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Stay up to date with the latest GenACNH system enhancements, treasure island schedules, community tournaments, and guides.

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📖 Guide: New Bugs, Fish, Sea Creatures In March For Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Northern & Southern Hemisphere)

It’s a big month of seasonal changes for both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere during March in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH)! We’ll tell you every new critter joining your island this month. Each and every month in Animal Crossing: New Horizons brings a different set of fish or bug creatures that can appear on... View Article Source

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📖 Guide: Fencing - How To Customise Fences

New characters? Farming? Cooking? Who cares!! The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update 2.0 added customisable fences, and you're presumably on this page because you were excited ab...

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📖 Guide: Island Life 101 App Explained - Should You Buy It?

> Learn how to cross your animals! The Island Life 101 App is designed to help out newcomers to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, young children, and grown-ups who've forgotten everything about the game since they last played.

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📖 Guide: Storage Shed - How To Get & Use The Sheds

> 50 sheds of yay When Animal Crossing: New Horizons' update 2.0 was announced, many of us had the same thought: Oh no. My island is a mess. And there's no room for a farm... The thought of having to reorganise all that space, re-do all the terraforming, move around a bunch of objects — well, it put some of us off.

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📖 Guide: Farming - How To Grow Tomatoes, Potatoes, Wheat, Sugarcane & Carrots

> Get your green thumbs ready If you've already made yourself a wee pumpkin farm in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you'll likely already know a lot about farming in the game! All the same, you might be asking: Where do I even find all the new crops?

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📖 Guide: Permanent Ladders - How To Place, Benefits Over Inclines

> Step one, step two, step three... Ladders: they're like stairs, but you have to use your whole body. Everyone knows stairs are easier, but not everyone can afford stairs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, whether that's financially or spatially, and ladders are a cheap, renewable resource for ascending cliffs without forking out a ton of Bells for a...

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📖 Guide: Ceiling Furniture - How To Place Items On The Ceiling

Oh, what a feeling, when we're decorating on the ceiling

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📖 Guide: Villager Vacation Homes - How To Invite Villagers To Happy Home Paradise

Happy Home Paradise is the first and only paid expansion to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and it is very much a fresh take and expansion upon the rather charming Animal Crossing: ...

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📖 Guide: Reactions List - How To Unlock

Learn to stretch, flex, listen, and act natural!

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📖 Guide: Polishing - Every Polish Effect Full List, How To Polish In Happy Home Paradise DLC

You would be forgiven for thinking that polishing, one of the new features introduced in Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Happy Home Paradise expansion (which is quite a mouthful), l...

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📖 Guide: Kapp'n's Boat Tours - Island Tours Explained

> Back to the island Of all the special characters in Animal Crossing, Kapp'n is one of the most beloved. Yet, with all the hubbub around Brewster, we hardly saw anyone clamouring for the return of the sea captain chanteur! Well, we're happy to have you back, Kapp'n — not least because you can take us to new places.

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📖 Guide: Lighting - How To Change Lighting In The Happy Home Paradise DLC

Everyone has opinions on the Big Light. You know what the Big Light is, even if you don't — it's the main overhead light in a room, and people either love it (it's bright!) or ha...

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📖 Guide: 2.0 Update - 50 Things You Might Have Missed

> Update: 20 more things added! The Animal Crossing: New Horizons update is chock-a-block with fantastic things to find, and not all of them are immediately obvious. In fact, some weren't even in the Animal Crossing Direct!

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📖 Guide: Dream Address Codes - Luna, Dreaming, And The Best Dream Island Codes

> You can now "search by name"! Soon after Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched back in March 2020, we saw some really incredible islands appear online and looked on enviously at idyllic rural escapes, urban metropolises using intricate custom designs, themed villages and much more besides. They certainly put our cluttered

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📖 Guide: How To Change The Weather, Season & Time Of Day In The Happy Home Paradise DLC

> Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall, all you have to do is call Your gorgeous Animal Crossing: New Horizons vacation home designs are beautiful to look at, but don't you think they're just missing that certain je ne sais quoi?

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📖 Guide: Soundscapes - How To Unlock All 24 Soundscapes In Happy Home Paradise DLC

We've had the ability to play K.K. Slider's music in our houses since the beginning, but Animal Crossing: New Horizons now offers the chance to turn your rooms into a "soundscape"....

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📖 Guide: Partition Walls - How To Add Partitions, Counters & Pillars In The Happy Home Paradise DLC

Decorating houses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has, since its release, been largely about how to use furniture in inventive ways. You can use the climbing wall item backwards t...

