Five amazing terraforming creations in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing has always been a series that likes to allow freedom for its players to create the ways they want. New Horizons has taken that idea even further with a multitude of different ways to customize your island living experience to just the way you want. This includes custom designs, placement of plants, buildings, and more, and terraforming. With terraforming, for the first time, you can completely change the structure of your Animal Crossing home to any way you desire. To learn how to take advantage of the feature, check out our How to terraform guide.

A Link to the Past’s Hyrule

One of the most impressive forms of terraforming in the early days of New Horizons comes from Reddit user VaynMaanen who created the entire Hyrule map from The Legend of Zelda: 

You can tell from the images just how true to the original game’s design VaynMaanen stuck to. Instead of Hyrule castle, Blather’s museum is in place, the only hill areas on the island have been fashioned like Death Mountain, and Kakariko Village is made up of the island’s animal villagers. If you haven’t seen enough, you can check out some closer images on his imgur post.

We go from players with inspired fan creations to a completely blank canvas. Reddit user DJmudkips built up his island with shops, new villagers, and more just to tear it all down. Everything that cannot be destroyed has been moved to the beach (except residential services which can’t be moved), and the entire grassland has been wiped clean. The rivers have been covered, and the cliffs flattened. Sure, it’s not necessarily pretty, but look at all this space we have for extracurricular activities.