Omg. Just this week, I was lamenting that I couldn't find any good information about when the island's grass and tree colors shifted so I could figure out what season I wanted to build for. And here you are! Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to show that information!

Playing on my 5th island I know what I like: small neighbourhoods with 2-3 houses. Terraforming sucks, so this island is kinda a no terra forming one. Using ingame path and add some designs. Shopping district. Cafés, food trucks, flower field, farm area, natural areas, all minimalistic decorated. And tbh just go with the vibe. I build what I like and I don’t care if builds fit each other. I like it mixed and colourful. 😊

Love this!!! I made a history themed island because I’m a history teacher and it was SO much fun to create. Find what you love and make your island based around that!

combining themes/aesthetics can also be really fun!! I've been slowly working on an island that transitions from beach/coastal town -> town/citycore -> forest. I've mostly been struggling with the towncore stuff because it isn't what I usually do (and I keep going back and forth on my color scheme)

I want to use the purple and blue flowers, with an overall witchy and nature vibe. I also want to incorporate a bakery, tea shop, book nooks, moons and stars. I can kind of picture it already and have a list of cuties I'd love to have on my island. I just restarted so thank you for this video as it really helped me pin down a solid start!

My kids named the island "Barracuda" so we're going to make it a fishing/ beach vacation destination theme. We are still setting it up so its a work in progress. Personally I dont mind which villagers live in our town for now but if we can find villagers that like the fishing hobby that would be great. My husband's house will be kind of retro themed diner. My son's house is the farm house (he is the Island Rep so his house is most like an actual home). my daughter's house is an aquarium shop with an outdoor area where you can "rent" diving equipment, fishing poles, and nets, since she loves to catch the bugs and fish and do the diving. Her house, my husband's house, nooks cranny and the museum are all together with our starter villagers homes to the left of the plaza to look like the main town. The starter villager homes are decorated to also look a bit like shops from outside. My house is tp the right of the airport and its meant to look like a VRBO beach house, with a fire pit, yard games, and a vacation home type vibe. Later when we can terraform we plan to add a lake.

This was a huge help thanks 🥰I think my next island is gonna be an ode to my D&D character, Myrcella! She's a Circle of spores druid, so I'll narrow down the theme to "Gothic Mushroom Swamp". So blacks, greens and browns with a lot of mushroom items and creepy decor.

Ok I will be watching this multiple times! I am at the same spot in my island I always end up getting overwhelmed and restarting…so many ideas but don’t know where to start… I like the idea to start with a list on paper and see where that takes me 😊

Finally sat down and did an island- got to 3 stars, unlocked the power of landscaping, doing an autumn forest- So far it has the layout, the very last non-dreamy villager moving out, and the landscaping done- It's VERY landscaping heavy, played hide and seek with someone, counted the waterfalls in the single place I was at, and could count over 20 in that one little view, so- It'll probably need changing overtime to fit trees, but for now I'm determined to complete my first island

This really helped me find a theme. I would be doing a Supernatural Halloween island or just a Supernatural one. This really helped me. Now I can start to picture my island once it's finished.

colors: pink, black, white season: cherry blossom/spring/summer aesthetic: cutesy/cottage core/goth hobbies: cooking, picnics, art, baking structure vs nature: structured layout, but naturey patching: find one to suit my theme (custom codes help) Pinterest: make Pinterest board for my island (Mood board) items: find specific items I wanna add to my island villagers: cutesy ones

i’ve found this video super late after picking animal crossing up again for the first time in over a year, i’ve just flattened my island and i’m gonna do a japanese zen garden theme 💗 thank u sm for the tips im excited to make my island beautiful 🫶☺️

If you need more houses or if your doing city core you could add more accounts onto your island and then make it look more like a city

i just got so inspired by this roblox game omg i wanna do it kind of a mix between like a dreamy/fairycore aesthetic and then have a spot where its circus themed for pietro!! omg its gonna be adorable 💗

Colours: cooler(purples and blues mostly), black 100%, dark wooden colour(main colour probably) Season: autumn orange/red/dark green, tea olives Aesthetic: urban, European, galaxy/spacey, coastal, spooky/creepy. more focus on water. Hobbies: books, art, study, cooking, video games, wandering, tea/coffee time. More structure than nature Pathing: idk yet Codes: idk yet Items: elegant series, a lot of baked goods, books items, artwork, and Nordic series Villagers: I don’t care This is mine, enjoy.

