The latest Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct showed off many new features coming in the next free update. Included in the 2.0 update is a new tool that will allow players to get around their Animal Crossing: New Horizons' island much faster.

One of the main ways players interact with their island in New Horizons is through the game's tool system. From an axe to chop down trees, to a polevault to cross streams, the player must use many items in order to properly navigate and cultivate their island. The catch, however, is that tools have durability and will break like with Breath of the Wild's weapons after so many uses. Most tools have multiple variants—flimsy, regular, and golden—and each one is more durable than the last, though they become much harder to create with each level.

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Nintendo revealed in the new update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons that players will be able to create permanent ladders for their island. The tool is officially known in-game as a "wooden ladder set-up kit," the DIY Recipe for which can be purchased from Nook's Cranny for 2,000 Bells. After buying the recipe, players can build the ladder set-up tool and place it on most one-level cliff surfaces, which will allow permanent access between the two levels until the player decides to move it. As with most other items, the ladders can be customized with different colors to better fit the island's decor.

This inclusion is pretty significant as far as player movement is concerned. Since release, every time a player would want to climb a cliff, it would require stopping movement, selecting the regular ladder tool from the player's inventory, placing it, climbing it, then finally putting it away.

Until the player earns enough Bells to start terraforming their island, and being able to add ramps and staircases, the ladder is the only way to scale cliffs. Now though, players will be able to create a permanent ladder, set it, and forget it, no longer having to deal with menuing while completing their island maintenance.

The ladder set-up kit is sure to make traversing one's island a lot quicker when the update drops on November 5. While this may seem like a negligible inclusion for some, it is just one component of a very thorough update. Combining this update with the Happy Home Designer DLC, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks like a completely different game from when it launched in March of 2020. It took a while to get the game to this point, but for fans who were patient, it looks like they're being rewarded handsomely.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available on Nintendo Switch.

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