Animal Crossing: New Horizons shares the same core gameplay as the rest of the series, but its transition to the Nintendo Switch brings with it a swath of different online components. One of these may effectively eliminate the ability to time travel to holidays, which was one of the more popular ways to cheat in past Animal Crossing games.

Nintendo announced seasonal events will now be part of free updates during the big Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct. By keeping events locked to free downloadable updates, you likely won’t be able to change your Switch system’s time to experience Christmas, and all the cool gifts, while in the middle of (real world) spring. So, in theory, while you might be able to tweak your Switch system clock to time travel to December 25, 2020, the Christmas event won’t be happening until Nintendo releases the update. Nintendo said the first of these updates is available at launch and will add an April event, Bunny Day, to New Horizons.

There is a way around this, however – you can time travel, but it comes at a cost. Time Travel isn’t built into Animal Crossing New Horizons – it requires manipulating the game and technically counts as cheating. No TARDIS or DeLorean required. If you want to Buy Animal Crossing NH Bells, we z2u.com can give you a very low price, welcome to buy.

Using time travel will speed up certain things – so it means you’ll be able to build new buildings and infrastructure faster, sell turnips more often, harvest fruit to make lots of cash more frequently and even do things like help out Gulliver and rescue Wisp more often, as that’d strictly be once a day – and not every day at that. Even things like your Nook Miles rewards, many of which are delivered the next day, will of course arrive sooner with time travel.

You time travel in Animal Crossing New Horizons by closing the software and proceeding to the Nintendo Switch’s System Settings.Once you’re in the Settings, scroll down to System and advance to Date and Time.If you want to time travel into the future, all you need to do is change the date and time to a specific month, year, and/or time before reality.Meanwhile, if you want to time travel into the past, you just do the exact same but prior to reality’s current date and time.