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You’ll need these island ideas for the Animal Crossing New Horizons Update 2.0

Nintendo premiered the Animal Crossing New Horizons’ Direct in October and announced a massive update arriving on the 5^th November, including the Happy Home Paradise DLC, which means more items to customise our islands! More terraforming and more crafting. In preparation for all that’s on its way, here are a number of ideas that you can add to your island. Cottagecore, Kidcore and Citycore!

Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer

1. A Theme Park

While this may be very common, with all the extra theme park and funfair accessories added to the Nook Stop, it’s now possible to make one without just Teacup rides and arcade machines. We now have access to the Plaza Ferris wheel, Plaza Game Stand and Plaza merry-go-round! This is also perfect for the Kid-core islands.

Now what you’ll want to do is terraform an extra cliff beside the beach, one level is enough, but if you feel adventurous add two. The new colourful, customisable fences will look amazing beside the beach and offer a classic sea-side aesthetic.

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2. Riverside Bank

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For all the islanders who have Citycore themed islands, this Riverside bank will be good for you. Think of the London Eye, the new Ferris Wheel will be a nice addition beside the river at night, along a reasonable size path,  with iron-and-stone fences to complete it.

Next, you’ll terraform another level besides the Bank and add a number of regal-style tables, chairs, and perhaps some streetlamps to brighten it up. This will undoubtedly look perfect at night.

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3. Botanical Garden

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As we are well aware, there is a new fountain that’s joined the party and that happens to be the Park Fountain. While you could add it to a park, why would you limit yourself to a few swing sets and slides? The botanical garden can be designed and shaped to your liking, not to mention that the new glowing weeds that can be found on an island Kapp’n takes you to will look fantastic there as well.

An Idea for terraforming this is to add an ‘underground effect’ which means to build cliffs around the area and have a flight of stairs lead down to the ground level. This will be perfect for anyone with a cottagecore island, it will add a very unique aesthetic and be quite an eventful area for visitors.

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Why Cooking In Animal Crossing New Horizons Is Such A Big Deal

Animal Crossing Fans were excited after seeing the recent Animal Crossing New Horizons direct for the 2.0 update. However, all felt like something was missing…Mini-games. Just like they originally had on Tortimer’s island in Animal Crossing New Leaf. However, Animal Crossing New Leaf was the only Animal Crossing game in the series to have this, so…do we really need it? Of course, we do, but whether we need it immediately is another question altogether.

The cooking available in the Animal Crossing 2.0 update is bound to make lots of entertainment…Mini-game worthy entertainment!

Here are5 different activities you can do with the new Animal Crossing New Horizons Cooking feature!

1. Bake-Off

This is an obvious one. However, it seems like a fun time with friends or just people online, just like many had been having their own virtual fashion shows and music shows, they can have a bake-off too. Here’s how it would work.

How to Play & Rules

The aim of the game is to make a 3-course meal. Everyone will be required to make a 3-course ‘meal’, savoury or sweet with the resources they bring with them and with the DIY recipes they have available. They will then be judged on performance, explanation of their dish and of course the dish itself.

• A creative explanation of their dish, performance and the end result will increase or decrease points depending on how well they do. The player will be scored out of 10.
• Performance-wise, they can choose to match outfits colours or custom designs with their desired dish or use emotions to convey the ‘personality’ of their food.
• They can NOT prepare the dish beforehand, that will be a penalty.
• They can NOT bad mouth other players’ dishes (unless they are the notorious Gordon Ramsey).
• They have exactly 1 (or 1 minute & 30 seconds) to cook and present PER dish!

This will be a fun weekly activity and can be played with local multiplayer or online.  There can even be themed dishes, vegetarian, sea-food dishes etc.

2. Grab What You Can

(I’m really trying to think of creative names here but it’s not working out…Anyway).

How to Play & Rules

The aim of the game is to grab all the ingredients you can within the set time 10, 20 or 30 seconds. However, it is by impulse and you can’t look at your DIY recipes to see what you need to cook. They will then be judged on performance, explanation of their dish and of course the dish itself.

This will be completely spontaneous, which means…if you don’t get grab enough to make yourself flexible enough to create a dish…well then, that’s just too bad! (Don’t worry you can help judge though!)

• You MUST stick within the set timer!
• You MUST NOT carry extra ingredients with you!
• You MUST NOT peek at your DIY recipes, remembering by memory is fine.
• If you do any of the above, that is a penalty.
• You can either set everyone to grab what they want at once or use a spinning wheel and determine who gets first choice by the largest-smallest number.

This will be great to get the adrenaline going and will be a nice surprise for anyone playing.

3. Mystery Grab Bags

(They just keep getting harder…)

How to Play & Rules

This one is similar to the second mini-game, however the host will have to place all the ingredients in wrapping paper. The aim of the game is to grab 5 mystery bags, that will contain the ingredients. The set time to grab these mystery bags can range between 10, 20 to 30 seconds.

