It is not very easy to have a perfect town in Animal Crossing, but it is achievable and it is certainly worth it. Having a perfect town means having the right amount of trees, flowers, weeds, and junk that is in your town. Such an achievement is a matter of pride for many Animal Crossing players, but it also has real in-game benefits. When you have a perfect town you can get the golden watering can, and a new flower called Jacob's ladder. This wikiHow teaches you how to achieve a perfect town in Animal Crossing.
Steps
Part 1
Part 1 of 4:
Getting Started
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Understand what a “Perfect Town” is. Prior to Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Your town is divided into 16 acres. These acres are 16 squares by 16 squares each. A perfect town should have at least eight perfect acres, and eight good acres. How good an acre is is measured by the number of trees, flowers, weeds, and junk in that acre.
- You can have one item on the ground per square.
- In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, "Perfect Town" has been replaced with "Perfect Island" in the Island Evaluation system.
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Mark out each acre. This is so you’ll know how much trees and flowers you should have. The best way to do this is to choose a pattern from your inventory. Start at the top left (or top right) corner of your town and count 16 squares to the right.
- Put the pattern on the 16th square and on the one next to it to the right, which is the first square of the next acre. Knowing that that square is part of the acre, count 16 squares to the right again, and mark the 16th and the first in the next acre.
- Keep marking, and do this vertically too, until you have finished the whole map.
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Upgrade Resident Services Center to a house (New Horizons). Before you can check your island status in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you must upgrade the Resident Services tent to a house. Then Isabelle moves in and you can talk to Isabelle at the Resident Services Center to check on your island status. In order to upgrade Resident Services Center, you must complete the following tasks: [1] X Research source
- Have Blathers move to the island and help him set up his museum.
- Help the Nook kids open Nook's Cranny..
- Build a bridge.
- Help three new villagers move in.
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Part 2
Part 2 of 4:
Building Public Works Projects
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Talk to Isabelle. When you go to Isabelle in the Town Hall and talk to her by pressing A , you have the option of inquiring about citizen satisfaction in your town. Isabelle will then give you guidance on how to improve.
- In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, talk to Tom Nook at his counter at Resident Services Center to start a public works project.
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Start a public works project. In order to do this, go sit in the mayor’s chair in the back of the Town Hall. Isabelle will approach and talk to you. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, select “Let’s talk infrastructure” when you talk to Tom Nook at his counter to get building recipes.
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Select "public works projects". There will be two options for what you can do in the mayor’s chair: public work projects and ordinances. For this, pick public works projects. Then, you will see the list of available public work projects. Choose the one you like most and you’ll be off to the next step!
- Building upgrades, such as the Dream Suite, do not count towards the number of public works projects as far as the citizen satisfaction is concerned.
- Remember that some public works projects reduce citizen satisfaction. This can be any project that emits a large amount of unnatural light (e.g., video screen) or is industrial (e.g., drilling rig).
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Find a location for your project. Isabelle will tell you that you need to find a place for the project to be placed. You can then run around town, and Isabelle will follow you. Once you have a spot you like, talk to Isabelle again by pressing A .
- If the spot is large enough and not blocked by nearby features (such as a river), then Lloid the gyroid will be placed and you can start collecting funds.
- If the spot does not provide ample space, you will need to keep looking.
- Move all items such as flowers away from the desired area beforehand. This mean they won't be destroyed from your public works project.
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Raise the bells needed for the project. Of course, you need to collect the funds! Every public works project has a different funding amount that is listed when you first pick from the available projects. Your citizens will chip in a small number of bells, but it is up to you to collect the bulk.
- In New Horizons, instead of funding, you will need to find the ingredients for the building project and craft it yourself.
- Once you have completely funded the project by donating bells to the gyroid, the project will be completed and built the next day.
- If you have friends over at your town, they can also donate towards your public works project.
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Build as much as you can. Oftentimes, you’ll find yourself being told that your citizens want more public works projects—build them!
- Keep in mind there is a limited number of public works projects you can have.
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Part 3
Part 3 of 4:
Making Your Town Beautiful
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Plant a good number of trees. To plant trees, have a sapling in your inventory (purchased from the garden center), and follow the same process with the flowers. To plant fruit trees, you must first dig a hole with your shovel, have a fruit in your inventory, and then bury that piece of fruit.
- Have the right balance of trees. Too many will cause a decrease in satisfaction. Isabelle can help you gauge whether or not you have too many or too few trees; if she doesn’t mention trees at all, then you know you’ve hit the right balance.
- Trees must have at least one space between each other in order to grow and absorb enough nutrients. If you try to plant one tree too close to another, it will wilt and die. If you plant a tree right next to a cliff, river, pond, building, etc., it won't grow.
- You cannot plant trees on the beach except coconut and banana trees. Coconut and banana trees can't be planted on the grass.
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Plant flowers often. To plant flowers, have them in your inventory. Then, when you’re standing in the spot that you want the flowers to be planted, tap on the flower bag, or flowers and hit “Plant.” The flowers will then drop directly under your character’s feet.
- You can purchase flower seeds from the garden center off Main Street. In New Horizons, you can purchase flower seeds from Nook's Cranny.
- Planting flowers of the same type near each other is beneficial as it may result in hybrid flowers.
- Don't have too many flowers, but not too few either. Keep in mind that weeds cancel out flowers on a 1:1 ratio. Likewise, if you don't want to get rid of some weeds like dandelion puffs or clover patches, you can just plant some extra flowers.
