Mystery Island Tour
The Mystery Island Tour is a leisure activity in Animal Crossing: New Horizons operated by Dodo Airlines. The tour can be embarked on in exchange for a Nook Miles Ticket by speaking to Orville at the airport. Each tour brings the participant to a random deserted island, known as a Mystery Island, where they can harvest materials for crafting and catch rare bugs and fish.
The player will be transported to the island in a seaplane piloted by Wilbur, who will remain stationed on the dock for the duration of the tour. Once the player leaves to go home the island can never be revisited as, according to Wilbur, the map with the island's coordinates is destroyed for security reasons. In actuality, the islands are randomly generated from templates each time they are visited and deleted once the player leaves, so care must be taken to ensure no wanted items are left behind as they will be permanently lost. The player is free to do as they wish on the island as any changes will not affect future island visits.
Various tools are necessary in order to fully explore the islands and harvest their resources, though each island contains a workbench in case the player needs to make their own while on tour. If the player cannot obtain the resources needed to make tools, they can purchase tools from Wilbur in exchange for Nook Miles. A vaulting pole and a ladder are the most crucial tools to have, as much of the islands are entirely inaccessible without these tools.
There are 20 archetypes in all for the Mystery Islands (with five missing in the game's data), some of which are much rarer to experience than others. Every island always contains a dock, a simple workbench for crafting, rocks, and beaches on the left and right sides containing palm trees and shells. Many of the islands will contain flowers, which is usually the same native flower as the player's town. A Note-in-a-bottle may be found washed ashore in the sand, and there is a chance for fossils to be buried. Each island that features regular non-fruit-bearing trees will have a least one that contains a Wasp nest and one with a Furniture leaf. The fruit-bearing trees most often bear the same fruit as the player's town.
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A Rare Flowers island with hybrid flowers (this island no longer spawns as of update 1.2.0)
Trivia
- Each island is numbered within the game's data. Islands 3, 5, 9, 15, and 22 are not present, suggesting that they were either removed during development, or will be added in a future update.
- Until update 1.2.0, there were two additional islands: a second big Fish island as well as a hybrid Flower island.
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