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my personal animal crossing hard mode rules

2/18/2023

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​With the hype surrounding nintentalk‘s animal crossing hard mode challenge and a recent itch to hang with some virtual animals again, I knew I had to jump on the bandwagon.

I’m not following the official hard mode rules but I am using quite a lot of them for my personal gameplay and wanted to keep track of them somewhere so here we go!

p.s. I share my island updates sometimes on twitter and instagram if you want to see how my progress is going :)

p.p.s. please show all the love and support to the hard mode challenge creator nintentalk for getting the animal crossing community excited about the game again!

getting started
  • island name must be generated by a random name generator
  • you may only re-roll your map options one time
  • starting villagers must have their tents placed where they ask you to

daily rules
  • only can time travel by changing time from am to pm or vice versa :)
  • tools have to be crafted, not bought
  • must complete all five nookmile+ tasks daily
  • only one mystery island, happy home paradise project, or the kapp’n island per day (with the exception of villager hunts)
  • must purchase one thing from nook’s and one thing from able’s every day
  • must participate in daily stretching every day until all relevant nook mile achievements are complete
  • must get coffee at brewster’s every day until all relevant nook mile achievements are complete
  • must complete the daily npc quests
  • must give a scallop to pascal daily until all relevant diys are collected

villager rules
  • you must get each villagers photo before they are allowed to leave your island
  • once you have a villager's photo and they ask to move, you must let them leave
  • once a villager’s house is placed/a new villager moves into an existing plot, you may not move it again until you have the villager’s photo
  • max 10 nmt per villager hunt
  • you may only gift one villager a day in person but if you send them gifts via letter you can gift the remaining villagers daily
  • sanrio villagers can only be scanned in to replace a villager that you have a photo of already

​economy rules
  • no trading except to get the three fruits you cannot get on your own
  • you may only play the turnip market (buy + sell) on your own island
  • you may only sell bugs + fish to flick and cj
  • weeds can only be sold to leif
  • you may only sell crafted items and natural resources + items (fossils, gyroids, seashells, wasp nests, fruit, flowers, sea creatures, etc.) to nook’s shop
  • no more than two of each fruit tree and six coconut trees allowed on the island.
  • unwanted furniture, flooring, wallpaper, and clothing can be sold at the donation box or gifted to villagers
  • you may only grow 6 of each type of crop on the island
  • money trees can only be planted with the 1,000 bells you dig up from the gold spot
  • your villagers are responsible for opening the stalls at harv’s island completely through their donations (minus you initially opening them with the minimum donation)
  • all new art/bugs/fish/fossils must be donated before selling duplicates

design rules
  • you must make your own island flag and town tune
  • you must display clothing designs that you made yourself at able’s for your villagers to wear
  • you can use other creator’s qr codes :)

I will probably update some of these limitations as my island progresses, but here’s what I’m sticking to for now.

Oh, and if you started a hard mode island, how is it going so far??
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