabelle to plan a small event in town where the Villagers can come congratulate you. (Example: You graduate high school, so you select “Graduation” from the list of “Event Starters.” Villagers say things like “You worked so hard, congrats!” “I’m so proud you stuck with it!” “You’re on to bigger and better things!”) Just a small thing in town square with balloons that you can pick the color of and a generic banner that says “Congrats!” or something like that. On a sadder note you could have an event after the death of a loved one where the Villagers come and comfort you. (Example: Select “Loss” and there’s black balloons and the Villagers all dress in black and say things like, “I’m sorry for your loss.” “It’s ok to be sad.” “I’ll cry with you if you need it.”)
A FLASHLIGHT. For when you’re walking around at night. Have levels like with other tools. Basic Flashlight casts a small beam of light, but flickers occasionally and after 6 hours of use the batteries die and you have to get a new one. Silver Flashlight lasts 12 hours and casts a stronger/wider beam of light. Gold Flashlight could be more like a lantern and casts a bright circle of light and never runs out of power. Drawbacks of the flashlight: Scares away fish and bugs.
If there are any ideas on this list you would like to see DRAWN, please please please message me and let me know! I will happily doodle out ideas! I will be drawing a lot of these anyway, but requests will be given priority! :)
Here is an example of my work!
Should I just make a new post at this point?
Credit to @rorycrossingtown:
More customization options for clothes, such as: Pants, Socks, Shoes, and different models for hats, Like Top Hats and Berets. I’d like to see a Sunhat option, I like big floppy hats!
The option to have “invisible pixels” so that you can make your own crowns or headbands without having to put in your skin tone/hair color. (I could see this being used to make ripped jeans, or even “underwear” sets lol!) This would also be useful in making paths! So that you wouldn’t have to edit them every time the season changed!
Bring back the bottled notes. Maybe have little trinkets inside too?
Longer hairstyles (I thought I’d brought this up earlier in the thread but I hadn’t!) and more wigs, and the ability to customize the wigs. Maybe you could take the wigs to Shampoodle and she could dye them? Also I’d love to see braided hairstyles, or maybe a “Rapunzel” wig that drags behind you on the ground?
Minigame where you help Isabelle with paperwork, similar to how you can help Brewster. (I like this idea!)
Credit to @thellamamongler:
More diversity in villager personality. Personality subtypes? So that not every snooty or uchi villager acts the exact same way.
Credit to @princess-of-crepes:
A news broadcasting station with daily reports. A little reporter NPC could list like the Top 3 things that happened in town that day. Topics would include: Move-ins/Move-outs, Tourneys like the fishing and bug catching contests, Whether certain NPCS have been spotted in town that day (Savannah, Phineas, Pete, etc.) What Holidays/Birthdays are coming up, etc. You would be able to visit the station and talk to the reporter NPC. I think the reporter/newscaster should be a little bird! (”A little bird told me…”) lol! And you could watch it from any TV, when you turned on the TV it could ask, “Do you want to watch the news?” and then show the broadcast on the top screen and have a little TV remote on the bottom screen where you could turn it off.
A shopping mall, maybe combine the stores on Main Street into a big mall? Maybe have it as the final upgrade option to T&T? Add in a little restaurant and a kiosk for accessories!
A phone for your villagers to call. Or, rather, you have it as an option to call them, set up meetings, and check where they are. But if you set up a meeting, they can call five minutes before asking, “Are we still on” or “Where are you?” I think a little cell phone would be super cute! Like if you go to the island and forget you were supposed to meet someone, they could call you and remind you to come back!
Different biomes for towns, as has been mentioned earlier on the thread. A desert village, a tropical rainforest, etc. You could decide what kind of town you live in on the train at the opening of the game.
Some more ideas I had (@calicoscrossing)
More types of trees! Maybe not more fruit trees, since there’s already so many, but different kinds of regular trees. Like Birch trees! Or Japanese maple trees with red leaves! Or Dogwood trees! Just more tree variety!
A puddle item that you can place inside your house. This might sound weird but if you have like a water themed room, like with the mermaid furniture, you can place “puddles” on the empty floor space and it splashes when you walk through it. and the puddles would “merge together” if they were next to each other and become a big puddle.
Overhead items like the ones in HHD. I want a ceiling fan! Or hanging banners! Those items are really cute!
“Magic” you can buy from Katrina. Like a little bag that when you activate it shoots off little tiny fireworks or sparkles from your hands or something. Would be pretty useless but would make for cute pictures!
