The Animal Crossing: New Horizons community is all about creative islands and builds that push the envelope of ingenuity. To achieve this, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will use any and every tool at their disposal to construct and design the perfect texture or material required for their build.
Creating new Animal Crossing: New Horizons designs is the endgame goal of most players, and one player figured out a way to display the illusion of an active volcano. The result was a prop that, when viewed from a certain angle, became a volcano with fire coming out of its mouth.
Much like an Animal Crossing: New Horizons tutorial, Reddit user xMethodz posted a video of the finished product to Reddit, showing other players how the creation turned out. They explained the items required, saying to position the stage flame machine item behind the volcano to produce the effect. They also noted that it unfortunately only looked right from a particular angle.
Build tip: if you put the stage flame machine behind your dormant volcano, it gives the illusion that it’s about to erupt. A not-so-dormant volcano. (: from AnimalCrossingNewHor
Regardless of the angle limit, users were thrilled with xMethodz's idea. Many users posted saying they were going to use the two items together on their island. One user said the combination was the perfect piece to add to their island theme. Some users asked how to acquire the volcano, as they had never seen it before. XMethodz explained the volcano is a special item that only shows up in the Nook Catalog occasionally. Overall, users marked it as another unique Animal Crossing: New Horizons design.
The result of the item combination was a creative solution to a problem no one had figured out previously. Though the two items are somewhat underwhelming, and only work if viewed from the right angle, they are still a new, creative combination. The aesthetic created by the two items might also fit better when the weather changes for the warmer, as an active volcano might look more at home on a tropical island aesthetic. To xMethodz's credit, it does not look as though they were attempting to fit the combination in their aesthetic, instead simply showcasing their idea so others might be inspired by it and replicate it.
Creative designs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are extremely valuable, and as such are sought after by many players. Thus, when a new design like xMethodz's is created, players immediately replicate it to see how it fits into their island. The result of these innovations is a community constantly driven to create new designs and share them, creating a dedicated, friendly playerbase. XMethodz's volcano design is yet another example of a creative player bringing the community together around a new design.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available on the Nintendo Switch.