Gyroid (outdoor)
A Gyroid is a special item that sits outside the players house in Animal Crossing. When the player wants to quit, they save their game progress by talking to the Gyroid: if they don't save, Mr. Resetti will punish them with a long lecture the next time they play the game, about how they should not "reset" the game (turn off the console without saving). When the player buys a house from Tom Nook, he throws in the gyroid free, and will explain what it does to the player.
In Animal Crossing: Wild World and in Animal Crossing: City Folk Nook will not give the player a gyroid outside their house, instead the highest floor of the player house is a bedroom where the player can jump into their bed and save progress. Also, in City Folk, if the player goes to the City, their will be an Auction House. Lloid, the gyroid, is the owner of the auction house.
Other Features
Messages
The owner of the Gyroid can teach it messages, and when another player talks to that Gyroid it will repeat the message.
Timed Messages
In Template:AFe+, the player can set a message to appear in a certain time of the day.
Selling Items
The player can place items in the Gyroid that it can sell to other players if they talk to it. The player can also set the price of the items, or make them Display only.
Trivia
- The Gyroid is always doing a sort of dance, and will do it faster and faster as a character gets closer to it. Another gyroid that does this dance is Lloid.
- Gyroids have appeared in Pikmin 2 and some of the WarioWare games. Also, there is an enemy from the Kirby series named Cappy, who resembles a gyroid. Curiously, Cappy was created before the release of Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival.
- Coco is a rabbit villager who strongly resembles a gyroid.
- In the original Animal Crossing, if you use a warp item to go to a test world, a different colored Gyroid can be seen. When you talk to it, it will say nothing.
