Do you love your inhabitants in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but would you also like to play with your friends and visit them on their islands? Fortunately, thanks to the multiplayer mode! We’ll tell you how this works and what you need to know in this guide.
Whether online or local: your friends on their islands in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Visiting and playing with them is easy. You can not only travel with one, but up to four friends on an island. If you prefer to play alone in New Horizons, you can still Visit islands from other players or just invite others to your island.
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Friends visit Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you want to visit your friends, you should Dodo Airlines airport seek out. Talk to Bodo there, who gives you the choice of visiting a friend on an island or receiving someone. You can then decide whether this should happen locally or online. If you play with the shared flat or with a friend who is present, you can choose local. On the other hand, if you want to play with someone over the Internet, you need a “Nintendo Switch Online” membership.
If this is regulated, there are two options to choose from, how you can connect with other players:
Play with friends using Dodo code
On the Dodo code you can play with people you haven’t exchanged a friend code with. As the host, you or another player determines a temporary code. Then share it with your future teammates. Now they just have to enter the code in their game and can fly to your island.
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Visit friends via friend code
If you choose this option, you can only visit players with whom you are also friends. That means you already a friend code must have exchanged. If you don’t know where you can find your friend code, we have linked a guide for you here. When you choose the Friends List option at Dodo for the first time, you get the “Best Friends” app for your NookPhone.
The “Best Friends” app shows which of your friends is currently online, provided that you have marked them as best friends. You can even communicate a little via the app, even without visiting you. Anyone who is concerned about the well-being of their island at this point should not worry. Unknowns will only have limited rights and cannot devastate your island.
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