Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an interesting game that lets you play in a virtual world. You get to involve yourself in farming, fishing, and many more. Among the things you can do is buy house plots and provide residence to citizens.
You will unlock another activity when you have expanded your house and built the Museum and the Nook Cranny’s item store. It involves buying house plots from Tom Nook and constructing houses for residents to move to your island.
In this guide, we’ll teach you how to build houses for villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
How to get an empty plot Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Once you have completed the campsite level by getting your sixth residence, you will unlock the next level to buy land from Tom Nook. When you buy the housing plots, you can arrange a city plan for your residents to live in before they get to your town.
What you need to do is go to the Residence Services and go to Tom Nook’s station. The feature is only available after upgrading Residence Services. From there, you will talk to Tom Nook at the construction consultant station, saying, “Sell some land,” which will cost you 10,000 Bells.
As expensive as these housing plots are, you will earn Nook miles when someone moves into them. In addition, he will give you housing kits which you will place outside to mark where you want to build your house.
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How to build houses for villagers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Once you have received three housing kits from Tom Nook, look around in search of plots to place them. Each housing kit comes with a list of furniture for the houses. The furniture is all made with random DIY recipes, which shall be provided to you by Nook.
Tom Nook will also give you a ladder that you can use to explore the higher levels of the island. The recipe to craft a ladder requires four wood, 4 Hardwood, and 4 Softwood. Once you have completed constructing it, place it next to the cliff and press A.
Go outside to where you want to build a housing plot. Select your inventory, open it, select the House Kit option, then select Build Here. An outline of where the house will appear on the land. If you are satisfied with the position, select This is the spot. If you want to see what the housing plot will look like, select Let me imagine it.
Otherwise, if you are not satisfied and want to place it somewhere else, select I need to rethink it. Then, when you have placed your housing kit, be ready for a new residence to move into your island.
How many houses can you have?
You can have ten houses in the housing plots that you sell on your island. However, the maximum number of people required in your plot is 10.
The reason behind this is because of the limited amount of space for additional buildings and shops.
What happens after you build three houses in Animal Crossing?
When you have placed the three houses in the housing plot, use the DIY recipes given to you by Nook to decorate it with furniture.
Next, you will play the waiting game, inviting people to move into your houses. Only one person can move in a day, so occupying the houses will take three real-world days.
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Can you build multiple houses in Animal Crossing?
Unfortunately, you only have to build one house for your main character. That is why you should have a side character for which you can build another house. You can create a side character using your other profiles. This way, you can have more houses to decorate and more opportunities to earn more bells and interact with other NPC characters.
How do you get a housing kit in Animal Crossing?
The housing kit is an essential that marks where you will build your new house for your potential villager. You need to purchase it from Tom Nook’s for 10,000 Bells to get it. Remember that you can only get 3 to 5 housing kits for each plot.
Wrapping up
When you have unlocked the building bridge phase, you will have to build housing plots for your residents. To achieve this, you must go to Residential Service and visit Tom Nook’s office saying, “Sell some land.” He will provide you with housing kits, and you will have to look for housing plots to place them.
Once you have found the right plot, you can build houses in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and invite residents to live there on your island. Enjoy this level while earning Nook Miles for every house you sell.
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