One of the easiest things to predict in Animal Crossing: New Horizons it is the weather, and I’m not just talking about when will be a beautiful sunny day in [your island name here]. With a new data mining trick, you can know exactly when rainbows and the northern lights will appeareven when meteor showers will occur. In fact, you will be able to predict its shooting stars to the second, preventing you from wasting countless nights looking at a lifeless sky.
This is all thanks to something called your seed number. Every island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons It has one; it is automatically generated when you create your island for the first time. It’s not unique, but the odds are good that you and your friend aren’t going to have the same number of seeds as there are over two billion possible combinations to work with.
Once you’ve figured out your seed number, you can perfectly predict your island’s weather – great if you want to make sure you log in when it’s raining, and perfect for making sure you’re close to getting your star shards from the next big meteor shower. . I have tried this with a friend and it is mysterious. Once he obtained the “master schedule” for his island, he was able to call the appearance of shooting stars to the second.
How to discover the seed number of your island
Figuring out the number of seeds on your island takes a bit of work on your part, but the reward is worth it. To start, pull up MeteoNook Alpha. You will want to read how the calculation works, but the short version is that you will enter data based on what you are seeing in your game every time you play it. The more data you add, the better the website can guess your seed number; Think of it as digital trial and error.
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This is how I found mine. First, I opened the “Seed” tab in MeteoNook and loaded my island on my Nintendo Switch. I entered the correct date and hemisphere for my island on the website, then walked with my character and looked up at the sky, looking for something out of the ordinary. I saw a rainbow! And on a partly cloudy day! The first is important, because it’s a specific event that doesn’t happen very often (and always happens on a partly cloudy day, so …)
Then I entered that information into MetroNook Alpha:
And that is! That’s all I can do right now, and there is no point in clicking “Start Search” under “Find Your Seed”, because a data point won’t help the game narrow down the odds. But the more data you enter, the closer you will be to identifying your island’s seed number and unlocking its predictive powers.
For the sake of practice, I entered dummy data on some other days. This is what the website spits out once it has provided enough information to identify its seed (via the Site Overview tab):
Click on any of the “See More” links, and you can see their hourly weather patterns, as well as the exact times (per seconds) that stars will skyrocket whenever they appear day:
You can also get this information in a beautiful monthly view, in case you need to plan your social calendar around upcoming meteor shower events:
Remember, since your seed number is the window on how your island works, you will be able to plan your weather events, well, forever, or at least until Nintendo makes some kind of alteration that adds more weather to watch, like tornadoes or whatever. whatever you have.
Since all your tracking data is saved through your web browser, you should close the Alpha tab of MeteoNook and reopen it whenever you want. There is no “export seed” function, so be sure to write down that special number (via Overview> Edit Settings in the “new” interface of the website) in the event that the cookies and the cache of your browser erase all the follow-up that it cost you so much to earn.
Now, will anyone discover the arcane practices I need to start doing to make Redd appear more than once every four weeks?
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