Animal Crossing Pocket Camp - A Complete Overview

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Animal Crossing Pocket Camp

Nintendo have finally broken the silence on the new animal crossing mobile game titled 'Animal Crossing Pocket Camp'. You play as the manager of your own campsite, collecting materials and decorating outside as well as indoor space to attract animals and other campers. This is our comprehensive guide on the newest animal crossing direct which you can find here.

The game will be release late november 2017!




Cyrus plays a big role in crafting furniture. Once you have the correct amount of materials shown, you can place an order which costs bells/materials. Your furniture will be made after a set amount of time and only after that you can display it.

The menu will show you how many materials you need for each item as well information such as 'item theme', price and time taken to craft the item:




Villagers in AC: PC will frequently request items from you and by completing this tasks, you can earn bells and materials to craft furniture for your campsite. An example below shows goldie offering a set of options, one including helping her collect an apple.

Throughout the game, villagers in different areas will also request items such as fruit, fish, bugs and more.


 

The interface of the game looks pretty streamlined and easy to navigate. Your currency and friendship level totals across the top and inventory sections across the bottom.

Items holds all your crafted items as well as clothes, accessories and any items you may have bought.

Special is where you will begin crafting all your items.

The Map will show you the different areas in the game to go and which you've unlocked.

Contacts will display your friends who have shared their ID with you.



Arranging furniture looks quite similar to HHA's design and the addition welcome amiibo bought to new leaf: the grid system. Except instead of the stylus you will use your finger to drag and rotate items. Movement will most likely work in a similar way where you touch where you want to walk.



You can also customise your camper in multiple ways, think of it as your house! You can decorate it in the same way you would decorate your house in the animal crossing series. You can change the colour and outside pattern with the help of go motors. You can also expand your camper to have an attic room!



  




An amenity is an object created outside in your campsite area. They take longer on average than item crafting for cyrus to build. As seen in the video, it can take anywhere up to 3 whole real-time days. These can be sped up using leaf tickets.



Interacting with villagers

Villagers now have affection rates (friendship level) which you can raise when you successfully complete a request or favour. They will visit your campsite permanently if you become friends with them.


If you craft a villager's favourite item and display it, they might come to visit your campsite as seen with goldie and the ranch sofa created using cotton.



Fishing & bug catching

Fishing and bug catching is pretty straight forward, you can find creatures at sunburst island or saltwater shores. For bugs, you catch them by simply tapping the screen when you're next to them. For fishing you cast your line and tap as the fish bites.

 

AC PC includes a new item called the throw net which can be chucked over a whole ton of fish at once:

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Making bells & leaf tickets

There are various ways to make money in the game, these include selling bugs, fish, beach items, shaking trees and minerals from shovelstrike quarry:

A new addition is leaf tickets which you can earn through minigames, regular gameplay or set daily tasks. These can be used to craft items faster or exchanged for materials you might be lacking. Leaf tickets will cost real money.

  

Special offers are common in pay to play mobile games, they offer set amounts for cheaper than usual. This will most likely include furniture, fishing nets, honey nectar and other items.

Locations & map

There are multiple locations in the game to visit such as an island, a beach, a forest, a river and more. Some of the locations were shown but as you can see from the map, there are more locations not mentioned.

This location was only referred to as a river based location in the video but wasn't touched on. Most likely will be an alternate place to catching fish, in particular river fish.

Breezy Hollow is where you'll be planting all of your trees. You can collect fruit and wood here as well as meet wandering villagers.

Sunburst Island is a haven for catching bugs, as seen in the video you can also get wandering villagers appear in this location.

Saltwater Shores is a place for catching fish and occasionally you will find visiting villagers.

Your campsite is where your camper and area will be. You can decorate your camper as you would your house and add furniture and amenities to the outdoor spaces. Once you have befriended wandering villagers, they will stay at your campsite permanently upon request.

Marketplace is the go to place for buying items such as unique furniture, clothes, shoes and finding customisation services for your camper.

Although briefly shown, there is a location called Shovelstrike Quarry where you can dig up rocks to find nuggets which can be sold for bells.

Market place is the central area for shopping. New shops by familiar faces include:

Nookling Global: A shop ran by timmy and tommy who offer furniture items, some which cyrus can't craft.

Able Sisters To Go: Mabel will sell you clothes such as shirts, skirts, jeans and the same items you can expect from new leaf.

Kicks: Sells shoes to customise your character with.

OK Motors: Ran by Beppe, Carlo & Giovanni who can offer upgrades and customisations for your camper. 

Character customisation

As per AC tradition, you can play as either a boy or girl and customise their appear such as hairstyle, hair colour, eye colour and skin colour. It is unclear whether you can change this later.

 

Various events will take place throughout the year in the form of seasonal events where you can get limited items. The game changes with the seasons as usual in the animal crossing series and uses real time.

Around the game, various players can visit you randomly with their own campers. They can appear in random locations or in your campsite.

Friend Codes are back in the form of 'Player IDs' which if you set to share, will make your player randomly appear in other peoples games.

  

You can do various things with other players such as putting up items for sale in the form of the 'Market Box'. You can also give someone kudos which is similar to streetpass' 'what do you think of me?'. You can also request adding friends this way.

 

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This is such a good write -up! I squealed when Goldie was splashing her feet in the pool in the Nintendo Direct video!!!!!!!!!

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Oct 25, 2017 17:56:30 GMT @dearjenna said:

This is such a good write -up! I squealed when Goldie was splashing her feet in the pool in the Nintendo Direct video!!!!!!!!!

Haha thanks, i know alot of youtubers and news websites beat me to announcing it but i wanted to be the first to make a proper guide