Animal Crossing: New Horizons- Top Things You Need to Know About the New Tanabata Event

Animal Crossing is one of the most renowned Nintendo franchises. Its recent title, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, also performed tremendously in the number of unit sales on the Nintendo Switch. Owing to its success, Nintendo revealed that it became the second highest-selling title of all time.

Unfortunately, even after achieving such mind-boggling achievements, Nintendo announced it will no longer support ACNH with major updates. Meaning that developers will only introduce past events and items with no new content added for users to experience. Naturally, this triggered many veterans and they quit ACNH because of the developers’ lack of interest in New Horizons’ fanbase.

Although many veterans are complaining about the lack of in-game content, some beginners are happy with their New Horizons journey. They are trying their best to get their hands on all event-exclusive items and users will experience a bunch of seasonal events in July. Interestingly, the first seasonal event of July, Tanabata, has already arrived in ACNH. Read here to know more about the event.

 Tanabata arrives in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Starcrossed Day, or Tanabata as it’s known in Japanese, is a special event that occurred in previous Animal Crossing games. However, unlike its predecessor titles, Nintendo didn’t introduce it as a major event in New Horizons. Although Tanabata is not an official event in ACNH, players can still purchase Bamboo Grass from the Nook Stop for a limited time.

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Bamboo grass is an event-exclusive item and has a price range of 3,080 bells. Furthermore, in-game, Nintendo has officially described the item as, “Celebrated on July 7th, this is the one day that the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi–represented by the stars Vega and Altair–can meet. Write a wish on tanzaku paper, hang it from the bamboo, and wish on the stars!”

The event lasts from July 1 to July 7. With the help of this item, you can join the Tanabata celebrations on July 7. Moreover, you can still purchase the item from the store after July 7. However, you will not be able to redeem this item after July 31.

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Which upcoming July seasonal event or items you are most excited about? Let us know in the comments down below.