Boat tour

The player on a boat tour island

Boat tours are a service provided by Kapp'n in Animal Crossing: New Horizons beginning in version 2.0. Once per day, the player can pay  1,000 Nook Miles to Kapp'n at the island's pier to travel to a random deserted island, similar to a Mystery Island Tour. Each boat tour island has one Gyroid Fragment buried on it. Uncommonly, islands may have money trees or money rocks on them.

If the player has not been to a Gyroid, rainy Gyroid, Vegetable, 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-season fish, insects, and sea creatures. Time still continues to pass on these islands, which can be observed if the player spends several hours on one.

Probability

The game first determines if the player will visit a standard island (78%) or a rare island (22%). If the player has received a fortune for improved belongings luck that day, this is always guaranteed to be a rare island. Otherwise, the game will calculate this as follows:

• If a standard island is chosen, the game will select a standard island type from the ones that haven't 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 yet personally experienced the date in their own island that the selected island currently experiences, the game will instead select a standard island. This is always guaranteed to be the archipelago-style island if the player has received a fortune for improved belongings luck that day.

Common factors

All islands contain a single buried Gyroid 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, or Wasps. There is a 5% chance for trees to spawn as money trees, with each bag containing  1,000 Bells.

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. The bushes present on the island are always the current bushes in bloom as determined by the game's time.

Bug and fish spawns will always match the date that the island is experiencing (either fixed or real in-game time), but the time of day will always match the time when the player arrives at the island until they leave (even if this does not match a set time of day on the island).

For standard islands, there is a 29.4% chance of one of the rocks being a money rock, and a 2% chance of all rocks being money rocks. Rare islands will always have at least one money rock present.

Types of islands

Note that all island names are conjectural unless otherwise stated.

Standard islands

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

Generic

Chance: 30%

Internal ID
Haniwa

Date
Game time

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
Native fruit
Bushes
Camellia

Rocks
×3 regular
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch
DIY recipe type
Standard

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 from Katrina (and has not opted for purification). In this latter scenario, the buried Gyroid Fragment will always be replaced with Clay.

• Maps
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  Island 30

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  Island 31

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  Island 32

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  Island 33

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  Island 34

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  Island 35

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  Island 30

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  Island 31

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  Island 32

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  Island 33

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  Island 34

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  Island 35

Vegetable

Chance: 22%

Internal ID
Vegetable

Date
Game time

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
Native fruit
Bushes
Seasonal

Rocks
×4 regular
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch
DIY recipe type
Cooking

These islands contain multiple plants of one random type of vegetable, with each plant containing a fixed amount of harvestable produce. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random cooking recipe.

• Maps
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  Island 36

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  Island 37

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  Island 38

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  Island 39

• Screenshots
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  Island 36

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  Island 37

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  Island 38

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  Island 39

Archipelago-style

Chance: 18%

Internal ID
OneRoom

Date
Game time

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
Palm
Bushes
Plumeria

Rocks
×4 regular
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
None
DIY recipe type
Vines/Glowing Moss

These islands resemble the Archipelago and contain Vines and Glowing Moss. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random vine or glowing moss recipe.

If the player has received a good belongings fortune from Katrina and is not yet able to visit one of the rare island types, then there is a 100% chance to arrive at this island.

• Maps
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  Island 40

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  Island 41

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  Island 42

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  Island 43

• Screenshots
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  Island 40

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  Island 41

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  Island 42

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  Island 43

Rare gyroid

Chance: 8%

Internal ID
RareHaniwa

Date
Game time

Weather pattern
Rain04

Trees

Bushes

Rocks
×4 regular
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment
×1 gyroid (random)

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch
DIY recipe type
Standard

This is a rarer variant of the generic island with the same possible layouts, but will always experience rain or snow, depending on the time of year that it is visited. In addition to the usual buried Gyroid Fragment, there will be one fully-formed gyroid buried as well. This can be any gyroid except for a Brewstoid.

