I’ve been waiting years for Animal Crossing’s best new features

I ne'er felt done with my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. Despite playing each time for 2 years, and racking up 1,700 hours of playtime, I someway ne'er finished decorating. I had plentifulness of ideas for my island, sure, but really implementing them was different story: The decorating and terraforming systems that helped marque New Horizons a immense occurrence are besides slow, manual, and cumbersome, and my patience for decorating and redecorating had yet worn thin.

Fast-forward a fewer years, and a precise overmuch unexpected update is coming to yet hole immoderate of those symptom points. Update 3.0 is launching connected January 15th, 2026, alongside the Swit …

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