A spring and summer update coming to Animal Crossing: New Horizons will add seasonal events, vendors, and furniture, as well as an island museum expansion. The Animal Crossing: New Horizons April, May, and June update brings gardener Leif and artifact connoisseur Jolly Redd to players’ islands, each of which provides new decorations and activities for players to explore.
Nintendo’s official announcement of the upcoming update arrives just when players speculated it would, with the game’s Nature Day event coming a day after the real-world Earth Day. New Horizons’ first holiday event, Bunny Day, was criticized by many fans for causing too big an interruption to normal activities, replacing regular resources with obnoxious Easter-themed eggs over a period of twelve days. The event was so widely hated that Nintendo issued a Bunny Day fix patch, reducing the rate at which eggs were encountered.
It appears the May Day, Museum Day, and Wedding Season events in the new update will be less intrusive, and more players are likely to enjoy the less holiday-specific items provided by the update’s new vendors. Here’s everything players will see in New Horizons’ upcoming events.
All Events & Visitors In Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ Spring Update
The most significant addition in the update – launching April 23 – is two new visiting vendors. Leif and Jolly Redd, both of which have appeared in previous Animal Crossing games, will begin to stop by players’ islands to sell their respective goods. Leif will visit “regularly,” vending decorative foliage like bushes and flower seeds out of a cart in the town plaza. Jolly Redd will “occasionally” dock his Treasure Trawler boat on players’ islands (and it looks like he’ll park the vessel on the hidden beach at the islands’ north ends, so players should check there regularly). Redd sells in-game art and furniture with unique colors, and players will need to distinguish real art from fake pieces, donating the real ones to the museum to open an art gallery. It seems these vendors will continue to visit players even after the update’s events are over.
Along with the new vendors are four seasonal events: Nature Day, May Day Tour, International Museum Day, and Wedding Season. Each of these events is detailed below.
- Nature Day (April 23 through May 4): Players can complete special nature-themed Nook Miles challenges, like planting trees and watering flowers.
- May Day Tour (May 1 through 7): Players will get a one-use May Day Ticket, which lets them visit a unique island that “looks different than the usual mystery island tours.” They’ll meet a special “familiar” visitor there – possibly Tortimer or another Animal Crossing series mainstay missing from the base game.
- International Museum Day (May 18 through 31): Blathers will host a Stamp Rally event, which allows them to earn an exclusive reward for viewing certain fish, insects, and fossils in the museum.
- Wedding Season (June 1 through 30): Players can travel to Harvey’s photo island to arrange and take anniversary pictures of married couple Reese and Cyrus, earning wedding-themed items as a reward.
Nintendo hasn’t announced any further updates after these spring and summer events, but players can likely expect another big update like this sometime in July. In fact, a New Horizons datamine may have already discovered some features coming after the April update.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons released on March 20, 2020, for the Nintendo Switch.
