Kapp’n now offers boat tours to mysterious islands at the Pier. Each tour costs 1,000 Nook Miles and you are limited to 1 ride a day.
A tape deck can now be found outside of Resident Services. Interacting with this item can start the new stretches exercise feature.
Home storage can be expanded just need to talk to Nook.
Enacting Island Ordinances: To enact a new ordinance rule on your island, talk to Isabelle at Resident Services, select Review island features, and select Discuss ordinances. Each ordinance has a fee of 20,000 Bells each time. These are the four options you can choose from:
Villager Home Visits: Villagers can now visit your home while you’re inside without any invitation or prior notice! They’ll just knock out of nowhere and pop on in. We encountered one almost immediately after entering our house for the first time after the update.
Villager Minigames: It appears there are some new mini-games you can play with your villagers when they visit your home! Here’s what on reader, Diane, reported: “I just played a game of high/low with a villager visiting my house! It was so cute and the animation was amazing!”.
There is some clever interactions for when your house is covered in cockroaches after not playing for a while.
Ladder Set-Up Kit Recipe: You can unlock the new ability to place permanent ladders on cliffs within your island by picking up the Ladder Set-Up Kit Recipe in the cabinet at Nook’s Cranny for 2,000 Bells.
Store Recipes In House Storage: You can now store your DIY Crafting recipes in your home storage.
New Celeste DIY Recipes: Early reports from players indicate that some new DIY recipes from Celeste have been added in Version 2.0! We’re still awaiting further details on this though.
Mail From Harvey: Players can find a letter from Harvey in their mailbox with an invitation to check out the brand new Shopping Plaza area at Harvey’s Island!
When using the catalog at Photopia, it’s now possible to select different variations of an item by using the X Button if you have obtained different variations of the same item.
It’s now possible to use all of the Animal Crossing series amiibo to invite characters to Photopia.
The limited-time seasonal items from Nook Shopping will continue to be available every year along with the events.
The software now supports Animal Crossing amiibo cards Series 5.
New Villagers Aren’t Amiibo Exclusive: Good news — the 8 brand new villagers and 8 classic returning villagers in Version 2.0 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons are not exclusive to the Series 5 Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards! You can find and invite these villagers at Nook Mile Islands or Campsites.
The maximum number of designs that can be uploaded to the Custom Designs Portal has been increased to 200. When dreaming, it’s now possible to search for a destination by island name.
A new feature has been added to make it easier to search for stored items when using “Sort: Type” in Decorating Mode while in your home or other locations. As part of this change, adjustments have also been made to the order in which items are sorted.
Additional items are available for purchase from various retailers like Nook’s Cranny and the Able Sisters.
Additional redemption items are available as part of the Nook Mileage program.
New activities have been added to the Nook Mileage/Nook Miles+ program.
Additional limited-time seasonal items will be available from Nook Shopping.
K.K. Slider has more music tracks to share.
New hairstyles and Reactions have been added.
New message-card options have been added.
Pete, Pelly, And Phyllis Return: We’re unsure whether these characters have actually returned with any gameplay mechanics, but are the very least now available through Photopia on Harvey’s Island and possibly at The Roost!
Reduced Moving Fees: Mail from Nook Inc. reveals that the bell fees for relocating your home or changing its exterior at Resident Services have been reduced.
Buy An ABD: Players who have paid off all their loans can now redeem Nook Miles for an ABD furniture item at the Nook Stop.
Some item names have been changed.
An issue where only trash or stones could be obtained from created water features with a certain shape has been fixed.
Other adjustments and corrections were made to improve the gameplay experience.
