Turkey Day (also known as Thanksgiving in the real world) takes place on the last Thursday of November. In 2021, that’s November 25! From 9 a.m. until 12 a.m., Franklin the chef appears on your island to celebrate the holiday. He’s cooking a big meal, and you’ll have to help him gather ingredients. Head over to the Resident Services plaza and get ready to start cooking!
Version 2.0.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons just dropped, and within a few days, the new Series 5 Animal Crossing amiibo cards will be available both online and in stores. If it’s realistic for you to do so, we encourage you to purchase these cards for real. They’re difficult to find at the time of writing, but keep at it and eventually you’ll be able to place an order! With that said, if you’re looking for bin dumps you’ve come to the right place — we won’t be able to post them here, but we can certainly point you in the right direction!
In a surprising twist of fate, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons version 2.0.0 update is available two days early! One of its highlight is the return of Brewster’s Roost, which opens on the second floor of the museum after it’s been fully constructed. Obtaining the Roost is super easy – fortunately, you don’t have to have your museum’s exhibits completed – but we’ve got the instructions jotted down here anyway just in case.
Halloween in Animal Crossing: New Horizons starts a little bit early — when the clock strikes 5:00 p.m., the event will begin and you’ll notice the sky start to darken! Prior to Halloween night, you’ll have to prepare by growing pumpkins and purchasing candy from the shop. Then, when the event actually begins, you can give candy to villagers you meet outside to obtain exclusive furniture!
Today’s Animal Crossing Direct announced much, much more new content than we thought. Free updates are coming, of course, but there’s also paid DLC coming — and it all releases on November 5. The paid DLC costs $24.99 on its own, but it also comes free as part of the new Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack — which itself costs $49.99 for one year (and one person) and $79.99 for one year (as a family plan). Super expensive, but here’s a full list of new content coming to the game:
Brewster’s Roost is back as part of the museum! You can invite villagers and characters via amiibo cards, drink coffee with friends, or just hang out for a while.
Kapp’n now appears at the dock! He’ll take players on boat rides to a new type of mysterious island that includes new plants and items. The islands can also be a different season or time of day.
Harv’s Island now houses formerly temporary island visitors. This means you can presumably access Redd, Kicks, and others at any time! Furthermore, Reese and Cyrus now appear on the island and can customize furniture that previously was unable to be customized.
Town ordinances are back, and they’re the same ones as in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. This means Early Bird, Night Owl, Beautiful Island, and Bell Boom are all back! Though we don’t know what the Beautiful Island ordinance will do.
New home exterior options are now available, and new storage expansions will come with it to increase your item holdings to 5,000.
Cooking has been added! You can grow tomatoes, wheat, sugarcane, and potatoes, and then you can make dishes with them to eat.
You can obtain a Pro Decorating License to hang items from the ceiling of your rooms! You can also use accent wallpapers to make one wall of your room have a different wallpaper.
You can now build ten bridges and inclines instead of eight. There are tons of new fences too, and you can finally customize them!
There’s now a Pro Camera app with a first-person camera that can be changed to a tripod to put yourself in the picture.
11 new reactions!
There’s a new NookPhone app called Island 101 that gives you tips.
There’s a new storage shed you can use outside plus an ABD you can place! No more having to return to your island to access your storage and Bells.
K.K. Slider has twelve new songs, and you can also get music box versions of them to place around your island!
Gyroids are back! You can plant Gyroid fragments and water them and they’ll grow into a full-sized Gyroid.
Nook’s Cranny has new furniture.
You can now place permanent ladders around your island.
Villagers can once again invite you to visit their house or show up at your house like in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is receiving paid DLC on November 5 that costs $24.99!
It’s kind of like Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, and you can go to work on a special island and build vacation homes for villagers.
There are partition walls, counters, and pillars, and these can be used back on your island too.
There’s a new currency called Poki that you can use to buy exclusive furniture.
You can use amiibo to invite villagers to the new island and design houses for them. All design options you obtain on the archipelago can be used on your island, and you can eventually remodel your villagers’ home.
Series 5 of amiibo cards including villagers like Raymond, releasing November 5!
Needless to say, there’s a ton of new content here. It’s worth noting that this is the last free content update coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons; fortunately, it contains lots of new things to do and finally brings back the much-desired coffee shop plus even more on top! The update comes out on November 5 and we’ll be covering content for it.
