How To Use Amiibo Card In Animal Crossing New Horizons?

How to use Amiibo cards to invite small animals to move to your island? Here we show you how and where you can use the Amiibo in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

What Is ACNH Amiibo Cards?

With each of the Amiibo in the Animal Crossing series, you unlock something new, ensuring more life on your island, among other things.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons supports three different types of Amiibo: Animal Crossing Amiibo figures, Animal Crossing Amiibo series, and Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival.

What Do the Amiibo Unlock in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

1. For one thing, it's possible to use The Amiibo cards to invite residents to your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

2. On the other hand, there is Fotopia, a special house on an island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. There you can use models of different residents for photo shoots. You can unlock these either with Amiibo figures or cards on Fotopia. Once you unlock them, you can equip the models with a variety of garments, set emotions, decorate the scene and finally take your photo.

How To Get Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards?

You can buy Animal Crossing Amiibo cards from Amazon, eBay and other online stores, but in many countries, these cards are selling at high prices as most of them are now out of print and hard to find. 

How (Where) To Use Amiibo Card To Invite Villager To Your Island?

Pre-conditions for using amiibo card in Animal Crossing New Horizons:

• 1. Pay off the first mortgage of Nook Miles to Tom Nook 

• 2. Pay off the first loan of Animal Crossing bells to Tom Nook 

• 3. Complete the 30 store upgrade tasks for iron nuggets and other materials.

• 4. After the store upgrade is completed, trigger the story of Rick, saying that three small animals will be attracted to your island, and ask you to choose the address for them and make the corresponding furniture (if you can use the Miles Travel Voucher to go You can invite small animals on the island)

• 5. After the three little animals have come (after you have prepared things, one will come every day), dialogue with Rick to trigger the plot, allowing you to complete the upgrade of the "service office"

• 6. Dialogue with Rick, and add the site selection task of "Camping Site"

• 7. After the completion of the "campsite", villagers who came to the campsite were invited to go to the island, and an unused development site was purchased for him as his new residence at Like

• 8. At this time, the ATM will unlock the amiibo function!

• 9. Use the amiibo function to invite small animals. It takes at least three days. You must swipe it once a day and complete the requirements.

• 10. On the third day, buy a piece of unused land, then swipe the small animals, and go to the campsite to talk to the villager and send out invitations (you must buy the unused land on the third day, otherwise buying in advance may result in other Random animals come to check in)

Steps to Active the Amiibo in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

• 1. To use your Amiibo in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you'll need to go to the service center.

• There you will find a vending machine with a green leaf on the page where you can use your Amiibo.

• 2. Then interacts with the device and places the selected Amiibo figure or card on the controller's NFC contact field.

• 3. If you're using a Joy-Con controller or the Nintendo Switch Lite, the NFC contact point is where the right controller stick is. For the Pro Controller, the NFC contact point is in the middle under the Nintendo Switch logo.