Umami Town

If you ask me an anonymous question about something I’ve already answered in the list, I won’t respond.  Sorry.  And, no, I don’t know if duplicating still works, because I’ve never done it.

Also, because I’ve seen a lot of people say this is true, but I’ve tested it and found it not to be: If you have a villager from the RV campsite replace a villager in your town, they will NOT always move into the same spot.

---------- RV campsite, MEOW coupons, Wisp, & amiibos -----------

Harvey is the hippie dog who runs the RV campsite

You can do a dance around the RV campsite bonfire by pressing A if it’s nighttime!

And you can honk an RV’s horn by getting into the driver’s seat and pressing A.  It will shock the RV’s owner.  (Thanks, Anon!)

You can toss setsubun beans and the birds will come eat them like bread crumbs?

I don’t yet know what Harv’s Wifi is exactly for/how it works.  It would seem that Nintendo doesn’t have the system for it running yet?

Harvey sells two furniture items in front of the cabin that were previously exclusive to HHD

You can order furniture from whoever’s RV is in the campsite, and this furniture can include HHD items and other items that can’t be ordered from the catalogue.

You can only order 3 items from the RVs per day? 

These are all bought with MEOW coupons gained by accomplishing daily and weekly initiatives that can be seen by looking at your TPC (Town Pass Card) and change every day/week

Report your accomplished objectives to the CAT machine (the cute cat-daruma sign on the left corner of your town hall) for MEOW coupons

MEOW coupons can be exchanged for bells at the ATM in the post office.  (The rate might change day to day?  My game says, “the current rate is 3,000″)

There can be two RVs at the campsite.  A special character and a character you invite with your amiibo.

Wisp has been added to the game to allow you to use amiibo figures and cards to invite them to the RV campsite.  You can find his white genie’s lamp around town by going towards the mysterious voice and take it back to your house to summon him out of the lamp.

Wisp is see-through when you summon him and will ask that you provide a body for him with an amiibo figure or card.  He will take that form and then give you three options:

Come and play! (invites the owner of that body to visit the RV campsite  and gives you some MEOW coupons)

Give me something! (gives you a random furniture item and some MEOW coupons)

I don’t need anything. (Wisp goes back in the lamp.  You can summon him again, but he won’t give you option 1 again that day unless you use the same amiibo as before.)

Option 1 might be different if your town is full and you have someone whose plot is marked out and will be moving in the day after?  Or it might just be different if you did option 3 first?  Rather than going to the RV campsite, Wisp will ask you to pick out a person to be replaced by the owner of the body.

You get Wisp on the ingame day after the day you acquired the RV campsite.  You don’t have to wait till the evening, you can find him in the morning.  You might have to wander around a while till you hear the mysterious voice.

And RV will appear on the campsite right after you invite them with Wisp. Same day and everything.

A villager you brought to the RV campsite with an amiibo card (or certain non-animal crossing amiibo figures) can be invited to move into your town by talking to them in their RV.  If your town is full, you get to choose a current resident to move out.  They DO NOT always move into the same spot as that resident they kick out.  The resident being replaced will be packed up into boxes immediately after you asked an RV owner to move in.  The next day, they will be gone and the RV owner’s plot will be marked out.

You can supposedly use an amiibo card to skip the usual number of villager cycles you must wait before asking a villager to move back into your town after they left.

Nintendo’s list of all amiibo figures that work with the RV campsite, including non-animal crossing figures: link

--------- secret storeroom, touch screen interior design, etc. --------

Tom Nook can build you a secret storeroom that is an invisible closet with 360 slots that you can access from anywhere within your house.  

It can be accessed with the icon to the right of the light switch on your touch screen.  

You may need to have a second story in your house to get the option for Tom Nook to build it.

You can unlock the ability to use the touch screen for moving around furniture in your house like in HHD.  But unlike in HHD, there are no half squares. (and no ceiling items?)  

You need a second floor, a secret storeroom, and take an interior design seminar from Lottie to unlock this.

This ability can be accessed with the icon to the left of the light switch on your touch screen.

You can hang clothes on the wall like in HHD now

You can now interact with an object in front of you if you’re sitting in a chair facing it.

You can place objects on top of stools.  (This does not work if it’s labeled as a chair, even if looks like a stool.)

--------- stones, weeding, selling your town, etc. -------------

You will get a green book with a white question mark in the mail from Nintendo that explains the new features a little

As Nintendo promised, the update will weed your town for you, so it won’t be such a mess when you arrive.  Isabelle talks to you on the train ride in, saying that she had Leif take care of it.

If you want to start over and make a new town, you can “sell” your town to Nook who will evaluate it and give you bells accordingly that you can carry into your new town.

You can possibly choose to get this money in 100 increments with interest instead of all at once as you play in your new town?  Please provide screenshots verifying this!

You can possibly choose to keep your catalouge from your town instead of getting money.  Please provide screenshots verifying this!

(More information on this would be appreciated!)

Here are a bunch of miscellaneous changes:

You can mute a player on Tortimer Island. Handy if they are rude!

A number of glitches have been “fixed”, such as the net glitch.

You can now shake trees while holding a watering can, fishing rod, or net.  So it will probably be easier to catch bees now.

You can sit on stones now.

You can get a model of the town tree on the anniversary of your town?

Villagers now give you a longer period of considering to move out to go and convince them to stay?

Leif’s fertilizer can also be buried next to dried-out trees to revive them

Balloons can now drop normal furniture instead of just balloon furniture?

--------- minigames -----------

Two items that allow you to play minigames can be gotten either from RVs summoned with any of the 16 animal crossing amiibo figures OR from fortune cookies. (source)

a Wii U lets you play Desert Island Escape

a 3DS lets you play Animal Crossing Puzzle League

You can get MEOW coupons and furniture from the minigames?

-------- amiibo camera, link HHD date, etc. --------

After you have updated ACNL (from the title menu) and (I think) have also done a save of further gameplay within the town, the title menu will give you access to...

the amiibo Camera

and “Link HHD data” which allows you to order the special, big, monthly challenge items in HHD with Timmy and Tommy’s catalogue kiosk.

You can do this even if both your ACNL and HHD are both physical/retail copies.  If you’re using retail copies, Isabelle will tell you to removed the ACNL cartridge and put in the HHD cartridge for a bit.  I’ve done this myself and it works.  Your connection with Isabelle won’t be broken by temporarily removing the ACNL cartridge.

Lottie will send you a Nook’s Homes model in ACNL in the mail for linking your HHD data.

I am checking other’s lists of changes in my game to see if they’re all true or not.  Question marks and “supposedly”s mean I haven’t seen enough evidence to be certain of.  They might be true, or they might not be.  I need screenshots, nintendo clearly stating it, or to have tested it myself.

I downloaded the update and I’m having fun poking around.  In Umami Town, the new RV campsite leads off from next to the pond, in front of the Police Station, and behind the old tent campsite.  It’s going to be fun to find all the changes.  But once Pokemon Sun & Moon come out, I might end up dropping the game for a while again.