However, because misuse of seeds has been much more common in wi-fi games than they are not, often seeding has been a practice many communities look down upon if not outright condemn it. It is debatable whether the private use of seeding should be encouraged, especially since it is still a form of cheating even though it can also allow for freedom in decorating the player's town to become more unique. A second incorrect term also refers to Action Replay users as a whole because Action Replay is the most common cheat device used to obtain these seeds. The act of dropping these seeds in either one's own town or in another player's town is called 'seeding', and a player who uses these seeds, regardless of if they use it on themselves or on other players is often called a 'seeder', although another incorrect term used include 'hackers' as well. Instead, the player must also enter and exit a building or save, quit and reopen their game to have the object appear where the seed was dropped.Īlthough seeds can be used by players as a more flexible way to redesign their towns and place objects in areas where they legally can't be (such as trees planted over concrete or shops placed very close to the seashores of the beach), seeds have been abused more often than not for their potential to crash and/or corrupt the games of other players over wi-fi. Although this will create the sound effect that an item was dropped, this often will not display the desired object automatically.

To use a seed, a player must select the seed and drop it on a part of the ground that is not already carrying another object (including a dropped item, dropped money, weeds and so forth). The name, however, will be glitched, ranging from a blank name to one consisting of question marks or other broken characters. Sometimes the seed will not appear as any kind of icon (meaning that while they are there, the pocket will look as if it were empty), but other times it will take the form of a leaf, much like furniture. When added to a player's inventory, they will take up whichever pocket they designate the seed to. These are used with special codes to add them to the player's inventory.

Seeds were not intended to be used in normal game play and therefore cannot be accessed without game enhancing devices such as Action Replay.

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