Animal Crossing- New Horizons Gameplay - Nintendo Treehouse- Live - E3 2019
Nook Miles:
- Achievements: give mileage for completing
- Miles can be spent on: original items, various services
Camera:
- zoom
- filters
- select emote (7 slots?)
Call Islander:
- Local Coop
- Must stay on the same field of view
- Can switch between who's main character
- up to 4p local multiplayer
DIY Crafting App:
- Tools
- Campfires, log bench, bathing clothing line, wash bin, and bath barrel, signs
- Cooking related items: coconut juice, frying pan, classic jug
- Some items require other crafted items to maker (crafting hierarchy)
Town Appearance:
- Bulletin Board, Announcement Speaker Pole, and Nook Inc Tent in Town Square
- Nook Inc Tent:
- ATM
- Crafting table
- Large Bin?: Apple, Umbrella, etc on it
- Timmy can buy items from you
- Timmy sells items of different categories. Tools, nets, flowers, and 2 furniture
- There’s a dock leading with a building attached next to what is presumably a sea plane
Fishing:
- Fishing bait made from clams you can dig up
- Manila Clam: can make some amazing chowder! (or fishing bait)
- Fish appear as shadows in the water as normal
Bug Catching:
- Seems unchanged so far
Graphical improvements:
- Fish look MUCH MUCH better when held in hand (or at least the one squid and bass from the initial trailer we saw did)
- Trees sway in the wind
- Has actual Lighting
- Clouds have shadows
Random:
- The island was 6x6 acres, the largest “town” of any so far. Although the outer perimeter is partially taken up by water, so more like 16 + 20 half acres of workable space
- Picking up items is much faster, so is switching tools
- Tommy is walking around the island
- North and South Hemisphere options for seasons
- Can cut trees with axe without cutting them down entirely or making them obviously cut?
- Can drop as leaf or item
- The achievement mentions “if your tools break, just make more” indicating tools have durability.
- 8 Player can live in one town
- Crafted materials stack in inventory (can’t tell if items like fruit do yet, they didn’t pick any up)
- Can sell weeds
- Mailboxes (mail and presumably Pete, Pelly, Phyllis, and the post office are still in the game)
- Animal villager was holding a stick
- Pole Vaulting required “Vaulting Pole” tool
- Player’s House can go anywhere, including the beach
- You can move things in half units
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