Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise is a paid downloadable content expansion for that was released along with the 2.0.0 update November 5, 2021. It is a spiritual successor to, in which the player can design homes and gardens for villagers and special characters to satisfy the client's specifications.

In, the player can travel to an archipelago to work for Paradise Planning, a resort that specializes in the design of custom-built vacation homes within the archipelago's varied environments.

Release
was announced alongside the 2.0 Free Update in an Direct on October 15, 2021. The contents of are contained within the 2.0 update, and  items are available through trading to players without the paid DLC, but access to the Paradise Planning archipelago is only unlocked once the DLC is purchased. While the free update was released at 10 AM (1 AM ) on November 4, 2021, 24 hours ahead of its scheduled release date, the  expansion was not unlocked until 12 AM local time on November 5, 2021.

The DLC is available for purchase from the Nintendo eShop for US$24.99 or as a part of the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service for US$49.99 per year. People who use Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack for will lose access to the archipelago if they lose membership in the Expansion Pack, but will still retain many of the tools obtained through  for usage at their home island. Pre-orders became available on October 29, 2021.

A download card for will be available in Japan, and a Nintendo Switch game case containing a download code will be available in South Korea.

Paradise Planning
When the DLC is downloaded, if Resident Services has been upgraded to a building, the player receives a phone call from Tom Nook asking them to visit him and a visitor at the airport. At the airport, Nook introduces the player to Lottie and asks them if they would like to help her design homes. After the player agrees, the option "I want to go to work" becomes available when speaking to Orville. 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.

When the DLC is downloaded, the player also receives a package from Nintendo containing a.

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. The player can also suggest existing clients that have a completed home to include roommates. The roommates that the player chooses to add will merge their furniture from their housing order with that of the existing villager's catalog.

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

Customization features
The following customization features are new to :
 * Partition walls, which share the same texture as the wallpaper set. They are unlocked after completing eight housing requests, and come in the form of a DIY recipe.
 * Counters, in both full-height and half-height. These can be obtained as a DIY recipe from Niko.
 * Pillars, which can be used with partition walls to provided a right angle corner. These can be obtained as a DIY recipe from Niko.
 * Lighting customization, where the color and brightness settings can be adjusted. This feature is unlocked while customizing the Café facility.
 * Soundscapes, constant ambient sounds played in a room. This feature is unlocked after completing 17 housing requests and sitting next to Wardell afterwards. Six more Soundscapes are unlocked after completing 25 housing requests. Eight more Soundscapes are unlocked after completing 33 housing requests.
 * Polishing, which gives furniture an animated effect of several different choices. Polishing is unlocked after completing four housing requests.

Happy Home Network
A Happy Home Network app can be accessed on the player's NookPhone, where the player can view and visit the homes they have designed. Designs can be shared over the internet, and players can follow other designers.

Paradise Planning office
Paradise Planning has an office on the central island where Lottie, Wardell, and Niko work. When finished designing the interior of a villager's new vacation home, the player goes to Lottie to get their Poki, which is the currency there, as they don't use bells in the area. The player is then able to purchase items with their earnings.

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. This is unlocked after completing seven housing requests.

Shop
A shop area in the Paradise Planning office sells five exclusive furniture items. Items are paid for with Poki instead of Bells. The five items that they have change every day, and all are items that are hard to find on your island, similarly to Redd's two items that he sells on his boat along with his stolen art. The player is also able to purchase souvenir chocolates, that, when given to a villager on the player's island, can convince the villager receiving to request a vacation home.

Facilities
Facilities, such as a school, hospital, and restaurant, can be designed in the vacant buildings on the main island. Once the facility is set up, the player can staff any villagers present on the main islands to host the facility. Once this is established, various villagers from across the islands will come by to use the facility. If the player speaks to the host of the Café or Restaurant facility, they are able to purchase food items using Poki.

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 30 homes are designed with Paradise Planning and DJ KK makes his visit, though some elements, such as room-size adjustments, will be unavailable for the remodeling of a villager's house.