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Grass
Grass in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Type		Undergrowth vegetation
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Grass is the vegetation that covers most of the land in the Animal Crossing series. It changes color with the seasons, and during the winter it is covered by snow.

In games prior to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a town's grass can have one of three geometrical patterns—triangles, circles, or squares—with each grass pattern having a corresponding snow pattern. In New Horizons, all grass has a triangle pattern.

In Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a feature known as animal tracks causes grass to deteriorate as it is walked over, revealing the dirt underneath. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, grass can be placed with the Island Designer NookPhone app.

Appearances

In the first-generation games

In every first-generation Animal Crossing game, grass covers most of the town and Animal Island, and it is broken up by circular or figure-eight shaped patches of dirt. From December 10 to February 24, snow covers all the grass in the town. The triangle grass pattern corresponds to circle snow, circle grass corresponds to square snow, and square grass corresponds to star snow.

There are a total of nine shades of grass and one shade of snow that appear throughout the year:

	Feb 25 – Mar 31	Apr 1 – Jul 22	Jul 23 – Sep 15	Sep 16 – Sep 30	Oct 1 – Oct 15	Oct 16 – Oct 29	Oct 30 – Nov 12	Nov 13 – Nov 28	Nov 29 – Dec 9	Dec 10 – Feb 24
Triangle grass pattern
Circle grass pattern
Square grass pattern

The grass on Animal Island is always the shade used from July 23 to September 15 in town. If the town's grass pattern is circles or squares, there is a bug that causes the island's grass pattern to appear as triangles the first time it is visited. If the player enters and leaves one of the huts, the pattern corrects itself to match the town's.

The grass shirt and snow shirt items are designed after the triangle grass pattern (April 1 to July 22) and circle snow pattern, respectively.

In Doubutsu no Mori e+, there are two additional desaturated grass palettes (one for grass, one for snow) used exclusively when the town is loaded after having been lent out via an SD card:

	Feb 25 – Dec 9	Dec 10 – Feb 24
Triangle grass pattern
Circle grass pattern
Square grass pattern

In New Horizons

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, grass covers the entire island and can only have a triangle pattern. All Mystery Island Tour islands and most boat tour islands also use the triangle pattern, but the vine/growing moss boat tour islands use the square pattern. Additionally, the Paradise Planning archipelago uses the square pattern.