More dance animations! The Shrunk Funk Shuffle is cute, but I want my Mayor to twirl and curtsy or mambo and snap! Maybe make a dance studio! With a Black Swan NPC! And she teaches you a different dance every time you bring her a fish to eat or something! You can have a library of dances just like the emotions!
A broom tool. You can carry it around (like I would carry it with my witch costume) and you can sweep in random spots and find bells or uncover bugs. If you sweep on the beach you can find more shells, etc.
More held items like the glowsticks and such. I want a little toy sword that you can carry around when you’re dressed as the knight. And a whisk for the chef costume. Maybe if you’re carrying the sword the villagers react differently, like saying “Careful with that!” or “Off to slay some dragons, ___?”
In the same strain, a customized picket sign. So you can carry around a little protest sign that says whatever you want! “No more roaches!” “Re-elect Mayor ____!” “I like apples!” Etc. Just select the design from your list and you can carry it as a sign. Press “A” and your character waves the sign and stomps their foot with a grumpy face. (Maybe when customizing the sign it asks you how the sign makes you feel and you can choose “Happy” “Sad” or “Angry” and it changes the animation. “Angry” = Stomping with a grumpy face, “Sad” = Crying loudly, “Happy” = Waving the sign and smiling brightly.) This would be really cool for pictures around Pride month! I’d love to give my Mayor a little Demi Pride sign and have her wave it around with a happy face on!
If there are any ideas on this list you would like to see DRAWN, please please please message me and let me know! I will happily doodle out ideas! I will be drawing a lot of these anyway, but requests will be given priority! :)
For clarification: I mean ideas from this post, not just any requests! I have commissions open if you would like me to draw something specifically for you!
Here is an example of my work!
The Tag for pictures is #acnl ideas illustrated, at the time of this posting I’ve only drawn 2, but I’m hoping to schedule out a time to draw these so that I can upload a few a week!
With Animal Crossing Switch coming soon I thought of some more things:
Temporary Tattoos! They would have to be simple, like hearts and stars or smiley faces, but maybe you could have the option to design them. Maybe have a new Porcupine NPC who runs a tattoo parlor named Inker or Tat! (I can already see people designing little rainbows and pride flags for pride month!)
Some new wetsuit/bathing suit options, like ones that look like mermaid tails! Maybe paired with a seashell bra for girls and tank tops for boys, or the ability to choose!
Fish NPCs! Maybe you can use the wetsuits to dive down to an Atlantis-esque area with Fish, Octopus, Dolphin, and Whale NPCs! While underwater with them you would have a bubble of air around your head and you could buy special things while there, like deep sea coral furniture and things. And if you bring your net you can catch special fish and underwater bugs, maybe even the jellyfish!
While still on the subject of water, when your friends visit you should be able to play in the water with them, or do things like synchronized swimming and water dancing! Maybe you can have a beach ball or a volleyball PWP and play together!
I like the idea of having a courthouse style building where you can help solve minor disputes between Villagers. You can dress up like a judge in the black robes and wig, or put on a cute little suit and be a lawyer and help out. It would of course all be really small things like “X borrowed my shirt and never returned it!” or “X spread a rumor about me!” And the resolutions would be like getting the guilty party to apologize.
That’s all I’ve got for right now!
Oh I never clarified an earlier one, but now I’ve thought of more for it!
MORE PERSONALITIES!
More variety in the way the villagers act!
Also, make the personalities gender neutral! I want to see a Jock Girl and an Uchi Boy!
I thought of 4 possible new personalities: Kooky/Goofy:
Very upbeat and friendly, much like Peppy, but has the chance of randomly cycling through behaviors seen in other personalities, such as randomly yelling or suddenly becoming very snobby towards the player, or displaying extra affection. Will give randomized gifts.
(Think Batty from Ferngully)
Nervous/Skittish:
Very withdrawn, a little hard to befriend as this personality will mainly keep to themselves. Will only ask the player for favors if either talked to multiple times in a row or if the friendship with them is very high. Sweats a lot and stammers when speaking.
(Think Porky Pig from Looney Tunes)
Mysterious:
Like telling riddles and asking for things in roundabout ways. Ex. “I want something from you, but you have to guess!” Can sometimes be found quoting Katrina the Fortuneteller or giving similarly mysterious advice, Ex. “I told X that they should prepare for rain even when the sun is out! I don’t think they understood what I meant.”
(Basically Katrina as a Villager)
Flirty/Playful:
Villagers with this personality want to spend lots of time with the player, and invite them to play more frequently than other villagers. It’s easy to max out the friendship level with these Villagers because they really want to be friends with everyone. Can be a little annoying, and often won’t get along with Snooty villagers.
(Think Tsunoda from Aggretsuko, only more genuine)