• Boat Tour 30 (Rare) NH.jpg

  Island 30

• Boat Tour 31 (Rare) NH.jpg

  Island 31

• Boat Tour 32 (Rare) NH.jpg

  Island 32

• Boat Tour 33 (Rare) NH.jpg

  Island 33

• Boat Tour 34 (Rare) NH.jpg

  Island 34

• Boat Tour 35 (Rare) NH.jpg

  Island 35

Rare islands

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

Star Fragment

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
StarPiece

Date
North: June 15
South: December 15

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
×4 native fruit, ×3 hardwood, ×8 palm
Bushes
×8 Hydrangea

Rocks
×2 star fragment
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×3 Tree Branch, ×3 Star Fragment,
×1 Large Star Fragment
DIY recipe type
Stars

This island is always set to midnight when the player arrives, with a heavy meteor 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 random star fragment recipe.

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.

Rocks on this island will always drop only star 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

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
Sakura

Date
North: April 10
South: October 10

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
×18 hardwood, ×6 palm
Bushes
None

Rocks
×2 regular, ×1 money
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch, ×3 Stone
DIY recipe type
Cherry Blossom seasonal

This island is always experiencing the spring Cherry Blossom season, with all hardwood trees taking on soft pink petals and Cherry-Blossom Petals floating in the air that can be caught with a Net. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe from the Cherry 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

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
SpringBamboo

Date
North: May 31
South: November 30

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
×23 bamboo, ×4 palm
Bushes
None

Rocks
×2 regular, ×1 money
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment, ×5 Bamboo Shoot

Ground materials
×3 Stone
DIY recipe type
Spring Bamboo seasonal

This island is always experiencing spring and contains bamboo, which can drop Young Spring Bamboo when struck with an axe. The message bottle that appears on the beach contains a random recipe from the Bamboo 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

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
SeaShell

Date
North: August 31
South: February 28

Weather pattern
Fine09

Trees
×2 native fruit, ×8 hardwood, ×10 palm
Bushes
×25 Hibiscus

Rocks
×2 regular, ×1 money
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch, ×3 Stone, ×7 Summer Shell
DIY recipe type
Summer Shell seasonal

This island is always experiencing summer, with Summer 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

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
Mushroom

Date
North: November 30
South: May 31

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
×5 native fruit, ×5 hardwood, ×10 cedar, ×6 palm
Bushes
×7 Holly

Rocks
×2 regular, ×1 money
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch, ×3 Stone
mushrooms, acorns, pinecones
DIY recipe type
Mushroom seasonal

This island is always experiencing fall and is host to various species of mushrooms. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe from the Mush Series. A random assortment of six mushrooms (composed of two Flat Mushrooms, Round Mushrooms, and Skinny Mushrooms) can be found, as well as Pine Cones and Acorns.

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

• Three trees will have a Tree 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

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
Maple

Date
North: November 25
South: May 25

Weather pattern
Fine00

Trees
×4 native fruit, ×15 hardwood, ×4 palm
Bushes
×10 Holly

Rocks
×2 regular, ×1 money
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch, ×3 Stone, ×6 Acorn
DIY recipe type
Maple Leaf seasonal

This island is always experiencing fall and has Maple Leaf floating in the air, which can be caught using a Net. The message bottle that appears on the beach always contains a random recipe from the Tree'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

Chance: 3.14%

Internal ID
SnowCrystal

Date
North: February 24
South: August 24

Weather pattern
Rain06

Trees
×17 cedar, ×4 palm
Bushes
×13 Camelia

Rocks
×2 regular, ×1 money
Buried items
×1 Gyroid Fragment

Ground materials
×5 Tree Branch, ×3 Stone
DIY recipe type
Snowflake seasonal

This island is always experiencing a snow storm during winter and has snowflakes floating in the air, which can be caught using a Net. The message bottle that appears on the beach contains a random recipe from the Frozen 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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