Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 10 Things We Learned From Nintendo Direct

Animal Crossing fans are very familiar with the customization available in these games, but New Horizons takes the concept to 11.

You of course have the basics of decorating your home (or at least your camp area) with furniture, but the items you craft can also be further customized to your tastes, such as using different grains of wood and customized designs you create. Branching further out, you have the power to reserve plots of land for new neighbors to move in to, so early on you’ll be able to control where people live and where forests go. Speaking of the trees, you now can dig them up and place them elsewhere rather than chopping down the entire thing and starting over.

After a while, you’ll be able to buy and place municipal structures like bridges around the island, similar to your mayoral duties in New Leaf. In addition, as more buildings get added, you’ll be able to move them around the town at will.

Eventually, you’ll be granted an “Island Designer Construction Permit”. This will allow you to change the very terrain itself! You’ll be able to add and subtract land masses at will, giving you total control over the entire island. We’ve never had this much power in Animal Crossing before, so the community you build will ultimately be your own.