{"id":113086,"date":"2020-05-18T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/animal_crossing_new_horizons_hackers_are_making_star_fragment_trees"},"modified":"2020-05-18T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:00:00","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-hackers-are-making-star-fragment-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-hackers-are-making-star-fragment-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons Hackers Are Making Star Fragment Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3219df8cfeaf8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3219df8cfeaf8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/3219df8cfeaf8\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Unless you&#8217;re glued to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a> pretty much 24\/7, collecting a decent number of Star Fragments can really take a while. One of the less common crafting materials, Star Fragments can usually only be obtained by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-star-wand-meteor-showers-star-fragments-and-how-to-make-a-wish-on-a-shooting-star-explained#help-how-do-i-wish-upon-a-shooting-star\">wishing on a shooting star<\/a>, and are used to craft special items such as the Star Wand.<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless you decide to hack the game, of course. As spotted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/animalcrossingworld.com\/2020\/05\/we-wish-these-hacked-star-fragment-trees-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons-were-real\/\">Animal Crossing World<\/a>, a new trend has started to appear among Animal Crossing&#8217;s trading communities online, in which special trees holding items like Star Fragments, Hearts, Cupcakes, and more are being swapped for other rare goodies.<\/p>\n<p>As keen players will know, trees cannot hold items such as this in regular play. Trees in-game can hold a variety of fruit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-tips-fruit-power-upset-villagers-and-the-money-tree-explained#money-tree\">and even Bells<\/a> &#8211; but definitely not these rare, harder to obtain items.<\/p>\n<p>Animal Crossing World says that &#8216;save editor hacking&#8217; is the method being used to make this a reality, and while we&#8217;d advise that you <strong>don&#8217;t try this yourself<\/strong> &#8211; we&#8217;ve all heard the horror stories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_bans_online_services_for_prominent_hackers_switch_console\">Nintendo banning systems<\/a> being used to do things that they shouldn&#8217;t &#8211; we must admit that it <em>does<\/em> make for some lovely looking scenery.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">mini island tour \u2661 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bP57W0DCXQ\">pic.twitter.com\/bP57W0DCXQ<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \uc138\uc6b0 \ud83d\udc9d (@soguumm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/soguumm\/status\/1261886562498797569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo has been actively working against hackers in Animal Crossing, actually putting out a patch to combat them before the game had even officially released. At the time, it was warned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/nintendo_is_already_fighting_off_hackers_in_animal_crossing_new_horizons\">players going online with cheats active should expect bans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;re glued to Animal Crossing: New Horizons pretty much 24\/7, collecting a decent number of Star Fragments can really take a while. One of the less common crafting materials, Star Fragments can usually only be obtained by wishing on a shooting star, and are used to craft special items such as the Star Wand. 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