Events

Events are special days where (in most cases) a special NPC will arrive on the island to host said event. You will be rewarded in some form or another, either with furniture, DIYs, or even reactions. Events are usually time-locked, that is, they will only be available when they are unlocked on the actual date of the event in realtime (which we will term as BCAT or NTP unlocks).

Time travelling to these events will not be possible, unless of course the actual event day has passed. In this case, you are free to time travel back to a past event to redo them.

There are several requirements for most of the events listed here:

• You must have an upgraded Resident Services.
• You must not have a banned Nintendo Switch (as they cannot receive BCAT unlocks).
• You must connect your profile to a Nintendo Account.
• You must be connected to the Internet.

As of Vers. 2.0.0 all events listed below have been unlocked.

When is X event/season?

Click here for the dates of seasonal changes, events, and Nook Shopping seasonal items. Spreadsheet courtesy of capstone#3473.

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Table of contents

1. Bug-Off
2. Fishing Tourney
3. Festivale (Mardi Gras)
   1. Recurrence
4. Bunny Day (Easter)
   1. Recurrence
5. Nature Day (Earth Day)
6. May Day (Labour Day)
7. International Museum Day
8. Wedding Season
9. Fireworks Festival
10. Halloween
11. Turkey Day (Thanksgiving)
12. Toy Day (Christmas)
13. Countdown (New Year)

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Bug-Off

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Bug-Off occurs on the 4th Saturday of June, July, August, and September from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. In the Southern Hemisphere, it occurs on the 3rd Saturday of November, December, January, and February from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

To participate, talk to Flick and pay 500 bells (except for the first round, which is always free). Each round lasts 3 minutes — the goal is to catch as many bugs as possible in order to earn points. The points you earn in total (across all Bug-Offs) amass to a certain trophy — bronze for 100 points, silver for 200 points, and gold for 300 points. These trophies can only be earned once per player.

The points can also be used to redeem items, of which there are 13. Once you have collected all 13, you will start to receive duplicates. Redeeming points for items (10 points each) does not detract from the trophy total.

Each bug you catch adds 1 point to your total and each bug after the first three adds a bonus 2 points. The bugs you catch will immediately appear in Flick’s bug cage. He will also buy them from you for 1.5x the regular selling price. If you play with others, you will receive bonus points and waive the 500 bell fee.

For more detailed info, visit https://yuexr.github.io/acnh/ev_bugfish.html.

Fishing Tourney

The fishing tourney occurs on the 2nd weekend of April, July, October, and January from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The dates do not vary across hemispheres.

To participate, talk to C.J. and pay 500 bells (except for the first round, which is always free). Each round lasts 3 minutes—the goal is to catch as many fish as possible in order to earn points. The points you earn in total (cumulative across all Fishing Tourneys in any island) amass to a certain trophy — bronze for 100 points, silver for 200 points, and gold for 300 points. These trophies can only be earned once per player.

The points can also be used to redeem items, of which there are 13. Once you have collected all 13, you will start to receive duplicates. Redeeming points for items (10 points each) does not detract from the trophy total.

Each fish you catch adds 1 point to your total and each fish after the first three adds a bonus 2 points. The fish you catch will immediately appear in C.J.’s cooler box. He will also buy them from you for 1.5x the regular selling price. If you play with others, you will receive bonus points and waive the 500 bell fee.

For more detailed info, visit https://yuexr.github.io/acnh/ev_bugfish.html.

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Festivale (Mardi Gras)

Festivale requires version 1.7.0a. During Festivale, feathers will be floating around your island, and you would then have to catch them with your net to grab them. The rainbow feather is rare but talk to Pavé to obtain the Rainbow Feather DIY if you have trouble getting them. He will then ask you to give him 3 normal feathers of the same colour (red, blue, green, purple) or 1 rainbow feather in exchange for a dance performance from him, as well as a random Festivale series furniture. You can also exchange feathers with your villagers for a different colour.

The variant of the furniture given depends on the colour of the feathers you give him.

After receiving 9 furniture items, he will then ask you to give him 3 rainbow feathers in exchange for the Festivale float. This process can be repeated multiple times for multiple event rewards throughout the day.

