What are the dimensions of each building in Animal Crossing New Horizons? This is the question that is the most asked by players who are planning their island layout or terraforming their house, the neighbors' houses, Nook's Cranny, Able Sisters, the museum, campsite, bridges, and inclines? Get to know the ACNH Building Sizes will make it easier to plant specific locations to your desire and customize island properly. In this ACNH Structure moving guide, you can get the full list of Animal Crossing New Horizons building plot dimensions on the map, and the great tips for terraforming and relocating buildings.

Animal Crossing Building & Structure Sizes

Allowing players to customize every aspect of their islands, this is the biggest appeals of Animal Crossing New Horizons for players, from making unique interior/exterior designs to changing the layout of the houses and buildings. To build up a 5-star island, you first need to plan a perfect layout on an ANCH Island Design APP to fit your dreamy image. Knowing the each building (house, store, museums, campsites, bridges, inclines) plot dimensions is important to help you plant these locations, especially for relocating your buildings. Here are every house (including upgrade home) and building exterior sizes in Animal Crossing New Horizons: 

ACHN Island & Immovable Building Sizes (Width x Length In Tiles)

• Main Island Sizes: 80 x 64 (5x4 acres. 1 acre is 16x16 tile)

• Resident Services Plaza Sizes: 12 x 10  (cannot be relocated)

• Resident Services Building Sizes: 6 x 4 (Located at the rear of the Plaza, centred horizontally and 1 tile strip of Plaza behind the building)

ACHN Player House Sizes

• Player Home Start Sizes: 5x4 (with 3x2 undigable footprint in front)

• First House Upgrade Sizes: 6x6

• Second House Upgrade Sizes: 8x8

• Back Room Upgrade Sizes: 6x6

• Left Room Upgrade Sizes: 6x6

• Right Room Upgrade Sizes: 6x6

• Second Floor and Basement Upgrade: 10x10 floor to each

Other ACNH Building & Structure Sizes 

• ACHN Villager House Sizes: 4x5 (with 3x2 undigable footprint in front)

• Campsite Sizes: 4x5 (with 2x1 undigable footprint in front)

• Nook's Cranny Sizes: 7x4 (no change after upgrading)

• Museum Sizes: 7x4 (with 3x1 undigable footprint in front)

• Shop Sizes: 7x4 (with 3x2 undigable footprint in front)

• Tailor Sizes: 5x4 (3x2 undigable footprint in front)

• Inclines Sizes: 2x4 (with 3 tiles of the length being the actual ramp and one being level with the ground at the top)

• Bridges Sizes: 4/5x4 (2 tile wide walkway, with 1 x 4 space available on either side of the bridge)

• Tree Sizes: No limited, but need at lease 1 tile spare to plant it by side of other buildings

• Pool Sizes: No limited, but need minimal 3x3 for spawn fish

• River Sizes for spawn fish: No Limited, but at least 3 wide and must be connected to a rivermouth, waterfall, or multiple ponds connected by streams

Tips To Note:

• Player home sizes are expanded after upgrading, while Museum and Shop have the same footprint when they're are upgraded.

• You can have a maximum of 8 bridges, and 8 inclines. 8 of each.

• Each building/bridge/incline needs a 1 tile gap between it and another building that cannot be dug with a shovel.

• Each building also has extra space that cannot be dug with a shovel where the door is, in front of the building. 

• Furniture and paths do not follow this rule. You can place furniture and paths right up against a house. However you cannot place paths or furniture of any kind in the resident services plaza.

Animal Crossing New Horizons Terraforming Building Guide & Tips

Unlock, place, and move buildings - so you get the museum, Nooks shop, and fashion tailoring in the Nintendo Switch game. In general, the best thing is to think about a possible layout of your village beforehand. Moving buildings is possible but very expensive. Terraforming a building by just a few fields can be very expensive because the new position cannot overlap with the old position. If you want to move a building by just one field, for example, you first have to move it (for 50,000 Animal Crossing New Horizons bells) to another location so that the old location becomes free. Only then can you put it in the desired position (for another 50,000 Animal Crossing bells). You should therefore always have a preview of the building displayed with the "Let's see ..." option. 

The above Animal Crossing Building Footprints will help you a lot when you are doing layout for your island, especially when you are relocating the structures on your map. To help you make your work easier and save ACNH bells, here are more tips we get from the German ACNH Terraforming Guide:

• In Animal Crossing: New Horizons you can move all structures apart from the service center and the airport.

• All movable buildings have a depth of 4 tiles, but different widths. The fairground with service center is 12 tiles wide and 10 fields deep.

• You cannot place buildings side by side. There must always be a tile distance in all directions between buildings. When placing and moving, it is helpful to mark the desired place with holes using the shovel.

• The pictures below show you how much space ACNH structures take up. The yellow design marks the field on which you have to stand when placing:

Museum & Shop Terraforming

The museum and the shop are 7 tiles wide. The expanded shop looks bigger, but takes up the same space.

Home & Tailor Terraforming

Your house and tailoring are 5 tiles wide. Buildings can also be placed on the beach. So you can live right by the sea if you want.

Neighboring Houses & Campsite Terraforming

Neighbors' houses and the campsite are 4 tiles wide. You have to stand a little to the right of the middle when placing. Note that neighboring houses are almost a block back on the floor plan. When a neighbor moves out, his property remains and is reused by the next neighbor.

Bridges & Inclines Terraforming

You can only have one bridge or incline built or demolished per day during the construction consultation. Moving a bridge or a staircase therefore takes two days.

Bridges

You can only build bridges across rivers in all four directions and diagonally. Suspension bridges over cliffs are not possible. Bridges are 4 tiles wide and five, six or seven tiles long depending on the width of the river. The footprint of bridges can be directly adjacent to a plateau or a river corner. Therefore in this terrain example (in the style of the map in the Nookphone) a bridge at the position of the brown rectangle is possible:

But a bridge cannot be placed directly on the edge of the plateau, which is why, in the same example, a bridge on the middle level (between the waterfalls) is not possible, although the terrain here is also 4 fields wide.

Inclines

Stairs are 4 tiles long and two tiles wide. You can build inclines in all 4 directions. You must stand on the right field when placing and look in the direction of the cliff. The top two fields belong to the staircase and must be on the higher level (see picture). If you want to build a staircase in a plateau, you must first remove three fields in depth and two fields in width with the island designer from the plateau.

It is not possible to build 2 inclines with the upper ends directly against each other on a plateau 2 tiles wide, although it would be theoretically possible to leave the upper platform to the side of the staircases if the plateau continued there.

Well, this is our full guide of Animal Crossing New Horizons Building & Structure Sizes, hope it will help you some. If you still have problems on building up your island, welcome to check out You can read more ACNH Guides on our news page, also can get some inspirations from our Animal Crossing Island Design Ideas.