when you first land on your deserted
island and animal crossing new horizons
you won't have anything to your name and
it may take longer than you'd think to
gain access to things like tools
buildings and features you may have
taken for granted in previous games
luckily we've got a fast track to
unlocking all the important stuff
there's a lot to unpack so let's run
down the list on your first real day on
the island take of Tom nooks offer for a
DIY workshop class to learn how to craft
recipes including the bug net and
fishing rod be sure to bring him five
bugs and/or fish and you'll gain access
to recipes for how to make an ax for
chopping wood and a watering can for
flowers once you've given him enough
bugs at fish blathers will call and ask
to join you on the island so put down a
nice plot for his tent and wait for the
next day once blathers is settled in
talk to him and he'll give you recipes
for the shovel to dig up fossils and
strike rocks plus a recipe for the
vaulting pole to get across the river
that's been blocking your exploration if
you want to get a real Museum be sure to
send blathers 15 more specimens bugs of
fish or fossils your next task is to pay
off your deserted island package with
5,000 up miles so keep doing activities
to score more points paying off your
initial bill will unlock nook miles plus
which are endless daily tasks to keep
the nook miles rolling in and you can
buy new items with nook miles like
better tools and recipes with your bill
paid off tell Tom Nook you want a house
and you'll wake up the next day with a
one-room house you can customize to your
liking and you'll end up with another
bill go to resident services after
getting your house set up then talk to
Timmy about setting up a real shop on
the island you'll have to gather 30 of
each type of wood plus 30 iron nuggets
so this might take a while remember you
can also use nook miles tickets to fly
to uncharted islands once you have all
the materials hand them in and place
down the lot for notes cranny which
takes a day to build with the shop bill
you'll run into Mable at nook's cranny
who will start appearing by the resident
services ten on a random weekday and
weekends to sell clothing items if you
wanted to set up shop for good buy at
least 5000 bells worth of clothing items
and talk to her the next day she's
around and she'll have you put down a
lot for the able sisters shop which will
be ready the next
day meanwhile returned to Tom Nook to
continue his plan to expand the island
he'll first want you to build a bridge
to another part of the island which
requires building several logs stakes as
well as gathering for clays and stones
after you connect the island with a
bridge agree to help nook furnish three
new houses for incoming residents you'll
need to find some space to set their
Lots down as they'll have increased
space where they want exterior items to
be furnished as you place the Lots down
you'll get access to a ton of new
recipes and Tom Nook will also give you
the recipe for a ladder to finally
explore the rest of the island and
gather native flowers start amassing
resources to build the six furniture
pieces each of the three houses needs
place three in the box and place the
other three around the lot
the villagers should start appearing in
your town one by one over the next
several days once they've all arrived
Tom Nook will announce he's upgrading
resident services to an official
building this will unlock a ton of new
features everything from changing your
town tune to adding bridges and ramps or
even moving existing buildings around
Tom Nook will have one last big plan to
get your town on the map and to start he
wants you to build a campground to bring
in more villagers stockpile 15 of each
type of wood as well as 15 iron nuggets
then build your campground soon after
it's built someone will come to visit
and you'll be able to invite them to
stay and after this you can reserve Lots
in the island for future residents to
move into finally Tom Nook will want to
up your town rating for his big plan
you'll need a town rating of at least 3
stars to make it work so during this
time you should have at least 7
villagers move in plant a ton of flowers
and build and display as many exterior
items and furniture as possible keep
asking about the rating and take any
advice you were given until that rating
goes up once your town rating hits three
stars a big event will take place we
won't spoil what and after its
conclusion Tom Nook will give you the
ability to terraform your own paths and
you can buy additional licenses to
create rivers and reshaped cliffs as you
see fit
and that's all the major things you can
unlock in Animal Crossing new horizons
of course there's plenty more things to
find from DIY recipes to special
visitors and much much more so be sure
to check out our new horizons wiki guide
for everything else
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