Some other notes:

• Festivale series furniture are available in Nook’s Cranny from February 1st to February 15th. The colour is based on your airport colour so:
  • Blue Airport - Red Festivale
  • Orange Airport - Purple Festivale
  • Yellow Airport - Blue Festivale
  • Green Airport - Green Festivale
• The Festivale costumes will start to appear in Able Sisters from February 1st to February 15th as part of the random selection.
• The Viva Festivale Reaction Set is available in Nook’s Cranny cabinet from February 1st to February 15th and includes the Feelin’ It, Let’s Go, Viva and Confetti reactions.

Recurrence

The date of Festivale varies per year, but is scheduled to occur 2 days before the real-life event of Ash Wednesday, aligning with holidays like Mardi Gras and Carnival. The dates of Festivale for 2020 - 2030 are as follows:

• 2020: February 24^th
• 2021: February 15^th
• 2022: February 28^th
• 2023: February 20^th
• 2024: February 12^th
• 2025: March 3^rd
• 2026: February 16^th
• 2027: February 8^th
• 2028: February 28^th (leap year)
• 2029: February 12^th
• 2030: March 4^th

For a simplified infographic, visit https://cestislife.github.io/img/festivale.png

Bunny Day (Easter)

If it is the first time you’re doing this event, Zipper will come to your island and give you a Bunny Day bed DIY. During the event, villagers will come up to you to teach you the Bunny Day crown and bag DIYs. Egg-themed clothing, such as the Stone-egg shell, outfit and shoes, is self taught after you collect a certain amount of that kind of egg. When you learned all of them, you’ll learn the Egg party dress and hat. You can get the other DIYs from Bunny Day message bottles and balloons.

Different eggs are required to make the DIYs. There are six different types of eggs. They are the following:

Note: appart from Sky eggs, all the others can be found on mystery islands

On the last day of Bunny Day, Zipper will come to your island and give you the Bunny Day arch DIY. If you crafted all of the Bunny Day DIYs, talk to Zipper again to get the Wobbling Zipper toy DIY. After you craft the toy, you can talk to Zipper to receive the Bunny Day wand DIY. Zipper will also trade you one egg of any kind in exchange for three of the same one. If you have one of each type of egg, you can give them to Zipper to get a Bunny Day basket. You can get as many baskets as you want.

Recurrence

The date of Bunny Day varies per year, but the final day will always align with the real-life event of Easter Sunday. The dates of Bunny Day and the preparation period where you can collect eggs and DIYs for 2020 - 2023 are as follows:

• 2020¹: April 5^th - April 12^th
• 2021: March 28^th - April 4^th
• 2022: April 10^th - April 17^th
• 2023: April 2^nd - April 9^th
• 2024: March 24^th - March 31^st
• 2025: April 13^th - April 20^th
• 2026: March 29^th - April 5^th
• 2027: March 21^st - March 28^th
• 2028: April 9^th - April 16^th
• 2029: March 25^th - April 1^st
• 2030: April 14^th - April 21^st

1. Prior to version 1.9.0, Bunny Day had a preparation period of 11 days, so in 2020 the actual event was run from April 1^st - April 12^th. This was adjusted down to 7 days after player feedback.

For more a simplified infographic, please visit https://cestislife.github.io/img/bunnyday.png.

Nature Day (Earth Day)

As of 1.9.0 Nature Day of 2020 has been disabled, and is no longer available to be time travelled to. Additionally, as of 1.10.0, Nature Day was not renewed for 2021 and the event as a whole was replaced by a seasonal Nook Shopping item.

Nature Day starts on April 23rd and lasts until May 4th, 2020. During this time period, a Nature Day activity will replace one of your daily Nook Miles+ challenges.

The Nature Day Nook Miles+ Achievements are:

If you talk to Tom Nook after completing one Nature Day activity, he will send the Hedge DIY recipe to your Nook phone.

May Day (Labour Day)

Talk to Tom Nook to obtain your special clearance for the May Day Tour. To participate in the tour, go to the airport and talk to Orville, select you want to fly and use the May Day ticket given to you by Tom Nook. Wilbur will bring you to an island with a hedge maze.

When you complete the maze, you can talk to Rover and you’ll get a reward mailed the next day: either Rover’s briefcase if that was your first time meeting Rover, or Rover’s photo if you already completed the (now unavailble) 2020 May Day maze.

You can also get up to nine Bell Vouchers (worth 3,000 bells each), if you solve the maze completely, like Rover’s reward, they will also be mailed to you the next day.

Notes:

• You can only do the tour once per character.
• If you ever get stuck in the maze, you can call Rescue services on your Nook Phone, this will reset the whole May Day maze which will allow you to restart from the beginning.

