Animal Crossing: How To Get The New Year's Hat | Screen Rant
As part of the festivities for New Year's Eve in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, players can purchase and collect special New Year's Eve hats to wear.
Isabelle and Tom Nook are throwing a big celebration in the plaza for New Year's Eve in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Like the other seasonal events and holiday celebrations, like Toy Day or Bunny Day, players can expect to collect new items and celebratory attire as part of the festivities. During the New Year's Eve event and the few weeks that follow, players can purchase New Year's furniture and traditional food. Though players can find Tom Nook and Isabelle on the plaza on December 31 starting at 5 a.m., the residents won't arrive for the Countdown event until 11 p.m. to celebrate. The night of the event, players can talk to Tom Nook and Isabelle to get a Light Stick and Party Poppers. They can also purchase New Year's Hats to wear.
New Year's Hats come in two styles, the New Year's Hat and the New Year's Silk Hat. Each style comes in eight colors, of which only four will be available on each player's island. Players can plan to visit friends on New Year's Eve to make sure they can collect every possible hat color variation, as these accessories will only be available on December 31. Villagers will also wear these hats during the Countdown and fireworks display to help ring in the new year. Here's how to get the New Year's Hats in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
To get this year's New Year's Hat, players will need to stop and talk to Tom Nook at the plaza any time during the event, which runs December 31 to January 1 from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. This year, he will only sell one of the two New Year hat styles in four colors. Players should be able to find the other four colors being sold on other islands, so they should plan to travel to see a friend to collect every variant. The other style will be available next year.
The eight possible colors for each hat are:
- Red
- Blue
- Yellow
- Green
- Orange
- Purple
- Pink
- Light Blue
Each hat includes a yellow gold trim. Each one will cost players 500 bells to purchase.
Other events during the New Year's Eve celebration include chatting with villagers about their thoughts and resolutions for the new year and watching a fireworks display at the plaza that lasts until 2 a.m. local time on January 1. Players will be able to get a few of the traditional New Year's Eve and New Year's Day food dishes from around the world prior to or during the event on December 31. Several others will be available, along with all the furniture items, until January 15. These can be purchased from the Nook Shopping App or from the Nook Shop section of the ATM kiosk in Resident Services.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available for Nintendo Switch.