Animal Crossing: New Horizons version 1.6.0 – Free Winter Update

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The Winter Update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons (version 1.6.0) was an update released on November 19, 2020. The update brought two returning holidays: Turkey Day and Toy Day, alongside their respective hosts Franklin and Jingle. Additional improvements, including increased storage capacity and new hairstyles were also added. It was announced on November 17, 2020. Players who downloaded this update would receive a yule log as a gift.

New features

Events and holidays

Turkey Day

Franklin getting ready to cook.

Harvest Festival has been renamed to Turkey Day in its return in 1.6.0, but the event is still hosted by Franklin as with New Leaf. During this event, Franklin will ask the player to collect various ingredients for four dishes in exchange for a Turkey Day rug, a Turkey Day wall, a Turkey Day flooring, and a cornucopia in order. If the player has difficulties getting a specific ingredient, villagers that are inside their house will exchange ingredients. Each dish also has a secret ingredient that, if given to Franklin, will give a Turkey Day Series furniture that can only be crafted. If the player manages to give Franklin a secret ingredient for every dish, he will give the player the Cozy Turkey Day DIY

For northern hemisphere players, Turkey Day is taken as a celebration of the fall harvest, while for Southern Hemisphere players it is taken as a celebration of spring. This is reflected by every furniture outside of Resident Services and the Turkey Day Series being customized for their respective hemispheres, and the change in ingredients that are required for each dish. If the player misses Turkey Day, from after Turkey Day until the end of November, Nook's Cranny will sell the Cozy Turkey Day DIY pack and Turkey Day furniture for  19,800 Bells.

This event is time-locked, and only unlocks on 1.6.xa.

Toy Day

The player giving a gift to Sherb.

Toy Day, and its host Jingle, return in 1.6.0. In the days preceding Toy Day, Nook's Cranny will sell a random toy and Able Sisters will sell Festive-related clothing. This portion is time-locked, and only occurs on 1.6.xb.

During Toy Day itself, Jingle will give the player a DIY recipe for the festive wrapping paper, and asks for them to craft three for him. Once completed, the player given a Toy Day stockings and Jingle gives the player the task to deliver gifts to every villager. If the player has a high friendship with a villager, when the player gives them their gift, the villager will give the player a toy item back. After completing the task, the player will earn the gift pile DIY. If the player hangs up their Toy Day Stockings on Toy Day, then from December 31 to January 1, the player can receive Jingle's photo. Toy Day itself is time-locked, and only unlocks on 1.6.xc.

In a first in the series, Toy Day has two variants of its composition. A festive, calming rendition for Toy Day in the northern hemisphere and an upbeat, vibrant rendition for Toy Day in the southern hemisphere.

Nook Shopping seasonal events

Three players holding up sparkling ciders.

New Nook Shopping seasonal events include the following events:

• To add on to the Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice, the aurora wall and sunflower rug were added alongside the midwinter sweater and sunflower crown respectively. They are available throughout December.
• Four items related to New Year's Eve were added are are available from December 26 to December 31: New Year's noodles for Ōmisoka, berliner for Silvester, twelve-grape dish for Nochevieja, and sparkling cider for New Year's Eve. They all relate to their respective local holiday traditions for New Year's Eve.
• The Japanese New Year, or Shōgatsu, features three items available from January 1 to January 15: the kadomatsu, kagamimochi, and New Year's shimekazari.
• Other items available from January 1 to January 15 to celebrate the New Year include the 2021 celebratory arch, Olivier salad, Yut Nori, and zodiac ox figurine. They all relate to their respective local holiday traditions for the New Year.

Island life improvements

The player sporting a hairstyle as part of the Top 6 Stylish Hairstyles collection.

Tom Nook can now offer the player to expand their storage for  500,000 Bells if they paid off all their home loan. This expansion moves the player up from 1600 storage slots to 2400. The player can also redeem Nook Miles for the Hip Reaction Collection to obtain nine new Reactions—Sit Down, Wave Goodbye, Take a Picture, Sniff Sniff, Work Out, Yoga, Here You Go, Excited, and Ta-da. Six new hairstyles have also been added and are obtainable from Top 6 Stylish Hairstyles.

Other features

• Luna can now send players to random dream islands as she did before in New Leaf. The option to activate this is "Surprise me".
• Players can now be transferred between islands, which is done in-game. Additionally, the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island Transfer Tool, an external application which transfers islands between Nintendo Switch consoles, was released alongside the update.
• A new promotion item for Pocket Camp was added: the Pocket Camp phone case.

