Lunar New Year is an annual seasonal event in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This is a worldwide holiday observed in-game, and it always coincides with the start of the real-world Chinese New Year each year. In this guide, we'll discuss all the festivities and items you can unlock during Lunar New Year. The date for the event varies each year.
One of the big highlights of Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 3.0 update is the new Slumber Islands feature. This feature lets you fully customize additional islands, providing you with more freedom to design than your standard home island. You can also enjoy customizing Slumber Islands with friends. In this guide, we'll explain how to access Slumber Islands and how to use this new sandbox-style feature.
Like the Sanrio crossover items that were introduced in the game's 1.9.0 update, the Splatoon items are locked behind Amiibo, which means you'll first need to scan a compatible figure before you can purchase the new furniture in the game. Fortunately, it's very simple. Here's a rundown on how to get the new Splatoon furniture. Don't forget to also check out our Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide hub for more helpful guides.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons' big 3.0 update has introduced a wealth of new content to life sim, including a slew of new items to collect. Along with a set of Lego furniture, you can now get clothing and other items based on Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series--but they won't be available right away. Unlike the Super Mario crossover items, the new Zelda furniture is tied to certain Amiibo.
The Resort Hotel is run by Kapp'n and his family. If you already have Kapp'n on your island and you've updated your game to version 3.0, then you simply need to walk to his pier. There is now an expanded dock and a fancy new hotel on the water. Resort Hotel on the pier The hotel doors aren't locked. So, simply head on inside and speak with Kapp'n and his family to get started with hotel activities.
New Horizons is far from a dead game, but its massive playerbase-which swelled during the COVID-19 pandemic-has, naturally, fell off. Those of us who spent hundreds of hours on our New Horizons islands for a year and a half have moved on; many of us haven't visited our islands since. We've left messes on our islands, and remain forever indebted to Tom Nook.
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I never felt done with my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Despite playing every day for two years, and racking up 1,700 hours of playtime, I somehow never finished decorating. I had plenty of ideas for my island, sure, but actually implementing them was another story: The decorating and terraforming systems that helped make New Horizons a huge success are also slow, manual, and cumbersome, and my patience for decorating and redecorating had finally worn thin.
This morning, Nintendo casually announced that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a Switch 2 update to make it run better and use some of the device's more powerful tech for quality-of-life improvements. Alongside this, Nintendo is also releasing a 3.0 update that includes new features, crossover items, and a whole new creator mode that exists in your character's dreams.
