Oct 5, 2020Animal Crossing
The highly-anticipated Animal Crossing: New Horizons fall update is live. The update contains a bunch of cool features such as the ability to grow pumpkins, spooky new reactions, and new Halloween clothing and costumes. Additionally, players now have access to more skin and eye colors for their player to choose from.
Wicked witches with green skin, imps with red eyes, and orange-eyed cats are just a few ways the new Halloween skin & eye colors in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are making Halloween costumes better. However, they aren’t immediately available to players when using a mirror for character customization.
Like me, you may be wondering if you didn’t get this update feature. However, there is a way of obtaining the new skin and eye colors. In this article, we will explain how you get the new Halloween skin & eye colors in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Albeit obvious, the very first thing you need to do is to install the fall update if you haven’t already done so.
Next, load up Animal Crossing: New Horizons and head to Residents Services.
Once inside, interact with the NookStop Terminal. Select the ‘Redeem Nook Miles’ option when prompted.
You will notice two new additions that can be redeemed with Nook Miles. The first addition is labelled ‘Body-Paint Costume Tips’. Redeem this option for 2,400 Nook Miles and you will then have unlocked the new Halloween skin colors too
The second new addition is called ‘Exploring New Eye Colors’. Redeem this option, which also costs 2,400 Nook Miles and you will then have access to the new Halloween eye colors too.
To access and try out the new skin and eye colors, simply interact with a mirror like you usually would when customizing your character’s features.
There are four new body paint color options for players to choose from after purchasing ‘Body Paint Costume Tips’ from the Nook Stop terminal. The four colors included are white, green, blue, and purple.
There are six new eye color options for players to choose from after purchasing ‘Exploring New Eye Colors’ from the Nook Stop terminal. The six new eye colors included are pink, orange, yellow, purple, grey and light green.
NB: These new body-paint and eye color options are useable year round. However, as they are only redeemable in October, (make sure you get them from the Nook Stop terminal before the month ends).
In addition to body-paint, Halloween-themed face paint will make a one-day appearance on October 31st. Stay tuned for more information on this, as well as what the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Halloween event will be like!
Take a peak at all the Halloween Costumes and accessories you can buy from the Able Sisters and Kicks in October!
Oct 4, 2020Animal Crossing
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons fall update has officially arrived! Pumpkins, new eye colors and skin tones, Halloween costumes, spooky furniture and more! I can hardly contain my excitement. If youโre curious about the new Halloween costumes and clothing and wish to know how to get them, youโre in the right place! Hereโs everything you need to know about Halloween costumes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons!
After downloading the Animal Crossing: New Horizons fall update, the Able Sisters will begin selling some Halloween costumes and clothing.
Kicks is also joining in with the halloween fun. He sells six different variations of Impish Wings. Players can purchase them for 1,000 bells each.
On Halloween night, you’ll be able to get a special costume from none other than Jack himself. To get them, you’ll have to give Jack candy or a lollipop in exchange. The clothing items are:
If you were disappointed that costumes such as mummy costumes were not included in the update, we have good news for you. Halloween-themed costumes and clothing items such as the Mummy outfit and Bone costume have actually been around for a while. Therefore if none of the costumes introduced in the update take your fancy, you still have plenty of other outfit options.
Some pre-existing costumes and items of clothing are just as good as the official Halloween clothing items. Some examples of clothing ensembles perfect for Halloween that were introduced prior to the fall update include:
For information about the spooky items and furniture introduced in the recent update, click here.
Check out these spooky paths, creepy flags & town tunes, and Halloween-themed island ideas to inspire you when decorating your own island for Halloween.
Oct 1, 2020Animal Crossing
Pumpkins. The latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons update allows players to plant, grow and harvest pumpkins. This allows players to create some awesome, authentic-looking little pumpkin patches! In addition to this, pumpkins are essential to craft the new Halloween-themed items. To lend fellow fans a hand, here is a quick guide on how to grow pumpkins in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Pumpkin starts are purchasable from the cabinet inside of Nook’s Cranny for 280 bells each. Alternatively, when Leif visits, he sells them a bit cheaper at 140 bells a pop.
You can plant pumpkin starts by standing on an empty piece of land, opening your inventory, and then planting the starts.
Alternatively, you can dig a hole with your shovel and then open your inventory to plant the starts.
