It's the start of a new month, and that means new features have been unlocked in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. While we've heard about wedding season and the new seasonal items, there's apparently another feature that might have been overlooked in recent times - which was first spotted in a Version 1.2.0 datamine. We're referring to the fact Dodo Airlines (DAL) now offers item delivery and liquidation services.
Whenever you fly to Harv's island, you'll now be able to send items back to your home storage, provided it's not already filled up. If you'd rather sell them off, Wilbur will now allow you to sell your items and the Bells you earn (which match the prices of Timmy & Tommy's drop box) will be added to your Nook account the next day.
Although there are some reports claiming you can now sell and also send items back home when you're on a random island or a friend's island (through this same service), we tried to do this ourselves and found these options were not available. It means when you are on a mystery island tour, you'll just have to continue to rely on the storage space within your bag.
While we're appreciative of small little updates like this, it would have been great if it was available on random islands as well. Perhaps a future update will change this. Did you notice this relatively new feature yourself? Leave a comment down below.
[source nintendowire.com]
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That's for the best. Scorpion/tarantula islands would be broken if you could just keep shipping them back and collecting more.
@BenAV Exactly. Or they should have limited it or made a fee to pay for it (1000 nook miles per item for example)
@sanderev in what world would it be justified by 1000 miles? that seems like an excessively expensive way of trying to artificially lower the amount of Miles people have.
@LordGeovanni It was just an example, it could be less. It would be a nice way if you really want to keep some additional items. But make it not interesting for people wanting to exploit it.
Is kinda pointless if is going to be available only on Harv's Island... we will have to wait and see what Nintendo is truly planning to do with this new feature, cause is a complete waste if it stays a Harv's Island exclusive.
@sanderev if they're looking to find ways to balance the game they should look at more money sinks rather than limiting potential growth in the game.
Honestly when I found out Redd was coming back, I thought for certain it was going to be 50,000 per art instead of just 5000. Would have done a whole lot more of a balancing than anything else they've done.
Kinda got my hopes up but...
I'm kinda done with island tours. I have more than 9 million bells in the bank and stacks of so much iron and wood that I really don't need to gather anything anymore.
Although I never once got to see rare flower island after probably 40+ island tours...
I'll do it more if more islands are added. Need more reason to visit them.
@Heavyarms55
Question.
Is Island Tour the only way to get certain villagers?
How much is for one flight to another island?
Is that really tedious to get 1 ticket?
@RPGamer As noted in the article, this was originally discovered in a datamine of Version 1.2.0.
Of course the devs would lock it like that 🤦♂️
Wilbur explains this very poorly in-game when you leave Harv's island.
It sounds like the service is offered when you talk to him on any island, so of course people get excited about being able to send up to 1600 things home from a mystery island tour.
Yet another example of Nintendo teasing us with a nice idea but implementing it like poo. Not to sound too harsh, they deliver amazing things which is why I put up with all the bad along the way.
@Anti-Matter Three ways to invite new villagers.
Most reliable: Amiibo.
Easiest: Find one on a random island (random island tickets are very cheap.)
Other options: If a villager is leaving someone else's island and you have space on yours, you can visit their island and invite that villager to your island.
Or if you have room and set up a plot, you can wait, and eventually someone random will move in.
I didn't read the dodo's text and thought I had to send my wedding things back through him before going home. I think I liquidated them 'cause, whatever I did, they were lost to the abyss.
Can someone explain what this feature is for exactly?
OK, who's the dummy at Nintendo who decided it was a good idea to have it on Harvey's island & not a tour?!
that sucks, would of been nice to be contained to a small island farming fishes for money etc. you can't make a stink to me about this because this would be a legit method
@ROBLOGNICK It enables you to send items to your storage or to the store drop-off box from the airport, without needing to go back to your island. Meaning if you find an island with a lot of scorpions for example, you could keep catching them and sending them back home all night, making a lot of profit.
...except it only works for Harv's Island at the moment. Which is probably an oversight, because you don't really get any items there, so it's pretty much pointless.
Noticed the feature but don't really understand how it could ever really be useful in it's current form?
@Heavyarms55 After my trip to a scorpion island every other island just feels like a waste of Nook Miles. I keep getting the same ***** island, cherries and windflowers. At least give me more fruit and flower choices, I'm done with rocks and weeds.
@LordGeovanni a thousand miles is nothing if you play a few minutes a day.
@Strictlystyles
I think you missed the point. 1000 Miles is the same as two bell tickets. So you would be sacrificing 6k bells per item in that case.
Now if you wanted to have an inventory to send back for free, of which you had to pay miles to unlock in some way, that would be fine. Even if it was 40 more inventory slots costing 30,000 miles per slot, it would become another task and achievement to work towards. But the current idea of just tacking on a mile charge is just costly and lacking.
@Krisi Thank you. That was why I was so confused by it!
@FineLerv You will get them in the post
I get it. It’s so you don’t spend all night farming arachnids. Makes sense.
@Scapetti That's what I had hoped but the next day they weren't there. I'm in Australia so we're on day 2.
@FineLerv UK here, that's how I got them!
Adding this mechanic to regular island tours would cut out the middle step of selling stuff to the nooks, which would throw the pace at which they want you to make bells. Plus you'd just spend all day on a mystery island. Why would they put this in?
@Heavyarms55 If I'm not mistaken, they recently deleted hybrid flower island (temporarily or permanent, I don't know), which would explain why you didn't come across it throughout your travels.
@SwitchLife If it was recent, that would not explain it. Most of my visits were in the first few weeks the game was out. Although I appreciate you mentioning that change, I hadn't heard about it.
@Scapetti I think I must've done the other option since mine never came. I'm assuming one is sell and one is post. Anyway, my fault for never reading anything in the game. 😊
@FineLerv no, the items you get with the heart tokens are sent straight to your post. You don't get a choice with them
Reporting about datamines as a normal piece of information is wrong for many reasons.
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