NookLink, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons service that's available inside the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app, has received a brand new update which adds a handy new feature.
When you first open your app after the update, you'll spot a brand new icon on the NookLink home screen called 'Catalog'. Heading here – as long as your app and game are updated to the latest versions – will allow you to view your in-game catalog from your mobile.
You can browse through your items to your heart's content, searching by name, criteria (such as colour, whether the item is customisable, or its cost), or by looking through your favourites. It's a very nifty way of searching for information on items without having to boot up the game, and actually offers more tools and filters for your searches than the game itself.
In a welcome touch, the app also lets you browse through your catalogued paintings and statues, meaning you could theoretically scroll through your already-registered artworks while looking at the new items on offer in Crazy Redd's Treasure Trawler (thanks to Animal Crossing World for that cheeky tip).
Does this sound like something you'll get a lot of use out of? Let us know how your islands are coming along in the comments below.
[source animalcrossingworld.com]
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Not gonna complain about free updates. But no, I likely won't use this. I don't mind getting a duplicate piece of real art. I can always give it away.
Might be handy. I usually see something cool in the shop but then discover that I already bought it...
Not that there's a shortage of bells in this game, but it saves the storage.
Any new upgrade to this awesome game is very welcome.
This will be extremely helpful. Will stop me from buying duplicates of items as I easily forget I already have an item or a variation. And yes, it will be helpful at Redds
Might be useful if I need a certain item at least.
I made a document listing all of my catalogue items, but I got lazy and started taking screenshots so I could backtrack and fill in the document later. I now have so many screenshots that it would be faster if I just retyped the document.
I wish the game provided some sort of indication as to what items have already been purchased (while shopping) so that I wouldn't even have to make a damn list in the first place.
I visit my two ACNH towns now and then just to stomp on the cockroaches.
I printed out a full catalog list for the last Animal Crossing games (CF, NL, GCN). I was being a completionlist and trying to collect everything. This will be handy for wondering what I have and don't have, but with this version I'm not worrying about all that bookkeeping and just trying to enjoy it.
Thanks for the tip. It has some really cool features I've never even been able to find in game, like both what it cost to buy an item and sell an item. Also filter for whether or not you can buy an item. FYI no fossils can be purchased. It also shows every color you have of an item, say 4 different color shirts, you see all 4 shirts at once.
Not sure how much I'll actually use it but it's nice to have and maybe the fame will get it in an update.
Thanks for the tip. 👍
really helpful stuff, especially when checking if i already have certain clothes colors while buying them. surprised there isnt an option to order items or send stuff to friends through the app tho
Omg finally! YESS!!! This will be so super useful, I been wanting for Nintendo to do something like this for quite a while now. I finally don't need to constantly pause during the middle of shopping just to search if i have an item in my catalog already, and no more relying on fan-made apps either! WOOHOO!!
Now we just need back Mii Mask, please!
Insanely useful to use WHILE shopping to make sure your not ordering duplicates!
Would have preferred being able to buy multiple items at once.
Buy multiple outfits. Multiple NMTs. Multiple Bell tickets.
Buying one at a time is such a waste of time to me.
Especially since hackers have done it already, for free.
Nintendo has an entire team. An entire group of payed people. Why won't they add the things people actually want?
Can’t wait to download this when I get home
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