One of the most appealing features of the latest Animal Crossing is the ability to vacation to another player’s island. With the airport and your trusty in-game phone, you can take a flight to a friend’s island with no hassle. Meanwhile, Dodo Codes allow you to check out the islands of an online acquaintance or even a stranger. This social element is made all the more interesting given the relatively unique conditions of each island

Still, many find it tough to pinpoint just what sort of activities one can take part in when wandering around a friend’s foreign lands. After all, there are some limitations - especially for those not tagged with the “best friend” moniker.

With this list, we’ll highlight 10 of the wisest, most productive things you’ll want to focus on during these visits. Most of these will help work towards the prominence of your own island in addition to helping you gather more wealth.

10 Communicate With Reactions

This one can be filed under “productivity” rather than wealth/resource gathering. And while it’s a subtle action, using the reactions wheel can save quite a bit of time compared to the several seconds it takes to peck out chat messages.

If you wished to, say, get a friend to come to a certain spot or pick up an item, you can simply hold the “R” button and bust out a reaction instead of typing a lengthy message.

Obviously, these have their limitations, but they can make for a simple and often amusing means of basic communication.

9 Talk To Villagers

One neat aspect of New Horizons is the huge lineup of new villagers. In fact, there are over 400 of them, which means there’s a very good chance villagers on your friend’s island will be different than yours.

Take advantage of this by chatting them up, as you’ll be able to meet some new characters. you’ll even have the chance to recruit them to your island if you get friendly enough. This can be useful if your buddy isn’t keen on a particular neighbor, or you’re looking to populate your island. Of course, you’ll want to run it by them first before snatching their potential virtual pal.

8 Check Out The Museum

With hundreds of bugs, fish, and fossils to nab, the museum can be a cool spectacle to behold. One of the most entertaining sights to see when visiting a friend is their museum, as they’ll likely have a display of these collectibles that you’ve yet to see.

Have them give you the tour while you read the signs and snap some photos for future reference.

7 Fishing And Bug Gathering

With so many fish and bug varieties, there’s always the potential to secure new ones. Still, you’ll probably come upon quite a few repeats. This can particularly be the case when fishing and bug-catching several times during the same season or time of day.

Yet, doing these actions at a friend’s island will further randomize the findings, giving you a better chance you’ll stumble upon something new.

You can even make a fun contest out of it to see who can land the most bugs and fish in a given timeframe.

6 Mine Stones

Rocks can produce clay, stones, and iron nuggets in relative abundance. Still, the fact that your island will only have 4-5 rocks at a given time (which only refresh once a day), means this these are fairly limited resources.

But when visiting a friend’s island, you can utilize the extra rocks for additional goodies. This is helpful, as many of the items these rocks yield prove useful. So bring an ample supply of tools and have fun mining!

5 Trade Items

You’ll want to take advantage of the wealth of items, tools, resources, and furnishings New Horizons provides. If your AC friend has put in a decent amount of hours, chances are they’ll have some goods that pique your interest, and vice-versa. At the very least, you’re likely to find some new DIY recipes you can learn, either from their shop, or directly from their personal stash.

Spend a bit of time swapping some items, simply by dropping them on the ground from your inventory.

4 Give Mystery Gifts

You can make the previous entry a bit more interesting, and even initiate a sort of “Secret Santa” party gift exchange. Yes - you can, in fact, wrap up items and drop them as unknown gifts for other players. This can be especially amusing when you’ve got multiple people kicking it on your island.

To do this, simply purchase some wrapping paper at Nook’s shop and wrap an item of your choosing.

3 Identifying And Selling Hot Items

Aside from basic layouts of rivers and hills, islands in New Horizons come with unique dynamics. This includes the daily-rotating “Hot Item.” Assuming your friend has gone through a few days in the game, this feature will be available to visitors.

You’ll want to take advantage of this, as it’s highly likely their Hot Item will be different than yours. This means you’ll be able to sell multiple items for double the usual price, so stock up and get selling!

2 Take Part In The Stalk Market

Speaking of selling - another Bell-earning feature you can exploit is the Stalk Market. Like our previous entry, the conditions of turnip prices elsewhere likely differ from your own.

Thus, you can have a friend inform you when theirs are particularly high, which you can utilize to your benefit. Staying up to date on the fluctuating value of their turnips and your own will give you an extra edge in profiting from them. This can also be useful as a way of salvaging your turnips if you run into a rough week of decreasing value.

1 Stock Up On Fruit

One of the main goals of visiting a friend’s island - besides the great company, of course - should be gathering foreign fruit. Obviously, you’ll first have to make sure your buddy’s fruit is different than your own. Assuming this is the case, you and your friend can take advantage of this by collecting fruit from each other’s islands.

This is because foreign fruit is sold at a whopping 500 Bells, versus the usual 100 Bell price for native fruit.

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