I was so shocked to hear how rare the vine-island is. I literally got it at my second try without even knowing of its existence! So far I've only been to the same island twice in a few days, so lucky me!
I actually went to the star fragment island rather recently. I got so many star fragments of different kinds I almost ran out of bag space to catch finned fish! Because yes, that island takes place during summer, so finned fish galore! You can also wish on shooting stars there too, so I ended up getting even more star fragments the next day lmao
I got a star island last night and packed my bag with zodiac fragments, and was still able to catch enough finned fish to sell for about 150K courtesy of Bell Boom once I returned to my main island. It was delightful.
Regarding the gyroid fragment islands, you can actually get the fragments on every island that Kapp'n takes you to. I've been to all of the regular islands and a few of the seasonal ones, and I've found gyroids on all of them. Sometimes you need to hunt for them, or there may be more than one star on the ground which if there are, just dig up all the stars that you find.
my character is more than a year old and i get the seasonal ones a lot 😅 my first kapp’n island was the star fragment island, followed by the spring one then vine island
This was a good breakdown. I'd gotten so frustrated with getting the "sea bass" island nearly every time. But after a week, I've gotten a bit luckier. I'd since seen the fall leaf island, the "coelachanth" island and today, the young bamboo island. I thought maybe the time of day I went would influence things, but it clearly doesn't :P now I'm just hoping I'll get an island with wheat growing on it cuz that's the only crop I'm missing
I feel the “only crop I’m missing” so much. Like I have an ABUNDANCE of wheat but I’ve never gotten oranges even though I’ve been playing for a long time. It’s like this video was mocking me a bit.
@@rebekahjohnson5940 lol I have such bad luck I've beeb playing for almost a year and only had pears and peaches until my friend came to my island and planted the other fruits for me hahaha
@@jennysayquack1730 Leif rotates but not evenly. I was waiting for wheat for months before my friend gave me one to plant and grow from there, thank god cuz Leif still hasn’t had wheat 😂
I committed to playing 365 days straight since launch, no time travel. And let me tell you it was painful when there was virtually nothing to do between updates. These Kapp’n islands finally made that pay off
Right there with you. I’ve got over 1,600 hours since March 2020. I didn’t even consider restarting my island and was side eyeing those who did. Now I feel vindicated (and sad for those who chose to restart)
@@ViolinChick5 I had no choice to restart mine 😩 my game files messed up not too long ago and wouldn’t load. I miss Apollo so much… it works now but my progress was shot and I couldn’t do anything else about it
Oh interesting. I got the game around November 2020, playing every day with no time travel too. and I got the vine island after like 5 days. I didn’t know how rare it was!
@@ViolinChick5 hey, restarting is fun. you get to re-experience the beginning of the game and have a fresh start. i restarted after playing for a full year and im enjoying it
“The sea bass of islands” is the perfect analogy! I was wondering about the randomness and what islands I hadn’t encountered yet. Your video explained it very well! Thank you kind sir!
I've had "regular" kapp'n islands where there are money trees with bags of 1,000 bells on them, and I've had a "regular" kapp'n island where all the rocks were money rocks... I wonder what the chances are for those?
@@EJPlays Ive been playing since launch but restarted my game about a week before the update. I dont TT but dont mind doing it just to be seen as been playing for 1 year but I just TT to Dec 2023 and it still says Ive only been active for 22 days. So it doesnt seem to work. Any ideas. Thnx
@@Adam-tp6ch maybe you have to play in every season or something. Like you have to played one day in mushroom time and one day in maple leaf time and so on. Just an idea hahaha, no idea if it works
@@doornroosje4695 I dont know either. Something triggers it but I cant figure it out. Ive only been playing around 22days on my new game but the Nook miles achievement says 59 days. So something made it do that but I cant recreate it. Lol
I got the star fragment island the other day! I was so excited! I got on it and was like “why the heck is it so dark?” The rocks also give you fragments if you hit them with a shovel!
Damn, now I feel lucky to have been to every single one of these islands already! I even got all types of vegetable island. Had no idea the full gyroid island was this rare though! Idk if there's a connection here but when Celeste is visiting, both my friend and I ended up on the star pieces island on our respective islands!
I’ve been to the vine island 2 times now. Very blessed, thanks kapp’n. After watching this video, I realize I’ve been to all of the ‘regular islands’ and a few of the seasonal islands as well.
I must be lucky. I’ve visited all the islands except the full gyroid island. One cool thing is you can see the transition as you go to the island if you get one of the seasonal islands. Like maple leaves, snowflakes, or cherry blossom leaves will start falling. Or for star island it will turn to night off you’re playing during the day.
i think the rng might also factor in longevity of playtime and possibly long term play? (playing daily, having most of the nook mile long term goals filled out, section of musuem filled etc), i've gotten vine island 3 times, wheat and tomato island during my kappn visits! *forgot but also got a summer island! theres hope besties, keep playing!!*
That might be why I roll so well then! My first ever Kapp’n island was the moss and vines, I got some regular ones a few days in a row. But recently I’ve gotten potato and tomato island, summer island, cherry blossom island and maple leaf island (I got the game for Christmas last year so I haven’t unlocked mushroom island yet).
