Since the release ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsover one year ago, players have been coming up with some creative ways to divide the rooms in their homes. While fans have landed on a number of very elegant solutions for splitting rooms, there is now a more official way to divide interior spaces in this extremely-popular life sim. Indeed, partition walls have finally arrived inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, and this guide explains how to unlock and use them.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - How to Unlock Partition Walls
The first step toward unlocking partition walls is to purchase and installAnimal Crossing: New Horizons’ Happy Home Paradise DLC. With this new expansion setup, players should begin working through its content, designing vacation homes for various clients based on their specifications. While the process for designing these properties stays quite consistent at the beginning of the DLC, fans will encounter something new when working on their eighth vacation home.
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More specifically, Niko will provide a brief tutorial on partition walls when a player enters house number eight, and they will be able to incorporate the feature into the design of the property. Then, once a fan completes the home and returns to the Paradise Planning office, the adorable monkey will pass along a DIY recipe for partition walls, allowing them to create the structural element on their own islands. For thoseACNHplayersthat are curious, crafting a partition wall requires just three wood and three clay.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - How to Use Partition Walls
After unlocking and crafting some partition walls, players can place them in their homes in the same way that they would place any other piece offurniture inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. From there, fans can move these walls around using decorator mode until they land on their preferred setup. While this is all fairly straightforward, there are a couple of limitations with partition walls that players should be familiar with before they start placing them in abundance.
The first of those limitations is that objects cannot be hung on partition walls. The second is that partition walls do not come together very neatly at right angles. Fortunately, pillars, which are yet anotherHappy Home Paradise unlockable, can be used to neatly connect partition walls in this fashion. For full clarity, the pillar DIY becomes available when a player has finished 15 vacation homes, and the object is crafted from two wood, two hardwood, and two softwood.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now for Nintendo Switch.
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