Animal Crossing New Horizons - 5 TERRAFORMING Ideas & Inspiration You Need!

Looking for ideas and inspiration to terraform your island? Look no further! I'll be sharing 5 Terraforming Ideas & Inspiration you need for your islands. From creating unique water features, to little coves and so much more, I'll be showing off some of my islands terraformed sections with you to hopefully inspire you to get terraforming your own spaces!

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[CrossingChannel]

Hey! I tried to make this video more casual and less scripted than usual, so I hope you enjoy it. Have you been terraforming recently?

[brownfoxbooks]

I love that you’ve been letting your sense of humour shine more and more with your editing! Perfect mix of informative and funny content, “duck tangent cancelled” took me out 💀

[breadstick]

HOW DOES YOUR ISLAND SO GOOD. I started my island a year ago and it still looks like I started yesterday 😶

[Basey]

Please do more videos like this. I have had the game almost a year and basically have a trash hoarder island lol. I want to decorate & terraform but it feels so overwhelming at this point. Videos like this, straight to the point, are really helpful for ideas!

[lisaozenich]

I need to drop the realism. My brain goes "where's the water coming from tho" and I can't add water unless it's connected to a river/pond 😭 I'm going to try it out though, my island is so boring. Gonna try these out before the expansion/update!

[fogsmog]

Those waterfalls are adorable, I like the crescent design

[anabelle]

1:43 now I really want that it would be so cute to hug our villagers!

[raffaelm]

I love your island entrance! I did something similar, large cliffs on both sides with a lot of waterfalls and the flat wooden bridge. (and I love how you passive-aggressively went on those little rants about the state of the game. Feels very relatable at the moment)

[hippieduck]

I'm starting to feel it... a revolution. Duck revolution. I feel it tingling in my beak. Yes. It's time.

[MarsJenkar]

I dunno what it says about me, but I _deliberately_ took a light touch with terraforming my island (at least as far as adding water and carving out cliffs). I used it to form approaches for ramps and bridges, to provide access to certain parts of the island that didn't require a ladder, vaulting pole, or leaping a gap (I carved out a path to Redd's beach before it even did anything), and to fix features on my island that made no sense to me (my island generated two random "ponds" that had a waterfall between them; I removed the waterfall because it didn't make sense to me, and I'd only had one "natural" pond at the time which had limited my fishing options). Most of my island is pretty much laid out as it was when I started.

Paths, on the other hand...I went crazy with those. They crisscross my island, connecting every part of the island with every other part of the island. One major thing I like to be able to do is go quickly from one place to the other, and the fewer times I have to pull out the vaulting pole or the ladder, the better. I also am not particularly big on having parts of the island "all to myself" (that is, villagers can't access them), so one of my early goals was to make sure that villagers could conceivably go everywhere I could (due to limitations, they don't show up in, for example, the airport, but there's nothing theoretically blocking them from going there). This may not sit well with others who prefer nooks, crannies, and secrets, but I always preferred to be able to go everywhere on my island easily. I think I managed to achieve that, but in a way that's still at least somewhat visually interesting. My island probably won't win any awards for "best island" but I still like what I've done with the place.

As for my island entrance...well, mine kind of made itself. I chose an island layout that put the main plaza directly north of the airport--and by that, I mean you can easily see the plaza when you step out of the airport. My initial idea was for a more rural island, where its natural beauty was basically left intact, but certain buildings like the museum, as well as the upgraded plaza, made it difficult to achieve that on the entire island. I eventually decided on a compromise, turning the airport/plaza area into a town center, with the rest of the island going toward something of a nature-trail theme. (The campsite ended up in a back corner of the island because it fit better with the natural part of the island than the town center, but the shops and museum are all clustered around the plaza.) To fill in gaps between the buildings there, I added little parks and mini-plazas, as well as paths both ringing and connecting to the plaza. In the end, I feel that this made for a more interesting island design than it would have been with just the natural theme.

If you're interested in paying my island (Ares) a visit, my dream code is DA-9134-6310-8015.

[greenbaegI]

This was extremely helpful! Midway through watching the video an idea popped up in my head and i immediately booted up the game and went to work! I would love to see more idea/inspo vids!

[Jinjetica]

As far as terraforming goes, there’s a lot to think about, most importantly, I think is visibility of the overall island, and fully utilizing whether to use cliffs in a specific area at all, or how to angle them as to not obstruct the view of something else, which is something that I’ve really struggled with.

[YounganMar]

I’m already terraforming my island into new leaf and I’m done with the main street part

[sigma-sekai]

548th!!! Btw I recently got the terraforming option in acnh, So I think it’s good timing. Also I’m gonna go to Texas today and I love the videos you make!

[blonduose]

your island definitely gave me an inspiration on how to completely re-terraform my island from scratch!
It's amazing :O

[KhanadaRhodes]

another great video! this is super helpful, i really want to create some super awesome terraformed island, but the execution just sucks when i try. these tips will hopefully help me make something cooler! i too love the narrow, windy paths so it's nice to get tips from someone who's kinda thinking along the same wavelength as you.

[noreenwagner]

I just got terraforming and I love the waterfall features you have as well as the islands. You always have great ideas, thank you!

[louise]

I love your island, even though mine is very different, probably more different than anyone can even imagine! Nobody has ever seen it so I can't help but describe. I started terraforming by making a stone path as close as possible to the sea, all around the island. That of course required cutting back the mountains on the north side, to make room for the seaside path.

Then I flattened about 1/4 of my island in the back, around Redd's beach, and covered that part of my island with sand (removing the path in that part of the island) so it makes a desert. Great place for the pyramid and other sculptures like the Warrior Statue and the Motherly Statue, and two money trees. These are all very widely separated so you can't see them all at once, and that way you get a feeling of tremendous space and how remote it is. Near the edge of the desert there is one small sunbathing spot.

I like your entry! I might think about that and figure out something vaguely similar that I could do with fences and a bridge near the entry. Right now, there's the path-around-the-island there, and villagers homes line the path on that side of the island.

[Twinflameascending]

Crossing channel. Plz make more videos of this, much needed as need inspiration for me island. Have took some ideas from this to incorporate into my island tysm, keep making the videos and keep letting that humour and shine come through, u been more relaxed and enjoying it I have noticed and I love this, more of this and more videos, maybe do one where to put houses and cliffs ect, I am in need of design codes to use and where and how to place bridges ect.

Keep it up bro, amazing as always

[A.a.]

Your entrance! I just put in a bridge yesterday! And say your video today! I was thinking how I wanted a great and mysterious entrance and now I feel like I'm on a good path because of your video.