Everyone with Nintendo online! If you’ve seen those videos of telling you to find villagers that have houses that fit your theme, I have another way to do this! So it will take a while because first you need to get the DLC/HHP (happy home paradise) and design 30 dream vacation homes! Then Lottie and Tom nook will give you permission to edit your own villagers houses (exterior&interior) and this does take a lot of hard work but that’s the point of the game just so hard work!! Hope this helps

My favorite thing to do in animal crossing is fish and grow my aquarium, so I love to pretend that I’m a marine biologist and that my island is known for its sea life. After seeing this video, I’d love to design my island with a beachy coastal town theme. Thanks for the inspo!

I would like to call mine "store-core" because I have a bunch of flower shops; Clothing stores; food cafes or farmers markets; around my place, my main colors are yellow black and red! with white and gold on the side, my different villagers have different flowers outside of their houses to show their personalities too! and I have a lot of picnic areas so it sort of looks like there's a bunch of little Community spots.

I'm working on a vinatage-y cottagecore island with a sprinkle of fairycore and also a spooky dark forest, it's going to be so much fun!

I haven't played ACNH for that long so I have TONS to learn about. This video is so so informative and easy to follow, thank you so so much Malin

I think my new island theme is found now. Perfect for me to do is swampcore island bc I love waterscaping, maybe with wheat fields and yellow and white flowers 🤔

Gave me some awesome inspiration. I'll definitely be coming back to this video. I really want to do small Japanese suburban town and then maybe some countryside on the outskirts of the town. Idk why but I saw an island with the first theme once and it just gave me so many good feelings :']

I've been working on my second island and have been picking up tips while working through your Let's Play playlist. It's a nighttime island, hopefully with shooting stars in the DA. I'm focusing on yellow and blue with plenty of lights and glowing effects. I'm looking forward to a pathing video as I'm currently focusing on that.

You are on a roll with these videos Malin! ❤ love the inspo and helpful tips 😊

We have chatted in stream a bit on my lack of theme on one of my islands. I thought I wanted to do tropicore, which I still may. I felt a little overwhelmed. So I moved all my villagers back to the beach or one area and am flattening the island. I have too many ideas to focus on so I was thinking multi-themed, but now don't know where to start. So once I flatten I think I will just make my island into 4 corners and start with one and see what happens there. I have found the center of my map and will use water to break it up.

This video was certainly a most for me! I started a new island and trying to start by decorating nook's and ables, because I still don't have my favs. But my biggest problem: where to put houses

Vomit grass took me out😂 way too accurate

- pink, red, orange, purple, white - spring/summer (but i enjoy playing all year round!) - natural/floral/forest - would quite like to try a flat island? - cooking/gardening - pretty structured - FLOWER CART 😍 - no

I’m gonna try and do a fairy core island I think with lots of pink hyacinths as they’re my favourite flower

i only started this game just over a month and i'm already so stumped on how to many my island pretty (to my liking) because there's just so much to do and i have lack of knowledge. this video helped me a bit but i feel like im so basic with ideas lmao

Hiya! Thank you for the helpful video! I really needed this!

i decided to combine some of my favorite things, so im making a fairycore christmas island!

My theme was actually decided by my island name. I couldn’t think of a name, so I used a generator and it popped out Sugarpine, I loved that so much that I chose it and decided on a winter forest theme because of it!

I have been struggling to finish two islands for years ( I have a Switch Lite and a regular Switch). First island was a sort of "fairytale" style, and the second was going to be based on Brakebills from The Magicians. Now, I think I'm just going to start over and make the dark forest-witch theme island that I want so badly. Black, blue, purple, greens, maybe a bit of white for the flowers and set in summer for the dark green foliage.

thank you! this video helped me come to the conclusion of building a celestial island!

This is great - I have such a hard time coming up with a theme - I think I am too ‘norm core’

First time player here 🙋🏻‍♀️ I’m inspired by Old San Juan so wanted to make my own version. Made the blue bricks as a path and have it as my main road. Still at 2 stars though, but can’t wait to see if I’m able to pull it off.

The answers I gave to your prompts here really show me that I don't have a real theme in my heart, just vibes that I like. My preferred villager list is, to most people, a hodgepodge mess of weirdos (I like the cranky bearded hippo Harry, for example). And honestly, writing out the area ideas I have really, really helped me hone in the difference between "areas I'm impressed by when I see them on other islands" and "areas I think would be fun to have on my island". The thing I have the biggest challenge with is actually designing the liminal spaces so the areas I build flow together in a way that makes sense. Right now they kind of end up feeling disconnected.

