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If you played Creature Crossing: New Leaf on 3DS and are now taking your first steps on your new desert island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you may well be looking forward to diving into the lovely Hard disk drive ocean of the Switch entry in Nintendo's life sim series.

The question "Tin can you swim in Brute Crossing: New Horizons?" was ane of the beginning that popped into our heads every bit we ran around the perimeter of our lovely isle paradise. For the first months following the game's launch, the respond was disappointing, but following the first Summer 2020 Update you could finally get more closely acquainted with the waters surrounding your island...

How to swim in Creature Crossing: New Horizons

While the game launched in March 2020 with no method to enter the body of water (as was possible in Beast Crossing: New Foliage), the first of two summer updates landed on tertiary July 2020 and it brought the ability to swim, dive and collect 40 sea creatures (such as the sea star, sea anemone, and spotted garden eel) from the sea flooring. These new additions to your Critterpedia have their own page and tin also be donated to Blathers at the Museum.

In order to enter the water you'll need to purchase a wetsuit from Timmy and Tommy for 3000 Bells (after downloading the update). While wearing the wetsuit you lot tin run and jump into the coastal waters surrounding your island. Scallop-loving Pascal will appear if you detect a scallop and he will give you DIY recipes for a mermaid-themed furniture set.

Much the same every bit the specialised fishing rods, problems nets and other equipment they sell, there are different wetsuit designs bachelor every day:

Having featured in the previous entry in the series, we guessed that this power would make it sooner or later. It took a few months, but you can turn those frowns upside down because, yes, y'all tin can swim around your deserted (or not and then deserted if yous've had the game a while) island.

So, there y'all are! We knew that miser Nook would throw the states a pair of Speedos sooner or later. Experience free to share your excitement for diving beneath the waves below.

This article is role of our Animal Crossing: New Horizons walkthrough, which includes a Complete Fish Listing, Complete Bug List and Complete Sea Creatures List. If you're looking for specific fish or bugs, we can tell you how to catch the elusive Coelacanth, Mahi-Mahi, Behemothic Trevally, Stringfish, Golden Trout and all the Sharks and Beetles, forth with a total list of critters leaving at the cease of the month (unless you visit Kapp'n's Boat Tour islands, of course!).

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If it's new content y'all're looking for help with, we can help yous find gyroids, unlock Brewster'southward café, employ the new Pro Camera App for selfies, enact new ordinances, get the beloved Froggy Chair, and fifty-fifty learn How to Cook.

And finally, Where to Buy Beast Crossing: New Horizons on Nintendo Switch, if for some reason yous haven't nonetheless picked upward the game, and How To Buy The Happy Home Paradise DLC, likewise!