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Actually, getting a 5-star island in ACNH is harder than you think, and it takes a lot of time. Besides the time it takes, the conditions it requires are unclear.

You could spend years building an island, only to find it stuck at the 4-star level because you missed some obscure requirement that you would never have thought of.

But thanks to the efforts of fans, they have discovered the inner workings of island evaluations by constantly digging through data, as well as the official guide for the game.

Now that we know the exact indicators that Isabelle uses to evaluate islands on a scale of 1 to 5, we also know the exact conditions you need to meet to get a perfect score. Next, I’ll show you how to get a 5-star island quickly.

Getting Island Evaluation

Until then, you need to keep track of your island’s level, so here’s how to get one. It’s actually very simple, you just need to visit Isabelle at Resident Services and select Island evals option in the dialogue menu, after which she will tell you your rating and some suggestions for improvement.

But you need to be aware that you can only get an island rating after you build a town square and make your first visitor a permanent resident of your island.

Here is a supplementary information you need to know. The island rating is calculated based on two hidden point systems: Development Points and Scenery Points.

They include the counting of different Animal Crossing New Horizons Items, activities and achievements. If you want to get a 5-star rating, you must get at least 450 Scenery Points and at least 665 Development Points.

Development Points

You will get Development Points for various buildings and outdoor furniture placed on your island. For example, building a museum, a bridge, Nook’s Cranny and various furniture.

However, there are special restrictions and rewards for the furniture category. When evaluating, your island will be divided into 8x8 squares, and if you place the same type of furniture in a square, you will lose points.

What’s more serious is that if an item is repeated six or more times, each duplicate item will lose half a point. If you repeat 11 or more items, you will lose three-quarters of a point for each item.

But there is good news. If you visit a uniquely designed piece of furniture outdoors, you will get an extra half point. And the higher the value of the furniture, the more points you will get. If your furniture exceeds 20,000 Bells, you will get double Development Points.

Scenery Points

Unlike Development Points, getting Scenery Points depends on having most of the animals and plants on your island. Whether it is trees or agricultural products, you can get scenery points.

And if you DIY ten or more unique types of furniture, you can get an extra 0.75 Scenery Points for each type. However, the points you get from trees and bushes planted on your island cannot exceed 190 points.

Methods

Now let’s get to the point. Here are a few ways to get 5-star ratings quickly.

First, you can plant lots of flowers because a mature flower has the same value as a mature tree, takes up less space, grows faster, and is not limited by the same number of points. Flowers also multiply quickly, and you can earn more points without any effort, so planting flowers is more cost-effective for you.

Then, you can fill the island with Gyroids. Because each Gyroid is treated as a unique type of furniture and takes up very few squares, only one square.

Finally, you can increase your Development Points by clearing weeds. No matter when and where they appear, clear them as long as they appear. Remember that the fewer weeds on the island, the higher your score.

Avoid Clutter

Clutter includes fruits, seeds, materials, clothes, unplaced furniture, consumables, and gifts.

If you have 15 or more pieces of clutter, you cannot get a five-star rating, so you should avoid placing clutter. And when placing furniture, try to avoid placing the same item repeatedly in an 8x8 square.

I believe that after reading this guide, you have learned the secret of quickly obtaining a 5-star island. I hope it is helpful to you.

Have you started playing the newly launched Goblin event in Diablo 4? There are many new characters and new items in it. I believe everyone must want to collect new items faster. I hope that everyone can collect new items faster after reading my article.

Kill Enough Goblins

The premise of getting special items is to kill enough Goblins. There are many types of Goblins, and different types of goblins have different colors. After killing these Goblins, you will get many bags, runes and loot. These include a variety of Diablo 4 Items, at least 1,000 Veiled Crystals, and 2,000 experience points.

First, you have to start the preparation work. You can choose to start the challenge by yourself or team up with friends. It should be noted that if you complete the task alone, you will get double rewards.

Greed Shrine

I recommend that you start the challenge in Helltides Zones. In this area, the most important thing you need to pay attention to is Greed Shrine. When you enter Greed Shrine, you will encounter 3 to 5 Goblins, but you can also ambush more enemies here because enemies will continue to spawn here.

Some people may find it a bit boring, but I think this mode is good. Because if you kill enemies here, you can get Diablo 4 Gold, and you will automatically pick it up at a farther distance. This setting is very player-friendly.

Kurast Bazaar

In addition, I also recommend everyone to go to Kurast Bazaar in Nahantu region. There are a lot of Goblins in this area, and many Goblins will spawn in the wild. At this time, it is very important to check the minimap. By checking the mini-map, you can see the number of enemies distributed around. There is a little trick to check the mini-map by pressing Tab key, and your explorable range will be larger.

