Players are desparate for and expansion on the number of custom design slots.
Currently in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there is a total of 50 design slots for players to fill with their own designs to decorate their island. I mean compared to previous titles in the AC series it is an improvement however we are crying out for more because it just isn’t enough.
For Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the Nintendo Switch, a GameFAQs message board topic titled 'Any way to get more custom design slots?' Once you've purchased this upgrade, your inventory will expand to 40 slots, allowing you to gather even more items than before. How to upgrade your Storage Space in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Custom designs can be used for so much around your island, such as patterns for clothing, customising objects, adding details to your character and making custom floor paths.
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When using all of these, your design slots fill up quickly, especially if you are using bigger designs that take up multiple slots. For example, for some custom path designs, your talking 9-12 slots easily as each side, curve and bend of the path requires it’s on pattern slot.
Custom designs are also often used to add extra things that the game doesnt currently have for example, a large swimmin pool, and excavation site, picnic blankets, holes in the ground to name a few.
I’ve also seen players create abosolute masterpieces such as castles, shops, farms, houses, schools you name it, it’s been done. These are often created by customising simple panels with your desired pattern an placin strategically on your island with other items.
More storage is cool but I don’t think Tom Nook understands how much I would pay for more design slots
— 💫👑King Zac👑💫 (@ACNHKingZac) November 19, 2020You see how these slots start to quickly fill up without even realising! They are also often used as sign posts too. Hopefully in future we will get the expansion we have been hoping for.
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With the recent Winter update introducing the expansion of home storage, could this be a stepping stone to other things being expanded too, such as our beloved custom design slots.
If they can make expanded storage, they can give us more custom design slots right? 🥺👉👈
— Asdo Isle 🌿 (@AsdoIsleACNH) November 20, 2020Fans will just have to wait and see what the fiuture has in store for our designs, were keeping our fingers crossed.
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© Image: Nintendo EPD/NintendoAnimal Crossing: New Horizons grants players exactly 50 design slots that can be used to customize in-game content. Maybe that sounds like a lot, and it is, at least compared to previous games that offered way less than what we have now. But as time goes by, and as Nintendo adds more features to the game, 50 just isn’t enough.
Design slots are used for all sorts of things, from tailoring clothes to adding character details, such as eyebrows or tattoos. Slots are also often used for custom roads, like the famous “Path” that recreates the look and feel of older Animal Crossing games. That alone — a fleshed-out path design — can fill up your custom design slots quickly. At minimum, we’re talking around nine slots just for one type of path. And most people use multiple types of paths, to ensure that their islands don’t look monotonous.
to try and make it easier to visualise how i've placed the different tiles next to each other to create a 'natural' path look, i've lined a (very) messy grid below with tile labels.
notice how i've attempted not to put any of the same tiles next to each other pic.twitter.com/ZjcG4qdlB0
— quinn ♡ comms closed! (@sleepyluck) July 30, 2020Pathways don’t exist in a vacuum, and are typically spruced up with extras along the way, like moss or stumps. Folks also love to use design slots to add things that the basic game doesn’t allow for, like laying down a picnic blanket or a rug outside.
organised my custom designs and i’m v happy with them, i even have one (1) free slot... imagine that pic.twitter.com/3peyarQl6V
— (@isleserein) July 28, 2020Some go even further and use design slots to build out elaborate scenery, such as farms or stables. It’s also common to see design slots for more basic things, like signs. So far, we’ve only covered decorations — but players love to design fashion lines, too! Having a decked-out wardrobe will also cost you a few precious slots, assuming you haven’t already filled them up with roads. Suddenly, even 50 isn’t enough.
Granted, none of this is new. The limited number of design slots has been an issue that players have discussed to helland back for months now, with some even developing workarounds to save extra slots. But the limited space discussion returned to the forefront of conversation once again because New Horizons’ latest updatealso requires blank design slots, without providing players with extra space to house them.
The recently added fireworks mechanic can be customized to display anything you’d like — provided you have the slots to do it. Some people might! But most people were already hitting their limit before fireworks were introduced, and are now having to decide which slots they’ll sacrifice to ensure a nice light show. It’s an annoying ask that can sometimes have a funny side effect, as Twitter user @acnhprime discovered.
sooooo, this is where the design slot i sacrificed for my pp firework was displayed ah ha ha ッ pic.twitter.com/GyYf7TeBe8
— shaira (@acnhprime) July 30, 2020Acnl More Design Slots Ideas
Hopefully, the fact that Nintendo has been diligently updating New Horizons since launch means that it’s just a matter of time before our design slots are expanded. But until then, choices must be made; slots must be sacrificed. I’m sorry, hardcore Animal Crossing players.