How to Move All Your Rocks in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

There is no "win" to cross the Animal. Sure, you can pay off all your old loans or get into a five-star city state, but there are an endless number of goals you can set above… freeform. For example, I have built a the dinosaur park has gone to Spielberg's best effort, and made a A spectacular eclipse with dolls, a gnome and, yes, a second month. But there was one job I was scared of: building a rock garden.

Some nitty gritty background: All the islands in the Crossing the Animals: New Horizons it has six rocks from random places near the map. Beating these rocks with a net for iron, stones, clay, and maybe cold, hard money. Breaking the rock completely (by eating a piece of fruit before hitting it with a shovel) will cause the rock to explode in a different random spot the next day.

But what if you want all six rocks to be in a nice, clean corner of the map? Maybe in a proper rock garden? How long would it take luck to give you a complete placement of all six rocks, where you want them?

If done completely, only six days (unless you travel time). But I was not perfect.

Demand begins

There is actually a way to make sure the rocks come from exactly where you want them, but it is a pain in the ass.

Rocks can only come from areas that meet specific needs. Make a 3×3 grid image. In the square in the middle of that grid is your potential rock area. If any of the eight surrounding scenes are blocked by something, the rock will not appear.

What kind of things can stop a rock from growing? Furniture, trees, twin sides, and fences will all block the rocks. As a general rule, if you can walk it, it will prevent the rock from being disturbed.

If you made it to only six suitable spots on your island for your rocks to explode, this is where they will be visible. Easy, right?

Most of my island already has property and thanks to previous efforts, so almost half of the island was unable to find any rocks to begin with. But what about the other side?

Sure, I would cut down on furniture and plant trees everywhere, but that would take a while and make my island unable to move. Instead, I turned to patterns.

Enter the chicken

Standing in the Chicken Pattern in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Another way to prevent the rock from disintegrating is to lower the pattern or the stone path – the rocks will not appear above this. But unlike furniture or shrubs, rocks can come directly from a pattern or walkway (as long as there is open space, which is appropriate). That means you have to be very careful especially when covering your island.

I turned blue chicken from Stardew Valley which I can copy directly from New Horizons. I went around dumping the chicken pattern all over where I thought the rock could come from. Just to be careful, I snapped it all off the cliff and in unplanned areas. Took two solid episodes of ABC Family & # 39; s Greek to get the job done.

But did I miss it? I have to wait until morning to find out.

Oopsies

An ongoing rock garden in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

The next morning I saw that rocks could come from open spaces surrounded by flowers. This emphasizes my timeline back in the day, and I had a lot of downsizing patterns.

After another day of waiting, I finally found one rock to cross where I wanted. And another.

And then I realized I had another problem.

My long-term plan was to make a stone garden, and the rock gardens, often mentioned, were covered in sand. But that's okay, right? I could just use a terraforming tool to get around rocks in the sand. Ah, but what about the small row of grass that surrounds the rocks already laid? It's not that rocky garden, is it?

This means I pressed my timeline back for another two days, because those already laid stones will need to be demolished and the right places will need to be covered in sand before the rocks come from there. If I'm going to do this, I'll do it right.

The last rock

Standing in a rock garden in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

After a week and a half of careful placement of the pattern, all the stones were gone, save only one.

For whatever reason, the last rock had been out of reach for many days. The surrounding space was clear, and nothing was stopping. What's the matter?

I turned to the resident animal expert Julia Lee, who suggested that maybe the game a thought was the stone barred for something? Two spaces below the last rocky area that I laid out a good gong, included a fence and a bamboo bench. So I got rid of all that and added salt to the earth with the pebbles to make sure nothing could stop this last rock from working.

And poof, as of yesterday, my rock garden was done.

The entrance to the toilet

If it's not clear, doing this rock field was a huge pain in the ass and I never wanted to do it again. So I created a protective barrier: the toilet gate.

You see, when I remove all patterns on my entire island, breaking one of these new stones by mistake forces me to start this process again. Maybe one day I will wake up groggy, apple down to apple, accidentally break a rock, and ruin a job for about two weeks.

So is the toilet gate.

As you may or may not know, something is limiting your entry Crossing the Animals: New Horizons. If you eat fruit and sit in one of the toilets in the game, you will automatically release the fruit, thus eliminating your ability to break rocks. There is no choice in the story. You they were to poop.

By blocking the single entry point to the garden and toilet, I ensured that this rock garden would live for generations to come. Protect the most dangerous friend from entering the garden and eating fruit before heading to town, but at least it will stop the accidental stone-breaking.

So there you have it, my rock trip. Now, every day, rather than splashing around on my entire island to smash rocks and hoping to do some nice gold stuff, I can go to my cold garden and take it all out in a minute or two. I have renamed it so I need to dig any holes to make sure I get all eight strikes in between. It's very satisfying.

Don't tell anyone I did this. I don't want to come off as a weirdo.