Happy Home Paradise Guide - Animal Crossing: New Horizons Guide - IGN (2024)

Happy Home Paradise is the first and potentially only purchasable DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons. With it comes a slew of new home design features, items, special currency, and actions exclusive to the DLC. Learn all about designing vacations homes, the Paradise Planning Team, and more with this guide. Happy Home Paradise DLC is available now, as it released on November 5, 2021.

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• New Design Features
• Decorating Your First House Walkthrough
• Happy Home Network Apps
• Paradise Planning Special Furniture
• How to Suggest Roommates
• Designing Facilities
• Happy Home Paradise How-To Guides
• How to Unlock Everything in Happy Home Paradise
• HParadise Planning Team

New Design Features

Happy Home Paradise brings partitions, soundscapes, pillars, and many other new design options. Below you'll find a list of new design features, helpful how-to guides that will make unlocking these features easier, and more. Now you can design to your heart's content!

Check out these pages for more details on what's available in the 2.0 update:

• Soundscapes
• New Design Features
• How to Polish and Polishing Effects
• How to Unlock Exterior Decorating and Customize Vacation Homes
• How to Customize the Size of Rooms
• How to Unlock Partition Walls
• Vacation Home Requirements and Design Guide
• How to Change A Villagers' House

Decorating Your First House Walkthrough

It seems all players start with Eloise, the yellow elephant villager who wants a relaxing reading room. It can be a little confusing to learn all the controls in Design Mode, so this page walks you step-by-step through decorating your first house, and points out important requirements like using the villager's must-have furniture.

• Decorating Your First House Walkthrough

Happy Home Network App

TheHappy Home Network Appis used to share and view vacation home designs, as well as Facility designs with players all over the world. Learn more about the Happy Home Network App by clicking the link below.

• Happy Home Network App

Paradise Planning Special Furniture

The Paradise Planning team runs more than just a vacation rental renovation service—they sell special furniture too! Learn more about the special and rare furniture, as well as the official currency, Poki, by clicking the links below.

• Paradise Planning Special Furniture
• How to Earn More Poki
• How to Get Special Character Photos - Isabelle, KK Slider and More

How to Suggest Roommates

As you progress as a designer on Lottie's Paradise Planning team, you'll not only unlock new furniture but you'll also be able to make additional recommendations to your clients. Among the list of recommendations is the ability to suggest that two clients become roommates.

Learn more on roommates and how to unlock them in our complete guide below.

• Roommates

Designing Facilities

Many new features are being added in the paid DLC content, including designing facilities! Players will be able to create hospitals, schools, restaurants, and more on Lottie's island in the archipelago. You'll unlock the ability to design these facilities as you progress through the content and help more clients.

Check out the Designing Facilities page below to learn more, or choose one of these related, helpful how-to guides!

• Designing Facilities
• How to Create a School
• How to Create a Cafe
• How to Create a Restaurant

Happy Home Paradise How-To Guides

Some features are unlocked as you progress through the game, so you might be wondering how to get them, or how to accomplish specific tasks. Our list of helpful how-to guides cover most of the items, features and tasks you'll want to tackle, so use them to your advantage!

• How To Guide Main Hub
• How to Unlock Happy Home Paradise
• How to Polish and Polishing Effects
• How to Change a Villager's House
• How to Create a Restaurant
• How to Earn More Poki
• How to Invite Current Villagers
• How to Unlock Exterior Decorating and Customize Vacation Homes
• How to Change Seasons on the Archipelago
• How to Take Photos with Villagers and Match Outfits
• How to Create a School
• How to Customize the Size of Rooms
• How to Unlock Partition Walls
• How to Create a Restaurant
• How to Create a Cafe
• How to Unlock Planting and Hybrid Flowers
• How to Get the Large Paradise Planning Rug
• How to Suggest Roommates
• How to Unlock Pillars and Counters
• How to Unlock Two-Story Homes
• How to Unlock Soundscapes
• How to Unlock Wardell's Special Catalog
• How to Create a Hospital
• How to Unlock the ABD
• How to Expand the Hospital
• How to Create the Apparel Shop
• How to Get DJ KK To Give a Concert
• How to Renovate Villager Homes on Your Island
• How to Unlock the Room Sketch app

How to Unlock Everything in Happy Home Paradise

There's a LOT to unlock in Happy Home Paradise, and you'll accomplish this mainly by progressing through the DLC and decorating vacation homes and facilities. We've listed out everything you can unlock on the archipelago so you can easily reference items, events and characters you're hoping to see.

• How to Unlock Everything in Happy Home Paradise

Paradise Planning Team

In the new ACNH paid DLC, you'll meet several new teammates on the archipelago. The members of Paradise Planning will help you finish and design vacation homes, unlock new items and design features and even celebrate your accomplishments together. So let's meet the team!

• Paradise Planning Team