Tortimer Island

This article is about the location in New Leaf. For the Super Smash Bros. stage, see Tortimer's Island.

Tortimer Island •

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A player on the island.

Tortimer Island is a location in New Leaf separate from the main town. It can be accessed using Kapp'n's boat. On the island, the weather is constantly summertime, and the seasonal-appropriate bugs, fish, and deep-sea creatures can be caught there. Certain fish and insects are only found on the island. The ribbon eel, whale shark and giant trevally are island-exclusive as are spotted garden eel and giant isopod while diving. The only island-exclusive bug on the island is the hermit crab.

It is not accessible at the beginning of the game. To unlock it, the player must pay their first home loan (39,800 Bells) before the option is made available. Once the player has paid off their loan, Isabelle will introduce Tortimer the next day the player starts up the game again. He will ask the player to meet him by the dock. Once at the dock, Tortimer will tell the player about the island. He will also ask the player if they would want to go to his island. If the player agrees, Tortimer will tell the player that Kapp'n will be by the docks tomorrow. The next day Kapp'n will appear with his new motorized boat by the dock, which will be ready to take the player to the island for a fee of 1,000 Bells per round-trip. If the player does not talk to Tortimer the first time he appears, they may upgrade their house; he will appear after any subsequent loans are paid until the player talks to him.

If a player wishes to travel to the island while there are other players visiting, all players need to take the trip at the same time in order to depart.

Three players at a dock with Kapp'n's speedboat.

On the way there, Kapp'n will sing a song, which are also very short stories and lessons from his life. However, if the player taps one of the buttons (X, Y, A, B) or the touchscreen rapidly while he's singing, the shanty can be skipped and the player can head to the island immediately.

No islanders inhabit the island other than Kapp'n's family and Tortimer, who decided to live there upon retiring.

Inside the shack.

Inside the shack, the player will meet Kapp'n's family: his wife Leilani, his daughter Leila, and his mother Grams. Leilani works at the front desk, where the player can choose to take part in Tours. Medals from tours can be spent on souvenirs from Grams, which include special furniture and clothes. Leila can buy certain items from the player, but only for a small amount of Bells at 5% of the original value. She sits on the floor surrounded by toys and pretends to be a supermarket shopper, encouraging the player to sell her flowers, fruits, and fish for meager amounts of Bells.

Right outside the shack, you find a gyroid named Lloid who lends the player rental items. The items available are a rental shovel, a rental axe, a rental wet suit, a rental rod and a rental net. This equipment can not be brought back to the town and will be returned to Lloid automatically after your visit.

Items can be sent home via a box near the front counter, which can contain up to 40 items. Any items not placed in the box upon leaving the island or joining a tour will be exchanged into Bells also at 5% original value. This exchange deposits the bells to the ABD account. Any clothing or accessories taken off will also be converted, so caution is advised.

Another player traversing the island.

While on a tour, the player can talk to Lloid to use the rental items, where they can then catch bugs, collect fruit, fish, or dive. However, on tours such as the Ore Tours, the player cannot take back ores, and bugs on bug tours, and each tour respectively. However, if the player collect items on a tour, returns to the island, and then go straight onto another tour, the items they collected will be sold and the bells put into their ABD account, so it is recommended that they deposit their collected items into the box near the entrance of the shack. Alternatively, they can also use collected fruits to restore trees on their island that they have cut down.

While staying at Tortimer Island, it is not possible to save the game until the player arrives back at their town.

Available collectables

Fish
Name	Location	Sale price	Time
Barred Knifejaw	Fishing	5,000	All day
Blue Marlin	Fishing	10,000	All day
Butterfly Fish	Fishing	1,000	All day
Clownfish	Fishing	650	All day
Giant Trevally	Fishing (exclusive)	4,500	All day
Hammerhead Shark	Fishing	8,000	All day
Horse Mackerel	Fishing	150	All day
Moray Eel	Fishing	2,000	All day
Napoleonfish	Fishing	10,000	All day
Ocean Sunfish	Fishing	4,000	All day
Olive Flounder	Fishing	800	All day
Pufferfish	Fishing	240	All day
Ray	Fishing	3,000	All day
Red Snapper	Fishing	2,000	All day
Ribbon Eel	Fishing (exclusive)	600	All day
Saw Shark	Fishing	12,000	All day
Sea Bass	Fishing	200	All day
Seahorse	Fishing	1,100	All day
Shark	Fishing	15,000	All day
Squid	Fishing	400	All day
Surgeonfish	Fishing	1,000	All day
Whale Shark	Fishing (exclusive)	13,000	All day
Zebra Turkeyfish	Fishing	400	All day
Bugs
Name	Location	Sale price	Time
Agrias Butterfly	Near flowers	3,000	8am - 5pm
Atlas Beetle	On palm trees	8,000	5pm - 8am
Birdwing Butterfly	Near flowers	4,000	8am - 4pm
Cyclommatus Stag	On palm trees	8,000	5pm - 8am
Emperor Butterfly	Near flowers	2,500	7pm - 8am
Fruit Beetle	On fruit trees	100	All day
Giant Beetle	On fruit trees	10,000	11pm - 8am
Golden Stag	On palm trees	12,000	5pm - 8am
Goliath Beetle	On palm trees	6,000	5pm - 8am
Grasshopper	On the ground	160	7am - 8pm
Hercules Beetle	On palm trees	12,000	5pm - 8am
Hermit Crab	On the beach	1,000	7pm - 8am
Horned Dynastid	On fruit trees	1,350	5pm - 8am
Horned Elephant	On palm trees	8,000	5pm - 8am
Jewel Beetle	On fruit trees	2,400	8am - 5pm
Lantern Fly	On fruit trees	1,800	4pm - 7pm, 11pm - 8am
Longhorn Beetle	On tree stumps	260	10am - 6pm
Long Locust	On the ground	200	8am - 7pm
Mantis	On flowers	430	8am - 5pm
Migratory Locust	On the ground	600	8am - 7pm
Miyama Stag	On fruit trees	1,000	All day
Monarch Butterfly	Near flowers	160	6am - 5pm
Orchid Mantis	On white flowers	2,400	8am - 7pm
Oak Silk Moth	On Trees	1,200	7pm - 4am
Rainbow Stag	On fruit trees	10,000	5pm - 8am
Saw Stag Beetle	On fruit trees	2,000	All day
Scarab Beetle	On fruit trees	6,000	11pm - 8am
Tiger Beetle	On the ground	1,500	8am - 5pm
Tiger Butterfly	Near red flowers	160	6am - 5pm
Walking Stick	On fruit trees	600	4am - 7pm
Wharf Roach	On the beach	200	All day
Deep-Sea Catches
Name	Location	Sale price	Time
Abalone	Diving	400	4pm - 9am
Acorn Barnacle	Diving	200	All day
Chambered Nautilus	Diving	900	All day
Ear Shell	Diving	300	4pm - 9am
Flatworm	Diving	200	4pm - 9am
Giant Isopod	Diving (exclusive)	9,000	All day
Lobster	Diving	2,500	All day
Mantis Shrimp	Diving	1,250	4pm - 9am
Octopus	Diving	1,200	All day
Scallop	Diving	1,000	All day
Sea Anemone	Diving	100	All day
Sea Grapes	Diving	600	All day
Sea Slug	Diving	200	All day
Sea Urchin	Diving	800	All day
Seaweed	Diving	200	All day
Spotted Garden Eel	Diving (exclusive)	600	All day
Starfish	Diving	100	All day
Tiger Prawn	Diving	1,600	4pm - 9am

Club Tortimer

Club Tortimer is an online function at Tortimer Island. To join, the player must buy a form for 50 medals. This form will appear instead of one of the items when traveling alone. Club Tortimer membership allows the player to go to a random island. Meanwhile, other Club Tortimer members can arrive or leave on the same island as the player. The player has a choice of going to an island that is visited by people from all over the world, or to an island that is only visited by people from their continent. (Note: More people will go to the island that contains their continent.) The items sold at the shop in Club Tortimer refresh every time the player leaves. There will be new items when the player joins again if they join to a different "room." The player can go on tours with fellow players and earn medals.

In the Welcome amiibo update, a set of rules, broadcast during the journey to the Club Tortimer island, were introduced. Alongside these, a new button on the touch screen was added to transport the player home immediately without "erroring." ("Erroring" can be done by flicking the wireless switch off at the side of the device. A cartoon picture of Resetti will pop up on the top screen with details of the "error" on the bottom.)

In Super Smash Bros. 4

On the 7th of March, 2014, a stage based on this area, called Tortimer's Island, was confirmed for the 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. 4. The stage's layout is different every time. Leila, Kapp'n and Tortimer appear in the background of the stage.

Trivia

• There is both a day theme and night theme for Tortimer Island. The day theme lasts between 7am-7pm, while the night theme lasts for the rest of the duration. When the time reaches just about 7pm or 7am, a brief moment of silence commences as the themes swap.
• The only trees that can be placed on Tortimer Island include: lychees, durians, lemons, mangoes, bananas, and coconuts. Bananas and mangoes appear on the island by default, while the others can be gathered from island tours.