Animal Crossing New Horizons: Every Kapp'n Mystery Island, Ranked
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Summary
- In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, there are different types of islands you can visit with Kapp'n, depending on your luck and the time of year.
- Regular islands include a basic island with nothing special, an island with abundant crops, and a rainy island with fully-grown gyroids.
- Seasonal islands offer unique experiences such as bamboo-filled islands in the spring, snowy winter islands, cherry blossom-filled islands in the spring, summer islands with sharks and palm trees, and autumn islands with red trees and maple leaves.
It's never a dull day in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! In the struggle for best transport service, your cool uncle Kapp'n pulls out the big guns and offers to take you to islands at a completely different time of day, or even a different season.
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PostsIn Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the mystery tours the turtle takes you on depend on how long you've been playing as well as the fortunes Katrina foretells. This list explains how to get a chance at each island, and ranks them all.
Updated December 24, 2024 by Gabrielle Castania: Today, we're updating our ranking of the ACNH Kapp'n island with some extra photos, streamlined info in tables for each island, and links to extra Animal Crossing content we've published since our last update. Happy island hopping, to new and returning players!
In order to unlock certain Kapp'n islands, you'll need to have played past a certain date in your game. If your villager is more than a year old, then all the Kapp'n islands are possible in your daily mystery tour. If not, keep playing the game past the dates we'll mention below in order to add those ACNH islands to your potential Kapp'n island tours.
11 Basic Broken Gyroid Island
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Assorted DIYs
Special Items
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Date to Pass
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If you wanted to head to an island pretty entirely like a regular Nook Miles island without a villager to search for, the basic islands in the Kapp’n tours are just that. If Katrina tells you you’ll have bad luck with Belongings for the day, best stay home – you’re likely to end up here.
Any buried gyroid fragments will have turned into buried clay on these islands, and while you may get an extra pile or two of native fruit and coconuts, there’s not much to write home about with these extremely basic islands.
10 Crops Galore
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Cooking Recipes
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Assorted Crops, Mature Vegetable Plants
Date to Pass
N/A
With the return of every Animal Crossing fan’s beloved green turtle, we also received the introduction of farming in Animal Crossing. And if you’re not trying to wait for Leif to sell you seed starters, you might just luck into finding a Kapp’n island rife with one of the six potential crops in the game.
Each of the crop islands Kapp’n might take you to will have an abundance of either carrots, potatoes, pumpkins sugarcane, tomatoes, or wheat, which you can dig up with a shovel and bring home with you to plant on your island. Be sure to check the shoreline before you go, too, since you’ll almost certainly find a new cooking recipe, too!
9 Rare Rainy Retreat
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Fully Formed Gyroids
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The rarest of the regular islands might seem gloomy, but it offers a lovely surprise. As we know, you always need to water your planted gyroid fragments to grow a full gyroid. So when you land someplace where it rains all the time, you're bound to have some fully formed gyroid buddies already grown!
When you arrive on these islands, you'll notice the downpour immediately. Here, not only can you find an assortment of rainy weather bugs and fish, but you'll also find a fully grown gyroid waiting for you in the island's dig spot instead of just a gyroid fragment.
8 Coveted Vines And Moss Paradise
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Glowing Moss or Vine DIYs
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Glowing Moss, Vines, Plumeria Bushes
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N/A
This island used to be much higher up on our ranking of the ACNH Kapp’n islands list, but now that the hype around the update in which it was introduced has quieted down with time, the shine has come off a bit. Still, if you need to stock up on Glowing Moss, stacks of Vines, or decorative Plumeria bushes, here’s your chance!
Along the shore, you’ll also be certain to find one of the recipes that utilizes some or both of the new crafting materials with Glowing Moss and Vines. The introduction added plenty of creative furniture to our DIY catalogs, so it never hurts to get inventive!
7 Springing Bamboo Bonanza
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Bamboo DIYs
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Bamboo Plants, Young Bamboo,
Date to Pass
May 31 (Northern Hemisphere)
November 31 (Southern Hemisphere)
To unlock the possibility of visiting these faraway shores, your character needs to have experienced each of these natural events in their own home. Once your own island has been rife with Bamboo, you'll be able to head to the Kapp'n island that grows fully mature bamboo along with the assortment of regular trees.
Not only do you have an extra chance to stock up on Young Spring Bamboo and a new recipe to use it with, but you'll also have access to seasonal bugs and fish if you missed anything during the original season back home.
6 Mushrooms Galore
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Mush DIYs
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Assorted Mushrooms
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November 30 (Northern Hemisphere)
May 30 (Southern Hemisphere)
The next best place to turn up to is a cozy autumnal patch growing all manner of mushrooms. There are five types of mushrooms possible to find in this game, including the rare mushroom. This resembles a truffle and can be dug up around the base of trees - where are your pig villagers when you need them?
Mush-themed DIYs drift onto the beaches here in case you missed any during November. Other than this, it's a pretty normal-seeming island, with trees in a range of warm colors. Lovely!
5 Winter Wonderland
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Ice DIYs
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Snowflakes
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February 24 (Northern Hemisphere)
August 24 (Southern Hemisphere)
Do you hear the sleigh bells ringing? No? Well, that's okay, because it's snowing anyway! You might not have access to the magic of the infamous snowmen family in the Animal Crossing series, but you’ll have plenty of Snowflakes to catch either way!
Everything is covered in snow no matter what the weather is like back on your home island, and winter fish and insects are ready to be captured while you're around. You'll also get a new Ice DIY recipe, in case you missed any winter wonders back home.
4 Pretty Petal Palace
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Cherry Blossom DIYs
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Cherry Blossom Petals
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April 10 (Northern Hemisphere)
October 10 (Southern Hemisphere)
An incredibly popular time in Japan is when the cherry blossoms bloom and fall, turning the ground a soft pink for a couple of weeks. Animal Crossing experiences the same thing and has a gorgeous DIY set to go with it. The season is terrifically short, though, but these Kapp'n islands are your chance to grab a few extra petals.
These islands are some of the most quaint in the series, offering a super cozy vibe with pretty pink petals floating through the air. Scour the shoreline for a Cherry Blossom set DIY recipe if you haven't finished the collection!
3 Hot Shell Summer
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Shell DIYs
Special Items
Sharks, Summer Shells
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August 31 (Northern Hemisphere)
February 31 (Southern Hemisphere)
Who needs actual summer when you can experience summer in Animal Crossing? The sharks are circling the shoreline ready to net you a pretty penny, and the palm trees are alive with humongous bugs, and veteran players know summer is the season to cash in on the critterpedia.
You'll find a generous littering of the rarer blue Summer Shells along the shoreline of these summer seasonal Kapp'n islands, too, alongside a rather beachy DIY recipe to keep the seasonal party going when you get back home.
2 Fall Is In The Air
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Maple Leaf DIYs
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Maple Leaves, Golden Trout
Date to Pass
November 25 (Northern Hemisphere)
May 25 (Southern Hemisphere)
The vibrant, burning red of the seasonal maple leaves is a dead giveaway when you pull up on the dock of these autumnal Kapp’n islands! If you couldn’t get enough fall back home, you might just get another dose of it on your daily island tour.
Not only can you catch extra Red Maple Leaves floating through the crisp fall breezes here, but you’ll find a plethora of acorns. It’s a good idea to stock up, too, since you’ll find an autumnal DIY in a bottle on the shores.
