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[atlas-cian]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLURRYFACE!!!! IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS!!!!!!!

The evolution.... Crazy.

[atlas-cian]

Ermm uhhh uhmmmmm urrr I was born today......‼️

Image found here !

Edit: apparently I posted this twice🔥

[ac-terraforming]

hiya! so, i've been trying to make my acnl town map in excel, and was wondering how you know how many squares the ocean + the river going through the town make up? do you measure them in some way (i was digging holes to measure everywhere else)? sorry if this doesn't make sense, english isn't my first language!

No worries. I think I understand the question enough, but correct me if I’m wrong. The river is 4 tiles/space wide. This can be measured by building a bridge and placing items on the bridge. The size of the lake is really determined by digging holes along the river and just mapping out the land.

The ocean is a bit trickier. I actually don’t map out the ocean. Its not possible to do that in the game (though it might be possible to estimate using hacks / town editors, but I can’t do that so I can’t speak to it). The New Leaf map is 5 acres wide by 4 acres tall. Each acre consists of 16x16 squares. So 5x16 means that our towns are 80 tiles wide (and 64 tiles tall). However, the ocean takes up some of these tiles. I measured the width of my town, starting in the upper corner where the train tracks meets the cliffs (not the ocean). Mapping out all the land won’t fill all 80 tiles, so the remainder is ocean. Just dig along the beach and you can measure out the shoreline. Again, the remaining tiles will be ocean. I know there is more ocean than that because my map shows only 1 ocean tile below Kappn’s dock and I can swim well below it. But honestly it doesn’t really matter since we can’t [legitimately] do any town planning in the ocean.

I hope that answered your question!

[ac-terraforming]

Here is a pretty interesting ACWW map I came across. Its a true top-down perspective of the town and shows everything! There are a lot of little details in the houses and the drop shadow adds a lot of dimension to the map. The person is representing every tree and flower they have, though we can't tell which type of flowers they are. If you look closely, there are even a few clovers. It looks like a hyper complex map of dots, but it does create a really interesting visual.

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[ac-terraforming]

I randomly found my AC Gamecube memory card and decided to boot it up. Octavian said its only been 74 months since we last talked (not as bad as I thought it was going to be!) As I was exploring, I went into each house. I totally forgot about the variety of models that were available!! I also forgot that I recreated my town in one of the houses. I remember how upset I was when the museum and station models were 2 squares wide. It looks like I did a good job at compensating for it though. Man, I started this map thing when I was young...

[ac-terraforming]

How many acres are in each acnl town? Have a good day!

Hmm... well. The 'acre' system is kinda obsolete with ACNL. In the past, the perfect town rating required so many trees/flowers to be in each; ACNL only required a specific number of trees in the town overall among other things. So, getting back to your question. An acre is defined as a 16x16 square plot in your town where 1 square would be equivalent to the size of a hole you would dig with your shovel. So, by that measure, an ACNL town is 5 acres across (East-west) and 4 acres down (north-south). Note that the acres along the beach are actually a bit smaller since the beach and a few squares of ocean are in the acre. If you take a look at my town map, my 'acres' are outlined in a bolder line (marking 16x16 square areas) and the lighter gray lines mark out 1 square. That was a bit of a long winded answer, but I hope it answered your question!