The Next Animal Crossing Game Needs This One Quality-Of-Life Update To Really Be Better Than ACNH

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is one of the best-selling video games of all time with one of the most annoying features ever to plague an title. A game which encourages making things by hand, with materials sourced from the surrounding environment, simultaneously makes players wait through an annoying animation every time they make something. This feature is, of course, the DIY crafting system.

While most other games with collectible resources have a crafting system, has one of the most aggravating. Instead of allowing players to make batches of consumable items that they’ll use every day, forces players to go through the same motions to craft anything, no matter how many times. It may be too late for to resolve these issues, but the next game should make sure that these key quality-of-life features aren’t overlooked.

DIY recipes are one of the core functions of . The game encourages players to make the most of their island life by collecting resources daily, by cutting down trees, hitting rocks, or by speaking to their villagers to get new DIY recipes. These recipes range from furniture and food to accessories and clothing. Not only do DIY recipes come up every day, through villagers and from the balloon packages that float through the sky, but they’re incredibly important for decorating an island.

To achieve an island evaluation rating of five stars, players need a certain number of decorations on their island to be DIY furniture. Crafting lots of new items, sometimes in multiples, is essential for some core aspects of Since crafting these recipes is so important for the function of the game, it would make sense that the crafting system was easy to use, fast, and not incredibly tedious.

The issue with is that the crafting system is slow, boring, and tedious. Every item must be selected repeatedly every time it's crafted. To craft one chair, players must go into their crafting menu, click craft, watch an animation, and then receive a chair with a line of dialogue. Any player that needs to craft