Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Completesurprised everyone when it was released in December 2024 by allowing custom designs to be imported fromAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. The app was previously free-to-play before changing into a one-time paid model when the old version shut down. Until then, custom designs were exclusively anAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsfeature that needed a paid Nintendo account to share or download.
With the arrival of the new custom design import feature inPocket Camp,players can now import their favorite designs fromNew Horizons,withoutneeding a paid Nintendo subscription. Fans with a copy ofACNHand a Switch online sub can make their own custom designs inNew Horizonand import them into the mobile title. There’s also the option toimport any of the many custom designs that already exist.
The customization feature is very limited inPocket Camp Complete, however, capping players off at just20 clothing items and 20 non-clothing itemslike flooring and ground tiles, etc. As a result,players might want to be strategic when choosing which custom designs to import intoPocket Camp.Luckily, there are many excellent designs to choose from.
10Ground Tiles And Stepping Stones
Forge Your Own Path Through The Campsite
As exciting as it is to import custom designs intoPocket Camp,players quickly realized that the feature is limited when it comes to flooring. The app only lets playersimport custom designsthat were specifically labeled as a “ground” design. Luckily,winty_bearon X (formerly Twitter) has helpfully compiled agrowing list of working ground designswith over 200 functioning codes at the time of this writing, and counting.
You can check out any of the creators featured in this post via the in-game Design Portal. IDs for each design and creator can be found directly on the images. All designs were checked and confirmed to work prior to this article’s publication.
Even with the limitations of the importing system,there are many different types of paths and flooring to choose from. There are patches of grass, fallen leaves, clovers, rivers and brooks, dirt and paved paths, stepping stones, cute patterns, and so much more. There is even a cool steampunk floor that looks like cogs sticking out of the floor. With all these designs at the players' fingertips, it’s possible to turn the campsite into nearly anything.
9Themed Outfits For Villagers
Match Each Character’s Personality To The Kind Of Outfit They’d Wear
Villagers fall under eight categories based on their personalities, like lazy, jock, peppy, snooty, and so on.Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Completeadds another element to villager styles in the form of essences, which range from elegant and cute to civic and historical. Thiscombination of characteristics makes each villager unique, and their styles should reflect this, too.
It would seem odd, for instance, to have a sporty jock who calls the player “brosephina” wearing a pink frilly dress (although they certainly can!). On top of their personal style, it’s also worth noting thatvillagers don’t wear full outfits like the player does, instead reducing the clothing item to just a short-sleeved shirt in most cases. Importing themed clothing intended specifically for certain types of villagers is a fun way to ensure that the outfits they wear suit them.
8Patterns For Scarves
Sheep Villagers Need Style, Too
One of the animals that you’re able to dress up inAC: Pocket Camp Completeis the sheep, but they don’t wear clothes in the same way that other villagers in the game do.Sheep are already essentially wearing their own wooly sweaters, so custom designs are applied to the scarf, instead.
Some designs look strange on the scarf since they get repeated like a pattern. As a result, players who love sheep characters (or one fluffy friend in particular) may want toseek out a good pattern when applied to the scarf.The best designs for sheep villager scarves are simple patterns and sweaters, which both get some very stylish results.
7Camp Uniforms
Custom Outfits Can Be Shared Many Times
Some players may have fond memories from their childhoods of roaming around the city or the woods on a field trip. On those occasions, all the kids would wear matching outfits to make them easy to spot as part of the group. It can be cute torecreate the idea of camp uniforms inAC: Pocket Camp Completeand players can do just that with custom designs.
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The nice thing aboutcustom designs is that they can be shared and worn by as many villagers as players want. This opens up some opportunities for uniforms, from literal school or camp uniforms to cute matching outfits. The best custom designs that work for this have similar characteristics with a few tweaks here and there, like some details or the color. Putting all the visiting villagers into matching uniforms is a cute way to utilize the wide-reaching nature of custom designs.
6Seasonal Outfits
Find The Perfect Fit For Any Time Of Year
As with all previousAnimal Crossingtitles,the seasons play an important part inPocket Camp Complete. As always, certain animals and critters can only be caught in certain seasons. The game will also continue to have seasonal events, like its in-game versions of Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and so on.
The campsite will change based on the season, as well, with snow covering the ground in the winter and blossoming trees and flowers in the Spring. As the seasons change, it’s fun to dress up according to what’s happening around players in the game. Fortune Cookies further reinforce the trend of seasonal designs, so it makes sense touse custom designs to celebrate in seasonal style, too. Players can find many different season-specific custom designs, from cozy fall cardigans to summery beach outfits.
