Though you restart your island, you can still keep your previous island as a dream address. So restarting your ACNH island, you will get a brand new layout. In Animal Crossing New Horizons, there are some layouts you can not change such as the beach rocks, the peninsula and the shape of it, resident services etc., which can really affect how you're designing your island. The first pros that came to mind for restarting is that you get a fresh new layout and can change the names both for your representative, and for your island that's super helpful. Pros To Restarting Your Island In Animal Crossing New Horizons Are you struggling in flattening or restarting your island Animal Crossing New Horizons? Here we do a sort of pros and cons for restarting versus flattening your island.