Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been keeping gamers occupied all summer with its new updates, but there’s one easily missed feature that has been there from Day 1. Veterans of the series know all too well that the real end game behind their adorable neighbors is a chance at a rare framed selfie of theirs.
New Horizons is known for its vast customization options and casual-yet-committed player base, so the inclusion of rare, functionally useless treasure should come as no surprise. While the original Animal Crossing simply featured an in-game furniture item called “Nook’s Portrait,” Animal Crossing: Wild World introduced the concept of framed villager portraits. Ever since, players have been able to earn a framed portrait of any resident villager after successfully befriending them.
As mentioned above, players can earn a framed portrait of any villager in AC: New Horizons. The portraits all feature the same photo used for the posters available from Nook Shopping, but they’re instead framed and offer a fun-fact/quote when interacted with. If taken to a workbench, the frames on these photos can also be customized. While islanders’ posters are simply unlocked in the Nook Shopping catalog by inviting a villager to Harv’s Island, the framed photos require a bit more effort.
In order to earn a framed photo of an islander, players must first nearly max out their friendship with that particular resident. Given that AC: New Horizons doesn’t offer a direct guide to measuring friendship levels with villagers, this involves some degree of guess-work and luck, but nonetheless, it’s a fairly simple process.
Islanders’ friendship levels rise when a player gives them a gift (literal bonus points for wrapped gifts), or generally assists them by completing tasks or helping catch fleas, for example. In this case, players will want to spend time developing their friendship with an islander until that particular islander allows the player to change their greeting. This marks the fifth of six tiers of friendship in AC: New Horizons, and signifies that the player has a chance at obtaining their photo as a gift.
Once players have reached the appropriate level of friendship with their preferred islander, they should simply focus on generously showering them with gifts, whenever possible. A villager’s photo will be given to the player as a gift from an islander themselves. Although there’s no way to force an islander to gift their photo, there are ways to eliminate undesirable gifts from the reward pool.
The currently accepted method for “farming” islander photos involves triggering a reward by gifting something valuable to a villager, but forcing them to send it by mail by maintaining a full inventory. To do so, simply follow these steps:
- Carry a stack of non-native fruit while pockets are full
- Approach a villager and gift them the fruit
The fruit counts as a present valuable enough to trigger a gift-back from the islander, but because the player’s inventory remains full after the gift, the islander is forced to mail their gift. This is significant because islanders are unable to mail money, which is to say, this eliminates the chance of receiving bells as a gift entirely, thereby indirectly increasing a player’s odds at receiving a framed photo.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now on Switch.
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