This was so helpful! I've been wanting to get back into playing AC and this was just the inspiration I needed. I'm definitely thinking of a fall haunted forest theme! 🧡🖤 🤔

Accidentally lost my five-star island transferring to a new switch, so this was serendipitous. I think I'll make my new island a Y2K- era small-town suburb with a tidy, organized town center and more messy, natural outskirts

holy heck... that is like all I can say to this! This was so well put together and thought-out, I love it. It might also really help me get further along with my forever island if I take those inspo steps in the order you mentioned them - make what I already have in mind flow smoother together.

Such good timing, desperately looking for a new theme!

Creating an island about a favorite TV series or a movie is such a good idea. It took me like a year to finally figure out, what kind of island I want to do and then finally had the idea to create a Doctor Who island. It's so much fun to figure out how to recreate scenes and ideas with the items that are in the game. One and a half years later I am still not finished but I also still have fun :D

"are the any specific items you've always been wanting to use?" me: ....japanese vending machine-chan EVERYWHERE

My island is just a collage of my favorite things. We got all the references ❤❤❤

i started to work on a pink/white cottagecore island with a lot of water and forests. also, im going to use some other accounts, one, i use for a cafe and i planned to use like 2 for tents for a little camping area. for villagers, i thought of diana and also etoile another idea i had was a how to train your dragon island, but i chose the cottagecore one

For me my main item I wanted to get and use is crescent moon chairs along with the moon and froggy chairs I have also been trying to keep my island as natural as when I first started with little terraforming

I’m doing an overgrown abandoned city that was restored into a cyberpunk theme so basically something like stray the cat game

Awww what an amazing video! I love your approach to this, Malin! A lot of “island inspo” videos just showcase themes, whereas you go into detail to show how you can apply your interests, favourites and personality into any theme! My approach to island design is to work on the “opposite” of my last island theme. Currently, I’m on my 6th island. First Island - farmcore/forestcore Second Island - Desertcore Third Island - Winter island Fourth island - witchcore/swampcore Fifth island - pastel kidcore Sixth island - autumnal citycore There’s also an abandoned underwater island in there that I might come back to one day 🤣

My island theme is Green black item colours Green black white flowers Dark green summer grass Dagobah (Star Wars planet search it up if you want) Buildings are randomly scattered across the island Ducks item every where Frog models every where Cave item Green wheat fields Areas Swamp 75% Ruined city 20% Abandoned farms 5% Any ideas?

I feel like if you make an island that has personal parts about it, it'll be better. For example, there are villagers that have the same name as some close friends and family, and just focusing on them and making the island based on nostalgia is great. But that's just me 😅

Hii! I have decided on a pink & yellow pastel theme for my island… the only thing i’m struggling with is wether i should make it more natural or more city core? I think i’m going for a more natural look but I’m not sure… what do you think? I already have pathings for both themes! It’s so hard to choose 😖

hii i love ur videos!! this video is so helpful as i've been in a slump with my island theme! :) (this will be extremely long so thanks to whoever reads this for ur time LOL) colours : i'm trying to do a small-town shift into the forest vibe, so i think that browns, beige and generally just wood tones would work. i also want to have a lot of yellow, green and pinks. season : i'm mixed between spring and autumn - autumn has the gilmore girls vibes that i want (absolutely love that show) and the browns suit my aesthetic so well, but spring is so lively and gorgeous, and the flowers look stunning in that season. summer also has all of my main bushes grow, but i think autumn fits my vibe the most. aesthetic : i would love to have a small-town forest and coastal vibe all at once, I want the parts by the beach to be super inviting and pretty, and i want the main town area to feel alive and bright. the forest part, i want lots of trees and pathing to each home and to the inclines. i quite literally want the town to be stars hollow vibes. hobbies : i absolutely love going to the beach so i want my beaches to have a lot to do, i want to add a soccer field and a volleyball area with tables near it. ( i wish the villagers could actually PLAY volleyball tbh. ) i also love hiking, so i want my trails to be accessible and lively with flowers and designs. structure/pathing : i want a natural land with a lot of places to walk around, i've also been obsessed with the water tool so i've been adding lakes and rivers EVERYWHERE. i also prefer the land bridges over the actual bridge tool. i tend to use a lot of the more realistic codes, there's this one creator who's name i can't spell as it's in chinese (i think it's like ren in english though!) but their custom codes r AMAZING. items : i definitely want to use the azuyama (i think that's how it's spelt) gazebos and the wheat fields everywhere. i also want a lot of fruit trees and flowers everywhere to add pops of colour. villagers : i've pretty much got all of my dreamies because i was extremely lucky w my first island, but i'd love to have tangy, kiki or merry! even vivian would work well. most of my villagers have a blue and pink theme with their appearance, so i think another villager of those colours work. my fave villagers are definitely the deers. i can deffo picture the vibes, i'd love to make a moodboard in my free time. i don't really want a specific theme or aesthetic, i just want to do whatever i want and make it cohesive LOL! i'm also thinking of putting random graves everywhere to add a bit of 'wtf??' when people visit. thank u for the helpful video!!

i'm right now looking at putting in a theme .. i've been playing for 9 months and i am ready to make it nice.. thanks!

This is such a helpful video! Thanks Malin!!

I’m doing part rural-abandoned and part city japanese island!

11 October (notes) Warm flowers Small town vibe

Thanks for this tutorial kinda video. It helped me not only get an idea but an entire story line and also a nice looking island

I love this thanks! Just an hour ago my friend asked me what my ’island core’ was and i had no idea what that meant so i really quickly googled this vid and it helped alot!

i’m very late to this video but i’ve been thinking of starting my own ‘core’ (unless it already exists) using these colours: white, blue, soft yellow, soft pink, soft blue. and also items like the sanrio items (cinnamoroll specifically.) i think i’d name it ‘milkcore’ which sounds weird but it makes sense. it reminds me of when you eat fruit loops and the milk left over from the cereal tastes like the colours of the cereal (white being milk, red, blue and yellow *aka the colours im going for*) i’m rlly excited to get this going, i reset my island judt for this idea XD

I started an Aladdin themed island and created the cave of wonders and a market area... but then I lost motivation and couldn't think of anything else to build...

thank you for telling me to take notes lol that really helped

When pedro and dom are ur vibe but so are coco and shep:

So far the theme or idea I'm planning for is almost a modern medieval world built on top of or around the ruins of Greco-Roman Mediterranean

I had to abandon my latest island. I have 3 Switches with 3 physical copies of ACNH. I also have 3 Nintendo accounts. But I mistakenly used the same account for 2 islands. Well, 5 hours later and three calls to Nintendo, I was able to rectify the issue of "checking if software can be played." Even though I have 3 copies of the DLC! Lesson learned. My new island is Norse Mythologies. I've never had a them before. Since I found your channel I want to try. BTW, I'm amazed that you have no accent. My daughter-in-law has been in the US for nearly 30 years and I still have to listen carefully to understand, lol.

Colours: I'm generally a warm girly!! So orange 🤔 Trees: dark bluey would work well with warm tones I think (complementary) On my first island I leaned towards natural, I've kinda wanted to make my island inspired by the world my OCs live in Hobbies: I like drawing (illustrations), reading comics, and learning languages 🤔, I could create settings inspired by backgrounds in comics? Idk I think it'd be cool to have like a city/village in the main flat bit, but foresty outskirts on the hills etc. I've always wanted to use the yachts yes xD My favourite villager is Raddle and I like generally more colourful/interesting looking villagers (doc, paolo)

Thank you so much! Ive ended up deciding to mix cottagecore, elefantcore, and mushcore in thst im going ti make an island based off of Victorian london and the elegantcore will be thr higher end part, the cottagecore will be the rural external area outside of london, and the mushcore area is going to be the slums and the villagers in thst area are hooked on... Mushrooms:)

Im trying to work in a candy island. 🍬 super hard to work with but ive got my villagers and im slowly getting the items i need. I just finished my pirate island. 😅

I think my island is going to be sectioned into different themes using rivers with bridges to separate, and having the villagers best fitting a theme on my island live on the sections hehe

Thanks! I appreciate all the good information and hours of entertainment your channel provides.

I'm trying to build a towncore in the front and farmcore in the back but I don't know how I want to transition that theme

i kinda want a rural city theme :33 tyty i decided cus of this video

I kinda wanted to do a mish-mash of ascetics since I still can’t decide what to theme it 😂😂

i think i’ll do a multi themed or multi seasoned because i’m indecisive and get bored by one theme easily and struggle to make one theme so big

Planning to do an autumn/Halloween theme! Thank you for this video! 🤎

blue, pink, white, purple. yellow grass before autumn costal

This is such a pleasant and inspiring video 😭🌷✨💗 I love it, ty!

THANK U SM

I have two different aesthetics I adore and it feels weird mixing them. But I want to make a cute island (with pink, yellow, blue and purple flowers) but it has random missing signs all around for Mothman.

