Best Friends in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a game that values ​​social interaction among players. In fact, this is one of the main points of the gameplay. The Switch game even allows you to create a list of best friends, to facilitate communication.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Briefly, within the Switch, the video game, you have the list of friends from the entire system, but not everyone is an Animal Crossing: New Horizons player. Thus, the game itself has another list within itself.

How it works?

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a city management and life simulation game. But forget about Minecraft, The Sims, and the like. Everything is very different here.

The player receives an empty island and must choose where to build houses, shops, a museum, camping space, among other predefined locations. With online multiplayer, the game lets you visit the island of other players and vice versa.

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But there is a small problem: to visit other islands you need to change codes, select the right island, combine schedules, a number of things.

To make it easier, there is the list of best friends.

Friends in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

After someone visits your island, you can turn that person into a “Best Friend”.

To do this, do the following:

  1. Open the character’s Nook Phone;
  2. Select “Best Friends List”;
  3. Choose the friend you want and press “A”;
  4. Choose “Ask to be Best Friends”.

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From there, just wait for the other person to accept the invitation.

Benefits

As in real life, being “Best Friend” to someone in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a number of benefits.

Among them, we have:

  • It is now possible to send messages to these people even without being on the same island.
  • The player can invite a group of best friends at the same time to visit his island.
  • The player and his best friends can change item positions and other changes that were previously blocked in traditional multiplayer.

It is important to pay special attention to the last item. Best friends can cut trees, destroy rocks and other elements on your island, so just send the request to friends you actually know and trust.