You can't catch grasshoppers and long locusts because they only show up in grass.

Yeah the more grass you have, the better the chances of catching them. They also venture out into the dirt areas, but you need grass for them to spawn.

I hate bees they swarm all over you but the hardest bug to catch in grass is pray mantist because they blend in with the grass color!

Praying Mantises are on flowers. Maybe you are confusing it with the Long Locust?

I'm gonna go ahead and flag this thread because my current town is a wreck. I'm going to restart on Monday if all goes well I should have paths down within two days.

I have a question: you know those random dirt patches all around your town when you first start...can you grow grass onto those?

Yep, you sure can!

Yay! I had already been using them as flower beds, but as I don't TT, the results aren't exactly instantaneous I've already gotten a few hybrids!

You must of worked really hard on this!! Thankyou, Great Guide! Good Job!

Thank you so very very much for your time and trouble with this issue. I thought it was just MY town that was bald! I just signed up with ACC! I am so impressed! I will definetly follow up with Nintendo. I hate dirt! So much for my perfect town if I have to plant all of those flowers! Thank you so much & God bless!

It's not exactly easy growing grass, you know.
I've been working on regrowing my grass lately - thankfully I knew about grass wear before I got ACCF.
I tend to research games before I get them, so this means less hassle since I know what to do.
So my town's still fine. Did a bit of revamping lately and declared a few areas in town (the ones that need grass regrowth) as off-limits. Or rather, off-limit - I ran out of the room for the S on my pattern.

Seen some good results so far, so I'm making progress.
I've heard that it'll take at least 6 months to completely regrow grass...great.
Luckily, I've come up with a way around this, although it might effect some things.

Maybe I ought to make my job a lot easier and order some golden roses from a giveaway.
Since it's summer and all, I have some time, when once September rolls round...BAM! Zero time during the week.

Thanks for this, my town is relative new so I can still prevent this for happen, thought I have some paths that are like that now but they're a few

Sorry if I accidentally overlooked this in the guide, but I'm pretty sure I didn't see it. Does placing a pattern on the ground kill the grass underneath it? I'm really curious about this. Also, I'm not sure if this is just a rumor or not, but does using a watering can on the grass do anything? I've heard before that it makes it grow faster, but I'm not sure if that's true or not.

Placing a pattern on the ground does not save the grass especially if it is used for pathways. Planting flowers in bare spots is the only way that I know of to regrow grass.

I am grateful for this thread.

I am placing a pattern on my most used paths. It is just a plain cloth and not the best but for now it will do.

Do you all put paths all over or just to the main buildings?

I just made a new town, so there's these random ugly dirt spots everywhere that I need to regrow. This thread is a life saver!

Quick question.

Do you all put paths to each animal's house? Or just main paths to the buildings?

I do paths to everyone's houses AND buildings, and they also cut through the occasional bit of woodland.
Maybe I ought to leave my island alone and only around on the exterior.

I have paths around each house and building and also paths to connect them all to each other.

I put down more paths. Unfortunately it's just a plain cloth decide but once I get a better one, hopefully stone looking, I can replace it.

Thank you all!

Anyone have screenshots? It'd be cool to see other's paths.

PennyD, I don't have any screen shots, but you're welcome to come and visit if you would like. I just changed out my path patterns (again!). Before I had patterns I also used the plain cloths, it's easy to change out your paths if you copy a pattern over the plain cloth that you used. (making sure to put my patterns in storage first of course.)

I would love to show screenshots or show people around, but I really don't fancy doing all the work.
Although it would be nice to bring along bags of flowers.

at first when i looked at this guide i was like well imma lest this. and i covered an acre with gold roses and didint even go near that area for like a month and when i went to that spot again i looked and it looked like i just got my town. great guide

Patrick-"I love you"
Me- I'm going to run home and do this!

I know I'm months too late to answer the questions posed by Kaitsakii, but just in case anyone is curious...

Patterns do not affect grass growth in any way. They do not cause it, they do not prevent it. (Stepping on a tile to lay the pattern down though, will cause it to wear!)

Second, to my knowledge watering the grass does absolutely nothing. (Although again, if you step on the patch to water it, it will wear it out.)