This is a really cool breakdown of which islands there are! The only seasonal island I've been to so far was the star fragment island. It was pretty cool, you can wish on shooting stars and get star fragments on your beach shore the next day too 💫💫💫
I imagine the reason you have to unlock the seasonal islands comes down to preserving the specialness of each season, and avoiding sending players to an island they wouldn't have any DIYs for. They don't want your first snow experience to be Kappn dropping you on a snowy island
i got a snowy island a week or so ago. it actually helped with setting up for decorating for the holidays. i also went to an island with a bunch of pumpkins. i’ve yet to go to a star fragment island 🥺
Thank you so much for this video. It honestly helped. My account is already a full year old by "normal date" not by "time travel date" but I decided to time travel to the month of April to possibly get the cherry blossom island but I've gotten so lucky. I got the full gyroid island and the bamboo island. So thank u so much for this video. Like I said, it really helped. 😊😊😊👍👍👍👍
Clicked on the video because I was actually really surprised to find out that people are getting the same islands. My experience has been very different, i’ve gotten most of the special islands outside of the full gyroid isle so far. Then again, I’ve also had the game since launch and I never suffered more than 3 to 4 months of burnout. Cool informative video, I appreciate the effort you put into it
For people who moved their character to a new island: I started playing on my brother's island when the game released but I moved my character to a new island when he bought a limited edition switch for the update. I started this new island in October and I still got a snowflake island recently, even though I have not played past 2/24. So if you need to move to a new island for circumstances like mine don't worry too much! You can still visit all the islands you would have previously unlocked.
Nice breakdown! For those who soft reset, you can go to Kapp’N’s island right after the game autosaves and turn it off and try again if it’s not the one you want (as long as it doesn’t auto save while you’re on Kapp’N’s island). I’ve gotten the vine/moss island once this way! For gyroids, if you time travel you can get unlimited ones by going to a rainy or snowy day on your island and tt’ing forward and back a day.
This is so interesting! And makes total sense. So, thinking our loud, I am bound to find anything but mushrooms and maple leaves ‘cause I restarted in January 🤔 I have found all the regular ones and a actually, thinking about it a summer one … it will be question of luck to find a fricking star island 🤣
I got the vine island as my second boat mystery island, and then I kept getting boring islands like dodo islands, and now I’m here to see how to get better ones. Thanks for this vid! Edit: I just logged on and when I went to Kapp’n to go to a mystery island, the island I got was the same exact island as the one I got Yesterday, down to the formation of the cliffs to the color of the pansies
Super interesting breakdown. I had literally no idea it was so complex what island you get assigned. That being said, what about money island? I'm guessing it is probably among the regular ones? Several trees have bell bags (3 bags with 1k each), but other than that is your standard fragment island.
Truly my biggest question also! I haven't read anything about it in the data mines so i have no idea. My hypothesis is that it might be a once-per-player occurance? Maybe?
omg i didn't know this was a thing! i stopped shaking trees last week after i realized there was no item but all ive gotten is fragment islands (and one vine/moss !!) since , i hope i didnt miss it
@@savbison599 they are the same as the money trees in your main island, they have three little money bags instead of fruits, so don't worry, if you didn't see a single tree with money bags, then you most likely didn't lose anything.
I got Vine island last night. It was my second time and I was SO EXCITED. I also got a Summer Island (at the end of May), it had most of the summer palm tree bugs!!
This explains a lot. Never knew the seasonal islands are locked on how long you've played. I did reset my island shortly before the update was announced, this explains why I haven't been to a seasonal islands yet.
this is so interesting. i’ve found star fragment island, cherry blossom, a summer island, bamboo island, the vine island, and all other regular islands except for the full-grown gyroid. however I’ve still not been to a winter, nor either of the fall items. I’ve started in late January, so I suppose this makes sense.
this video is cool, it's nice to see the math behind it! i've gotten the cherry blossom and star fragment islands, and have had pretty good luck with getting the vine island(s) (which i've seen two variations of). i started playing at the end of march of this year, but i've also time-traveled a LOT. not super far back in time, just a month to get the bedhead hairstyle, and otherwise just a few days back and forth here and there. i don't have any DIYs or critters from winter yet.
Why am I just learning that there is an island with grown Gyroids?! Maybe I’ll get more seasonal islands next month. I started just before Christmas last year 🥲 Also, Katrina has been scamming me out of my bells because she isn’t helping my luck lol
Thanks so much for talking about this, because I finally figured out what the hell happened to my island, and how I got a Maple leaf island, when I didn't start the game until December of last year. I didn't realize time travel had an effect on it, and had forgotten I technically time travelled when I first played. My game started me in the spring or summer season, even I'm in the Northern Hemisphere. I noticed then, that the date and time on the Switch were incorrect. So when I fixed it, I technically time travelled past certain seasons, including fall. That makes so much sense now 😅
Pretty much the same here! I have been to a shooting stars, cherry blossom, potato, glowing moss, and a island FULL of money (twice)! All trees had money bags and the all the rocks were money rocks, it was crazy!
i've only been to moss/vine twice, raining, regular gyroid frag, and mushroom/acorn/pinecone. i want to go to shooting star island so bad! been playing since launch T^T
I got those seasonal islands through sheer luck, but not the luck you speak of in the video. I recently restarted my island but after two in-game days I realised that my switch date was a year out! So I went and corrected it from October 2021 to February 2022. Hence time travelling! I visited star fragment island yesterday for the first time and I had no idea it was actually a thing and I was utterly shocked!
Enjoyed your video, EJ and it was quite insightful. I suppose I have been lucky because I have only traveled with Kapp'n 8 times and 5 out of the 8 islands were rare. I wasn't even aware of this fact until watching your vid. Thank you for the info!
i was honestly planning on time travelling to those dates anyway but i hadn't found what they were yet. i restarted my island a month before the 2.0 update but i've been playing since march 2020 so imo, i've experienced these events fairly already.
