During a special Animal Crossing Direct this morning, Nintendo revealed a host of new (free) updates coming to New Horizons in just a few weeks!
If you’ve been looking for a reason to jump back into Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo has you covered. Today, during their previously announced Animal Crossing Direct, they revealed an INSANE amount of new features coming to the game on November 5th.
As teased, Brewster and his cafe is coming to the island, but that’s really just the tip of the iceberg. There’s a whole new set of islands to explore thanks to the Kapp’n, Harv’s Island is essentially turning into a bazaar that brings in shops you can only occasionally get on your island, a ridiculous amount of new furniture/decorations/buildable projects, outdoor storage/ATM so you don’t have to run inside buildings, and even more.
It’s kind of overwhelming to see all the new stuff coming coming to Animal Crossing. It almost feels like it’ll be an entirely new game, bringing in more options than ever before to truly building the island of your dreams. And it’s entirely free!
Brewster Will Open a Café: Something new is coming to a corner of the museum. The quiet proprietor Brewster will open the Roost after you fulfill a certain favor for museum director Blathers. The Roost is a new location to take a relaxing break in and enjoy some hand-selected coffee. You may run into some island residents here, too. If you use the amiibo phone inside the café, you can invite other characters to join you by using compatible amiibo cards. If you’d like, you can even invite friends to your island and bring them to the Roost to enjoy relaxing cups of joe together.
Take a Boat Tour With Kapp’n: Kapp’n hangs out at the pier and will take you to one of the remote islands on his boat. The sea shanty he serenades you with along the way is also part of the fun! You may arrive at islands with mysterious flora that’s never been seen before, or islands with different seasons and times of day. What kind of mysteries await?
Unearth Gyroids: So far, fossils could be dug up from the ground, and now you can also find gyroids. Each gyroid plays unique sounds. You can even customize them to match their surroundings when you place them!
Shop at the Open Market on Harv’s Island: Harv’s Island is undergoing a renewal. With a little help from his friend Harriet, Harvey is inviting some shops to the island for an open market. Contribute Bells to the cause to help make it happen! Familiar visitors on your island like Redd, Saharah and Kicks will have shops here now, and Reese & Cyrus’s shop will offer furniture customization that can’t be done through DIY workbenches. At Katrina’s shop, she’ll look at your fortune of the day. Harriet can even teach you some different hairstyles!
Get Cooking: Cooking will be added to DIY recipes. After growing vegetables in your garden like tomatoes, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes and carrots, you can combine your harvest or other ingredients and fill up your dining table with delicious looking dishes. Enjoy while it’s hot!
Further Support to Your Island Life: Nook, Inc. will offer further support for your island life. From group stretching at the plaza and bigger home storage, to the Resident Representative being able to establish ordinances like reducing the rate at which weeds grow or making all the residents get up early in the morning, there are more options to help you enjoy and adjust the island to fit your lifestyle.
Considering they’ve confirmed this will be the last major free update for the game, it makes sense they’re going ALL OUT with it. I already feel my fingers itching to get back to my island (which I haven’t been to in a while) to clean up and prepare for all this new hotness.
Will you be downloading this free update on November 5th?
