Whether you’re building your island from scratch or rearranging your design inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, you’ll want to take note of the space you’ll need for everything. Your house, Nook’s Cranny, the museum… there are a lot of buildings to account for, and that’s without including the bridges and inclines you’ll need to help villagers get around.
As all the buildings, as well as bridges and inclines, have specific plot sizes you’ll need to abide by when designing your island paradise, it’s a good idea to get acquainted with them first. There’s nothing worse than almost finishing your decoration idea, then discovering the main attraction won’t fit…
All Plot Sizes
When you mark a plot to place buildings, bridges, and inclines on your island, each one requiresa specific plot size.
If you don’t have the required space available, such as having another building or furniture in the way,you will not be able to place the building there.
If you want to move a building after you’ve already placed it on your island,speak to Tom Nook.
It will cost you30,000 bells to move your house, and50,000 bells to move all other buildings.
Bridges and inclines can’t be moved. They must bedemolished and rebuilt.
Dimensions (Width by Length)
Player Homes
5 x 4
Your home (and any additional player homes) hasan additional space (in front of the door) that is unusable.
Youcan’t dig with your shovel or place furniturethere. However, you can stillplace paths and custom pathshere.
Villager Homes
4 x 4
Youcan’t place furniture on the porch directly outside the door of the house, but you canplace paths (including custom ones) here.
7 x 4
Museum
Thespace directly in front of the museumcan’t be dugwith a shovel.
Campsite
Thespace directly in front of the campsite can’t be dugwith a shovel.
4 x 3 - 5 (Length depends on water)
2 x 1 (Walkway)
The length of a bridgedepends on the length of the body of water it’s built across. It can go overa minimum of three tiles up to a maximum of five.
You willnot be able to build a bridgeover water that’slonger than five tiles.
Either side of the bridge requires2 x 1 tiles of space for the walkway. you may place paths and custom paths here.
2 x 1 (Upper)
2 x 3 (Lower)
Inclines must be built into or against a cliff, withtiles being used on the upper and lower half. Thetotal space is 2 x 4.
While you can still place a building, bridge, or incline in a place where there are flowers, trees, or bushes,they will disappear once the plot is placed, and you will not get them back.