Thanks for this video. I’ve gotten all of the basic islands, and the bamboo and snowflake island. I’ve played the game since launch so I hope I get a star fragment island soon.
🌟That was amazingly well presented and so very informative!! Thank you! Now I understand why my daughters character keeps getting normal islands. She’s only 4mo old in game. Time travel it is 😉
I got pretty lucky, I've been sent to all the types of island at least one time ! All except... The one I really wanted to explore, the one with the star fragments...
I've got the vine one a couple times and scooped them all up along with the moss. Pretty cool. Also got some island with vegs I didn't have (carrots and sugar cane). Got the rainy one a couple times where you get a full gyroid and a fragment. Also the cherry blossom one but that didn't interest me that much. Really want the shooting star one.
I got an island in July/August recently, and was finally able to catch more scarab beetles to have Flick make a model for me. I didn't know they also appeared on palm trees. I got the star fragment island last night.
I’ve been getting special islands like everyday, and only just got a boring island yesterday so…, besides the initial Brewster island of course! My very first island had a bunch of money trees! Also make sure to hit rocks all the time, there are often money rocks on these islands!!!
This was super helpful information, thank you! I just wanted to let you know that my bf and I have gotten seasonal islands for seasons we haven't actually played. We will have had the game for a year at Christmas, but we didn't play for a long stretch of time and I still get sent to the summer shell islands and the cherry blossom islands without ever seening those things before. Idk if I misunderstood what you were saying or if we just happen to be super lucky? Idk! Also as a side, my bf got an island that had all bell rocks which I didn't think was a thing for Kapp'n tours! Hope you get more cool islands soon! Thanks again! ❤
he says at 5:05! basically if your account was made in january, and you didn’t play until january of next year, it still counts as seeing those seasons. your account existed during those seasons, so you will unlock the chance to see those islands.
Thanks for the helpful breakdown! This is probably just a coincidence but I seem to have better luck with islands in the middle of the night. Any other time I’m most likely going to a gyroid fragment island, but around 3am seems to be a lucky time for me 😅
I got the game last Christmas and didn’t reset, so I’ve seen all the seasons. So far, I’ve gotten a summer shell island, cherry blossom island, raining / full gyroid island, wheat island, potato island, and moss/vine island. I’m missing sugar cane (Leif has only been selling tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots) and I really hope I hit a star island, sugar island, or mushroom island soon! There’s only a few days left to get mush recipes, and I’ve only gotten the lamp so far! I’m saving up my mushrooms daily for when I get the other recipes, but it’s really good to know that I can potentially collect mushrooms and mush recipes on a kapp'n island!!
Thank you for this explanation...makes absolute sense. I've gotten a few seasonal islands on my account in the northern hemisphere but still will miss a few as I've been playing for less than a year....Christmas will be a year!😁 Great job!
Hi EJ thank you for a great video. Let me start out by saying I’ve landed the “mythical” vine island 4 times since the update was released. I honestly would rather get a sugar cane island. I understand it’s all RNG but I’ve had great success in the vine island department. I’ve landed almost all the new vegetables in island form. I’ve landed a money rock island once. No star piece island yet but I have a ton of star pieces so landing on one would be a cool novelty for me.
I’ve been to Cherry blossom island and the vine / glowing moss island. I’m hoping to get to the Star fragments island soon! My save file is literally from when the game first came out
If I only knew how rare a seasonal island was then I would've stayed at the winter island I got and caught more snowflakes! WAH! But this was very informative, thank you!
I don’t play animal crossing regularly or have any of the major updates but these statistics videos relating to the game are always so interesting! Thx for the effortful content
HUGE Shout out to asteriation, the dataminer who uncovered all of this! Check out their stuff here: acnh.isomorphicbox.com/updates/2.0.0/#kappn **NOTE** A lot of questions about Money Tree islands: certain islands have a chance of spawning money trees instead of fruit trees, though I'm not sure what the percentage is! This is not considered a specific type of island though! Also! Fruit trees on these islands will ALWAYS be your native fruit :(
So glad I couldn't be bothered to restart my island, and now I can laugh at my friend who's been trying to go to a seasonal island for a while now but reset a few days before the update came out
thank u for reading the datamine documents & making a video in laymen's terms 😭😭 am still gonna read the docs but now i know why i wasn't getting any furniture from the trees on kappn islands 😂
i restarted my island back in august before we even knew about the update and im glad i did bc i can catch all sorts of finned fish in the middle of december
I got an island where all the rocks were money rocks after getting a good fortune from Katrina. So either I was just really lucky or there’s a correlation
Kind of! Certain islands have a chance of spawning money trees instead of fruit and hardwood trees, though I'm not sure what the probability of this happening is! This is not considered a specific type of island by the game, though, so it can happen on almost any island excluding the Spring Bamboo, Cherry Blossom, Maple Leaf, and Mushroom islands.
Thank you for this video. I just shared it on several acnh fb groups because I've seen so many posts about these islands and about restarting islands. So thank you, I know it gave me some good information and I'm sure it's the same for at least some people in the aforementioned fb groups! Happy Gaming!
I’m hunting for as many vines as I can get so I can have several of those giant vines on my island and to have those gorgeous ruined pillars everywhere. But you get around 8-10 vines per vine island and the giant vine is 25 vines. Even with trips to the happy home paradise island which seems to give me 2-3 a day, it’s going to be a painfully long time of me hunting for them 😅
Did this work to register your character as been playing for 365 days. Im messing around with TT now but the game isnt registering that. I TT to Dec 2023 but it still says Ive only been active for 22 days.
