Terraforming can be a long and daunting process in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Especially when some players want to do everything they can to get the island of their dreams, they can easily spend hours, days, and even months designing their island to perfection. However, even with the “freedom” that terraforming promises players, there are still a number of restrictions and limitations that can halt your decorating dreams - such as the annoying inability to plant trees if they’re too close to a cliff edge.
However, there’s a cool glitch that, as of the most recent Version 1.3 and Version 1.3.1 updates, still exists in the game and lets you do just that.
The glitch can help players achieve two goals: Firstly, it allows players to plant trees on tiny 1 x 1 sized plots of land. And secondly, and probably the most useful part of the glitch, it allows players to plant trees that are closely packed together on cliff edges, leaving more room at the center to terraform.
There are a couple of steps involved in order to get the glitch to work. Luckily, we’ve outlined them all right here:
First, you’ll want to build a 3 x 3 plot of land. This can be anywhere on your island. Then, cut a hole in one corner of the plot. The corner that you choose will be the edge your glitchy tree will be next to. Next, grab your Waterscaping Permit tool and fill the two tiles next to your edges with water. Then, fill in a third tile that connects the two tiles.
Now, you can use your ladder and hop up to the top of your plot and plant a tree. For the 3 x 3 plot, it will have to be in the center, as that’s the only place you can plant it.
However, this glitch can work with bigger plots of land. Just make sure it’s placed diagonally of where the diagonal water tile has been built.
When it comes to removing the remaining cliff edges around your tree, things can get a little tricky. You’ll want to remove land in a way that knocks off more than one cliff edge at a time, otherwise, you’ll get a popup message saying “It’s dangerous to modify this cliff because the tree above might fall!”.
If you ultimately decide not to keep your glitchy tree and want to remove it, luckily all you need to do is use the “Request Cleanup” feature on your Island Designer app on your NookPhone while directly next to your tree.
For a more detailed video tutorial, be sure to check out this video from Animal Crossing World.
As this is a glitch, there’s a chance this feature could be removed in the future - but for now, feel free to keep building trees on cliff edges as much as you want!
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now, exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
Source: Animal Crossing World
