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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is all about relaxing, unwinding, and not stressing about the little details in life which is a bit funny because the game is actually packed with dozens of wonderful, tiny secrets, references, features, and quirks that we can't stop obsessing over.
Oh, and if you're wondering how to make tons of money in Animal Crossing, maximize your daily resource collecting, or invite a bunch of friends in on the fun for some island multiplayer, we've got you covered with tons of wiki and guide coverage. In the meantime, here are some of our favorite little details in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=77-brilliant-little-details-in-animal-crossing-new-horizons&captions=true"] Flip through the gallery above or scroll down for the full list!Interactive Items
1. If you put a T-Rex fossil in your home activate the placard on it with A, the mouth opens.
2. Instruments like the tambourine and ocarina can be equipped to your tool ring and played with A -- some instruments like the ocarina play random notes each time you hit A. 3. Press A when you see a shooting star and a star fragment will appear on the beach the next day. 4. Star fragments can be used to make a wand that helps you quick-switch between stored costumes. 5. Some fish appear in different bowls in your home; The seahorse is in a pet tank, while goldfish are in a china basin. 6. You don’t need a wardrobe item in your home to store stuff anymore since every player’s home has a built in storage, but adding one to your room will allow you to use it to change outfits quickly. 7. Eventually, using Nook Miles you can purchase a giant Godzilla inspired monster item that you can place outside your home. Hitting the A button on it even makes it breathe fire! 8. The brick oven can be opened to reveal a pizza cooking inside. 9. Leave instruments out in the open, and Villagers may find and play with them. 10. You can put items in trash cans. 11. Some of the wallpapers you display in your home have animated features, such as clouds drifting by. 12. Eating fruit before you smash a rock will allow you to destroy it in one hit rather than chip away at it repeatedly until your shovel breaks! 13. You can hang clothes, shoes, and hats on the walls of your home now to show off and display or grab down the line when you want to change your outfit. 14. Some wallpapers have interactive curtains or blinds that can be opened and closed to let more light in your room. 15. You can have different music playing devices (like turntables, stereos, and radios) all playing different songs in different rooms of your home - assuming you bought songs with Nook Miles! 16. Got a new piece of furniture you love but you’re not crazy about the color? If it has a small paintbrush icon in the corner of its description you can bring it to a crafting table and change its color. 17. If you put a toilet furniture item in your house, you can sit on them and get a small pop-up message when you “use” them. 18. Once you get your house upgraded enough times, Tom Nook gives you the option to move your mailbox around the front of your house. 19. When you buy K.K. Slider songs from Tom Nook’s ATM, you can mount them as framed album covers on the walls inside your home. 20. Missed out on the Animal Crossing: New Horizons themed Nintendo Switch console in real life? Nook’s ATM machine in the Town Center will periodically have it for sale. And if you managed to buy one of those consoles in real life, it will be listed in the ATM as a free item! 21. Tools come in a variety of designs and colors in the Nook Stop, including a cute elephant watering can and a patterned shovel. They aren’t any more durable, but they are as stylish as they are impractical. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/16-things-we-loved-and-didnt-about-animal-crossing-new-horizons"]Island Secrets
22. You can jump across gaps that are one or two spaces across. Use this to make free land bridges across rivers without stopping them entirely. 23. You can bury holes in the ground with your foot by hitting “Y” when you’re facing one. 24. During the day a small yellow bird can be found on the bulletin board with a new message, while at night, an owl roosts there. 25. Mom bakes you a different kind of birthday cake every year! Wow, you’re so creative mom. 26. If you eat a fruit you get a temporary boost of strength to allow you to safely dig up a tree with a shovel. You can then replant it elsewhere. 27. Each island has its own set of Nook Miles Reward furniture colors for items you can purchase. You might have a blue phone booth, for example, while others have yellow or white. These make good gifts! 28. Although you can guarantee a 30,000 Bell money tree by planting 10,000 Bells in the golden spot every day, you can bury more than 10,000 -- up to 30,000 -- to get triple the money but it’s not guaranteed. You’ve seen the tweets, but just know: It’s probably not worth the risk. 29. Bamboo shoots appear in dig spots beneath bamboo trees.Nearby Island Secrets
30. The Nearby Islands sometimes has unique flower types and colors you cannot get in shops.
31. Islands are the only place you can get bamboo and coconut palms. 32. Weird Nearby Islands sometimes appear, including a horrifying one covered in tarantulas.Nintendo References
33. The Leaf Mask sometimes available in the Able Sisters shop resembles a Korok mask from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. 34. A Netted Ballcap sometimes available in the Able Sisters shop has an abbreviated NTNDO on it. 35. When you hit a rock with money in it several times it gives out bags of 1,000 bells with each to the tune of a Super Mario Bros. 1-Up chime.36. K.K. Song is a record you can buy that is a song featured as an Easter egg in many Nintendo games Kozumi Totaka composed music for, from Super Mario Land 2 to Luigi’s Mansion.
37. The Power Boots, obtainable from Kicks’s shop, resemble Samus’s footwear in her Power Suit.Multiplayer
38. After a friend visits your island, the Dodo Airlines airplane leaves a contrail in the sky above your island.
Museum
39. The ants in the bug exhibit have broken out and infested the lab. 40. In one wing there is an exhibit connecting animal villagers to their distant kin. A villager will sometimes appear and stand in its animal silhouette and remark on its ancestry. 41. If visiting the museum, you may find a random villager taking in the sights, and will compliment you if you were the one to donate the thing they’re admiring to the museum.42. You can stand on a blue dot in the fossil exhibit to refocus the camera on a wide shot of the full exhibit.