The player on a boat tour island.

Boat tours are a service provided byKapp'n inAnimal Crossing: New Horizons beginning in version2.0. Once per day, theplayer can pay 1,000Nook Miles to Kapp'n at the island'spier to travel to a random deserted island, similar to aMystery Tour. With the3.0 update, Kapp'n will be able to take the player on a second boat tour each day for 100Hotel Tickets after completion of thehotel's first VIP Room.

Each boat tour island has onegyroid fragment buried on it. Uncommonly, islands may have money trees or Bell rocks on them. If the player has not been to a Gyroid, Produce, or Glowing Moss-type island within the last 7 boat tours and none of the other island types are chosen for that day, the island visited will be of one of those four types that has not been visited. If there are multiple, the type visited the longest time ago is selected.

Certain islands exist in a different season or time of day from the game clock. This can be taken advantage of to catch out-of-seasonfish,insects, andsea creatures. However, these islands cannot be visited if the specific player has not personally experienced that season at least once before. Time continues to pass while on these islands, which can be observed if the player spends several hours on one.

Probability[edit]

The game first determines if the player will visit a normal island (78%) or a rare island (22%). If the player has received afortune for improved belongingsluck that day, this is always guaranteed to be a rare island.^[1] Otherwise, the game will calculate this as follows:

• If a normal island is chosen, the game will select a normal island type from the ones that have not been visited in the longest time within the last 7 days. The counter for not visiting a particular island can increase to a maximum of 20 days.
• If a rare island is chosen, a rare island type will be chosen at random.
  • If a specific player has not yetpersonally experienced the date on their own island that the selected island currently experiences, the game will instead select a normal island. This is always guaranteed to be the vine/glowing moss island if the player has received a fortune for improved belongingsluck that day.

Common factors[edit]

All islands contain a single buriedgyroid fragment.

Most islands contain fruit trees, which will always bear the player's native fruit, but none of them will ever contain any Bells, items, orwasps. There is a 5% chance for trees to spawn as money trees, with each bag containing 1,000Bells.

Flowers will always be in-season according to the date experienced on the island, but will never be the player's native or sister flowers. Thebushes present on the island are always the current bushes in bloom as determined by the game's time.

Bug andfish spawns will always match the date that the island is experiencing (either fixed or real in-game time).

For normal islands, there is a 29.4% chance ofone of therocks being aBell rock, and a 2% chance ofall rocks being Bell rocks. Rare islands will always have at least one Bell rock present.

Types of islands[edit]

Note that all island names are conjectural unless otherwise stated.

Normal islands[edit]

Normal islands all have multiple possible layouts, one of which will be chosen at random when the player visits an island type.

Gyroid islands[edit]

These islands are encountered most frequently between all island types. This type of island is always guaranteed to be visited upon the player's first boat tour, when searching for Brewster, and whenever the player has received a bad belongings fortune fromKatrina (and has not opted for purification). In this latter scenario, the buried gyroid fragment will always be replaced withclay.

There is an 8% chance that the player may encounter the same island but with precipitation (either rain or snow depending on the time of year). In addition to the usual buried gyroid fragment, there will be one fully-formedgyroid buried as well. This can be any gyroid except for abrewstoid.

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Produce islands[edit]

These islands contain multiple plants of one random type ofproduce, with each plant containing a fixed amount of harvestable goods. Themessage bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random cooking recipe. If the player has not purchasedBe a Chef! DIY Recipes+ however, the message bottle will instead contain furniture DIY recipes.

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Vine/glowing moss islands[edit]

These islands containvines andglowing moss. Themessage bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random vine or glowing moss recipe. Although the island's date is set to summer, this only affects the appearance; the fish, insects and sea creatures that spawn will be the same as the date on the player's home island. Since version2.0.4, sand paths will now appear around eachcoconut tree.

If the player has received a good belongings fortune fromKatrina, the player will be sent to this island if the rare island the game rolls to has a date that the player has not experienced yet in-game.

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Rare islands[edit]

Rare islands all have a single fixed layout for each island type.

Star Fragment[edit]

This island is always set to midnight when the player arrives, with a heavymeteor shower taking place. If the player wishes upon the shooting stars, star fragments will appear on their own island's beaches the following day. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a randomstar fragment recipe. The creatures that spawn are based on the current time of day, not the apparent night of the island. Vines also appear on this island. Star fragments will also appear on the beaches as well.

The meteor shower on this island is heavier than what the player can ever experience on their own island, with an 80% chance of a shooting star appearing on any given minute instead of the usual 50%. There is then an equal chance for 5 stars or 8 stars to appear within that single minute.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game on June 15 in the northern hemisphere, or December 15 in the southern hemisphere.

Rocks on this island will always drop onlystar fragments with the following distribution:

Item	Probability
Star fragment	14%
Large star fragment	2%
Capricorn fragment	7%
Aquarius fragment
Pisces fragment
Aries fragment
Taurus fragment
Gemini fragment
Cancer fragment
Leo fragment
Virgo fragment
Libra fragment
Scorpius fragment
Sagittarius fragment

Cherry Blossom[edit]

This island is always experiencing thespringCherry Blossom season, with all hardwood trees taking on soft pink petals andcherry-blossom petals floating in the air that can be caught with anet. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe from theCherry Blossoms Series.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game between April 1 and 10 in the northern hemisphere, or October 1 and 10 in the southern hemisphere.

Spring Bamboo[edit]

This island is always experiencingspring and containsbamboo, which can dropyoung spring bamboo when struck with anaxe. The message bottle that appears on the beach contains a random recipe from theBamboo Series.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game between February 25 and May 31 in the northern hemisphere, or August 25 and November 30 in the southern hemisphere.

Summer Shell[edit]

This island is always experiencingsummer, withsummer shells found washed ashore on the beaches. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe for an item crafted using summer shells.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game between June 1 and August 31 in the northern hemisphere, or December 1 and February 28 in the southern hemisphere.

Mushroom[edit]

This island is always experiencingfall and is host to various species ofmushrooms. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe from theMush Series. A random assortment of six mushrooms (composed of twoflat mushrooms,round mushrooms, andskinny mushrooms) can be found, as well aspine cones andacorns.

In order, each of the 15 trees will be randomly assigned an item underneath:

• Three trees will have atree branch.
• Five trees will have a random mushroom.
• Up to five hardwood trees (or less if there are less than five hardwood trees) will have an acorn.
• Up to five cedar trees (or less if there are less than five cedar trees) will have a pine cone.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game between November 1 and 30 in the northern hemisphere, or May 1 and 31 in the southern hemisphere.

Maple Leaf[edit]

This island is always experiencingfall and hasmaple leaves floating in the air, which can be caught using anet. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe from theTree's Bounty or Leaves Series.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game between November 16 and 25 in the northern hemisphere, or May 16 and 25 in the southern hemisphere.

Snowflake[edit]

This island is always experiencing a snow storm duringwinter and hassnowflakes floating in the air, which can be caught using anet. The message bottle that appears on the beach contains a random recipe from theFrozen Series.

The island can only be visited if the player has played the game between December 11 and February 24 in the northern hemisphere, or June 11 and August 24 in the southern hemisphere.

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