Of course, if you go to Conduit Shrine, although you can effectively shock and kill enemies along the way by impact, the benefits are not as high as the other two areas mentioned above. Most of the Goblins that spawn here are normal Goblins, not special Goblins, so the rarity of the loot available won't be too high.

In summary, it is recommended that you start the challenge in Greed Shrine and Kurast Bazaar. Among the large amount of loot you get, you may get items with higher rarity. Wish you good luck.

When you enter Path of Exile 2 Early Access, you will find that there are many items for you to search and use, from a dozen different currencies to hundreds of unique gear, all of which require you to understand their specific effectiveness in order to use them reasonably in your build.

But in fact, understanding and remembering every item in POE 2 is not a simple task, especially for those novice exiles who enter the world of Wraeclast for the first time. Soul Cores are the most typical example.

Since Soul Cores usually appear in the later stages of the campaign, you may not be able to learn more about this item and the guide to farming these Soul Cores in regular exploration. But fortunately, this guide will introduce you to the specific effectiveness of Soul Cores and the specific methods to obtain them in large quantities, which will help you better explore POE 2.

About Soul Cores

Soul Cores are actually a special rune in POE 2. Their usage is almost exactly the same as that of ordinary gear. They are placed in empty gear slots, which will provide some fixed attribute gains for certain items. Of course, it can also be inserted into rune slots, depending on the number of slots provided by your build.

The advice I can give you here is to try to place Soul Cores in rune slots, because for builds that will go through the late campaign, gear that provides solid defense capabilities and gear with strong damage capabilities will be upgraded first, such as spending some POE 2 Exalted Orbs to increase their rarity and affixes, which is likely to result in insufficient gear slots.

Types

There are currently 15 types of Soul Cores in the game, and they all provide different gains to your weapon effects and armor effects. The following is the specific utility of each Soul Core.

• Soul Core of Tacati: It let enemies 15% chance to inflict poison on hit and increase Chaos Resistance 7%.
• Soul Core of Jiquani: It recovers 2% of life on kill, and increases maximum life by 2%.
• Soul Core of Zalatl: It recovers 2% of mana on kill, and increases maximum mana by 2%.
• Soul Core of Citaqualotl: It increases elemental damage dealt by attacks by 30%, and all elemental resistances are increased by 5%.
• Soul Core of Azcapa: It let Spirit increase 15, and increase the rarity of items found by 10%.
• Soul Core of Quipolatl: It let your attack speed increased by 5%, and reduces the Slowing Potency of debuffs applied to you by 10%.
• Soul Core of Opiloti: There is a 15% chance of causing bleeding on hit, and gain 10% more Charm Charges.
• Soul Core of Tzamoto: Your Freeze Buildup increased by 20%, and increases maximum cold resistance by 1%.
• Soul Core of Puhuarte: It increases the chance of ignition by 30%, and increases maximum fire resistance by 1%.
• Soul Core of Xopec: It can increase chance of shocking by 30%, and increases maximum lightning resistance by 1%.
• Soul Core of Topotante: Your attacks with this weapon penetrate 15% elemental resistance, and Elemental Ailment Threshold increased by 15%.
• Soul Core of Ticaba: It increases critical damage bonus by 12%, and critical damage bonuses for attacks against you are reduced by 10%.
• Soul Core of Cholotl: It can convert 20% of your requirements into Dexterity.
• Soul Core of Atmohua: It can convert 20% of your requirements into Strength.
• Soul Core of Zantipi: It can convert 20% of your requirements into Intelligence.

It’s important to note that while Soul Cores are harder to obtain than regular Runes, this doesn’t mean they are rarer or provide more buffs, they just provide more options for adding to gear.

Also Read: How To Get The Most Loot From Olroth, Origin Of The Fall In The Endgame Of POE 2?

How To Farm Soul Cores?

Although Soul Cores are a type of Rune in POE 2, they do not drop from normal monsters in the game like regular Runes do. You can only obtain this special rune through Trial of Chaos, Currency Exchange, or Trade.

As you explore this Trial of Chaos, you will have a chance to obtain Soul Cores from each floor you complete. Note that you are guaranteed to get at least one Soul Core per run, regardless of the level of the Inscribed Ultimatum you used to unlock these Trial Rooms.

But make sure you do not fail this Trial run, otherwise all your previous rewards, including experience points, POE 2 Currency, and Soul Cores, will be lost. If you want to avoid this kind of grinding, you can also trade Soul Cores with Alva in your Hideout, but the exact price of each Soul Core is constantly changing.

The last method is to trade with other players. However, based on the current game community and social platforms, the possibility of trading this item is very small. But it does not mean that it does not exist. You can try your luck.

The above are the types of Soul Cores in POE 2 and the specific farming methods. Once again, Soul Cores are just runes with special abilities and are not worth your time and effort to farm, because you can collect a lot of Soul Cores in regular exploration and trials. I hope they can play a significant role in your build, and I wish you a happy game!

