Guide:Tutorial (New Horizons)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Deserted island • Fish • Bugs • Deep-sea creatures • Fossils • Villagers • Events • Clothing • Crafting materials • DIY recipes • Call Islander • NookPhone • Island Designer • Nook Miles • Nook Inc. • Nook Stop • Getaway Package • Special characters • Furniture • Tools • Resident Services • Tutorial • Mystery tours • Photopia • K.K. Slider song list • Forged artwork • Island evaluation • House customization • Glitches • Version history

This page lists the earliest days that items, characters and buildings appear from the beginning of New Horizons. Please note that just because an event appears on this list on a certain day, does not mean it will occur on that day: it is simply the earliest day it can occur, given that its requirements are met.

Day 1

• Place own tent
• Place villagers' tents (#1 and #2)
• Donate 5 bugs or fish to Tom Nook
• Choose location for museum plot. Museum will be built on this spot in a few days' time after completing further quests.

Day 2

• Blathers moves in. Donate 15 bugs or fish or fossils to Blathers to begin museum construction
• Unlock vaulting pole recipe
• Donate materials to Timmy to build Nook's Cranny (30 wood, 30 hardwood, 30 softwood, 30 iron nuggets)
• Unlock airport (multiplayer, mystery tours)
• Gulliver can appear

Day 3

• Earliest day for Nook's Cranny
• Mabel visits Nook's Cranny
• Unlock ladder recipe
• Place a new bridge (4 log stakes, 5 clay, 5 stone)
• Place 3 villager houses and craft furniture
• If house upgraded, Tom Nook gives the player 50 fence posts
• Harvey can appear. First day to visit Harv's Island and Photopia
• Museum under construction

Day 4

• Earliest day for Museum
• Villager #3 moves in (if furniture requirements met for this house)
• Customization workshop - unlocks customization

Day 5

• Villager #4 moves in (if furniture requirements met for this house)

Day 6

• Villager #5 moves in (if furniture requirements met for this house)

Day 7

• Resident Services is closed whilst it's upgraded into a Town Hall. The Nook Stop cannot be accessed on this day.

Day 8

• Earliest day for town hall and Isabelle moves into the town hall.
  • Amiibo scanning unlocked
• Place Campsite (15 wood, 15 softwood, 15 hardwood, and 15 iron nuggets).
• Player can now move buildings (except the airport and the town hall)
• Player can now build ramps and bridges.
• Redeem Nook Miles adds much more options for outside furniture, mostly objects which were public works projects in New Leaf

Day 9

• Earliest day for Campsite
• Earliest day for bridge #2 or incline #1

Day 10

• First visitor on Campsite
• Earliest day for construction of Able Sisters

Day 11

• Villager #6 (the villager that was on the campsite the day before)
• Can place plot #7

Day 12

• Villager #7
• Earliest day for Able Sisters
• Earliest day village can reach 3 star rating

Day 13

• Earliest day for the K.K. Slider concert, assuming village reached 3 star rating on day 12
• Island Designer app unlocked: terraforming available

Day 30

• Nook's Cranny upgrade (if player has spent 200,000 Bells in total at Nook's Cranny, 30 days after Nook's Cranny built, Mabel has visited town at least once)

Unknown time

• Leif visits for the first time
• Redd appears (museum total donations must be more than 60). First art can be donated
  • 1 day after art donated: museum closed for refurbishment
  • 2 days after art donated: Redd can appear on ship, museum reopens