Quality of Life updates Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo Froggy Chair In essence, New Horizons is now a full-fledged farming and cooking simulator. In the Animal Crossing Direct, Nintendo showed sandwiches, smoothies, soups, and pasta - among plenty more new cooked food items. These appear to work just like pumpkins do, and can be used in a very exciting way: Cooking!īy unlocking the Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+ item with Nook Miles, players will be able to put together food items to make new meals. Farming and cooking Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendoīuilding on pumpkin growing added last year, Nintendo has added at least five new crops for players to grow and harvest: wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, sugarcane, and carrots. And it’s not only your character - using the motion controls, players are encouraged to do the moves in real-life, too. Players can grab their Joy-Cons and stretch along with villagers in their island plaza. Naturally, gyroids still make weird sounds, but can sync with music, too. (They’re likely to show up frequently after rain, too.)Īlong with the standard gyroids, there are also plenty of different variations and customization options Nintendo said they can be changed to match an atmosphere. Gyroids can be found and dug up around the island, but players can also “plant” gyroids and water ’em to produce more.
It doesn’t look like gyroids will be storable at Brewster’s café in New Horizons, but they’re so dang cute that it’s worth making space in your house or elsewhere around your island. We’ll also have easier and more consistent access to New Horizons other merchants - like Kicks and Redd - through Harv’s island marketplace, too. They’ll be able to customize items in ways that players aren’t able to otherwise. Reese and Cyprus, too, will return to New Horizons in a role other than simply getting married. Tortimer was shown briefly during the Animal Crossing Direct, and he seems to operate a storage cart. Harriet will give haircuts (with new options available), while Katrina will tell daily fortunes. Katrina and Harriet will take up shop on Harv’s island, in the new marketplace. He can be found hanging out at a pier waiting to make a trip to a mysterious island: Options include one with weird plants, another that’s in a different season, and ones that are in a different time of day. Kapp’n is, naturally, a boat captain that ferries players to exclusive islands, all while singing his sea-faring tunes on the way.
Nintendo’s adding a few of these characters back as part of the free update - Kapp’n, Katrina, Tortimer, and Harriet. There are plenty of Animal Crossing characters that haven’t yet made it into New Horizons, beloved favorites from older Animal Crossing games. Fan-favorite characters Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo Other characters can be invited using amiibo cards, activated at the yellow telephone in the café’s corner. Isabelle appeared at The Roost in the clip, too - meaning that The Roost, once again, will likely become a gathering spot to better get to know more folks on the island. In the Animal Crossing Direct, Nintendo showed that coffee costs 200 bells to sip at the bar, but players can take their coffees over to tables to enjoy with visiting friends, too. The coffeeshop is tucked away on the upper-left side of the museum, where Brewster is serving up the finest joe to New Horizons’ islanders. Brewster and The Roost Image: Nintendo EPD/NintendoĬoffee-slinging pigeon Brewster is opening up shop in a museum expansion: The Roost opens for business on Nov. This is everything we know about the new, free content. Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo What’s included in Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ free November update?Įven without the announcement of Happy Home Paradise, Nintendo’s Animal Crossing Direct had a significant amount of updates. If you’re confused on what’s included where, we’ve broken down what’s included as part of the free update and what’s separate in Happy Home Paradise ahead of its Nov. Anything related to the new paid downloadable content, called Happy Home Paradise, is available only to players who purchase the DLC: $24.99 by itself, or $49.99 a year with the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. 5, players will not immediately get access to all features. Though both of these updates will be released on Nov. In both free and paid updates to New Horizons, there’s a lot of stuff being added to the game - not only is the museum getting Brewster and The Roost, but there are plenty of new characters and features showing up on the island. Nintendo managed to pack a dizzying amount of new Animal Crossing : New Horizons updates in its 20-minute Animal Crossing Direct on Friday.