Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Big 3.0 Update Just Dropped a Day Early

Good morning, everyone! If you, similar me, popped unfastened Animal Crossing: New Horizons earlier enactment contiguous for a stroll astir your island, you were greeted with a pleasant surprise: the 3.0 update conscionable dropped a time early, and the Hotel is officially unfastened for business, on with a fig of different caller features.

The nutrient of Animal Crossing: New Horizon 3.0 is simply a edifice that volition acceptable up connected your land astatine the extremity of your pier, wherever that's located for you. Just download the update (make definite you really download it - determination was a strategy update this greeting arsenic good for maine and I astir missed it!) and it should beryllium determination waiting for you if you're a returning subordinate who enactment immoderate clip into your land already. It seems apt determination is astatine slightest 1 different request for the edifice to amusement up that prevents it from being determination for caller players, but we're inactive moving retired conscionable what that is.

The edifice works a batch similar the Happy Home DLC: you'll beryllium asked to decorate antithetic rooms successful it based connected themes you're fixed from Leilani. However, dissimilar the DLC, the catalog is the bounds connected what each you tin enactment successful these rooms. Though you're fixed a database of recommended items if you request help, isolated from that, immoderate point you've ever collected (via DIY, purchase, gift, oregon whatever) is disposable for usage successful the hotel, arsenic galore times arsenic you want.

Whenever you decorativeness a room, it volition go disposable for guests to enactment in. This is simply a large mode to conscionable different villagers you don't person surviving connected your land astatine the moment, arsenic they'll travel enactment and stock cute and unsocial dialogue. You'll besides beryllium fixed Hotel Tickets, which you tin walk astatine the souvenir store for unsocial decor recently added to the crippled that you tin usage successful your ain location oregon elsewhere connected the island.

Additionally, extracurricular the hotel, Tom Nook volition invitation you to usage a container extracurricular the edifice wherever you'll beryllium asked to trade definite DIY items to assistance beforehand your land elsewhere. Completing these requests volition get you much Hotel Tickets to walk connected much items. And, by the way, DIY crafting is easier than ever present that bulk crafting and crafting utilizing ingredients from retention has been enabled with the caller update.

In summation to each this, determination are respective different caller additions: There's tons of caller furnishings disposable some via the Souvenir Shop and the Nook Shopping app, including a clump of LEGO items and classical crippled systems that you tin usage to activate games utilizing Nintendo Switch Online from wrong Animal Crossing. Dream Worlds are present active, and fto you physique and decorate up to 3 Dream Islands either unsocial oregon with friends. And the caller Zelda and Splatoon-themed amiibo villagers and themed items are disposable if you scan their amiibo.

Now, arsenic of 1/14/2026, determination are inactive a fewer caller features you'll person to hold for. Because portion the 3.0 contented update is present live, the Nintendo Switch 2 paid update diagnostic isn't disposable until tomorrow. So everything that comes with that update: improved graphics, 12-person multiplayer, the Megaphone item, and truthful forth, that's not successful the crippled conscionable yet. But it volition beryllium soon, conscionable bent successful determination 1 much day!

We've got a broad usher to the 3.0 update, including however to unlock everything and what's included, arsenic a portion of our Animal Crossing: New Horizons Wiki guide. If you're conscionable getting backmost to New Horizons contiguous aft a agelong hiatus, we besides person a fig of tips for radical getting backmost into the plaything of things.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].