As part of the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC, players were offered a job as the newest member of the Paradise Planning team on the Happy Home Archipelago, designing vacation homes for villagers. In addition to the free 2.0 update, this paid DLC massively expanded Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ content, introducing an entire archipelago to customize as well as a ton of new items. Players can now put their interior decorating to the test and create vacation homes for villagers, learning a number of new design skills along the way.
On the Happy Home Archipelago, villagers will appear on the beach at random, daydreaming of their ideal vacation home. Players can speak with them while on the job to make their dreams a reality and design a home based on the villager’s requested theme. There’s seemingly no limit to the number of vacation homes players can build on the island, and villagers can even share vacation homes as roommates.
However, players don’t have to wait around for their favorite villagers to show up on the beach. Not only can players invite their own island residents to the archipelago, but they can also use Amiibos to make sales calls to specific villagers who they’d like to design for. There are also VIPs who can be unlocked with a corresponding Amiibo card.
How To Unlock The Paradise Planning Amiibo Scanner in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The Amiibo scanner in the Paradise Planning office allows players to use their Amiibo cards to call villagers and invite them to a vacation home in Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise, much like the Nook Stop in the base game. However, the process for getting an Amiibo villager in the DLC is much easier and doesn’t require the player to complete any tasks to get the villager to stay.
After being promoted to a “Promising Designer” and completing their seventh vacation home, players will return to the office, where Lottie will point out the new scanner on the desk. This Amiibo scanner can be used to call specific villagers, prompting players to place their Amiibo card over the NFC touchpoint of their Switch or Pro Controller. Once the villager answers, they will be delighted by the player’s offer to build them a vacation home and come to the archipelago immediately.
Special characters can also be called once the player completes 20 design projects, which unlocks the ability to invite VIPs to the archipelago. Characters like Isabelle and Tom Nook can now relax at their own island getaway in homes designed by the player, as long as the player has the corresponding Amiibo card. Players can even invite characters from the Sanrio series of Amiibo cards to join in on all the fun the Happy Home Paradise has to offer.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available on Nintendo Switch.