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ACNH Custom Designs // Coral Bay Crossing

Little Twin Stars Clothing Designs - Sanrio Clothing Codes

🌸 All credit goes to the designer. This blog is only to save, search, and find designs that fit your island.

ACNH Custom Designs // Coral Bay Crossing

Simple City Road Path Design

🌸 All credit goes to the designer. This blog is only to save, search, and find designs that fit your island.

ACNH Custom Designs // Coral Bay Crossing

Pumpkin Garden Flags Design

🌸 All credit goes to the designer. This blog is only to save, search, and find designs that fit your island.

🌿 DESIGNER - @shironokuma

I hope everyone has been enjoying Animal Crossing: New Horizons as much as I have! I’ve been playing ever since the Gamecube days, but only now has the series really given us the freedom to plan every last detail of our towns. The focus is now on taking an island wilderness and turning it into a functional town. So, let me talk about my experience planning my own beautiful island of Coraland:

In short, the map is a big mess. Take a look at all the rivers and cliff edges. The island is broken up into lots of small pieces only accessible using a vaulting pole or a ladder. It’s really inconvenient!

I’d really like to make this place more accessible by foot, so I’m going to need to install some bridges and ramps. But those projects are expensive, and each one may take a few days to come to fruition. As a city planner, I’m faced with a question: What’s the most convenient way I can connect up all these pieces of land? Can I minimize the number of projects I’ll have to pay for?

To answer these questions, first we’re going to mess around with this map a little to make the problem easier to visualize. Then we’re going to turn to an area of math that deals with these types of problems: graph theory.

For those of you who haven’t seen this announcement, tumblr recently made some changes to the iOS version of the app, purportedly to comply with Apple’s content guidelines. These changes took effect on Dec 21, starting in version 22.5.1 of the iOS app. As some of you may recall, Apple’s strict guidelines were the driving force for the infamous Great Purge of 2018, which coincidentally also happened around this time of year, but it seems banning all of the female-presenting nipples wasn’t good enough for Apple.

Below is a summary of the important changes. Note that these changes technically ONLY affect those using the iOS app. If you’re accessing tumblr through a different app or operating system (Google Chrome, Android app, etc) it won’t affect you directly but it will affect your followers who use iOS so you should definitely be aware of it.

The list of banned tags has been expanded. As before, there’s no way to know which words or phrases have been banned until you try searching for them, in which case you’ll either get no search results or the following message: “This content has been hidden because of potentially suggestive or explicit content.” You may think this doesn’t concern you if you don’t post explicit material, but do not make the mistake of expecting the banned tags to be logical or reasonable. I’ve already encountered multiple completely innocuous posts (random fandom gifsets) that seem to be hidden on iOS for no discernible reason.

Blogs that have been flagged as explicit can no longer be viewed. Previously, flagged blogs just had their posts hidden from searches, but if you knew the username you could still visit it after clicking through a warning about sensitive content. Now you can’t access it at all.

Likes and reblogs from blogs that have been flagged will no longer show up in your notes. This one won’t affect most people’s user experience as much as the others, but it does mean you may be missing notes. It’s unclear if likes and reblogs from flagged blogs will still count towards the overall note total (and only be missing from the activity feed and note viewer) but I suspect that’s the case.

THE BIG ONE: ANY POST TAGGED WITH A BANNED TAG WILL NO LONGER SHOW UP ON YOUR DASHBOARD. Previously, if you tagged a post with a banned word or phrase (even if the words were used inside another tag), that post would not show up in searches, but your followers would still be able to see it on their dashboard. Now those posts are hidden from your own followers as well. This includes both original posts and reblogs. And if that wasn’t bad enough, here’s the real kicker: even if you don’t tag something with one of the banned words, if the OP used a banned tag, any reblogs of that post will not show up on anyone’s dashboard (on the iOS app). The only saving grace here, and I hate to even call it that, is that the blocked posts are still visible if you visit a blog directly or if you have post notifications turned on.

As usual, tumblr was extremely unclear and evasive about all of this in their official announcement. Not surprising, of course, since if more people were aware of these new draconian tactics I can’t imagine there wouldn’t be more of an uproar about it. Tumblr claims that these changes are somewhat temporary and that they are currently working on something that will allow for a less restricted iOS experience, but they refuse to say what that something is and when it will be implemented. And let’s just say, considering their track record, I’m not hopeful.

All of this is horrible and infuriating for many reasons, but the worst part is how insanely counterproductive it is to creating the “safe” environment tumblr (or more specifically Apple) supposedly wants.

Tags have always been used for both blog organization and filtering purposes. Tagging posts with triggers and content warnings is a common practice that gives users the ability to filter out content they may find upsetting or just don’t don’t want to see for whatever reason. By choosing to ban a bunch of unlisted “sensitive content” tags, all they’re doing is encouraging people who want to share that kind of content to come up with alternative less well-known tags or simply not tag that content at all anymore if they want it to show up on their follower’s dashboards, thereby making it more likely for someone to encounter it when they didn’t want to.

Ahead of any official news finally coming about Animal Crossing, I want to spew a handful of wants and ideas I have. One of my biggest concerns, is how small the island looks and how this will affect the limit on villagers we can have. I was disappointed that NL only allowed 10 villagers, and that we have never got near the Gamecubes 15 villager limit, and would like to reach this again.

Let’s say you have your regular 8-10 villagers, each with their own upgradable house, like yours, and each week they slowly expand, (and potentially ask for your help decorating like in ACHHD) and gradually destroy more of your precious hybrids to all sides, taking up space in the town, until eventually you can’t risk them moving and leaving a hole in your manicured gardens. But you still want to cycle villagers.

Id love if we could unlock the option to build a block of villager apartments, which can be upgraded to house up to 6 more villagers. (I firmly believe we will probably be able to build and expand things like the Town Hall ourselves.) Evetually ending with a 2 floor building like below, containing 6 villagers (3 on each floor) with their standard 6x6 rooms which they can redecorate.

With a hall / waiting area (which could totally be manned by Copper or Booker!) to connect the villagers living areas. This could allow us to have 14-16 residents at a time, without them taking up a load more space. 

I’m then hoping, that after certain milestones are met, our island becomes a tourist attraction, and we get the option to build another building which functions much like the apartments, but is a hotel. (I think Lyle and Lottie can run a hotel, and offer travel insurance right?) This has 6 rooms we can decorate (Hello Lottie!), and depending on the furniture we use, it can influence the personality and species of the animals which visit. Each visitor would then stay for at least a week, and also freely wander your island.