Animal Crossing New Horizons: How to Use Design IDS & QR Codes

You've certainly already seen that other players: Indoor in Animal Crossing: New Horizons use their own designs to dress like Ellie from The Last of US 2 or Link from the Zelda series. We show you which different ways there are to add your own designs and how you use them in the game.

Last update on July 27: Added new design and island ideas.

There are these possibilities for your own designs

In total there are three main routes to get to your own design and then use it in the game:

• Enter design codes in tailoring
• Scan QR codes via an app
• Create designs yourself

The game is differentiated between two types of designs, which can be used on several ways:

• Normal designs can be used as ... images on the wall, paintings, tailor doll, floor-design, facial painting, island flag, noookephone case, tank top, custom designs for some furniture
• Professional designs can be used as ... Tshirt, Short Sleeve Shirt, Long Sleeve Shirt, Sweater, Hoodie, Coat, Sleeveless Dress, Short Sleeve Dress, Long Sleeve Dress, Round Dress, Balloon Dress, Robe, Peerpiece, Knitted hat, hat with brim

Special features of professional designs : For professional designs, you have to decide during the design as what you want it. With self-created designs you can change the category but at any time. Do you want to download professional designs from others, then you can only attract them as what the creator has specified.

In addition, you can not use Professional Designs directly in the game. You must first buy this feature available after a few matchdays, first for 800 nook miles at the NOOKportal. Have you unlocked the designs, you can switch in the design app to your NOOKHONES with the shoulder buttons between normal and professional designs.

More design slots Since March 2021: Nintendo finally has the call of the players: inside and heard with an update the design function significantly improved. Since March 2021, you have no longer only 50 slots for all designs but say and write 150 slots. In addition, your design can now also use for photo walls, flags, screens and Uchiwa compartments. How to get to the professional design + function, you can read here:

Design & creator IDs: This is how you find the codes

Since Animal Crossing: New Horizons no longer uses the game the QR codes, but new design and creator IDs. This has a great advantage because you come so much faster to custom designs than before.

How to find the function : Depending on how far you are in the game, you can not use the design & creator IDs yet. For this you need the tailoring and the design exchange terminal, which is located in the back corner. But to use it, but you need a Internet connection and a active Nintendo Switch online membership . How to unlock the tailoring and all other buildings, we show you here:

Design & creator IDs Enter & recognize

As soon as you have unlocked the tailoring, you can transfer the designs of other players at the Design Exchange Terminal: inside on your island. From there you can either search for a single design ID or after a creator ID and upload your own designs. The design exchange terminal is also the only way to exchange professional designs with each other.

How to recognize your design and creator IDs :

• Design IDs always look like this: MO-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
• Creator IDs always look like this: MA-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

QR codes: Setting up Noookklink, Scanning Codes

Before Animal Crossing: New Horizons has already been given in its predecessor Animal Crossing: New Leaf the opportunity to exchange designs with each other. But the whole thing worked at that time via QR codes. You can still use this via an official smartphone app.

How to connect your Noookklink :

• Go to the main menu of Animal Crossing: New Horizons on your switch and presses the minus button.
• Then select Noookklink settings there and click on "Connect with NoOklink".
• Starts the Nintendo Switch Online App on your smartphone and selects Animal Crossing under game-specific services.
• Click to connect to Noookklink and the game is already connected to the app.

Noookklink for QR codes use

As soon as everything is connected, your smartphone needs with the Nintendo Switch online app.

• Starts the Nintendo Switch Online App on your smartphone
• Choose there under game-specific services Animal Crossing and then Noookklink
• A small animation shows that your Noookklink has started and goes from there into your own design function.
• Click on the QR code reading and starts your camera
• Scans the code and stores it.

Now switches to your Switch! From there you can then open your noookon and go to the design app. Press the + button on your right Joy-Con, connects you to the Internet and you can already transfer the stored QR design to your game. On this way, only one design can be transferred at the same time.

Only normal designs : The QR codes have a decisive disadvantage. You can not share professional designs. Therefore, you can use designs by QR codes only for example as a way, paintings or facial painting.

How creates your design yourself

As soon as you receive your own noooks from Tom Nook, you can begin to create your own normal designs. But you have to press design in the game on the NoOKPhone and select a free field. In the editor you can then use different colors and tools to create your desired design.

Convert own photos via ACPATTERS into QR code

Converting own photos to a QR code : If you do not have too talented or not the leisure for your own design, then you can automatically convert your own photos to a QR code. For example, there is the page of ACPatterns developed by fans. In the build process you can select your own picture, which is then converted and output with a suitable QR code. You can also search directly in their database for designs from other players: inside.

ACPATTERS can still be more , because you can also start a simulated version of the design tool from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. With this you then creates a design that can be transferred directly via QR code in your game. The special thing is that you can work with the mouse and keyboard on the design instead of using the analog sticks of the switch controller.

How to use your design in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

No matter what way you came to the design, you always use it in the same way. Just opens your noookephone in the game and go to the design app. From there you can then select your stored design. Depending on where you use the app, you have other options. So you can put outdoor on your island designs on the floor, are you in your house, you can hang the designs on the wall.

The best design ideas and codes

Before you get started and implementing your own designs, of course you can also put on other players: inside. Meanwhile, there are a variety of cool projects, such as this replica of Johto, to which the use of codes has been shared:

But of course that's not all, because the Animal Crossing fans have created their own portals to exchange codes and design ideas with each other:

• Nooksisland
• ACPATTERS
• Subeddit with many Animal Crossing designs
• Pinterest collection full of design and QR codes

The coolest islands and designs from other players * inside

With the following articles, we give you some ideas as you can design your island.

• New design trick makes umbrellas to the eye-catcher
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• At Treasure Island you can really buy everything, but only against real money
• Fan builds island for a kind of Disneyland and so you can visit it

Schlummer Islands : But these are not all the ways to share designs with each other. Because you can also access and save them via slumber labels directly on the designs used. Just go to the design intervention terminal while you are on a slumber island and seek the designs used on the island. We have summarized for you how you come on slumber islands and show you some of the best islands of the players: inside.

Have you already created your own design in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? Then tell your design & creator IDs in the comments under this article.