#acnl tricks

Prevent Hermit Crabs from Spawning

I don’t think I've heard much about prevention as much as de-spawning so I thought I’d provide a tip for those who love bug hunting on the island in Animal Crossing New Leaf. The hermit crabs I find spawn a lot and because they disguise themselves as other shells, and as long as they CAN disguise themselves, they will.

Several months ago I decided to experiment by filling the entire coastline with shells (not the type that the hermit crabs use as a disguise) so that there was no space for them to spawn.  You’re probably wondering “how did you do that? You can’t take shells from your town to the island.” I know, that’s exactly it. You need to use the shells from the island. Granted this will take several visits to fully set up, given that you have done all the other things to help with beetles spawning (common knowledge, these are not my own observations)

Your saplings, pines and bushes are chopped down

Your flowers have been uprooted

A lot of unwanted bugs will spawn if these things haven’t been done, which makes beetles much less likely to spawn.

Once those things have been done, you want to pick up all the seashells you see and drop them on the grass. Don’t miss a single shell. Every time you return to the island, more will spawn on the coastline but the ones you left on the grass will still be there. What you want to do is repeat this process until you've pretty much covered the grass in seashells. After that, pick them all up and line the coastline with them. Make sure to take into account diagonals and place two rows of shells if you can.

HOW TO GET YOUR VILLAGER TO MOVE WHERE YOU WANT!

So this process can take a few tries to get them in the right spot, it’s random where the Nook’s Home’s Reserve plot will go, but if it’s in a spot you absolutely hate, there’s a few things to do.

1. DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT login into the game on the day that a villager is moving in with any of your already saved characters. FOR EXAMPLE; If you went to another persons town and asked someone to move in and they accept, the preparations should begin the next day, meaning the plot will be laid at 6a the following day.

2. You want to start a new character on the day that a villager is moving in. There’s one of two ways to do this;

Way 1 (for non TTers); Wait till the next day, start up ACNL, start a new character in your town, go through the train ride and all of Rovers question.

Way 2 (for TTers); Time travel with your mayor character to 5:50a, log out of the game, wait about 10-15 minutes and then log back into the game WITH A NEW CHARACTER, go through the train ride and all of rover’s questions.

3. After getting into the town with your new character look around for the new plot, if it’s in a spot you don’t like simply shut the game off and once again create a NEW character, go through the train ride, get into town and see where the plot has now moved.

4. Once you have found a spot you like you must go through the process of saving with your newly made character (Don’t worry you can demolish the house when you’re all done.) via placing a house after talking to Isabelle and Tom Nook