If you've been getting back into Animal Crossing: New Horizons ahead of this week's major update and paid DLC, preparing your island for the big day, you might want to make sure you pay a visit to Resident Services to grab some special limited-time items.
Available right now up until 11th November are these special Handheld lanterns, appearing in-game to celebrate Lantern Festival. As New Horizons explains, this festival is celebrated throughout Europe and "features a night of children carrying lanterns and singing songs to usher in the start of winter." We'd rather keep winter at bay for as long as possible ourselves, but each to their own.
Regardless, you can get your own by heading to the 'Special Goods' section of Nook Shopping at the Terminal in Resident Services. Just hop on over to the Seasonal tab to find them – it should look like this:
There are actually six different lantern designs to collect, and thankfully these can be obtained by simply customising the lantern you buy from Nook Shopping. The Stars design was available from the shop for us, with Moons, Stained Glass, Suns, Geese, and Leaves all available as customisable options.
Remember, the game's final major free update and Happy Home Paradise DLC both launch this Friday, 5th November.
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Wow this I did not expect. My wife wondered if St. Maarten, our version of Halloween, celebrated on Nov 11th., would be included in AC and I said probably not.
Also wasn't aware this was celebrated beyond the confines of Northern Holland. It's not even celebrated everywhere in our country.
Very cool!!
Lovely, st Maarten in the game!
It was only recently that I discovered you could customize some of these specialty items. I think I just assumed you had to buy or trade for different variations
just waiting for Friday
GEESE
Finally some real (mostly) Dutch representation in the game.
They look really nice
Thanks for the heads up, I'll buy some.
I learned recently that these are tied to NSO and since I don't have it currently I can't get them. =(
I am SO buying these!
Pretty sure you don't need NSO cause last year when mine expired before renewing I checked a seasonal item that was available, and it was there I could order it even without NSO lol 😜
Time to dive back into AC this week. Oh lord, all the weeds I'm gonna have to pull.
Bought this and the marigolds yesterday! Excited for Friday!!
My guess is this stuff will be available every year at this time. No more FOMO from this game.
Love these designs!
These look beautiful!
@nimnio I exceeded a thousand hours in each of the prior three installments in this series, but this one lost me quickly. It just seems like work. And that coming from a person whose favorite game franchise is Story of Seasons, formerly Harvest Moon. Nintendo seems to be doing this with a lot of its franchises these days ... Play this weekend or this month to get this item or skin. I find myself playing because of FOMO rather than just playing what I want to play.
I got this cute little lantern recently, and started to read about the origin of the lantern. I like how Animal Crossing introduces me to holidays I never knew about in an innocent way.
Will be getting these little treats, nice to see some new items coming, and with all the new furniture ranges coming in the update, there will be loads of new stuff to collect.
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