{"id":135670,"date":"2026-01-14T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196203"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T12:35:00","slug":"boom-the-animal-crossing-new-horizons-3-0-update-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/14\/boom-the-animal-crossing-new-horizons-3-0-update-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom! The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update Is Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/600566d7d39eb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/600566d7d39eb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/600566d7d39eb\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube with-primis\" data-videoid=\"Be-9t-pMJ-8\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Be-9t-pMJ-8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\"><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s a nice surprise! In what is likely a move to align all regions with New Zealand (where it&#8217;s now gone 1am on the 15th), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a>&#8216; 3.0 update is available for download.<\/p>\n<p>You might need to manually apply the update \u2013 in which case you simply press &#8216;+&#8217; on the game&#8217;s icon and select &#8216;Software Update&#8217; \u2013 but otherwise, you should be good to go.<\/p>\n<p>There are no official patch notes at the time of writing as we can see, but if you&#8217;ve been eagerly anticipating this new update, then you&#8217;ll likely already know the gist. Version 3.0 contains the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-hotel-guide-tickets-tourists-diy-requests-grams-catalog-item-list\">Resort Hotel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Island Speciality Requests<\/li>\n<li>Slumber Island<\/li>\n<li>Resetti&#8217;s Reset Service<\/li>\n<li>Collaborations (LEGO and The Legend of Zelda amiibo)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be crystal clear, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-nintendo-switch-2-edition\">Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/a> of the game is not yet live. This is available to purchase separately or via an Upgrade Pack. If you&#8217;ve pre-ordered the Upgrade Pack, you may see the &#8216;Nintendo Switch 2 Edition&#8217; icon on your home screen, but the original Switch 1 version will boot up when you open it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:196204,193227 @ 1768475312 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you already downloaded the 3.0 update for New Horizons? Or is that on your to-do list for today? Let us know with a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"7nODHyw3lgs\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7nODHyw3lgs?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\"><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s a nice surprise! In what is likely a move to align all regions with New Zealand (where it&#8217;s now gone 1am on the 15th), Animal Crossing: New Horizons&#8216; 3.0 update is available for download. You might need to manually apply the update \u2013 in which case you simply press &#8216;+&#8217; on the game&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}