Creative Animal Crossing Underwater Design Uses Frozen Trees For Coral
Another dedicated and talented Animal Crossing: New Horizons player has graced the gaming community with a unique creation, this time themed after a coral reef with a clever use of Frozen Trees. The 2020 Nintendo Switch title has spawned countless impressive buildings, landscapes, and other intriguing art pieces since launch, with some players even recreating locations from contemporary films like Turning Red in Animal Crossing.
Despite its simplistic and cartoonish art style, the Animal Crossing franchise offers no shortage of options for gamers looking to flex their creative muscles. In New Horizons specifically, players are dropped on an island and swiftly indebted to series mainstay Tom Nook - an event that serves as a catalyst for adventures in crafting. Through the game's various building and personalization systems, players can collect and arrange a seemingly endless amount of furnishings, decorative accents, structures, and other items. Some of these pieces can be further altered with custom patterns. Area rugs, floor textiles, and wallpaper can also be used in inventive ways to great effect, especially for gamers looking to take a more experimental approach to Animal Crossing builds.
When it comes to dense, highly detailed Animal Crossing: New Horizons creations, a recent piece from Reddit user AuriVega stands head and shoulders above most. In a post shared to the Animal Crossing subreddit, AuriVega shows off their coral reef-style build, which is jam-packed with fish statues, bioluminescent plants, and vibrantly colored Frozen Trees used in place of coral. A deep blue pattern has been applied to the floor and several surfaces in the room, which lends the space the appearance of an underwater sanctuary.
Fellow Animal Crossing players in the comments section are showering AuriVega with praise for their underwater build, and for good reason; the creation is a great display of artistic ingenuity, even when compared to other biome-specific builds like the Animal Crossing Crash Bandicoot jungle recreation. Something that might jump out to keen-eyed fans is AuriVega's use of Frozen Trees as pieces of jutting coral. These items are not usually used in many builds, so this player's ability to repurpose them is certainly impressive. Other details, like the multiple layers of the area, add to its overall appeal.
Underwater-style creations are quite rare in Animal Crossing, as players tend to lean more toward tropical or urban aesthetics when approaching natural builds. However, given the game's setting on an island, one might consider a coral reef replica somewhat fitting. AuriVega's creation may even inspire other Animal Crossing: New Horizons players to iterate on this style.
Source: AuriVega/Reddit