Items added in 1.6.0

1.6.0 items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Item	Image	Type	Buy price	Sell price	Available from
2021 celebratory arch		Furniture	2,021 Bells	505 Bells	Nook Shopping
Berliner		Furniture	1,200 Bells	300 Bells	Nook Shopping
Cornucopia		Furniture	Not for sale	2,500 Bells	Franklin
Dinosaur toy		Furniture	2,400 Bells	600 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Dollhouse		Furniture	4,000 Bells	1,000 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Festive wreath		Furniture	1,500 Bells	375 Bells	Any villager
Gift pile		Furniture	Not for sale	660 Bells	Crafting
Kadomatsu		Furniture	2,580 Bells	645 Bells	Nook Shopping
Kagamimochi		Furniture	1,800 Bells	450 Bells	Nook Shopping
Kids' tent		Furniture	4,500 Bells	1,125 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Mini circuit		Furniture	3,800 Bells	950 Bells	Nook's Cranny
New Year's noodles		Furniture	1,300 Bells	325 Bells	Nook Shopping
New Year's shimekazari		Furniture	2,000 Bells	500 Bells	Nook Shopping
Olivier salad		Furniture	1,000 Bells	250 Bells	Nook Shopping
Pop-up book		Furniture	2,000 Bells	500 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Puppy plushie		Furniture	2,400 Bells	600 Bells	Nook's Cranny
RC helicopter		Furniture	3,600 Bells	900 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Set of stockings		Furniture	2,000 Bells	500 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Tin robot		Furniture	3,500 Bells	875 Bells	Nook's Cranny
Toy Day sleigh		Furniture	Not for sale	20,000 Bells	Jingle
Toy Day stockings		Furniture	Not for sale	500 Bells	Jingle
Turkey Day casserole		Furniture	7,000 Bells	1,750 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day chair		Furniture	2,200 Bells	550 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day decorations		Furniture	2,000 Bells	500 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day garden stand		Furniture	3,600 Bells	900 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day hearth		Furniture	13,000 Bells	3,250 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day table		Furniture	4,500 Bells	1,125 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day table setting		Furniture	4,000 Bells	1,000 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Turkey Day wheat decor		Furniture	800 Bells	200 Bells	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Twelve-grape dish		Furniture	1,200 Bells	300 Bells	Nook Shopping
Yule log		Furniture	1,200 Bells	300 Bells	Nook Shopping  Nintendo
Yut Nori		Furniture	1,300 Bells	325 Bells	Nook Shopping
Zodiac ox figurine		Furniture	1,600 Bells	400 Bells	Nook Shopping  Katrina
Reindeer costume		Clothing	1,700 Bells	425 Bells	Able Sisters
Reindeer hat		Clothing	1,120 Bells	280 Bells	Able Sisters  Apparel shop
Santa beard		Clothing	1,480 Bells	370 Bells	Able Sisters  Apparel shop
Santa coat		Clothing	2,600 Bells	650 Bells	Able Sisters  Apparel shop
Santa hat		Clothing	2,000 Bells	500 Bells	Able Sisters  Apparel shop
Santa pants		Clothing	2,150 Bells	537 Bells	Able Sisters  Apparel shop
Aurora wall		Interior	7,000 Bells	1,750 Bells	Nook Shopping
Falling-snow wall		Interior	Not for sale	2,700 Bells	Crafting
Festive rug		Interior	Not for sale	1,500 Bells	Crafting
Summer-shell rug		Interior	Not for sale	7,200 Bells	Crafting
Sunflower rug		Interior	1,500 Bells	375 Bells	Nook Shopping
Turkey Day flooring		Interior	Not for sale	750 Bells	Franklin
Turkey Day rug		Interior	Not for sale	500 Bells	Franklin
Turkey Day wall		Interior	Not for sale	750 Bells	Franklin
Jingle's photo		Photo	Not for sale	10 Bells	Jingle  Lottie
Magic bag		Tool	Not for sale	Cannot be sold	Jingle
Sparkling cider		Tool	1,000 Bells	250 Bells	Nook Shopping
Cozy Turkey Day DIY		Others	19,800 Bells	Cannot be sold	Nook's Cranny  Franklin
Festive wrapping paper		Others	Not for sale	300 Bells	Crafting
Gift		Others	Not for sale	Cannot be sold	Festive wrapping paper
Hip Reaction Collection		Others	2,700 Nook Miles	Cannot be sold	Nook Stop
Pocket Camp phone case		Others	2,000 Bells	500 Bells	Nook Shopping
Top 6 Stylish Hairstyles		Others	1,800 Nook Miles	Cannot be sold	Nook Stop
Transfer kit		Others	Not for sale	Cannot be sold	Tom Nook

Includes data sourced from the Data Spreadsheet for Animal Crossing New Horizons, compiled and edited by 6480, noizhub, Ricky, chaiinchomp, saberslime, robotic_scarab, mollumisc, sunmarsh, kyrokey, obstinateRixatrix, jackiwi, Zalex, SuperHamster, kait, hyuum, Azarro, Czarcasm, cinnamon_swirlix, astronomyfortwo, Welcius, glowtopia, BriKun, Alyrei, dodocodes.com, StevieCoops, sneeze, Shiny190, TwistedPeach, LavaToaster, capstone, vmario, rocklamp, Alexis, Aeon, and PanchamBro.

Changed features

• The availability of the sunflower crown and midwinter sweater were changed. Previously, the items were available in both hemispheres around June 6 to July 7. In 1.6.0, this was changed in that the items associated with their respective season would only appear on the hemispheres that were experiencing those seasons. In this instance for December, the midwinter sweater was only available for northern hemisphere players for the Winter Solstice, and the sunflower crown was only available for southern hemisphere players for the Summer Solstice.
• Leif now sells pumpkin starts year-round instead of limited to just October.
• The names of the following items were changed:
  • Summer-solstice crown → Sunflower crown
  • Winter-solstice sweater → Midwinter sweater

Bug fixes

• Any tables created to duplicate miscellaneous furniture items on 1.2.0 prior to the 1.2.1 patch will no longer work.

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Related updates

• The NookLink mobile app now allows players to view their catalog. This update was announced alongside the 1.6.0 update and was released on November 29, 2020.

Trailer

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Free Winter Update - Nintendo Switch

External links

• North American announcement article
• Japanese announcement article
• Korean announcement article

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