Watch the video tutorial below on how to complete the maze and obtain all possible prizes. Video courtesy of Nours#7244.

International Museum Day

The museum will host a stamp rally everyday during this period. The fossil, bug, and fish wings each will have three stamp stations in them. After you collect the three stamps from an exhibit, talk to Blathers to receive a Bug, Fish, Fossil Plaque or Art Plaque, depending on the exhibit you completed. The locations of stamp stations will change day to day, but you will get the same reward every time you complete the card.

This event can be completed on other islands, you will need to speak with Blathers there in order to get the rewards, otherwise the stamp rally will reset.

Wedding Season

If you visit Harvey’s island during this period, Reese and Cyrus will be there to ask for your help with their wedding anniversary photos. There is one photoshoot opportunity per day. Photo shoots will unlock more wedding items. The Heart crystals you receive from Reese can be used to redeem the wedding items you’ve unlocked from Cyrus. You’ll get the Reese & Cyrus photo plate after the 6th visit. You also unlock special wedding DIYs on the 7th photoshoot from Cyrus and Harv.

As of the 1.10.0 update, you can earn up to 14 heart crystals the first 7 photoshoots and up to 18 each shoot after. You can always time travel back to complete the shoot or farm heart crystals.

For more detailed info, visit https://yuexr.github.io/acnh/ev_wedding.html. (*Note: Yue’s guide has not been updated for the 2021 version of the event, please see above for the new heart crystal daily maximums.)

Fireworks Festival

During the event, Redd , who has set up a raffle in the Resident Services plaza. Participating in this raffle will earn you firework items. If you talk to Isabelle , you will receive one of four boppers, a new one each week. Isabelle also allows you to input custom firework design sequences during this event.

The Able Sister’s will also be selling various yukatas on Firework Sundays.

For more detailed info on raffle rewards, visit https://yuexr.github.io/img/hanabi.png

Halloween

The “Czar of Halloween”, Jack , will pay a visit to your island. Jack will give you his outfit in exchange for candies. If you give him lollipops, he’ll give you the Spooky Carriage and Spooky Wand recipe. You can also give candies to villagers that are outside to get furniture and recipes from the Spooky set and lollipops. Villagers will teach you the Scare reaction after you give them a piece of candy and likewise, Jack will teach you the Haunt reaction.

If you don’t have candy when a villager comes up to you, they will give three pieces of candy the first time. But everytime after that or if you don’t give them candy, they will change your bodypaint, eye contact color, and face paint, called a “trick”. You can get more candy from villagers that are inside of their house by talking to them while wearing a scary costume. If you wear Jack’s outfit while talking to villagers, they will also give you candy. It doesn’t matter if they are outside or inside, but you can only do this once per villager.

For more detailed info, visit https://cestislife.github.io/halloween.

Turkey Day (Thanksgiving)

In exchange for ingredients Franklin needs for his dishes, he will reward you with Turkey Day items, especially the exclusive Cornucopia. He will also award you wiht the Cozy Turkey Day DIY pack containing all 8 Turkey Day furniture DIYs if you manage to source the secret ingredients for all of his dishes!

For more detailed info, visit https://cestislife.github.io/turkeyday.

Toy Day (Christmas)

During Toy Day, you will be tasked to deliver presents by Jingle . Craft 3 Festive wrapping paper for him, and he will give you his Magic bag to deliver presents to all your villagers. He will also give you a set of Toy Day stockings to hang up. Hang these up, then check them the next day to receive Jingle’s photo.

If you manage to deliver more than half of the presents, he will present you with the Gift pile DIY, and if you manage to deliver all of the presents, he will gift you with the Toy Day sleigh furniture item.

Some other notes:

• Toy Day toys are available in Nook’s Cranny from December 1st to December 25th.
• The Santa and Reindeer Costumes will start to appear in Able Sisters as part of the random selection.
• The Festive Wreath will be given to you once via a villager approach from December 15th onwards.

For more detailed info, visit https://cestislife.github.io/toyday.

Countdown (New Year)

The countdown happens on New Year’s Eve. Isabelle will be outside of Resident Services, and will hand out a Light stick if you talk to her. Tom Nook will also be outside selling New Year’s hats and Party poppers. You can buy four different colored hats from him. To obtain other variants of the hats, you will need to trade with other players. As the year draws to a close, villagers will gather in the plaza to countdown to the New Year. At midnight, the year ends with a fireworks display.

You will be unable to access Resident Services on this day.

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