Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to entertain fans beyond its outing as 2020's breakout quarantine companion. In fact, some players are just now discovering the sheer delight of building the perfect village for the Animal Crossing franchise's adorable Villagers. After all, New Horizons boasts a plethora of features that makes every day with Villagers something to remember.

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Replayability in New Horizons easily becomes an appealing factor for newcomers to the game. However, some players need to take note that some aspects of their playthrough might not make New Horizons as entertaining as they make it out to be. In fact, committing some basic mistakes can ruin their New Horizons playthrough entirely.

10 Skipping Custom Designs

One of the best new features of New Horizons is allowing players to customize the appearance of some items in the game. Canvasses, dresses, and even clothes can be formatted with new designs straight from player imaginations. While players might want to stay "vanilla" and stick with the game's offerings, avoiding custom designs can definitely leave out an artistic POV that can improve an island's designs.

To avoid this, players can download the NookLink service via the Nintendo Switch Online App, or get designs from places such as Nook's Island. Players can even make custom designs from the Custom Designs app in the game's NookPhone!

9 Selling All The Fossils

It's easy to look at a pretty Fossil and sell it for much-needed Bells, especially for early-game investments such as buildings. However, while it's true that almost any item in the game can be sold, player should hold on to their Fossils first. If they constantly sell their Fossils, they'll never get to complete the interior of their Museum.

Remember, Fossil collection is a huge aspect of gameplay, and geeky owl Blathers will slowly showcase Fossils in the Museum - much in the same way with Bugs and Fish. In turn, players who encounter a Fossil should always donate it to Blathers first, and then sell the duplicates.

8 Ignoring Biodiversity

When players get into their island for the first time, they will have one of six native fruits. Most fruits (Apples, Cherry, Peaches, Pears, Oranges) grow on grass, while Coconuts grow on sand. For the most part, players can just ignore these fruit trees and get on with the rest of their day, same as with flowers that can just grow wild in various areas. However, doing this will have players neglect an important aspect of island decoration: biodiversity.

For instance, instead of letting flowers grow on their own, players can rearrange colored flowers in a checkboard pattern. That way, flowers with new colors can sprout in the empty spaces. Likewise, players can visit Mystery Islands (via Nook Miles Tickets) or friends to get their own native fruits to plant back home.

7 Travelling With A Full Inventory

Thanks to the friends feature and Nook Miles Tickets, players now have a means of visiting incredibly-unique islands. Aside from hanging out with friends, the Tickets also allow players to visit Mystery Islands - almost-empty places with a random Villager and unique features. Theoretically, players can interact with all elements of these islands and get new furniture, recipes, and other loot - which means travelling with a full inventory is a big no-no.

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Players who plan on going to a Mystery Island should at least get two to three rows of free inventory space. That way, they can gather loot without worrying about having enough space to bring stuff at home.

6 Fast-Tracking Loan Payments

Here's a very real-life story of a New Horizons setback: paying off loans as quickly as possible. Of course, it's always a smart plan to get off debt as soon as possible. However, New Horizon players shouldn't pay too much at the expense of scoring good store offers for the day. Unless players are dead-set on paying off loans first while not having a lot of good items for their island (which is very unaesthetic), they should approach their loans more smartly.

For instance, players should have a set number of Bells for paying off loans and a separate amount for their savings. That way, players can slowly pay off their loans without compromising their quality-of-life needs.

5 Buying All The Art

Thanks to Redd the fox, players have another thing to collect: artworks. Why, Redd only appears at the back of the player's island at set times, so seeing him is such a rare opportunity. However, players should remember that Redd sells both fake and real art pieces - and scoring fake art means Blathers won't accept the donation and will waste money.

Instead, players should always cross-check Redd's offerings with how the artworks appear in real life. This is similar to a minigame of spot the difference, where players have to check for small inconsistencies that make Redd's items a bit less genuine than what he makes them out to be.

4 Forgetting Extra Inventory Space

At its core, players can have as much as 40 inventory space in their backpack at a time. After setting down their furniture and other island decorations, they'll probably have a lot of leftover for their item collection. However, players easily know this isn't nearly enough if they're planning to loot items in Mystery Islands.

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Thing is, there's an extra inventory space that players almost always forget: the island itself. Remember, players can leave items on empty space and they won't ever get lost (unless players have friends visit and hoard them without asking, but that's just bad behavior). In turn, players can have an empty patch of land in their island dedicated for emergency storage.

3 Not Planning Ahead For Terraforming

Newcomers to New Horizons today will likely know that the game eventually offers an Island Designer feature. This lets them change almost any aspect of their island's overall topography. In turn, players can design their dream island, brick by brick. Any players who's done terraforming will know this is an exhausting process - and players who don't plan ahead will definitely have to allot extra time than necessary.

To avoid this setback, players might want to have an "ideal" image of their island before playing the game. Thankfully, free apps like the Happy Island Designer exist to help players layout their island in advance. That way, players can build their buildings and position their Villager houses where they want that still accommodates their post-terraforming vision.

2 Having A Set Schedule

Granted, given its casual experience, newcomers will be delighted in the prospect of playing New Horizons in their set schedule. However, playing at the same time every day will have players miss out a majority of exciting things that can happen in their island. For instance, some Villagers roam around the island at set times during the day. Moreover, players might miss out on special events, such as rare NPCs like Celeste and Wisp.

Instead, players should at least try to play twice a day - once in the morning, and once in the evening. That way, they get to experience their island's offerings both with the sun up and the sun down. This is also a great way to set the mood for playing with some of K.K. Slider's best tracks.

1 Ignoring Time Travel

Newcomers to New Horizons might feel pressured about the prospect of looking into their island everyday. After all, it doesn't help that the game has a built-in mechanic where rocks and other unpleasant elements begin to populate the island when it's unmanaged. Worse, some Villagers may feel neglected and outright leave - sometimes, even before the player gets back!

Surely, there's a way to avoid this kind of pressure, right? As a matter of fact, there is! Through time travel, players can just revert their Switch calendar back to the last day they played, and continue their progress there. After doing their thing, they can save their progress and change the calendar to the next day. Players can do this until they've "fast-tracked" the days they missed until the current day.

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