Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting new content for the big 3.0 update arriving on January 15. This is a free update that brings new activities to the island and offers more ways to play with friends. There are even major collaborations with Lego, Splatoon, and The Legend of Zelda. In this guide we’ll highlight everything you need to know about Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 update, including details about the new Resort Hotel and customizable islands for multiplayer.
If you are a new player or someone returning after a long hiatus, make sure you check out our complete guide hub for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This offers starter tips, help with various features, and information on how to upgrade locations.
Slumber Islands
When your Villager goes to sleep, they can now choose the option “slumber time” to go to a new dream world introduced in the 3.0 update.
Luna’s Dream World lets you fully customize a brand-new island with items you’ve previously obtained in game. You can build up to three Slumber Islands and choose from three different island sizes.
With Slumber Islands, you’ll be able to exercise more creative freedom than ever before. You can alter the terrain to remove cliffs and widen rivers to your liking. You’ll also have the option to place inclines and bridges. You’re not tied to real-world time and weather in Slumber Islands, either. Instead, you can customize these details to create the look you want for your island.
One of the biggest highlights of Slumber Island is that you can invite or join friends to customize islands together. It’s worth noting that you will need a Nintendo Switch Online subscription for online play.
The Resort Hotel facility
Another big feature for 3.0 is the Resort Hotel. This new building is located at the end of the pier of your standard island and gives you a variety of guest rooms to decorate.
This waterfront hotel is run by Kapp’n and his family, and they want you to help decorate rooms to entice guests to stay. You’ll earn Hotel Tickets for each room you decorate, a brand-new currency that is used to buy exclusive items added with the big update.
Fashion opportunities
If you’re a fashionista, you can also plan and suggest outfits for the hotel guests to wear during their stay. You can style and place outfits on hotel mannequins that will then be available for both you and your guests to wear.
Hotel promotion
As always, Tom Nook finds a new opportunity to make some Bells in the 3.0 update. He sees potential in the new Resort Hotel, but he wants your help to promote it. Craft special DIY items for him, and he’ll reward you with more Hotel Tickets.
Increased home storage
The game’s previous storage limit was 5,000, but the 3.0 update will expand storage with two additional upgrades for a maximum of 9,000 items. You’ll also be able to store trees, flowers, and shrubs.
The prices haven’t been revealed yet, but if they’re similar to the 2.0 update, you can expect to spend around 900,000 Bells and 1,200,000 Bells per upgrade.
Resetti’s Reset Service
It’s finally time for easier island clean up. This update introduces Resetti’s Reset Service, a new feature that gives you the ability to clear out flowers, furniture, and more in bulk.
This new cleaning service lets you pick a specific area for Resetti to clean, though you can also ask him to clean the entire island or limit it to just the beach area. You can also ask him to place items in storage after he cleans up. This means if you have a messy flower bed, but don’t want to lose all your flowers, he can both remove and save them for you.
Nintendo items
As you help the Resort Hotel, the building’s souvenir shop will eventually start selling Nintendo items. You can purchase these exclusive items with the Hotel Tickets you earn.
These items include retro Nintendo consoles to decorate your home. If you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, you can even play a retro game on each of the consoles you buy. This includes playing classics such as Dr. Mario and Ice Climber.
Lego collab
In addition to Nintendo items at the souvenir shop, you can also purchase Lego-themed items from the Nook Shopping app. This will let you decorate your home with Lego brick furniture, such as a sofa, bed, or fireplace. There is also Lego wallpaper and a t-shirt. These items all come in a variety of colors, so you can find something brick-themed to match your style.
Legend of Zelda and Splatoon crossovers
You’ll be able to add four Nintendo characters with Update 3.0, if you have their amiibo cards: Mineru and Tulin from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Cece and Viché, who are inspired by Callie and Marie from Splatoon.
Tapping their amiibo cards will let you invite them to your island, and it will also unlock unique items in Nook Shopping.
