While Animal Crossing: New Horizons is great for experiencing bucolic island life at a relaxed pace, it’s easy to forget that the franchise is known for how much it leans into custom designs.
New Horizons features the series’ most robust design options yet, and there are a variety of ways you can share your glamorous looks with pals.
How to make custom patterns in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Within Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you can use your Nook Phone’s Custom design editor to craft some brand new looks. After upgrading your abode from a tent to a house, you’ll be able to purchase the Custom Design Pro Editor from the Nook Stop terminal under 'Redeem Nook Miles' for a paltry 800 miles. The upgrade will grant access to a slew of additional tools.
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If you’d like a more traditional designer, you can also use browser-based editors like this one. You can utilize their robust toolset to make something new entirely. If the creative spirit has yet to enthrall you, images can be uploaded to the website, which will then be converted into QR codes. Those codes can be used to download the design into New Horizons in the following way.
How to use QR Codes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you want to reuse designs created in previous titles like Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Happy Home Designer,or download ones created in browser designers, you’ll need to scan a QR code. This requires some help from the Nintendo Switch Online app, which is available for iOS and Android.
After downloading the app, you’ll need to do some light setup. Link the Nintendo Account used on your Switch with the app by logging in. Head back to you Switch and boot up New Horizons. Once you get to the title screen, press the '—' button to enter Settings. You’ll be greeted by Tom Nook. After he gives a small speech, click 'NookLink Settings.' Your Switch should now be connected to the Nintendo Switch Online app.
Back on the app, you can now scan designs into your game via QR codes by opening the app, clicking Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You should now see a new area called NookLink, complete with a QR scanner on the top right.
Once you scan a code, go back into New Horizons and open the in-game design app. Click the '+' button on your Switch to download the design. Only one design can be scanned and downloaded at a time, so make sure to download it before moving onto the next one.
Designs uploaded via QR code cannot be edited and can only be applied to items available in the basic Design Editor app. QR code designs are incompatible with the additional features added in the Nook Stop 'Pro' upgrade.
Despite the app’s title, this method doesn’t require you to have a Nintendo Switch Online membership. However, using New Horizons’ native clothing sharing service is a totally different story.
How to share custom designs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If newfangled apps elude you, New Horizons also has a method to share clothing in-game. However, this one does require that you have a Nintendo Switch Online Membership.
Upon visiting the town’s shop, Nook’s Cranny for the first time, a villager named Mabel will appear momentarily. She’ll come scout out your town a few more times following that. Eventually, after getting a lay of the land, she’ll ask to open up a shop on your island.
Once her fashion shop, Able Sisters, opens, there will be a Custom Design Kiosk located in her store’s rear section. You’ll be able to upload and download designs using codes, similar to those used to enjoy multiplayer.
After a code is uploaded, you distribute it online or amongst friends. They can enter your code at the Kiosk in their game to obtain your design.
What can custom designs do in New Horizons?
Using a custom design, you can make your own clothing and furniture. Custom designs can be used to decorate your room in unconventional ways as seen below.
Online, others have used these designs to implement cosplays of fictional characters into New Horizons. Others have used custom designs to add features they believed were missing from the game like eyebrows and freckles. Adding a custom design is just another way to make the world of New Horizons into your world.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available for Nintendo Switch.
This guide will walk you through how to scan QR codes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Scanning these codes will allow you to import external images and textures into your game to customize your island. Whether it be memes, music album covers, or celebrity faces, you can import nearly anything you can think of by scanning QR codes.
Before we start, you will need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription in order to do this. It’s roughly $20/year for a yearly individual membership. You can visit the Nintendo Switch Online Pricing Plans to learn more about that.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons QR Code Guide
Step 1 – Pull up your Nook Phone
Once you have your Nook Phone open, you will want to open up the Custom Designs app, which is the middle icon.
Step 2 – Open Custom Designs App
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This page will contain all of your custom designs in New Horizons. After you do that, grab your phone and download the Nintendo Switch Online App.
Step 3 – Download Nintendo Switch Online App
You can download this on your mobile phone, tablet, or any type of mobile device you have available with a camera. This is what we’ll be using to scan QR codes.
Step 4 – Get Another Device to Scan QR Codes From
Next, you will need a THIRD device to pull up the QR codes on, such as a computer, tablet, or any other device with a web browser. The camera will need to be pointed at this third device in order to scan the QR code.
Step 5 – Open the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Page on Nintendo Switch Online App
Go back to your phone and sign into the Nintendo Switch Online App. Navigate to the Animal Crossing: New Horizons page inside the app. This will open up NookLink. From here you can view your passport, create designs, view your friends, and do other various things.
Step 6 – Open Custom Designs
Tap on the Custom Designs app from NookLink. You will see a button that says “Scan a QR Code.” You can only scan one individual QR code at a time.
Step 7 – Points Your Device At The QR Code
Point your phone, or whatever mobile device you’re using the Nintendo Switch Online app on, at the QR code on the third device. It will automatically scan it.
Step 8 – Hit the + Button On Your Switch
Hit the + button and it will bring up a message asking if you want to connect to the internet and download a custom design. Tap Download and it will tell you which design just popped up. Confirm it and select a spot to place the new custom design.
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- Important note – If you are having issues with this step, you will need to activate NookLink on your game first. Go to the home screen and on the bottom left of the screen you will see a “-” sign. Click that to activate the NookLink. You will then need to reset the Nintendo Switch Online app on your phone after you enable this feature on your Switch.
Step 9 – Display Your New Design
You can now display the imported custom design. Display it on the ground, in your house, on your t-shirt, or wherever you want.
Clothing Items
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Scanning clothing QR codes is the same way, except there will be four QR codes instead of one. After you scan the first QR code, a screen will pop up with four different QR codes to scan (shown below).
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These are all the necessary steps you need to follow to scan QR codes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It is a bit of a long process, unfortunately, but it does get easier once you memorize how to do it. Hopefully, this has helped. Here’s a list of our favorite Animal Crossing: New Horizons QR codes to check out in the meantime.