animal crossing: deluxe features/changes

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Player customization

• Player skin tone can be chosen upon character creation
• Overhauled skin tone/tanning system, each skin tone has 8 tanning levels
• Boy player characters can have the princess hat, girl player characters can have the viking hat

Assorted QoL/controls/additions

• Overhauled storage, works like ACWW and onwards, expanded to 160 slots per player
• Proper widescreen support added
• Camera transition between acres can be disabled
• Camera angle can be changed outdoors with C-stick
• Keyboard support (Dolphin - any USB keyboard, real hardware - PSO keyboard)
• GBA no longer necessary for accessing island, kapp'n always available at the dock
• Furniture can be placed outdoors
• Saving/loading is faster than vanilla
• "Before I go..." renamed to "Settings"
• Settings menu options rearranged to be easier to navigate
• Chance of villagers moving out when visiting other towns reduced from 100% to 10%
• More acre types are valid for tortimer to build the third bridge
• Town tunes can be typed with the keyboard
• Support for higher framerates, up to 200FPS (work in progress, some things not fully converted to delta time)
• Gyroid outside player house can be assigned a nickname
• Bugs+fish can be dropped on the ground
• Villager quests can now be progressed if the relevant villager is inside an igloo
• Can receive further hints from wishing well when short of perfect town
• Fanfare for catching a bug, finding a fossil, and so on no longer interrupts hourly music
• Holes dug by player no longer despawn as result of distance
• Requirements for washing gracie's car are 20% lower
• Can view a more detailed version of the map by pressing R button
• Feng shui colors for furniture updated to match later games

New uses for Z-button

• Can quicksave by pressing Z+Start
• In-game clock can be synced with L+R+Z on the time change menu
• Can switch tabs in menus going backwards with Z+R
• Patterns can be removed from ground by pressing Z+B
• Can automatically place most recently used design again with Z+D-pad up
• Can access transparency while editing a pattern by holding Z while using a design tool

DnM/DnM+ (re)additions

• Scrapped furniture/clothing from DnM/DnM+ added
• Japan-exclusive furniture added
• Fireworks festival occurs each saturday in August
  • July 4th fireworks festival is still present
• Newly created towns can have a 50/50 chance to have a shrine, like DnM/DnM+, instead of the wishing well
• If there's a shrine in the town, the New year's celebration is the Japanese version of the holiday

e+ additions

• Outdoor decor from e+ added, though now obtained through a new visiting NPC named Renna
• Villager moveout system overhauled to be like e+ (look at Nookipedia for more details)
• Resetti's surveillance center added
• Tom nook can be woken up to access the store at night
• Can become best friends with villagers, they'll greet you as you pass by
• Best friend dialogs from e+ added (live song gifts, greetings, etc)
• e+ villagers, furniture, bugs/fish, K.K. slider songs added
• Sale day overhauled to be like e+
• Chip gives the player a rod during the fishing tourney if they don't already have one
• Letters and patterns have their own dedicated files on the memory card

iQue additions

• iQue-exclusive furniture and shirts added

ACWW additions

• ACWW wallpaper/flooring added
• Clovers added
• Rafflesias added
• Turnip prices vary in A.M. and P.M.
• Overhauled flowers, now work like ACWW and onwards. See plant section below for more details
• Mushroom furniture from ACWW added, can be found while mushrooming
• Some furniture not from any specific sets in process of being added
• Villagers from acww and onwards in process of being added
• Monkey villagers from ACWW are present
• Holes can be filled in without a shovel

ACCF additions

• Tools can be swapped and put away with D-pad

ACNL additions

• Ordinances added
• Pattern stumps added
• Fruit, mushrooms, and candy can now be stacked up to 10 when picked up
• Can choose between four different map layouts on town creation
• Can shake trees with a net or rod equipped

Tom Nook additions/changes

• Tom Nook sells one K.K. Slider song each sunday
• Player can deny working for Tom Nook
• Player can deny having a statue built when loan is fully paid off
• Nookington's no longer needs a second memory card for it to be opened
• Nook's catalog can be changed to have either the default sorting or alphabetical

Crazy Redd additions/changes

• Crazy Redd sells four items instead of three
• Crazy Redd is guaranteed to sell at least one painting per visit

K.K. Slider additions/changes

• All K.K. songs up to new leaf added
• Song names are less strict to type correctly when making requests

Custom pattern additions

• Patterns can be shared via a new feature to import/export patterns via the memory card
• Patterns can be placed on ground
• Patterns can have transparency
• Additional palettes added for patterns, unlocked by befriending Sable
• Town flag added next to train station, can have a custom pattern applied
• Custom patterns can be applied as background to the item screen

Plant additions/changes

• New fruit type - chestnuts (originally a scrapped DnM item)
• Overhauled flowers, now work similar to but not exactly like ACWW and onwards
• For more details, click here
• Flowers can be dug up and moved with a shovel
• New flower type - roses
• New flower type - Jacob's ladder (originally from e+)
• Hybrids can be bred with a watering can (sold by Nook)

Clock additions/changes

• Clock interface can be changed to look like the ones from DnM/DnM+ and e+
• Current acre is displayed nearby the clock (currently only applies to the default)

Fossil additions/changes

• Blathers can assess fossils, unlocked by donating 15 fossils
• Fossils can be mailed to Farway Museum to be sold after Blathers's assessment is unlocked
• Multi-piece have a higher sale price when sold this way
• 5 new fossils from ACWW added

Housing additions/changes

• Top floor of house can be expanded to 8x8
• Basement's wallpaper/flooring can be changed
• Music players inside houses can have their volume raised/lowered
• More furniture can be used as a surface for tabletop items
• Toggle for turning lights on/off swapped to use D-pad
• Gyroids can be placed on tables
• Placed tabletop items can be rotated
• Rotated diaries no longer have their positions reset
• Can change direction you're facing while sitting on four-sided chairs (also applies to stumps/rocks)

Golden tools changes

• Golden watering can is now the perfect town reward
• Golden axe changed to being obtained by purchasing 100 saplings from tom nook

NES changes

• NES games can have different aspect ratios
• "Forbidden four" NES games can be obtained through normal gameplay

Letter changes

• Letters can be thrown out indoors
• Letters can be multiselected for being mailed, marking as read, receiving enclosed gifts, being thrown out

Balloon present changes/additions

• Balloon presents now play a sound effect when floating by
• Balloons are more likely to actually collide with a tree, due to a bug fixed from original game being fixed
• Balloons can be smacked down with a net, while standing on edges of cliffs
• Mario items can be found via balloons

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page last updated: august 20, 2026. patch 43.0

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