Everything new in Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s 3.0 update

Animal Crossing: New Horizon‘s big 3.0 update is out, with a plethora of new features, including a resort on the pier run by kappas, new quality-of-life updates for crafting, and crossover items with The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon franchises.

If you’re on the fence about returning to your island and are unsure if this update is worth coming back for, here’s a breakdown of all of the included features that we’ve found so far.

A Nintendo Switch 2 version (requiring a paid upgrade)

If you have a Nintendo Switch 2, you can upgrade your Nintendo Switch version for $4.99. This upgrade features enhanced graphics, Joy-Con 2 mouse controls, GameChat compatibility, as well as the ability to host up to 12 people on your island at once.

There’s also a new Megaphone tool that allows you to speak into the microphone to call out to your villagers around your island.

Everything else listed below is part of the free update, so don’t feel like you have to upgrade if you just want to play around with the new resort.

Help out Kapp’n’s family at their new pier resort

You’ll likely be prompted immediately during Isabelle’s morning announcements to go check out the pier, which is sporting a brand-new hotel that seems to have popped up overnight. Here, you can decorate hotel rooms for visitors to come stay in, similarly to how you decorate homes in the Happy Home Paradise DLC. You’ll be rewarded with tickets, which you can spend at Gran’s shop — which deals in exclusive items you can only nab from the resort.

You can also submit DIY items to the board in the front of the hotel to earn more tickets.

New Nook Miles objectives

With the addition of the resort, there’s a few new Nook Miles objectives you can fulfill, if you’re into completing missions and achievements.

Quality-of-life updates for crafting and building

You can now craft items using the materials from your storage, as well as craft multiple items at once! Thank Nook, our prayers have finally been answered, and you can easily mass craft without having to clog up your inventory with wood and iron. You can also now store trees and other plants in your storage and pay to upgrade your storage even more than before.

Additionally, you can now move from tile-to-tile, allowing you to tweak your island more accurately.

Clear your island with Resetti’s Reset Service

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If you went too hard in the past, and you want to clear off some space on your island, or even start completely new, Resetti can help you do this. You can find the mole man himself wandering your island to teach you how to use this nifty feature, though there are a few limitations that he’ll explain to you when you talk to him.

Decorate even more on Luna’s Slumber Islands

If you’ve run out of space to gussy up, you can take a nap in your bed to get to Luna. Slumber Islands are essentially sandbox islands that you can decorate as much as you want, using items you may not necessarily have — as long as they’re registered in your catalog. You can use this to make mini-game type islands for your friends to play around on, without desecrating your main island, or just to make a fun chill spot with your friends. Friends you invite to your island can also give a hand, helping you decorate or terraform in real time.

However, you’ll need to get a letter from Luna in the mail before you can do this, and it does require having access to Nintendo Switch Online.

Crossover amiibo functionality

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Yep, you can now scan amiibo featuring The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon characters to unlock not only special items in Nook Shopping, but also villagers inspired by these games. You can invite these villagers to your island to live, as long as you have open plots.

New items to decorate with

There are quite a few new items to collect and decorate with. You can grab Lego items right off the bat from the Nook Shopping app, but some items will require you to earn tickets via the new resort (as mentioned above). Scanning certain amiibo will also unlock even more items in Nook Shopping, like Splatoon crossover decorations.