One Kappn island I got was pretty cool. There was money bag trees all over the island and all the rocks I hit were money rocks! I had never had a special island before!
Another island I experienced recently was what I like to call 'Money Rock Island.' It looked like a normal Gyroid Fragment Island, but instead of only one rock containing bells, every single rock did. There's a whooole lot lf nuance in here haha.
Yeah! So, certain islands have a chance of spawning money trees instead of fruit and hardwood trees, though I'm not sure what the probability of this happening is! This is not considered a specific type of island by the game, though, so it can happen on almost any island excluding the Spring Bamboo, Cherry Blossom, Maple Leaf, and Mushroom islands.
I'm so glad for these new islands because when I travel using nook miles by the airport I've been getting target island for almost 2 years , Maybe my games faulty 😪 so this new update has made my game enjoyable again , Fantastic video aswel 🧡
Thanks for the helpful explanation! I was wondering why I hadn't found any special islands yet. I started playing last September, so that's probably a huge factor 😅
dang. I have not been TTing, but I got the vine island on my second trip. I had no idea it was that rare. I've also been to the raining island with the full gyroid. No idea that was rare either! For some reason I have only been to 2 types of veggie islands, and I'm bummed I rarely get them. I get a lot of seasonal islands. Thanks for all this info!
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Got to all
"The full gyroid island? That's basically the coelacanth of islands." Thank you for putting this in terms I can understand lol
And you can catch a coulacanth there too 😄😄👍 i was there yesterday
Before I researched: Wtf if a coelacanth?!
@@crazyharrypotterfan2326 its a big fish worth 15 k bells and 22k if you sell one to cj you only can catch that fish during rain or snow 😄
@@dennisvanwestreenen5430 I know that, now. I searched on Google. But thanks!
@@dennisvanwestreenen5430 you actually can’t catch it during the snow in acnh i dont think!
I was so shocked to hear how rare the vine-island is. I literally got it at my second try without even knowing of its existence! So far I've only been to the same island twice in a few days, so lucky me!
Me too!
I get it super often
I’ve gotten 4 vine islands out of maybe 6… I had no idea it was rare!
I got it first try
same!
I actually went to the star fragment island rather recently. I got so many star fragments of different kinds I almost ran out of bag space to catch finned fish! Because yes, that island takes place during summer, so finned fish galore! You can also wish on shooting stars there too, so I ended up getting even more star fragments the next day lmao
Thats the one I want to find badly
I went there aswell! Its amazing ive been to a bunch of the same islands their amazing!!
I got a star island last night and packed my bag with zodiac fragments, and was still able to catch enough finned fish to sell for about 150K courtesy of Bell Boom once I returned to my main island. It was delightful.
So when you wish on shooting stars there, do the fragments appear on your own island the next day?
I need to get to that island. lol
Regarding the gyroid fragment islands, you can actually get the fragments on every island that Kapp'n takes you to. I've been to all of the regular islands and a few of the seasonal ones, and I've found gyroids on all of them. Sometimes you need to hunt for them, or there may be more than one star on the ground which if there are, just dig up all the stars that you find.
Yes! You're totally right, I just phrased it in a confusing way 😅
"gyroid fragment only" islands really are the sea bass of islands
I call them buttholes lol
Is there only one on every island because I’ve only been getting one :((
Interesting! Still haven’t gotten a seasonal island and my character is more than a year old…. So I just have bad luck basically
Same 😔
Same!
Same
Hopping here to say me too. My alternate character has gotten 2 so far though.
my character is more than a year old and i get the seasonal ones a lot 😅 my first kapp’n island was the star fragment island, followed by the spring one then vine island
This was a good breakdown. I'd gotten so frustrated with getting the "sea bass" island nearly every time. But after a week, I've gotten a bit luckier. I'd since seen the fall leaf island, the "coelachanth" island and today, the young bamboo island. I thought maybe the time of day I went would influence things, but it clearly doesn't :P now I'm just hoping I'll get an island with wheat growing on it cuz that's the only crop I'm missing
I feel the “only crop I’m missing” so much. Like I have an ABUNDANCE of wheat but I’ve never gotten oranges even though I’ve been playing for a long time. It’s like this video was mocking me a bit.
@@rebekahjohnson5940 lol I have such bad luck I've beeb playing for almost a year and only had pears and peaches until my friend came to my island and planted the other fruits for me hahaha
I'm tryna get me some tomatoes 🍅 and potatoes 🥔 😭
for crops you guys should definitely check with Leif and save up so you can unlock him on Harvs Island :D
@@jennysayquack1730 Leif rotates but not evenly. I was waiting for wheat for months before my friend gave me one to plant and grow from there, thank god cuz Leif still hasn’t had wheat 😂
I committed to playing 365 days straight since launch, no time travel. And let me tell you it was painful when there was virtually nothing to do between updates. These Kapp’n islands finally made that pay off
Right there with you. I’ve got over 1,600 hours since March 2020. I didn’t even consider restarting my island and was side eyeing those who did. Now I feel vindicated (and sad for those who chose to restart)
@@ViolinChick5 I had no choice to restart mine 😩 my game files messed up not too long ago and wouldn’t load. I miss Apollo so much… it works now but my progress was shot and I couldn’t do anything else about it
Oh interesting. I got the game around November 2020, playing every day with no time travel too. and I got the vine island after like 5 days. I didn’t know how rare it was!
