Animal Crossing New Horizons 9 Useful Tips & Tricks - Successful Living In ACNH

It’s the beginning of a new month of September! With Animal Crossing New Horizons having been out since March, players have discovered a ton of incredibly cool ways to play that aren't always common knowledge. Thanks to Crossing Channel which summed up 9 useful tips & tricks for successful living in Animal Crossing New Horizons September & Autumn. 

Animal Crossing New Horizons 10 Useful Tips & Tricks 

1. Top-down Camera View

If you want to get the elusive top-down camera view which is basically a bird's eye view, there's two ways you can do this to begin with. You're going to need to be hidden behind something or somewhere where your character is just basically out of view. 

• The first way to get this camera view is to open the terraforming tool for this colors to be more hassle than it's worth if you need that top-down view.

• A much simpler way is to get some fences and equip them if you're in the current position will happen and you get this pretty neat angle for whatever you may need it for. If your character moves back into view, the camera position will revert back. So you can only get this top down view in certain places.

2. Mailbox Trick 

If you like taking cool photos, this is one for you. Once you're able to move your mailbox, you can put it in your inventory and take it anywhere. You'd like to get a cool angle for your photos, you'll need to position the mailbox exactly where you'd like to take the photo and time it correctly, so the photo comes out. You could take a video by holding down the screenshot button afterwards and then taking a screenshot of the steel frame you like the most. This is definitely one for the photographers out there and you get some pretty neat screenshots this way, you may want to crop out your character and the mailbox too so they don't get in the way of the beautiful views that you've taken.

3. Dream Visitors 

There are people who don't know how to check how many people have visited their dream island or which streams have recently visited. In order to do so you'll need to use the online app, once you've connected the same Nintendo account, you have your on your switch on the app, you'll be able to access the New Horizons section of this app, you can click passport now recent dreams and you'll be taken not only to see your most recent dream islands you've visited but also the amount of visitors you've received in total on your own dream island. You can also check when people have updated. If you want more people to see your dream island, definitely check out crossingchannel.com where you can submit your dream code to the dream code randomizer. You can also find a bunch of other great codes there too. Check out dream address randomiser & how to use ACNH random dream island tool. 

4. Storing DIY Recipes 

Since we can't properly store DIYs, the only real option we have to use with our spares is to sell them on but sometimes it feels like a bit of a waste just to sell them when someone else might need them later instead of having them clutter up your island. There's actually a trick you can use to store DIYs. What you're going to want to do is put your DIYs on a table, then open up your island designer tool from the menu, click on request cleanup, this will send all the items on the nearby table and unfortunately the table as well to the recycle box where your DIY recipes will be safely stored until you take them out.

5. Villager Hunting 

If you're looking to get villages of a certain personality type, the campsite might be a good way to do so. When a camping villager visits the campsite, they have a 60 chance of being a personality type that you don't have, this makes hunting for specific villages a lot easier and it could definitely aid you in getting a specific one that you've been looking for.

6. Transparent Spots 

If you want everything looking exactly how you want it, you can use transparent patterns on the ground to stop flowers, fossils and weeds from spawning. They can't spawn on top of patterns, so you could place all of these in spots where you don't want anything to appear.

7. Bullying Your Villagers

Bullying your villagers doesn't actually do anything to get them to move out of your island and this was the case in previous games too. You'd think otherwise and that they'd utterly want to leave your island after getting smacked in the head 500 times of the net, but this doesn't seem to be the case at all. The best way to get villages to move out is to use an amiibo card or honestly just to wait patiently there are more tricks to moving people out.

8. Villager Wardrobes 

If you open up a village's wardrobe unit for a little treat, it'll actually show you some clothing that you've given to this villager which is a pretty cool little detail. It's not the most helpful trick out there but it's still really neat to see what you've handed out to your villagers in the past.

9. Variety 

When it comes to New Horizons, variety is very important. You might know that certain personality types will give you certain reactions and that you'll need all personality types to get all of the reactions available in the game. But this also affects some DIYs you'll get too. Ultimately, it's a great idea to make sure you have one of each personality living on your island. Variety really is the spice of life in Animal Crossing and this is the best way to make sure you've unlocked as much as you possibly can in the game.