Animal Crossing New Horizons allows players to bring over custom designs from previous Animal Crossing titles. This guide will help players learn how to scan QR codes to get special designs in the game. Animal Crossing New Horizons is a game built around crafting the player's own experience. The newest entry in the series provides the player with so many new options to cater to everyone who wants to build their own perfect experience. Players are tasked to assist Tom Nook, a reoccurring character in the Animal Crossing series, with developing a deserted island into a tropical paradise. Players start with humble beginnings, only given a tent to sleep in in the beginning. As players begin to learn new skills through DIY recipes and build relationships with their neighbors, the ideas of what the player can accomplish also begin to expand. This is not a game in which players can just speed through, but rather take slowly and enjoy for months to come. This is a game all about creating and for veteran players, they may have some designs they would like to carry over into Animal Crossing New Horizons. This guide will help players learn what it takes to scan QR codes into Animal Crossing New Horizons.
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QR codes have a long history in the Animal Crossing series. They are used to share and distribute special designs created by players. Whether it is for clothing, paintings, or wallpaper, QR codes have been developed to share each of these items with friends or with the world. Each design created by a player contains a QR code, and older titles like Animal Crossing New Leaf and Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer have their own items to design for. Considering the Nintendo Switch itself does not contain a camera, there is another method in scanning these items into Animal Crossing New Horizons. Websites have been built around turning images into QR codes to bring them into the game world. So if the player would like to, using QR codes can provide them with their favorite movie posters, memes, pictures of friends, hand made designs and so much more. There is no limitation to what players can create by using the custom designs feature. Here is how to scan QR codes to bring the designs into Animal Crossing New Horizons.
How To Scan QR Codes Into Animal Crossing New Horizons
To begin with, the player must have an active Nintendo Switch Online subscription. Nintendo Switch Online allows players to play Nintendo Switch games online, save files to the cloud (all except Animal Crossing New Horizons for some reason), and play classic NES and SNES content as well as voice chat. Voice chat isn't made natively on the Nintendo Switch itself but players can communicate by ing a separate Nintendo Switch Online app for their smart devices, this is how we will be able to scan QR codes.
Before doing this though, head into the main menu of Animal Crossing New Horizons. Once there, press select to bring up the settings menu. Here, Tom Nook will appear in a quiet room. The player will select the Nook Links setting and turn it on. Now that this is turned on, turn attention to the smartphone. the app on the player's smartphone and it will list game-specific services depending on the games the player has. Select Animal Crossing New Horizons and head to Designs. Here, players can scan and custom designs from the Nintendo 3DS games Animal Crossing New Leaf and Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer. Selecting Scan a QR code will open up the camera on the phone. Scan the desired QR codes and save it.
Open up Animal Crossing New Horizons and bring up the Nook Phone and select custom designs. Select a space without a design and press + to begin ing the design. The design the player scan through the Nintendo Switch Online app is now available in the game for whatever the player desires. It is important to mention that only one code can be ed at a time. So if the player wants to bring over something else, it will overwrite the previous QR code on the mobile app, but all designs will remain in the game. Heading online and looking up QR codes for something specific like clothing based on the player's favorite movies, tv shows, and books is an excellent way to customize the player's own experience. Players will also be able to display these designs at their shops for their neighbors to pick up. For example, if the player has a custom-designed shirt of a Team Rocket grunt, the player may stumble across one of their neighbors rocking that look.
Animal Crossing New Horizons is all about creating one's own perfect world. The game is extremely calming and low-maintenance, perfect for just winding down and relaxing. It is also extremely addictive to complete tasks, sell items for Bells, and checking off the list of required Nook Miles tasks. Many veteran Animal Crossing players will likely want to bring over there designs from Animal Crossing New Leaf and Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer. Especially since these titles released several years back, scanning those QR codes into Animal Crossing New Horizons can send them back on a trip of nostalgia. Especially for those designs that are very sentimental to players, it is really fortunate that the developers have allowed players to bring them over for future games. Players become very attached to their neighbors and even celebrate when old favorites make their return on to their islands in the new games. There's a culture built around the Animal Crossing series of acceptance, love, just overall just vibing as much as possible. The Animal Crossing series may be the only one in recent memory where players can lay in their own beds in-game and feel more relaxed than they are in the real world. There is nothing like the feeling of relaxation Animal Crossing New Horizons provides to its players.
Animal Crossing New Horizons is available now on the Nintendo Switch.