@@ViolinChick5 hey, restarting is fun. you get to re-experience the beginning of the game and have a fresh start. i restarted after playing for a full year and im enjoying it
@@Ylurple I’d restart on another profile.
Literally my brain is hurting from watching this. Not because of your video but all the ins and outs of mystery islands and how to get them. Whew!
“The sea bass of islands” is the perfect analogy! I was wondering about the randomness and what islands I hadn’t encountered yet. Your video explained it very well! Thank you kind sir!
I've had "regular" kapp'n islands where there are money trees with bags of 1,000 bells on them, and I've had a "regular" kapp'n island where all the rocks were money rocks... I wonder what the chances are for those?
Yeah I'm gonna need a video on that cuz I'm tryna get paid too 💅🏽
Yea that’s the only island iv ever been too, money tree island
I got money tree island a few times when the update was still pretty new. Haven’t been there recently though.
I've been to the island that all the rocks only give bells the past 2 days. Hope that it continues.
I've had both of those as well, I'm curious.
I got my first seasonal island today. Mushrooms and fall bounty as far as the eye could see and a fall diy.
I got that one a couple days ago too. So good!
My first was a summer island
That’s… the season we are in rn
@@Alexandra-ng1ih different hemispheres have different seasons.
This and harvs island helps so much in catching up with missing stuff
"The sea bass of islands" made me LOL - that's exactly how it feels! 😂 👏
OMG it’s sooo much more complicated than i would’ve ever imagined.. no freaking wonder i’ve had no luck on my new island 😩
Right?!? It took me a good half hour to figure out what the data mine even meant 😂
@@EJPlays Ive been playing since launch but restarted my game about a week before the update. I dont TT but dont mind doing it just to be seen as been playing for 1 year but I just TT to Dec 2023 and it still says Ive only been active for 22 days. So it doesnt seem to work. Any ideas. Thnx
@@Adam-tp6ch maybe you have to play in every season or something. Like you have to played one day in mushroom time and one day in maple leaf time and so on. Just an idea hahaha, no idea if it works
@@doornroosje4695 I dont know either. Something triggers it but I cant figure it out. Ive only been playing around 22days on my new game but the Nook miles achievement says 59 days. So something made it do that but I cant recreate it. Lol
no but I love your videos
I got the star fragment island the other day! I was so excited! I got on it and was like “why the heck is it so dark?” The rocks also give you fragments if you hit them with a shovel!
Damn, now I feel lucky to have been to every single one of these islands already! I even got all types of vegetable island. Had no idea the full gyroid island was this rare though!
Idk if there's a connection here but when Celeste is visiting, both my friend and I ended up on the star pieces island on our respective islands!
Speaking as someone who's been playing since launch--luck plays a MASSIVE part in this (although the math on this is pretty cool, thanks EJ)
I just really like the way he said "po-tay-to island"
This was literally a better explanation than any article I've read, thank you
"Theres a type of vegetable on this island like *tomatoes* "
But...but...aren't tomatoes fruit??..
I’ve been to the vine island 2 times now. Very blessed, thanks kapp’n. After watching this video, I realize I’ve been to all of the ‘regular islands’ and a few of the seasonal islands as well.
I must be lucky. I’ve visited all the islands except the full gyroid island. One cool thing is you can see the transition as you go to the island if you get one of the seasonal islands. Like maple leaves, snowflakes, or cherry blossom leaves will start falling. Or for star island it will turn to night off you’re playing during the day.
i think the rng might also factor in longevity of playtime and possibly long term play? (playing daily, having most of the nook mile long term goals filled out, section of musuem filled etc), i've gotten vine island 3 times, wheat and tomato island during my kappn visits! *forgot but also got a summer island! theres hope besties, keep playing!!*
That might be why I roll so well then! My first ever Kapp’n island was the moss and vines, I got some regular ones a few days in a row. But recently I’ve gotten potato and tomato island, summer island, cherry blossom island and maple leaf island (I got the game for Christmas last year so I haven’t unlocked mushroom island yet).
I have 1100 hours played since it came out on the same island and haven't gotten a single "special" one, just regulars :(
Can horned hercules beetles spawn on the summer island?
@@benjaminschroeder5465 I got a cicada on one of the seasonal islands so maybe?
@@M33PSTER
I wanna know because the goddamn horned hercules beetle is the last bug I need for my museum
This is a really cool breakdown of which islands there are! The only seasonal island I've been to so far was the star fragment island. It was pretty cool, you can wish on shooting stars and get star fragments on your beach shore the next day too 💫💫💫
Support group for people who keep getting the same islands I laughed too hard at that one haha
I imagine the reason you have to unlock the seasonal islands comes down to preserving the specialness of each season, and avoiding sending players to an island they wouldn't have any DIYs for.
They don't want your first snow experience to be Kappn dropping you on a snowy island
Me who created my island in may 2020 and has never restarted: 😎
Yeah. Same! Since june 2020 😎🤜🤛😎
March 2020 🤪🔥
march 28 2020 !!!
Same but I think I started in april
Same 😎
Only got 1 winter island up until now though 🥲
i got a snowy island a week or so ago. it actually helped with setting up for decorating for the holidays. i also went to an island with a bunch of pumpkins. i’ve yet to go to a star fragment island 🥺
I quite like the unlocking system for the seasonal islands. Keeping people taking it slow.
