How to Time Travel in Animal Crossing

The pace of progression in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is deliberately slow, as the game is played in real time. If you’re fed up with being stuck in line, you may time travel in-game by adjusting the date and time settings on your Nintendo Switch.

How to Time Travel in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Therefore, if you alter the date and time on your Switch, the date and time in your Animal Crossing world will change as well, unless you disable the automatic time setting.

With only a few button clicks, you can easily alter the date and time settings on the Nintendo Switch.

1. Navigate to the System Settings menu on your Nintendo Switch.

2. Select System from the drop-down menu at the bottom of the settings list.

3. Choose a day and time from the drop-down menu.

4. Make sure the option to synchronize your clock with the internet is turned off, and then set the date and time to anything you like.

5. Open up Animal Crossing and take pleasure in the rewards of your labour.

The Pros and Cons of Time Traveling

While the Animal Crossing community may be divided on the subject of time travel, there are several considerations to keep in mind if you do decide to time travel.

What Time Traveling Will Get You

You will be able to skip long lines for anything and everything in Animal Crossing, play whenever you want in real life while still being able to enjoy day and night in-game, experience specific events whenever you want or repeatedly, gain access to more things to buy and earn money, and experience specific events whenever you want or repeatedly.

What You Should Watch Out for

When going across time, exercise caution. Extreme leaps can occasionally create complications. If you check in every day at the Nook Stop, you will receive a streak bonus of additional Nook miles, but going through time may cause your streak to be broken. In the event that you have turnips and travel back in time for more than a few days, your turnips will go rotten.

Cockroaches may arrive in your home depending on how far into the past or future you time travel. Cockroaches may be eradicated from a home by just walking on them. Finally, depending on your interactions with the people who live on your island, time-traveling may cause them to be unhappy or perhaps force them to abandon their island completely.

The Takeaway

After everything is said and done, the disadvantages of time travelling increase in proportion to the distance and amount of time travelled; thus, if you’re feeling apprehensive, try leaping ahead or backward a few days to get a feel for it. However, if you’ve invested hundreds of hours into Animal Crossing and are fed up with having to wait to acquire new items, time-traveling is the solution!

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FAQs

What happens if you time travel in Animal Crossing?

All players who time travel run the danger of their town getting overrun with weeds, Tom Nook’s Store being downgraded, residents being forced to leave, bedheads, trees becoming stunted in their absence, and, depending on how far they have travelled, rafflesia blossoming in their absence.

Will you get banned if you time travel in Animal Crossing?

No, you will not be barred from playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons if you time travel. According to a recent interview with the Washington Post, the developer does not believe time travel to be cheating in any way.