Though the weather inAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsmay seem random, there are underlying patterns in each copy of the game that determines what the day will look like. One fan of the game was able to decipher these patterns and created an app that can accurately predict what weatherindividualAnimal Crossingislandswill experience.
Weather may seem like a small detail inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, but it can have a big impact on the game. When rain appears on an island, players can find snails andCoelacanthswhich are one of the rarest fish in the game in the sea while butterflies disappear. Similarly, clear skies at night can lead to shooting stars. These effects can be a big deal depending on a player’s goals, so knowing what weather the day may entail can be a huge impact on how players interact with the game.
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With this in mind, one player decided to decipher these in-game weather patterns in a way that other players could understand. Ash Wolf, a software developer from Glasgow who also goes by the nameNinji, created an app called MeteoNook that can help players predict their islands' weather. By entering known data points into the app, MeteoNook can create a forecast for a specific island’s weather. Players need to input their island’s unique seed number and recording their games current weather by the hour, which is most accurately done if the player identifies the weather at the beginning of the hour. With that compiled information, the app can show future weather that the island will experience.
MeteoNook uses this data to eliminate weather patterns that wouldn’t make sense with the island’s already existing weather. Rainbows as well as double rainbows and aurora borealis can also be predicted this way. The app can display the weather forecast in monthly or yearly breakdowns through theAnimal Crossingsummer and winterseasons. If players have provided accurate information, they can also see the current day’s weather. Ninji says that the predictions are accurate unless players enter incorrect or impossible information. He is working to add a feature that will let players know that they’ve entered weather that is impossible for a certain day, but it isn’t currently available.
Technology like MeteoNook can really help players understand their games and work to create their idealAnimal Crossingislands. While the app is still being perfected, it gives players a peak into how not-so-random some aspects of the game are.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now for Switch.
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