If there’s one task you want to prioritize in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it’s expanding your inventory and storage.
You’ll soon discover that it’s very easy to fill your inventory, called pockets in the game, in New Horizons with a variety of items, from insects to fossils.
Whether you’re crafting or fishing, then you’ll want to improve your pockets as soon as possible. Expanding your storage will also allow you to store more furniture, clothes, or anything else you may need in your home.
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Inventory in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained
In New Horizons, your inventory is known as your pockets, which you can access by pressing
When you first start playing New Horizons, you will only be able to keep 20 items in your pockets. However, as you continue, you will be able to expand your inventory; first at 30 and then at 40.
You purchase these inventory upgrades using Nook Miles, and in total, you’ll need 13,000 Nook Miles to purchase both expansions. Although first you must unlock the possibility of purchasing them.
Storage in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained
New Horizons makes managing your inventory much easier by providing you with separate storage space for both your inventory and your home. This means you’ll be able to happily put away all that furniture you’re still not sure what to do with.
You can only access this storage space by pressing the right button on the D-Pad when you are inside your home.
In addition to the “All” tab, which allows you to see everything you currently have in your storage, there are nine different categories within your storage space:
- Home furniture
- Miscellaneous
- wall mounted
- Wallpaper
- Floors
- Rug
- Fashion items
- Creatures
- Others: includes tools, materials and musical instruments.
In the bottom left corner of the storage screen, you’ll find a small counter that tracks exactly how many items you have in your storage compared to your storage limit.
How to improve your inventory in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained
If you want to expand your inventory in New Horizons, you must first unlock the Nook Miles store at Nook Stop. To do this you must return the 5,000 Nook Miles that you owe Tom Nook for your tent.
Once you’ve done this, you’ll not only unlock your first house upgrade, but you’ll also unlock the Nook Miles shop in Residential Services.
Enter this store and you will find that one of the items for sale is called a Pocket Organization Guide, which will cost you 5,000 Nook Miles.
This is the first of two inventory upgrades on Nook Miles and will improve your inventory from 20 slots to 30.
We highly recommend making this your first purchase from Nook Stop as it will make your island development efforts much easier.
To purchase the second inventory expansion in New Horizons, you must first upgrade Residential Services.
Once the newly built Town Hall opens, head straight to the Nook Stop inside. There you will discover that the Nook Miles store has a variety of new items to purchase.
Inside this improved store you will find the second and final inventory expansion. It’s called Ultimate Pocket Stuffing and it will cost you 8,000 Nook Miles.
Once you’ve purchased this upgrade, your inventory will expand to 40 slots, allowing you to collect even more items than before.
How to improve your storage space in Animal Crossing: New Horizons explained
Your storage space in New Horizons will automatically expand every time you upgrade your house.
It also means that when you first land on your island and live in a tent, you won’t have access to this storage space. Fortunately, it is very easy to get this first home improvement and you will soon find yourself living under a proper roof.
Below you’ll find out how much your storage will grow as you upgrade your home:
- House built – 80 storage spaces.
- First House Upgrade: 120 Storage Spaces
- Second House Upgrade: 240 Storage Spaces
- Third House Upgrade: 320 Storage Spaces
- Fourth House Upgrade: 400 Storage Spaces
- Fifth House Upgrade: 800 Storage Spaces
- 6th House Upgrade: 1,600 Storage Spaces
The free winter update, released on Thursday, November 19, 2020, included a new storage update, raising the maximum home storage to 2,400.
To get this storage expansion, you must first pay off the final loan on your home (a whopping 2,498,000 Bells) and then visit Residential Services.
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When you arrive, Tom Nook will mention that he wants to talk to you about your home storage, so sit in his chair and start chatting.
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Before doing so, however, you’ll want to collect 500,000 Bells and make sure you have this money in your pockets, not your bank account. Nothing with Tom Nook is truly free!
Once you have the bells, return to Residential Services and talk to Nook; You’ll first want to select “About my home…” and then “Expand my storage.”
Nook will then check that you’re happy to spend 500,000 bells, and if you’re okay, your storage will be ready the day after your island’s daily reset time. You will receive a letter in the mail from Nook Inc. the next day confirming that your storage has been expanded.
Always make sure you keep an eye on your storage counter – you don’t want to accidentally fill it up!
The Animal Crossing 2.0 and Happy Home Paradise update is here! We can help you with the new additions, including where to find Brewster, Gyroids, new villagers, ordinances, new fences, storage shed, new hairstyles, Froggy Chair, group stretches, and Kapp’n boat tours. Cooking can now be unlocked, so you need to know how to make flour and sugar, as well as how to grow carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. In the meantime, if you’re new to Animal Crossing, our New Horizons tips can help you with the basics. From the beginning, there are fish and insects to catch, flowers and fruits to grow. A long-term goal is to increase your Happy Home Academy score. Finally, you need tools like the new ladder and pole to fully explore.
Everything you need to know about managing your storage in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
There are a couple of things you can do in New Horizons to help you manage your storage, aside from upgrading it.
The first is that you cannot store turnips in your home storage room. Presumably this is to prevent you from cheating at the stalk market by hiding a bunch of turnips until the market price is high.
This means that you must keep the turnips in your inventory or leave them on the ground.
Secondly, since you can place most items anywhere on your island, this means you can carve out a small space for additional storage. (Or just throw it outside your house…)
This is very useful if you are waiting for the Museum to finish updating or don’t want to lose any Bells using the Nook’s Cranny mailbox.
Your pockets also have more to offer than simply storing your items: it’s also where you’ll find your wallet, which can hold up to 99,999 Bells. If you end up having more than that amount, the remaining bells will appear as bell bags in your pockets.
You can also take a certain amount of bells out of your wallet and store them in Bell Bags. These quantities are:
- 100 bells
- 1,000 bells
- 10,000 bells
- To the closest bell total you currently have
It is also possible to roll the round total closest to the current number of bells you have. If you have 69,699 Bells, for example, then you can take out 69,000 Bells.
Finally, there is also a special place in your inventory for the clothes you are currently wearing. To access this, select the blue shirt icon next to your wallet.
Doing so will allow you to see all the clothes you currently have equipped. There are nine slots you can fill to create an outfit. However, this doesn’t mean you fill them all.
If you equip an item that fills a slot you’re already using, say a new hat, for example, then it will replace the current item you’re using because, unfortunately, you can’t wear multiple hats in New Horizons.
Good luck in all your article management schemes!
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