How to Deck Out Your Island: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting More Decor in Animal Crossing
The charm of Animal Crossing: New Horizons lies in the freedom to create and personalize your island paradise. A crucial aspect of this is collecting a diverse range of decor items. Whether you’re aiming for a cozy cottagecore aesthetic or a vibrant, modern cityscape, the game offers numerous ways to expand your decorating possibilities. This article will guide you through the various methods to acquire more furniture, patterns, and decorative elements, ensuring your island reflects your unique style.
The Many Avenues for Decor Acquisition
Obtaining new decor in Animal Crossing: New Horizons involves a mix of exploration, resourcefulness, and interaction with your island’s inhabitants. Here are the primary ways to bolster your decorative arsenal:
1. Buying from Nook’s Cranny
Nook’s Cranny, the island’s general store, is the most consistent source of new furniture. The store stocks a rotating selection of furniture items every day, ensuring there’s always something new to discover. Regularly checking the store is key to accumulating a diverse collection. You can use bells, the in-game currency, to purchase these items.
2. Crafting DIY Projects
DIY recipes are essential for crafting furniture and decorative objects using resources found around your island. You can obtain DIY recipes by:
- Finding message bottles on the beach.
- Shooting down balloons floating across the sky.
- Talking to villagers; they sometimes share recipes.
- Visiting villagers’ homes when they are crafting.
- Purchasing them from Nook’s Cranny.
Gather resources like wood, stone, iron nuggets, and clay to bring these recipes to life at a DIY workbench.
3. Shaking Trees
Believe it or not, trees aren’t just for fruit and wood! Shaking trees can occasionally yield furniture items, along with tree branches and other surprises. Keep an eye out for loose items falling from trees and be ready to catch them.
4. Shooting Down Balloons
Colorful balloons floating across your island often carry presents. Equip your slingshot and shoot them down to receive a wide variety of items, including furniture and DIY recipes. These balloons come in various colors, each with a different potential reward.
5. Exploring the Recycling Box
The recycling box located in Resident Services sometimes contains items that were left behind by villagers or other game activities. Check the box regularly for unexpected finds.
6. Engaging with Villagers
Your villagers are a valuable source of gifts and new items. Talking to them daily can result in them giving you furniture, clothing, or even DIY recipes. Building strong relationships with your neighbors can lead to unexpected treasures.
7. Helping Gulliver
When Gulliver washes ashore on your beach, help him repair his communicator. As a reward for your assistance, he will send you a unique furniture item from his travels.
8. Checking Your Mail
Keep an eye on your mailbox, as mail from villagers and special characters often contains gifts, including furniture and special items.
9. Visiting Happy Home Paradise
The Happy Home Paradise DLC offers a fantastic avenue for expanding your furniture catalog. As you decorate vacation homes for clients, you’ll unlock access to more items, which can be used in your own decorating projects.
10. Utilizing the Able Sisters
The Able Sisters’ shop provides a variety of custom designs and patterns. While not furniture, these patterns can be applied to clothing, furniture, and other items, further expanding your decorating possibilities. Speaking to Sable daily will eventually unlock unique patterns you can use.
11. Upgrading Nook’s Cranny
Upgrading Nook’s Cranny expands the store’s inventory, providing a greater selection of items available for purchase. This makes it possible to buy a greater number of furniture items and other decorations.
12. Redeeming Nook Miles
Nook Miles can be redeemed for a variety of rewards, including DIY recipes and special furniture items. Access the Nook Stop in Resident Services to check available options.
13. The Showroom
By using the Happy Home Network app, you have access to the Showroom, where other players share photos of their vacation homes. Touring these homes can provide inspiration and new ideas.
14. Special Events
Keep an eye out for special in-game events like holidays or fishing tournaments. These events often provide special items, including unique furniture and decorations.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. How often does Nook’s Cranny change its stock?
Nook’s Cranny rotates its main furniture inventory daily, ensuring there’s always something new to discover. The smaller items at the back of the store change slightly more frequently.
2. How do I get more DIY recipes?
You can obtain DIY recipes by finding message bottles on the beach, shooting down balloons, talking to villagers, visiting villagers’ homes when they are crafting, and purchasing them from Nook’s Cranny.
3. How do I get more trees in Animal Crossing?
You can purchase saplings from Nook’s Cranny or obtain them from other sources. Plant them in open spaces on your island and wait for them to grow.
4. How do I upgrade Nook’s Cranny?
To upgrade Nook’s Cranny, you must buy and sell a combined total of 200,000 Bells worth of items, spend at least 30 days on your island since Nook’s Cranny was built, and have Mabel visit your town at least once.
5. What is the Happy Home Paradise DLC?
The Happy Home Paradise DLC allows you to become a vacation home designer, which unlocks new items, features, and design options. It is also an excellent way to grow your own decorating inventory.
6. How do I unlock ceiling items?
To unlock ceiling items, you need to purchase the Pro Decorating License from the Nook Stop in Resident Services using Nook Miles.
7. Can I decorate my villagers’ houses?
Yes, after a certain point in the game, you will unlock the ability to redecorate your villagers’ homes. Talk to Tom Nook at Resident Services to unlock this option.
8. How do I get more patterns from Sable?
Talk to Sable at the Able Sisters’ shop every day. Over time, she will share her custom patterns which you can use to decorate your clothing, furniture and more.
9. What is the rarest item in Animal Crossing?
While the rarity of items can sometimes fluctuate, the Royal Crown is generally considered one of the rarest and most expensive items in the game.
10. How do I get a car in Animal Crossing?
The luxury car can be obtained from either Nook Shopping for 300,000 Bells or the Paradise Planning office for 270,000 Poki. The item’s color can be customized by Cyrus at Harv’s Island for 12,000 Bells.
11. How do I get a 5-star island?
Achieving a 5-star island requires having at least eight villagers, 665 development points, and 450 scenery points. Focus on adding plenty of furniture, flowers, and other decorative elements to improve your island rating.
12. Can I move Nook’s Cranny after it’s built?
Yes, you can move Nook’s Cranny and other structures (except Resident Services) by talking to Tom Nook at Resident Services and requesting layout changes. It costs 50,000 bells to move buildings.
13. How do I get more villagers on my island?
Once Resident Services is upgraded to a building, talk to Tom Nook about more plans for developing your island, and he’ll look into building a Campground. Villagers can then visit your camp, and you can invite them to move to your island.
14. What happens after I design 30 homes in Happy Home Paradise?
After designing 30 homes, you will be able to design a clothing store on the archipelago, and you will unlock the ability to redecorate the homes of villagers on your base island.
15. How do I get the Happy Home Paradise DLC for free?
The Happy Home Paradise DLC is included as part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. If you have an active membership, you can download the DLC for free.
By following these tips and actively exploring your island, you’ll be well on your way to creating the island paradise of your dreams, filled with a diverse collection of decor that reflects your unique style. Happy decorating!