How to Get Kapp’n in Animal Crossing New Horizons
Kapp’n offers his boat tour services in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to anybody who has unlocked him, and as of the 3.0 update, unlocking Kapp’n is also required to access the hotel on your island.
On boat tours, Kapp’n will take you to a random island type for 1,000 Nook Miles up to twice per day, where you can find resources like Cherry Blossoms, Star Fragments, and Gyroid Fragments. And the hotel is a huge expansion to Animal Crossing: New Horizons where you can complete various room design and DIY tasks to unlock exclusive items, hotel features, and earn Hotel Tickets.
To help you access all of this content, we’ve explained how to get Kapp’n in Animal Crossing: New Horizons below, as well as everything else you need to know about Kapp’n island types.
How to Get to the Hotel in Animal Crossing New Horizons
The Animal Crossing New Horizons 3.0 update adds Kappn’s family’s hotel where players can help out with decorating the rooms and selecting outfits.
How to Get Kapp’n in Animal Crossing New Horizons
To get Kapp’n in ACNH, you need to:
Then, the day after K.K. Slider performs for the first time, Isabelle will inform you that boat tours have now unlocked. All you have to do now is head to the end of the pier on your island to find Kapp’n chilling in his boat.
If Kapp’n isn’t in his boat, head into the nearby Hotel on the pier to trigger a conversation with Tom, Kapp’n, and Leilani. Afterwards, Kapp’n will return to his original position on his boat when you’re outside.
The links above describe exactly how to get a three-star island and unlock K.K. Slider, but here’s a shortened step-by-step summary of what to do:
- Pay off your initial debt with 5,000 Nook Miles
- Construct Nook’s Cranny
- Build your first bridge
- Build and place furniture for 3 arriving villagers
- Construct the building for Residential Services
- Construct the campground
- Talk to Isabelle to see your Island Evaluation
- Have at least eight villagers (having nine or ten gives you even more points)
- Pull all weeds on your island
- Plant and water lots of varieties of flowers
- Plant different varieties of trees and bushes (but having too many trees will deduct points)
- Place more variety of items outside
- Place more bridges, inclines, and fences
If you do everything in the list above, you should receive your 3-star island not long after K.K. visits, as long as your island doesn’t have too many trees, or lots of items, branches, stones, shells, and message bottles lying on the ground.
All Kapp’n Island Types in Animal Crossing New Horizons
Here’s a list of all the types of island you can get while on Kapp’n boat tours in ACNH:
- Gyroid islands (common)
- Crop islands (common)
- Vine/Moss islands (common)
- Raining/Snowing Gyroid islands (rare)
- Star Fragment islands (rare)
- Cherry Blossom islands (rare)
- Bamboo islands (rare)
- Summer Shell islands (rare)
- Mushroom islands (rare)
- Maple Leaf islands (rare)
- Snowflake islands (rare)
There’s also a few other important details to keep in mind about Kapp’n islands:
- Before the 3.0 update, you could only go on one boat tour a day, but now you can visit a second island by using 100 Hotel Tickets in ACNH after you complete the first VIP room in the hotel.
- Each island always has one Gyroid Fragment buried on it. Raining/Snowing Gyroid islands also have a full gyroid buried on them.
- Kapp’n Islands can have a different season or time of day from your island’s current season and time, which you can take advantage of to collect new fish, insects, and sea creatures for your collection.
- Each island has a message bottle, with each island type containing different DIY recipes in the bottle.
- You will always get a rare island by receiving a good fortune from Katrina the fortuneteller.
- You can buy basic tools with Nook Miles from Kapp’n on a boat tour island if you forgot to bring one, or one breaks.
- Released
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March 20, 2020
- ESRB
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Everyone / Comic Mischief, Mild Fantasy Violence, Users Interact, In-Game Purchases
- Developer(s)
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Nintendo EPD
- Publisher(s)
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Nintendo
