[UPDATE] Here’s How Animal Crossing: New Horizons Determines When Special Characters Appear On Your Island
As with previous games in the series, Animal Crossing: New Horizons features several special characters which only appear on certain days of the week, including C.J., Flick, Redd, Leif, and many more.
Typically, only one or two of these special characters will make an appearance on the island each day, seemingly on a random schedule. However, dataminer Ninji has now revealed exactly how Animal Crossing: New Horizons determines which days these special characters will appear throughout a given week, a summary of which you can find below:
- Every week, players are guaranteed to get Saharah, Kicks, and Leif on one weekday (Mon-Fri) each.
- This is provided the Able Sisters tailor shop has been built.
- The remaining two weekday slots will be randomly filled by Gulliver, Label, CJ, Flick, or Redd.
- The special characters which did not get picked for the current week will be given a higher priority for the following week.
- Celeste will appear on days where Meteor Shower weather patterns are present, separately from the other special characters.
- Wisp will pick a random day of the week to appear.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
UPDATE: As of the Version 1.3.0 update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the mechanics for special character appearances has been changed such that Saharah, Kicks, and Leif are no longer guaranteed. The new mechanics used are illustrated by Ninji in this helpful graphic below:
here is the tea on visitor NPCs in #ACNH 1.3.0 (summer update, wave 1)
in summary: Leif, Saharah and Kicks are no longer guaranteed every week, meaning that you should now get a far more even spread of visitors
Gullivarrr (pirate Gulliver) can appear if you’ve bought a wetsuit pic.twitter.com/0gvi74xPll
— Ninji (has moved) (@_Ninji) July 3, 2020
couple more additions to this:
– on bug-off and fishing tourney days, the KK Slider concert is now moved to Sunday rather than Friday, so you won’t lose Friday’s NPC slot that week
– you can have both Gulliver and Gullivarr within the same week, but not on consecutive days#ACNH— Ninji (has moved) (@_Ninji) July 3, 2020