Animal Crossing: New Horizons Ordinances Guide - What is Best? (2024)

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What ordinance should I pick in ACNH? ›

Why Animal Crossing: New Horizons Players Should Consider Using the Bell Boom Ordinance. Animal Crossing: New Horizons' 2.0 update introduces four Ordinances to the game, but the Bell Boom Ordinance may be the most useful of all. Animal Crossing: New Horizons November 5 update brings a ton of new content to the game.

Beautiful Town/Island Ordinance

The key benefits of choosing this ordinance are: Villagers are more likely to water. Time traveling does not affect the town's environment. co*ckroaches will not appear at all.

Ordinances are features in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: New Horizons that allow the mayor or Resident Representative to change an aspect of the town or island. There are four ordinances: Beautiful Island, Early Bird, Night Owl, and Bell Boom. The player can only set one ordinance at a time.

Early Bird ordinance

Your villagers will wake up about an hour or so earlier, and shops will also open an hour earlier. (They'll still close at the usual time.)

Like the other three ordinances, it costs 20,000 bells to enact. When this ordinance is in effect, all purchase prices and selling prices are raised by 20%.

A perfect town refers to when the player's town is in perfect condition. To get a perfect town, the town must have a specific amount of trees, flowers, and public work projects, in addition to minimizing trash and weeds in the town.

The tour can be embarked on in exchange for a Nook Miles Ticket by speaking to Orville at the airport. Each tour brings the participant to a random deserted island, known as a Mystery Island, where they can harvest materials for crafting and catch rare bugs and fish.

Because the game does have a terraforming tool, choosing your island doesn't matter much in the long run — but you won't be able to change your island for several days. This means you should pick something you're happy with at the beginning.

Select the option to Discuss a Resident, and pick any reason to complain about the resident. By complaining about a villagers' clothing or the way they speak, players are able to change what the ostracized neighbor wears or their catchphrases.

A pitfall seed has the appearance of a white sphere with a large red exclamation point in the center on both sides. The primary use of a pitfall seed is for the player to bury it, at which point it will look like any other buried item. When a villager or player walks over a buried pitfall seed, they will fall into it.

What is a night owl ordinance? ›

Night Owl ordinance: Makes all villagers awake and active, and businesses open an extra hour later in the evening (Nook's Cranny closes at 11 pm, Able Sisters at 10pm)

Note: The maximum life of an ordinance can be six months and six weeks.

You have to talk to a villager at least once if you want them to move out. As long as a player does not complete the move-out request conversation, the game will not reset the c value nor cause the 5-15 day cooldown.

The Bell Boom Ordinance lets shops pay you 1.2x the selling price for any items you wish to sell. This means that native fruit that normally sell for 100 Bells will sell for 120 Bells under the Bell Boom Ordinance.

When deciding on which island shape to go with, we highly recommend picking the one where Resident Services is located toward the center. Resident Services is where you will go to repay loans, sell items, as well as build DIY items, and more.

By enacting Ordinances on your island, you can adjust some of the 'rules' that villagers or shops follow to better suit your personal Animal Crossing: New Horizons playstyle!

Bell Boom Ordinance

However, items are also sold for 1.2x the price, so you won't notice a change in your "cost of living" unless you conduct business on another island. Turnips are not affected by the Bell Boom.