Fruit trees are a staple of the Animal Crossing series, providing an easy and renewable way to earn Bells quickly. Each player starts with one of five different types of fruit on their island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons: apples, oranges, cherries, peaches, and pears. Is there any way to change this once it's been decided?
An island's fruit is determined when players pick their island's map, a process that begins at the check-in counter as soon as the game begins. At this stage, players have the option to close and restart the game if the perfect New Horizons island layout isn't available, but it cannot be changed again after that. Unfortunately, Animal Crossing doesn't provide the option of selecting which fruit is native to the island. Instead, the process is entirely random.
An island's native fruit sells for 100 Bells in every Animal Crossing game, with non-local fruits instead selling for 500. Up until Animal Crossing: New Leaf, coconuts also sold for 500, but in both New Leaf and New Horizons they instead sell for 250, likely thanks to the fact that they can now be planted on beaches. New Horizons' extensive online features, as well as Nook Inc.'s island tours, arguably make it easier than ever to find and plant non-local fruits. It does not, however, allow players to change it once it's been randomly chosen. Players will instead have to exit out of the game and restart if they're unhappy with their starting fruit in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Animal Crossing: How To Plant Different Fruit Trees In New Horizons
Fortunately, trees can be chopped down and uprooted in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which means that players don't have to keep any of their island's starting fruit trees if they don't want to. Instead, they can acquire the fruit of their choice by either touring New Horizons' mystery islands or exchanging them with other players. Many instead opt to diversify the island's trees, planting several of each variety around the island, sometimes even in a designated orchard space. Fruit trees in Animal Crossing are not only profitable, but can also be used as a convenient design feature, more so given the terraforming options available in New Horizons.
This feature is likewise something that could be changed moving forward, as well, given that Nintendo reportedly plans to continue of New Horizons for the foreseeable future. New Animal Crossing content and other free updates are consistently being added to the game, meaning that at some point perhaps it will be possible to select a specific fruit tree when a new island is created. Players may eventually even be able to talk to Isabelle at Resident Services in order to make a change once the game's already begun, or perhaps such a mechanic could eventually be implemented into the next Animal Crossing game. For the time being, however, players will simply have to work with the options that are already provided in New Horizons.