I want to do a medieval or Viking theme with cold colours

I've been playing off and on since day 1 and I've never finished an island. I've got some serious indecisiveness when it comes to creativity. It also doesn't help that I can't stand lag. Lag once in a while that's like a hiccup is fine, but not every time I visit an area. I've had to tear down full builds because they begin to get laggy.

just got 5 stars! i my island has resturant, soccer, art, farm, camp, and outerspace areas

I love this 😍🙏 I made my list in the comments so I post them in case anyone needs inspo. 🌿🧶🌼🏺💚🧡💛 Kinda 60s, green, orange, yellow. Pale green trees, so spring. A small community with an eclectic style. I want a flower shop, a thrift store, maybe a train/bus station if I can fit it. I want a main asphalt road, a dirt path to use outside of houses and a brick (I think) road to use as a transition. Also mostly green filler codes. Items; to make it eclectic I wanna focus on items. Mostly everything in green with some orange, white, black and yellow. A lot of 2.0 items in the bright green color. I want villager that makes me happy to see but with a focus on green, brown villagers. I need Tutu, she’s my baby. I would love Roswell, Murphy, Kiki, Henry. Maybe Spork, Sly, Nate, Cousteau. So, maybe an eclectic, small town spring island?

Red,orange,green Spring,summer Natural,lots of trees,no farm coastal stuff No hobbies fit a theme. Structured for SURE No codes, 8 first only Big neighborhood district possibly Orchard is a good idea ROALD

love this video it helps alot i chose flower colors black and blue

When I started my island I really had no idea what kind of direction I wanted to go in and I’ve looked up several Pinterest photos and such but I can never tell which is modded and which isn’t, I’d like some tips for decorating in base game or what to search for some inspiration. I would also like to know if the “moss jars” are a modded item or not I’m trying to go for either a 80s suburban town, a 70s hippie camp style or maybe even a forest/cottage core I’m not sure would love some help and tips 💕 Im also scared I made bad placements for villager houses and I’m concerned it’ll effect my building/designing Any path codes etc for when I get construction is also appreciated 🥰! 🖌️Thank you for the tips! Also who is the “coffee bird” I’ve been seeing in gameplays? Is there really a coffee shop in my foreseeable future ? 💕

“You could use a show or book you like as a reference 😊” Me: Say no more *Fills Island with broccolis, atomic bombs and Pikachus* (comment if you get the reference ✊😔)

Im struggling with wanting a tropical island, but I love the farming aspect. Finding a way to incorporate a tropical farm has been a challenge. Any suggestuons would be great!

thanks for the tips!!!

I kind wanna do a food/candy land themed island at some point. I got Sprinkle and Merengue on my island really close together and I was like. How cute would it be to make my island like a giant candy shop or something. I dunno how well that would actually work, but it got my gears turning!

I wanna do a Japanese themed island with both a city/shopping district and a Japanese countryside with shrines

ty. im getting acnh tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and have NO idea for my island .. so ty

not storybrook being mentioned! Raven low-key got called out for her old island

TY needed some ideas I decided fall

ACNH work Pink yellow blue and purple All Small town and forest Mini farm Neighbourhoods and shopping district Natural pathing Little picnic area and fruit orchard Maddie poppy luck lolly

I restart a lot, I think I just get bored or I'm never satysfied with where my island is going at the time so I restart instead of trying to work on it lol. But restarting has giving me the opprotunity to try out a lot of themes. I even have a wheel spinner with a list of themes on it to pick for me, it helps me try new things. Right now I have two islands one is a swamps island, my second one is a surburban island with a HOA cult that makes blood sacrifices and their residents msteriously disappears if they break one of the HAO rules ...ya know just normal acnh themes. 🙃👀

Making a old classy dark academia college town if that makes sense

I was being so dumb and I thought the title was “find your the “me”. 😅. When it was “find your theme”

4:43 structure ideea

i really like dreamy themes (like yk the shirt marina wears? yeah the stuff from that set?? or like the little twin stars) but idk how to decorate😖and also idk how to like make the cliffs and stuff bc im clueless😭😭😭if anyone has any villager ideas or furniture recommendations please lmk!! edit: i'm also rlly lazy so i kinda wanna go for something simple and easy but still cute edit #2: i also just kinda don't like the cliffs.. they're annoying edit #3: and i have raymond but he doesn't fit the theme i want but i don't wanna get rid of him bc i've wanted him for a really long time:(