New Year's Day
| ||||||
 Isabelle at the event plaza in New Leaf | ||||||
| Occurrence | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1st | ||||||
| Music (New Horizons) | ||||||
| Time | 6:00 AM – 11:00 AM [nb 2] All day [nb 3] | |||||
| Host | Tortimer [nb 4] Isabelle[nb 5] Tom Nook [nb 6] | |||||
| Visitors | Katrina[nb 1] | |||||
| Main appearances | ||||||
|
| ||||||
| Other appearances | ||||||
New Year's Day is an event in the Animal Crossing series that appears in all games to date. It is held on the first day of January, representing the real-life holiday of the same name. It is the second part of the two-part New Year celebration, with the previous day, the Countdown, being the first part. What happens during the event varies between games.
Appearances
In Animal Crossing
In Animal Crossing, villagers will gather near the wishing well from 6 AM to 11 AM. By talking to the villager making a wish near the well, the player is able to make their own New Year's wish by asking to go next. Katrina will also be present near the wishing well to read the player's fortune for the year for 50 Bells. She will give the player a fortune written on Fortune Paper, which is exclusive to this event and appears unorderable in the stationery catalog.
Additionally, the player receives 10,000 Bells from Mom in the mail, and they can talk to Tortimer to receive a random diary. If the player has upgraded Nook's shop past Nook's Cranny, he will also sell Mystery Bags for 2,000 Bells each.
In Wild World
In Animal Crossing: Wild World, the player can speak to Tortimer in this day to receive a random fortune. Tortimer can be spoken to multiple times for different fortunes.
In City Folk
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, Tortimer gives the player a New Year's Shirt corresponding to the current year (up to 2035), and the player will also receive 1,000 Bells from Mom.
In New Leaf
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the player will receive a gift from their Mom, which will either be 10,000 Bells or a house plant, although if they do not play on New Year's Day, they will not receive such letter. A special cutout is available in the event plaza, and Isabelle will also be present there until 12 AM.
When Isabelle is spoken to, she gives the player a gift which is an animal based off the Chinese zodiac of the current year. They act as furniture and can be displayed in the player's house. All zodiac items have the Harmonious interior theme, sell for 120 Bells at Re-Tail, and, except for the Zodiac Boar, are only obtainable from the event.
In New Horizons
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Isabelle wishes the residents a happy new year in her daily announcement, and unique music plays all day in place of the standard hourly music. The sun is visible during the sunrise and sunset. The skies are brighter than usual, meaning shadows are longer near morning and evening hours. Additionally, if accessed, the Nook Stop rewards the player with 500 Nook Miles to celebrate the new year and gives all players a seven-day streak starting the following day due to the closure of Resident Services during the Countdown, regardless of the player's previous streak. Brewster will also wish the player a happy New Year after drinking his coffee at The Roost.
In addition to the event itself, several seasonal items are sold via Nook Shopping from January 1 to January 5 to celebrate New Year's Day in various regions. The items include celebratory arches for 2021 and 2022, Yut Nori, and the zodiac figurine correspondent to the current zodiac (e.g. in 2021 the zodiac ox figurine was given out)[nb 8]. A related holiday, Shōgatsu, also includes several seasonal items in Nook Shopping, including the kadomatsu, kagamimochi, New Year's shimekazari, and since version 2.0, the osechi and otoshidama envelope.
Items
In City Folk
All 36 New Year's shirts in Animal Crossing: City Folk have the same name but are separate items. Each shirt has the year on the back and the year's zodiac animal on the front.
New Year's shirts in Animal Crossing: City Folk
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
_CF_Model.png)
In New Leaf
Zodiac items in Animal Crossing: New Leaf
| # | Item | Image | Buy price | Sell price[nb 9] | Available from | HHA theme challenges | Style | Interact | Customizable | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,731 | Zodiac boar | 
|
 3 MEOW Coupons
|
 120 Bells
|
 Isabelle RVs |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No | 
|
| 1,732 | Zodiac dog | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,733 | Zodiac dragon | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,734 | Zodiac goat | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,735 | Zodiac horse | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,736 | Zodiac monkey | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,737 | Zodiac ox | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,738 | Zodiac rabbit | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,739 | Zodiac rat | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,740 | Zodiac rooster | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,741 | Zodiac snake | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
| 1,742 | Zodiac tiger | 
|
Not for sale | 120 Bells
|
Isabelle |
Harmonious | Iconic | - | No |
|
In New Horizons
New Year's Day seasonal items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
_NH_Icon.png){kind=icon}
Gallery
The player throwing a coin into the wishing well in Animal Crossing.
A fortune provided by Katrina in Animal Crossing.
A letter from Mom with 10,000 Bells attached in Animal Crossing.
The train station announcing the start of the event in Animal Crossing.
The turn of the new year in Wild World.
Trivia
- In Animal Crossing, Katrina asks the player if they would like to participate in her "sunshine lottery."[1] If the player has no spaces left in their letter inventory, she mistakenly says they need to make room in their "mailbox."[2] This erroneous text may refer to a point earlier in development where Katrina offered a prize similar to Nook's raffle, or it may be a reference to Nengajō, a type of New Year card that has lottery numbers printed at the bottom. It may also be a reference to the planned implementation of a special type of secret code generated specifically for contests.
- In Animal Crossing: City Folk, the New Year's shirts for 2000–2008 could never be obtained if playing the game exclusively in real time, since the game was released in November 2008, making them the only items in the series to have this property. For the Korean version of the game, this also applies to the 2009 and 2010 shirts, since the game was released in South Korea on January 28, 2010.
Notes
- ↑ In Animal Crossing only
- ↑ In Animal Crossing only
- ↑ From Wild World-onwards
- ↑ In Animal Crossing, Wild World and City Folk
- ↑ In New Leaf and New Horizons
- ↑ In New Horizons only
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Called New Year to celebrate with 2021 celebratory arch and Olivier salad
- ↑ Until version 2.0, the Olivier salad was included in this event
- ↑ Re-Tail sell price; if item can be sold at Timmy and Tommy's store, it is 80% of the sell price; if item can be sold to Leila at Tortimer Island, it is 5% of the sell price.
References
Further details: Needs more screenshots from Wild World, City Folk, and New Leaf.
Further details: Needs more screenshots from Wild World, City Folk, and New Leaf.
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
