You can use Animal Crossing amiibo cards and amiibo figures (sold separately) with your Nintendo 3DS family system to interact with your Animal Crossing friends in a whole new way!

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The home design hotline!

Receive more home design requests with amiibo

Most animals will turn up at Nook’s Homes by themselves over time, but you can connect directly to your favourite characters and hear their request by using their amiibo card with the amiibo phone! With special amiibo cards or amiibo figures, you can also design the homes of characters who don’t usually make requests, such as Isabelle and K.K.!

Please note: the amiibo phone is only accessible after reaching a certain point of the game.

Gather together!

Invite your animal friends over with amiibo

You can use Animal Crossing amiibo to invite animals to any homes or town facilities you’ve designed and set up perfect photo opportunities.

If you invite animals to a town facility, you can even assign them roles: choose a teacher for your school, set up staff for your shop, and more! Each animal has a different personality, so find the best role to suit each one!

Invited animals can get inspiration!

Invited animals can get inspiration!

When animals from Animal Crossing amiibo get invited to look around other homes, they get inspired and remember the furniture, wallpaper and ornaments they see.

If you use an amiibo of an animal who’s visited homes designed by other players, you might obtain items you’ve never seen before! Use the amiibo phone with amiibo containing data relating to other players’ items to add these items to your catalogue.

The amiibo phone must be enabled to use this feature. Animals can only remember items from the home or garden where they are currently located, and they cannot remember customised items.

Own a New Nintendo 3DS or New Nintendo 3DS XL?

You can use amiibo by tapping them on the NFC area on the bottom screen

Own a Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL
or Nintendo 2DS?

You can use amiibo via the Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer accessory (sold separately)

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You can also use amiibo cards in Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival on Wii U!

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You can also get the Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader/Writer accessory as part of a bundle with Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.

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