- Flowers also substitute trees if there is too few trees in an acre, and they can also cancel out trees if there are too many of them.
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Place lots of decorations around your island (New Horizons). Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the first game where you can place furniture and decorations outside your home. You can purchase furniture and decorations, or craft them using recipes. Place as many decorations around your island as you can. Use a variety of decorations. Don't just use the same ones over and over again.
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Build lots of fences (New Horizons). Once you've unlocked fencing in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you'll want to build as many fences as possible. Add them to as many buildings, houses, and gardens as you can.
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Enact the Beautiful Town Ordinance. In fact, it is the first thing you should consider doing. Setting the ordinance in place will result in flowers almost never wilting and weeds growing less frequently, thus aiding you in your mission to keep the town beautiful.
- You can only have on ordinance in your town at a time, meaning that if you have the Beautiful Town ordinance, you cannot have the Early Bird, Night Owl, or Bell Boom ordinance in place.
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Use the Island Designer app (New Horizons). As soon as you unlock the Island Designer app on your Nookphone in Animal Crossing: New Horizon, you can use it to build roads, modify the terrain, and build inclines to climb ledges and cliffs. You can buy more terrain types at the Nook Stop.
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Get rid of weeds. If you have time-traveled a lot without caring about how much weeds there will be, chances are your town is by now flooded with them. It could be very frustrating to think of having to get rid of every single one , but honestly, it’s completely worth it.
- Your town will look amazing just because there are no weeds, and it is not as hard as it may appear at first, be patient.
- You can pay Leif from the garden shop to de-weed your town.
- Your town will also have a weeding day where you get a prize for picking out all the weeds in your town. The specific day varies depending on where you live.
- De-weeding your town can contribute to getting your weeding badge.
- Invite friends over to help with the weeding and the job will E completed much quicker.
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Check if rafflesias are still there. If there was a rafflesia somewhere in your town, then you might want to see if there are more. Rafflesias are big red stinky flowers (considered as weeds) that appear when there are too many weeds in your town.
- You can get rid of a rafflesia if you pluck every single weed in your whole town.
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Pick up junk from the ground. This also includes junk that is buried. Make sure to get rid of them because they are unacceptable in having either perfect or good acre.
- Fruits, however, and shells are not considered junk, nor are custom designs that you put down, so they can stay.
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Part 4
Part 4 of 4:
Getting a Perfect Town
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Make sure your town is populated to capacity. Your town can hold at most ten villagers, and being capped is your best bet for achieving perfect town status. Having fewer than nine or ten can result in less satisfaction.
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Check the condition of your town. To check the status of your town, talk Pelly or Phyllis (or Isabelle in New Leaf) at the town hall. In New Horizons, talk to Isabelle at the Resident Services Center. Once you've built public works projects and beautified your town, check with Pelly or Phyllis if there are anything else you must do.
- Isabelle (or Pelly and Phyllis before New Leaf) will roughly tell you what the problem is, but you will have to figure out where the problem is. She will either tell you that you have to add more trees, get rid of trees, add flowers, get rid of rubbish or get rid of weeds, or she might tell you that this town is horrible which means you have to do all of the above.
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Reap the benefits. For as long as you keep your town beautiful, build many public works projects in it, and keep it fully populated, you will achieve Perfect Town status. Benefits will be in the form of new public works projects, rare mushrooms, and the golden watering can.
- If you want to get the golden watering can, just keep your town perfect for at least 16 full consecutive days, and Pelly or Phylis (or Isabelle in New Leaf) will give it to you. Ask about the environment every day and keep in mind that the condition of your town will be judged at 6AM each day. [2] X Research source
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QuestionCan I use fruit trees in my acres of land?Community AnswerYes, you can. Fruit trees are considered regular trees, so it's fine.
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QuestionWhat's the best PWP to put in my town? What's the worst?Community AnswerFrom a technical standpoint, there's no best and worst. I'm not a fan of the PWPs suggested by lazy villagers. I don't really like the illuminated things, either, because during the day they aren't very pretty.
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QuestionWhat should I do if I don't have Pelly or Phyllis?SparkerLifeCommunity AnswerOne of them is always ready to assist at the post office. If you have not hacked, they should be there.
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- To get golden roses: First, plant two red roses together. Soon, they should produce a black rose. Now, wait for it to wilt. When it has wilted, water it with your golden watering can. The next day, they will be golden! The amazing thing about golden roses is that they never wilt, and never need watering. Cool, right?
- You cannot have the Beautiful Town ordinance to make golden roses, as the ordinance will mean flowers won't wilt.
Thanks - To understand how big each square is, just open your inventory and go to where the patterns are. Drag one of the patterns on the bottom right icon to place them on the floor. The space that is occupied by the pattern is one square. Understand that there can never be two trees, fruits, furniture, residents, plants, weeds, or anything on one square.Thanks
- Be careful planting bamboo shoots, they spread easily. Dig them up if you see them growing involuntarily.
- If you can, try planting bamboo shoots in a compacted space to minimise spreading.
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1. Map the acres in your town in games before New Leaf.
2. Build public works projects.
3. Plant a decent balance of tress and flowers around your town or island.
4. Add decorations to your town or island.
5. Pull all the weeds in your town or island.
6. Pick up all the junk.
7. Talk to Isabelle to find out what your town is missing.
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