Thank you so much for this video. It honestly helped. My account is already a full year old by "normal date" not by "time travel date" but I decided to time travel to the month of April to possibly get the cherry blossom island but I've gotten so lucky. I got the full gyroid island and the bamboo island. So thank u so much for this video. Like I said, it really helped. 😊😊😊👍👍👍👍
I have only had the broken gyroid and vegetable islands 😭 I have had my island for over a year but haven’t played a lot so makes sense
Hmmm even if you haven't played it *should* have unlocked, but might just be bad luck 😅
@@EJPlays maybe, I haven’t been time travelling so only visited a few times
@@Ddalgiichigo the update has been out since the third so you could of visited 15 times without time travelling
There should always be at least one gyroid fragment
Clicked on the video because I was actually really surprised to find out that people are getting the same islands. My experience has been very different, i’ve gotten most of the special islands outside of the full gyroid isle so far. Then again, I’ve also had the game since launch and I never suffered more than 3 to 4 months of burnout. Cool informative video, I appreciate the effort you put into it
For people who moved their character to a new island: I started playing on my brother's island when the game released but I moved my character to a new island when he bought a limited edition switch for the update. I started this new island in October and I still got a snowflake island recently, even though I have not played past 2/24. So if you need to move to a new island for circumstances like mine don't worry too much! You can still visit all the islands you would have previously unlocked.
Nice breakdown!
For those who soft reset, you can go to Kapp’N’s island right after the game autosaves and turn it off and try again if it’s not the one you want (as long as it doesn’t auto save while you’re on Kapp’N’s island). I’ve gotten the vine/moss island once this way!
For gyroids, if you time travel you can get unlimited ones by going to a rainy or snowy day on your island and tt’ing forward and back a day.
Does it give me back my 1000 nook miles when I do the first option
This is so interesting! And makes total sense. So, thinking our loud, I am bound to find anything but mushrooms and maple leaves ‘cause I restarted in January 🤔 I have found all the regular ones and a actually, thinking about it a summer one … it will be question of luck to find a fricking star island 🤣
I have yet to get a star fragment island and my game file has gone from April til now 😭
I got the vine island as my second boat mystery island, and then I kept getting boring islands like dodo islands, and now I’m here to see how to get better ones. Thanks for this vid!
Edit: I just logged on and when I went to Kapp’n to go to a mystery island, the island I got was the same exact island as the one I got Yesterday, down to the formation of the cliffs to the color of the pansies
I got super lucky and went to the shooting star/star fragment Island. Truly is beautiful and the wishes are made. New fav UA-camr.
Super interesting breakdown. I had literally no idea it was so complex what island you get assigned. That being said, what about money island? I'm guessing it is probably among the regular ones? Several trees have bell bags (3 bags with 1k each), but other than that is your standard fragment island.
Truly my biggest question also! I haven't read anything about it in the data mines so i have no idea. My hypothesis is that it might be a once-per-player occurance? Maybe?
I've also gotten bell bag island
omg i didn't know this was a thing! i stopped shaking trees last week after i realized there was no item but all ive gotten is fragment islands (and one vine/moss !!) since , i hope i didnt miss it
@@savbison599 they are the same as the money trees in your main island, they have three little money bags instead of fruits, so don't worry, if you didn't see a single tree with money bags, then you most likely didn't lose anything.
@@paurb4783 omg that’s great thank u !!
I got Vine island last night. It was my second time and I was SO EXCITED. I also got a Summer Island (at the end of May), it had most of the summer palm tree bugs!!
This is the best breakdown I’ve seen on all of Kappn’s islands! Thank you for this!
the star fragment island also has shooting stars that you wish on, and star fragments that wash up on shore
This was so helpful! Thank you EJ! Also makes me sad I restarted my island a month before the update 🥴😂
Tell me about it! I'm looking at my restarted island now like ... :/
This explains a lot. Never knew the seasonal islands are locked on how long you've played. I did reset my island shortly before the update was announced, this explains why I haven't been to a seasonal islands yet.
I needed this video so much! Appreciate you having the patience to do the research so we don't have to 😂
Rawrr! This explains sooo much! It's always vine island or fall island since I had to restart my entire island (RIP former switch!).
this is so interesting. i’ve found star fragment island, cherry blossom, a summer island, bamboo island, the vine island, and all other regular islands except for the full-grown gyroid. however I’ve still not been to a winter, nor either of the fall items. I’ve started in late January, so I suppose this makes sense.
this video is cool, it's nice to see the math behind it! i've gotten the cherry blossom and star fragment islands, and have had pretty good luck with getting the vine island(s) (which i've seen two variations of). i started playing at the end of march of this year, but i've also time-traveled a LOT. not super far back in time, just a month to get the bedhead hairstyle, and otherwise just a few days back and forth here and there. i don't have any DIYs or critters from winter yet.
Why am I just learning that there is an island with grown Gyroids?! Maybe I’ll get more seasonal islands next month. I started just before Christmas last year 🥲 Also, Katrina has been scamming me out of my bells because she isn’t helping my luck lol
I got the full grown gyroid island. It has the broken gyroid and then one full grown one so it’s not that good.
I believe that she just brings bad luck to neutral, not bad to good- but I'm not entirely sure 😅
@@ollie_3948 Her bad luck reset is to make bad luck go to normal. So you do not get good luck, but are no longer effected by bad luck.
Theres a rainy island that gives you a full gyroid and a gyroid fragment as will
you don't have any luck at all until you talk to Katrina ouob
Funny enough today I had a rainy island and it made my day being able to catch three ceolcanth (Oh no! I can't spell it) in a row by accident.
glad youtube recommended this video because i was starting to think i wasnt getting any fun islands because i only got the game this may
Thanks so much for talking about this, because I finally figured out what the hell happened to my island, and how I got a Maple leaf island, when I didn't start the game until December of last year.
