Animal Crossing: New Horizons received the first part of its free summer content update on July 3, including the ability to swim and hunt for new marine life. Now you can explore more of the world and see new creatures in this update. It’s not even the only summer update coming to the game, as the “Wave 2” update is coming later. But for now, you can start having fun in the sun. Go see what it has to offer!
Wave 1 of the Summer Update allows you to dive into the ocean from any edge of your island, swimming in search of new marine life that you can donate to the curator of the Blathers museum. This includes starfish (or starfish), anemone, and garden eels, as seen in the trailer below. Blathers will have plenty of data to tell him about his new findings, as well as simply having new items to donate.
The update also introduces the Mermaid Creation Set, which can be obtained through interactions with Pascal. You’ll be able to get new DIY recipes from Pascal, a red sea otter that would appear weekly in previous Animal Crossing posts, swapping scallops with him, but it’s unclear if he’ll be as scattered as Redd (who was introduced in a previous update). There’s also a new encounter with Gulliver, though exactly what that turns out is unclear.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons will receive even more free content in August as part of the second wave of the Summer Update, and Nintendo will release more news about it soon. It’s been a stellar first-party title for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch gamers, with Animal Crossing: New Horizons selling over 13 million copies during its first six weeks on sale.
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