How To Use Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards

I of the many ways y'all tin customize your island in Fauna Crossing New Horizons is to utilize real-globe amiibo to raise your experience and unlock new in-game rewards. Here nosotros'll cover all compatible amiibo in New Horizons and how to use them.

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How to Use Amiibo in Creature Crossing New Horizons
How to Use Amiibo at Harv's Island
What Amiibo Tin can I Use?
What Rewards Do You Get From Amiibo?

How to Use Amiibo in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Animal Crossing New Horizons offers means for players to use amiibo to add new visitors and items to their island. We'll cover the full list of amiibo and what they exercise below, but if you have one and don't want its functionality spoiled, just do the following:

You can recruit new villagers with amiibo at the Nook Stop terminal. | *Joel Franey/USgamer, Nintendo*

Go to the Nook Cease last in the Town Hall
Select the penultimate option, "Invite a Camper"
Hold up the amiibo or amiibo carte du jour to the NFC touchpoint on the right thumbstick of your controller when indicated
Concur it in that location until the game registers it
Depending on the amiibo, the game will inform you lot of whatever changes or rewards that yous tin now collect.

How to Use Amiibo at Harv's Island

Amiibo tin can also exist used at Harv's island to introduce NPC characters for photoshoots, allowing them to take part and pose in the photographs. When inside the photo room and in edit mode, simply apply the amiibo to the NFC touchpoint at whatever time to make the character announced in a nearby square.

What Amiibo Tin I Use?

There are numerous amiibo and amiibo cards that can be used with New Horizons, but only those that are associated with Animal Crossing characters. This ways that Fiddling Mac will have to be as useless as ever, unfortunately. Instead, the full list of amiibo that you tin can apply are as follows:

Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards (Serial 1 to 4)
Creature Crossing amiibo figures
Super Smash Bros. Isabelle amiibo figure
Super Smash Bros. Villager amiibo figure
Creature Crossing New Leaf Welcome amiibos
Animal Crossing Sanrio Collaboration Pack amiibo cards

You tin can summon characters to star in photoshoots at Harv's Island. | *Joel Franey/USgamer, Nintendo*

What Rewards Practice You Get From Amiibo?

The way the game is altered depends on the amiibo itself, equally some have greater employ than others. You tin find the full list of compatible amiibos, which numbers into the hundreds, over here at the official site.

The biggest use is that many amiibos can accept the respective graphic symbol testify upwards in your Campsite, allowing you lot and then to invite them to live on your isle. This doesn't apply to all amiibo though, and special characters such equally Isabelle or KK Slider tend to exist the exception, sadly. Nonetheless, y'all can still invite them to your photoshoots, as mentioned to a higher place, and you tin also unlock special posters of those characters by scanning them, which volition then be bachelor to purchase at the Nook Stop shopping section for m bells each.

To make things easier, we've broken downwardly the diverse series of Animal Crossing Amiibo beneath to tell you what they're collectively capable of and how they change the game. Remember to use the above link to run into where you lot can get these amiibo and what they look like.

Amiibos	Campground	Posters	Photoshoots
Beast Crossing Amiibo Cards (Series 1 to 4)	Yeah (except special characters, i.e., Isabelle)	Yep	Yeah
Animal Crossing amiibo figures	No	Yes	Yep
Super Nail Bros. Isabelle amiibo figure	No	Yes	Yes
Super Smash Bros. Villager amiibo figure	No	Yep	No
Animal Crossing New Foliage Welcome amiibos	No	Yes	Yes
Creature Crossing Sanrio Collaboration Pack amiibo cards	No	Yes	No

If that was of utilise to yous, the best thing you can exercise at present is read some more than great Beast Crossing content! We've got Caty's review of New Horizons over here, or see how information technology hit record sales numbers right here.

Joel Franey

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Joel loves books, games, comics and drinks that make a person feel like they just got kicked in the head by a mule. He has a Masters in writing from Sussex, which he somehow got past writing about Superman. He is admittedly Non iii children in a long coat, so please stop asking.