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)

Tropical Makeover Pt 5: Chief, Hazel, Tangy & Freckles

Making some more steady progress on my town's tropical makeover! This time I finished the landscaping for my villagers Chief, Hazel, Tangy, and Freckles. These are all original Tinytree residents, so a lot of their landscaping look quite similar to their older versions except for maybe the pathing being wider and differently styled. Some of my villagers definitely have more "expensive" front lawns compared to others, especially after rearranging a few of them allowed for a lot more space for PWPs. Some just lucked out with real estate during the makeover!

Tropical Makeover Pt 4: Cafe, Retail, Town hall

With Opal's move out, I was finally able to fill in my 3-square path and landscape around town hall. In my earlier version the town hall was one of the hardest areas for me to visualise for some reason, maybe because I was trying to incorporate natural paths in that area even though it was an awkward oval shape. The old cafe version was one of my favourites, so it was a challenge to come up with something equally good to replace it with. I'm glad to say that I finally came up with a solution for these areas and I'm very pleased with the result!

Saying Goodbye to Beau and Opal!

Tropical Makeover Part 3: Moving in June, Scoot, and Dizzy (relocated)

I decided to say goodbye to two long time villagers, Beau and Opal, to move in June and Scoot! I was also able to finally relocate Dizzy to a better location. Both Beau and Opal have been villagers in Tinytree for almost 4 years, so it was definitely sad to see them go. Dizzy was the most recent move in using an amiibo card (still, 3 years ago haha), and also one of the most problematic plot locations which was one of the reasons I wanted to do some villager reorganising!

Tropical Makeover Pt 2: Stinky's house & windmill

The next part of town I worked on for Tinytree's tropical makeover was Stinky's front lawn, or "playground park" area! As mentioned in my first post about Tinytree's makeover, Stinky's house was the hardest to incorporate into my previous theme which was "Orange Autumn sunset", mainly because his house colours were so clashing. I'm finally happy to have found a solution for making my beloved cat fit in better! I also finished making the windmill plaza area.

Goodbye Charlie :'(

When I decided to rebuild Tinytree I also wanted to invite two new villagers to live in town. Because of this, I made the hard decision to demolish Charlie's house in order to have a spare resident for plot resetting. Charlie's house was used as a "visitor's cabin" for tourists who come to Tinytree. There were rooms such as a general camper's lounge, equipment rental and shop, pharmacy, and Tinytree's rare books museum. The top floor bed room was also modelled to resemble the character Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Originally, Charlie wasn't meant to resemble another fictional character, but I thought of doing this after I had already named him. Plus, he's my favourite character on the show. Here's a post remembering his house before I demolished it!

Tinytree is getting a tropical makeover!

Part 1: Police Station & O'Hare's House

So when I said that I would "fix up" Tinytree, I was only planning on simply running around town for a while to deteriorate the grass and get my dirt paths back. Instead, I made an impulsive decision to tear it down and rebuild it! In this case, it is the opposite of Borei's town completion goal. When I had started documenting Borei's progress in this blog, the landscaping was already done but the houses were unfinished. Tinytree's houses are all finished, so now I can just focus on the landscaping! While Tinytree's first version had an Autumn themed forest town, this time around I am going to make a summery tropical town! (ACNH hype, yay) I was never active on blogs when I was building my town's layout so I'll try to document my process for Tinytree's redesign.

ACNL: Bathroom Archives

I found a few old pictures of my past bathrooms in my towns, Kenka, Tinytree, and Borei! Bathrooms are definitely my favourite room to design, especially small cozy ones. In all my towns I try to include a bathroom in every house if possible, because it feels weird that a human resident doesn't have their own place to poop. I changed Tinytree's bathroom quite often so I have a few different versions for mayor Jules' house. Here are some photos of bathrooms I've made over the years.

Tinytree comes out of hibernation!

Even though I have two towns, I'm the type of AC player that can only focus on one thing at a time. Because I was spending most of my return from AC hiatus working on Borei, Tinytree had been neglected for well over a year, whoops. IKI was curious to see my town so I dug it back up to give her a quick visit! We didn't play too long in here because we decided to go to her town afterwards so I could help her plan her landscaping. After I finish Borei I am planning on going back into Tinytree (which I consider to be my first ever "completed" town) to fix up its dirt paths and possibly change up the flower combinations around town! I'll also be posting Tinytree house tours and town tours later after Borei is finished.

Miiverse Archives: Tinytree

I recently learned about Miiverse archives and found some pictures of my town Tinytree as well as another town called "Kiri" (now reset) that I totally forgot about. I miss Miiverse mainly due to the home screen capture feature and the entertaining comments. It was nice looking through these because I've been neglecting logging into Tinytree in fear that it's been so long that my villagers would have moved out. Hopefully after I finish Borei I can fix up Tinytree a bit as well!

Here are some of my favourites that I found on my archives.