5Cosplay And Cosplay-Bounding
Dress Up As Your Favorite Character From Another Franchise
The beauty of creating outfit designs inAnimal Crossingis that itallows players to be anyone that they want to be. This includes characters from other franchises, shows, and games, with some creative thinking. The art of Disney-bounding is alive and well inAnimal Crossingand applicable to any franchise, show, book, or any other fandom. This is where fans dress up in the style of their favorite characters instead of cosplaying them completely and recreating their outfits.
The result is outfits inspired by beloved franchises, which is the perfect style to use for fandom celebrations inPocket Camp.This is also a great option for anyone who missed out on the Sanrio collab, or players can just dress up as their favorite character from nearly any franchise they want.If it exists, there’s probably someone who’s made a custom design for it inANCH.There are outfits for popular anime likeSailor MoonandPokémon, famous books like theHarry Potterseries, and everything in between. And if it doesn’t exist yet, players can always create their own dream fan-design and import it intoAC: PCC.
4Handheld Items
Flags And Fans Add Adorable Customized Touches
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Completehas several handheld accessories like bags, drinks, ice cream cones, plushies, flowers, and more. Unfortunately, none of these items can be customized with custom designs.The two handheld items that can be designed, though, are flags and Uchiwa fans.
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Uchiwa fans are handheld round Japanese fans traditionally made of silk. They’re known for driving off mosquitoes, cooling people down, and possibly even warding off bad spirits. There are plenty of stunning traditional fan designs out there, but some creators have fun with it, liketurning the fans into giant lollipops.
Flags can also be brought over fromNew Horizonsand there are lots of beautiful custom designs for them out there. Unfortunately,neither flags nor Uchiwa fans can be placed anywhere,and must be held in order to display them. On the bright side, villagers can also hold fans, so it’s possible to have campers walking around adorably waving their flags about.
3Face Paint
Add A Touch Of Whimsy with Face Paint
In the official announcement that the custom design feature was coming toPocket Camp Complete,Nintendo showed (via theNintendo MobileYouTube channel) shirts, dresses, hats, cutout standees, and lots of other types of designs. One type of design that isn’t advertised as openly is face paint, but it’s definitely an option for players to import into the mobile game.
In order to import designs that can be placed on character faces, the design needs to be a “facepaint” one, which looks like the silhouette of a mannequin’s head. There are some very cute designs available to snag, includingcheeks, face adornments like chains and sparkles, and even new bang types. Face paint custom designs are a way to turn theAnimal Crossingcharacter into a truly unique avatar.
2Creative Standee Designs
Face-Cutouts Can Be Fun And Functional
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Completedoesn’t allow players to import flat design artwork, so it’s not possible to bring in a painting, sign, or any other general-purpose design. Luckily, the game does allow the import of the face cutout standee, and this turns out to be the next best thing. Thestandee is intended to be used as a cute photo-op prop, letting players stand behind the board with their face peeking out through the hole.
There are many designs that take the idea of the standee in a unique direction, and some designers have gotten very creative with how these surprisingly versatile items can be used. Standees are often used to add outdoor elements toAnimal Crossing,which is perfect forPocket Camp.There are custom designs forstanding photo boards that emulate lemonade stands, outdoor cafés, caravans, and many more cute outdoor ideas.
1Recreations Of Pocket Camp Outfits
Remake Your Dream Outfit Until You Find It In Game
Most of the outfits and designs fromPocket Camphave been brought over intoPocket Camp Complete.That doesn’t mean that getting the dream outfit is an easy feat, sincethe Fortune Cookie system still leaves a lot up to luck.Players who are chasing a dream outfit inPocket Campcan import designs of their favorite outfits until they manage to actually get them in the game.
Several designers out there specialize in recreatingPocket Campclothes inNew Horizons.Although it may seem backward,importing these designs is a roundabout way of getting a hold of them ASAP. Another bonus to importing beloved outfit designs throughNew Horizonsis that players will only need one copy of the design to distribute it among any villagers they desire.
If the item were being worn normally, players would have to accumulate as many copies of the outfit as there are villagers to wear them. Luckily, custom designs inAnimal Crossing: Pocket Camp Completemake it possible to import and wear many different outfits, styles, and designs for more freedom of expression than ever before.