Tip: Using the Island Designer app on your NookPhone to place dirt tiles to plant the starts on, is a cute way of making a proper little pumpkin patch.
It’s important to water your pumpkins regularly as they will then produce more pumpkins for you to harvest later on
If you water your planted pumpkin starts everyday (barring rainy days) until the pumpkins are fully grown, You will be able to harvest three pumpkins as opposed to the fewer pumpkins that grow when you don’t water them each day.
Like flowers, the pumpkins will twinkle when watered.
There are four different stages of Pumpkin growth. These four stages happen over the course of the four days it takes for Pumpkins to be ready for harvesting.
When your pumpkin(s) have reached the fourth stage of growth (as illustrated above), they are ready for harvesting!
To harvest a pumpkin, stand over it and press the Y button. The pumpkin will then be in your inventory, and can now be used as a crafting material!
Yes, pumpkins do indeed regrow after being harvested. So there’s no need to dig the plants up, as more pumpkins will contine to sprout.
There are four different types of pumpkins that can grow from a pumpkin start and then be harvested. The pumpkins grow in orange, yellow, white, and green.
The orange pumpkin is the most common colored pumpkin to sprout. The other three colored pumpkins are uncommon in comparison. This does make sense however, as the spooky item DIY’s require solely orange pumpkins as crafting materials.
But to customize your Spooky Set items, youโll still need the other colored pumpkins which sprout in yellow, white, and green.
Sep 29, 2020Animal Crossing
Nintendo recently revealed information about the long-awaitedย Animal Crossing: New Horizons Halloween event.
The video released by Nintendo shows that the gameโs Halloween update contains a whole bunch of great features. New skin colors, purchasable Halloween costumes, spooky new reactions, and the ability to grow pumpkins (and use them in new DIY recipes!).
These are just some of the things we’ll get for Halloween in Animal Crossing: New Horizons!
Halloween festivities kick off on October the 1st and with the fall update already here, we can start decorating! To help you get in the spirit, I’ve shared some spooktacular island tunes and flags with you.
I also compiled a list of some of our favourite Halloween-themed island ideas. To spook-ify your island even further and compliment your take on these island ideas (and/or the new items coming to the game in the update), here are just a few examples of some awesome paving designs for you to use.
For a full analysis of the Halloween update trailer, including hidden details you might have missed, check out the video below!
For more seriously creative ideas for Halloween in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, take a look at these pumpkin patches!
Sep 21, 2020Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is the first game in the franchise to not have seasonal events ingrained. To stop players from time travelling and experiencing seasonal events out of season, Nintendo have been introducing them via updates instead. Additionally, Nintendo haven’t been very forthcoming in sharing details about Halloween in Animal crossing: new Horizons. Only confirming that there will indeed be a Halloween event, the Big N have been trick-and-no-treating players super early!
Jack is a visiting spectre-like character with a pumpkin for a head. Like Zipper (who would actually be a creepier king of Halloween), Jack has a relatively humanoid appearance, but is rather short. It is almost certain he will make an appearance in New Horizons due to the presence of his Jack-o’-lantern head in Nintendo’s updates.
Whilst we don’t know a lot about what the Halloween event will entail, there are some things we know for sure. It has been confirmed (thanks to Nintendo Direct gameplay footage), that your island’s shop exteriors will get a spooky makeover!
Yes! At least enough to want to decorate the exteriors of their homes for Halloween. In regards to whether they will go trick or treating, we’ll just have to patiently wait and see. In the meantime, there’s nothing stopping us from getting spooky! Why not give your island a Halloween makeover with these awesome ideas?
Halloween varies slightly throughout the Animal Crossing series. However, there are some notable elements of continuity. These include:
This consistency throughout the series means that we are likely to see the above features in New Horizons also.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons could see the return of the following furniture from the Spooky Series:
We could also see the return of the Creepy Series items introduced in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The Creepy Series consists of the following items:
Sep 14, 2020Animal Crossing
The entrance to your island is the first thing that other players will see when visiting. Therefore if you want to leave a lasting impression and wow from the very start, it makes sense to make your entrance magnificent. If you’re unsure on how to go about this, why not use these awesome Animal Crossing: New Horizons entrances as inspiration.
Before you indulge yourself in the pure eye candy below, make sure you also take a peak at these stunning and just beyond precious design ideas on how to make the Able Sisters Shop look even cuter!