I didn't realize time travel had an effect on it, and had forgotten I technically time travelled when I first played. My game started me in the spring or summer season, even I'm in the Northern Hemisphere. I noticed then, that the date and time on the Switch were incorrect. So when I fixed it, I technically time travelled past certain seasons, including fall.
That makes so much sense now 😅
Very informative and bloat-free!
Good thing I've had the same island representative since launch and never reset, ahaha.
Gather and weep peasants. I have been to shooting star, cherry blossom, fall, and snow island 😤
Dammmmmn
Pretty much the same here! I have been to a shooting stars, cherry blossom, potato, glowing moss, and a island FULL of money (twice)! All trees had money bags and the all the rocks were money rocks, it was crazy!
i've only been to moss/vine twice, raining, regular gyroid frag, and mushroom/acorn/pinecone. i want to go to shooting star island so bad! been playing since launch T^T
I got those seasonal islands through sheer luck, but not the luck you speak of in the video. I recently restarted my island but after two in-game days I realised that my switch date was a year out! So I went and corrected it from October 2021 to February 2022. Hence time travelling! I visited star fragment island yesterday for the first time and I had no idea it was actually a thing and I was utterly shocked!
Enjoyed your video, EJ and it was quite insightful. I suppose I have been lucky because I have only traveled with Kapp'n 8 times and 5 out of the 8 islands were rare. I wasn't even aware of this fact until watching your vid. Thank you for the info!
i was honestly planning on time travelling to those dates anyway but i hadn't found what they were yet. i restarted my island a month before the 2.0 update but i've been playing since march 2020 so imo, i've experienced these events fairly already.
Thanks for this video. I’ve gotten all of the basic islands, and the bamboo and snowflake island. I’ve played the game since launch so I hope I get a star fragment island soon.
🌟That was amazingly well presented and so very informative!! Thank you! Now I understand why my daughters character keeps getting normal islands. She’s only 4mo old in game. Time travel it is 😉
I got pretty lucky, I've been sent to all the types of island at least one time ! All except... The one I really wanted to explore, the one with the star fragments...
It’s the shooting stars island so hit those rocks!
@@michellest-pierre225 When you realize you've been there and haven't hit a single rock. Kill me now...🙈😂
I've got the vine one a couple times and scooped them all up along with the moss. Pretty cool. Also got some island with vegs I didn't have (carrots and sugar cane). Got the rainy one a couple times where you get a full gyroid and a fragment. Also the cherry blossom one but that didn't interest me that much. Really want the shooting star one.
Your channel is HIGHLY underrated my man! I seriously love your content!
I got an island in July/August recently, and was finally able to catch more scarab beetles to have Flick make a model for me. I didn't know they also appeared on palm trees. I got the star fragment island last night.
Thank you so much for this video! Definitely explains why my one switch always gets the basic islands!!!
I’ve been getting special islands like everyday, and only just got a boring island yesterday so…, besides the initial Brewster island of course! My very first island had a bunch of money trees! Also make sure to hit rocks all the time, there are often money rocks on these islands!!!
This was super helpful information, thank you! I just wanted to let you know that my bf and I have gotten seasonal islands for seasons we haven't actually played. We will have had the game for a year at Christmas, but we didn't play for a long stretch of time and I still get sent to the summer shell islands and the cherry blossom islands without ever seening those things before. Idk if I misunderstood what you were saying or if we just happen to be super lucky? Idk! Also as a side, my bf got an island that had all bell rocks which I didn't think was a thing for Kapp'n tours! Hope you get more cool islands soon! Thanks again! ❤
he says at 5:05! basically if your account was made in january, and you didn’t play until january of next year, it still counts as seeing those seasons. your account existed during those seasons, so you will unlock the chance to see those islands.
@@milk-sharks yeah I totally misheard that! Haha thank you! And thanks again for a great video EJ!
Thanks for the helpful breakdown!
This is probably just a coincidence but I seem to have better luck with islands in the middle of the night. Any other time I’m most likely going to a gyroid fragment island, but around 3am seems to be a lucky time for me 😅
Hmm - have had the Vine/Moss one, 2 Veg ones and one where there were LOADS of shooting stars - interesting! Will have to see what I get next ^*^
The shooting stars island is where you get the stars from hitting the rocks!
I got the game last Christmas and didn’t reset, so I’ve seen all the seasons. So far, I’ve gotten a summer shell island, cherry blossom island, raining / full gyroid island, wheat island, potato island, and moss/vine island. I’m missing sugar cane (Leif has only been selling tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots) and I really hope I hit a star island, sugar island, or mushroom island soon! There’s only a few days left to get mush recipes, and I’ve only gotten the lamp so far! I’m saving up my mushrooms daily for when I get the other recipes, but it’s really good to know that I can potentially collect mushrooms and mush recipes on a kapp'n island!!
Thank you for this explanation...makes absolute sense.
I've gotten a few seasonal islands on my account in the northern hemisphere but still will miss a few as I've been playing for less than a year....Christmas will be a year!😁
Great job!
"Bad Luck: Exhibit A"-Gulliver 🤣 That's a whole mood.
Hi EJ thank you for a great video.
Let me start out by saying I’ve landed the “mythical” vine island 4 times since the update was released. I honestly would rather get a sugar cane island. I understand it’s all RNG but I’ve had great success in the vine island department.
