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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guide
Bug Guide: Bugs List, Sell Price, and Bug Catching Tips
Fish Guide: Fish List, Sell Price, and Fishing Tips
Sea Creatures Guide: Sea Creature List, Sell Price
How to Get Back Into Animal Crossing - A Guide for Returning Players
Time Travel Guide
Balloon Present Guide - How to Pop and Gift Types
Diving Guide
Flower Guide - Hybrid Flowers, Flower Crossbreeding List
Redd Art Guide: Real and Fake Paintings and Sculptures
Cloud Save: How to Back Up Your Island
Shrub Guide
Sanrio Items List
Fruit
Table of Contents
Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guide
Bug Guide: Bugs List, Sell Price, and Bug Catching Tips
Fish Guide: Fish List, Sell Price, and Fishing Tips
Sea Creatures Guide: Sea Creature List, Sell Price
How to Get Back Into Animal Crossing - A Guide for Returning Players
Time Travel Guide
Balloon Present Guide - How to Pop and Gift Types
Diving Guide
Flower Guide - Hybrid Flowers, Flower Crossbreeding List
Redd Art Guide: Real and Fake Paintings and Sculptures
Cloud Save: How to Back Up Your Island
Shrub Guide
Sanrio Items List
Fruit

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guide

By Abby Lee Hood, Angie Harvey, Janet Garcia, +153 more
updatedMar 17, 2022

Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) wiki strategy guide includes everything you need to know about crafting, gaining Nook Miles, and earning money (bells) so you can expand your house, unlock everything, upgrade facilities / shops, and get more resident (villagers) to join your island.

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Our ACNH guide will help you get the most out of grinding for resources, filling your critterpedia with all the bugs and fish you can find while designing, customizing, and shopping to make this island everything you want it to be.

Whether you're a beginner - making this your first-ever Animal Crossing game - or you're a veteran who has their island all planned out: we have important info, tips and tricks, and fun cheats and secrets to enhance your island getaway!

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Getting Started

Our ACNH guide includes everything you need to know to start your island life out right: from tips for beginners to guidance for how to spend your first few days. You can also check out everything new in the 2.0 Update.

  • Island Name Ideas for All Themes
  • How to Restart or Reroll Your Island
  • All Potential Starting Villagers
  • Beginner's Guide and Tips
  • What to Do on Your First Days (Walkthrough)
  • Difference Between Miles and Bells

How to Play Multiplayer

Solitude is great but some things are better together! Here's everything you need to know about playing with friends and family: whether that's couch co-op, local wireless, or online play.

  • How to Play Multiplayer
  • How to Add Best-Friends and Invite Friends Online

Tips and Tricks

Become the best island Resident Tom Nook has ever seen with these tips and tricks!

  • Tips and Tricks
  • Things Animal Crossing: New Horizons Doesn't Tell You
  • How to Get 8 Items from Every Rock, Every Time
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Ultimate Unlock Guide

Animal Crossing: New Horizon's progression comes from unlocking and upgrading everything around you. Get everything done by checking out these pages:

  • How to Unlock Every Tool, Ladder, and Vaulting Pole
  • How to Unlock K.K. Slider
    • K.K. Slider Songs
  • How to Get More Villagers
  • How to Unlock Diving

Critterpedia

Whether you're trying to help Blathers build up the Museum or you're looking to make big bells by selling your finds at Nook's Cranny or to visiting characters like Flick and CJ, here are all the bugs and fish you should be catching.

  • Bug Guide: Bugs List, Sell Price, and Bug Catching Tips
  • Fish Guide: Fish List, Sell Price, and Fishing Tips
  • Sea Creatures Guide: Sea Creatures List, Sell Price, and Diving Tips

Money Making Guide (Get Bells Fast)

You'll need money (bells) to pay off your house, pay for its upgrades, get great items, and do some cool island construction. Get rich efficiently

  • Money Making Guide
  • How to Plant a Money Tree
  • Daisy Mae - Turnip Guide
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Cheats and Secrets

Share in our discoveries and check out our cheats and secrets page for powerful exploits, fun tricks, and interesting details you may have overlooked - including how to make millions of bells by time-traveling!

  • Cheats and Secrets
  • Time Travel Guide

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
NintendoMar 20, 2020
ESRB: Everyone
Nintendo Switch
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