The developers of Path of Exile 2 seem to be particularly keen on “randomness”. Equipment drops randomly and the effects of Currency on equipped items are randomly modified. Even some equipment will randomly apply effects to you, such as Ventor’s Gamble Gold Ring. This ring will randomly assign you buffs or even debuffs.

The creators are particularly keen on turning players into gamblers. In POE 2 currency, Chaos Orb, Orb of Chance, and Vaal Orb all have the effect of randomly modifying items. Among them, Vaal Orb is the most unpredictable because it has several effects. Do you know how to use it?

Vaal Orb can be used on different items, such as your equipment, skill gems, Spirit gems and even Waystone. There are some small differences, so I will introduce them separately.

Using Vaal Orb On Items

Using Vaal Orb on an item has 4 results:

• 25%: The item remains the same and nothing happens.
• 25%: Adds a Corruption Affix to the item.
• 25%: Modifies an existing affix.
• 25%: Adds an additional slot to the item.

Although Vaal Orbs have several effects, only one will be active at a time, and there will be no combined effects.

Item Remains The Same

It is not accurate to say that the item remains the same, and it has changed a bit, actually. Although its affixes and slots remain the same, you will find that it has a “Corruption” in its description. This means that you can no longer modify this item with any other POE 2 currency.

Corruption Affix

This is usually a positive effect. Vaal Orbs will add an additional “Corruption Affix” to your equipment. This Corruption Affix comes from the list of Corruption modifiers. Even if your item already has a maximum number of affixes, it will still add an affix to it. This is the only way to get Jewels with 5 modifiers.

Rerolls Affix

This function sounds similar to POE 2 Chaos Orb and Divine Orb, but there are some differences. Vaal Orb can work on magic items, but Chaos Orb cannot work on magic items. Secondly, Vaal Orb can modify the value of item affixes, and even break the upper or lower limit of the value, but Divine Orb cannot break the limit of the item value.

Adds A Slot

Using Vaal Orbs is the only way to get multiple slots for your weapons and armor. Vaal Orb can break the upper limit of item slots. Even the body armor Morior Invictus Grand Regalia, which has a maximum of 4 slots, can get a fifth slot under the influence of Vaal Orb.

However, this effect of Vaal Orbs can only work on items with slots. If it is an item without slots such as amulets, rings, belts, flasks and rings, Vaal Orbs cannot make sockets for them.

Also Read: Path Of Exile 2 Unique Jewels: How To Get All Of These Items?

Using Vaal Orbs On Skill Gems Or Spirit Gems

Vaal Orbs can have an effect on both Spirit Gems and Skill Gems.

• 12.5%: Gem level up.
• 12.5%: Gem level down.
• 12.5%: Gain a socket.
• 12.5%: Lose a socket.
• 25%: Quality loss or increase by 2-10%.
• 25%: No change.

Using Vaal Orbs on Spirit Gems and Skill Gems can make them gain 4 or even 5 sockets, or make a level 20 skill gem go to level 21. The chance of gaining an extra socket is only 12.5%, which is relatively low. Unless you have several multi-socket skill gems, it is not recommended to gamble with Vaal Orb.

In addition, if Vaal Orbs are corrupted, Spirit Gems and Skill Gems can still be upgraded, but their quality can no longer be increased.

Using Vaal Orbs On Waystone (Map)

Waystones are usually very suitable for using Vaal Orb. Once your character is strong enough to defeat Corruption map, you should use Vaal Orb on Waystones frequently.

• 25%: No change (Waystone becomes Corrupted).
• 25%: Waystone may go up or down 1 level. This usually changes the modifiers of Waystone.
• 12.5%: Remove all prefixes from Waystone and add a suffix for each removed prefix, breaking the 1 or 3 suffix limit.
• 12.5%: Remove all suffixes from Waystone and add a prefix for each removed suffix, breaking the 1 or 3 prefix limit.
• 25%: Add additional modifiers to Waystone, breaking the prefix and suffix limit. This method has a chance to create the best Waystone.

Vaal Orbs work very well with Waystones, because the only negative effect is that Waystone’s level is reduced by one level. Except for no change, all other effects can add a certain amount of bonus to Waystone, so the overall risk is low, and the reward is high.

Omen Of Corruption

Vaal Orbs have a 1 in 4 chance of doing nothing for each item, which is really annoying. Omen of Corruption is Omen for Vaal Orbs, which can remove the “nothing happens” effect of Vaal Orb, making you more likely to trigger other effects, but also more risky.

Vaal Orbs are a double-edged sword, which can either make your equipment break the upper limit or make your equipment worthless. Perhaps only the most crazy gamblers will happily use Vaal Orb as a necessity for crafting equipment.