Animal Crossing Newbie- what do I need to know?

Haven't RTFT...

Experts, please help me - I'm a complete Animal Crossing newbie.

DD is getting a Switch lite for her 6th birthday and I'm looking for some games for her. I think she might like Animal Crossing with the concept of building a little island (?) - but I know nothing about it.

Is it playable for a 6 year old who can't read? (We're not in UK with a different school system where she will start learning in September.)

And if I do get her the game, is there anything I need to bear in mind like master lead players on the game? I can get hold of a physical version of the game here, so I don't need to get a download code.

DS has just had a regular Switch for his 9th birthday, but not sure if he'll be interested. I could possibly be interested in playing....

Thank you

Thanks Queen
I will try again in a minute, have a star wand recipe so want to hopefully get some fragments

When you see the star press A, your character will turn round and make a wish.

Shooting stars usually happen on clear nights, you just need to stand near the back of your island (either on the beach, or the highest level) and use your joystick to angle the view upwards, and then just wait a few minutes, they usually happen just after the save thing whizzes round in the corner. Make sure you don’t have any tools in your hands or you won’t be able to wish, and usually you get several shooting stars one after the other. The next morning you’ll have star fragments scattered on your beach with the shells.

Celeste came to see me and told me about shooting stars but I don't seem to have any

How do we visit other islands I’ve found dodo codes online but it always says there’s no islands available at the minute!

Hi everyone!
Me and my dd are new to Animal Crossing and already becoming addicted!
So weve got 15 Iron nuggets but need another 15 to open the shop? Any tips? Also we havent visited anybody yet if anyone would like a visitor 😃😎

I'd forgotten about bamboo - Daisy Mae sometimes gifts you some if you buy turnips too.

Local is "other Switches on the same wifi" so isn't useful unless you've got several ACNH players in the house each with their own :)

Ah! I completely forgot to say you need to pay for a Nintendo Online subscription (£19/year, or £36/six person family) in order to go travelling to (or be visited by) other ACNH players over the Internet.

@whatonearthmother Go to the airport, chat to Orville and tell him you want visitors. If you choose "dodo code" you can post it here and people can come along, "friends" means only people who are already on your Switch Friends list can come, and "best friends" means only people who have already visited and you've chosen to allow them digging/etc rights by making them best friends in the Nookphone friends app.

You can mail presents to people but you must be both Nintendo Friends and have also met in game by travelling to one of each other's island. You can't mail to other travellers you meet on someone else's island.

The secret beach is Redd's mooring, yes.

For money trees: if you plant 1k->10k you'll get three times that back.
If you plant 10k-99k you have a 30% chance of getting three times that much back, but 70% chance of just getting 3x10k.

Other fruit is from other people's islands, encouraging social travel. You can very rarely get a Mystery Island Trip to somewhere with a different fruit than your own, but it's always the same different fruit. Plus the coconuts of course, which are on most Mystery Islands.

Yes I keep getting duplicates. Is annoying.

I'm on 4 stars... I need to keep decorating with item's I've created apparently.... if they would stop giving me bloody duplicates of every DIY recipe, that would be helpful!

Tadda I can give you a couple of cherries and peaches? Dm me.
Whatonearthmother I’ll be around later.

Is anyone up for island visiting? Maybe playing later on tonight and if I can work out how to let people in I will post on here!

I got super lucky this week and managed to go over to the island of someone I follow on IG and sold mine for 512 bells a turnip it paid off the remainder of my upstairs room being built, and now I’m indebted to Tom Nook again for a bloody basement to the tune of 2.5million bells.

Books Cranny finally upgraded for me now too. I organised all of my trees into a proper orchard last night and have started playing around more with terraforming. First thing I did was make a path round the back of the island on the lowest level to access the secret beach more easily, and then all my islanders were hanging around down there last night being nosey. Haha.

Had my first resident birthday too, Hamlet, my adorable little hamster. I gave him an exercise bike for a present and the penny finally dropped why it is they sell wrapping paper in the shop.

@QueenOfPain I've had two of mine leave. First one I just kinda ignored and then when she had 3 dots above her head I spoke to her, and persuaded her to pursue her dreams 😂. Second one was today when I had someone in my campsite, I offered her to move to my island but she said she couldn't as it was full, she then went off to speak to my islanders to see if any were planning to move, and LO and behold they were.

Also is anyone else's turnip prices getting worse? They're currently offering 56bells each 😭

@bearlyactive I watched a YouTube video last night about how to get villagers to leave and the theory behind it, which data miners have found out. You could have a look on there for the basic premise of it all, but the one I watched involved time travelling which I didn’t want to do.

Anyone playing now and up for a visit?

I finally hit 3 stars today :D