How To Friend Someone On Animal Crossing

This ACNH guide explains the Best-Friends List app and how it affects multiplayer. You'll find this app on Nook Phone and on the Nintendo Switch Online App when you select Fauna Crossing: New Horizons.

How to Invite Friends Online and Visit Friends' Islands

Y'all cannot add All-time Friends until you've played with them at least once via online play (yous must also be on your Nintendo Switch friends list). So we'll starting time with how to play online. In that location'due south no way to send a direct invite to your Nintendo Switch friends. Instead you're "opening the gates" to your island. They don't get a notification nigh this only you practise have some in-game messaging options (we'll hash out that in a scrap).

Inviting friends online:

Go to Dodo Airlines (unlocked on full day ii)
Select "I want visitors."
Select via online play (if they're in the aforementioned room as you, with their ain Switches and own copies of ACNH you could select local).
Afterwards connecting to the internet you can open up your island to "All my friends!" "But my Best Friends!"or "Invite via Dodo Code." See the chart below for details.
When you want people off your island just go back to Dullard Airlines and ask Orville to "shut the gate."

Visiting a friend'due south island:

Get to Dodo Airlines (unlocked on full twenty-four hour period two)
Select "I wanna fly!"
Select "I wanna visit someone."
Select via online play (if they're in the same room as you, with their own Switches and own copies of ACNH you could select local).
Later connecting to the internet you tin can "search for a friend" or "Search via Dodo lawmaking." See chart below for details.
When yous're ready to get out your friend'southward island but go to Dodo Airlines and head home. Tip: Your Map app on your NookPhone shows your friend'due south island layout in case yous go lose.

Dodo Airlines Online Invites and Visits to Friends' Islands
I desire visitors (inviting others)
	All my friends	All your Nintendo Switch friends can wing to your island
	Only my All-time Friends!	Only your Best Friends can wing to your island.
Invite via Dodo Code	Only my friends	Only your friends who enter the Dullard Code tin visit your island.
	Only my All-time Friends	Only your All-time Friends who enter the Dodo Lawmaking tin can visit your island.
	The more the merrier!	Anyone with the Dodo Code can visit your isle. This is the only way to "invite" people you are not Nintendo Switch friends with.
I wanna fly (visiting others)
	Search for friend	Orville will look for islands (to see if any of y'all Switch friends opened the gates). If he finds several islands he asks you to select the 1 you want to go to. You lot'll even exist able to see how many people are on the isle already!
	Search via Dodo Code	Enter the Dodo Lawmaking you have. Maybe a friend sent you their code direct or maybe someone you lot follow posted theirs on social media.

How to Add People as Best-Friends

The simply manner to go the Best-Friends Listing App, which allows you to add people as All-time Friends is to play Online.

When you lot go to Dodo Airlines and ask to visit someone "far-abroad, Online" or inquire for visitors "far-abroad, Online." Orville volition add the Best-Friends Listing App and the Conversation Log app to your phone.

To protect your island during Online Play certain tools, such as axes and shovels, are forbidden unless you're on a All-time Friend's island.

Get friends on the Nintendo Switch.
Play together online in one case. (The Aerodrome unlocks on 24-hour interval 2. Remember this does not count the "tutorial day.")
Use the Best-Friends List app to send them a Best-Friend request.
They must take you in guild for yous to go Best Friends.
Y'all can too manage/remove best friends from this app. Plus message them all at once.

Playing with Friends vs Playing with All-time Friends

Here's how to play with friends and how the best-friends list tin change things. Everything you get on another island will go into your pockets, assuasive you to take it back to your isle afterward!

But Best Friends will have access to their Axe and Shovel.

Gameplay Options	All Friends	Best Friends
Gathering resources
Option Fruit and Flowers	yeah	yes
Take hold of Bugs and Fish	yeah	yes
Pick up resource already on the ground	yes	yes
Strike stones (for clay, iron, money etc)	no	yes
Strike Copse for Wood	no	yes
Dig for Fossils, clams, etc	no	yep
Plant Flowers	yes	yep
Shopping and Community Building
Store and Sell	yes	yes
Use annihilation inside Resident Services	no	no
Talk to brute residents	yes	yes
Enter homes	yes	yes

Other limitations: While visitors are on the island no one can decorate or terraform. No ane tin place items, but drop items.

How to Message Friends

Here are the ACNH messaging features. Orville volition give you lot both the Best Friends App and the Chat Log app when you ask to play Online.

Both of these apps are integrated with the real life Nintendo Switch app > Animal Crossing New Horizons. So if you would rather type letters on your phone be certain to come across the real-life app details on our How to Utilize NookLink page. This app also lets y'all import erstwhile designs from New Leafage and Happy Home Designer. This is but possible with this app.

Whether you lot have island visitors or are visiting an island yourself, you tin use the Conversation Log app to send messages to everyone every bit long as you lot're on the isle together. It'southward basically a giant group text but your message also appears as a speech chimera above your head.

When yous're by yourself you can still send messages but Merely to your Best Friends using the Best Friends App. You can Just ship these messages when the recipient is online. Exist sure to enable the advice feature by opening the Best Friends List app and hit the (-).

How to Send Mail service to Friends

Finally, the other form of communication in ACNH is adept ol' manner postal service! Just head to Dodo Airlines and collaborate with the bill of fare stand on the right of Orville. From here you tin send a letter to another resident (human or beast!), your futurity cocky, or any friend! They'll get the alphabetic character presently afterwards.

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