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Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Swimming - How Do You Swim?
Without a paddle
If you played Animal Crossing: New Leaf on 3DS and are now taking your first steps on your new desert island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you may well be looking forward to diving into the lovely HD ocean of the Switch entry in Nintendo's life sim series. The question "Can you swim in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?" was one of...
The old trick still works a treat
If Animal Crossing: New Horizons is your first experience of Nintendo's sedate life-sim series, you may be struggling to find materials you need to craft essential tools. Hitting rocks is one way to gather valuable resources like iron nuggets, clay, stones, se
Big decisions
Anyone playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons will have faced several key decisions before embarking on their adventure, from choosing a tent location to deciding which hairstyle to go with. Naming your Animal Crossing island, though, is perhaps the biggest decision of all. You don't want to be stuck on a deserted island with the vil
Wasting shovels digging up the entire beach?
Many Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have had the fortune of randomly stumbling upon a washed-up seagull by the name of Gulliver on their shores. Waking Gulliver and helping him will get you an exclusive souvenir from the sailor's worldwide travels, so it's well worth the effort to give Gulliver a...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: How To Get An Axe And Stone Axe
An axe to grind
You're not going to get far in Animal Crossing: New Horizons without an axe, and the good news is that it's one of the first tools you'll be getting your hands on. To unlock the axe recipe — basically the document required to craft an axe — you'll need to speak to Tom Nook in the Resident Services tent. Give him fish or
Tree lugging
Animal Crossing: New Horizons offers more customisation tools and opportunities to shape the form of your town to your liking than ever before. It used to be that arranging your Oaks and Douglas Firs (Cedars, actually) involved careful and considered planting and patience as your seed became a sapling and eventually took root to become...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Tool Ring - How To Quickly Switch Between Tools
The right tool for the job at hand
Tools are a key part of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – you'll need them to do things like catch bugs, snag fish,
Face full of wasp stings? We've got the something for that
Oh dear. Been shaking trees and bothering bees, have you? Or perhaps just harvesting wood for crafting? Fortunately, you're not doomed to forever wander your Animal Crossing: New Horizons island for eternity with a face full of wasp stings. In fact, you've got a couple of options for ridding...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Tents - Can I Move My Tent?
Relocation, relocation, relocation
So, you're settling down to several hundred hours on your deserted island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You've landed, been given the brief from your guides, but now it's time to set up your tent. Veterans will know that your tent will eventually become your bricks-and-mortar house, so deciding where to pitch...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Vaulting Pole - How To Pole Vault Across Rivers
Pole position
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has loads of lovely rivers in it, but there's one big problem – because there are no bridges (at least not at the start of the game), you can't cross them without the proper gear. That gear is the Vaulting Pole, which is an item you'll want to get your grubby hands on as soon as possible. As with the...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Pockets Inventory Upgrade - How To Expand Your Item Storage
To have and to hold
Item storage has been something of a headache in Animal Crossing games since they began, and when you boot up Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the first time, you'll notice that you only have two rows of storage – that's space for 20 items in total. That might seem like a lot initially, but you'll soon fill that up as you go...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Pocket Camp Items - How To Get Exclusive Mobile Items In ACNH
Find the code to get Pocket Camp goodies in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp on your iOS or Android phone (or have every played it, or fancy playing it now), you are able to get your hands on special in-game items and swag in the Switch game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. On this page, we'll take you...
How to get everyone's number one waifu
Let's face it, Isabelle is a huge part of the Animal Crossing world – she's everyone's favourite dependable helper and her positive outlook makes light work of even the hardest in-game task. However, upon firing up Animal Crossing: New Horizons you might be disappointed to discover she's nowhere to be seen...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Blathers - How To Unlock The Museum
How to access that most famous of buildings
Animal Crossing's museum is one of the most important buildings in the game – but when you boot up Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you might be surprised by the fact that it's not present from the beginning. To get the museum, you'll need to undertake a series of steps. Animal Crossing: New Horizons...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Custom Designs - How To Customise Furniture & Import Designs
NookLink and importing custom designs explained
Just as with previous entries in Nintendo's sedate life-sim series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch enables you to make custom-designed art to use throughout the world as clothing, paving, skins for your items or just the beautiful works of art they are proudly displayed on a canvas. With...
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Bells - How To Make Bells Fast, Nook Miles And Money Explained
Get rich quick in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Animal Crossing: New Horizons took the world by storm in 2020 and many of you landed and took up residence on your new island years ago. While there's a focus on crafting in the Switch entry in the series, you'll still find yourself needing Bells, the main currency in Animal Crossing. So what are the...
Bibbity-bobbity-boo
There are many great things about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but one of them is the ability to create a huge and varied wardrobe. When the game launched it was hard to avoid the amazing number of Custom Designs players have created and shared online, but even if you're not the creative type to
Better hop to it!
Whilst island life may never get old for some players, a number of Animal Crossing: New Horizons festive events exist to help keep gameplay fresh, and Bunny Day — which starts every year around the end of March and start of April — is just one of them. April marks several changes to your island, including cherry blossom
Guide Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Flowers - How To Grow & Breed, Hybrids & Gold Roses Explained
It’s all coming up (hybrid) roses
No Animal Crossing: New Horizons island would be complete without a dash of floral colour. Thankfully, there are flowers aplenty to choose from right from the start of the game and, if you’re clever about it, lots of rare hybrid varieties as well. But how do you go about growing flowers and breeding hybrids?...


















