How to get Kapp'n in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Kapp'n offers its boat trip services in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to anyone who unlocked it, and since update 3.0, unlocking Kapp'n is also required to access the hotel on your island.

On boat trips, Kapp'n will take you to a random type of island at 1,000 Nook Miles up to twice a day, where you can find resources like Cherry Blossoms, Star Fragments, and Gyroid Fragments. And the hotel is a huge extension Animal Crossing: New Horizons where you can complete various room design and DIY tasks to unlock exclusive items, hotel features and get hotel tickets.

To make it easier for you to access this content, we have explained how to get Kapp'n in Animal Crossing: New Horizons below, as well as everything else you need to know Types of Kapp'n Islands.

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How to get to the hotel in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Animal Crossing New Horizons 3.0 update adds the Kappn family hotel where players can help decorate rooms and choose clothes.

How to get Kapp'n in Animal Crossing New Horizons

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To get inside Kapp'n ACNHyou must:

Then, the day after the KK Slider first comes out, Isabelle informs you that the boat trips are now unlocked. All you have to do now is head to the end of the pier on your island to find Kapp'n chilling in his ship.

The links above describe exactly how to get the three-star island and unlock the KK Slider, but here's an abbreviated step-by-step summary of what to do:

1. Pay off your initial debt of 5,000 Nook Miles

2. Build Nook's Cranny

3. Build your first bridge

4. Build and place furniture for 3 incoming villagers

5. Construct a building for residential services

6. Build a campsite

7. Talk to Isabelle to see your island rating

8. Have at least eight villagers (with nine or ten you get even more points)

9. Pull out all the weeds on your island

10. Plant and water many varieties of flowers

11. Plant different types of trees and shrubs (but too many trees will deduct points)

12. Place more different items outside

13. Place more bridges, slopes and fences

If you do all of the above, you should receive your 3-star island not long after your KK visits, unless your island has too many trees or lots of items, branches, rocks, shells, and message bottles lying on the ground.

All types of Kapp'n islands in animals crossing New Horizons

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Here is a list of all types of islands you can get on Kapp'n boat trips ACNH:

• Gyroid Islands (Common)

• Grain Islands (Common)

• Vine/Moss Islands (Common)

• Rain/Snow Gyroid Islands (Rare)

• Star Fragment Islands (Rare)

• Cherry Blossom Islands (Rare)

• Bamboo Islands (Rare)

• Shell Summer Islands (Rare)

• Mushroom Islands (Rare)

• Maple Leaf Islands (Rare)

• Snowflake Islands (Rare)

There are also a few other important details to keep in mind about the Kapp'n Islands:

• Before update 3.0 you could only take one boat trip per day, but now you can visit the second island with 100 hotel tickets in ACNH after you complete the first VIP room in the hotel.

• There is always one Gyroid Fragment buried on each island. The Raining/Snowing gyroid islands also have the entire gyroid buried.

• The Kapp'n Islands may have a different season or time of day than your island's current season and time, which you can use to collect new fish, insects and sea creatures for your collection.

• Each island has a bottle with a message, with each type of island containing different DIY recipes in the bottle.

• Rare Island is always obtained by receiving a fortune from Katrina the Fortune Teller.

• You can buy basic tools with Nook Miles from Kapp'n on the cruise ship island if you forgot to bring one or one breaks.

Systems

Released

March 20, 2020

ESRB

All / Comic book mischief, mild fantasy violence, user interaction, in-game purchases

Developers

Nintendo EPD

Publishers

Nintendo

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