You can buy new housing plots from Tom Nook.

After you unlock the campsite in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll eventually unlock the ability to buy housing plots from Tom Nook, which you can use to set aside land for future residents who will move to your island.

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By buying housing plots in advance, you can do some city planning and decide where you want residents to live before they even get to your town.

When you want to buy a new housing plot for a future animal friend, just follow these steps!

Enter the Resident Services building and sit at Tom Nook’s station (the one on the left).

Talk to Tom Nook and select “Let’s talk infrastructure.”

Select “Sell some land.”

Tom will tell you that each plot costs 10,000 Bells to purchase, and that you’ll earn Nook Miles when someone moves in.

Select “Sure will!” to move on.

Tom Nook will then collect your 10,000 Bells and give you a Housing Kit that you can use to mark where you want the new house to be built.

Head outside and go to the place where you want to build a housing plot. Open your inventory, select the “Housing kit,” and select “Build Here.”

You’ll see an outline of where the house will be placed. If you’re satisfied with your choice, select “This is the spot!” Or, if you want to see a preview of what the housing plot will look like, choose “Let me imagine it…”

If you chose “Let me imagine it…” and you’re happy with the way things look, select “OK!” If you want to place the housing plot somewhere else, choose “I need to rethink it.”

Once you’ve placed the housing kit, it will be ready for a new resident to move to your island!

To see more of our guides for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, check out our previous coverage.

Disclosure: Nintendo gave SuperParent a code for Animal Crossing: New Horizons for coverage purposes.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizonshas finally landed on Nintendo Switch, and not a moment too soon. This chilled-out island life sim is a tranquil escape from all the anxiety-spiking coronavirus news out there, and a great way to wile away your time cooped up in the house. At some point during your first week, after you’ve expanded your house, built the Museum and the Nook’s Cranny item store, and laid out a bridge, Tom Nook will ask you for yet another favor. You’ll need to select three plots of land for future residents, and then construct several interior and exterior items for each.

Here's a rundown of how to approach it, and below you'll find a checklist of all the materials you'll need to make to construct each item.

Each plot requires you to build 6 items, 3 interior and 3 exterior items. While you’re still at Resident Services, construct a simple workbench and bring it along with you, so you can craft on-location near the three construction sites. You'll drop interior items into the box near each plot, while exterior items should be set up just alongside the construction tent.

You’ll need a lot of wood, so getting this all together can take more than one day, or require you to go off island using a Nook Miles Voucher. You’ll be on the lookout for all three types of wood (wood, softwood and hardwood), as well as Iron Nuggets. You’ll also want to keep whatever your native fruit is handy as opposed to selling them for a while. (For us, that meant oranges) Try to avoid cutting down trees and destroying rocks on your own island.

Once Tom Nook has asked you to find the plots of land and construct the items, he’ll also give you the recipe for the Ladder, which will allow you to explore new territories on your island. There’ll be more trees there and some new rocks to mine. Don’t forget to check your storage back home, if you’ve been socking away excess wood and other materials rather than selling them.

We’ve listed all 18 of the items you’ll need to make below, and the required materials to construct each, so you don’t need to keep opening your Nook Phone to check.

Plot 1 items to craft and necessary materials

Note: This is the process we went through with oranges as the native fruit. Specific recipes and requirements vary slightly depending on whatever your fruit is.

Interior

Orange wall-mounted clock

• 10 oranges
• 2 wood

Orange end table

• 10 oranges
• 4 wood

Pot

• 5 clay

Exterior

Hay bed

• 20 clump of weeds

Swinging Bench

• 5 wood
• 7 softwood

Barrel

• 5 wood
• 2 iron nugget

Total: 20 oranges, 16 wood, 5 clay, 20 clump of weeds, 7 softwood, 2 iron nugget

Plot 2 items to craft and necessary materials

Interior

Wooden-block Stereo

• 1 wooden block toy (3 softwood)
• 5 softwood
• 2 iron nugget

Wooden-block Table

• 1 wooden block toy (3 softwood)
• 8 softwood

Pansy Wreath

• 3 yellow pansies
• 3 white pansies
• 3 red pansies

Exterior

Iron Garden Chair

• 3 iron nugget

Iron Garden Table

• 5 iron nugget

Birdhouse

• 2 wood
• 5 softwood

Total: 24 softwood, 10 iron nugget, 2 wood, 3 yellow pansies, 3 white pansies, 3 red pansies

Plot 3 items to craft and necessary materials

Open Plot Animal Crossing

Interior

3 Plots Animal Crossing New Horizon

Wooden simple bed

• 18 wood

Wooden chair

• 8 hardwood

Classic pitcher

• 4 clay

Exterior

Log Dining Table

• 15 hardwood

Log Bench

• 5 hardwood

Wooden Bucket

• 3 wood
• 1 iron nugget

Total: 21 wood, 28 hardwood, 4 clay, 1 iron nugget

All in all, that's a lot of materials. Here's what it amounts to when you add up the grand total for all three plots:

• 20 oranges
• 39 wood
• 31 softwood
• 28 hardwood
• 9 clay
• 20 clumps of weed
• 13 iron nugget
• 3 of each color of pansy (yellow, white, and red)

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now on Nintendo Switch.