
Fortunately, it seems interacting with Tourist NPCs like Sahara and buying from them when they visit has a positive effect on your rating as well. Establish New BusinessesĮstablishing new businesses on your island is probably the hardest method of raising your development rating early on just because it takes so much time. Whether you're creating a shop-and-swap section, a fenced-off garden, or just putting up some panels here and there, it counts towards improving your overall rating. Sections of fencing help improve your island development as well, and you can get fairly creative with it. Just don't put a dozen of the same thing out, unless it's fencing panels. It's pretty darn important, and your island development rating won't increase if you don't decorate. Decorating the outdoors isn't just a feature in New Horizons.

One of the biggest factors determining your island rating is the furniture you put outside. Isabelle should tell you if you go overboard with the tree planting, but in general, try to make sure you keep areas from being clogged with trees. Pick weeds, plant trees - but not too many - and plant flowers. One way to improve your island development rating is making it look good. Getting more visitors and residents on your island helps raise the development level, so you should already be good to go here.
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You'll need to get your island development rating up to three starts or more, and Isabelle gives some general guidelines for how to do that. Apparently, our favorite pupper performer won't do a gig in any ol' dump with a coffee shop or train station anymore. Next, it's time to focus on island development. We haven't confirmed yet how many residents you need on your island, but the maximum of 10 seems to work. You can then set up a tent for a new visitor and, once it's all ready to go, wait for someone to move in. If you speak to Tom Nook about infrastructure, he'll give you the option to buy a land plot for 10,000 Bells. One other method of attracting newcomers to the island involves selling off land. You can get more through the campsite, get lucky and have one move in some random day, or take the initiative and scout them out on islands you visit with Nook Miles Tickets. By the time you start Project K, you'll have at least five residents.

The other thing you'll need to do is boost the number of residents living on your island. Some players are reporting it takes several invitations to get them to move in permanently, but as long as you're boosting the number of visitors in general, it's a win-win either way. If you've got Animal Crossing Amiibo cards, you can use those once per day to invite a specific animal to the campsite. That's what lets you invite them to stay on the island for good. If you do, make sure to provide them the souvenir they ask for. There's no guarantee you'll get a visitor to the campsite on any given day. From there, it's a matter of luck and biding your time. Find a spot, then wait until the next day for construction to finish. Nook tasks you with setting up a campsite.

Attracting More Visitors to Your Island - The New Horizons Campsite Phase one in Project K is all about getting your island noticed, and there are two ways to do that. Nook outlines what's involved, including getting more visitors on the island and raising your island development rating. He'll give you a brief overview of his latest plan, Project K.Īs you'd expect, it's all about getting K.K. Once you've got those things taken care of, speak with Tom Nook in the new-and-improved Resident Services. You can't even think about doing this until Resident Services upgrades and Isabelle comes to town, though.So work on that first. Once you're finished, you'll be terraforming in no time, considering you have enough bells to buy all of the permits. There are a number of steps you need to complete to get the island development app, and we're here to break them all down.
