While interacting with villagers and visitors in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players can use Reactions to express themselves. In the Halloween update, players received a set of new reactions related to haunting and scaring their friends. Now, in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Winter update, players can unlock new Reactions, dubbed the Hip Reaction collection, to do everything from working out with their resident villagers in the plaza to sitting on the ground beside a friend. These new options will need to be purchased using Nook Miles.
There are nine new Reactions in the Hip Reaction collection, and they can all be bought as a set. Unlike some other Reactions, like the ones players can unlock by befriending villagers of certain personality types, there are no other steps to take, and players can begin using these new Reactions almost immediately as they enjoy the Winter activities and holiday celebrations on their island. Some of the new Reactions, like Yoga or Sit Down, make for great photo opportunities as well. Here's every new Reaction available in the Winter update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons and how to unlock them.
How to Unlock the New Hip Reactions in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
The nine new Reactions in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are:
- Excited: Players get sparkles in their eyes and they wiggle their arms and shake their hips in anticipation and excitement.
- Here You Go: Players can enthusiastically present an item to their villagers with outstretched arms and circles around their head.
- Sit Down: Players can sit down on the ground next to their villagers or propped against a tree.
- Sniff Sniff: Players can stop and smell the roses, or whatever is cooking over Turkey Day.
- Ta-da: Players can now show off their latest catch or their home-grown pumpkins with sparkles in front of their hands, which they can wave excitedly.
- Take a Picture: Players can take out their NookPhone and snap a picture of anything they want, including a villager. Villagers will have a reaction to having their picture taken.
- Wave Goodbye: Players can give a special farewell to friends and neighbors.
- Work Out: Players can join Jock villagers in working out. They will perform stretches.
- Yoga: Players get into Warrior II Pose.
Players can purchase the whole set for 2,700 Nook Miles at the Nook Stop in Resident Services. Players can earn more Nook Miles by using the Nook Stop for 7 or more days in a row and completing island tasks.
To use the purchased reactions, players will need to press the ZR button to open their Reaction wheel. They can then press Y to pull up the full menu of all available Reactions and select the one they want to use.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available for the Nintendo Switch.