Animal Crossing’s new Mario blocks open up a world of possibility

The Super Mario 35-year-old set that recently for Animal crossing: new horizons is more versatile than it may appear. Yes, you can use items like warp pipes and flagpoles to make your game look like a level of the plumber’s popular platform players, but why restrict yourself so much? As experimental fans find out, certain items lend themselves wonderfully to a wide variety of scenes.

In particular, the classic Mario block – which looks like a cube of red bricks – not only floats in the air, but can also hold small objects as if they were a worksheet. So not only do you have a whole new kind of storage option, but it also looks really cool. In the photo above, which came from the Twitter user GulliverLemmyMario blocks, for example, are used to make a mini-floating city. Here are some more corners on the room that you can visit at the address DA-6643-5550-7269.

‘Decoration in [New Horizons] is about disguising the fact that items are limited to a grid in Animal Crossing, ‘GulliverLemmy told Polygon on Twitter. ‘The easiest way to deceive the eye into not seeing a grid is to layer items of different heights in front of each other to create depth. The floating blocks are a gift to island designers because they make these layers extraordinarily easy. ”

It’s still early days, but sure enough fans are using the blocks in all sorts of creative ways. One common tactic is to use it as floating arches, which can then be decorated with things like plants or shells for extra atmosphere. As they float, the designs that use Mario blocks have a more vertical feel, which means that in practice they do not necessarily shout “Mario” at the viewer. Here are some of the best uses of the Mario blocks we’ve seen so far.