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📖 Guide: Seasons - When Do The Seasons Change?

You might be annoyed when shops start to put up all their Christmas gear in mid-September (or even earlier — we saw baubles in August this year), but in Animal Crossing: New Hori...

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📖 Guide: Katrina - Good And Bad Luck Effects, Friendship Readings, And How Fortunes Work Explained

Animal Crossing: New Horizons finally brought back fan-favourite fortune-teller, Katrina, in the massive 2.0 update — but her fortunes work slightly differently than they did in ...

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📖 Guide: Cooking Recipes - How To Cook, Full Recipe List

Cooking was a long-requested feature in Animal Crossing and it is now part of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch 1 and 2. In this guide, we'll take you through the basics of ...

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📖 Guide: Happy Home Paradise Unlocks - When Do Features Unlock In The DLC?

Partition walls, pillars, parties and promotions!

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📖 Guide: Happy Home Paradise - How To Unlock All Facilities Explained

How to unlock the school, café, restaurant, hospital, and apparel shop!

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📖 Guide: Happy Home Paradise Ranks & Grades - How To Increase Your Happy Home Rank Explained

> It's more complicated than you think! In the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC, your pay, your uniform, and even your abilities are all tied to your "Grade" — the title Lottie gives you after you've done a certain number of houses.

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📖 Guide: Full Patch Notes & Version History

A list of every Animal Crossing: New Horizons update ever

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📖 Guide: Stretching - Group Stretching Rewards

> Calisthenics, not yoga It's relatively common in Japanese work culture to have group daily exercise, though occasionally those sessions are arguably a tad intense. It's a good idea for all of us to stretch and keep fit, however, and now Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a rather charming way to participate in game.

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📖 Guide: Happy Home Paradise DLC - How To Remodel Villagers' Homes

You may have heard that it's now possible to remodel your Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers' ugly, gift-filled homes on your island. It's true! Buuuut... you'll have to jump ...

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📖 Guide: Islands - Get Inspired By The Best Islands We've Seen So Far

> Putting our meagre island efforts to shame Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons launched back in March 2020, a large community of gamers have been sharing incredible custom designs created for the game, and they've only gotten more impressive since the launch of the Happy Home Paradise DLC. However, perhaps even more impressive are the amazing lan

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📖 Guide: Every Animal Crossing Amiibo Card For New Horizons & New Leaf

Looking for info on the six extra Sanrio amiibo cards? They're so special we've given them their own Animal Crossing Sanrio amiibo card guide. All others can be found below, includ...

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📖 Guide: Free 3.0 Update (2026) & Nintendo Switch 2 Edition - Everything Included

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and the accompanying Ver. 3.0 update arrived on 15th January 2026, and there's a lot packed into them. Below, we've liste...

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📖 Megaphone Guide: How To Use & Where To Buy

Everything you need to know about the Megaphone in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, including how to obtain it from Nook Stop, locate island villagers, and decoration ideas.

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Guide: 5-Star Island Evaluation Guide: Tree Limits, Fences & Scenery Points Breakdown

Unlock the Golden Watering Can DIY and Lily of the Valley flowers. Complete breakdown of Nature Points, Development Points, and clutter limits.

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Guide: Turnip Stalk Market Mastery: Tracking Peak Price Trends & Earning Millions

Master the 4 turnip price patterns (Small Spike, Large Spike, Fluctuating, Decreasing). Never lose bells to spoiled turnips again.

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Guide: GenACNH Spawner Mastery: Instant Dodo Delivery & Catalog Quickstart

Everything you need to know about spawning items, max material stacks, golden tools, and complete furniture sets with GenACNH Dodo Order Bots.

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Guide: August Shark Hunting & Rare Ocean Creatures Catching Guide

Max out your museum and bells! Complete walkthrough on ocean fin shadows, Great White Sharks, Whale Sharks, Saw Sharks, and Gigas Giant Clams.

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Guide: August Fireworks Shows: How to Upload & Launch Custom Patterns with Isabelle

Light up your Sunday night skies! Step-by-step guide to submitting custom design patterns to Isabelle, glowing boppers, and Redd's plaza raffle prizes.

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Guide: Rare Palm Tree Beetle Farming: Golden Stag, Giraffe & Horned Hercules Guide

Hunt the elusive 12,000+ Bell palm tree beetles. Complete spawning guide, island setup, creep mechanics, and Flick commission tips.