Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise

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***Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise*** is the first and only paid DLC for *New Horizons*. It can be purchased on its own for $24.99 USD via the Nintendo eShop, or can be played at no additional cost via Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack. It was released on November 5, 2021. Preorders began one week before on October 29, 2021.

## Features

In the *Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise* paid DLC, players can design vacation homes and islands for villagers who are interested. Lottie, along with two new characters, Niko and Wardell, will assist the player in the Paradise Planning office and on the archipelago. In the office, the player can buy rare items for Poki, which are earned after designing vacation homes and facilities.

It's company policy that everyone working for Paradise Planning--including the player--wears a uniform while on the job. On the second floor of the office, there is a locker where the player can edit their work clothes with shoes, bags, and accessories.

## Design techniques

The player can learn the following design techniques after finishing vacation homes:

* Polishing furniture with various effects
* Changing room size (only works on vacation homes and facilities)
* Customizing windows, entryways, special colored room lighting, and soundscapes
* Learning recipes for partition walls, pillars, and tall and low island counters

## Ranks

The higher the player’s rank, the higher their pay for each new vacation home. The player also gets access to more work uniform options.

* Default = 6,000 Poki
* Promised Designer = 9,000 Poki
* Breakout Designer = 12,000 Poki
* Famous Designer = 15,000 Poki
* Superstar Designer = 20,000 Poki
* Legendary Designer = 30,000 Poki

## Milestones

There will sometimes be an additional bonus for completing a certain number of homes.

* 2 Homes Completed: Unlock **Happy Home Network**
* 3 Homes Completed: Unlock **polishing**
* 4 Homes Completed: Unlock the **School** and **changeable room sizes**
* 5 Homes Completed: Unlock a **Storage** **cabinet** in the second floor of **Paradise Planning**
* 6 Homes Completed: Rank up to **Promised Designer**
* 7 Homes Completed: Unlock the **amiibo scanner**
* 8 Homes Completed: Unlock **Wall Partitions**
* 11 Homes Completed: Rank up to **Breakout Designer**
* 12 Homes Completed: Unlock **Restaurant** and **Café** and **lighting customizability** and **extra polishing effects**
* 13 Homes Completed: Unlock the abillity to view other **player**'s designs online on the **Happy Home Network**
* 15 Homes Completed: Unlock the ability to **use DIY furniture previously crafted**
* 16 Homes Completed: Unlock the ability to create **roommates**
* 17 Homes Completed: Unlock **Soundscapes**
* 18 Homes Completed: Unlock the ability to add **second stories** to homes
* 19 Homes Completed: Unlock the ability to **invite special characters** with amiibo and rank up to **Famous Designer**
* 22 Homes Completed: Unlock the **Hospital**
* 23 Homes Completed: Unlock additional **Soundscapes**
* 25 Homes Completed: Unlock feature to **place items from the Furniture Catalog**
* 30 Homes Completed: Unlock the **Apparel Shop** and ability to **decorate villager homes** on the main island, if you build the **Apparel Shop**, **DJ K.K.** will come
* 33 Homes Completed: Unlock additional **Soundscapes** (Cyber, Alley, Factory, Train, Storm, Rumbling, Cave, Underwater)
* 40 Homes Completed: Unlock **Room Sketch App**

## Additional content

* Vacation Home Requests (see Vacation Home Requests)
* New reactions:
	+ Grooving Hop
	+ Groove Right
	+ Groove Left
	+ Soak It In
	+ Side-to-Side
	+ Island Stomp
	+ Airplane
	+ Twisty Dance
	+ Shimmy
	+ Turnip Patch
	+ Arm-Swing Dance

## Changes from *Happy Home Designer*

* The number of facilities has decreased from ten to five. The second shop, business office, department store, music hall, and hotel are removed.
* The School facility cannot be upgraded with additional rooms.
* The item search feature has been removed, and the item category system has been simplified.
* Basements and multi-room layouts have been removed (second-floor rooms are still available).
* The player can now manually adjust the size of a room (once that feature is unlocked).
* Customization of window frames, curtains, and doors have been removed. Each type of wall that supports windows comes with a preset window design, and many types of walls do not allow windows.
* The number of exterior designs for homes has decreased from 29 to 7.
* Players can now adjust the brightness and color of the room lighting (once that feature is unlocked).
* Partitions and Counters have been added for further room customization options.
* Players can now assign roommates, adding additional residents to a single home.
* Players now earn currency for creating or renovating homes and facilities, which can be used to purchase items for use on their main island, or converted to Bells (once that feature is unlocked).

## Vacation Home Requests

Like in *Happy Home Designer*, each villager in *Happy Home Paradise* requests a different theme and some have pre-determined furniture.

## Gallery

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### Videos

Introducing Animal Crossing- New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise