One genius Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan built a machine to help craft multiple in-game items for them. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a cozy game in which players are able to build and craft items to improve and beautify their islands. There are different ways players can express their creativity on their islands through builds like the popular Lord of the Rings-themed Animal Crossing island. Players have taken to recreating movie sets and television show sets, which can be very resource-intensive to build.
There are a few steps players need to complete to craft items in Animal Crossing. First, they must open the menu for the workbench and select the item they wish to build. In that menu, players must select "Craft It!" The user interface asks whether or not players actually want to craft that item. They should select "Let's Do It," and their character will begin to craft the item. If they want to craft the item at a faster pace, they have to press another button to speed up the process. This must be done every single time players want to craft an item, and there is no option to build more than one at a time. This limitation on crafting in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become somewhat of a joke in the community, and it is no surprise that people have devised clever ways to get around this.
Reddit user jmichael recently took to the Animal Crossing subreddit to share the device they created to help them build multiple items at once. They built their machine with the drinking bird desk ornament in mind. In the comments, they talked about how they used an Arduino microcontroller and then connected it to a servo control board, which they programmed to raise and lower the stick three times per second. They used the Nintendo 3DS stylus with a pencil eraser on the end as the actual button presser, which is a funny way to bring past Nintendo products to the current day. The Nintendo Switch controller is placed under the stylus so the machine keeps pressing the button, allowing multiple items to be crafted.
This machine is a very helpful way to let players build multiple items in one go and can help players complete resource-intensive builds, like the Zelda: Ocarina of Time temple built in Animal Crossing. Jmichael made sure to share all the hardware they purchased and used to create this button masher in the comments. They also discussed a bit about how they made it work, but it will also take a certain level of skill to create such a machine. It is a very impressive way to solve such a strange in-game problem.
The tedious process for crafting items has not slowed the Animal Crossing community down. Players have built incredible castles, movie sets, and replicas of video game scenes and have come up with creative ways to make items that are not in the game. These impressive Animal Crossing: New Horizons builds will continue to be a staple of the gaming experience. Hopefully, Nintendo will create a more user-friendly way to build multiple copies of the same item at a time. For now, however, machines like jmichael's can help players looking to create more large-scale build projects.
Source: jmichael/Reddit