Since the game’s release in March,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsfans have been constantly innovating new uses for the game’s extensive customization features. One recent discovery allows players to use custom design paths to stop their flowers from spreading out of control.
Although custom design codes have been used by manyAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsisland-dwellers to create unique pathways, orbeach furniture resembling a cute turtle, it seems that the custom path feature also has the ability to function as a gardening assistant. Reddit user u/cityliqhts was one of the earlier fans to point out that players could actually stop their flowers from growing in unwanted spots through creative use of custom designs.
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The technique is fairly straightforward: just place a completely transparent custom design on any tile one wants to flower-proof. Custom designs have become quite popular, especially with designers releasingofficialAC: New Horizonscustom design codes, but players unfamiliar with the game’s design feature can simply follow these steps:
The stealthily modified tiles will continue to appear as unmarked grass, but flowers will be unable to grow there - this may come as a breath of fresh air to the residents of rainy islands, as thunderstorms and their subsequent flower-growth can easily overwhelm anaspiring 5-star island. Flower paths that would normally grow out of shape after being watered will now retain their neat shapes, at no actual cost to the player.
It should be noted that custom designs need not be fully transparent for this to work. Players who would rather opt for an actual design on theircustom pathwayscan of course do so while controlling their wild flowers.
