Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise is a paid DLC expansion for scheduled to be released on November 5, 2021. It is a spiritual successor to, in which the player can design homes for villagers and special characters.

Release
was announced alongside the 2.0 Free Update in an Direct on October 15, 2021.

The DLC will be available for purchase from the Nintendo eShop for US$24.99 or as a part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service. Pre-orders will become available on October 29, 2021.

Paradise Planning
When the DLC is downloaded, the player can choose the option "I want to go to work" when speaking to Orville at the airport. Choosing this option takes the player to a resort archipelago where characters go to find vacation homes. The player works for Paradise Planning, a resort developer, alongside Lottie and new characters Niko and Wardell.

Designing homes
The player's job at Paradise Planning is to design vacation homes for villagers and special characters. These characters appear on the archipelago's central island, which also hosts Paradise Planning's office. Once the player chooses to design a home for a character, they are given the option to choose which island to build the home on; each island has different features, and some have different seasons. Once the island is chosen, the player places three furniture items chosen by the character, and from there the interior and exterior of the home can be decorated freely.

As the player designs more homes, more furniture becomes available to use. Homes the player has designed can be remodeled.

After the player designs a home, Lottie rewards them with Poki, a currency that can be used at the Paradise Planning shop.

Paradise Planning office
Paradise Planning has an office on the central island where Lottie and Wardell work.

amiibo
Amiibo cards and figures can be scanned at the Paradise Planning office front desk to invite the respective character to have their vacation home designed.

Shop
A shop area in the Paradise Planning office sells five exclusive furniture items. Items are paid for with Poki instead of Bells.

Main island features
Various features unlocked while designing homes for Paradise Planning can be used in the player's own home, including partition walls, counters, pillars, lighting customization, and soundscapes. Furniture can also be polished.

The player can invite villagers from their island to Paradise Planning by giving them. Additionally, the houses of the villagers on the player's island can be customized after enough homes are designed with Paradise Planning.