Road Custom Design Animal Crossing

To add together some spice to your Fauna Crossing: New Horizons island, consider adding custom-made pathing.

In one case you lot unlock it, the Island Designer Nook Phone app has nine paths, but if you desire more options, you tin can utilize the custom pattern tool to chop-chop slap some more than paths onto the ground. Notation that you lot tin can place these patterns downward manually by choosing "Display on Ground" from your Custom Designs app, but using the Island Designer app is much faster.

The "custom design path permit," which allows y'all to utilize custom patterns in the Island Designer app, tin can be redeemed for 2,300 Nook Miles at the Nook Cease.

How to find and download custom pathing patterns

There are multiple ways to become custom pathing patterns. You tin brand them yourself or y'all can download them using QR codes or from the terminal in the back of the Able Sisters'.

If your chosen design uses a QR code, yous'll have to download the Nintendo Switch Online app for iOS or Android. After you snap a picture of the QR code in the app, you'll take to open up your Custom Designs app on your Nook Telephone in New Horizons and press the Plus push button. This will download that pattern and allow you to place it amid the residuum of your patterns.

If the custom path uses an alphanumeric code, you can input information technology into the concluding in the back of the Able Sisters' store. You will need an Nintendo Switch Online subscription to use this, though.

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How to place custom path patterns

Once you lot have your path pattern, open the Island Designer app, press Plus, and select the custom pathing tool on the bottom right. It will let you choose from your patterns and you can quickly use the trowel to place them on the ground.

Different the game'southward born paths, these role a little differently. By pressing Y while standing next to the pattern, your graphic symbol will kick away the pattern with their foot. If you spend a lot of fourth dimension placing patterns on the flooring, exist conscientious not to kick your custom patterns away.

An Animal Crossing character kicks some dirt over custom pathing, erasing them

You also cannot bevel your custom paths to go the rounded texture, but yous can outsmart the system by placing transparent custom paths on top of existing default paths. This will make your custom path take the same shape equally the path information technology'southward placed on acme of, though the design needs to take at least i pixel of transparency in it to practise this.

An Animal Crossing character in a hard hat after laying down a custom stone pattern on top of a hardwood path

As a nice improvement from Animal Crossing: New Leafage, items tin can be placed on top of patterns on the footing. This means you lot can shake fruit off of trees and they'll autumn onto the pattern. (New Foliage had the items bounce off of the patterns, sometimes bouncing into the void if in that location wasn't plenty room.)

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