• You MUST stick within the set timer!
• You MUST NOT carry extra ingredients with you!
• You MUST NOT open the mystery bags or wrap them back up.
• If you do any of the above, that is a penalty.
• You can either set everyone to grab what they want at once or use a spinning wheel and determine who gets first choice by the largest-smallest number.

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3 Ways To Get The New Animal Crossing New Horizons Villagers To Move In (2.0 Update)

Want the new Animal Crossing Villagers on your island next week? Ione, Shino, Sasha and many more! There are 3 ways to make this easy for you. 2 are by restarting your island and before you panic, this might be a great option for you…and the third option is either through in-game time travel or waiting it out. Let’s go. Disclaimer: Most of these methods require Nintendo’s online membership.

1. Restart Your Island

Restarting your island at the moment can be a pretty touchy topic, especially with all the new features coming along with the update and for those of you who have done a lot of progress with your islands, you may not want to start again…but I say, new features…new beginnings! Your can have fun with a new canvas and new world to unleash your creativity once again.

However, to make sure you don’t start completely empty-handed and get the new villagers you want, (personally…I’m going for Shino and Ione) then here’s what you want to do.

Step 1:  Join the Animal Crossing New Horizons Discord Community, the Nookazon Discord Community or get the Nookazon App IOS & Android (or Nookazon.com for PC).

Before you delete anything at all, you want to get as many Nook Mile Tickets as possible. I’m talking about hundreds! To do this, you’ll either need discord to trade items for nook mile tickets. There are other alternatives, such as Facebook and Twitter, but I find that discord is pretty quick and convenient for these things.

Animal Crossing Trading Guide Here!

Step 2: Sell what you can for Nook Mile Tickets! Furniture! Fences! Villagers!

You want as many Nookmile Tickets as possible, you can keep any resources such as wood, iron, stone and clay, as those WILL be needed later. However, on the Nookazon app, you can make a listing for the desired product you want to sell, or through Discord, you can advertise the product you want to sell and put:

FT (For Trade): Desired Item or Villager

LF (Looking For): Nook Mile Tickets

Then once you found someone accepting your offer, you make the trade by either visiting their island or you visiting them.

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Step 3: Find a Middle-man

Once you’ve gotten all the Nook Mile Tickets that you want or need, you’ll need to find a Middle-man. That is a player to hold your items for a certain amount of time while you reset and afterwards drop them off at your island. Now, Keep in mind that on the Animal Crossing New Horizons Discord you can only have a Middle-Man hold up to a maximum of 160 items (4 pocket inventories) FOR 2 HOURS. Maximum 1,600 Nook Mile Tickets. 

In the Nookazon discord or the Nookazon app, you can negotiate the Middle Man prices, you’ll be able to find this option in Nookazon’s ‘Services’ Tab.

Having a Middleman hold your items can be charged for, but it can also be free (I was lucky to have someone hold 320 items for me, free of charge) that would have been in total 3,200 Nook Mile Tickets.

Animal Crossing New Horizons Trading Guide Here

Step 4: Restart Your Island

Now is the time for you to restart, to do this you have to go to your Nintendo Switch Settings and select Data and Delete Save Data, then choose Animal Crossing New Horizons.

Now That you’ve deleted your island, you can start over. Do all the necessary starting steps such as naming your island and talking to Tom Nook, all until you’ve slept your first night. Time travel one day forward and the next day, Dodo Airlines should be available. 

Step 5: Collect your items from your Middleman

Communicate to your middleman that you are ready to collect your items, make the necessary trips, make sure you have all your items and then save your progress.

Step 6: Get The Town Hall

Now, to get to the Town Hall, you would have had to complete all the necessary tasks, such as:

• Build a bridge,
• Craft items for Timmy & Tommy’s Shop,
• Place 3 plots down for the compulsory homes and furnish them,
• Have the museum set up for Blathers

You’ll find that after you’ve completed all these tasks, the next day you should have an announcement from Tom Nook that the Town Hall will be refurbished. The day after that the Town Hall will be available (feel free to time travel this part if you’re feeling impatient).

Step 7: Talk To Tom Nook and Isabelle

Lastly, you’ll want to speak to Tom Nook where he will tell you that they want to have K.K. Slider perform on the island and to do this you’ll need a higher island star rating, he will advise you to speak to Isabelle.

Once you’ve spoken to Isabelle, she will tell you that in order to get to a 3-star rating you’ll need more island residents. 

This is where you stop. 

Step 8: All you need to do now is wait for the update and put the plots down only when the update comes out and you are 100% sure that your desired villager is available for trade.

Do this one plot at a time. You can look on Nookazon for traders and see who has your desired villager listed and buy them with the Nook Mile Tickets you saved up! You MUST put the plot down before you leave to invite them to your island. 

