Map

The Map is a key item in the. In, the player will get it while working part time for Tom Nook, and will be allowed to keep it through the whole game. In, Pelly will show the player how to use it in the Town Hall. Rover gives it to the player in on the bus ride. It will show where the buildings are and where its geographical features are. There will be an actual list of each building on the side of the map.

What's on the Map
On the map, the player will find where her/his and their neighbors houses are, as well as the tailor, shop, museum, gate, and town hall. However, the maps in the each game will have different building icons on them. It will show where the player is in a purple, human-looking icon.

Geographical Features: The map also shows the ocean, rivers, ponds, bridges, grassy areas (green), and dirt/sandy areas (yellow); they do not show the location of trees, rocks, flowers, rafflesias (if your town has it- it is also not good to have), dropped items, cracks in the ground (where fossils, etc. are buried) signs, other animal villagers, bugs, fish, or waterfalls. All maps are generated randomly, so almost everyone's map in the world is different, making everyone's game unique.

New Villagers and Moved Villagers on the Map
If you think a new villager might have moved in or moved out, you don't have to run all around your town going berserk trying find out- or if one has even moved in/out in the first place. Is all you have to do is open your map and it will have already automatically logged the new villager's house into it. If an animal has moved out, the house that once was there will now disappear into a sign (that can't be seen on the map). This is most useful once you have memorized your town and know where all of your sign posts and original residents are.

Wild World Map
In Animal Crossing: Wild World Pelly gives you a map in the town hall once you get out of Kapp'n's car and go inside. She tells you how to use it and and says that you can open it by simply pressing "x" or by hitting the Y button and tapping the house icon with the player's stylus.

City Folk Map
In, the map is given to you by Rover on the bus ride into town so the player can see the possible places the player can live, where the town hall is located, and all the other buildings. The map can be opened two ways, either by pointing the Wii remote at the screen and clicking on the house icon, or by pressing the d-pad (+) button on the remote to show the main menu. Like in the two prequels to this game, all maps are randomly generated and two are very rarely identical.