April 4th, 2020 - May 5th, 2020. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has made its debut and the sub is filled with a lot of new and talented faces! To share our excitement and give some recognition to our members, we've decided to reopen contests and host them again on a monthly basis. This page provides QR codes for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, New Horizons, and Happy Home Designer. You can scan them to receive patterns and clothing. I now also include the alphanumeric codes for New Horizons (ACNH) designs. The newest entries will be on this page, while older patterns have been moved to the following pages, sorted by category.
Animal Crossing New Horizons QR codes allow you to customize your game with new designs. Import your favorite paintings, album covers, memes, and other designs by learning how to scan QR codes and using custom codes at the Able Sisters’ Shop.
We’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite Animal Crossing New Horizons QR codes from around and put them all in one place. Feel free to use any of these to add some flavor to your island or spice up your room. Click the images with the QR codes to make them larger.
Feel free to bookmark this page and check back for updates. We do try and keep this list fresh and up-to-date every week with new QR codes and designs.
How To Scan Animal Crossing New Horizons QR Codes
Before proceeding, we should explain what QR codes are and what they do. Custom designs can be created in New Horizons that can be shared with players via Design IDs or Creator IDs. These IDs are entered on the kiosk in the Able Sister’s shop.
Custom designs made on older Animal Crossing games like New Leaf can be imported into New Horizons via QR Codes. To scan QR codes in the game, you need a few things. First, you will need the Nintendo Switch Online mobile app to access NookLink. You can download it here:
You will need to purchase Nintendo Switch Online service, which is $20/year to use NookLink. Consider this a small investment to make your island look amazing. Sign in to the Nintendo Switch Online app with the same account you use to play Animal Crossing New Horizons.
You will see Animal Crossing New Horizons under Game-Specific Services on the bottom of the screen. Now, go to your Switch and press the minus button on the title screen of New Horizons to open the settings menu.
Enable NookLink from the settings, and you will be able to import custom designs into the game by scanning them on your phone through the Nintendo Switch Online app. Open up New Horizons, and you can use the Custom Designs app on your Nookphone, which costs 800 Nook Miles at the Resident Services building to be unlocked.
Import Custom Designs in Able Sisters’ Shop
For alphanumeric codes, you will need to enter creator codes at the Able Sisters’ shop. There is a kiosk located in the back to do this, but you will again need internet access and a paid Nintendo Switch Online membership.
After choosing to access the kiosk, a screen will pop up where you can search custom designs by Design ID or by Creator ID. Search through a bunch of creations from one person or search specific Design IDs like the ones listed below with this method.
Animal Crossing New Horizons QR Codes List
Below is our compiled list of QR codes for some of the best custom designs we could find for New Horizons. Feel free to bookmark this page and check back any time for updated designs.
Animal Crossing Game Covers
Batman Classic
Robin
Superman
Ash Ketchum (No Gloves)
Brendan
Brock
Pokemon Card
Chansey
Cyrus
PikachuHoodie
Pikachu
Zelda
Sheik
Link’s Awakening Dress
Twilight Princess
Link Shirt
Naruto Young
Batman
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Woody (Toy Story)
Brick Paths
Flannel
Nyan Cat Dress
Wanted Poster
Super Sonic
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Multi)
The Great Wave (Single)
I’m a Luxury Sweater
Tree Markers
Use these handy little QR codes to mark your trees so you know which fruit grows on them.
Zelda, Pokemon, and Fantastic Adventures
Sonic, Doctor Who, Rocket Logo, and Radioactive Symbol
Minecraft Packs
Seafoam Hanfu
Visitor Signs
Punk Denim Jacket
Coffee Shop Stall / Menu
FFXIV Astrologian Dresses
No Internet – Google Chrome
Stardew Valley
Celeste Panel
Floral Stall Wisteria Design
Pine Forest Design
Baby Hairs
To customize your game even further, check out some Animal Crossing New Horizons custom path designs. You can put down custom paths on your island to create some different unique looking areas.
While Animal Crossing: New Horizons is great for experiencing bucolic island life at a relaxed pace, it’s easy to forget that the franchise is known for how much it leans into custom designs.
New Horizons features the series’ most robust design options yet, and there are a variety of ways you can share your glamorous looks with pals.
How to make custom patterns in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Within Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you can use your Nook Phone’s Custom design editor to craft some brand new looks. After upgrading your abode from a tent to a house, you’ll be able to purchase the Custom Design Pro Editor from the Nook Stop terminal under 'Redeem Nook Miles' for a paltry 800 miles. The upgrade will grant access to a slew of additional tools.
If you’d like a more traditional designer, you can also use browser-based editors like this one. You can utilize their robust toolset to make something new entirely. If the creative spirit has yet to enthrall you, images can be uploaded to the website, which will then be converted into QR codes. Those codes can be used to download the design into New Horizons in the following way.
How to use QR Codes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If you want to reuse designs created in previous titles like Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Happy Home Designer,or download ones created in browser designers, you’ll need to scan a QR code. This requires some help from the Nintendo Switch Online app, which is available for iOS and Android.
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After downloading the app, you’ll need to do some light setup. Link the Nintendo Account used on your Switch with the app by logging in. Head back to you Switch and boot up New Horizons. Once you get to the title screen, press the '—' button to enter Settings. You’ll be greeted by Tom Nook. After he gives a small speech, click 'NookLink Settings.' Your Switch should now be connected to the Nintendo Switch Online app.
Back on the app, you can now scan designs into your game via QR codes by opening the app, clicking Animal Crossing: New Horizons. You should now see a new area called NookLink, complete with a QR scanner on the top right.
Once you scan a code, go back into New Horizons and open the in-game design app. Click the '+' button on your Switch to download the design. Only one design can be scanned and downloaded at a time, so make sure to download it before moving onto the next one.
Designs uploaded via QR code cannot be edited and can only be applied to items available in the basic Design Editor app. QR code designs are incompatible with the additional features added in the Nook Stop 'Pro' upgrade.
Despite the app’s title, this method doesn’t require you to have a Nintendo Switch Online membership. However, using New Horizons’ native clothing sharing service is a totally different story.
How to share custom designs in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
If newfangled apps elude you, New Horizons also has a method to share clothing in-game. However, this one does require that you have a Nintendo Switch Online Membership.
Upon visiting the town’s shop, Nook’s Cranny for the first time, a villager named Mabel will appear momentarily. She’ll come scout out your town a few more times following that. Eventually, after getting a lay of the land, she’ll ask to open up a shop on your island.
Once her fashion shop, Able Sisters, opens, there will be a Custom Design Kiosk located in her store’s rear section. You’ll be able to upload and download designs using codes, similar to those used to enjoy multiplayer.
After a code is uploaded, you distribute it online or amongst friends. They can enter your code at the Kiosk in their game to obtain your design.
What can custom designs do in New Horizons?
Using a custom design, you can make your own clothing and furniture. Custom designs can be used to decorate your room in unconventional ways as seen below.
Online, others have used these designs to implement cosplays of fictional characters into New Horizons. Others have used custom designs to add features they believed were missing from the game like eyebrows and freckles. Adding a custom design is just another way to make the world of New Horizons into your world.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is now available for Nintendo Switch.