It can be daunting knowing where to start with any island renovations. It can also be a bit disheartening to see other people’s awesome creations and feel like your own island is lackluster in comparison (I’ve been there!).
However, don’t be disheartened, as ACNH isn’t meant to be stressful! (Although the Bunny Day festivities kinda were, so thanks, Nintendo…) ๐ฐ๐ช
But back on topic, if you’re dead (like Zipper will be if he ever sets foot on my island again) set on making your airport/island entrance look super cool, then these simple tips will heed you well. Be sure to take all the time you need, plan your island entrance in advance (see below for tools and tips to help), and most importantly, make sure that you do you! ๐
Planning is an important part of terraforming/landscaping your island. Therefore, like these awesome island maps shown below, you could definitely hand draw your island map, or use digital art software (which would make a nice memento). But it doesn’t even need to be that hard with this Google docs spreadsheet ACNH map creator ๐๐บ๏ธ
If you are too busy hunting down that blasted bunny with an axe don’t have the time (or inclination) to hand-draw/create your entire island map, then don’t worry! A handy 3D ACNH island planner is available to download for free on itch.io.
Here you can try out terraforming ideas and get an idea of how they’ll look in 3D before committing to paying for that darn bridge, only to have to give Tom Nook more bells to demolish it, yet again! If you own a Chromebook like myself, you may be disappointed to know that the app is only avilable to download on Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems. Although you can still use the planner in-browser whilst using a Chromebook, which I discovered AFTER using the below method…
You can also use the more simplistic in-browser Happy Island Designer planner here. Whilst unfortunately not 3D, the tool does allow you to plan your island beforehand, instead of getting stuck right in, only to realize that you don’t know where to start.
I found it quite handy to see roughly how my island would look, due to the ability to place trees, flowers, and buildings. Additionally, you can upload a photo or screenshot of your island map layout before starting, something which would’ve saved me a lot of time, had I known beforehand… (Man, I need to do my research)! ๐ Here is my first attempt at using Happy Island Designer:
Below are some great videos with content ranging from tips on how to design your island entrance, to speed builds of more awesome examples to inspire you:
For more island design inspiration, why not check out these useful articles like these stunning island designs, or some unique summer pool ideas and of course every island needs these breathtaking custom path designs.
Happy terraforming/bridge-constructing/decorating/landscaping your entrances! Be sure to share your designs with us on social media!
Sep 13, 2020Animal Crossing
As August comes to an end, autumn falls upon us. 2020 has had its downs for sure. However, it has also had ups, such as the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and now the exciting feeling of autumn drawing near. Pumpkin spice, Halloween, candy corn, and everything in between, fall is the exciting season that bridges the gap between sun and snow.
As the weather gets colder and the leaves start to ‘fall’, here are some Animal Crossing: New Horizons clothing designs that are delightfully autumnal.
Take a look at some more amazing clothing collection! Thereโs a whole load of cool clothing designs being created (some of which you can see here, here, and here). But with cute clothing designs galore, here are some cute non-clothing custom design codes for Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Sep 6, 2020Animal Crossing
Thanks. Kids crying now.
The Animal Crossing series is one of the most wholesome around. Non-violent and family-friendly, Animal Crossing games are open-ended and allow players to do as they wish. Tasks that players can partake in include catching creatures, befriending talking animals, interior design, gardening, and more recently, terraforming. The most recent addition to the franchise is Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which boosted morale during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, and subsequently became very popular.
For these reasons, you might assume that all online content relating to the game is wholesome too. You would assume wrong. The Animal Crossing fanbase isn’t as innocent as you’d think, and are living proof that absolutely anything can be ruined. Whether it be the showing off of their dirty minds to the sharing of hilarious in-game finds, these fiends are the sole reason Brewster refuses to return.
Whilst nowhere online is safe, online social platforms are saturated with sacrilege. For those of you who want to ruin your day, be sure to check out these utterly cursed Animal Crossing: New Horizons moments.
On a lighter note, check out these Wholesome examples in which Animal Crossing: New Horizons is more inclusive than previous games in the franchise.
Are you an abomination with an insatiable appetite for completely cursed Animal Crossing content? Or perhaps try as you may you’re unable to tear yourself away from unpleasant posts that could ruin your day? Perhaps you want to witness more wicked ways in which the Animal Crossing series was unexpectedly unwholesome? If you answered yes to one (or more!) of these questions, be sure to check out these 10 times where Animal Crossing got dark. Uh oh!