Tansan Over The Years

First of all, happy belated 6th anniversary to ACNH and my town, Tansan!

I’ve been slowly working on updating my DA after the 3.0 update for a while now, and I’m finally done! I also took a complete detour from my initial plan of a regular blog post, where I wanted to share photos alongside descriptions of each area much like I did for Tinytree and Borei in ACNL. Instead, I decided to make a detailed video tour! I wanted to get this all up by the 20th but the video and gathering photos for this post took some time. But whatever, anniversaries are kind of abritrary anyways.

Since the full walkthrough is already covered in the video, I wanted to take the opportunity to focus more on how I planned the island as a whole and how I’ve continued to play and evolve it over time. Instead of my usual area by area tour, I will share some before and afters of the builds you see in the tour, as well as general photos from Tansan’s early days up until now (since I neglected this blog since 2019 lol). If anything, I hope it offers a bit of inspiration for building your own “forever island” as people call it. Above is also a map of each area that I drew a couple years ago and edited for the update. (Click to zoom in) 

Resort Hotel VIP Compilation (Part 1)

It's been a little over a month since the update came out and I've just completed my VIP point card. So I think now's a good time to share some VIP rooms from the Resort Hotel that I’m proud of. I will call these posts “VIP Compilation”. I will likely do similar posts for Happy Home Paradise for the rooms I like. So this is Part 1, featuring Stinky, Freckles, and Sheldon! 

February Recap + IKI's Fantasy Life Birthday

Another winter has passed on Tansan and the snow has finally melted. The grass is back! There were a few events that happened February quite close to each other, so I wanted to do a general February recap as Tansan saw an unusual amount of activity compared to the last few years. This post will cover: Valentines Day, Festivale, Lunar New Year, and a bit of a departure, but IKI’s birthday on Fantasy Life.

Tansan Resort Hotel Room Design (Part 2)

This post will cover the last 4 main rooms I decided on for Tansan's Resort Hotel. For these rooms I settled for the theme of Luxurious, Japanese-Retro, Modern, and Exquisite. Part of me wanted to try some different styles I don't normally do so it doesn't look too similar between rooms, such as the Diner room or Dreamy room, but I decided to just leave those ones to VIPs when they come to visit. 

What Ever Happened to Quillson?

I know I said I was going to post all my main hotel rooms first, but I wanted to make an exception for a Very Important Duck I wasn't expecting to run into. 

I was able to add a bit more to Tansan’s history or "lore" with the Resort Hotel Update now that old villagers can return to visit. There’s only a handful of villagers who moved out of Tansan since 2020, including Quillson, so I was interested to see if they would return and if they would remember us… and they do! This post is going to catch up on what happened to Tansan's original smug since he moved out all those years ago. 

Tansan Resort Hotel Room Design (Part 1)

The Animal Crossing New Horizons Resort Hotel 3.0 update has been out for a few weeks now, and I have to say it did spark a renewed interest in returning to my game just to casually design and make some small edits here and there on my island. I really love seeing the tourists around and making the island feel more alive. I look forward to seeing who is visiting every day. I’ve already run into many old villagers from past games and had fun designing their VIP rooms 😎

This post will cover Part 1 of my completed hotel rooms, rooms 1-4. I will post rooms 5-8 a bit later because I'm still tweaking and revisiting some. Maybe I'll dedicate another post to my favorite VIP rooms after I've compiled a few, but I generally forget to take pictures of those. 

SIX YEARS LATER???

poqu, iki, and i celebrating iki's birthday in HD

I don’t know what compelled me to come back to this blog. It feels like a relic of the past to me, like a timecapsule meant only for my eyes. But for some reason I wanted to come back to it to give my island the love it deserves! I initially made this blog back in 2019 to celebrate my time playing New Leaf, with the intention of documenting the beginnings of island life in 2020. That obviously never happened! With this update maybe it’s finally time to “immortalize” my island in my very own personal timecapsule as well. 

Tinytree Dream Town: Walkthrough

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On the 25th of January I completely demolished my autumn town and started again from scratch, giving it a tropical makeover that was fuelled by the hype of AC New Horizons. 3 days before release I was finally able to finish this town and update it to the dream database one last time! This post will be a walkthrough of Tinytree in its updated dream town form. It doesn't have a story like Borei's horror town so there's no deep meaning behind it. Just enjoy the sights and have a relaxing time in a tropical paradise! 

Tinytree House Tours: Louie

I finally finished Louie's house 3 days before ACNH! That means Tinytree is now 100% complete! I didn't think I could do it, but here I am. Louie's character is a reincarnation of Charlie, who I had to delete for plot resetting purposes. He is in charge of Tinytree's community centre, similar to Charlie's role but now with a tropical-ish theme! It features a gift shop and bike rental, Tinytree historical museum, birthday party event room, Real Estate office, Public library, and my "Goodbye ACNL room" in the basement! It's the first house that doesn't feature a bedroom for my character.

Tinytree House Tours: Mayor Jules

The next house tour for Tinytree is Mayor Jules! Like in most AC games I've played, my "main town" character usually resembles myself in real life. I also try to design the interior of my main characters to reflect my own. I tried to make the interior resemble my first house when I lived in Korea. I changed a few items here and there to fit the island theme more closely, but for the most part it sticks to an asian theme. Jules' house is not fully upgraded like the others. It has a living room with a kitchen, a bathroom, bedroom, and a basement art studio!

Tropical Makeover Pt 7: Jules, Pudge and Campsite

I finished the landscaping around Mayor Jules and Pudge's house pretty early on but I only just got the dirt paths to set in after many days of vigorous running around. Thankfully this area is such a small part of town and the only area that I cared about dirt paths forming since the rest of Tinytree is covered in paths. This post will also cover the campsite and Tinytree's "tourist spot" that essentially took over my old character Charlie's house.

Tinytree House Tours: Eggs

The next house tour is Tinytree's small business owner, Eggs! He runs a cafe, antique shop, flower shop, grocer, and restaurant. He also has a room for himself on the top floor. His house is located right next to Re-Tail in Tinytree's "shop district". Also, I don't remember why I called him Eggs. He doesn't even have any egg-themed furniture in his house... 

Tropical Makeover Pt 6: Tinytree's Colourful Beaches!

Tinytree's beaches were the last part of my landscaping for my makeover that I had to fix up. While everything else in town was finished, I felt really discouraged by all the mess and chaos on my beaches because they were being used as storage during the redesign. During all the ACNH island hype I somehow managed to work on rearranging my flowers and making it nice and presentable! After all, Tinytree is now a tropical town, so it definitely needs a welcoming beach!

Tinytree House Tours: Mei

Now that my landscaping is complete, I'm going to be focusing more on tweaking up some of my character's houses and posting their house tours much like I did for Borei. Tinytree's houses are complete for the most part, but they could use a few changes to suit the tropical theme better. Mei's house had little to fix up and had a tropical feel already. She runs Tinytree's Bed&Breakfast called "Mom and Mei B&B" for visitors who come for a holiday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IKI!

Yesterday was a very special day! It was my friend IKI's birthday! I had planned a small birthday get-together for IKI, Poqu, and I in my town Tinytree. I wanted to surprise her with a birthday-themed room in my new character Louie's house. In preparation for the day, I got us all bunny balloons, tweeters, and hammers so we can run around and enjoy the summer evening with some tweets and bonks. Before our ACNL party we also had a Splatoon party for her at midnight. So much celebration, yay!!! It's crazy to think that we will be spending our next birthdays on our Islands! Please enjoy the photos from our little party <:o)