Addicted to Animal Crossing: Wild World

[fallingisfunny]

Anyone else have a Nintendo DS with this game? It's so fucking addicted, I'm so ashamed! I haven't played video games in years, but I have been playing this thing all day long.

I want to visit someone else's town!

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[doronjosama]

Okay, you need to start a tree cultivation program. Gradually, replace the non-fruit bearing trees with fruit trees. You'll need the shovel and the axe. Basically, shake some fruit off a tree, find a non-fruit tree and chop it down with the axe, then dig out the stump with the shovel and plant the fruit in the hole that remains. In about four days, it will be a fruit tree. (You can also just run around planting fruit wherever you find an empty spot for more fruit trees.) Fruit from other towns sells for more than fruit from your town- the fruit your town launches with sells to Nook for 100 bells each, but other fruit sells for 500 bells each. So, if you get any exotic fruits (your "mom" in the game will sometimes mail you some) don't sell them, plant them! Coconuts might also wash up on your beach- you can plant those too, but only along the shoreline.

Pick up all the shells you can find on the beach to sell, and do regular fishing/insect catching bouts. Some of the fish and insects will sell for a few thousand bells each. Dig up any fossils you can find, and get the inspected at the museum and sell them too. For scavenging furniture, you can check the recycling bin at the town hall, or check with the stumpy bulldog at the gate at the top of your town since he holds the lost & found and will let you take anything in there. Any crap you find in those spots, go ahead and sell unless it's something cool for your place. And if you shake the non-fruit bearing trees, sometimes money or furniture will drop out, but sometimes you will get stung by bees. (The medicine Nook sells takes away the bee stings if you drag it up over your character icon.) Also, hit every rock in your town with your shovel every day, because once a day one rock randomly becomes the "money rock" and will fling out bags of bells if you can keep hitting it fast enough. (Max number is 6 bags, of varying denominations.)

Once you get in the habit, you can do your "town maintenence" in about 30-40 minutes per day. ^_^ (Check mail, talk to residents, check the freebie zones, sell some crap, water your flowers, clear the weeds, dig up the buried stuff, hit the money rock and maybe catch some fish/bugs or plant more trees) And Suarez is right, some places have Nintendo DS Wi-Fi hotspots (like McDonald's, ew) where you can go and link up if we give each other a code or something. I haven't gotten to try long-distance linking yet, so I'm kinda vague about that. ^_^;

Yeah.... I really know way way way too much about this game. ^_^; Sorry for the huge ass post!

PS If an animal you don't like moves into your town (he/she's a jerk, etc.), you can fish up garbage from the river and mail it to them (cans, boots, old tires), and always refuse to do errands for them. They'll move out pretty fast!

[doronjosama]

And a PPS, since I forgot- visiting someone else's town and buying something at their store, or having them visit your town to buy something at your store speeds up your Tom Nook store expansion. ^_^ There's one expansion of the store that won't happen until you do a visit/host a visit, if I remember right. But once you get the full store, you get a hair salon and everything, it's awesome!

I'm on the next to last house expansion right now, so I have three stories. The final house expansion gives you something like four rooms and three stories, plus a basement. It's pretty damn great. ^_^