Nookazon is the best and safest way to trade as you can see the reviews of people who are selling, it is best to go for traders that have over fifty 5-star reviews. This is the quickest way and makes sure that you will 100% get your desired villager without getting scammed.

2. Restart & Go, Villager Hunting! (Method 2)

You do all of the above except for Step 8…if you don’t feel like trading… When the update comes out, use the Nook Mile Tickets you saved up to go villager hunting. After you’ve set up one plot, keep searching until you find your desired villager and then invite them over to your island! Wait a couple days (or time travel) and then set up another plot to go hunting and find your next desired villager.

This method does take longer and is a gamble as to whether you’ll spend more Nook Mile Tickets or less.

Equally, you can wait until they show up at the campsite and lay down a plot on that day to invite them, but that may take even longer than villager hunting as campsite appearances happen once every week or so.

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3. Kick Villagers Out

If you don’t want to restart your island and you don’t have Nintendo’s Online Membership (but this method will be faster if you do), fear not! You have this last method available to you!

Step 1: Kick A Villager out! 

Below is a method to kick villagers out (Time Travel Method) in order to get who you want, quickly!

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Once your unwanted villager is in boxes, the next day there should be an open plot. This means you can go villager hunting to invite the villager of your dreams or if you want to trade online you can do so.

If you don’t wish to time travel, you can follow this guide naturally, it may just take a very long time.

Just in case you missed it…

Here’s the Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct for the update 2.0

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What does the Animal crossing New Horizons Direct really hold for us?

As you may know, Nintendo has announced that they will have an Animal Crossing Direct this Friday – 15th October at 3pm BST. So far we’ve been given little information, but we have heard from fans who enjoy going through the data mines and predicting the content we could possibly get in the future. Players’ engagement with Animal Crossing New Horizons has decreased significantly since the game launch in March 2020. Gamers are playing less and less, some haven’t played in months, (I may be a little guilty and perhaps made my lazy villagers Weber and Sherb cry). Not to mention, Animal Crossing New Horizons and Nookazon Discord had over 500,000 members engaging up until May 2021, while people are still shown to be online, there’s rarely any conversation, it’s difficult to trade and can be hard to play with others online from time to time. Nowadays, there are roughly only 5 people having conversations at a time.

So with this low amount of engagement, what will Nintendo Have to Offer at this Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct?

What will the Animal Crossing New Horizons Direct Showcase?

So far, we know Brewster is returning along with a new Amiibo card set. What else do we have going? Is a café feature really going to keep players engaged for a few months or just a few days?

Twitter user ‘Samus Hunter 2’ a known well-known figure for leaking and updating on information, has mentioned what we can expect to see in this upcoming direct.

Pretty much all the point (outside of Kapp'n that I feel they are going to release its features later) should be featured in the november update, alongside other new contents. Other features that were planned are: New Crops, cooking, new emotions, furniture, etc..#AnimalCrossing https://t.co/beg1wVKHLw

— Samus Hunter | Nintendo Leak and News Inside (@SamusHunter2) October 6, 2021

If cooking is incorporated it would be nice to have some form of a scoring system behind the cooking, perhaps the better quality of the products, the more our fellow villagers will enjoy it. Cooking dishes for our favourite villagers and even having cooking competitions at some point in the year would be great. It may sound very far fetched and doesn’t seem like anything Nintendo would do, but that SHOULD be incorporated.

Comparison to Story of Seasons

After playing Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town, I realised what Animal Crossing New Horizons could have done to keep their audience engaged. Story of Season may be a farming RPG, but it feels just like an Animal Crossing game, but with humans. You build friendships, explore, go cooking, go fishing, customise your home, craft and build materials for facilities and many town events.

What makes this game so engaging is that with each person in Olive Town, you are able to increase your friendship points with them. Yes, this can be done in Animal Crossing, however, the MAJOR difference is that with each new friendship level, there’s a cutscene and you get to know that character a little better over time. There are plot twists, as well as the characters having a story, the player also has their own little story as well. It’s certainly fun to play through.

It feels more relatable, that’s what’s missing. The feeling of actually getting ot know those around you, the community, the unexpected, going about your day to carry out your usual routine and something happens out of the blue, perhaps spotting a ghost, having your first encounter with an evil Ninja named CAT, finding cows stuck in the middle of the town hall or meeting adorable earth sprites who invite you to their garden and help you gather resources.

My point is Nintendo could have done better, while this isn’t their particular style, there is a lot lacking in Animal Crossing New Horizons in comparison to New Leaf, City Folk, Wild World and even the original Animal Crossing. While many players appreciate their efforts, adding recipes and a lot of freedom for customisation, there are too many things missing and if they are not careful enough, by the time they add all that’s been missing to Animal Crossing New Horizons, players may lose interest.

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