In their exploration of the island getaway paradise they have created, an Animal Crossing: New Horizons player has discovered an interesting detail about a patch of weeds. Weeds have cluttered Animal Crossing villages due to a lack of upkeep since the first game was released back in 2001, and that's no different with Animal Crossing: New Horizons which has a few different types of weeds.
A Reddit user has garnered 1,100 upvotes on a screenshot from their Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, highlighting a unique detail about one of the common types of weeds players may encounter. A handful of Animal Crossing: New Horizons weeds may pop up on any given save, prompting players to pick them from the ground before they get too unruly. Once weeds are allowed to spread beyond their initial space on the map, they quickly take over large portions of an Animal Crossing: New Horizons island, and the clusters used to represent the item grow along the way.
Reddit user Pettyfan45 recently shared a top-down screenshot from their Animal Crossing: New Horizons village that focuses on two of the larger patches of weeds, a rock, and a few trees. Between the Animal Crossing Villager and the nearest tree are two squares of the map's grid that have weeds on them that form the number 2 on a slight angle. Easily compared to the other types of Animal Crossing: New Horizons weeds that players may discover, Pettyfan45's screenshot includes a few different patterns of weeds that are less visibly distinguishable than the ones pointed out by the Reddit user.
Because weeds in Animal Crossing: New Horizons often sprout next to each other, the ones that form a 2 may usually be surrounded on all sides to hide the symbol more effectively than in Pettyfan45's image. Some fans could have already created unique designs of the number through Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Able Sisters location, but they may also be able to create a 2 naturally using existing weeds simply by ignoring them. Given that Pettyfan45 only shared an image of the 2 weeds, it's currently unclear whether picking them up will change the pattern back to the basic one upon planting them in the ground again or not.
Many Animal Crossing: New Horizons fans may have walked by or picked up weeds similar to the one spotlighted by Pettyfan45 without a second glance, but upon seeing the 2, it may be difficult to see anything else in the weeds. Because it takes a few days in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for weeds to grow large enough to create patches as big as in Pettyfan45's image, players looking to replicate the 2 aesthetic may have to wait around for a while before they'll sprout.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.