I’ve landed almost all the new vegetables in island form. I’ve landed a money rock island once. No star piece island yet but I have a ton of star pieces so landing on one would be a cool novelty for me.
Same here!
The way you enunciated tomato and potato made my night lol
I’ve been to Cherry blossom island and the vine / glowing moss island. I’m hoping to get to the Star fragments island soon! My save file is literally from when the game first came out
If I only knew how rare a seasonal island was then I would've stayed at the winter island I got and caught more snowflakes! WAH! But this was very informative, thank you!
I'm so glad I didn't decide to restart my island 🙌🏼
I don’t play animal crossing regularly or have any of the major updates but these statistics videos relating to the game are always so interesting! Thx for the effortful content
HUGE Shout out to asteriation, the dataminer who uncovered all of this! Check out their stuff here: acnh.isomorphicbox.com/updates/2.0.0/#kappn
**NOTE** A lot of questions about Money Tree islands: certain islands have a chance of spawning money trees instead of fruit trees, though I'm not sure what the percentage is! This is not considered a specific type of island though!
Also! Fruit trees on these islands will ALWAYS be your native fruit :(
Thank you for crediting aster! ☺
I don't know about Money Trees, but Kapp'n took me to a Money Rock island today.
So glad I couldn't be bothered to restart my island, and now I can laugh at my friend who's been trying to go to a seasonal island for a while now but reset a few days before the update came out
thank u for reading the datamine documents & making a video in laymen's terms 😭😭 am still gonna read the docs but now i know why i wasn't getting any furniture from the trees on kappn islands 😂
I'm not kidding i have literally got 3 carrot islands, a vine and the original Brewster one. wtf. At least give me different vegetables...
i restarted my island back in august before we even knew about the update and im glad i did bc i can catch all sorts of finned fish in the middle of december
So far I've got three seasonal islands, aside from the regular ones. I hope to get the summer/star ones soon! :3
I’m literally in awe of this video and I cannot even fathom how you figured all this out
Truly was all due to the dataminer! If you wanna show some support to them, they have a ko-fi page: ko-fi.com/asteriation
Would be good to shout-out the dataminer that discovered all this, asteriation
Omg great point!! Completely forgot to do so lmao I'll update description and pinned comment!
@@EJPlays thanks man
Thank you for the explanation, I just started playing this October and now I can stop being mad I haven’t seen any seasonal islands.
I got an island where all the rocks were money rocks after getting a good fortune from Katrina. So either I was just really lucky or there’s a correlation
Kind of! Certain islands have a chance of spawning money trees instead of fruit and hardwood trees, though I'm not sure what the probability of this happening is! This is not considered a specific type of island by the game, though, so it can happen on almost any island excluding the Spring Bamboo, Cherry Blossom, Maple Leaf, and Mushroom islands.
Thank you for this video. I just shared it on several acnh fb groups because I've seen so many posts about these islands and about restarting islands. So thank you, I know it gave me some good information and I'm sure it's the same for at least some people in the aforementioned fb groups!
Happy Gaming!
i have not played the game because im bussy but man i LOVE this!!! cant wait to get the dlc and play the game full time again
I’m hunting for as many vines as I can get so I can have several of those giant vines on my island and to have those gorgeous ruined pillars everywhere. But you get around 8-10 vines per vine island and the giant vine is 25 vines. Even with trips to the happy home paradise island which seems to give me 2-3 a day, it’s going to be a painfully long time of me hunting for them 😅
Awwwwh bollox I reset before the update!! This makes sense now, thanks for the video
I was playing around with time traveling, traveled 50 years in the future, so I can visit all of those islands :)
Did this work to register your character as been playing for 365 days. Im messing around with TT now but the game isnt registering that. I TT to Dec 2023 but it still says Ive only been active for 22 days.
After finding Brewster I went on a journey just once and I got on the full gyroid island, wasn't expecting it to be kind of rare
I had no idea I'd been having such good luck with islands! I've gotten a lot of the rare ones so far.
I did not know any of this and yesterday I went to a full gyroid island and fished a caelocanth. I'm feeling special now.
One Kappn island I got was pretty cool. There was money bag trees all over the island and all the rocks I hit were money rocks! I had never had a special island before!
Another island I experienced recently was what I like to call 'Money Rock Island.' It looked like a normal Gyroid Fragment Island, but instead of only one rock containing bells, every single rock did. There's a whooole lot lf nuance in here haha.
Yeah! So, certain islands have a chance of spawning money trees instead of fruit and hardwood trees, though I'm not sure what the probability of this happening is! This is not considered a specific type of island by the game, though, so it can happen on almost any island excluding the Spring Bamboo, Cherry Blossom, Maple Leaf, and Mushroom islands.
I have also found a money rock island! I was hunting for vegetables and almost left but figured I might as well get some resources and I’m glad I did!
I'm so glad for these new islands because when I travel using nook miles by the airport I've been getting target island for almost 2 years , Maybe my games faulty 😪 so this new update has made my game enjoyable again , Fantastic video aswel 🧡
Thanks for the helpful explanation! I was wondering why I hadn't found any special islands yet. I started playing last September, so that's probably a huge factor 😅
dang. I have not been TTing, but I got the vine island on my second trip. I had no idea it was that rare. I've also been to the raining island with the full gyroid. No idea that was rare either!
For some reason I have only been to 2 types of veggie islands, and I'm bummed I rarely get them. I get a lot of seasonal islands.
Thanks for all this info!